Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 19 July 1901 — Page 8

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DEAD AND DYING

Terrible Eesult of a Wreck on the Chicago and Alton .Road.

A SCORE WERE KILLED

The Conductor of a Freight Forgot an Important Order and Appalling1 Disaster Follows.

Fast Express Plitng-es to Destruction and Passengers are Crushed and Scalded.

Kansas City, Mo., July 11.—Nlneteeu Persons are dead, two probably l'atally Injured, and a large number of others less seriously hurt as a result of a hend-end collision between a passeuger and a fast livestock train on the Chicago and Alton railruud neur Norton yesterday. Six were killed outright, three died OH a train convoying tliein to Kansas City, and ten died at hospitals in this city. The dead are: Daniel M. AlcAnna, Slater, Mo. conductor of freight train P. J. Anderson, later, Mo. engineer of freight train Frank Brlggs, engineer of passenger train 1. S. Rogers, Chicago, United States Express company iiiessouginMm.

Gillman of Goodland, lud. The above were killed outright and the following died on the train: D. \V. Hooker, Syracuse, N. 1'. .Mrs. C. W. Snyder, Jasper, N. Y. G. L. Hoy, cashier of the Wilmington (Ills.) bank. Daniel Donnelly, Mexico, Mo., fireman of freight train Rev. K. J. Curtis, Genesco, N. Y. Mrs. Dickson, G7 years old, and Miss Lulu Rider, Kentland. Ind., died at University hospital, and Sydney Jones, Kansas City, .Mrs. Walker, supposed to be from Chicago, from Chicago an uuidcntilied elderly woman Mrs. S. C. D. Harry of IloopeBton, Ills. Leslie S. Coleman of l'awpaw, Mich., and Mrs. J. D. Adsic of Hoopesi.on, ills., wife of Dr. Adsit, died at St, Joseph's hospital.

The passenger train was traveling in three sections on account of the heavy Epworth League business to San Francisco. The wrecked train was the first section and contained no Leaguers. Conductor McAnna of the freight train, east-bound, had been ordered to meet the second section of the passenger at .Slater, the next station east of Norton, but apparently overlooked the fact that the lirst section, which was 55 minutes late, had not passed. The front brakeinau on the* freight, who was about lour cars from the engine, says Conductor McAnna took the throttle himself on leaving Marshall, and was running the engine when the collision occurred. The trains met two miles west of Norton, on a curve surmounting a high embankment.

A relief train from Kansas City returned here with the injured last even ing. Those who died en route were taken to an undertaker's, while the others were taken to two hospitals. The six killed outright were left at Slater, Mo.

The trains collided while going at a good rate of speed. The engines were practically demolished and the forward cars of the passenger train ware teleseoped and burned, together with the freight curs which iiled up •a both engines. The train which was wrecked was one of the linest passenger trains In the United States. The equipment Mas all new.

On the arrival at Kansas City of the train bearing the wounded the sufferers w*re taken to St. Joseph's and University hospitals. Oil the Journey from Slater four of the injured died and their bodies were taken to an undertaking establishment hers. The Injured suffered mostly from scalds due to escaping 6team from the wrecked locomotives, there being no broken limbs. Some of the victims had inhaled steam and were In worse condition that a lirst examination indicated. Soon after tne arrival here three of the injured died at Univer slty hospital and one at St Joseph's hospital. Identification of the dead was difficult because the clothing had been removed to apply relief to the scalded surfaces. One of the deaths •t University hospital was that of an old woman named Mrs. Dickssn of Wilmington, Ills. Her daughter is in the hospital not seriously injured. Miss Lulu Rider of Kentland, Ind., aged 25, was terribly mutilated, h«r face being crushed and her body scalded. She died at University hospital about 7 o'clock. Mrs. Hilda Hasslip of Chenoa, Ills., scalded and burned on back, shoulders, head and face, is the most seriously injured of the patients at University hospital. T. C. Bray of Chicago, a shoe dealer, is at the University hospital with his neck sprained, head cut and internal injuries, but with a chance of recovery.

In. St. Joseph's and University hospitals are 30 persons, at least two of whom are expected to die. The physicians will not give an opinion as to •the condition of the sufferers. Moat of them were scalded by the stoanj that issued from the locomotives.

Hoosier Centenarian Dead. Dublin, Ind., July 11.—Rebecca Wampler, aged 100 years, died yesterday. She was the mother of six children and nad 41 grandchildren, 89 great-grandchildren, and 21 great-jreat-grandchildren.

A PATIKNT LINE)

Thousands Besiege the Reservation Keaistration Booths. El Reno, CK T., July 11.—Following the proclamation of President McKinley opening up to settlement by the whites the 13,000 farms in the KiowaComanche country, the first registration of homeseekers was made here and at Lawton yesterday. Hundreds were lined before the various registration booths when darkness came last night, and today and next day fiie registrations will continue until nil who come here have been giveu an op portunity to lile their names. The drawing by lottery will begin on July 20, and until men none of the 50,(0 applicants will know whether or not he has been lucky enough to receive a homestead.

The lottery seheme robbed the "opening" of the picturesque run and ex citing times incident to the great opening of the Cherokee strip ten years ago. Compared with that event the affair today is tame. Considering that there are perhaps 20,000 people in town, comparatively little disorder prevails.

Tuesday night hundreds of people slept In the streets and alleys to maintain their places in lines which began forming early in tin? day at the six registration booths rn 121 Reno. The crowd before each booth elected a captain, and each man and woman in line was given a number, which they pinned on their clothing.

As the. hour of o'clock neared. interlopers tried to push in and break the numerical order of the line organization. This instantly ».raised bad blood, and when word was passed down the line a little later that the booth officials would not recognize the line organization, but would register the first persons to present themselves, there were thronfs of violence and rioting seemed likely. Trouble wns prevented by the early announcement that the line organization would lie respected by the government officials. Cheers and waving of lints greeted this word, and from this time forth no sign of trouble was apparent. Applicants were admitted to the booths four at a time, and the filing proceeded rapidly all day long. The numerous ,women in line were treated gallantly by the men. wii'o shaded them from the pun with umbrellas and furnished drinks from the lemonade vendors. The second place of registration named in the proclamation was at Lawton, 23 miles overland, where similar scenes to those enacted in El Reno were witnessed.

ELLIS (JLHNN'S

Strange Case or Man-Woman May lake Week* 1:i Trial. Parkersburg, AV.

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ery legal point is'Teing bitterly fought in the trial of Ellis i.'lenii, charged with forgery, and it may take weeks to try the case, as there are over loo witnesses to examine. Judge Stapleton n.ade a ruling yesterday tiiat Eilis will have to sit during the remainder of tlie trial with her hat and veil removed from her head and face. This pleased the crowded court room, as they have been desirous of seeing her.

One of the witnesses yesterday was C. M. Mayliew of I'arkersburg, who stated that Bert Glenn worked for him for a year in a meatshop in Williamstown, the scene of the alleged forgery. He testified that he believed lie was positive Ellis and Bert Glenn were one and the same person. He said he had known her many years, when she appeared as a man, and now that she was dressed as a woman lie still was positive Ellis was Bert. The defense asked him to swear to it, but he refused. George A. Hoover of Williamstown gave practically the same testimony, although Glenn did not work for him he had had dealings with Bert on many occasion. He said that he believed the prisoner was the same person but would not swear to it.

XEKSE TELEGRAMS

Abe Quiumell, the New York lawyer, was fatally Injured In a carriage accident in London.

Petar Bankers, aged 87, committed suicide at Ruehvllle, Ills., by hanging. It is now an assured fact thut the confcrenca today will result in tlia calling off of the steel workers' strike.

Mrs. Martha Patterson, the last of the children of ex-President Andrew Johnson, died yesterday at Greenville, Tenn.

Oscar Holler was shot aad killed nt Red Bluff, Tex. Robert R. Stafford surrendered t» the sheriff, and claims solf-defense.

The 14-year-old daughter of a Mr. Stereos of TyUr, Tex., attempted to kindle

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Are with coal olL She died in a few hours. At Dublin, Ind, while a party of boys were shooting at a target Kdward Pope accidentally shot Teny Hodraeh tn the heaS, inflicting a fatal wound.

Dr. Jujjua Crocker, living near Qulncjr, Ills., established his relationship to the late Banjamin Crocker of California, and will recetv* $75,000 from the estate.

T. Ij. Jefferson is considering whether or not to contest the nomination of Clyirlrs F. OriUnger for mayor in the Democratic primary at Louisville. Jefferson Claims the ballot boxes were stuffed.

At Naples, Tex., Joe Smith, an aged negro, nad a veteran of the federal army, was stubbed and beaten to death by a young negro. Buck Bonner was arres'ted. The officers had to heat him into submission.

Fire nlmost wiped out the small town of Joshtm, Tex., yesterday, destroying 14 business houses. The loss is $40,000, with less than $11,000 insurance. The town has no waterworks and there was no way to check the Are.

George Staneast, a young married man, Is missing from Terre Haute, Ind., and the police are looking for him on the charge of passing forged checks. He wrote a postal card, mailed at St. Louis, to his wife, In which lie said he would commit suicide.

A thousand men in the building trades struck at Fort Worth, Tex., and -work is practically suspended all over the city. The strike the outcome of the refusal of the laborers' federation to accept the re suit of arbitration of the demand for higher •wages.

Dudley G. Wooten of Dallas was nominated by the Democrats of the Sixth Texas congressional district for the seat In congress made vacant by the death of Jmlgr R. E. Burke. The convention was In ses slon a week and the nomimittoa wen made on the 4,040th ballot.

NEGROES AND CHINESE.

Surprises Coming From Results of the New Census.

OP INTEREST TO SOCIOLOGISTS.

Slsoa That (he Black Race Is IncrenaioK In the Sontli, While the Far Weat la Losing Ita Ghincae.

The figures for the races have already been made up for two southern states, Alabama aud Arkansas. In tliem for the decade just closed the increase of the colored race was slightly greater than that of the whites. The difference, however, is so slight, running into the fraction of 1 per cent, thnt any definite conclusion as to the course of events will have to await fuller returns. If these states prove typical of the entire south, the conclusion reached in 1S90 will have to be revised, and it seems likely that this will be the case. Arkansas is one of the states to which tlwe has been considerable white migration, and that the blacks should have kept up the ratio of Increase is somewhat significant. It is probable that throughout the south the medical facilities at the command of the negroes are improving, so that the death rate is not as startlingly large as It was in the earlier years of freedom.

Another interesting question which has provoked much discussion in the last ten years is the numerical status of the Chinese population. Labor agitators. bent on the cxtrcmest forms of Chinese exclusion, have repeatedly alleged that through evasions of the law as many Chinese were now coming into this country as ever. They have said that all along the border, both Canadian and Mexican, the smuggling of Chinese was going on, oftentimes by connivance with the immigration inspectors. The census will settle this .question, and while the total number of Chinese in the country is not yet available enough is known to set at rest all alarming reports on this subject. California had in 1800 nearly 73.000 Chinese. It lias only about GO per cent aa many now. This clearly indicates that not only has the supply of new material been pretty effectively cut off, but that those who were there ten years ago have now scattered over the country at large. Connecticut, for example, has more than twice as many Chinamen as in 1890. Colorado, another western state, has less than half as many. The total number of Chinese in 1890. 107,000, will not, It is believed, be exceeded this time, but their diffusion will be most marked.

The Japanese, as was to have been expected, have Increased rapidly, as much as tenfold In California alone, while in Washington state they have begun to form a considerable element of the population.

The proportion of foreign born people seems to have lowered in the west and Increased in the east Definite details are not yet available, but they will before long be coming.

A Carnerfe Story.

Mr. Carnegie evidently considers two millions a trifling matter. Once Bailie Mackenzie of Edinburgh told the great man that if he took to golf be would add ten years to his life, says the New York Commercial Advertiser. "If you can add ten years to my life, I'll make you a present of two millions," Mr. Carnegie said earnestly. "Well," replied the bailie on reflection, "1 can't do that absolutely, but I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll play yon for the two millions on your own green." Mr. darnegle may still have this wager in his mind's eye, for he plays golf unceasingly while at Sklbo, his great ambition being to lower his own record as often as possible.

Bnit of Mall For Kins Edward. The historic suit of armor worn by the king's champion, who rode fully equipped into Westminster hall, threw his gauntlet on the floor and challenged to mortal combat any one denying the king's right, was presented to King Bdward at Marlborough House, in London. the other morning, says the New York Sun. The ceremony was last performed at the coronation of George I. The suit then used, dated 1585 and bearing the monogram of Queen Elizabeth, was the one presented to the king. The Duke of Marlborough acted as spokesman on the occasion of the Dresentatlon.

THE CRAWFORDSVILLE WEEKLY JOURNAL.

Some Popular Theories Likely to Be Exploded.

Few questions have attracted the attention of sociologists more since the civil war than the relative increase of the black and the white races in the south, says a Washington dispatch to the New York Post. By the census of 1880, which by comparison with that of 1870 offered the first real basis for reflective study, the blacks seemed to be gaining In numbers much faster than the whites. This created considerable alarm. It was feared that in process of tinae the black race would outpopulate the white or "Africanize" the south. Ten years later the census of 1890 gave a very different showing. The black race seemed on account of Its heavy death rate to be making less numerical progress than the white, and it was discovered that the sensational figures of ten years before might have been due in part at least, to an Inadequate count of the, blacks in 1870. At all events, the returns of 1890 served to quiet apprehension on the part of those who feared that the black race would eventually possess the land. But returns of this character from a single census were not sufficient to settle the question. Students of the problem have been looking forward eagerly to the count of 1000, whose findings are now in process of tabulation.

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DOMESTICS.

A glance at these prices will convince you that here is the place to buy domestics: A good, smooth unbleached muslin, no mosquitto^net article, but a 6c grade at 2%c A tine, close, 36-in., soft, unbleached musltn, worth 5 to 6c, a limited amount at z%c Any of our best C75C unbleached muslin, fuli yard wide, smooth and line, at 4%c A good, smooth. 36-in. bleached muslin for.... Our best 8c bleached muslin for 6J£c A good, smooth, 5c cotton crash for 2?ic Any of our best indigo blue, black and white, grey, and 11II dark calico at 414c One lot 10c tine dress ginghams 1,000 yards heavy, dark, 12c percale remnants 6J4C One lot good apron gingham syc

NOTIONS.

Wo hang the special notice sign on these notions when all is done and said. They are little things, but it's among the lit.tle things such as these that you can tell the policy of a store, no matter how big. You will notice that Graham's constant aim to give the people a little more than anyone else holds good among the little things, where only a few pennies are at stake. A good fan, a thimble, a lead pencil with eraser, or a paper oViyi.t, good pins for

A good 200-yard spool of white thread for rT. 2c A pair of good wood handle curling irons 3c A good, line bristle tooth brush for 5c 3 cakes good toilet soap in a box I0c A dozen good size kid curlers for 4e Good wire crimped hair pins, a bunch lc

TAILORING.

Our superior tailoring methods and our prices will put you on the right road. We have taught many a man how to dress stylishly, and taught them, too, forceful lessons in economy. We cut to your measure, fit to your form, and price to your purse. We make— A good pair finely tailored wool pants for..., $3.98 A pair of our fine cassimere trousers, fully tailored, finish and fit guaranteed $4.98 A full suit made from our new spring fabrics, first class fit and finish, a $20 to $22.50 value $14.98 One of our best $25 to $30 suits from your choice of many new and handsome patterns in nobby spring suitings for.. $19.60

CARPETS.

You want a carpet? We have got a fine bargain in all wool ingrains for you and would rather have it on your floor and take 55c a yard for it than let it stand here marked at the regular selling price, 65c. Also a rug bargain or two for your choosing. All remnants of 660 all wool Ingrains at. 46c Any of our 66c extra super 8 ply all wool ingrain carpets for 65o A good heavy 7Bo tapestry brussels, handsome new designs, for goo A fine 27x54 inch brussels rug with fringe, a $1 rug for 76c An extra heavy fine Smyrna rug 36x72, beautiful pattern, $4 rugs $2.98

Graham's Busy Store

Making Deep Cuts That Will Please Shallow Purses

To days announcements will show you what a few of our departments are ready to part with for much less than regular prices. Our stocks are too heavy and the hot weather is here, so we simply cut prices to reduce them—cut them so so very low that you are bound to carry off the goods, The prices are given for information sake, so that no one need stay away fearing extravagance, and the values are here to convince you when you come. There will be some lively selling for a few days in every department here. Certainly we can only name a few items, but there's many a snap for you in this store, and a chance for you to practice a little economy on your summer needs.

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Your Vacation Wants.

The whirligig of time again brings around the period of summer vacation and summer pleasures. Hundreds of people are hastening to the seaside, the lakes, the springs, or into the mountains to enjoy their do-nothing season. The question of what shall I wear to insure the greatest comfort consistent with the demands of that pleasure party, dame fashion, presents itself to every one. A short visit to this busy store will solve the problem, as there's everything here that can suggest itself to the resident or visitor, to the sojourner at the lakes or in the mountains, besides the many wants of those who remain in the quietude of their own home. So, for all your hot weather wants you should come to THE BUSY STORE.

Geo. W. Graham.

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WOOL DRESS GOODS.

Where women most congregate, there, of course, best bargains most abound. The public is finding out every day that we have the most complete stock of dress goods in Crawfordsville. The colors are right, so are the weaves, the patterns and the prices. We sell: A 40-inch, 60c wool Ettamlne, all colors, at......... ...... ..... ... 39c A 40-inch, 35c wool Granite, all colors, at 19c A 40-inch, black Brocade Jaequard, also a full line plain 60c

Granites, Ettamines, etc., at 19c One lot GO to 75c gnviites, venitlans, whip cords, mohairs, serges, etc at 3gc One lot 6 to 7 yard patterns, $3.56 to $6.00 ones, at J1.98 One lot tine $6 to $10 dress patterns at. $3.98 One lot tine silk and wool suitings, crepes, etc, our $8 to 812 patterns at

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MILUNERY.

In this department we really talk through our hats. In other words we let our hats talk for us. We throw some bargains your way. There's music in our low prioes. A band goes with every hat. See our—

Line of sailors, walking and street hats at .23 One lot 85c sailors, walking and street hats at 89 One lot $1.50 to $2.00 walking and street hats at 69 One lot fine $2.00 and $2.50 trimmed hats at 98 About 20 of our $3.00 to $4.00 trimmed hats, all high grade work, at.... 1.49 One lot extra fine all new handsome creations, $4.00 to $5,00 hats, at. 1.98 Any of our very choice specially fine case goods at 2.98

MADE GOODS.

These handsome Bhirt waists and wash dresses will serve as the best conduotor of fresh air. Very low priced these goods, but they are right on the topjerest of fashion's wave and that's what you want. We sell An'all silk plain or fancy $3.76 waist for.._ $1.98 One lot blue and pink fancy percale waist for. 60 One lot plain white tucked and embroidery trimmed front waists^for .75 One lot ladles' fa»cy percale dresses, white braid trimming and flounce, for 1,39 One lot flns silk finish chambray dresses in blue, grey and pink with white P. K. band trimming belt and collar, $4.00 to $5.00 suits for 3.39

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GOODS.

The time for hesitating is past—the realities of hot weather now demand an immediate decision in the matter of dress. These are tempting wash goods prices which will help you to a conclusion: 40 pieces fine 6c. lawn, all in at One lot tine corded and figured dimity, our 7 ana 8c lines, at One lot thin cool figured and stripe 12He lawns and organdies at One lot fine dress ginghams and zephyrs, the usual 15c kinds at' One lot our entire line of tine stripe and fancy figure and dotted lawns, dimities, organdies, fine batistes and every cool summer weave, at 15C, 20c, 2oc and

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