Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1908 — Page 6

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. MO. B. StAltY. U. i.d Pat, KXNBBBL.ABR, - - INDIANA.

WIRELESS STOPS A SUICIDE.

Word from Land Starts Boat Crew on Life Saving Hunt. ff- -Wireless warning from distant laud' Weed a passenger from suicide on the _ steamer Plymouth, far out on Long Island sound. The operator was about to transmit a message, when a message came llyiAg through the air from Wilson’s point, at the head of the sound. “Stop alt and listen,” said the wireless. ‘ You have a young man aboard named George If. Aiden of Binghamton, N. Y„ who is : about to kill himself. He left,a letter for r a friend la New York saying he would take poison or jump overboard. Hurry I’’ Captain Williamson and Steward Sullivan were notified. All the boat hands began a search. The wireless had given a brief description of'Aiden. lie was found quickly in one of the staterooms, where he Was seated before a washstand, on which was a sealed bottle of muriatic acid. A few minutes longer and it would have been too late. Aiden begged to be allowed to open the bottle and swallow the contents. He was put under guard and when the Plymouth reached Fall River, Mass., was given over to the police and locked up.

CHLOROFORM TWO FAMILIEB. BsrgUn Secure Most of Loot from Man Afraid of Banka. Burgher* chloroformed seven members of Herman Graupncr’s family in their home in 22d street, New York, and took f 1,650 and a watch valued at $75. Graugner had no use for banks and so sewed up his money in the lining of his vest. After chloroforming the members of the family, while asleep, burglars ripped the seams in the vest and obtained the money. Shortly afterward the seven members of James Bergin’s family, who live in 21st street, were also chloroformed. The burglars here only secured a watch aut) chain and sl4 in money. Pint of the I.cap Year Girls. Miss Emily Stager of Minneapolis took out a license to wed Charles Eakin. This la Minneapolis’ first real leap year wed- ‘ ding. The ceremony is to be performed ia the county jail, where Eakin is serving S a five months’ term on a charge of grand larceny. Miss Steger is 22 years old. Eakin s age is the same. The wedding will come as the culmination <n a friendship which has been close since their childhood. Pope Is Suffering from Goat. Various alarming rumors were in circulation in Rome regarding the health of Pcpe Pius. They vfere to the effect that hia holiness had suffered a stroke of apoplexy, that he had had a bad fainting spell and that the disease of the heart from which he suffers had suddenly grown worse. All were greatly exaggerated, however, as the Pope is only again suffering from the gout. Thinks Husband the Devil. Un. Elisa Matsen, arrested on the charge of complicity in the murder of her husband, made a complete confession at Chisholm. Minn. Tuesday morning Mstsen's lifeless body was found on a bed in a room over a saloon at Chisholm, with the blade of a double-bitted nx implanted in his skull. Mrs. Matson’s excuse for killing her husband was that she thought she was killing the devil.

Heat Wave Kills In Australia. There is much suffering because of the unusual heat wave throughout Victoria, Australia. The people are obliged to ~ deep out of doors and there have been many cases of sunstroke. Thirty-two deaths have been recorded from this cause during the past few days. The theaters are beginning to shut down. Plot to Sink American Fleet f The police of Kio Janeiro are said to have discovered and thwarted a plot of an international band of anarchists to sink the American battle ship licet in the harbor. The rumor is believed to have been set afloat by some crank or practical joker. Schoolboy Dies from Itasina;. Rn y mond Taylor. 16 years old, i pupil at the Eugene Field school in Chicago, died as the result of hazing by fellow pupils, his sister having succumbed five years ago to injuries received from a schoolmate.

£7 Kir*- Imperil* forty Miner*. Fire in the Cattsburg, Pa., mine of the Monongahela Hirer Coal Company endangered the lives of forty miners, but it is said all have been accounted for. The owners hope the blase can be confined to one section of the works. Cssvlft Coerts Death. Frank J. Constantine, murderer of Mrs. Louise (Sentry of Chicago, is believed to be dying as the result of having leaped from the seventh balcony of the Joliet penitentiary in an attempt at suicide. _____ Walah la found Guilty. John It. Walah was found guilty on fifty-four counts of the indictment for misapplying fuuds of the Chicago 'fiufortal Bank. The motion for a new (rial Will be argued Jan. 28 laferl*(a of Hurled Miners. A terrible tale of suffering is told by three men rescued at Kly, Xev., after haying been entombed in mine forty-six Philadelphia Kdilor Dies. Former Postmaster General diaries Emory Hmith died suddenly of heart disease at his home iii Philadelphia. Gladys Rays Itsre Ueea. It was announced at the Irish fair, New You*, that Miss Gladys Vanderbilt had purchased the latest set of Irish point lace in America. The set. two cuffs ami a collar, made 200 years ago, sold for more than •1,000. r- - . —a , Relative* May Break Will. The will of Peter ramming. New York, hank president. gives fOO.fltiO to the Pre*hytrtlan hospital to endow in peris-tnity ■ • man or beds for employes, or depositor* of the bank. Several relative* are fc•nrnd and will attempt to break the will.

HEALING BY FAITH.

Chicago Reformed Episcopal Church to Treat Body as Well as Soul. AT new and Important departure has been taken by St. Paul’s Reformed Episcopal Church of Chicago, under the leadership of Bishop Samuel Fallows. The church has added healing of the body to Its spiritual ministrations, following somewhat along the lines pursued by Christian Scientists, although with several fundamental differences. "Christian psychology, as explained by Bishop Fallows, does not ignore physicians as does Christian Science, but works hand in hand with the medical profession, and the work of healing undertaken at St. Paul’s will be applied only to such patients as are suffering from disorders in which the action of the mind plays an Important part. Cure of organic dis-

BISHOP SAMUEL FALLOWS.

eases will not be attempted, although patients suffering from them will lie aided as far as possible by suggestion, faith and persunslop. The diseases and weaknesses to which Christian iwychology Is to be applied at St. Paul's are functional nervous disorders, hypochondria. Insomnia, nervous dys(M*psla, melancholia, mental depression, hysteria, neurasthenia, the drug habit, the liquor habit, want of self-confidence, irritability, worry, auger, fonr nnd weakness of will. The class of cuscs in which no cure will he attempted are those like typhoid fever, scarlet fever, smallpox and other disorders of that nature.

ltisbop Fallows, who was born in England i n 1835, bat led an active nnd militant career. He came to this country In 1848, settling in Wisconsin, nnd In 1851 was ordained in the Methodist Episcopal Church. During the Civil war he aenred ac a colonel and watf brevetted brigadier general. He served three terms as State superintendent of public iuatruj.tion. lu Wisconsin aad lu 1875 united with the Reformed Episcopal Church, being eonurcrnted bishop the following year. Since 1875 he has been rector of Bt. Paul's Church, Chicago. The bishop has other theories besides healing through Christian psychology. lie believes that Christianity is a Rood deal a matter of the kind of fbod we eat

LOCKED OUT.

INDUSTRIES ARE REVIVING.

Workers of All Kinds Are Reported in Great Demand. Business throughout the United States, both commercial and industrial, Is reviving, according to Terence V. Powderly, chief of the division of information, bureau of immigration. The division of information was created by Congress as an agency to divert immigration from the larger cities, and find places for the unemplnvp«l nllpn. The functions of the division have been enlarged, Inasmuch as Chief Powderly is endeavoring to provide work for Americans as well as aliens.

From July 1 Inst until early in October 200,000 requests were made upon Chief Powderly to supply various -forms of labor for factory, railroad, farm and industrial enterprises of all descriptions. About the middle of October, when the financial disturbances became achte, many of these applications were canceled, correspondents stating that instead of needing labor they were putting off men, and that everything pointed to a prolonged period of depression. Recently there has been a renewal of the demand for labor. Chief Powderly says that this demand comes from every section of the country; that It calls lor mechanics. ..mill operatives, factory hands, railroad bnillers. and farm laborers. From the agricultural States have come notice that in the spring hundreds of thousands of farm hands will he needed, and that every effort should he made by the government at tills time to see to it that an adequate supply of labor is provided iu the regions where it will be urgently required. “An Investigation .inis developed." said Mr. Powderly. “that, while the unusually large exodus of foreigners during the past few months was the direct result of disturbed financial conditions. it was not due to the closing of mills or factories or cessation iu the progress of public works. The great majority of those who returned to Europe were not turned out of employment They were alarmed by the outlook and decided to go back. Tbe tide will begin to turn enrly in the spring, ami I have no doubt that the increasing demand for labor that our reports Indicate Is at hand will be fully met. by the supply in this country amplified by an enlarged immigration."

ALL ABOUND THE GLOBE.

During 1007 the Legal Aid Society of New York received 20,309 appeals for aid. New York board of education will probably vote to restore corporal punishment in the schools. The factory of the Cummings leather Company at Woburn. Mass., was destroyed by tire. Loss SBO,OOO, fully insured. Fire destroyed an entire business block in Culbertson, Mont., nnd it, was necessary'to use dynamite to keep the whole city from being burned up. Edward Shea of Montclair. N. J„ ha* recovered from a trance which lasted a month. lie says he saw visions and talk ed with persona long since dead. Mias Katherine Noble of Haiti more. Md., the heroine of the Mohegan disu.v trr, has announced her engagement to Ernesto TYorio-Semoudettl of Mexico. Jeremiah O'Meara, 70 years old. married Helen Naughton, U 5 years old, in Stamford, Conn., after a wait of 40 years. O'Meara could not find his sweetheart after he returned from the Civil War, and she thought he had been killed. They found each other only a abort time ago. Neitbar has been married before.

BIG POULTRY SHOW.

Aristocracy of the Feathered , on Exhibition in Chicago. Three thousand aristocrats of the poultry world contested for honors in the national poultry show recently held in Chicago by the National Fanciers’ and Breeders’ Associa t ion. The breeding of the finest stock Is becoming so popular In the Middie West that products of this section have begun to take prizes at the New York poultry show’,

SILVER WYANDOTTE HEN-F. H. JONES

which Is the largest event of the kind, and _to carry off all the honors in the Chicago event, which is second lb importance. # There was a large increase thlp year in the n tun her of entries. The champion of an hens, owned by Ernest Kellerstrnss, of Kansas City, nnd valued nt $2,500, was there, as well as numerous other chickens valued nt from SOOO to sl,ooot Fighting -cocks, wild turkeys and ducks, homing pigeons with records ns victorious racers over distances ranging from 100 to 1,000 miles, and pheasants such as English noblemen shoot, bred on the largest pheasant farm in the country fifteen miles from Chicago, were attractions. Baby chicks were batched out in lucubatora every dny of the show. At White Hock, I’s., John Wintle was <hot dead by Mrs. James Ilcnter while he was trying to force his way Into her home in the absence of her husband. The shot drew a crowd, but for eight hours tli* woman defied the officers and only surrendered when her husband returned home. The Burlington and Union Pacific will take porters off chair car* and do away with flagmen on some of their passenger trains, according to a dispatch from Omaha. Retrenchment is given as the reason. T* . -

100 KILLED IN PANIC AT CHURCH BENEFIT

Blaze Follows Explosion and Women and Children Are Trampled to Death. CORPSES • BLOCK STAIRWAY. Overturned Oil Lamps Feed Flames and Farce Trapped. Audience to Jump from Windows. One hundred persons were killed anil seventy-five were seriously Injured, many of whom will* die, in a fire and panic which followed the explosion of a moving picture machine at a church entertainment in the Rhodes Opera House in Boyertoo, Pa., Monday evening. Most of the dead and injured are women and children, and the catastrophe has thrown the little town of 2,500 inhabitants into the deepest grief. Scarcely a family but has lost some member. The opera house, a two-story structure on the main street of the town, was filled to overflowing by a benefit for St. John’s Lutheran Church. The feature of the program was a series of moving pictures. Most of the audience were women and children.

Giant Tank Kxplodea. Suddenly, In the midst of the entertainment, the acetylene tank which furnished light for the moving picture machine exploled. Instantly the whole interior of the opera house was filled with flames.

The actors endeavored to quiet the audience, but in their anxiety to make themselves heard and to avoid the awful stampede of the women and children, the coal oil lamps which were used at the footlights were overturned, setting the place on fire. The flames, fed by oil, shot almost to the ceiling, and there was a rush of the several hundred persons to escape from the burning building. Scores of women and children were trampled on and several who escaped being burned io death died after being dragged from the opera house. In some cases, it is said, entire families have been wiped out. The scene which followed the explosion is indescribable.

-Section of the Floor Gives Way. Following the explosion there was a wild rush of the audience for the stairway, the one means of exit. A score of persons reached the stairway simultaneously, and it was jammed so full of struggling humanity that only a few reached the outer air. In the mad rush a section of the floor gave way, precipitating scores of persons to the basement. As the floor collapsed the shrieks of the helpless persons who were carried down were heard for blocks. The interior of the opera house was of wood and plaster, and the flimsy carpentry that made the stage and Its fittings furnished excellent material for the flames. Within two minutes after the explosion occurred thfi entire building was a mass of flames. The jamming of people In the stairway blocked that means of egress, and dozens of frantic women and children leaped from the front window to the Btone pavement below. Not one of these escaped broken limbs, and they are practically all of tbe Injured, Inasmuch as those inside the opera house perished.

Only Fire Engine Disabled. To make matters worse, the one fire engine in Boyertown is disabled, and there was no means of fighting the fire. It Is almost certain that all of the bodies of the victims were cremated, and the hopes of Identifying any of them are destroyed. Fire engines were sent to the scene from Reading- and Pottstown, but they arrived too lata to be of any service further than to save surrounding property. Requests for assistance were quickly sent to Pottstown and Reading, and special trains bearing surgeons and nurses were hurried there. These surgeons, assisted by local physicians. Improvised hospitals in near-by residence! and stores, and gave what aid waa possible to the injured. At the foot of the narrow stairway, which was Jammed full of dead and dying, scores of victims could be seen frpm the street Dozens of men tried to reach them, and succeeded in carrying a few of them out, hut the heat of the fire soon drove them back. Then, as the flames ate their way down the stairway and reached them, the bodies were cremated in the Tery sight of tboae who would have carried them out

FOREIGN NEWS NOTES.

Four new cardinals were created by Pop* Pius. The Dutch cabinet of nine minister* resigned. 11. Gude woe appointed minister to the United States from Norway. Scandal la Vienna diplomatic circles ceased the recoil of an a mbs see dor. The steamer Austral, carrying a party es scientists, was wrecked off the coast of Uruguay, but oil persons aboard were pared.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

CHICAGO. The favorable developments is banking ■ conditions this -week provide an encouraging basis for early improvement in the industrial situation. Aside from the immediate effect in strengthening sentiment, v -. there are features which testify to betterment. The volume of payments through the banks is seen to oe the largest in eleven weeks, and factory operations furnish employment to an extent which rapidly reduces the Idle ranks of labor. A largely increased commercial mortality' may excite comment, but this really adds to stability by the elimination of concerns suffering from organic weakness. New demands make an improving exhibit in iron and steel, land other branches are more disposed to production. There is less apprehension as to advancing undertakings requiring heavy outlays in construction and building work. Railroad plans are nearer the time of initiation and much activity is probable should the cost of financing become more inviting. V Distributive trade continues of seasonable extent. Dealings in the leading retail lines bring gratifying reductions in winter stocks, and wholesale operations gather strength from an increasing presence of visiting buyers. Failures reported m the Chicago district number 47, against 36 last week and 22 a year ago. Those with liabilities over $5,000 number It), against 7 last * week and oin 1007. —Dun’s Review. ,

NEW YORK. A further easing in the financial situation and very general reports of improvements in collections are the leading features this week. In trade lines, weather and snow have helped retail tributions somewhat, but price reduction sales are generally credited wifE*responsibility for whatever expansion has been shown" iff that branch as a whole. Wholesalers and jobbers report,sentiment improved, collections benefited to normal in domestic money njarkeis, but trade demands are still below'the normal, and fn some sections a late and small spring trade is predicted. Business failures in the United States for the week ending Jan. 1G number 431, against 435 last week and 235 in the like week of 1907, 27p iullOOG, 304 in 1905, and 206 in 1904. Canadian failures for the week number 44, as against 63 last week and 23 in this week a year ago. —Bradstreet’s Report.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 4o $6.20; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $4.52; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.25 ; wheat, No. 2,98 cto $1.00; corn, No. 2,58 cto 59c; oats, standard, 49c to 50c; rye, No. 2,84 cto 85c; hay, , timothy, $9.50 to $15.50; prairie, SB.OO to $11.50; butter, choice creamery, 24c to 30c; eggs, fresh, 24c to 28c; potatoes, per bushel, 55c to 63c. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, good to choice heavy, $3.50 to $4.50; sheep, common ta prime, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2,97 cto 9Sc; corn, No. 2 white, 55c to 56c; oats, No. 2 white, 49c to 51c. St. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $6.10; hogs, $4.00 to $4.55; sheep, $3.00 to $3.25; -- wheat, No. 2, $1.02 to $1.03; corn, No. 2, 55c t0.57c; oats, No. 2,49 cto 51c; rye, No. 2,75 cto 79c.

Cincinnati —Cattle, $4.00 to $3.13; hogs, $4.00 to $4.55; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2, $1.03 to $1.04; corn, No. 2 mixed, 55c to 57c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 50c to 52c; rye, No. 2,82 cto 85c. —Cattle, $4.00 to $5.25; l ogs, $4.00 to $4.55; sheep, $2.50 to 5.00; wheat, No. 2, SI.OO to $1.01; corn, No. 3 yellow, 59c to GOc; oats, No. 3 white, 51c to 53c; rye. No. 2,81 cto 83e. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern, SI.OB to $1.10; corn, No. 3,57 cto 59c; oats, standard, 50c to 52c; rye, No. 1, 83c to 85c; barley, No. 2, sl.Ol to $1.03; pork, mess, $13.50. Buffalo —Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $3.75; hogs, fnir to choice, $3.50 to $4.55; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to s*>..>o; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to S7AO. New York—Cattle, $4.00 to $6.10; hogs, $3.50 to $4.90; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, sl.Ol to $1.06; corn, No. 2,65 cto 67c; oats, natural white, 54c to 56c; butter, creamery, 27c to 31c; eggs, western, 22c to 25c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, SI.OO to $1.01; coni, No. 2 mixed, 56c to 57c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 52c to 53c; rye, No! 2,70 cto 80c; clover sped, prime, $10.57.

Standard Vast Face Trial.

Judge Hazel in thd United States District Court at Buffalo has banded down a decision overruling the demurrers filed by the Standard Oil Company to indictments found against it by the grand jury at Jamestown, N. I\, lost July, and the company must stand trial on the indictments, of which there are seven, containing over 1,700 counts. In Chicago the United States district-attorney has asked for an increase in the supersedeas bond of the Standard corporation, which has appealed from the $29,240,000 fine imposed by. Judge Landis.

Cr iminals Controlling New York.

Police Commissioner Bingham in his annual report has startled New York by the bald assertion that the city “ia in the hands of criminal*" and that many of the magistrates and higher judges are in league with politicians to protect certain offenders known to the system. He asks bow it is possible for the police to be free from political influence when the whole election' machinery ia placed in their hands. Lawfareaking, he continues, ia the easiest business now conducted in New York.