Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1904 — Page 3

AUCTIONEER ■ • . ;■> -• S. U. DOBBINS RENSSELAER - INDIANA Well posted on all cla nes of stock. An auctioneer of thirty year* experience. Knows how to handle a crowd in an up-to-date manner. Terms reasonable Phone Noweis House at my expense tor dates.

; Me Tour in ill! Money! 1 DEPOSIT YOUR SAVINOS IN THE ! Iroquois Building, Loan and Savings Association.., i You may withdraw the full amount of i your deposit, ir eluding interest, without any deductions whatever. Loans , made on real estate repayable in small { monthly payments with a definite > contract stating exact number cf payments, No commission Is charged. iIAKE YOUR APPLICATION AT ONCE FOR A LOAN. JOHN EOER, Pres. J. H. S. Ellis. V. P. J. H. Chapman, Sec. and Tress.

INDIGESTION I “I wm troubled with atom- I eon trouble. Thedford’a Black* Draught did me more good J§f in one week than all the doetor’* medicine I took in a B year.’’—MßS. SARAH £. ■ SHIRFIELD, KUettsviJle, Ind. | Thedford 's Black Draught if quickly invigorates the actios cl the stomach sod ■; caret even chronic cases of indigestion. If you will B take a small dose of Thedford ’s Black Draught occa- S f ion ally you will keep your jj stomach and liver, in per- S feet condition. B THEDfORD’S | BLACK-DRAUGHT I More sickness is caused by B constipation than by any ? other disease. Thedford s B Black-Draught not only re- B lieves constipation but cures B diarrhoea and dysentery and B keeps the bowels regular. H All druggists sell S 26-cent packages. S "Thedford’s Black- I Draught is the best medi* B cine to regulate the bowels m I have ever used.”—MßS. ■ A. M. GRANT, Sneads B Ferry, N. C. B CONSTIPATION

REVIVO VITALITY pro toe— the above results In SO days. Kectt powerfully and quickly. Cimw when all others falL Soang men will regain their loat manhood, aad old mao will reoow their youthful vigor by aetoe REVIVO. It quickly and aurely reatoraa Nervous ness, Lost Vitality, Impotence, Sightly Kmltont boat Power, Failing Memory, Wasting Diseases, and all effects of self-abuse or excess and indiscretion, which Tmllta one for study, business or marriage. B pot only cures by starting at the seat of diacasa, but is a great nerve tonic sod Mood builder, bringing back the pink rlowr to pale cheeks and restoring the flro of youth. It wards off Insanity and Consumption. Insist on having REVIVO, bo other. It can bo carried In met pocket. By mall, Bl.ooper package, or atxjter RdAo, wttha^od the meaey. Advice and circular free. Addreea tom medicine co„ -aassseT' For aale in Rensselaer by J, A. Larsh druggist

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nONBY TO LOAN. Private funds to loan on farms and city property at a low rate of interest, also money loan on bankable notes and second mortgage. A complete set of abetraot books. \ Jambs H. Chapman. Makeover’s Bank Building. Rensselaer, Ind. -- i ' i 1 1 .M'... ii.— J Come to The Democrat office for all kinds of job printing. Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Law, Abstracts, Real Estate, Loans. Will practice In all the courts. Office over Fendig’s Fair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. r Judson J. Hunt, lov, ADsifocis, Loons onfl Reel Me. RENSSELAER. IND. Office up-stalrs In Leopold block, first stair west of Vanßensselaer street. U. M. Baughman. G. A. Williams Baughman & Williams, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Law, Notary work, Loans. Real Estate and Insurance, bpecia attention given to collections of all kinds. Office over “Racket Store." 'Phone 899. Rensselaer, - Indiana.

Wm- B. Austin. Arthur H. Hopkins'Austin & Hopkins, Law; Loans and Real Estate. Loans on farms and City property, personal security and chattel mortgage. Buy, sell and rent farms and city property. Farm and city fire insurance. Attorneys for American Building, Loan and Savings As sociation. Office over Chicago Department Store, RENSSELAER, IND. J. F. Irwin S. C. Irwin Irwin & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. Collections, Farm Loans and Fire Insurance. Office in Odd Fellows’ Block. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. >us« »#«» e. a imua. mammy a. bubmii Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, (Successors to Thompson A Bro.) ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Law, Real Estate, Insurance Absracts and Loans. Only set of Abstract Books in the County. RENSSELAER. IND. Ira W. Yeoman, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Remington, ... Indiana. Law. Real Estate, Collections, Insurance and Farm Loans. Office uoatalrs in Durand Block. . E. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. Office over Imes’ Millinery store. Rensselaer Omoi Phoni 177. ftiataiMOC Phoni, Ilf. Doctor A. J. Miller, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Rensselaer, - - Indiana. Office up-stairs in Forsythe block. General practice of medicine, surgery and X-ray work. Calls answered promptly, day or night. Office ana residence ’phones. 204 (Jasper Co.}; also (Halleck) 43 at residence. Dr. Francis Turfler. Dr. Anna Turfler. Drs. Turfler & Turfler, OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS. Graduates American School of Osteopathy. Office over Harris Bank. Rensselaer, Ind. Hours: 9 to 19m; 1 to 4:80 p. m. H. O. Harris, E. T. Harris, J. C. Harris, President. Vice-Pres. Cashier Rensselaer Bank. Deposits received on call, Interest Bearing Certificates of Deposit issued on time. Exchange Bought and Sold on principal cities. Notes Discounted at current rates, Farm Loans made at 5 per centsWe Solicit a Share of Your Business.

THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK Or RKNSSELAKR, IND. Addison Parkison, Pres. John M. Wasson. Vice-Pres. E. L. Hollingsworth. Cashier, auecsssoa to thS euaiMSsa op tm« commcrcial ST AT* UN*. Opened March 9d, 1909, as the old location. NORTH SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE. A general banking business transacted; deposits received, payable on time or on demand. Money loaned on acceptable security. Drafts on all cities at borne and abroad bought and sold. Collection of notes and accounts a specialty. 5 per cent farm loans. Your buaineßS solicited.

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COAL MINE IS A GREAT TOMS

Nearly Two Hundred Men Find Death in Its Dark Passages. BUT ONE IS RESCUED AUVE While One of a Rescue Party Is Overcome and Lost. EXPLOSION OF THE DEADLY GAS tr Blows the Means of Rescue to Ruin and Fatally Wounds Two Outside Men - Rescuers Baffled. Pittsburg, Jan. 26.—From nil tbat can be gathered at this hour between 180 and 190 men are lying dead in the headings and passageways of the Harwich mine of the Allegheny Coal company at Cheswick, the result of a terrific explosion. Cage after cage baa gone down into the mine and come up again, but only one miner of all those that went down to work has been brought to the surface. The rescued <V ' man is Adolph Gunia, and he is still in a semi-conscious condition at the temporary hospital in the rude school house on the hillside above the mine. All in the Mine Are Dead. Tn addition to the miners who were at work when the explosion occurred it is now believed by practically all of the men of the rescue party who have come up the 220-foot vertical shaft for a warming and a breathing spell that Selwyn M. Taylor, the Pittsburg mining engineer who platted the mine, and who was the first to reach the bottom after the explosion happened, i& also dow among the list of dead. Of those in the mine all are probably dead. Blew a Mule from the Mine. The explosion occurred at 8:20 a. m., and the first warning was the sudden rumble underground, and then a sheet of flame followed up the deep sbafL Both mine cages were hurled through the tipple, twenty feet above the landing stage, and the three-men on the tipple were thrown to the ground. A mule was thrown high above the shaft, and fell dead on the ground. -The injured men were brought at once to this city, where two of them, Henry Mayliew, check weighman, and George Waltman, tipplcmau, have since died. ALL MEANS or KKSCI'K WRECKED Mining Engineer Loses His I.lfe in the First Rescue Party. As soon as the rumble of the explosion and crash at the pit mouth startled the little village the wives and children of the men below rushed to the scene of the disaster, but to gain no encouragement. There was no way to get into the deep workings. The cages that let the men into the mines and brought them out again when the day’s work was done were both demolished. All day long there was a jam of waiting women and children about the mouth of the pit. It was not until 4 p. m. that the first attempt at rescue was niude. This was a failure, as the two men who volunteered were driven back by the font air. Shortly after 5 p. m. Mining Engineer Selwyn M. Taylor and one of his assistants signalled for the engineer to lower them into the shaft. Taylor is still down there. Three times efforts have been made to reach him, but so far without avail. Thomas Wood, one of the first of the rescue party hauled to the surface, told his story of his trip through the mine. He said: "I was with Taylor, and we clambered over three or four falls. Taylor laid out the mine and seemed to know the way. There was one man aiive at the foot of the shaft. He was sent np. ami then we took the mule path Into the south level. We saw two men who were alive and notified those back of us and then went on. We passed the third, fourth and fifth heading, and then through an overdrift into (the air shaft. I began to feel dizzy and sick, and then I saw Taylor stagger and fall. His lantern fell. We tried to lift him up, but could not carry him up, and 1 made my own way to safety.” MOST CRUEL DISAPPOINTMENT Report That Maay of the Men Were Alive Proves False. There was great rejoicing among the crowd of about 700 or 800 who surrounded the mine at 12:15 this morning when the rescuers came to the surface and announced tbat Selwyn Taylor and from fifty to seventy-five miners had been found. Taylor was unconscious when found, but was not thought to be seriously hurt Rescuer Wood, who went down wRh Taylor on the first trip, remembered on his second trip the route Taylor had planned to take, and following this he discovered the engineer la room 8 near the south

♦0 eat breakfast, rind ihen was taken to the central station and locked up. William McMullen, operator of the floodlight, from which the tire started, was arrested at 1047 Jackson boulevard, where he lives. At 6 o’clock he was put In a cell adjoining tbat of Cummings. Will J. Davis was placed under arrest at his home. 4740 Grand boulevard, as 8:15 o’clock by Policemen Tobin and Far My. Mr. Davis was In bed, but si rat conducted the officers to hi lie knew of the verdict, ni <: < .i?-<'<! for his arrest. The offim. wed him time for breakfast W Idle lie was eating Harry J. Powers and Attorney W. .1. Hynes arrived. The entire party then took an elevated train downtown and went to the central station. Preceding Mayor Harrison’s appearance at the eriminal court building a mittimus was served upon him at his residence by a deputy coroner. The deputy was met at the front door by a domestic and was asked into the reception hall, where the mayor, being caHed, heard the mittimus read. It directed that he, like the others accused, ,“be held until discharged by due process of law.” “All right,” said the mayor when the reading was finished. “Tell Traeger I’ll be down, and the mayor, bidding tbe deputy good-by, proceeded later to the criminal court and underwent the ordeal of giving bonds. Harry Kiawans, 20 years of age, has been arrested, charged with being implicated in the robbery of victims of the Iroquois theater fire. Besides having a note taken from the corpse of \Yilliam A. Keid of Waukegan, 111., who perished in the fire, it is alleged that Kiawans had a watch taken from the dead body of Dr. M. Rimes Kiawans was released on bonds pending a hearing.

FORTY PERSONS INJURED

Two Street Gars Have a Collision in Which the Results Are Serious, and Perhaps Fatal. St. Louis, Jan. 28. —At least forty persons were injured in a rear-end collision between two heavily-loaded cars on the South Broadway line. The collision, In poiqt of numbers injured, is one of the worst in the annals of tbe St. Louis Transit company. Seven men lie seriously injured at the Alexia n Brothers’ and St. John’s hospitals, and may die. The legs of two were so badly crushed that amputation was necessary. Others were sent home after treatment. Still others were bruised, trampled and frightened. The seriously Injured are: John Barrington. Internal injuries, probably fatal; Walter Sieventritt, J. H. Hobelinan, William Miller, Thomas McGovern and George Decker, serious; Christopher Juregin. inotormnn, perhaps fatally.

WRIGHT COMMITTED SUICIDE

Took Cyanide of Potassium After Being Sentenced -Hail a Loaded Revolver in His Pocket. London. Jan. 28.—A post-mortem examination has shown that Whitaker Wright committed suicide by taking cyanide of potassium, after l»eing sen fenced to seven years in prison. It is reported that a six-chambered revolver, fully loaded, was fouud iu Wright's pocket by the police. The investigation made indicates that Wright must have swallowed the poison while standing before Justice Bigham, after receiving his sentence. It is recalled that Wright pulled a handkerchief from his pocket and appeared to wipe his face, and it is surmised that under cover of this he took tbe fatal dose.

GIVES THE BEAR A HUNCH

Japan Diplomatically Intimates That Tkia Earth Is lur Tima*, anti Not Eternity Tokio, Jan. 27.—The Japanese government has diplomatically intimated to Baron de Boson, the Russia 1111 n s ter, that an early response is desired to Japan's recent note to Russia. It is calculated here that the Japanese note reached the Russian cabinet on the afternoon of Jan. 16. and it is felt that sufficient time lias elapsed for its consideration and the preparation of a response.

Bank Officers Rearrested.

Elkhart, Ind., Jan. 25 Justus L. Brodrick and Wilson L. Collins, president and cashier of the defunct Indiana National bank, have been rearrested by United States Marshal Pettit of Indianapolis as a result of the action of the federal grand jury which closed its work at Indianapolis. They were arrested on warrants issued on affidavits filed by the bank examiner and were under $5,000 bonds. Both furnished new bonds for SIO,OOO each.

Wife Murderer Sentenced.

Charleston, 111., Jan. 25.—W. K, Ilonn. aged 25, was found guilty of wife murder and sentenced to the penitentiary for from five to twenty years by Judge Thompson. Tbe prisoner is a son of W. S. llonn, a banker of Ashmore. It is charged that he betrayed Mabel Galbreatb, a playmate from his youth up, and, after being compelled to marry her, caused her death by poison administered for the purpose of producing abortion.

Death of Judge Lowry.

Fort Wayne, Ind., Jan. 27. —Judge Robert Lowry, ex-member of congress from the Twelfth Indiana district and one of the best known jurists in the state, died at 2 o’clock this morning at his home in this city, aged 80 years.

Fifteen People Drowned.

New York, Jan. 25.—Fifteen lives were lost la tbe wreck of tbe fourmasted schooner Augustus Hunt off Westbampton, L. I. Two others, who . were on hoard, were saved.

MAYOR IS ON THE LIST

Acceused in Coroner’s Verdict with Seven Others of Responsibility for Horror. ARE HELD TO THE GRAND JURY Arrests Promptly Made—Mayor Harrison Goes into Court and ] Is Exonerated. Chicago, Jan. 28.—Mayor Carter H. Harrison is free of all grand jury investigation so fur as the action of the coroner's jury is concerned and has been discharged from custody In connection with any responsibility for the wholesale loss of life in the Iroquois theater fire. This was done by Judge Tuthiil, who declared that the mayor was in no way whatever guilty or liable, and that the coroner's jury in ordering Mayor Harrison held to the grand jury had put an unjust stigma upon the mayor, who had failed in no particular whatever either in omission or commission. Chicago, Jan. 27. The coroner’s jury which for three weeks has been listening to evidence relating to tbe fire in the Iroquois theater has rendered a verdict by which the following persons are held to await the action of the grand jury: Carter H. Harrison, mayor of Chicago*; Will J. Davis, proprietor in part and manager of the theater; Fire Marshal William H. Musham; George Williams, building commissioner of the city; Edward Laughlin,- building inspector under Williams: William Sailers, fireman in the theater; James E. Cummings, stage carpenter: William Mullen, who had charge of the light that caused the lire. Jury Lout No Tim*. There were over 750,000 words of testimony, and each juror would, according to the law, be compelled to sign his name to tbe testimony of each witness, which meant that each man would be compelled to write bis name 572 times. This work alone, the coroner estimated, would consume five hours. There was therefore considerable surprise when the jury announced that it had reached a verdict and was ready to report The finding* were as follows: The cause of tbe lire was drapery coming in contact with a flood or arc light; city laws were not complied with relating to .building ordinances regulating flreaiarm boxes, fire a ppa rat us, etc.; asbestos curtain was wholly inadequate. Will .1. Davis was held responsible as president and general manager. Re was primarily responsible for the observance of the laws, and was bound to see that his employes were properly instructed as to their duties in case of fire. In relation to Mayor Harrison the verdict reads as follows: “We hold Carter 11. Harrison, as mayor of the city of Chicago, responsible, ns he has shown a lamentable lack of force and for efforts to escape responsibility evidenced by the testimony of Building Commissioner Williams and Fire Marshal Mtisham, ns headsbf departments under the said Carter II Harrison foilowing this weak course, has given Chicago inefficient'service which makes such calamities as the Iroquois theater horror n menace until the public service is purged of incompetents.” Building Commissioner Williams was held “for gross neglect of his doty in allowing the theater to open its doors to the public, when the said theater was incomplete, and did not comply with the building ordinances of the city of Chicago?” Fire Marshal Musham was held responsible “for gross neglect of duty in not enforcing the city ordinances, and failure to have their subordinate, William Sailers, fireman at the theater, report ft) him of the lack of tire apparatus in the theater.” Sailers was held for not reporting the lack of fire apparatus, Mullen for carelessness in handling the light that caused the fire, Commings, as stage carpenter, for not providing the stage with proper fire protection. ARRESTS ARE QUICKLY MADE Writs of Mittimus Made Out and Given to the Folice. At tnidalght writs of mittimus were made ouf by the coroner and turned over to the police. The coroner himself took the mittimus for the mayor, but announced that it would not be served until later. • Deputy Coroner ; Spanducb left shortly before 9 o'clock in the morning with tbq mittimus for Mayor Harrison. Word was received at the criminal court building that the mayor would soon appear. Fire Marshal Musham has been served with the mittimus at his office. He went at once to Lieutenant Rohan’s office. The mayor arrived at Judge Walker’s court at 10:10 o’clock, accompanied by Hempstead Wasbburne, and retired to tbe judge’s chambers to await the arrival of the other respondents. The mayor's bond was fixed at $5,000 and Heaton Owsley and Preston Harrison were bis bondsmen. All of those bold will probably be arraigned before Judge Walker, and allowed to give bonds. At 4 o’clock in tbe morning Detectives Tobin, Fanrelly, Nagle, and Flaherty of tbe central station took the seven other writs and started ont to make tbe arrests. James E. Cummings, tbe stage carpenter of tbe Iroquois, was the first to be arrested. He . was found at his borne, 1116 North Oakley avenue. He was granted time

IT IS A MATTER OFHEAUB ' (two POWDER v Absolutely Pars THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE

entrance and with him the fifty or ~ seventy-five others, all uuttonscious but alive, as he supposed. But two hours later the hopes aroused were rudely shattered, when at 2:25 the body of Selwyn Taylor was brought to the surface. ,He had evidently been dead for several 1 hours, and hopes for the other imprisoned men were abandoned. The res cuers were brought out coated with 4 ice, drenched to the skin and unable • to walk. They report that ■ scattered one above the other as thick as pine needles. Water is fast pouring : into the mine, covering the corpses - with a shroud of ice and making, thework of rescue almost impossible. Aft-er-da mp is collecting in quantities At 3 a. m. physicians went to the’ bottom of the shaft to examine the fifty-five miners there to determine whether if alive they are in condition » to bring to the open air. At 3:15 a. m Dr. W. B. McCullough, of Ctleswick, - who had been in the mine for twobouTS, came to the surface and told the - Associated Press representative that in his opinion not one of the miners who were in theshaft at the time of the explosion is alive. He thought it would' be several hours before any of tbe bodies could be brought to the surface. SEVENTY-FIVE BODIES HOISTED From the 111-Fated Marwick Mina, and Eighty More Have Been found. Pittsburg, Jan. 28.—Three days have elapsed since the terrible catastrophe at tbe Harwick mine of the Allegheny Coal company, and at this writing sev-enty-one bodies have been recovered.' and brought to the surface. Only eighteen of these have been identified. The death roll is now believed to be--174. At. 2 o’clock this morning It is said? that over eighty more bodies have been, found anti are being collected at the f bottom of the shaft, it Is not yet known when they will be brought up.. Caskets are still lacking and both the morgue and tbe school where the undertakers work are crowded. The fact that nearly all of the faml lies in the stricken mining community have been rendered practically helpless by the disaster seems already impressed upon the surrounding towns. Upon the first intimation that financial aid would be needed bytbe widows and children of the dead miners substantial responses began immediately. FIFTEEN INSTANTLY KII.I.EB* Failing Cage Drop* Miner* Down aMkNr 1,500 Feet iu Depth. Victor, Colo., Jan. 27.—Because fhrv some unknown reason the air brateeefailcd to work the steel cable that: raises the cage in the Stratton lnde- - pendente mine was broken and tbe* cage dropped to the bottom of the shaft with sixteen men on it. The dead are: W. It. Frazier, John Sebeck, Joe Setherum, Edward Twiggen, L. A. Wagoner, H. A. Yeoman, Ed. Smitb, Joe Ovary, H. F. Brown, W. K. Collins, J. L. Steward, Frank Cochrane, L. P. Jackson: Harry Geogen, C. C. Statten. James Bullliek was injured. When the engineer could not stop the ascent of the cage it ran up tothe gallow’s frame, when the strain parted the cable. The cages each weigh nearly two tons. In starting the cage steam was used, but after the cage had gone up a certain distance under steam pressure the steam wae shut off by the engineer and theweight of the counter-balancing descending cage in the other shaft compartment was allowed to bring the load of miners to the surface, as is the custom.” When the cage with the miners arrived at the surface the engineer, to* his horrordiscovered that thealr brakes*. would not work. Tbe men dropped i,~ 500 feet FRIGHTFUL FALL TO DEATH Pilot Weight Break* While Four Men Are Iteing Lowered into a Mine. Brownsville. Pa., Jan. 28. —Four men —all foreigners—were crushed to death in a new airsbaft of the Briar Hill Coal company, near here. The shaft was 685 feet deep and the men were being lowered in a bucket when a 400pound pilot weight broke, precipitating the bucket and men to the bottom. The heavy weight falling on them crushed tbe men beyond recognition. The men were in the employ of Contractor Samuel Henry of ConnellsvilW, Pa., who was sinking tbe shaft. The Briar Hill company is owned by the Republic Iron and Steel company. It 1s claimed by the officials that tbe accident waft doe to tbe failure of tbe men to remove tbe weight from tbe lever before starting flown.. For fine commercial job printing come to Tbe Democrat ofioe~