Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 219, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1912 — Page 3

HAPPENINGS IN THE CITIES

Champion Rifle Shot Lets Holdup Man Rob Him

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.—What would you do if you were the best rifle and revolver shot in the state and a holddip man grabbed your “roll” out of your handsT Shoot him, of course. Well, that’s Just what the champion shot of Indiana didn’t do the only time he ever had occasion to rely on his marlrskmanship to save his property; John 13. Hafner, who won the state championship in the second annual tournament of the Indiana State Rifle association in the Indianapolis battalion armory,- for several years has been one of the best shots in the country. When he won the state championship the other day, he scored 162 consecutive bull’s eyes—a record for Indiana —and the secretary of the state association believes it is a national record. Hafner has numerous medals to show for his skill with the rifle and the revolver. But he never has shot at a human target. When he was robbed in his place

Mocking Smile of a Girl “Decoy” Is Fatal Lure

LOS ANGELES, Cal. — A. winsome lass, flashing a smile as sunnily sweet as a day In June, has brought about the downfall of dozens of auto speeders on the Venice road, the “speed mania" road of Los Angeles county. She has caused their hearts to flutter so that their digestions are upset and their mental poise serious* ly disturbed, and Incidentally has touched their pocketbooks to the end that the county treasury bulges with their dollars paid out In fines. On the rear seat of a motorcycle, with a sturdy county motorcycle "cop” steering, the young woman, claim the autolsts, has been the pretty decoy that has led them into opening the mufflers of their engines and cutting down the road at a pace that soon landed them in trouble. Of course, the motorists do not for a moment think that the pretty young woman on the motorcycle Is either the wife or sweetheart of one of their hereditary foes. Far from It When the motorcycle puffs saucily behind an autolst and starts to pass, with the girl on the rear seat showing a row of pearls in a derisive smile, his pride Is touched. No man with an auto that can cough along at a speed of more than

Jersey Lad Prayed at Night and Robbed by Day

PATERSON, N. J.—Kneeling every night to repeat the Lord’s Prayer, as It was "drummed” Into him by his father, and committing burglary during the day, slxteen-year-old Albert Vreeiand lias discovered that he has been placed in the front rank of dual personalities. He pfeaded guilty In court to seven of a wholesale list of robberies'' charged against him, and was sent to jail for a term not to be less than 9 or exceed 63 years. “The champion bad boy of New Jersey” Is the title which young Vreeiand earned, and every householder in this city who has been the victim of the young burglar and his band, believes he came by it honestly. Apparently he robbed for the pure love of the game, and when he entered a home he generally destroyed a great deal more than he took away with him. One other member of the gang has been cap-

Sings Her Favorite Ragtime Ditties at A. M.

Chicago. —it was 2 o'clock in the morning, yet the piano in the flat upstairs was still dispersing ragtime. "Come on along, come on along,” It in* slated, "to Alexander’s Rag Time Band,” for "everybody’s doing It now.” The piano was not the only sleep-de-stroyer, a human voice was its accomplice—the voice of Mrs. Rose Kilhane, 2951 South Union avenue. "Ye gods,” soliloquised Mrs. Mary Lee, holding her. hands to her ears, "how much longer will’ that music box stand it?” “O Moving Man, don’t take my baby grand,” came the voice ofbthe singer. A fervent prayer escaped from the flat below, a prayer that the moving man would' get busy right away. A score of residents In the block would gladly have paid the expenses of the trip when "I want to be, I want to be, I want to be down South in Dixie’’ floated through the open windows a few moments later. ■ \ The singer heard neither the prayers nor the Imprecations, but told her audience tn pajamas “Gee, but I like music with my meals.”

of business a few years ago, it wasn’t because he had Jost his skill or his nerve, but it was because he obeyed his mother. Hafner was in business on Washington street near Rural atreet-when- Jhe was the victlmof a “holdup.” A customer in Hafner’s poolroom gave him a $lO bill in paying for his games, and Hafner took a wallet, containing $175, out of his pocket to get two fives. Two strangers were standing near by and the larger one grabbed the wallet. At that moment Hafner’s mother and one of his employes stepped in at the back door and as Hafner tried to detain the robbers the employe ran into a back room and got Hafner’s revolver. He gave Hafner the revolver just as the robbers went out of ’the door, with Hafner in pursuit. As Hafner leveled the pistol his mother cried “John!” .Hafner says he has heard that cry before, and he never in his 11 fe disobeyed his mother, so when she told him not to shoot he lowered the pistol and watched the robbers run away with his $175. “I am not sorry I obeyed my mother,” said Hafner when the incident was recalled. “The loss of a few dollars is nothing When compared with the life of a man, .even a robber. I did not take up rifle and revolver shooting because of any desire to shed the blood of man or beast”

twenty-five miles an hour wants to see his machine passed. Furthermore, he has a sort of brainstorm caused by the tantalizing smile of the pretty young woman, and so he is led to his undoing. : ‘T" So far, it Is estimated, about 100 autolsts have fallen into the nicelybaited trap. The motorcycle policemen deny that they are carrying their girls or sweethearts along as “motor bait.” Of course, they can’t help it if their feminine companions stir the autolst to speeding. H; Drew of the district attorney’s office, who has charge of the eight motorcycle policemen who hunt speeders for the county, said the other day that if the motorcycle policemen carried fascinating young women on the tandem seats of their machines, they were using the feminine decoys on their own initiative. He said that the women never appear in court.

tured, and he has confessed also. Mrs. Vreeiand, the boy’s blames the father for a considerable part of the lad’s trouble. “My husband,” che said, “who has been helpless for the last 11 years because of filness, was entirely too strict with the boy. He is a rigid church member, and I think that Herbert’s mischief has been mostly due to his father’s attitude toward him. I als6 think that bad girls influence him. . “He had won the hearts o/ several young girls, and gave one of them a diamond ring valued at $350. When I told him that the police knew that he had given the girl a ring of that value, he pulled his hair and said: “’Great Scott! No wonder I got such a salty dose from the judge. 1 am going crazy when I do anything like that. I thought the ring was putty.’ ” After being sentenced young Vreeiand said to his folks: “Well, I’ll be 79 when I get out’ and the first thing I will do will be to kill two -detectives.” The wanton recklessness that has characterized the movements of Herbert and his pals has fairly stunned the residents of Paterson.

“O Mr. Dreamman, please let medream some more,” was the next selection, followed by a ragtime lullaby. "Hear her,” almost sobbed Mrs. Lee, “Singing ‘Sleep, Baby, Sleep,’ and she won’t let anybody else do it.” She hastened out, and searching the ’ streets and' alleys finally found a policeman and had him accompany her to the flat. •’Come, hero mine,” sang the voice, and the policeman entered. There was no more singing that night, and next day Mrs. Kilhane had a hearing before Municipal Judge Beitier at the South Clark street station. The judge fined her |lO and costs. That's why the nights are so quiet now in the, vicinity’•of 2951 South Union avenue. ‘

COURTHOUSE TO GO

Old County Building at Cassville, Mo., to Be Replaced. In Old Edifice, Subsequently Captured by Federate, the State Se- . ceded From the Union—Was Built in 1854. Cassville. Mo.—By voting bonds for $40,000 to which will be added a bonus of SIO,OOO collected by the citizens of Cassville, Barry county is to have a new courthouse and tlue old building, which is a relic of the Civil war will pass Into history. The old courthouse, which was a two-story brick building, was used by both the Union and Confederate armies. Had the fight not been so warm in this section the Confederates might have claimed it by right of discovery, for they were the first te ocsupy it. The building was first used by the Confederates as a meet‘lug place for the legislature which was convened here October 31, 1861, after being driven out of Neosho by the approach of the federal army. It was at this session the state was seceded from the Union and much other important business was transacted. The. articles of secession were written and Introduced by the late Senator George Graham Vest. The meeting was attended by seventyseven members. W. S. McConnell, the member of the legislature from this county, beiWg forced to attend to make the quorum. Mr. McConnell’s refusal to attend at first was because of the fear of the federal troops and sympathizers who were in this country in great numbers. 1 Got. Claiborne F. Jackson, who was elected governor in 1860, was at the meeting and after the acts of secession were passed made a speech from the south door of the old courthouse informing the people of the action of the legislature and notifying the people that they then composed a part of the Southern Confederacy. Senator Vest also delivered an address. After the speaking and Jollification the appointments of Maj. Gen. Ster-

TO CUT NOTED TREES

Sycamores Planted by Hamilton Must Be Removed. At This Place the Great Federalist’s Seconds Met to Make Plans for His Fatal Duel With Aaron Burr. New York. -The announcement that the three tall sycamore trees which stand in a vacant lot at West One Hundred and Fortieth street and Hamilton place, Manhattan, were about to be cut down to make room for a public school, which is to be erected on the lot, has aroused much Interest among New Yorkers, especially those who are familllar with the historic associations which these trees of the forest recall. It is stated on godd authority that it was under these trees that the seconds for Alexander Hamilton met before the fatal duel which resulted in the death of Hamilton on July 12, 1804. Whether they are the actual trees under which the seconds met before the fatal encounter occurred, they have a historic value from the fact that they are on territory which was Intimately associated with the great statesman, lawyer and soldier. An interesting fact connected with the house when it stood on the other side of the street is that Hamilton planted 13 trees around this house, which were intended to represent the 13 original states of the American Union. These trees were of the sweet gum variety and were brought by Hamilton, when they were nothing than whips, from Mount Vernon, the estate of President Washington. These trees lived until long after the house was moved, and some of them were' alive when, in November, 1911, the lots where they stood were taken as the site for a row of apartment houses. The ground along Convent avenue had been restricted for 25 years. When these restrictions expired the trees planted by Hamilton himself quickly disappeared. The removal of these trees rendered those at One Hundred and Fortieth street and Hamilton place all the more precious in the eyes of antiquarians and patriotic citizens, who treasure every reminder of Hamilton. The ground slopes sharply from the point where the old trees are standing to the shores of the Hudson. The rear porch of Hamilton’s house must have commanded a beautiful view of the Weehawken shore, much wilder in appearance than now. ,It was early in July that the challenge from Burr was received, and it was the morning of the 12th of that month that the arrangements were completed and Hamilton and his seconds took a barge and were rowed across the Hudson to the fatal battleground.

RISKS LIFE TO SAVE CHILD

Young Baseball Player Performs Heroic Deed at Florence, ... Florence, N. J. —Leon Horner, fast young infielder of the local baseball team, is hailed as hero for a bit of sheer daring and risk of his life in

WANTS WOMEN FOR JUVENILE JUDGES

LUCY LOUISE SANDBERG, a young woman lawyer of Washington, advocates women for Judges of Juvenile courts. Miss Sandberg is a graduate of the Boston University Law school and practiced in Boston for two years. She thinks women should be better lawyers than men because they have greater patience with details.

ling Price of the Missouri state guards and N. W. Watkins, Thomas A. Harris, John B. Clark, W. Y.Slack, A. E. lateen, J. H. Mcßride and James S. Rains, as brigadier generals were confirmed. General Slack was killed at the battle of Pea Ridge, gbout 20 miles south of Cassville. The session lasted for eight days, adjourning November 7, because of the approach of federal troops, to meet in New Madrid in March, 1862. The meeting at New Madrid was never held, however. At. the meeting of the legislature Mlles Vernon of Laclede county presided, he being named for the place by M. C. Goodlet of Johnson county. John T. Crisp of Jackson county was secretary; Jonn T. Tracy of Cole

saving little Loretta Bains from sure death under the wheels of a shifting engine at the R. D. Wood iron foundries, where he is employed. Horner was riding on the footboard at the front of the engine when he saw the child just ahead on the tracks apparently rooted to the spot in her terror. By a powerful dash he outdistanced the engine, and reaching the frightened child tossed her from the track. At the same instant his feet slipped and he tumbled head first between the rails. Unable even with the emergency brakes to instantly stop the heavy train, the engineer saw Horner rolled under the footboard, which in a shifting engine replaces the cowcatcher, and as he brought the train to a standstill, dropped in terror from the cab, expecting to find the young hero mangled beneath the wheels. Horner was far from dead, however? By a deft movement, as the locomotive rolled him over and over, he had managed to grab the running board, and with his body dragged beneath tbe trucks he held on as the engine bumped him over the ties. When they extricated him fellow workmen found his legs badly lacerated and his ankles sprained, but aside from these injuries, which Horner mourns because 'they will keep him from the baseball diamond for several weeks, he was unhurt.

“Beef And” Is the Real Test

Bowery Character Explains to Sympathetic Judge How He Was Imposed > Upon In Fifth Avenue. New York. —The answer to the question, "When Is a restaurant not a restaurant?” according to no less an authority than John Owens of Chatham - Square and the Bowery, Is. “When It does not serve beef and.” “Beef and,” in the language of Park Row and the lower East Side, Invariably means a plate of corned- beef and beans, the staple price of which tn the fashionable refectories of that part of the city is 15 cents, although in less pretentious establishments It is served fdr a dime. Mr. Owens is considered a man of parts in his own vicinage, where muscle rather than wealth gauges a man's standing. Yielding to’ the desire for a change of scene which comes to most persons at this vacation season, Mr. Owens a few evening since wandered northward as far as Fifth avenue and Thirty-fourth street ■■' „ Just as be was passing the most gilded of the fashionable uptown ho teis the pangs of hunger assailed him. and entering the restaurant which was crowded with diners in evening dress, he ordered his favorite dish. The waiter’s education evidently had been neglected, for he never heard of “beef and” and referred the worthy Mr. Owens to the menu, an appurtenance of dining with which that gentleman was wholly unfamiliar. To John, however, it was inconceivable that any place called a restaurant should fail to provide the most staple of all dishes, and he proceeded to demand his rights, em-

county, assistant secretary; James McCoun of Johnson county, enrolling clerk, and M. R. Johnson, sergeant at arms. Charles H. Hardin, later governor of the state, was a member of the senate and was the only one voting against the secession of the state in that body. A meeting of the legislature was also held at Pineville, but no record was kept of what was done at that meeting. = During the meeting of the legislature the command of Gen. Sterling Price was stationed on Fort Hill, on which Is now located the Cassville high school building. The old courthouse la, perhaps, the oldest one in the state, having been constructed In 1854.

GIRL WRITES WITH HER TOES

Unable to Use Hands, Ephie Gladys Virtue Employs Unique Method to Operate Typewriter. St Paul. —Ephie Gladys Virtue, a crippled young woman of thio city, has just completed writing a book. The book is a novel and contains 175 pages. The fact that she has written the book is not so remarkable as is the manner in which she did the work. Miss Virtue has always been a cripple and never attended school. She does her writing entirely upon a typewriter, and with her toes. Holding a pencil between her toes, she strikes the typewriter keys, and it is said her work is remarkably rapid.

KANSAS WOMEN BUILD ROAD

Break Rock With Sledge Hammers and Unload Road Material for Indifferent Men. Leans. Kan. Women wielded sledge hammers to break rock for the building of 800 feet of roadway here. Undaunted by the refusal of the men of the town to take up the work of building the thoroughfare, the women enlisted the aid of small boys and unemployed men of neighboring towns, paying the visitors for their work out of their “allowances.” A number of the women also put on "jumpers” and helped unload wagons containing the road material obtained in the vicinity.

phaslzing his remarks by piling several waiters, table* and chairs in ah impressive heap in tbe center at the room. When he told the magistrate in th* jiolice court?the following morning of the error that had led to his appearance in the dock the judge was sympathetic and explained that while a restaurant was a restaurnt the world over it w* only on the East Side that it was necessarily a beanery.

RAIL HEAD WORKS IN MUD

W. C. Hurst of Bluff Railway Directs Laborers and None Know His ■ ~ Identity. St. Louis, Mo. —Superintendent W. C. Hurst of the Bluff line passed three days In overalls and up to his shoe tops In mud with the crews, working to clear the track in the vicinity of Alton, and none of the big crew of workmen knew that the superintendent of the road was among them. Mr. Hurst was in the ticket office with his rough clothes on when a young man came to the window and Shouted: "What's the name of the guy who la superintendent of this railroad?" “W. C. Hurst,” answered the official, and the young man wrote the nemo on an envelope and went oh to mail a letter, probably asking for a position from the very man to whom he shouted.

Has Chinese Nate 500 Years Old.

Philadelphia.—A Chinese bank note which was issued 500 years ago during the Ming dynasty has been received here by the U. & assistant treasurer.

WAR REMINISCENCES

HALL WON MEDAL OF HONOR Made Daring Attempt to Rescue Lieutenant Weir and Scout From Attack of Ute Indians. * Adjutant-General William P. HalL who retired from active service last February, was a West Pointer and the holder of a medal of honor. General Hall entered the military academy in 1864, graduating four years later and being assigned to the Nineteenth infantry as a second lieutenant. In March, 1869, he was placed on the list of unassigned officers, where he remained until July In that year, when he was assigned to the Fifth cavalry. It was while he was with that regiment that he received bio medal of honor. In the fall of 1879 a force of Ute Indians surrounded a small detachment of regulars in the White River country. For "three days and three nights the soldiers held off the Indians. Rescue came finally, and the Indians made way before the charge of Colonel Merritt and hi* men, who had made a record ride to the aid of the beleaguered troops. A day or two after the retreat of the Utes Lieutenant William' B. Weir, ordnance department, and a scout left the camp on a deer hunt. Not long after their departure, Lieutenant Hall with three men were ordered out on a reconnaisance. The lieutenant and his little command circled through the mountains for several hours and in the afternoon they heard a succession of shots. They struck out for the spot from which the firing came. On rounding the shoulder of the valley Lieutenant Hall saw at a little distance across the open space a band of at least forty. Utes. The officer saw that Lieutenant Weir and the scopt had been surprised and had taken to a rocky ledge. Lieutenant Hall sent four shots Into the ranks of the Utes, making them change their shelter. The lieutenant knew that if he could*

Stood Up at Full Length on the Rock.

draw the fire of all the Indiana at once that Lieutenant Weir and his companion might make a dash toward him while the rifles of the Indians were unloaded. Lieutenant Hall stood up at fuff length on the rock. The Utes saw him and the Indians emptied their rifles at him. Lieutenant Weir and the scout dashed out from their shelter the instant that the Utes had let drive at Lieutenant Hall. They made half the distance to their comrades before the Indians had reloaded. Then tbe two dropped behind a rock and waited. The Indians did not again respond to the fire of Lieutenant Hall’s command. Then the lieutenant stood on the rock once more facing the Utes. Lieutenant Weir and the scout dashed out—but the Indian* had learned the trick. One-half of the Indian band turned their gun* at Lieutenant Hall The other half fired at Weir and tbe scout, both of whom fell dead, while Lieutenant Hall escaped unharmed. Then they attacked Lieutenant Hall and his three comrades, who retreated slowly from cover to cover, holding their assailants in check until the shooting was heard at the camp and a body of men rode out to the rescue and the Utes fled. Lieutenant Hall was given a medal of honor for his gallantry. AU of his service was in the west until appointed an assistant adjutantgeneral with the rank of major to November, 1893. He had been * member of the department, division, army, and distinguished marksmen teams between 1879 and 1892, and won medals upon all theqe team*, shooting with carbine and revolver. He left the department of Texas in April, 1898, where he had been adjutant general, to go to the department of tbe Gulf at Atlanta, and in February, 1899, he was sent to the department of Porto Rico. He went to the department of the Lak** in 1901, and th* Philippines division in 1902. He became lieutenantdolonel in 18*7, colonel in 1901. an*, brigadier-general in 1904.

A Correction.

When “Scotty,” of the ®ghty-fiftk Massachusetts, was captured tho rebels disarmed him, and one said: “If' you move ye’re a dead man.” "Ye’re wrong there,” said Scotty. Ts I move Fm a live oua,”