Decatur Democrat, Volume 47, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 12 March 1903 — Page 6

■■ raw (if shots — Street Car Strike - at Waterbury At Last Results In Murder. Violence Breaks Out Once More, This] Time Characterized by Lawless Desperation. Policeman Was Shot Dead and Conductor Was Seriously Injured. Waterbury, Conn., March 9. —Violence has broken out anew as a result of the high feeling in connection with the strike of the motormen and conductors of the Connecticut Railway and Lighting company. This time it is murder, and Policeman Paul Mendlesohn is the victim. John W. Chambers, a non-union motorman, Is shot. HR conductor, George Weberndorfer, was pounded almost into insensibility. Tue scene of the crime was st Forest Park, the terminus of the North Main street line. The spot is Is-lated, and when the car reached the end of the line the crew made preparations for the return trip. Immediately after the conductor turned the trolley and the motorman reversed his levers, five masked men sprang from the bushes by the roadside, entered the car and discharged their revolvers, every man being armed. Officer Mendlesohn fell at the first report, and as a later examination showed, the first shot was fatal, having pierced his heart. The motorman was also hit and leaped frim his car with a cry of pain. Some of the men followed him. while the remainder turned their attention to the conductor. He was thrown to the floor of the car and pounded and kicked until he was almost unconscious. The men then left him and joined their companions outside. From this point in the attack their actions are wrapped in mystery and are caus Ing considerable apprehension. Weberndorfer saw his motorman leap from the car when he was shot and saw him followed by the murderers. Whether he escaped or whether he was carried off by the attacking party cannot be learned. The conductor regained his feet with difficulty and went to the side of the ■wounded officer, but he saw that the officer was dead. Weberndorfer. hardly able to stand, went to the controller and started the car back toward the city with the dead officer. On the ■way he met another car, the crew of which relieved the injured man and hurried to the city for assistance. The body of the dead officer was carried into police headquarters and Weberndorfer was also taken there. An alarm was sent around the city by the police, and in a few moments the entire detective department, accompanied by thirteen policemen, went to the scene of the murder. Despite the diligent search of the policemen and detectives, not a clue could be found as to the perpetrators of the murder. The car when it reached the city showed that there had been a volley of shots fired at the three defenseless men. The shots having been fired while the trolley pole was off. the three men were in darkness. At the time of the shooting the streets were deserted because of the downpour of rain which had been falling all evening, but the news spread about the city like wildfire, and half an hour after the attacked car reached the center of the city, there were 300 persons at police headquarters, where the body had been taken. Mayor Kilduff and Chief of Police Egan hurried

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to headquarters and directed policemen to different parts of the city in an effort to capture me murderers. Both ofifeers said that the murder was the work of the Waterbury men. Later officers came upon Motorman Chambers, who is a young fellow not over twenty years of age. His head was covered with blood, but it was found that he had not been struck with a bullet, but had been pounded upon the head with the butt end of a revolver. The young man told a startling story of his experiences. He said that as soon as he leaped from the I car four men followed him firing their revolvers. He ran at top speed for , the swamps near by, find when he discovered that his pursuers gained on him he laid down. The murderers j rushed by, but did not go near the highway. They soon gave up the search, whereupon young Chambers hurried from his hiding place and started for the city to give the alarm. He fell in with a policeman, who conducted him to the car barns. Will Hold to Old Quarters. Chicago, March 9.—The national I headquarters of the Endowment Rank of the Knights of Pythias will remain at Chicago. Hon. C. E. Shiveley, supreme vice chancellor, has formally made this announcement. There was an effort to make a change either to Indianapolis, Detroit or Columbus. O. Former Congressman Blount. Macon. Gn., March 9. —Hon. James H. Blount, for twenty years member [ of congress from Georgia, and afterward commissioner paramount to the I Hawaiian Islands during the second I Cleveland term, died here Snuday of i congestion of the lungs. Mlle. Daurignac Released. Paris. March 9.—Mlle. Marie Daurignac. who figured in the Humbert frauds as the prospective bride of one ■ of the alleged American brothers ' Crawford, and who was arrested in i Madrid with the other members of the Humbert family and brought here. I was released Sunday, the physicians I having decided that she is suffering from hysteria and is not responsible for her actions. She was refused permission to see her sister. Mme. Humbert, and others of the family before leaving the prison. Ferry Disaster Claims Seventeen. Glens Falls. N. Y„ March 9.—Only two more bodies of the victims of the Spier falls tragedy of Saturday, »hen a ferry filled with workmen capsized, have been recovered. Two of the sixteen men not accounted for that night were found yesterday, making the number of dead and missing seventeen. Many of the Italians employed ; on the works have left their jobs, and a stampede is feared. — It was Satisfactory. Buenos Ayres, March 9. —The Na sion publishes an interview with Foreign Minister Drago in which the Minister declares that Senor Garcia Mero, the Argentine minister at Washington, has telegraphed to him announcing that the response of Seceretary Hay to an Argentine note setting forth the Argentine government’s ideas regarding Venezuela and Monroeism is satisfactory. Abbess Sentenced to Imprisonment. Berlin. March 9.—A published dispatch from Munich announces that the lady abbess. Elizabeth Von Hasussler of the Old Woman's asylum, who was on trial for attempting to poison a servant girl, has been sentenced to six years’ detention in a penitentiary. A New England Road’s Troubles. New Haven. Conn.. March 9.—The situation in connection with the difficulty between the officials of the New York. New Haven & Hartford railroad and their employes remains unchanged and both sides are apparently awaiting developments. Give the world more sunshine and less moonshine. —Dallas News.

DEADLY HOTEL FIR US Tv.it Net Death-List of Twelve. Se.T.tle. Wash., March 9.—A special from Dawson says. Five people were uini I to death In the Aurora roadhouse on Hunker creek at 2 o'clock Fhursday morning. Charles Bernsie, who owned the house, his wife and two < hlldri n and Thomas Baird, who was ia charge of one of the government roadhouses, were burned to a crisp. Neighbors who saw the burning building were unable to enter on account of the smoke. The Bernsie family came from Portland, Oregon. Baird was from Ontario, Cumberland, Md., March 9. —Six persons were burned to death and one was fatally injured as the result of a fire Sunday morning in a small hotel at Leiter, a small mining town near Elkins, W. Va. RECORD OF CONGRESS Seme Figures on What the National Lawmakers Did. Washington, March 9.—Alexander McDowell, clerk of the house of rep- ' resentatives, has made public an official compilation made by Tally Clerk Wakefield showing the work done by ; the house during the 57th congress. It 1 shows that the longest day of the session lasted with recesses 144 hours, during which 80 rollcalls were taken. The number of bills and resolutions introduced in the house during the 82 sessions of congress was 18,420, on which reports were made on 2,810 bills and r solutions. The senate sent to I the house 1,639 senate bills and reso- I lutions. The house disposed of 2,418 ; of the measures originating with it, I and of 1,012 of the senate bills and resolutions, making it a total of 3,430 bills and resolutions acted on. It left on its calendars 405 house and 118 senate bills and resolutions. Fifteen of the members of the house died during the congress, seven resigned, and Messrs. Rhea of Kentucky and Butler of Missouri were unseated, the latter twice. A Woman Still Suspected. Buffalo, N. Y., March 9—The most important development in the Burdick murder mystery is the discovery by the police of evidence to corroborate the story told by Policeman Meyer of meeting a lone woman on Ashland ave nue about 1 o’clock on the night of the murder. It Is not much, but the police feel encouraged. The police will not divulge the name of the person who has come forward with the additional evidence. They are doing less talking about the case. The fact that they are still working on the "lone woman” clue indicates that they have not abandoned the theory that a woman had a hand in the crime. Alleged Crime of an Abbess. Berlin, March 9.—The trial of Elizabeth Von Hartszler, abbess of the Old Woman s prison, for an attempt to poison a servant girl, is nearing its conclusion at Munich. Bavaria. According to the testimony it appeared that the servant, Emma Wagner, was for eight years the intimate friend and confidant of the abbess, who told her many alleged slanders against members of the Bavarian royal family. A few weeks ago the abbess, fearing the girl would divulge the stories told and injure her in court circles, poured muriatic acid into the girl’s coffee and made her violently ill. Suicide of a Young Wife. Goshen, Ind.. March 9.—Mrs. Pansy Montevon Wurster, nineteen years old and wife of Robert J. Wurster, twentythree years old and principal heir to 3150,000 estate, committed suicide by swallowing two-thirds of an ounce of carbolic acid. She died in awful agony. Mr. and Mrs. Wurster had been married about a year and a few days ago she sued for divorce, alleging she was driven to such action through the conduct of her husband, who belongs to an old and highly respected family

ANSWERDUETOOAY Wabash Trainmen’s Counsel Have Been Having a Busy Time of It. — It Is Now Clear That a Hard and Well Prepared Fight Will Be Waged. Employes Go In to Win After Having Looked Over the Ground Carefully. St. Louis. March 9.—ln all probability the answer which is expected to accomplish the dissolution of the injunction served last Tuesday to prevent a strike among the employes of the Wabash railroad will be filed in | the United States district court today. From the amount of labor that is be.ng I expended by the legal counsel in the ’ preparation of the answer, it is known * that the instrument will be very voluminous, and is relieved to presage a hard and carefully prepared fight for . a sweeping victory. “We are now beginning to see the end of our work," said Attorney E. J. Pinney of Cleveland. Each member of the counsel replied in a similar vein when questions regarding the time as to the completion of the answer, but none would make definite statement. The leaders and committeemen spent ■ Sunday in making statements bearing on the case, which will constitute part | of the answer. THEIR SIDE OF IT Structural Iron Workers Talk of Their Strike. New York, March 9.—At the headquarters of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers it is denied that the striking iron workers had refused to inform the officers of the American Bridge company of the nature of their grievances. "Our strike was not declared in sympathy with the hoisting engineers.” said a representative of the association. “For some time the American Bridge company has been breaking faith with us wherever the union is weak. It has been looking for trouble for some time. On many jobs they have had our men do all the hard and difficult work, and as soon as easy work was reached, have laid us off and put on cheaper men. The claim that we have made no effort to settle our grievances with them is not true. "The president of tne international association came on here last week from Chicago for the purpose of settling our troubles with the company. He went to the office of the company to try to arrange a meeting with the officials of the American Bridge company, but they would not meet him.” It was also said that no more meetings of the men are to be held for the present, that the strike is on and will continue further meetings of the men being unnecessary. General Franklin Dead. Hartford. Conn., March 9.—Major General William Buel Frankiln died Sunday at his home in this city, aged eighty years. He had been in poor health and had failed perceptibly since the death of bis wife three years ago. General Franklin was graduated from : West Point in 1843 and was a class mate of General U. S. Grant. He served with distinction in both the Mexi can and civil wars. Very low rates one way and round frip for settlers and homeseekers to points in the west, northwest, south and southwest, Ist and 3rd Tuesday of each month, until April 21, 1903. For full particulars see Erie agents. Low rates to the west and northwest. —The Erie railroad will sell cheap one way “Colonist” tickets daily from Feb. 15 to April 30, to points in California, Washington, Oregon. I tah, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and Idaho. Tickets will Ist sold from all <'upon offices. See Erie agents or write W, S. Morrison, T. I’. A. Erie railroad. Manon, Ohio. The Chicago & Erie R. R. will sell round trip tickets at one fare rate I every Sundry, to points not exceeding rate of Si.so Tickets good going and returning on regular trains. Sunday i only, and to points where such train’s ( are scheduled to stop. Tickets will be honored for return passage on ( train No. « east of Rochester Monday , a. m., following date of sale, ts ” | Brain-Food for Nonsense. Another ridiculous food fad has l>een branded by the most competent authorities j They have dispelled the silly action that one kind of food is needed tor ( brain, another for muscle, and still j another for bones, A correct diet will | not only nourish a particular part of | the body, but it will sustain every | other part. Yet, however good vour | food may be, its nutriment is destroyed by indigestion or dvspepsia. You must prepare for tbeir‘appearance or prevent theii coming by taking recuar doses of Green’s August Flower, the favonte medicine of the healths millions. A few doses aids digestion stimulates the liver to healthy action punfiesthe blood, and maL you feel buoyant and vigorous. You can get this reliable remedy at Blackburn GM

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CLOVER LEAF EXCURSIONS. New York City. Feb. 7 to 11. and Feb. 28 to March 3, 1903, Spring meeting, Merchants Association. One and one third fare for round trip. Certificate plan. New Orleans, La.. Mobile, Ala., and Pensacola, Fla.. Feb. 17, to 22. 1903. Mardi Cras Festivities. One fare for round trip. Certificate plan. St. Louis Mo. Feb. 4to 11, teb 18 to 25, March 4 to 11, March 25 to April 1. 1903. Interstate Merchants Association. One and one third fare for round trip. Certificate plan. Write for full informatfon regarding your trip to C. D. Whitney, General Traffic Manager Clover Leaf Route Toledo Ohio.

No. 6. Thl'Comm’l Traveler daily. 5:25 b. m No. 2. Mail, dally, except Sunday .12 58 p. ni No. 4. Day express, daily 6:43 p. in No. 22, Local treight 1:10 a. tn WEST. No. 3 Day express, daily 5:25 a m No. 1. Mail, daily except Sunday . .11:25 p.m No. 5. The Comtu l Traveler, daily. 9:27 p. in No. 23. Local treight 12.03 p. m Grand Rapids & Indiana. In effect Sept. 28.1802. TRAINS NORTH. STATIONS. , ♦No.L *No.S. | *NoT~ Richmond ll:k) pin 12:60 pm ;>:4uatn Fountain City. 11:28 pm 1:08 pm 5:58 am Johnson 6:1*8 am i.ynn 11:42 pm I:2lpm 6:llam Snow Hill 6:16a m Winchester... 12:02 am 1:38 pm 6:27 am Ridgeville 12:20a m 1:57 pm Portland 12:3« am 2:i7pm 7:0-'am Rrlant 2:3lpm 7:18 atn Geneva I 1:00 am 2:40 pm 7:28 am Herne I 1:0-am t:Wpm 7:37 am Monroe 3:04 pm 7:49 am DECATUR l:3u am 3:17 pm 8:00 am Williams 3:3u p m 8:11am Hoagland 13:36 pm B*ls am Fort Wayne.... 2:2oam i 4:00p m 6:4oam Kendallville. .. 3:l6am 5:17 pm 9:51 a m Sturgis 4:10 am 6:50 pm 10:5>3am Kalamazoo 5:20 am 8:05 pm 12:00 m Grand Rapids .. 7:3oam 9:4opm 2:oopm Howard City.... s:4.i atn 12:00 nt I 3:00 p m Reed City 10:02 am 1:0* am 3:56 pm Cadillac 11:30am j 2:loam 4:sopm Petoskey 2:50 pm 6:35 am 7:40 pm Mackinaw City. 1 4:15 pm 1 6:35 am •Daily, except Sunday. Wally. TRAINS SOUTH STATIONS. "No. 2 xNo. 12 tNo.6 Mackinaw City. 9:15 pm *:l6 a m Petoskey li>:4*pm 9:4oam Cadillac 2:06 am 7:56 am l:3opn Reed City 3:19 am: 8:53 a m 2:30 p m Howard City . 4:3t*am 10:03am 347 pm G)aid Rapids . 6:ooam 11:20am 6:o6pm Ku:.(, ...Zou 8.50 am B:3upm < :50 pm S’urgis.. . ....:10:(i9a m 4:44 pm 9:10 pm Kendallville... 11:07 am 546 p m 10:15 pm fort Wayne... 1219 pm «:85am ll:-5pm ilonf land ■ 12:57 p “ 7:00 » m 12:W n t Williams l:()3pm 7:o4am . DF.CATI B 1:19 pm 717 H m 12:25 a m Munroe 1:32 pm 7:27 am 12:38 am Geneva ; .:52pm 7:6oam 1:00am g r » a nt 2:0(i pm 7:»am 1:09 am Ridgeville.... 2:34 pm 5:.3-am I:47am Winchester.... 2:49 pm *:f6 am 2:04 am Snow Hill 9:08 am K nn 3:04 pm s.l.iatu 2:l9am Johnson 91 K am Fountain City 3:17 pm 9;21 a m 2.3:4 am Richmond I 3t'to p m 9:42 a m 2*6 a m , ;,llll| y ex. Sunday. Wally except I -atutday from MacklnacCltv I -I err Rrysoh Agent J-L Lockwood. Gen. Pas Agent. @ RAILROAD In effect Sept. •« Prt}. „ , WEST No. 7, express, daily except .-dn-1 .. _ dny for Chicago ( •■ 22 a u Ao3 New York and Boston United, through coach'- 12:28 nm I olumbusaiiil Chicago p Ac 19 We Is Fargo Express.... f 5:12 i> m Marion Huntington i Accommodation f 7:42 p m EAST A’o. 8, vestibule limited, dully for I ’ V ' wVorl ‘ ...J 222 am No?N. l .t V v‘’f , l ? l "L <~ ?'l “ , “ b u» f «:» am * 4 w York and Boston j l- mihM} through coaches ■■ 3;2i n m <ujumbus and Chh ago 4 1 w H Huntington and Meadville ! andsleeplug ckr.' to iie'i Trains 13 and 14 will not carry baggage No u ? y *’“*>“ Monday } No. 14 daily except Sunday. baste Cbl l £w C * rr>Wthron|lhco>ch - C® l "®- Sore Dont delay; serious bron*'. tai k J tftM’ble or diphtheria may develop. L The only ucfuivcy is to apply * I * WmUkv i 1 * rerac t , y y° u can <lepen*l noon InkKrf” thro,t Goth wet we te f th rerct,n l ng ’ anilit wiil wen in the morning. There is only one Painkiller, b “PERRY DAVIS’." . Nnv.,.- t. a growth. IBcvA. HbiJ *4° Bestore Oray

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