Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1908 — OFFICER OFF FOR CANADA. [ARTICLE]

OFFICER OFF FOR CANADA.

hlldmemt la Silk Fraud Case Dismissed, but Sentenoe Still Stands. Charles C. Brown, a New York customs officer under sentence to Sin; Sing for conspiring with A. S. Rosenthal and passing silk free of duty, left for Canada On other day, when an indictment against him was quashed. Brown, after conviction. fled to Canada, forfeiting his bond of SIO,OOO. He could not be extradited except for trial <m an untried indictment remaining against him. When brought hack he was seized ’and hurried to prison. The court held, hoover, that for any Other purpose than standing trial upon the untried indictmoht Brown was in Canada. Brown was tried two weeks ago on the five-year-old indictment and the Jury disagreed. Rosenthal, the silk merchant arrested with Brown, is a fugitive la Europe, having long since forfeited his bail of $30,000. DR. JAMESON QUITS OFFICES. Haider’s Parly Defeated, He Realsn* as Premier of Cape Colony. Dr. Le&nder Starr Jameson, premier ascretary for native affairs of Cape Coloay, has resigned. He assumed these offices in February, 1904. The resignation of Dr. Jameson comes as a result of the defeat of his party in the Cape Colony parliamentary elections, which are now in progress. The financial depression following the war and the recent enfranchisement of many former rebels were contributory causes. Although he is best known as a raider, Dr. Jameson was popular with all nationalities in the colony, alyl he has done more than any other man' to reconcile the- English and Dutch. BUILDING IS DESTROYED. Blaze Wipes Oat Mechanical Department of Newspaper. In a fire Sunday the sous-story brick building containing the mechanical department of the Plain Dealer Publishing Company in Cleveland was destroyed. The adjoining structure, in which the business and editorial offices are located, was not seriously damaged. The building destroyed contained the composingroom, with twenty-two linotypes, job printing plant, storerooms, boilers and dynamos, and pressrooms in the basement. The loss on the building and contents is estimated at $200,000. Cornell Ht»n»e Barns; One Dead. From the ruins of the Alpha Tan Omega fraternity house at Cornell, university, Ithaca, N. Y., which burned'Friday, were taken the charred remains of J. S. Kiehle. a junior in mechanical engineering. That any lives had been lost was not known until a meeting of the fraternity was held, when a roll call developed the fact that Kiehle was missing. The ruins were searched and his body was found.

Lewis Heads Miners’ Union. Thomas Lewis has been elected to succeed John Mitchell us President of the United Mine Workers of America and William D. Ryan to succeed William B. Wilson as Secretary-Treasurer of the organization. Lewis has been Vice Presidont of the Miners’ Union, and made the race against Wilson, defeating the for- ' mer Secretary-Treasurer by approximately 5,000 votes. Flames in “Frat” House. The chapter house" of the Berzelius secret society of the Sheffield Scientific School in New Haven, Conn., was damaged by fire, and the loss is estimated at SIO,OOO. The mercury whs "fit zero and the firemen had a cold fight, but checked the flames after a large hole had been burned in the rooT. Indicts 200 nt Kansan City. Encouraged by a recent decision of the FMNfegdl court to the effect that the tribunal tacked jurisdiction to interfere in , the local Sunday closing crusade, the grand jury in Kansas City returned 200 Indictments ngainst actors, actresses and theatrical attaches charged with violating the Sunday closing law. " Kill Kinic and Crown Prince. King Carlos and Crown Prince Luiz of Portugal were assassinated Saturday a* they drove in the royal carriage through thp streets of Lisbon. Prince Manuel, 18 years old, was proclaimed King of Portugal Sunday, and the army and navy pledged loyalty. ■ends German Count to Workhouse. In St. Paul Fred Ingleheim, who claims to be a German count, was sentenced to sixty days in the workhouse. He has been employed as a bartender, and was arrested on complaint of John Kovase, who claimed that while he wns asleep in the saloon Ingleheim robbed him. Than Sent to Aaylani. Harry K. Thaw was acquitted in New York of the murder of Stanford White on the ground that he was insane at the time the act was committed, and has boon sent to the asylum for criminal iuoane at Matteawan. Neill Defeated by Attell. Abe Attell got the decision from Frankie Neil in boxing bout at San Frantdbco, the seconds throwing up the sponge la the thirteenth round. Another Bank Goes Under. The Oriental bank, a State institution la Now York City, failed to reopen FrlII hoot* Own Children. In Chicago shot down three of i, killing one, and told the eed was caused by his desire a little ones from their rnoihMKi:: 11 - —h nd In New York State. , ial repost of the State minthe Legislature announces i undevelo|)ed wealth of oil in Slate. The oil Is contained posit of dense block bitumln extending from near Canon westward to Lake Erie.