Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 287, Decatur, Adams County, 14 December 1903 — Page 6

FfIAUD IS CHARGED Bankers At Elkiiart May Be Heid to Answer Federal Charge. It Is Alleged They Violated Bank'iy Laws to Defr.- :J Depositors of Their Bank. They Are Being Heard Before United States Commissioner This ; Ai.ernooi:. »■ Fl k hart. Ind., Dee. 1 I. —President Justus L. Brodrick and Cashier Wilson L. Collins of the defunct Indiana National bank of Elkhart, who were arrested Saturday, succeeded in providing bond of $5,000 each for their appearance before United States Commissioner Edgar L. Zeigler, at Goshen. Their preliminary hearing is being held today, with U. S. District Attorney Kealing present, to determine whether they shall be bound over to the federal grand jury. They are charged with violating the national hanking lasts to defraud depositors of their bank. Banker Ellison Is Arrested. Fort Wayne, Ind., Dec. 14.—Rollin Ellison of Lagrange was arrested at his home on two warrants issued by authority of the grand jury. He went at once before Judge Farrall and gave bond of $2,000 in each case. The charge against him is receiving deposits after knowing that the banks in Lagrange and Topeka were insolvent. A SURGEON'S MICTAKE Sewed Forceps Up Inside His Patient's Body. Rensselaer, Ind.. Dec. 14. —Dr. I. B. Washburn of this city is dead in a private hospital at Valparaiso Two years ago Dr .Washburn was operate ! upon in a hospital. It is alleged that a pair of steel forceps were used on the body near the liver at that time. T>r. Washburn complained of his side ever since the operation, but did not know the cause of the trouble. Dr. Loring, physician of the Kankakee Valley Medical association, operated upon Dr. Washburn and was amazed to discover in his patient's side near the liver, a pair of forceps, made of iron and steel, about five and three-fourths inches in length. The forceps had become rusty. Dt. Washburn died a few hours after the operation. His son, who a'so is a doctor, says the forceps caused death. Deceased was a member of the Indiana legislature in 1872. Strict Secrecy Maintained. Linton, Ind., Dec. 14 —Although this is the very heart of the bituminous coai field of Indiana, where over 5,000 miners are employed and where millions of dollars' worth of mining property is located, there is less talk here regarding the conference of miners and operators to arrange a wage scale than there is at other points less interested, according to the press dispatches. Very little is being said here. Whatever plans for the coming confer ence are being formulated by either side, there is strict secrecy maintained Big Fire at Metz. Metz., Alsace-Lorraine, Dec. 14. — Fire Sunday destroyed a custom warehouse. The loss is estimated at $500,000

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MAY NOT OBEY ORDER Miners Prefer Wcrk to Idleness in Winter Time. Altoona. Pa.. Dec. 14. —National Secretary W. B. Wilson and the district officers of t'.ie United Mine Workers of America at a conference held here, have decided to call a strike of the miners employed by the Somerset

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Coal company on next Wednesday, because of a reduction of 12% p°r cent in their wages. The company has sixteen mines in the bituminous fields of western Pennsylvania. It is not known whether the miners will obey the order, as many of them would rather continue at work during the winter at reduced wages than remain idle. A Town's Perilous Situation. London. Dec. 14.—There is consternation in the tewn of Henley in Staffordshire. A man while walking through a street Saturday suddenly sank through the footway Into the earth and was engulfed in a coal mine long since disused. All attempts to i rescue him were fruitless, owing to the poisonous gases. A funeral service was held Sunday near the spot where the man sank. It was attended by the mayor and the members of the corporation. The town council is now facing the problem of how to deal with the disused coal pits which undermine the district. Rescued and Lost Again. Middleboro, .Mass.. Dec. 14.—After being blown more than half a mile Sunday over the surface of Lake Asdawampsett on a piece of ice which had broken away from the shore while | the men were standing upon it, Harry Haskins, aged twenty-two, and Fran! I Alien, aged twenty-six, were rescued I from their dangerous position by S. A. , Lewis, who rowed out to them, only ! to lose their lives by drowning when the boat was swamped by a squall, i Lewis clung to the craft and was rest'.ied. Sunday Salocn Tragedy. Chicago. Pec. 14. —Anton Nieseler was shot and instantly ki'led and John Tempel was severely wounded last night in the latter’s saloon at 2231 , Princeton avenue by one o” two high waymen. who attempted to hold up the place. The robbers, becoming frightened. Ped wunout taking any of the money and are still at large. Will Lose No Time. Washington. Dec. 14. —W. I. Buchanan of New York state, who has just been appointed minister to Panama, sccompanied by his wife, will sail from New York tomorrow for Colon. Mr. Bryan and the Pope. Rome .Dec. 14.—William Jennings Bryan, accompanied by his son, was received in private audience by the | pope Sunday.

A DAV OF WRFCKF Sundy Was a Fateful Tim On More Than One Railway. Passenger Train on C., B. 4 Q. Gee Into Bridge and Five Persons Are Burned to Death. In Two Other Wrecks Seven Train men Are Killed—Fourteen Killed in Spain. Ottumwa, la.. Dec. 14. —Five pet sons were killed and ten injured in . wreck Sunday morning on the Ch cago. Burlington & Quincy road, thre miles west of Albia, la. The wes' bound passenger train was in eom manner derailed while running ont the Cedar Creek bridge, and five car were wrecked by collision with th steel girders of the bridge. Th* wreckage immediately took fire am several of the victims were badly burned. The dead: Mrs. W F. Mitchen. Al bfa, la., burned to death; Mildred Mitchen, three years old; Thoma' Beatty, killed in wreck of smok.ns car; two unknown. None of the in jured will die. ~ ust what caused the accident is a mystery. As soon as the engineer noticed there was something wrong hr applied the airbrakes, but was unal’Lto stop the train. Five cars were com pletely burned and the remaining coaches badly damaged. The work o' rescue was carried on with difficulty as the cars took fire immediately afte r the accident and the bridge is a high one The injured were taken to Alb.’’ and Ottumwa. The train was in charge of Conductor R. W. Robinson and Engineer William Wallace. Mildred Mitchen, the little threeyear old child of Mrs. W. E. Mitchen was hung to one of the bridge girders and burned to ueath before the eyes of the uninjured passengers and trainmen. When the train was derailed, just before reaching the bridge, the sides of the cars struck the brid--* and were torn out. The live coals from the stove were scattered throughout the cars, lae Mitchen child fell through the bottom of the car. its clothes catching to ths girder, whore it cried loudly for its mother, who had been instantly killed in the wreck. The cars and the bridge in a few seconds were a mass of flames and the child was burned to a crisp before aid could reach it. Five Trainmen Dead. Piedmont. W. Va.. Dec. 14. —Five trainmen were killed and several severely injured by the overturning of two engines attached to a heavy Baltimore & Ohio freight train on the "sev-enteen-mile grade” Sunday near this city. While descending the grade the train, to which were attached the two engines, left the track. The engines and nearly all of the twenty-four loaded cars tumbled into a deep ravine, carrying the trainmen to their death. Came Together in Cut. DesMoinea. la.. Dec. 14. —Three trainmen were killed and five Injured in a freight collision Sunday morning on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road near Adel. la. A double-header westbound and an extra freight eastbound came together in a deep cut on a sharp curve. Three engines and fourteen cars were entirely demolI ished.

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Trcuble Ended at Hanover, Hanover. Ind., Dec. 14. —The strike has been declared off. College exercises were resumed as usual this morning. The juniors went back, having settled their differences. No apologies have he n n made on either side, except by the sophomores. All absences are excused. The students areglad to go back to their places. Oil Pumper's Horrible Death. Marion. Ind . Dec. 14.—Irvin Snoden. an oil pumper, was instantly killed while working at the pumping station west of Marion. He was caught in a belt and his brains were literally beaten out of his head. He was alone when the accident occurred. He had been dead several minutes when found. Gave Himself Up. Brazil, Ind., Dec. 14.—Dennis MeCann, who was shot by Marshal Har mon at Caseyville Thursday night, is dead of his injuries. His death has caused considerable indignation among his friends and Mr. Harmon, to avoid trouble, came to this city and surrendered to Marshal Schrepferman and was locked up. Second Trial of Mrs. Drake. Covington, Ind., Dec. 14.—The second trial of Mrs. Elmira A. Drake is moving along slowly, nothing of importance or of a startling nature hav ing come up. Several witnesses have been examined. Little interest is shown in the trial. Mrs. Drake is permitted to go about town unattended. Terrell Case Goes On. Bluffton, Ind., Dec. 14. —With the close of the second week of the Terrell murder trial, attorneys connected with the case say it probably will require another week before the fate of John Terrell is placed in the hands of the jury, and it may bo that even wore time than that may be used. BRIEF DISPATCHES The Loa Angeles Examiner, owned and eon. trolled by «« R. Hearst, has made Its appearance. The results of the elections for president held throughout Colomhia on Dec. A, shows a complete triumph for Gen. Reyes. The Republican national committee selected Chicago as th* place for holding the next national convention, and June 31 the date. Three Americans and seven natives were killed by the fumes of a blast of forty-six tons I of dynamite in a quarry near the entrance to Manila bar. George Christianson. a Chicago saloon keeper. was shot and kl led by his brother Nicholas, the latter immediate y afterward turning the pistol on himself <gith fatal effect. The Panama junta has published a decree convoking a national convention tor Jan it IPM. This convention will formulate a constitution and laws for the government of the republic. Two y< ars agn Dr. I. B. Washburn, of Rensselaer. Ind., was operated on for abdominal trouble. A second operation a few days ag > revealed a pair of rusty surgeon's forceps in his liver. Ho did not survive the second operation. — Deadly Fire at Sea. Christiania. Norway. Dec. 14—A telegram received from Verdon report* thxt the ateamer Crlon han been destroyed by fire and that three of the ,-rew and three perleheil.

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