Daily Tribune, Volume 17, Number 28, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 28 December 1902 — Page 2

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VOLT- ME XT II.

Brawl That Ended as Stated.

Another murder was added to the errruiiitt-i history of Vigo county at about jJO o'clock last night when Leonard McQranahan shot and kiiled Milton Foster jut a dan«e at the home of Dick Xicee, in "Cinnamon. How." a miners' locality alsout. a half wile west of Burnett. Two ihpurg later the murderer accompanied i.-y tvo friends, walked into the police station and surrendered to Desk Clerk '. Ilefed. Word of the murder had been ve-

V."»ived and C5a.ptoin Beattie wt'.s trying (•1 raise a detail of deputy sheriffs to •-•go to Burnett after the pri onor, when the man made his appearance at the desk.

He WAS-sent to jail charged with murder and will be held pending investigation, •'.iiicri will begin Monday. Coroner Willis •'fc«. notified and started for Burnett ir'ion after midnight.

M-cftranahan is 22 .years of age and is tool a bad appearing young fellow. Jrlis viotim was still alive when he left the mining camp and he says that lie didn't know he was dead until he was told' by the police after arriving here. The story of the tragedy told in his own language is substantially as follows: "Myself and Henry Hays were at Burnett when we heard there was a dance at the home of Dick Niece in "Cinnamon How' and we decided' to go. vi, '"When we entered the house there, were several couples there and we' were greeted in a friendly manner. I shook hands with some of the people and was preparing to take off my overcoat when Milton Foster, who is the husband of my cousin, called me and said that he wanted to speak to me outside. I followed him and when outside of the house he told me that the dance was for married people and that was not wanted, and was not welcome. I told him it was all right and that I would 'eave, as did not care to be where was not wanted. 1 turned to go when he seized me by the coat collar and: said that he wanted me to be satisfied. I told him that I was satisfied and that I did not want any trouble and would leave. He still held to me and while I WHS trying to free myself. Dick Niece came out of the house and told me that •he did not. want me to think hard: of him. as he had nothing to do with the affair. I told him that I did not, think hard of anybody, but wanted to go, as did not care to be where I was not welcome.

At this juncture Foster again said that ho wanted me to be satisfied and at tho same time struck me in the face. 'j.he lick knocked me back and his holding to me prevented me from falling. As I straightened up. he struck at me again. Then I reached for my revolver and shot, for knew Foster's reputation and was afraid that he had a knife. As I shot He released his hold and staggered back, but came for me again. I stepped aside and he stepped past me. Then he walked in a sort of a circle, reeled and fell io the ground. I knew I had shot him, but did not know how bad he was hurt. I knew that I acted in self defense and did not intend to make any attempt to get away.

There was no trouble between me and Foster, so far as I know, although I have heard that Fosters wife, who is my cousin, has said that she 'lias no use for mc.' I paid no attention to this report, and Ave have always •poke when we met. Mrs. Foster was one of the persons witii whom I shook hands when I entered the Niece house. .1 thought it was a public dance where everybody was welcome who behaved himself and did not know different until Foster called me out of the house and told nie.r/VThat is all there is to the story."

McGrranahan is unmarried and he and his brother, who is a cripple, are the only support of a widowed mother. The young man while showing a lack of education, is of good appearance, and has •the reputation of being a sober and industrious man. W.

Milton Foster, his victim, is married and leaves a wife and one child about six years of age. He was given to occasional excessive drinking and at such times was regarded as a dangerous man. He was the brother of Quincy Foster, who a few years ago shot and killed WilJiA^i McDonald, and was acquitted on tl{fy proven claim of self-defense. The inuraer was committed at Fontanet and the trial was had at Brazil, where it was taken on a change of venue by Foster.

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DANCE UST NIGHT WASHINGTON GLAD ENDS IN MURDER POWERS ACCEPTED

LEONARD WGRANAHANI KILLS 1 THE HAGUE LIFTS LOAD OFF MILTON FOSTER AT BURNETT.

COLORED SUPPLEMENT.

THE SHOULDERS OF ROOSEVELT.

SURRENDERS LATER HERE JSTATESMEN ARE CONTENT

CLAIMS FOSTER STRUCK HIM OTHERWISE THE DEVELOPMENTS '.TWICE BEFORE HE FiRED MIGHT HAVE INDUCED COMA ,SHOT. PLICATIONS HERE.

INVITED TO LEAVE THE DANCE PERIOD OF ANXIETY PASSED

Declar ». He Started Off When Foster Called Him Back and Beuan the

None Fear That Monroe Doctrine will Not Weather the Stcrm and This Nation Has Enhanced Its

Influence Abroad,

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27—In congressional circles the reference of the Venezulan dispute to The Has'ie for arbitration, irst«a«] of to President Roosevelt, meet? with goneral approval. More than tin!, relieves a sense of apprehension, which v.vfs plainly discernible among congressman of both parties during »be period h«n it seemed possible that President •Roosevelt might, bo drawn into the arbitration.

There was no mistaking- the feeling among congressmen on that point. Such men as Senators Oullom and Foraker. and Morgan were among the first to deprecate bringing the president into -:the dispute, and their views as expressed were shared by democrats and republicans in the house and senate

The few statesmen who are in the city during the holiday recess are congratulating each other over the prospect of the dispute being referred to The Hague. "That is where it belongs," said Representative Cooper, chairman of the committee on insular affairs today. "I have never contemplated for a moment the idea that the president of the United States would accept the place of arbitrator, except as a last resort to obviate, possibly greater ills. "If the president should go and make an award against Venezuela he might' find himself called upon to force1' tlie award, and all kinds of embarrassments might follow. "The Monroe doctrine is not a subject of arbitration. It is a fixed proposition, not susceptible of. alteration at the hands of any foreign power."

GERMANY_STILL FIRM.

Will Insist on an Apology from Venezuela no Matter What Is Arbitrated.

BERLIN. Dec. 27—The German government in agreeing to accept arbitration tjj The Hague tribunal will, it may be stated. .still insist upon apology by Venezuela for the attack on the German legation, this being a subject In which the honor of Germany is involved. Baron Von Richthofen. secretary of state for foreign affairs, says that this demand for an apology cannot be waived, and has nothing to do with arbitration. Nations cannot arbitrate an insult to their flag. The question of raising the blockade is an important one. and Germany is fully so desirous as any other powrer interested to bring this vexatious condition to an end.

It is reported that confidential advices to the German government from the fleet and from German consuls in places adjoining Venezuela show that the blockade is having no influence whatever in coercing- that country and that the chief sufferer is the United States, through losses to American commerce Tt is apprehended that the detention of American vessels and loss of American merchandise may lead to irritation and friction between Germany and the United States and therefore it is desired to bring the blockade to an end. so soon as possible without inpur\' to the cause for which it was begun.

The German foreign office is also embarrassed and displeased by the charge that the Germans and British arc helping the Venezuelan rebels.

ORANGES FROST BITTEN*

Florida People Were Busy Last Night Trying to Protect the rees.

JACKSONVILLE. Fla., Dec. 27-Great efforts are being made tonight through tlie'Florid-a orange section to protect trees and fruit from the threatened cold wave by fires throughout the groves. Proba cy hundreds of men will be at work watching thousands ,of fires during the night. The cold is expected to be severe and without protection the trees would be badly hurt.

Epidemic of Small Pox.

FRANKLIN, Pa., Dec. 27—Smallpox has almost the entire French Creek valley west of here in its grip. Two weeks ago several people became troubled with what they believed to be "Cuban itch" and they continued to attend vendires and other public gatherings. Finally a cose was diagnosed as smallpox and since then terror has reigned in the valley. There are nearlyj&orty cases at Cochranton and the town will probably be place-j undier quarantine.

Support Colored Man.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27-The possibility that there will be a vacancy in the Liberian mission, due to some charges" file..I against John R. A. Crossland, the minister to that country, have caused the West Virginia senators, to determine to do all they can for a colored man of their state. This man Is C. IHPayne, of Huntington. His name will be presented'to the presi-

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THREE MEN PERISH IN HOTEL FI8E

HALF BLOCK AT SAW PEDRO, CAL. WAS SWEPT BY FLAMES.

CHARRED CORPSES FOUND

VICTIMS TRAPPED IN A LARGE ROOMING HOUSE AND ESCAPE CUT OFF.

OTHER INMATES BADLY BURNED

One of the Victims was Seen at the Upper Windows by the Rescuers But Flames Reached Him

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SAN PEDRO, Cal., Dec. 27—Three men were burned to death in the fire here early this morning and charred remains of two of them have been recovered from the ruins. The bodies are black masses and cannot bo identified.

The men were asleep in the Big Bonanza rooming house, that faces on Front street, and it is believed that the. flames reached them before they were awakened.

The dead: W. B. jSWIFT of Los Angeles, who formerly lived at the Kureka hotel here. He was doing concrete work at San Pedro for a contractor known as C. Shearer.

CAPTATN N. O. ^.NFINDSEN, a retired sea captain, 60 years old of San Pedro.

AN UNIDENTIFIED MAN. believed to be Victor Silver of Wilmington, Cal. William Bisbee, an old seaman, was carried out of the second story window of the Bonanza. Bisbee is badly burned and in a critical condition. He says that when he was descending the ladder .ie saw a form in the second story hallway enveloped in flames and making a last feeble effort to reach the window. He could not identify the victim. The three men were in the upper second story when the flames started and were cremated.

The loss is estimated at $100,000 and a half block of .frame and brick buildings were entirely destroyed.

BEATEN TO DEATH.

Anti-Semitic «Mob Clubs Two Prominent Jewish Citizens Lifeless in the Synagogue. •VIENNA, Dec. 27—At Banialuke, in Bsjiia an anti-semitic mob attacked prominent Jewish citizens of the town, named Ivo Kanajet and Philip Condrios, for no other reason than that they were Jews. Kanajet and Condrics fled to a synagogue, but the mob pursued them ipto the building and beat them to death with heavy sticks.

Despondent Man's Deed. FRANKLIN, Pa.. Dec. 27—Despondency over the receipt of a letter on Christmas das' from his wife and family in Poland which told' of sickness led John Troggar, of Oil City, to attempt suicide by cutting his throat this afternoon. Physicians say he cannot live. First he tried to commit suicide by jumping into the icy waters of Oil creek, but' was rescued by friends. Troggar arrived in Oil Ciiv last June and has been out of work for some time.

Schooner is Unreported

HALIFAX, N. S., Dec. 27—Fears are entertained here for the safety of the three masted schooner Severn) She left New York in Ballast November 28, for Weymouth, N. S., andi has not arrived at her destination. The Severn is owned by Hutchins Brothers of New York. Her captain and mate are Nova Scotians.

TEREE HAUTE, TNT., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1902.

DANCE AT BURNETT LAST NIGHT ENDED IN A TRAGEDY

ROYALTY RISES AGAINST LOUISE

ASKS THAT MARRIAGE OF DISGRACED WOMAN BE NOW DISSOLVED.

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BERLIN, Dec. 27—The union of German princesses for the elevation of public morality has decided to efface the name of the crown princess Louise Antoinette Marie of Saxony, from its list of members.

The Saxon court has' appealed to the pope to permit a divorce to be granted to Crown Prince Frederick Augustus from his wife, the crown, princess, who recently fled from him in company with the French tutor of her children. Prof. Gorin, whom she intends to many, if divorced. The pope has replied that a divorce is impossible, under the laws of the church and that the subject cannot even be discussed. Kaiser William is said to favor a divorce very strongly, and the kaiser, ii is said, will make a personal appeal to His Holiness to grant a dispensation for the divorce of the unhappy royal couple.

The Roman does not recognize divorce, although annulment of marriage has been frequently granted, 'which in effect is tantamount to divorce."

The Saxon court has summoned the Crown Princess Louise Antoinette to renounce of her own volition her dignity of crown princess, with the honors and privileges appertaining to the same. Should she refuse to do so, she will be public proclaimed as guilty of adulteiy and will be reprived by special royal decree of all her privileges and her rights.

FOOLED THE MINISTER.

Instead of Going to Church the Men of His Flock Filled His Wood Bin.

HUNTINGTON CENTER,' Conn., Dec. 27 —The Rev. H. L. Everest, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal church, after a ChristT mas entertainment in his church Wednesday evening, made a personal request of the men in his parish to attend the services on Christmas. He was chagrined when he entered the. chancel the next morning to find that there was hardly a man in the congregation. He took to heart the seeming affront and went to his home feeling sad.

Upon going to the barn to feed his hose he was astonished to find twelve or fifteen of the men of his parish sitting around a pile of wood. These men, instead of going to church on Christmas morning, went to the woods where they cut and hauled to the barn four cords of good hard wood which' will help to keen the minister warm. He has no coal.

American Capital in France. NEW YORK. Dec. 27-Anthony N. Brady. George Knapp and1 C. K. G. Billings sailed today for Europe to investl-' gate a proposition that has been made to them by French capitalists to combine all of the gas companies of Paris andplace them under American control.

Mr. Brady is very heavily Interested in People's' Gas in Chicago, and is also heavily Interested in the Consolidated Gas company of this city, which is controlled b,v the Standard Oil company.

FATHER TIME—"IT LOOKS AS THO'JGH I'D SCON HAVE TO MOVE."

WILL BE PUBLICLY CRIED

Unless of Her Own Volition She Renounced Her Title and Honors Appertaining to Her Station in Court Circles.

TWENTY-EIGHT DEAD IDENTIFIED

GERMAN PRINCESSES EFFACE! OTHER BODIES EXPECTED TO

HER NAME FROM THEIR N E

COURT APPEALS TO POPE

BE FOUND IN THE GRAND

TRUNK WRECK.

C^lliALTY WAS FRIGHTFUL

FOUR COACHES WERE SIMPLY CRUSHED WITH THEIR HU-.:: MAN FREIGHT. -j

OPERATOR WAS RESPONSIBLE TROUBLE I

Failed to Clear the Track for the Limited and the Crash That Followed was Terrible—Surgeons on the Scene.

LONDON, Ont., Dec. 27—Following is the offlcal list of identified dead in the Grand Trunk wreck:

ALEXANDER STEWART, Petrolia, Ont. MRS. ALEXANDER STEWART, Petrolia. Ont.

A. RICKETTS, Sarnia Tunnell. fireman, extra 771!. J. GILLIES, Sarnia Tunnell, engineer extra 773.

MRS. TROTTER. Petrolia. Ont. MR. LAWRENCE. Waterford. F. S. FREEMAN, Oil Springs or Hensall, Ont.

THOMAS COTTS. Chicago. I GEORGE STAOEY. Wanstead, Ont. EDWARD DEEVANS, Prescott, Ont. DR. HARVEY. Chicago. MRS. J. M. STEWART and CHILD, Oshkosh, Wis.

RUSSELL QUIRN, Chicago. JAMES BANES, Woodstock. Ont. BEATRICE GEDDES. Sarnia, Ont. J. J. CUTHBERTSON, Port Huron, Mich.

LOTTIE LYNCH,' Port Huron. Mich. JOHN B. BIERD, Chicago. ALBERT LTMON, Wyoming, Ont. MRS. W. COTT AND MARGARET COTT, London. Ont.

J. W. SHAWLES. Strathroy. Ont. W. H. COLE AND AVIFE. Flint. Mich B. K. M'DONALD, Strathroy, Ont. MRS. T. N. RRYNES. Sarnia. Ont. ANNIE SINCLAIR, ICotnoka, Ont. MISS FLOSSIE CUTHBERTSON, Port Huron, Mich.

MRS. PUGS-LEY. London. Ont. Of the trainmen the fireman of the express was killed, engineer McKemsie escaping. -The engineer and fireman of the freight Irain are missing.

County Coroner Harvey tonight impanneled a jury at Watford to investigate the cause of the wreck. The jury selected a foreman and adjourned until Monday.

The operator, whose mistake it is said caused the wreck, had not been arrested up to a late hour tonight. It was learned today that the freight crew had opened the Wansted switch and the train was going on the side track when tho express ran into it. Had the express be^/i a minute later the freight train y^/uld have been on the side track and Vne collision could not have occurred., According to Trainmaster Price the loss on rolling stock and equipment will not reach more than IT 0.000.

Soon afternoon the line had been cleared and trains were running again. What is left of the baggage car lies on one side of the track, with the wreckage of the telescoped day coach. The two engines are piled in a heap on the other side of the track.

La Joie is Improving. j-kkv

CLEVELAND, O., Dec. 27—Napoleon La Joie's condition at midnight was much Improved and it is believed he will recover. He was stricken with pleurisy and neglected to call a physician. •..-,.

SIXTEEN PAGES.

ACTRESS DRINKS FATAL DRAUGHT

DOLLY EARLE KILLS HERSELF IN A PHILADELPHIA •THEATER.

LEFT DESPONDENT LETTER

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SWEETHEART RECENTLY HAD BEEN IMPRISONED FOR MIN- ,• OR OFFENSE.

WEIGHED ON HER

Drank Carbolic Acid During the Performance Last Night and Died on the Way to the Hospital.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 27—Dolly Earle, an actress who had been rehearsing for "leads" at the Trocadero theater, a burlesque house,., killed herself tonight with carbolic acid. She was found outside her dressing room by the stage carpenter who had been attracted by her moaning. She was alive but unconscious and died while being taken to the Hahnemann hospital. On the table in her dressing room w*as found a letter from the stage manager of the Odeon theater, wishing her a merry Christmas. On the margin she had written: "Telegraph John Fallinger. 160 Conkey avenue, Rochester, N. Y." "Forgive me, all. I can't stand trouble. "DOLLY EARLE."

The nature of her trouble Is thus far unknown. Miss Earle was about 30 years old. She had a room in a theatrical lodging h-. se in the Tenderloin and was not well known among local stage folks.

The only theory that can be assigned for her fatal despondency is ba^ed on, the fact that her sweetheart was recently sent to prison for some minor offense.

COMBS JNSTRUCTED.

Newly Appointed Minister to Guatemala Calls on Hay and Gets Final Orders.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27—Mr. Leslie Combs, newly appointed United States minister to Gautemala, and Honduras, called at the state department today and talked with Secretary Hay and Assistant Secretary Hill over the situation in Guatemala City, the Hunter case, and other matters connected with the duties he is about to areume. Mr. Combs expects to sail from New Orleans about the 10th or 12th of January for Port Barrios, and will cross Guatemala on horseback with his family over the mountain trails connecting the capital with the coast.

PICKED A PIMPLE AND DIED.

Clinton County Girl^ Used a Pin and Blood Poisoning Resulted. FRANKFORT, Inc).. Dec. 27—Miss Gertie McBride. a daughter of William McBride. is dead at her home in the west part of Clinton county', the result of a peculiar case of blood poisoning. A small pimple appeared on her face last week and Sunday she picked it with a pin. A few hours later her face began to swell. Physicians wore called but they were unable to neutralize the poisoning and she di»d

Takes a Big Coffin.

CTNCINNATI. O.. Dec. 27—One of the largest coffins that has ever been manufactured in this city is now being made by the Cincinnati Coffin company. The casket is being made to order, and when completed will contain the remains of George Krull of this city, who was found dead this afternoon. Krull weighed over 500 pounds.

THE WEATHER.

Forecast for Indiana—Fair, warmer Sunday Monday rnin or snow variable winds becoming east and fresh/

NUMBER 28

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NEWS AND GOSSIP FROM OLD LONDON

SAXONY'S SCANDAL HAS DIMMED ALL OTHER EUROPEAN TOPICS.

RECALLS COBURG'S SECRET

PRINCESS WHO DARED TO ELOF* HAS BEEN EVER CONFINED IN MAD HOUSE.

KAISER NOT TO VISIT HERE

Precedent Forbids Him Absenting Him self from Germany Such a Length of Time—Sculptor Bartholdi's Suit.

(Special Cable Letter.) .' ii

LONDON, Dec. 27—Europe seems almost to have forgotten Venezuela in the scandal over the crown princess of Sax on .v. German papers do not dare to say much about the causes which led this wonv.n to 4 leave her husband and five children and run away with a French tutor, but tlv: facts are being published in London. Pans anA 'Vienna and the domestic (roubles of royalty are getting an airing they have not had in many years.

Appeals have been made in every direction—even to the pope—to get the princess to return home, and consort once more with her husband, the future fcin of Saxony, for whom her favorite epithet is "beast." She will not go back. She says she is disgusted with the shaiffte, •. the immorality, the hypocrisy and general degeneracy of the royalty, part, of -i which she was. Her method of leaVing it was unconventional, but it was almost the only method left to her. She ,rouM possibly have gone into''tic convent, as the pope now suggests that *she should, but she did not desire to .leave the world— she only wanted to see th«f real side of it.

When free she will mar-rv Gorin, who will probably be able to support her in comfortable style.

The running away of Archduke Leopold Ferdinand, brother of the'PrOwn princess of Saxony, with a pretty plebian named 'fAdamovitch, is not as serious a matter as.the elopment of the crown princess. buC it is additional evidence that some men, as well as women, in the royal and imperial circles, are tired of being titled drones, and want to b( real men and women, bearing a fair share of the burdens that nature has imposed on mankind. The archduke renounces all his titles, and becomes an ordinary man—just a man.

The meeting of Princess Louise of Coburg with Count Keglevich at Dresden lately and the utterances of the princes at that occasion—that she hoped s'h.5 would soon be allowed to leave tho sanl- v,

tarium where she was now forced to stay, caused certain persons to spread the report that the princess at present i.s weaker of mind than ever and not paying the least interest to things going on around her. A similar report was spread 4 at the t'ime of the death of the late queen of Belgium. Tt was said that the princess showed the greatest indifference upon being informed of the death of her mother. S Queen Marie Henrietta. At that time the princess had the report denied in a Dresden paper, adding that she was following the newspapers closely every day, W"as weir informed of the affairs of the external world and was in no way suffering from a weakness of mind. ', •The princess appears to all who have seen her to be in her right mind and there is no doubt that she is kept in tha sanitarium simply to prevent the scandal which would attend her further association with Keglevitch. It was this fata of the Princess Louise, of Coburg, which undoubtedly prompted the Crown Princess 4 Louise of Saxony to speed away on an express train before confessing that she, too, had a lover in the person of her French tutor. Gorin

The German public has been surprised

by a new bank crash. The big bank illures of last year that, ruined many, especially among the lower classes, who harl trusted their small savings to the banks. issj will not soon be forgotten. The present: crash took place at Dortmund, where th'i." "Dortmund Commercial Bank" is forced!

to suspend payments. The peasant1: of! A the surrounding vicinity will lose all thelf savings.

The capital of the bank amounted to 2,000,000 marks. Up to the last an opUmIstic description of the situation of th3 bank had been issued.

A Berlin dispatch says that it ii v." learned from the foreign office that tho

Concerning the crown prince, it ha* been stated on various occasions that the crown prince's education is not yet completed, and until that Is the case tha crown prince can represent tho kaiser on.y in small official affairs.

Not very long ago It had been reported that the crown prince would make a trip v-

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invitation of the president of the St. •"$ Louis exposition, David R. Francis to tho kaiser to visit the exposition, or send tho .j crown prince as his representative, is

considered a« being only of a formal chnr-^':-'."»% acter, simply notifying the kaiser that is Invited.

The kaiser is not able to leave Germany* for so long a time. The kaiser once sail'f to a journalist whom he received, wh"n .he was on a trip to Norway and had invJted him to visit America, that so soot* as it Wns possible to cross the ocean In one day, he would be very glad to viilt the new world. That means that the kaiser cannot be out of direct communication with Germany for a greater period of time which of course would be the caso if he accepted the invitation. This fact has been pointed out every time the k.iiscr was to be invited to come to America. •,,£