Daily Tribune, Volume 17, Number 24, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 December 1902 — Page 1

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WHITE CHRISTMAS IN MANY PLAGES

HEAVY SNOWS FALLING AND COLD WEATHER IS PREDICTED.

LOW TEMPERATURE THURSDAY

COLD WAVE IS DIRECTED THIS WAY FROM THE NORTH AND WILL ARRIVE TONIGHT.

SNOW FALLING IN THE EAST

Predictions Indicate that Christmas Weather Will Be in Keeping With fl the Season—Reports from

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'OHICAGO. Dec. 24.—If the snow storm which, commenced here early this morning' continues with its present vigor, Santa Clans will come to Chicago and vicinity' tonight in the old-fashioned sirl. According to the weather bureau, a/cold wave is duo tonight and the temperature will probably sink to ten de-gce.'-s above, zero by tomorrow morning. t*A crisp, cold Christmas is expected, Snow was noted yesterday in the Canadiaii Jjjfort,invest, where the thermometer in- most places was below zero. A snow of one and one-half inches fell at St. Paul and at Wiljiston, X. D. At Medicine Hat the thermometer registered S degres below zero: Edmonton. Canada, degrees below Swift Current, Canada. 12 below: Havre. Jlont., 4 below: liismarck, N. D., zero.

WRECK IN SNOW STORM.

Engineer and

Did Not See Train Ahead Engine Plunged Into Coach.

-ji'V GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Dec. 24—Driv-'-i/lng head foremost in a blinding- snow 4Jstorm' at. 7:40 o'clock this morfiing, En"gin'eer Piatt ot- the Pere Marquette express train No. 2 from this city, failed to see another passenger train lying at .\/ M.cCord's station. There was a rear-end '. collision, the engine plowing into the rear car of the motionless train. Four passenv.' Sers were badly hurt.

MURDER OF WOMEN.

Startles the Police of Toledo—Two Members of the Half-world Found Dead.

TOLEDO, O.. I^ec. 24—The Toledo police are baffled by two more mysterious deaths. In each case the victim is a woman of the half-world, and in each case the man who was with the woman before jf death came has disappeared and but one is known. The dead women are Anna j-v' Snyder, and a Mrs. Sheets, who has been |A-j living with John Gillett, as his wife, but wj'j whose history beyond the fact that she Ihas five children the police do not know. Eft jGtllett, who is a cripple, has disappeared \and no trace of him can be found. In this case the indications point to suicide and- the police believe that the woman is from, a prominent family, and was *'/driven to suicide by remorse at the life she was living, brought on by the Christies'. mas season. %rK Anria Snyder was found in her room by the landlady, with her head! covered by two pollows An unknown man had been with .her fifteen minutes before she was discovered, gasping for breath and dying.

One of the pillows was stained by blood, .' -though the woman is not wounded in any way and the presence of the blood only adds to the mystery. There are no'visible marks of violence, and' no trace of poison. -The police are working on the theory that

the unknown man put the pillow oyer the girl's face and neck and smothered #er. :v_,

The landlady says that when ^gnan left the house he called out "good-i. j:/ tb her. but she did not see him and 1} not recognize the voice. The Snyder girls iv family is respected at Bowling Green.

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LIVED WITH NECK BROKEN.

.Now Young Duryea Claims a Million Dollar Estate Which His Father Left.

MINOLA, L,. I., Dec. 24—Three years ago Walter E. Duryea, son of the millionaire starch manufacturer, broke his neck while diving in t1? shallow water at Oyster Bay. No one th'ought he would live, but the young man clung tenaciously to lifa. A year later his father died leaving a provision that if Walter lived two years he would come into possession of a large fortune. The time limit has expired and as the injured man is still living he succeeds to the bulk of his father's estate, about one million dollars.

DETROIT BUYS COAL.

City Clerk Will Buy Fifty Thousand Dollars Worth and Sell Sjii-:- It at Cost.

DETROIT, M'ch.. Dec. -S^The com- ,•.•}• raon council last night voted $50,000 to the '®,r citv controller and instructed him to proceed east and buy either anthracite or pij bituminous coal to self to Detroit citizens at cost. Local dealers have been charging s-ix to eight dollars a ton for soft coal, while out in the state it is selling for tfil four to five dollars

Killed Millionaire Fish.

-NEW YORK, Dec. 21—Thomas Sharkey, the private detectivc convicted of mancslaughter for killing Banker Nicholas Fish ?was sentenced to ten years in Sing Sing by Justice Davy this morning.

LAURA BIGGAR ACQUITTED BY JURY

OTHER DEFENDANTS HOWEVER ARE FOUND TO BE GUILTY.

DR. HENDRICKS TO APPEAL

ACTRESS EXONERATED OF CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE ESTATE OF MILLIONAIRE BENNETT.

LAW'S HAND FALLS ON OTHERS

Jury Was Out All Night and it Was Expected That There Had Been a Disagreement—A Remark--able Story.

FREEHOLD, N. ,J.. Doc. 24.—Miss Biggar acquitted, other two defendants convicted. This was the verdict rendered in the Bennett estate case.

The celebrated Biggar case came to an astonishing end at 1:45 o'clock this afternoon, when the jury brought in a verdict acquitting Lauva Biggar, the actress, but finding Dr. Hendricks and Justice ot the Peace Stanton guilty. There was speculation as to how such a finding could be arrived at and the conclusion was generally reached that the jury believed a conspiracy existed to obtain the Bennett millions, but that Miss Biggar was led into the plot by Hendricks and Stanton, and that sympathy for her resulted in her acquittal.

It was an anxious night for the defendants. Miss Biggar and Mrs. Hendricks "spent part of the evening with Dr. Hendricks in his cell.

Some college men who have been here for the trial came to the jail with banjo, mandolin and guitar. They stopped in the. long corridor and sang, helping to cheer the anxious people in the Hendricks cell.

When they finished. Dr. Hendricks thanked them and said: "Go outside under my window and sing, will you, boys?" he asked. "I'd like to hear you out there."

This they did, and several more songs were sung. After the departure of Miss Biggar and Mrs. Hendricks the doctor paced his cell nervously until after 3 o'clock. Then ho lay down, but was unable to sleep. He tossed- about restlessly on his cot all night. The Monmouth county farmers on the jury had but little sleep. They argued the case all night., but could come to no agreement.

SUBSTITUTE FOR COAL

Indiana Chemist Thinks He Has Discovered a Cheap Article of Fuel.

ELKHART, Inrl., Dec. 24—Charles E. Haas, a well known tailor of this city, thinks he has solved the cheap fuel question in the discovery of a substitute for coal, produced by the mixing of sever, different chemicals together and giving volume and shape to the compound by saturating dirt or mud and molding it- in the desired forms. He says the weight, and bulk are. about the same as those of hard coal, but that, a winter's supply will cost about one-half what coal would cost under normal conditions, when coal is not as scarce as at present. lie refuses to •divulge the name of any of the chemicals used, but says they were discovered and their proper proportions ascertained by over a year's experimentation, based on a knowledge of chemistry gained through study during his leisure hours for the past nine years. He says he has already been offered $5.C00 for his secret, though the fact that he had produced the results above mentioned has thus far been known only to a few. The bricks burn practically like anthracite coal, except that they last longer than lumps of coal of equal size, and the residue' is a'fine ash with only an occasional lump or clinker. Several local capitalists are investigatin the matter.

Building Wrecked by Explosion. PAOLI. Ind., Dec. 24—An explosion occurred here early this morning which wre two story building abutting the|||ll§Ware store of John P. Riley. A heating stove in the store caused a can of blasting powder to explode, tearing out the front end of the large store.

Strike at Limoges.

LIMOGES, Haute-Vienne. France, Detc. 24—This town was thrown into a panic last evening by striking mill workers. The strikers ran through the streets, singing songs. They were m.et by a party of gendarms, but drove the officers back with stones and sticks.

"Lest We Forget."

MADRID, Dec. 24—It is authoritatively stated that as the business between Spain and America has been increased greatly since the Spanish-American war the bank of Spain will shortly open branches both New York qnd Havana

yi~r. Policeman Turned Burglar. CHICAGO, Dec. 24—Policeman Patrick Mahoney was today found guilty of burglarv and' given an indeterminate sentence in the penitentiary. Mahoney and two professional burglars blew the Safe in a jewelry store.

SS $Kipling Goes to South Africa. LONDON, Dec. 24—Rudyard Ivipling, the poet and -author, will sail for Capetown on Saturday.

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CASTRO ASKS POPE TO MAKE PEACE

VATICAN WILL ACCEPT IF ALL PRINCIPALS ARE AGREED.

SITUATION1 MORE STRAINED

MERCHANT SHIP WHICH PASSED BLOCKADE YESTERDAY IS ORDERED OUT.

SURPRISING TURN OF AFFAIRS

President Roosevelt Waiting Further Indication of the Will of the Belligerents Before Next

Step is Taken.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—The detailed replies of both Great Britain and Germany to the Venez^ela arbitration proposition have been received by the state department. It is announced that they will not be made public unyl after the president's response ereto shall have been forwarded.

HOME, Dec. 24.—It is stated in Vatican circles today that the Venezuelan government lias proposed that the pope act as arbitrator of the differences between that country and the allies. The Vatican, it is 'said, will not entertain the proposition unless it is unanimously made.

Caracas Ordered Out.

LA GUAYlvA, Dec. 24.—Tlie steamer Caracas, which entered the blockaded, port yesterday under orders from Comj: mander Diehl of the United States Marietta, was ordered from the port last' night by the British commander, who in sisted that the ship should not stay in the port over nighThe crew of the lymt was advised by Commander Diehl to obey orders until further understand ing-.was possible.

Americans Seem Aggrieve^. WASHINGTON, Dec, '24.—Altluougl the -state department has as yet taken no notice of the reported action of "jhe Italian cruiser Bausan in refusing to permit the Red line "steamer Caracas to discharge her entire cargo, the mat ter will be brought to its attention today through the complaint made by the owners of the ag^nt at La Guayra This, it is said, was filed yesterday with the American consul at La Guayra, and he has forwarded it to the department

Investigation will also be made of the case of an American, named Jones who purposing to leave Venezuela for the ITnited States, and ignorant of the fact that a blockade had been declared, chartered a sailing vessel at Guanta,. his home, and, loading it with his household goods, started for La Guayra in order to* em bark, for New York. Near Maehuta the Bausan fired upon him, seized the boat, searched Jones as if he were a criminal, and, refusing to listen to his explanations, put him ashore after con fiscating all of his personal property. It is reported that Jones was left without a penny.

Inquiry into the circumstances of these two cftses is likely to lead to a thorough review of the whole blockade, which is said to be conducted with much severity and to the injury of a number of American citizens, -tj-

Castro Menaced at Home. WILLEMSTAD, Curacoa, Dec. 24.— Hie. Venezuelan junta here claims to have advices from Caracas that the rebels have again taken the field, and that President Castro has started for La Victoria with government troops to check the advance.

LISTEN, MR. DUNCAN.

Scott Motor Works of St L^puis, Seeks a .Location in Some Indiana City.

RICHMOND, Ind., Dec. 24.—Negotiations are now on, as a result of which the Scott motor works of St. Louis will probably come to Indiana. The site under contemplation is at Fort Wayne. The owners of the plant have been invited to visit Indiana and inspect Fort Wayne in particular, at the same time giving a definite statement of the requirements of the works in the way of land and buildings. Should the matter prove as attractive as is expected, the Commercial Land company of Fort Wayne will take it up. The Scott company manufactures automobiles.

Billings Behind Big Project. .fc.| CHICAGO, Dec. 24—11 is reported on La Salle street today that C. IC. G. Billings, the Chicago and Memphis millionaire, is organizing a stock company to purchase and operate the Paris, France,

lighting system.

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Advance for Railroad Clerks. NEW YORK, Dec. 24—The New York Central raiway has .decided upon an increase in the salaries of its clerical department. The advance will average about 30 percent, /x? i&-&m

SNOW FOR CHRISTMAS EVE IS FALLING IN MANY PLACES

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LOVE SICK COUPLE INTENDED TO DIE

SENSAYIOWAL AFFAIR BY TWO YOUNG PEOPLE OF R0* CHESTER

THEIR MARRllAGE OPPOSED

THEY DECIDED TO END THEIR LIVES BUT HOSPITAL CORPS INTERFERED.

NOW OCCUPY JAIL CEiLL THERE

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JPjP Twenty Years of Age Made pesperate by the of not Celebrating stmas Together.

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N. Y., Dec. «.—Lovecause they bd®ved they

could not get married, as tffl father of the girl opposed the match, Israel Mackie 2fl years of age, and Irene" Zelkie, 20 years of age, tried to end their lives together by taking laudanum in the front parlor of Mackie's mother's home last night at 10 o'clock.

Five hours later, at 3 o'clock this morning, the two were removed to the Haneman hospital in an ambulance and although their condition was rather serious at that time, they had under the care of the doctors, so far recovered at noon that they were able to leave the hospital, and they left, but in company with an officer, who had been sent there by Chief of Police Cleary to arrest them on a charge of attempting to commit suicide.

POISOiyyiANDY.

Massachusetts Woman Got a Christmas Present, but Had it Analyzed.

NORTH ADAMS, Mass., Dec. 24—Mrs. N. C. Beors of Clarksburg has recevied through the mails candy that a chemical analysis proves had been poisoned. The postmark is obllterateMto a great extent. It resembles the post Mark of the offic-i in this city.

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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dec. 2^-The vote at the recent election was vertified by the secretary of state today and shows greatest purality for Batchley, state geologist. Blatchley's total vote was 294,303.

Mascagni Blames the Trust. CHICAGO, Dec. 24—Pietro Mascagni today laid his troubles at the threshhold of the theatrical trust.

Today, for the first time since his arrival in Chicago, he was'interviewed. He was guaranteed $60,000 and will sue._

Brothers Sentenced to Hang. SERGEANT, Ky., Dec. 24—John Bryant, as. was sentenced to hang in Cllntwood, Va., Wednesday for the murder of William Vanover. William Bryant, his brother, was also sentenced' to hang two jreeks ago, for the same crime

Vanderblblt Holds His Own^ NEW YORK, Dec. 24—The condition of C|oinelius Vancitrbi.t .remains unchanged.

FRANKIE'S XMAS

READY FOR TRAVELERS

REV. TINSLEY WILL ADDRESS CONVENTION SATURDAY.

CHAIRMAN STACK IS HOME

One Hundred Members are Coming on a Special Train From Indianapolis to Attend the Meeting.

M. F. Stack returned home yesterday evening from Indianapolis, where he was arranging the final plans for the state meeting of the Commercial. Travelers' association to be held here on -Friday and Saturday. He was notified that at least 100 men would be here from Indianapolis on a special train Friday afternoon. The train leaves Indianapolis at 2:30 o'clock and will carry many other travelers from the north and east paiT of Indiana. Mr. Stack received a letter this morning stating that thirty Evansville members would be here Friday and more may come on Saturday. Evansvillc is especially interested in the proposed constitutional amendments that arc to come before the association meeting

One-half rates have been granted by all railroads. Committees will meet the trains Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. Rev. Tinsley will preside at the session.

The Terre Haute committee appointed to investigate the proposed amendments will report Saturday morning. The committee is composed of Messrs. Walter Murphy, M. F. Stack, A. P. Stone, G. N. McLaughlin, James H. Juniper and W. P. Bamett. '.

CUT WALKING DELEGATE.

Cincinnati Contractors Refuse to Further Deal with These Representatives of Union Labor.

CINCINNATI, O., Dec. 24—The executive committee of the Hamilton county building contractors' association met last evening, all branches of the industry being full yrepresented. The greater portion of the meeting was devoted to a considerable of the constitution and bylaws. The most radical clause in the laws governing the new body is that relating to the walking delegates or business agents of the labor unions. These men will be given no recognition whatever hereafter.

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-s, Big Hospital Burned. ALBUQUERQUE, N. M.. Dec. 24—The big hospital of the Santa Fe-Pacific here was destroyed! by fire last night. Twentyfive patients, some of them s-eriously ill. were in the institution. Superintendent Cutter believes all were saved.

Six Miners Burned.

UNIONTOWN, Pa., Dec. 24—By an explosion in the Buffington mine of the United States Steel corporation at Jtevr Salem, six men were badly burned.

STOCK BROKERS IN WILD REVEL

CHRISTMAS WAS CELEBRATED ON THE FLOOR THIS AFTERNOON.

MILITARY BAND ON HAND

MEMBERS PLAYED LEAP FROG AND FOOT BALL AND CUT UP TERRIFICLY.

TORE EACH OTHERS CLOTHES

Staid Old Money Barons Let Loose and Made Merry Along With the Clerks and Messenger Boys—

A Merry Christmjas.

NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—There were high old times on the stock exchange this afternoon when the board closed. The bulls and the bears got together and duly celebrated Christmas. No special program had been prepared and each broker was open to devise any form of amusement he might see fit. No crowd of college men on a lark used the inventive genius that some of these old staid brokers conjured up this afternoon to perpetuate some deviltry or joke. Foot ball games on the floor and leap frog were among the more gentle antics indulged in. A band helped enliven the occasion. There were also Christmas celebrations on the floors of the other exchanges.

TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.

LAST EDITION—NUMBER 24

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Mother and Child Perish While Was Attempting to Save the Little One.

RUSSIAVILLE, Ind., Dec: 24—Mrs. Charles Davis and her 4-year-old daughter were burned to death near here this morning. The child's clothing caught fire and the mother, in an attempt to save the little one, ran forty yards to the nearest neighbor, with the child in her arms. Both were so severely burned that death ensued in a short time.

POWERS NOTE DELAYED.

Roosevelt Has Not Yet Been Formally Invited to Act as Arbi-•f-Htrator/ ,i i',

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23—JJp to the time of adjournment -of the cabinet meeting this afternoon the formal request of the

a day which should be one of Powers for President Roosevelt to act as arbitrator in the Venezuelan affair had not been received. The matter was discussed. but no definite conclusion was reached by the president's advisers..^,™

Roosevelt Named in Suit. NEW YORK, Dec. 24—President Roosevelt is named in an action begun in the Supreme court todav by Mrs. Gertrude Motley, to recover J25.000 which she alleges she placed in the hands of Cornelius Roosovelt, the president's cousin in Paris

Cooked to Death in Vat.

ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec. 24—Benjamin Rombach, 22, was cooked to death in a vat Vof boiling water at the St. Louis Cooperage works this morning. He was engaged in dipping staves into the vat.

PRINCESS LOUISE MAY BE DIVORCED

GENEVA ESCAPADE MAY BREAK SAXONY'S ROYAL FAMILY.

BROTHER1 IS HER DEFENDER

HE PROVOKED THE FATHER'S. ENMITY BY LOVE FOR DANCING GIRL.

EMPEROR EXPELLED MAN

Offered Her An Enormous Sum to Desert the Kingdom, But She Refused—Royal Secrets

Leak Out.

VIENNA, Dec. 24.—It is reported that Archduke Leopold Ferdinand, who is with his sister, the Crown Princess of Saxony at Geneva, has refused to accept any further allowance from his father, Archduke Ferdinand of Tuscany, but intends to earn his diving. He will probably work at artistic engraving, at which he is an expert.

The emperor then expelled her from Vienna, allowing her 80,000 francs as a compensation.

It. is said tliep rinces^' husband will apply for a divorce.

RICH MAN'S AFFLICTION.

Found Wandering in the Wood# Near*Cleveland—Does Not Know Who He Is. A *J

CLEVELAND, O., Dec. 24—A dispatch from Troy, N. Y,, says that William Bowie, president of the Cleveland Dry/' Goods company, was found in a barn nt Schaghticoke, about fifteen- miles from Troy, terribly emaciated evidently had nonfood for days. He talked incorherently and could not tell his own name, residence, or where he had come from. In his pockets was foundi a. gold watch and chain, diamond studded wa.ttih charm.: $350 in money, pictures disclosing his

identity and a revolver.

SUCH AN AWFUL DIN:

Deaf Mutes Have One Another Arrested for Making Too Much. Noise.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Dec. 24—Cornelius Cleus and Anthony Lyons, deaf mutes, -iwere arranged before Justice Burk© Tucsday on a charge af disturbing: the peace -r' of their landlady, Mrs. Ida Schleicher, also a deaf mute, "by loud and unusual noises." A dozen witnesses, all mutes, '7^ testified that the defendants used profane language and let a table fall down stairs. wS The defendants are said to have engaged in a wordy altercation with one John /ic' Leonaadi, also a mute.

CLEVELAND IS HOME.

Bagged Lots of Ducks and Declines taf Discuss Pres. Roosevelt's Position Regarding Venezuela.

NEW YORK, Dec. 24—Ex-President Cleveland returned to Princeton yesterday after spending nearly a fortnight in South Carolina hunting ducks along tha *sj|| coast. He looked the picture of health. When seen last night he chatted pleas- sag antly about his trip. He would not dis-« cuss President Roosevelt and Venezuela. jxfesS

WIFE IS ARRESTED.

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Supposed To Have Killed Her Hus« band for Large Life Insur- r. ance He Carried.

DAVID CITY, Neb., Dec. 24—Lena M. Llllie has been arrested on complaint of County Attorney Walling, charged with ,murdering her husband, Harvey .- Lillie, who was shot dead In bed lasf. October, supposedly by burglars. Since then the county attorney and detectlvoB have been working on the case.

TEN MEN WOUNOED.

Contestant at Shooting Match Acci*

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....^dentally Turned His Gun -*s%'*%. Into the Crowd. ALTO PA8S, 111., Dec,- 24—Ten men were wounded by the .accidental discharge of a shot gun in the hands of Martin Batson at a shooting match near this placo Tuesday afternoon.

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One of the stories current regarding the reason for the crown princess' flight from Salsburg on December 12 is that her father had been most severe with her because of her love for such works as those of Zola. The Archduke Leopold took his sister's part against the,. father. ijg|

The grand duke's estrangement from his father first arose from his deter-' mination to marry Mile. Adamovic, who is with him at Geneva. When Leopold first announced his intention of marrying the dancer the emperor sent another grand duke to induce her to give Leopold up. She refused.

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Buffalo Bill Entertains.

LONDON, Dec. 24-Col. CoOy ("Buffalo Bill") entertained member* of the British and American press and others at Olympian hall last night. There were in all 100 guests. H. Clay Dvan*, United States consul general, responded tp the toast "President Roosevelt," and William J. Bull, M. P., replied to the toast "King Edward." The remarks of both speakers were received witb enthusiasm,