The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-07-21


MISSIONARIES serted:
~ THE - o Joplin, Mo-, July 16.-Ac-
cused of having chained his
10-year-old weak-mnded son to a barn floor and
treating him worse than his live stock, Nicholas
Rankiner, farmer near Neck City, last night
surrounded in his home by mob of Infatuated
men and women, who threatened to lynch him.
"Rankiner escaped through a second-story win
dow and not until he climbing over
a fence in the yard
"He was chased two miles but finally euded
his pursuers and now is thought to be camped in
swamp. County officers are trying to find him.
The other clipping reads:
Fort Wayne, Ind July 16.--A mob of farmers
is said to be organizing here to storm the
Fort Wayne jail and lynch Moses Richer, who,
cording to the county prosecutor, confessed that
he had bitten strips of flesh from the body OF
12-year-old Charles Coast, his adopted son, and
then killed him.
" The boy aggravated me for long time
Richer said.
"Neighbors, who had reported to the sheriff
that Richer cruel to the boy, missed him yes
terday and demanded that Richer tell where he
was Richer led them to bed where the body
lay and told them that Charles had been gored to
death by bull.
1.-The sheriff was summoned and he brought
Richer to jail here. The is alleged to have
confessed that, for months he had bitten the boy
to punish him. Holes had been torn in the boys
back, chest and abdomen"
Travellers tell us children are never made
missionaries there
Or four famous Supreme Court Justices
only one is living and he, Justice Moody, is in
precarious state of health
THE HIGHER The tremendous power
FINANCING vested in the Supreme
METHODS OF Court, in deciding for or
CREATING against the corporation tax
SUPREME COURT cases, the Standard Oil
JUDGES Company, the T bacco
Trust and 'soulless male
factors of great wealth" in the same class
makes the choice of successors for these high
dignitaries of immense Importance. Justice
Fuller, Justice Peckham and Justice Brewer
the three who have died within so short a
time of each other, were we'll versed in the
status of all the cases cited above Whether
their successors will be as able to Judge, is the
question to be argued President Taft's pow
er to reorganize the Supreme Court is, per-
maps, one of the gravest possibilities he has
yet faced. A dispatch from Washington to
the Chicago Tribune said recently:
"It is certain all of the cases which involve far
reaching principles will be re-argued in order that
the new Chief Justice and other newly appointed
members shall have opportunity to take part
in the decisions. 1t is thoroughly understood
here that in order to insure lasting decisions the
judgment of the full bench is essential. The
Standard Oil and Tobacco cases have been set for
re-argument in the fall. Unquestionably the death
of Chief Justice Fuller will cause further post
ponement. This will mean that the decisions in
these cases will not be handed down before the
spring, by which time Congress will have ad-
jOurned. The significance of this lies in the fact
that it has been the intention of the President to
recommend the enactment of his Federal incor-
poration plan at the next session. He will not
be able to do this until the next Congress- which
will convene in December 1911 for the simple
reason that the scope of the Sherman Antitrust