Daily Tribune, Volume 17, Number 6, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 December 1902 — Page 1
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STEAMER SAXON BURNED AT WHARF
CARGO OF MERCHANDISE CONSUMED, BUT ALL OF CREW ESCAPED
FIRE STARTS IN ENGINE ROOM
VESS& HAD JUST ANCHORED AT PHILADELPHIA WHEN THE FLAMES BROKE OUT
ANOTHER VESSEL LOST AT SEA
Schooner Oler With Crew of Ten Men Perished in a Gale Off South Carolina Coast—The Life
Savers Powerless.
'PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 6.—The steamer Saxon, of the Narragansett Bay line, belonging to the Philadelphia and Boston steamship company was destroyed by fire this morning at the Pine street wharf, Delaware river
The steamer, 'aider the command of Captain J. O. C. "ri »••».-. arrived at the wharf from Providence at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon 'with a cargo of general merchandise, consisting mostly of prints and hair. The crew of 21 men jg were unloading the steamer when the tjSs lire broke out in the engine room.
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George Mitchell, watchman at the -w'uarf and the sailors atempted vainly to put out the lire with the wharf hose.
Mitchell and five sailors were overcome &*, with smoke and two firemen were injured.
The Saxon is a wood and steel vessel, built in 1848. She was worth with her cargo $100,000 and is a total loss. fits.. William Zibelle, a fireman, was drOwnf^l icd. His death was not "discovered owing j. to excitement for several hours although 7$. his disapepavance had caused comment fe'mofig' the other members of engine
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No. 10 to which he belonged.
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Finally corpse came to the surface of the river near the scene of the fire. Alfred Le\vis, one of the firemen, is in a serious condition in the Jefferson hos-
Schooner and Crew Lost. •NORFOLK, Va., Dec. 6—The fourmasted schooner Wesley M. Oler, Captain Eaton, from Nassau to New York, was lost, oil' the 'South Carolina coast in yes.lerday's gale, a dispatch from Ocracoke, S. C-, says: "The life saving crew there 'ooukl do nothing for the crew and every 'man was lost. The Oler carried a crew i'ol ten men. No bodies have as yet come ashore." The Oler was built in Bath,
Me-, 1891 and was of 968 net tonnage. Several other wrecks are reported along the Hatteras coast.
Another Ship In Distress. NORTH PORT, N. Y., Dec. 6.—The
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sell oner, R. M. Bird, from
•Boston for Norfolk, with 500" tons of copper cinders is a total wreck on Batons Neck reef on the long Island coast. The vessel struck during the snow storm at noon yesterday. Captain F. F. Patterson and the crew of seven men were rescued with difficulty by life saving erewvi who did not succeed in launching a lifft boat until six hours after the vessel struck. In three attempts the life savers failed to shoot a line over the schooner.
KEG OF BEER THE CAUSE
Violent Riot Resulted at a New York Labor Meeting as a Result of Its Presence.
NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—A keg of beer and an argument were responsible for a violent riot at the meeting of the Housesmith and Bridge Men's unions last night Jin Maeunchar hall at Sixth street and Third avenue. Anew newly elected member had bought a keg of beer for the celebration. About midnight revolver shots were heard in the hall. Policemen arrested John Hays, but the crowd put up a violent fight and it was only with drawn Revolvers that the officers got their man .•away.
YALE MEN IN TRO'UBLE
One of the Prisoners Said He Is a Cousin of President Roosevelt —Fought on Street.
NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—Fdererick Roosevelt Scoville. who says he is a cousin of President Roosevelt and Charles Powers )f New Haven, both Yale students, woke ip in a police station this morning. They vere arrested on Broadway during the light for fighting with Carlos Levi, a lancing master.
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ROME, Dec. 6.—It is stated on high auhority that Archbishop Chapelle of New irleans, before- leaving Rome for Ameria, obtained from the propaganda a promthat Archbishop Bernada Aguilar of antiago, would be appointed archbishop
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'Masonic Temple Burned. LACONIA, N. H., Dec. 6.—The Masonic emple was burned early this morning.
$125,000. The fire started with a terRHc explosion in the basement of the guiding used by the Laconia hardware
DREW FIFTY DOLLARS IN SEVENTEEN YEARS
TESTIMONY OF A VETERAN MINER BEFOiRiE THE COMMISSION TODAY
COMPANY STORE GOT REST
A BOY WITNESS SAID HE WAS WORKING OFF DEBT OWED BY HIS FATHER
BEGAN TASK FOUR MONTHS AGO
Today He Is Deeper in Debt to Company Than When He Began andHe Has Never Drawn f*. a Penny.
SCR ANTON, Pa., Dec. 6.—Andrew Chippie, a 12-year-old breaker boy,
taller than a yardstick, took the witness chair before the strike commission today.
Andrew was asked if lie knew what it was to take an oath, and he replied in childish way: "If I tell a lie I'll die." "Swear him," said Justice Gray.
In a small little voice little Andrew told his story. He said lie had been to school one year, and that he now worked in the breaker. His father, he said,, was killed in the mines.
There was very much dust in the breaker, he said, and that he went to work when the whistle blew. Andrew's answers were' generally "yes, sir," to questions. His back was so lame sometimes, he said, and that the "boss" occasionally pulled his ears and told him to hurry up and pick slate.
Andrew worked in the Drifton colliery of the G. B. Markle company. Then came from the witness affirmations that his-father had owed the company over $50, and that he was working out this old account as well as having to pay rent a.nd fuel. The child has been working now about four months and has never received a cent.
His due bills show that he was deeper in tlebt than when he began. On crossexamination he said his father died eighteen months ago, and that the family had since lived in the company house without paying rent until he went to work.
James Gallagher, an elderly miner employed by G. B. Markle, said he had worked for seventeen voare and nine months, and, had in that time only drawn $50. He had to deal at the company's store, he said. Asked if he was ever hurt, lie replied: "A man has to be half killed before he considers himself hurt. I have been hurt twice." "Well, then," said Justice Gray, "you must be completely killed."
Gallagher turned the laugh by declaring that one-half of himself had been healed before the other, half was hurt. He gave a detailed account of his .accidents. He said: that half of the :work he had done in the mines had hee» done on his knees. He said he had not been paid while recovering from his mjuries.
HARVEY BUYS MAGAZINE
Morning Telegraph Also Becomes the Property of the Head of Harpers.
NEW YQRK. Dec. S.—-Col. George Harvey, president of Harper & Bros, and proprietor of the North American Review, bought the Morning Telegraph and the Metropolitan Magazine today for $100,000. The purchase was made from the receiver, who has been running both properties for some time. Col. Harvey assumes a m6rtgage of $S,000 on the newspaper press.
MUSCULARTEACHER NEEDED
Pennsylvania School Board Engaged a Football Player and the Disorder Has Subsided.
STROUD,SBURG, Pa., Dec. 6.—The experiment of putting a football player in the High school here as teacher in order to preserve order is a success Former Right Half-back Shiffer, who was one of the best players on the Dickinson college football team, was recently-elected teacher and disorder was stopped.
A Very Frisky Street.Car. .•**. MEMPHIS, Tenn., Dec. 6—A street car while being run into a barn after midnight, jumped the track when rounding a curve and rah into a drug store nearby. The front of the building was demolished.
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May -Yohe and "Puttie." YONKERS, N. Y.. Dec. 6.—People here claim that May Yohe and Putnam BVadlee Strong, who have been in the public eye for some months, have returned to this country and are at ftastlngs.
^'Panama Tired of Rebellion. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 6.—The hattleship Wisconsin, Admiral Casey. has„ arrived from Panama and reports that conditions' on the Tsthmus have assumed their usual aspects.
Johnstone Surprises Doctors. PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 6—There is no change in the condition of Barry Johnstone, the actor, this morning. The doctors are surprised at his vitality.
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BOER WAR SECRET. IS NOW REVEALED
RElTZ DISCLOSES THE STORY
SAYS BLOOD WILL BE SHED IF GEN. DE WET EVER MEETS HIS BROTHER
ANDREAS CRONJE IS ANOTHER
Is Understood at Whom General De Wet's Veiled Acci/s ons in Hi» Books Are Dir^c. —Some
Unwritten H.story.
CHICAGO, Dec. 6.—"If General Christian Dewet and his brother, Piet Dewet, ever njeet blood will be shed," says Francis William Reitz, state secretary of tliie South African republic and for seven y&ars president of the Orange Free state who is now in Chicago. The story he tells of the hatred borne by the greatest of Boer guerilla generals for his brother lias never before been made public. It is a tale, Mr. Reitz says, that the whole world ought to know. "General Dewet," said the Transvaal secretary, "in his recently issued book, says the war with England was lost .through the traitorous acts of certain Boer leaders. Though he does not say .so, his own brother was one of the men at whom this shot was aimed. "Piet Ipewet was a renegade. If the two men ever meet Christian will shoot Piet down like a dog. "Piet Dewet betrayed his countrymen.1 He went over to the enemy and led soldiers under the British flag. "When Piet Dewet laid down his arms at Lindlev and surrendered himself and his men without firing a shot, he furnished an example of the most tragic feature of our war. He was not the only Boer leader to turn traitor. There was Andreas Cronje. brother of General Cronje, and an officer of his stall. He showed himself to be both coward and renegade at Pretoria. And there was General Prinsloo, commander-in-chief' of the Orange Free State troops before Christian Dewet was given that position. We used to call hinT "Old Tried and True." He proved himself to be as weak and as bad as Andreas Cronje. "But Piet Dewet was the worst. Many of our people believe that Piet receeived ir^ney from the English and a commission in the British army.''
WILL DEFY UNIONS
Cincinnati Contractors Get Together to Stand Out Against Certain
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Demands.
CINCINNATI, O., Dec. 6.—A nagreement was affected last night among the building contractors of Cincinnati which may result in a finish, fight between, the "New Contractors association, of Cincinnati and vicinity" and the members of the building trades' affiliated with the building trades council, such as occurred not long ago in Chicago. (Vfter a similar contractors' association haSr'jbeen formed. There certainly will b$ a finish fight unless the union make a' number of conc.es-
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CITIZEN—"SAY ABE THERE NO WG.1SE OFFENDERS?'.
EX-SPEAKER REED SLOWLY SINKING
PEOPLE BELIEVE 4rwTK^6F"NlukA'TErr
DE WET SOLD OUT TO BRiJiSH
H!M IN WEAKENED ,. CONDITION l." -C
LATER NEWS UNFAVORABLE
IS UNABLE TO RETAIN NOURISHMENT AND HE IS IN DEPRESSED SPIRITS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—Ex-Speaker Reed's symptoms as given by the early bulletin tins morning, were not as favorable as those given out yesterday.,The fact that he fails to retai- nourishment sufficiently is regarded with some apprehension by his friends. ..
The bulletin issued by Drs. A. Gardner and T. L. McDonald at 8:30 a. m., is as follows:
Mr. Reed passed the night'•without tlfe supervention of alarming symptoms. Slept during the greater part of the night, but was unable to retain nourishment satisfactorily. Pulse 88 ^temperature !)8 3-5 respiration 34."
Shortly after. 1' o'clock this morning Mr. Reed suffered an attack of nausea, which, on account of his weakened condition, had a very depressing effect upon him. Dr. Bishop, assistant to Dr. Gardner, was at his bedside during fhe night.
Change for Batter Late Today. It was reported at the Arlington hotel at 1 o'clock this afternoon that Mr. Reed was better than this mornifig when the doctors' bulletin was issued,
STORY OF A TON OF COAL
Driver Flynn's Family Needed It So ,„,,He Took It—Buyer Took Cold 'df^lSlancr Took To
NE WYORK, Dec. 6.—Because a driver stole a toh of coal meant for the Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix, rector of Trinity, the clergyman is ill in bed with a cold with pneumonia, threatening. David Flynn took the fuel to his own home, the wife and children being in sore ne^d of fire. When the clergyman went to his home in No. 27 West Twenty-fifth street on Thursday the house was llke-a refrigerator. He had a chill and had to go to bed. yr:-
AN EVEN MILLION
Was What the Standard 0(1" Company Paid Guffey and Galley for Their Wells and Tanks.
OWINGSVILLE, Iy., Dec. 6—Reliable information received here states that Guffp and: Galley of Pittsburg received $1,093,000 from the Standai-d Oil company for their leases, tanks, etc., in the Ragland oil fields of this county, instead o|, SScO,000 as originally reported. "V
-••^S-V's Peoria's First Snowi^, PEORIA. 111.. Dec. 6.—The first snotV of the seasonJ begftii here this morning in. the shape of a heavy storm which bids fair to Interfere with local street" traffic
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THREE MEN KILLED
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PHYSICIANS EXERT ALL MEANS CONFUSED ORDERS JHE CAUSE
Constantly at the Bedside and Keep Close Watch on Every Change of Their Patient's Condition— .Grave Fears of Outcome.
FREIGHT WRECK
HEAVY TRAINS CRASH "HEAD. EASTERN OHIO," -C- ^x^TOOAY
TALLMEDGE, O., Dec. 6.—Two Erie freight trains met in a head-on collision here this morning. Both engines were wrecked, and they with many cars were piled in a heap along the tracks.
Several men were fatally hurt, and a c-all has been sent to Akron and Kent for wrecking cars and for physicians. The fireman of one of the cars is still buried in the wreckage. The dead are:
ENGINEER W. RICHARDS. FIREMAN THOMAS LATTY. BRAIvEMAN J. BOARDMAN, all of Galion.
Severely injured Hermann South. George Meizger. 1v' ™'7i George Berbeck.
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F. Keiffer of Gallon.
Fatal Wreck in Canada, HALIFAX, N. S., Dec. G.—The C^nkclian Express, which left here for Montreal this. morning was derailed at Belmont. Four persons are reported dead, including Engineer Trider, and seven are injured.
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Sitl VANDERBILT SUED
Employe Lost His Arm in a Corn Sheller on Vanderbilt's Farm and Wants Damages..
RUTHERFORD, N. C. Dec./0^-A complaint wa§ Friday filed in the Superior clerk's office in Buncombe ocunty, in the case of James G. Parker, aaginst George Vanderfcilt, the owner of the $7,000,000 Bilmore estate. It is an action sustained by Parker while in the employment of Mr. Var.dorbilt. Mr. Parker lost his arm in a corn sheller while at work on the estate /and claims damages to the amount of §15,000.
Liptdn Inspects Shamrock III." GLASGOW. Dec. 3.—Sir Thomas Upton and Designer Fife "^oday inspected the new cup challenger Shamrock III. Sir Thomas expressed, himself as thoroughly satisfied.
Good Morning. Mr. Furey. CINCINNATI. O.. Dec. 6.—After almost a year's abs-nce from the ring Barney Furey has gong into training for a match with Tim Kearr.s of Boston.
.Plot No. 1,760 Is Laid Bare. ST. PETERSBURG. Dec. 6.—Several young men have been arrested at Livadia for alleged complicity in a plot against CzariCichqlas.
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VALLE'S CHARGE- AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT PRtECIPI- .V TATES RIOT TODAY
ONE VICTIM BURIED IN WRECK A MELEE QUICKLY ENSUES
OTHER MEMBERS OF CREWS SO BADLY HUftT THEY MAY NOT LIVE
Dispatch Late This Afternoon Tells of a Disaster on a Canadian Rail-s-'i road in Which Number of ....
Lives Were Lost.
STATESMEN SMASH EACH OTHER AND EPITHETS WERE FREEr LY HANDED ABOUT
ECHO OF THE HUMBERT SWINDLE
Member Charge Government With Concealing the Arch Frauds and When f« Chairman Resented a Mad
Stampede Occurred.
-'PARIS, Dec. C.—There was a.riot in the chamber of deputies this afternoon during, which several of the statesmen were severely pummeled. The row started when Deputy Clagney acused the government of concealing the Humberts, the swindlers of millions. Deputy Valle began an address defending the government, but had not proceeded far when the Nationalists began to jeer and hurl such choice epithets as "liar," "scoundrel," "pig" at the. government's defender. •.
M. Valle did not stand the abuse Very long. When he. lost his temper, he made a rush for M. Sieven a nationalist deputy, grabbed him by the throat and began-to pound his face.
The assault was the signal for a general melee all around (the hall and soon a dozen impromptu prize fijglits were on. The disorder eoritihueJ'vuntil premier Combes read the closure dfecree. Many duels will follow as a result of the inci1 dent.
CLARA MORRIS PLAINTIFF
Actress Sues Manager on Contract for Lectures for Which She Was Not Paid.
NEW YORK, Dec. S,-Clark1 Morris, the actress, was plaintiff today, in Justice SCall/s .partjof,- the Si^ftreme.court in her Suit against Thomas W. Broadhurst for 11,571 for alleged breach of-contract. Miss Morris said that Mr. Broadhurst had agreed to pay her 3100. per lecture for twenty-five lectures. "I delivered -the lectures."' said Miss Morris, -"but Mr. Broadhurst- failed to Jive lip to. his.part of the agreement."
Mr. Broadhurst s$id that •,it was the actress who Had-broken1 the-csntract. and he put in a counterclaim for $3,000 damages against her.
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REDUCES HIS HAREM
Shah of Persia Returns Home- and ,. Fires Ten Hundred and Forty -fjof His Wives.
VIENNA Dec. 6.—The Tageblatt today states that the Shah.of. Persia has cau^eJ great agitation in Persian court circles bv reducing his harem from 1.1090 to (JO. The act is, regarded as the most astounaing reform accomplished ia Persia and has provoked a formiidable agitation against the shah. It is considered, says the-Tageblatt. "that his majesty has been concerted to reckless western -revolutionary ideas by hie European travels.
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THE WEATHER.
Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday with possibly snow flurries colder Sunday, variable winds.
REAL GRIND BEGINS WITH NEXT WEEK
SENATE WILL ADJUST ITSELF FOfl HARD WORK MONDAY
HOUSE TOO FACES BIG TASK
APPROPRIATION OF STRIKE COiVK MISSION'S EXPENSES FEA-
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TRUST LEGISLATION PROGRESSES
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Acceptance of Littiefield Bill and Hear* .ings Before' Commerce Commission vv indicate That Session Will
Be Fruitful of Results.
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WASHINGTON. Dec. G.—The "only noteworthy accomplishment oi* the first weeks sessions ot congress in the lions#' was the passage or the bill appropriat--ing jioO.OOO to defray the expensos oi the anthracite coal commission. Thi important work committee was- the' agreement in the judiciary commUteb- to accept the Littiefield publicity bill ol Inst*' year as a basis of consideration tor the "anti-trust legislation to be recommendedfor consideration to the house and the beginning of the hearings before the committee on interstate and foreign com-. merce of the bill to create a departmon{of commerce. Next week will see thu beginning of work on the appropriation bills and before the week is over both the pension and executive, legislative and judicial bills may be out of the way. The judiciary committee expects to have •. its anti-trust bill ready to report. TluLondon dock clause bill will probably b« disposed of one way or the other. On? other matter of importance-to be determined will be the resolution of the committee on elections No. 2 which endeavors to make it possible to hear the pending contest of Wagoner against BuUei from the St. Louis district, at the short "y/ session of congress.
Butler whose seat was declared vacant last year, was re-elected, but his seat for tlie short as well as the long term i$ again contested. Under the rules tlia time required before a hearing cculd ba llad is fixed at 150 days which woukl^'^l leave Butler in possession until after the|^| expiration of the short term. The cohi-|j^ mittee endeavors to remedy this eendi-^j t»on which prevents it from taking contests at short term by cutting down#8-' the time, for the preliminaries to 31^. days.
Chairman'Oimsted of the' committee. will endeavor to get a decision from the house during the week. His resolution is a privileged one, and can be brought up at any time.
The senate will get, down to worlc it) earnest next week.
Henderson Names Committees. WASHINGTON, Dec. 0.—When tlio house met today Speaker Henderson announced the following committee assignments:
Mr. Butlers(Dem.. Mo.), expenditures i-:. in tlie navy department and mileage Mr.. Flannipan (Dem.. N. J.), claims ^.- Mr. Swann (Dem., N. Y.). railways and canals Mr. Billmeyer (Dem.. Pa.), mines and minings ill". Russell (Dem., Tex.), territories Mr. Glass (Dem., Va.), Pa? cifie railway and postoffire exjenditures, and Mr. Burgess (Dem., Tex.), pensions.
.Pension Bill Breaks Record The passage of the pension appropriation bill in the house today broke all previous records. The work was done in twelve* minutes, the previous record, that of last year, being twenty min- r, utes. The bill carried nearly $140,000,000.
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The Christmas Vacation. 'Representative Payne of New \orlc, Republican Jlopr leader, introduced in the house today a resolution that when the two houses adjourn on Saturday, Dec. 20, they shall stand adjourned un-. til Monday, Jan. 5. 1903.
TONGUES' LOOSENCUP
Report Says Filipinos Ars Learning the English Language. With Remarkable Aptness.
LONDON, Dec. 6.—Filipinos in London are receiving letters from homfT,referring to the astonishing progress which the English language is making in th«£. Philippines. Sphere is now hardly sine one In Luzon uriable- to-speak-th? lai\lgfKige a little, these letters say, and a complete mastery of it is being taught Jn., nine months ,-In. the interior garrisons have been turned into grammar .schools.
FAKE POULTRY SHOWS
Will Have to Go Out of the Business" When This New Organization Gsts in Action.
CLEVELAND, O. ,Dec. C.-The American poultry association fn session here 'has approved the plan propostd by W. R. Wooden of Battle Creek to form the National Poultry Show association* to be a go\-erning
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National Trotting association has charge of trotting races. By'this means fake poultry shows, will not .be continually in conflict. *#4r
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