Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1902 — Page 3

POLITICS OF THE DAY

Tariff Reformer*. A majority of the voters In a large number of Congressional districts in the Western States have been buncoed Into believing that the members of Congress they have elected will vote to amend the tariff law and control the trusts. The candidates promised thut if a Republican majority was elected the tariff and trust issue would be settled by those who are the friends of protection, and there would be no disturbance of business. Some of these Republicans who have been elected to Congress on the faith in their promises were no doubt sincere and will strive to carry them out, but that they will accomplish any such results is out of the question. Those candidates who have been re-elected to Congress and have had experience In the workings of the ruthless machine must have known that any such promises were worthless and were only given to once more'fool their constituents into re-electing them. That this is a fair statement of facts is certain when it is considered that Congress is run by a majority of the dominant party, and that individual Cdngressmen have no opportunity given them to even have their Ideas considered unless the party managers think such are desirable. When the next Congress meets in December, IJMI3, the caucus of the Republican members will decide who is to be speaker. He will appoint the committees, and if the majority shall decide that the tariff is not to l>e reformed. the speaker will carry out their wishes. He will appoint a Committee on Ways and Means, to whom any tariff Dill must be referred, who will all be reliable protectionists and who believe that nearly all the trusts are good trusts, and should be aided rather than hindered in their career of piling up profits at the expense of the people. The Republican Congress man who believes in tariff reform, to any extent, will be helpless. He mny Introduce a bill, like Mr. Babcock did in the la-ginning of the present Congress. to reform the iron and steel schedule, but it will lie buried, like that notable production, in the grave of tariff reform hopes—the Ways and Means Committee. If our new Congressman is insistent to have his bill considered, which, like Mr. Babcock, lie will probably not be, ail will be serene; lie will be favored in other matters, so that Ids const’ll urffits may lie partially satisfied. If be demands that liis. or some similar bill, be considered and reported so that lie may have an opportunity to record his vote and thus show his sincerity to ills constituents. he will lie cut off from participation in all the inside advantages of belonging to the majority party and be treated much more discourteously than the memliers of the Democratic minority. Only in the almost impossible event of enougli Republican memliers joining with the Democrats to make a majority and then voting to order the Committee on Ways and Means to report a bill to amend the tariff law. will it lie possible to have a yea and nay vote recorded on such a proposition. It will be interesting to watch the actions of those Republican Congressmen from lowa, Minnesota anil other States that have succeeded In deluding their farmer constituents Into lielleving thut the tariff will be revised by its friends. If the jieople of any Congressional district want the tariff revised, they must bring pressure to bear on the Congressman they have elected to compel him to carry out their wishes. It will require a good deal of backbone for n Republican Congressman to stand tip and fight for even trust productions to be placed upon the free list. Women and the Tariff. The object of the tariff is to tax everybody's poeketbook for the ' enrichment of the favored gentlemen who own the trusts. The trusts are enabled to charge two prices for things because the tariff shuts out competition. In a word, the detestable tariff makes a dollar go a very short way In n woman’s poeketbook. And since ■he Is the domestic treasurer there is every reason at the present time why she should know something about “politics." It affects her first; the man who must replenish her purse is affected only secondarily.—Bt. Louis Republic. t’rices of Food Products. Popular uneasiness caused by the enormous price of coal Is not lessened by h consideration of the prevailing high prices asked for other necessaries of life. Meat Is still dear; butter, eggs and poultry are higher than usual. and retail dealers have decided to Increase the price of milk. In a period of high prices it Is the wage-earner who Is the greatest sufferer. The fanner gets more'for hts products, the manufacturer and business man for theirs, hut wages are the last thing to go up.—Baltimore News. Pennsylvania a Shameless State. It Is undeniable that In Philadelphia fraud In elections is condoned by cltlr.ens who In other matters pride themselves upon their Integrity, They regard ballot-box stuffing In the light of an amusing and perhaps justifiable expedient. Instead of denouncing It as a degrading and dlsbonest practice.

John Wanamaker recently characterized Pennsylvania as a "sunken State.” That is a harsh term to apply to a great commonwealth. But would a State with a decent respect for public opinion submit year after year to the rule of an oligarchy perpetuated by the grossest fraud and corruptionT Has Pennsylvania genuine refffibltcan government if its elections are controlled by men who boast of their skill in {mdding the returns?—Baltimore Sun. Watch the Republicans. At last the tariff is going to be reformed "by its friends”—not right away but as soon as it really needs It. Some of the duties which protect "bad" trusts must come off. A beginning may l>e made with the duty on authracite coal which Secretary Moody says was “smuggled into the Diiigley tariff bill in a sneaking and cowardly manner.” Undoubtedly the President, in bis message to Congress, will recommend that this smuggled duty be taken off and, as the duty on soft coal protects the coal trust, or trusts, far more than the dutyon anthracite, he must, to be consistent, recommend that all coal be put on the free list. Then the fun will begin as It always has begun when the Republicans have attempted to revise the tariff downwards and indeed by revising it upwards. ~ \ The trusts will send agents to Washington. These will appear before the Ways and Means Committee, or perhaps before a Tariff Commission, which the President will recommend. They will loudly proclaim tlie direful results that will follow even the slightest lowering of the robber duties. Each trust agent will gravely inform the Commission or their Commission (for heretofore the protected manufacturers have bad their own way In all things) that his particular industry would be ruined, simply wiped off the earth. If the tariff Is touched even by friendly hands. He will produce carefully prepared tables showing that In his Industry day wages are twice as high in this country as In Germany or France and 60 per cent higher than In England. He will put up a pitiful plea for "protection to la - bor" and “American wages for American workingmen.” He will not explain how a tariff on goods—what the trusts have to'sell—will protect labor—what the workingman has to sell. Neither will lie explain why wages are higher In free-trade England than in protected Germany or France, uor why our trust products, made by liigh-prlced labor, are sold In foreign countries in competition with goods made l»y cheap labor. These details will not prevent him from making most positive assertions that the tariff protects the workingman and free trade would ruin him. After a year spent in taking testimony from the protected manufacturers—the only ones who usually appear before such a committee—the Commission will, unless the agitation for revision becomes very acute, calmly decide that the tariff protects labor more than the manufacturer and that It is not at all the mother of trusts, either good or bad. In this way one or two years’ time will be gained by the protected manufacturers aud perhaps by that time another war will be launched and will divert the people from the tariff question. It is hard to beat the protected trusts. Republicans in Full Control. Republicans will have the uext Congress in both branches ns they have the present one. If the Republicans fail to put through whatever legislation they see fit it will not lie on account of insufficient numbers in the party representation. There will Ih\ ns now, a Republican administration, a Republican Senate and a Republican House. Full responsibility will rest with the Republican party, and should the country think It necessary to chauge the responsibility in 1904 It will be solely owing to failure of the party now In power to make satisfactory use or Its opportunities.—Cleveland Plain Denier. Good Place to Benia. Barbed wire being tlie production of the Steel Trust and selling In Europe for two-thirda less than the trust sells It to the American farmer, would seem to fix the status of the Steel Trust as a bad trust. If the Republicans are sincere In tlielr expressed determination to remove protection from lmd trusts, the Steel Trust productions would be a good place to l>ogln by lopping off the 40 |>er cent protection the tariff law now gives them. The Winning Issue* for lIKM. The policy of the Democracy Is plain. The futile aud defeated Issues of the I mat must lie cast out of the camp. The consolidation of tlie party upon the supreme Issue must lie effected and the line of battle must lie solid and enthusiastic from Maine to California. On the straight, succinct platform of home administration, with equal rlghtn to all men and special privileges to none, we will win In 1904.—Atlanta Constitution. The police department of Atheus, Greece, has forwarded n circular to the mnnagefa of all local theaters directing them to announce In their programs whether their playa are auch aa Indies can properly attend.

BOSTON'S MYSTERY.

Mnnse Complications in the Shocking “Jack the Slugger” Cases. The most complicated and confusing case that ever engaged the attention of the Boston police authorities is the "Jack

the Slugger" mystery, developments in which have interested people in all parts of the country since the arrest of Alan Gregory Mason oil suspicion of having perpetrated u scries of thirteen murderous assaults on women in the suburbs of Boston during the past several months. Ths

ALAN O. MASON.

family of which Mason is a member is one of the most aristocratic in Boston and he is a man of culture nnd has been reared in refinement. Ilis arrest created a great sensation. Soon after the police brought him into public notice in connection with tjie case, it was decided to release him beeuuse of an alibi furnished by relatives. Several persons came forward, however, and testified that they had seen him at Waverly in the vicinity of where tlie latest assault was perpetrated on Alias Clara Morton Nov. 1, and he was held for her murder. Suspicion was again turned from him when it was learned that Miss Morton’s watch, which had been stolen, had been pawned by a negro and the subsequent arrest of the one who had disposed.of the watch. But the negro, a youth named George L. O. Perry, claimed he had received the timepiece and also one belonging to Miss Agnes MePliee, who was murdered Oct. 3, from Mason, and he identified ldm as he stood in line with several others. But the pawnbroker who received the watches declares that Perry did not pawn rliem, asserting that it was another negro. Mason was afterward discharged from custody, tlie evidence being insufficient to hold him. The police arc greatly perplexed by the tangle of contradictory evidence, but they confidently expect to bring the guilty party to justice ns a result of information that will develop from the arrest of other persons suspected of know ledge of cases.

ARMOUR PLANT BURNS.

Big Packing Houses in Sioux City Are in Kuius. The big packing plant of Armour ft Co., which occupied throe and a half acres of ground at the extreme south end of the Sioux City, lowa, stock yards district, was destroyed by a fire wliifck started at 12:50 o’clock Sunday morning on the second floor of the fertilizer building. The loss, estimated by Charles \V. Lennon, manager of the company, wns total, or $900,000. The cause of the fire, Mr. Lennon said, was either spontaneous combustion or an imperfect drier. There was $721,500 insurance on the property. Six hundred men will bo thrown out of work all winter by the tiro, but Manager Lennon says a larger plant will be built. The fire was discovered by a watchman of the building, who only a few minutes before had pulled a messenger box on the floor where the flames started. Quickly the plant’s private fire department was called out. The city department was then called and every local fireman was soon at work. Once in the beef-killing house the flames spread swiftly to the rest of tlie plant, attacking first tlie oleo building. When the lard in this structure start?d to burn the tire presented a most spectacular appearance. The big beef house, where 500 dressed carcasses were hanging, caught at 2 o'clock. By this time the whole plant, except the hog house, was on fire. The roar of the flames was terrible. The country for miles around was lighted up. Suddenly there was a terrific explosion, followed quickly by another, and thin another. Twenty-four drums of 100 pounds of ammonia each exploded before the reserve supply in the ammonia cistern was reached. That explosion almost razed the entire plaut oft Its foundation. The fire continued to burn all day. Sunday afternoon there was nnother terrific explosion, which threw bricks and pieces of iron hundreds of yards, endangering thousands of spectators, but no one was seriously hurt.

MANY TAKE EXAMINATIONS.

Annual Report of Civil Service Commission Shows 90,558, Th* annual report of A. R. Severn, chief examiner of the civil service commission in Washington, shows that during the Inst fiscal year there were ‘30,558 people examined in nnd for the classified service, of whom 40,509 passed and 13,298 were appointed, promoted or transferred. In addition 1,174 persons were examined for the Philippine service, of whom 480 passed and 694 failed. The local boards of examiners especially designated for the custodian service were discontinued. On June 30 last the total number of local boards of examiners was 1,128, with a total membership of 3,723. Facilities have been furnished to residents of Hawaii to compete in the general and local civil service examinations in Honolulu and Hilo, and residents of Porto Rico hereafter may take the general and local examinations at Ponce nnd San Juan. Much attention has been given during the year to the upbuilding of the service iu the Philippine Islands.

All Around the Globe.

Senator Ilanns is now a member of the Loyal Legion. Business part of Auburn, Ky., was scorched for $25,000. Price of dried codfish has dropp'd 20 per ceut in Newfoundland. Naphtha launch Ethel capsized off Brooklyn, drowning three men aud a boy. Six hundred Pittsburg butchers struck because proprietors refuse to recognize their union. / The safe of ths H. 8/ Lundy hank at Rock Island, Texas, warn blown open by professional burglars, (rhey secured nil of the money In the vaults. The Bering sea catch of the Victoria ■cnliiig fleet will lie smaller this year than over, it will be less than 6,000 skins, compared with 10,500 taken last year. The amount estimated for railrond transportation of mails In this country for the next fiscal year Is $38,242,000, an iqcreasr of over 5 per cent froid th# current year. With the inauguration of the Golden Stats limited, between Los Angelos and Chicago, over ths South Pacific and Rock Island railroads, ths tlmt from th* Pacific coast to th* Atlantic coast has besn reduced to eighty-sight hours.

BY TROLLEY FROM CHICAGO TO BOSTON.

DIAGRAM OF THE TROLLEY TRIP.

D. O. Stoekbridge of Boston has returned from Chicago, having made the entire trip by trolley car with the exception of five gaps. From Chicago he took a steamer to Muskegon, Mich. From that point to Auburn, N. Y„ he rode in trolley cars, being there obliged to take a train to Schenectady, where he rode In trolleys to Hudson, X. Y.. thence by train to Hastings, N. Y., where a trolley car took him to New York City, a total distance from Chicago of about 700 miles. Between New York nnd Boston he was obliged to take trains covering two more short gaps, the mileage being 226 from the metropolis. Unfortunately Mr. Stoekbridge did not keep a memorandum of his fares. Between Toledo nnd Cleveland he rode many miles at the rate of sixty an hour. The principal cities he passed through en route were Chicago, Muskegon, Grand Haven, Grand Rapids, Jackson, Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Adrian, Detroit, Monroe, Ashtabula, Cleveland, Toledo, Painesville, St. Catherine, Buffalo, Loekport, Auburn, Albany, Schenectady, Hudson, Hastings, Yonkers, New York, Stamford, Conn.: Norwalk, Bridgeport, New Haven, Hartford, Springfield, Mass.; Worcester and Boston.

ATTEMPT TO KILL A KING.

Three Shots Fired at Leopold, bnt He Escapes Unhurt. Three shots were fired at the King of the Belgians Saturday morning us ha was proceeding to the cathedral in Brussels to attend a Te Deum in memory of the late Queen Marie Henriette. No oue was hurt. By the death of Marie Henriette, Queen of Belgium, Sept. 19 last, the family affairs of the Belgian monarch were brought before the world. What had been known in court and official circles for years regarding the domestic unhappiness of the queen and the alleged cruelty of her husband became public gossip and the scandalous revelations aroused the people of Belgium to a..high pitch of indignation. Queen Henrietta, who among her friends was known as "the Queen of Sorrows,” really died of a broken heart. The popular demonstrations of grief over the death and indignation ngainst Leopold were intensified by the King’s treatment of his daughter, the Princess Stephanie. This daughter had married Count Lonyay against her father's wishes, aud when she visited the palace at her mother’s death the King drove her away from the bier. Prostrated and in tears, she fled from the court and left the Belgian capital, and the last rites for the

KING LEOPOLD.

Queen were carried out after she was banished. Recently tlie report was published that ICing Leopold was to marry again. This report served to further draw public attention to the monarch’s former family troubles.

BIG TUMBLE IN STOCKS.

Heavy Selling- Causes Another Fevere Slump in Wall Street.

TOCKS took another big tumble Friday and a serious eruption in the New York security market was the result. Some of the losses were of a recordbreaking order. Tho failure of a bank in Boston and the fear that money would be inaccessible to stock brokers for

some time to come, induced a resumption of liquidations, particularly as several New York bunks continued to call loans. But it was not until a prominent brokerage firm in New York with extensive eastern connections began to disi>oso of holdings that the severity of the situation was gauged. This firm sold very heavily of St. Paul, breaking that stock over 7 points within an hour. Steel issues were also thrown overboard by this establishment. The effect was demoralizing throughout and the apprehension was intensified by minors of failures. It was said that a well-known Boston operntor identified with large operations in Copper, had been forced to ■ell all of liis values and the actlou of Amalgamated Copper shares, which broke to the lowest point in history, lent plausibility to tlie story. New Yorkers were not absolved from gossip of an unfavorable nature. A member of the eastern exchange, until recently a commanding figure in tlie street, was reported to have sold securities tenaciously held for three years. The selling attributed to him wns instrumental in breaking Rock Island common 5 points, Louisville and Nashville 6Vi points nnd other rnilwny issues from 3 to 4 points, Conditions were accentuated by th# fact that the government in its operations with the New York hunks has withdrawn nearly $5,000,000 from the subtreasury there this week, thereby emphasizing tbs money stringency. Not since the great panic of May B, 1901, when J. I*. Morgan cornered Northern Pacific, h:is there been so much excitement in the stock market. Thirteen prominent stocks broke moro than five points each from the low price* recorded, •s the result of n week of Standard Oil raiding. More than sixty issues broke over two points. Nearly a million and * half shares were, traded in. A stranger entered the Sultan’s private grounds, Constantinople, and siiouted: “Long Liv* Abdul!" A guard thought h* aimed to kill the Sultan and pounded him nearly to death.

PRESIDENT'S ROOSEVELT’S DOUBLE.

CAPT. WILSON B. STRONG

President Roosevelt has a perfect double, who is a resident of Washington. Capt. Wilson B. Strong, who so frequently has been taken for the President, has more resemblance than that of a facial one. Capt. Strong was an officer In the Thir-ty-third Infantry, organized at San Antonio, Texas, during the summer of 1899. The Rough Riders were organized there in 1898. On account of injuries he received Capt. Strong was put out of service, going to Washington from Honolulu, H. 1., and he has made that city his home since. He is an expert in municipal sanitation and street cleaning, and waa closely associated with Col. Waring, of New York. A short time ago he offered his services to Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, saying that he would do for Chicago “what CoL Waring had done for New York.”

BURIAL OF MISS BUSCH.

Last Act in Omaha’s Religious sad Social Scandal. A great crowd of women gathered at the German Baptist Church in Omaha to attend the funeral of Miss Augusta

Busch, who with the Rev. William C. Itabe was found dead in the church. The finding of the bodies of Rabe and Miss Busch and tho developments which revealed the double lives of these two seemingly irreproachable persons, constituted one of the greatest shocks that tho church peo-

AUG USTA BUSCH.

ple of Omaha ever experienced. Rabo was pastor of the German Baptist Church and Miss Busch was a missionary connected with the same congregation. Their bodies were found early in the morning in the pastor’s study, where they had lain all night. Death was due to asphyxiation, gae having escaped from a small gas stove. The coroner’s Jury returned a verdict to the effect that death had been caused by accidental asphyxiation due to their own carelessness. At the Inquest letters found in Babe’s effects were produced and they showed that he had led the same double life in Buffalo and elsewhere as in Omaha. Mr. Rabe was 54 years old and leaves a wife and son. Mies Busch was 31 years old.

MANY HUNDREDS DIE.

Great Los# of Life by Volcanic Eruption in Guatemala. Astonishing revelations of great loss of life and property, caused by the eruption of the Santa Maria volcano, are being made daily, says a cablegram from Guatemala City, transmitted by way of San Salvador. Eruptions continue. Many hundreds of human beings perished end the destruction of property is considered greater than that In ths island of Martinique by ths eruptions of Mont Pelee. All of the estates in tho neighborhood of ths volcano are burled under ashes, which reach to ths tops of houses. The richest coffee estates are ruined. Ths principal losers are the large coffee planters, mostly United States citizens and Germans. Jfwo or three new craters have been formed on the side of tho volcano. There were no eruptions from the summit. Pumice and ashes were carried chiefly in ths southern and western directions. Ths sea has a coating of vol conic material extending for many miles. Ths loss of ths coffee crop, which Is Guatemala's principal export, has demoralised commerce and the government finances generally. National paper currency, which ia the only circulating medium, -has fallen to 7 cents gold for one paper dollar. Prices for all necessaries have risen to a prohibitive figure for many persons. ' Bert Weldsy of Leavenworth was killed in ap accident at Hugo, I. T. He was employed by ths Missouri Vallay Bridge Company, and be and a man named Young wars killed by a darrlck turning orw • freight ear.

RECORE OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERBELY , TOLD. Lakeville Disappearance Cause* Uneasiness Among Farmers—Burning of Marion High School—A Society Girl Runs Away in Male Attire. The disappearance of Marvin Moon furnishes real sensation for the town of Lakeville. Moon had been engaged for some years in the mercantile grain buying and farm implement business and was regarded as highly trustworthy. He was associated with his father, C. W. Moon, In numerous' business enterprises, and when the latter was appointed postmaster the son secured entire control. His father and his father-in-law, Gabriel Motts, are said to be considerable losers. Moon, it is claimed, also took with him valuable negotiable papers. Residents of Lakeville and farmers of the vicinity having perfect confidence In Moon, frequently deposited their money >vltli the firm. No one knows the exact amount contained in the safe, which waa found rifled. Moon disappeared one evening and the same night fire destroyed the firm’s building containing the stock of agricultural implements, entailing a loss of nearly $3,000. Moon has a wife nnd child. Runs Away In Man’s Garb. Miss Jessie Carter, aged 18 yenrs, daughter of a wealthy merchant cf Frankfort, and a society girl, disappeared a few days ago, and is thought to be In Chicago. She left a note as follows; "I am going away and you will never see me again." The girl had often said that she wns tired of living in Frankfort nnd wished to live in a large city. After concluding to go away she cut off her long, black hair and dressed herself in a black suit of broadcloth made for her, patent leather shoes aud a white vest, which clothes had been secured for a theatrical appearance some time before. High Fchool Building Burns. The high school building at Marion caught fire from the heating apparatus and was destroyed, causing a loss of SOO.000, on which there is $40,000 insurance. The structure stood on a hill, and for that reason the water pressure was insufficient to make any headway against the flames. The high school students will be distributed in various other buildings, - ns no attempt will tie made to rebuild this winter. The building was erected twelve years ago. Finds Her Long-Lost Brother, Mrs. William Farrow, living near Mauston, Wis., wns reunited at Knightstown with her brother, William Call, whom she had not seen for sixty years. Their mother died when they were smnll. For two years the father kept the family together, when he was killed by a tree falling ou him. The family then became separated, Mrs. Farrow being adopted by a Wisconsin family. Each had mourned the other as dead. Reports a Large Deficit. A sensation came in the case of John B. Rose, city treasurer of Wabash. W. H. Gribben, an expert accountant from Detroit, after five weeks’ work submitted a report which shows n total deficit in Hose’s accounts of $13,000. The bondsmen will have an investigation on their own account ami a settlement of the matter will be effected. State Items of Interest. Anna 11. Spurklin of Goshen has been granted a divorce from Dr. Charles C. Sparklin on charges of cruel treatment. Walter Raines and Charles Heskell, 10-year-old boys of Dunkirk, were arrested at Union City for various robberies. The buildings of mine No. 8, belonging to the Parke County Coal Company at Roßedale, were destroyed by fire. The loss is $50,900. Dr. Anna Grover Kauffman Hattie, former president of Chicago Cat Club, was grunted a divorce' from George W. Hattie at Goshen. During a storm lightning struck the house of Ezra Helton in Brazil, inslantly killing Charles Marshall, a boarder, nnd paralyzing Mrs. Helton. The house was badly wrecked. William Conwell, several years ago widely known as tlie world's champion lofty tumbler, is dead in the Eastern Indiana hospital for the insane at Richmond. He toured the world with various circuses. Mrs. George Coppins, wife of City Clerk Coppins of Ilohnrt, was dusting n piece of bric-a-brac out of a window when the sash fell, striking her on the back of the neck and causing her death in a short time. William Mofflt, better known as "Dr. Billy,” charged at Indianapolis with being n grave robber, has been released on $5,000 bonds. The surety company refuses to give the names of the persons it represents in furnishing the bond. Frank Dwyer nnd George Patterson, young men at Knlghtsville, were struck by n Vaudalin passenger train in Brazil. Dwyer's shoulder was dislocated, nnd bs is in a serious condition. Patterson's back was broken and he is fatally injured. Dr. L. B. McQuinney, chancellor of Palmer University, has given out information that while ha was In New York Inst summer the late Francis Palmer contracted with him to donate SIOO,OOO to Muneie College, provided another sloo£>oo was raised by the college officials. This contract was placed In writing. Dr. McQuinney was asked to be chancellor of the college and name It as ter the donor. The conditions hare been fulfilled and McQuinney Is preparing to present his claim for SIOO,OOO. This donation was not mentioned in Mr. Palmer's will, but will he contested for if necessary by Mr. McQuinney, who was a lifelong friend of Mr. Palmer and preached his funeral sermon. John Riffel of Johnstown, Pa., was shot and perhaps fatally wounded by Karl Nixon, 17 years old, at South Bend. Nixon, with his sweetheart, Anna Carl, was returning from a drive when Riffel approached. He failed to observe a warning to "stand back” and Nixon fired. Charles Dear, aged 5 years, and his brother, Lloyd Dear, aged 3, were struck by a switch engine In the Howell Railroad yard and probably fatally hurt. On* of the boys lost both legs, while the other lost an arm and leg. The mother, who witnessed the sad accident, Is ' almost crazed with grief !