Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1908 — Page 6

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. - CgQ. ■. BEAUEY, U. Ui M. KENBSELAER, - - INDIANA.

SCORNS UNWRITTEN LAW.

Philadelphia Man Maintain* Ha Mia. took Wife’* Admirer for Bnralar. - Andrew Jackson Detsch, who killed Harry Ferree in a fashionable boarding bouse in Philadelphia last November, refused to rely on the unwritten law, to •void the public degradation of his wife, and was acquitted of the crime of murder, the verdict of the jury being greeted with tumultuous applause from the crowded court room. Steadily maintaining that ap to the time of the killing of Ferree he had-.no suspicion of his wife’s alleged misconduct and that he mistook her wealthy admirer for a burglar, Detsch made it impossible to put his wife on the witness stand to play the role of Evelyn Thaw and also made it impossible for the prosecution to introduce evidence intended to show that deliberate murder bad been committed to avenge his honor. Detsch, who is 23 years of age, lived with , bis young wife and child in an uptown boarding house. On the night of Nov. 5 policemen heard shots and traced them to the house. They forced an entrance and in the third floor hallway, in front of the door of the Detsch apartments, they found Ferree dead, with three bullets in his body. He was in his stocking feet. ' , CLERK 18 HEIR TO A FORTUNE. Poatofllee Employe I* Bequeathed 850,000 by Hi* Aunt. Haywood F. Norton, aged 26, was up to Saturday night a hard-working and amhitious clerk in the general postoffice in New York. Mrs. Mary Ahearn, a •weet-natured widow of 55, was his aunt. When she died a week ago and her will was opened, it \yas found that her nephews, Haywood F. and William Norton, and her niece, Mrs. Mary Giauss of Brooklyn, had inherited her fortune, amounting to considerably more than SIOO,OOO. A house at 134 West 06th street was left to Haywood. When, after the funeral, Norton was asked to stay and hear the will read, he tried to beg off en—the strength of getting back to work. When he learned that to him had been left nearly $50,000 he was speechless. His brother William, an electrician, is in Denver wiring the auditorium in which the Democratic national convention Will be held. Deep Snow Delay* Traffic. The snowstorm which swept over New York City late Thursday .developed into a blizzard during the night. The’ streets were covered in places with drifts and street car traffic and the movement of ferryboats and other harbor and liver craft was hampered. All the Eastern States were affected, and there was rough weather on the Atlantic. Store* In. Gonlil Home. The old Jay Gould residence, at Fortyeeventh street and Fifth avenue, New York, has been leased and the four-story brownstone house will be altered to accommodate places of business. B’or years the building has stood vacant, but Miss Helen Gould finally has been Induced to lease for a long term the building which was her father’s home. Fopeed Into Receiver’s Hand*. The Beaumont Iron Works Company, of which O. B. Greves is president, one of the largest foundries and machine shops in east Texas, having been in business in Beaumont for a quarter of a century,. has been forced into the hands of • receiver. The panic is held directly responsible for the financial difficulty of this large concern. Mother and Son Sentenced. Justice Barnard in the Criminal Court in Washington imposed a sentence on Mrs. Ruth McCracken of three months in jail, and on her son, William M. McCracken, n similar term in the worlchouse. while her two daughters. Jane and Ruth N. McCracken, were discharged. All of them were charged with conspiracy to defraud merchants of the city. Obi* Bank Close* Door*. George B. Harvey, proprietor of the Lisbon Banking Company.nssigncd in Lisbon, Ohio, to Albert G. Mason, and the bank is cloVd. Mr. Harvey’s real and personal property are estimated to aggregate $125,000, and the bank deposits *150,000. Kill* Hlnaeli in Buay Street. In crowded Fountain square, Cincin—a&ti, at the busiest hour of the day Andrew Fixari swallowed the contents of a bottle of muriatic acid and died soon after reaching the hospital.

Music and Slot Machinra Go. Officials of the Chicago Liquor Dealera' Association have decided to banish anisic, remove slot machines and closely observe all dramshop laws. Boy and Girl Skaters Drown. Lewis Woodman, aged 22, and Miss Blanche Adkins, aged 15, were drowned in Lake Gardner, near Ainosbury, Mass., while skating. - Goa«**aa The Senate and S|>eak4r Cannon in the House have agreed that this session of the Sixtieth Congress shall adjourn about May 1. Eaarllah Novelist Dies. Louise de la Harney, known the world over as "Ouida." the novelist, hat died la poverty in Italy/ Calls for Veto on Liquor. The North Carolina Senate by uuanianous yote passed the bill providing for a State Section on prohibition on Aug. G. Rmlktsn(i Art Com In* Back. TMttsturn to Italy of emigrants from the Lilted States is gradually stopping, while tjpigration to that country is being resumed. Steamers leaving Genoa nnd Naples (before the end of January take bock to Ajtoerlca at least 5,000 emigrants. IllWt Railways * hanare Hands. The properties of the Union Traction Company in Chicago were sold at auction to tba Chicago Railways Company and tho work of improving the traction system la expected to be pushed without

DEFENSELESS PACIFIC COAST.

On® Cruiser on® Toggf Night CouW '’Destroy Seattle and Tacoma. The departure of the fleet of sixteen battleships for its long cruise has at least served the- purpose l of drawing attention to the lamentably weak and unprotected condition of out Pacific coast, writes s Washington correspondent. From Lower California to the Canadian boundary we ihave absolutely no protection against invasion, save at Sap Francisco. Representative Humphrey, of the State of Washington, made it plain to President Roosevelt recently that a secowFelas* cruiser on a foggy night could steam into Puget Sound and shell Seattle and Tacoma off the face of the earth without receiving a shot In reply. . , The President was so impressed that lie asked Mr. Humphrey to prepare a report, in conjunction with his Pacific coast colleagues, as to what defenses and coast protection were necessary and desirable. San Diego and San Pedro in California are equally as unprotected as the Washington cities, and are wholly at the mercy of any enemy which may approach from the sea. It would not cost much, however, to.give San Diego reasonable protection and to prepare there a rendezvous for a Pacific fleet. It is estimated that $150,000 expended In dredging out the approach would furnish San Diego with a splendid harbor, easily defended by land fortifications and by battleships, the latter of which would he Instantly available for service anywhere along the coast. Just what the great Atlantic fleet will do when it reaches our Pacific coast Is a question not definitely settled. Mexico has granted us permission to make use of Magdalena bay for target practice, but it is claimed by experts that the ships will he in no condition for anything except to go into drydock for a complete overhauling. For this the Pacific coast Is absolutely unprepared. There is not a drydock or a navy yard commensurate for the task It would be called upon'to meet. The Mare Island navy yard at San Francisco Is absolutely Inadequate. There is doubt expressed by those who ought to know, having had experiences in the commissary end of the navy, that the provisioning of the fleet, when it arrived in the Pacific, may turn out to be as poorly prepared for as are the other functions.

Labor world

Hudson (Wis.) unionists have organized ~a new machinists’ union. • The Glass Workers’ Union has £,OOO members and SIOO,OOO in the treasury. A branch of the Canadian labor party has been formed in London, England. The advance in wages of the miners has been general throughout Great Britain. Bartenders of Denver, Colo., are taking steps to organize a union to procure the eight-hour day. Barbers of Hamilton, Ont., want more wages and threaten to strike if their demand is not met. The forty-first annual trade union congress of Great Britain will convene at Nottingham on Sept, 7, 1908. Labor organizations of Baltimore, Md., are assisting the policemen of that city in an effort to have one day off each week. __ A convention of independent shoe workers’ organizations, to form a national organization, is to be held at Lynn, Mass., this month. W. E. McEwen, secretary-treasurer of the Minnesota State Federation of Labor, is being urged by many of his friends to run for Mayor of Duluth at the spring election. At a conference of representatives of national lithographic organizations recently held in Washington, D. C., it was decided soon to amalgamate the allied lithographic trades. It is said that the longest strike on record in England was that of the quarrymen at Bethesda, which commenced in 1900 and did not terminate until the close of 1903. It cost the district $1,820,000. The State Federation of Labor of Oklahoma, at a recent session, adopted a resolution in favor of woman suffrage. The federation proposes to mate this a test question in the support of candidates for office.

Preliminary steps have been taken in Minneapolis, Minn., to induce all unions in the building trades to cast aside petty jealousies and join the building trades council of that city. This is with a view to strengthening the central body. Max Morris, one of the vice presidents of the American Federation of Labor, has formally extended an invitation to the Western Federation of Miners to return to the A. F. of L. The invitation was signed by President Samuel Gornpers. The Rhode Island Label League declares its intention publicly to tight the trusts by the use of the union label. Tbe league will conduct its operations in that Slate, and it is ho]>ed to get every union throughout the State affiliated with the organization.Since the national convention of textile workers of the United States iu IiKXI the international body has issued sixty charters to new unions. In Austrin 547 Jw*r 1.000 work ten hours or less each day, and 4.TS from ten to eleven hours. Comparatively few work more than eleven hours. There is a strong movement In the. Stnte of Washington nlong the line of establishing co-operative stores. One Ims teen opened in Seattle and since It has lieon in operation it has done so well that it has pvwrhnscd a coal mine, with a »i«w to sell the products to union pgppla

PROGRESS OF THE THAW MURDER TRIAL

Court Refuses to Exclude the Public While Defendant’s Wife Is on the Stand. -- r 1 / . EVELYN A MATCH FOE JEROME. - uv 'X Drops Child-Like Pose and Penees Well—District Attorney Merciless in His Examination. *. ■ v , 1 v . i Just as a year ago, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw has been the star witness in the second trial of her husband for the murder of Stanford White. District Attorney Jerome, of whom it had been hinted that he would spare the woman no mercy this time, asked that the public be excluded, and Littleton, for the defense, raised no objection, but Judge Dowling held that the prisoner had a right to a public trial. During the first week Littleton devoted himself to demonstrate Thaw’s insanity, by right of Inheritance and by bis actions from infancy to the climax of murder. His purpose in putting Evelyn Thaw on the stand was to demonstrate how the story of her abuse by White, which she says she told Thaw in Paris, acted on his erratic brain with such fore! 1 as to make irresponsibly insane Undqt his questioning she maintained her pose ,of the Ingenuous school glM.'who in her innocence had been

LEADING FIGURES IN THE THAW TRIAL.

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made the toy of a monster. But under Jerome’s severe cross-examination she dropped the mask of girlish Innocence which she had worn when sailing on the smooth waters of direct examination. She revealed herself ns a shrewd woman of the world, at times more than a match for her questioner. She told how, when he had learned of her relations with White, Thaw said: “Poor little girl, you have done no wrong.”' And yet, Bhe xvus forced to admit, thnt within two weeks he made her his companion and started on a tour of Europe which lasted for months, during all'of which time they traveled as aian and wife. Jerome also forced her to admit White’s kindness to her, bis sending her to soliool, his pnying her surgeon's bill, nnd his furnishing both her and her mother with money. She also admitted thnt White gave her and her mother money with which to go to Europe. and thnt once there she went direct to Harry Thaw’s quarters. Evelyn told her story jnnch as Rhe did a year ago, leaving out some of the most Indecent details nnd adding a few more Incidents. Mrs. Thaw had » reninrkably clear recollection* s to what she had testified to a year ago. Jerome confronted her with hundreds of the statements made then, In the hope of confusing her or lea dip* her Into contradictions, but she pattered to her story in every detfttk—...

MILLION DOLLAR FIRE,

City Hall and Police Buildings «f Portland, Me., Destroyed. Fire which caused damage of fl«000,000 destroyed the Portland, Mol, city hall and police buildings and endangered the lives of more than TOO persons. The city hall was occupied by city add county offices, while the police building sheltered the Supreme, Judicial and municipal courts, in addition to the police department. Delegates attending the Western Maine Knights of Pythias jubilee were in the auditorium of the city ball when the flames were discovered, but only a few persons were hurt. The estimated financial loss does not include papers in the office of the registrar of deeds, where everything was destroyed. Other city departments lost everything, with the exception of the city clerk’s and treasurer’s offices. One of the most valuable libraries in the State, the Greenleaf Law* Collection, was destroyed, with a loss estimated at SIO,OOO. The fire originated in the city electrician’s office and was caused by crossed wires, which made it impossible to ring a call for the fire department in any of the boxes. The city hall survived the great fire of 1860, although it was damaged at that time. The building had a frontage of 150 feet and was 250 feet long* Its central dome rose 150 feet above the roof. The building was constructed of colored Nova Scotia Albert stone, and contained eighty rooms.

TERRORS OF “FEAT” INITIATION.

Sorority Ceremonies Shatter Nerves of Novitiate and Arouse Mothers. The nerve racking, even though fancied, terrors of an initiation into ft. Greek letter society of girl students in private and

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preparatory schools In New York City caused a meeting of twenty angry mothers at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Moors. Their first purpose is to break up the local organization of the Sigma Gaimms Society, and their second is to start a campaign throughout the country against secret societies school girls. It was the story of Julia Mills, not yet 17, as told by her to her mother, that caused Mrs. Mills to take the first steps. Julia. Mills was "initiated” the other -ftlghtaq— — : *> Miss Mills, according to her story, was summoned to appear at the Moore home. Wbon she was ushered in she was led into a dimly lighted room between two columns of black robed, black masked figuies, up to the high priestess. “This will be a test of your fortitude, of your fitness to be a sister. You are ordered to thrust your hand into a small caldron of molten lead, which you see before you. Ready! fjfley orders!” Miss Milla dashed her band into the liquid and sank to her knees in fright. After she recovered her composure in part ahe was surprised to note that the caldron was filled with mercury. Suddenly the lights went out. Miss Mills felt the floor give way beneath her and she felt herself go- down, dowp, and then land on the pillows. The candidate was ordered to grasp the hand, for which she could only feel. Shuddering. she Involuntarily drew back her, arm when she felt the clammy fingers. She had grasped a wet chamois skin glove filled with sand. Again she was led forth, th(p time to drink a nauseating liquid out of a skull, which liquid "would serve to make brt of one blood with her other prospective sister-*.”

RAILROAD OYER OCEAN NOW RUNNING TRAINS

Henry M. Flagler Has Line to Key West Already Partly Completed. CONCRETE ARCHES ARE USED. Novel Engineering Peat Is Described as the Most Bemarkable is the World. The most remarkable railroad in the world, whirih Henry'M. Flagler is building on concrete arches through the shal,Jow waters of the ocean ’along the garland of palm groves that cover the keys south of Florida, is now In operation for a distance of miles to Knights Key, and regular trains are running over it. Through sleeping cars will be provided from .New York and, Chicago, and they ultimately will be carried across on a ferry from Key West ttf Havana, making the distance in six hours. The railway is more than half done, and, as the present terminus at Knight’s Key has all the facilities for handling the traffic, Mr. Flagler decided to place the completed portion in operation and have it earning the expense of maintenance, at least, while the remainder of the track is finished to Key West. Practically 80 per cent of all the construction work is done and everything will be ready for through trains to Havana by the opening of the tourist season next'winter. Knight’s Key,) tfafe present tennigus of the Flagler system, is 109 miles south of Miami, forty-seveu miles north of Key West and 115 miles north of Havana. The road between Miami and Knight’s Key is built twenty-eight miles upon the main land of Florida and eighty-one miles ncross and between forty-two keys. B’or nearly one-half of th£ distance the railway track over the water on concrete arches, whose foundations rest upon the bottom of the sea. - At the town of Homestead, twentyeight miles south of Miami, the track leaves the. continent of North America and starts upon its way over the ocean. Seventeen miles south of that point it reaches- Kpy Largo, the largest of the keys, which is. fifteen miles long, and from there jumps from key to key by "means of massiyit-ffiasonry and ambaukmentg of cement and coral rock. In crossing the deeper channels several drawbridges have been provided to permit of the passage of vessels. The intervening water_bet\veen the/forty-two keys varies in width from jai few hundred feet to two miles or more, and in depth from a few inches to thirty feet. The embankments are rip-rapped with rock to prevent washing, and are defended by piles and every other device thht the engineers could invent to protect the roadway from the attacks of the water, which Is sometimes stirred up into great violence by the force of the wind. The track is thirtyone feet above high water, so that the passengers in the railway trains may sit in the windows of Pullman cars In serenity and have an opportunity of seeing how the Atlantic Ocean looks In a gale.

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FROM FOREIGN

A severe earthquake razed bouses on the island of Hayti. Canada was officially assured that Japanese immigration would be restricted. Japan and Canada came to a final agreement on the immigration question. Mounted police had serious work to quell socialist riots in the streets of Berlin. The peace terms submitted by the Shah of. Persia were accepted, aud peace again reigns in Teheran. M. Bleriot, the noted aeronaut, fell from his machine, in Paris, aud barely escaped with his life. The Russiun War Department ordered the formation of a war automobile corps, based on tbe German idea. Henry Farnam, French aeronaut, won ft SIO,OOO prize for piloting an aeroplune successfully four-fifths of a mile. Berlin was brought face to face with the problem of feeding 12,000 starving school children during the winter. European students of affnirs declared the only hope for Portugal’s salvation was*YHe establishing of a republic. A sensation waa caused in the German court scandal by tbe revelation that a sister of the Kaiser supplied the information upon which the accused Harden based his editorial attacks. Prince Bernard of Snxewelmnr. who renounced bis rank to wed the widowed Countess Luccheslnl. died In Berlin. Russia was reported to be considering tbe construction «f fire squadrons of battleships at an estimated cost of $2,000,000,000. Japanese authorities professed great concern over reports from the United States indicating the adoption of a strict exclusion measure. Thq pretender wss proclaimed Saltan <tf Morocco, under condition thnt he would oxpol tbs French troops and reject the AUrercilas convaoHon.

COMMERCIAL FINANCIAL

CHICAGO. Trade conditions in the Chicago district are summarized in the weekly review issued by R. G. Dun & Co. as follows : In view of the effort to strengthen credits and the severe test, from which bus iness generally is emerging, it* is not surprising that the commercial mortality again exhibits a comparatively large ratio. Ii is an indication, however, that the weak concerns no longer remain to distuil) confidence. Other factors are mainly most encouraging and add to further revival in activity. Dealings at the banks now make the closest approach to those at this time lfist year, heavy settlements proceed smoothly, and the legitimate nqeds of borrowers are more Readily extended. The discount rate is much easier, but the offerings of paper reflect no undue pressure to obtain funds. Some further gftin appears in the machinery and labor employed in manufacturing, although f the effort to advance production is made slowly, but the indications constantly improve in iron, wood and leather branches. Prices bear a firmer tone in the principal raw materials, particularly hides, lumber and minor metals, and more inquiry from consumers is thought to mean an early addition to furnaces operated. Developments in construction and building are not yet notably interesting, but" the indications become brighter, and with receipts unusually light and yard stocks small, the market for lumber becomes more encouraging, especially for factory needs. Carshops run low on forward orders, but shipbuilding engages more help, and there is steady running in footwear, clothing, foundry and electric lines. Weather conditions have favored sustained absorption of winter merchandise, and seasonable dealings appear in the leading retail and jobbing branches, with larger numbers of visiting buyers operating iff the principal staples. Failures reported in the Chicago district number 39, against 47 last week and 24 a year ago. Those with liabilities over $3,000 number 16, against 19 last week and 8 in 1007.

NEW YORK. Trade and industry are still quiet, commodity pries s have quite, generally moveddownward, collections are backward, an increased quantity of railroad equipment is reported idle, less satisfactory reports ns to demand come from the iron and steel and coal industries and an increased disposition is noted to. kiiscuss wage reductions as an offset to restricting production. Wholesale trade as a whole is slow to open, though heavy cuts in cotton g00d5.... Tiy western jobbers, equaled orexoeoded by eastern houses, have aroused interest and attracted buying in these kindred lines. Travelers on the- road report buy* ing to be of a filligg-in character, suffi- • cient merely to replace broken stocks, and a -slow arid late opening of spring trade is looked for. Business failures for the week ending Jan. 23 number 408, against 431 last week, 252 in the like week of 1907, 276 in 1906, 228 in 1905 and 242 in 1904. Canadian failures for the week number 51, as against 44 last week and 18 ijt this week a year ago.—Bradstrect’s Report.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $-1.00 to SG.2O; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $4.42; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.15; wheat, No. 2,97 cto 99c; corn, No. 2,58 cto 59c; oats, standard, 49c to 51c; rye, No. 2,84 cto 85c; hay, timothy, $9.50 to $15.50; prairie, SB.OO to $11.50; butter, choice creamery, 24c to 31c; eggs, fresh, 20c to 25c; potatoes, per bushel, 55c to - 05c. 7- Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $6.00; bogs, good to choice heavy, $3.50 to $4.45; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2,97 cto 09c; corn, No. 2 white, 54c to 55c; oats, No. 2 white, 51c to 52c. St. Louis —Cattle, $4.50 to 56.00; hogs, $4.00 to $4.40; sheep, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, So. 2, sl.Ol to $1.03; corn. No. 2, 54c to 55c; oats, No. 2,49 cto 50c; rye, No. 2,82 cto 84c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $4.00 to $5.35; hogs, $4.00 to $4.30; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2, sl.Ol to $1.02;. torn, No. 2 mixed, 55c So 56c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 50c to 52c; rye, No. 2,82 cto 85c. Detroit —Cattle, $4.00 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; w heat, No. 2,99 cto $1.00; corn. No. 3 yellow, 58c to 59c; oats, No. 3 white, 52c to 54c; rye. No. *2, 81c to 83c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.07 to $1.09; corn. No. 3,57 cto 50c; oats, Standard, 50c to 52c; rye, No. 1, 83c to 85c; barley, No. 2,99 cto $1.01; pork, mess, $13.50. Buffalo —Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $5.75; hogs, fair to choice, $3.50 to $4.45; sheep, common to good mixed, SI.OO to $5.25; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $7.25. New York—Cattle, $4.00 to $0.12; hogs, $3.50 to $4.00; aheop, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.03 to $104; corn, No. 2,65 cto 07c; oats, natural white, 54c to 56c; butter, creamerx, 270 to 31c; eggs, western, 22c to 25c, Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 90c to *nra. No. 2 mixed, 52c to 33c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 52c to 53c; rye, No. 2,81 cJo 82c; clover seed, prime, SIO.OO.

First Neurological Hospital.

Commissioner of Charities Uebberd of New York City, with the help of several local experts, has established the first neurological hospital having n separate medical board and organisation. It | a to be located on Blackwell's Island and will be known as tbe Hospital for Nervous Diseases of New York City.