Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1905 — Page 4

JIM COBH! DM. i.t meow. EBIIOII lIP PIIBLIMtB Official Democratic Paper es Jasper County. SI.OO PER YEAR. IN ADVANCE. Advertising rate* made known on application Bnterod at the Post-office at Rensselaer, Ind. a* second clan matter. Office on Van Ransaaiaar Street, North of Murrey'a Store. SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1905.

Grafters are boiled in Persia. In this country we merely give them a bath and send them to the Senate. Utah reports land frauds, but it hardly gets into the first class, for not a Senator seems to be involved as yet. j

One governor recommends religion as a cure for trusts. Seems a sort of veiled slam at the Rockafeller brand of piety.

Mrs. Chadwick and her attorney are said to be very much dissatisfied with the verdict in her case. Bhe evidently expected the jury to treat her as the bankers used to do. .

Alaska threatens to secede on account of the failure of Congress to grant her demands. Alaska should take a lesson in patience from Oklahoma and Indian Territory.

g? For the first time in fifty years the democrats have elected the officials of the city of Bangor, Me. There’s no telling what might happen if Maine were to hold her presidential election in an off year.

ROCKEFELLER’S MONEY GOOD

Congregational Committee Think* It Will Huy a* Much Hlulon Work as Any Other Money. Boston, March 24. —The Journal tills morning says: Despite the protest from the ministers of the eliurcßes of New England, and in the face of the dissenting memorial presented and signed by thirty local pastors, the prudential committee of tin* American Board of Foreign Missions will on next Tuesday vote unanimously to ■accept the gift of SIOO,OOO from John D. Rockefeller, and will use the money for the U'lidit of the mission schools of the Orient. This action on the part of the prudential committee will follow the unanimous recommendation of u subcommittee of three that the gift be accepted.

Gates Is Out of It.

Jackson, Miss., March 24.—John W. Gates, the well known millionaire, In passing through Jackson, stated that he is not now Interested in deals of any character. He statial further that he is engaged 1 in no active business enterprises and is paying <uo attention to the stock market.

Wealthy Milwaukee Woman Dead.

Milwaukee, March 24. —Mrs. Lizette Sehandein, widow of Emil Sehandei.n, and one of the wealthiest women ill Milwaukee, died in Berlin, Germany, of apoplexy. She was 57 years of age and was a daughter of the brewer, Philip Best

Vice President Sces a Hiatoric Field.

Greensboro, N, 4'., March 24.—Vice President Fairbanks and his party visited the site of the revolutionary battlefield at Guilford Court House, being shown over the ’place by Major J. M. Moorehead.

Veteran Newspaper Man Dead.

Cedar Falls, In., March 24. —Charles Seward Ninns, a ged 67, died here of heart failure. His remains were taken to Harbor Beach, Mich., for interment. He was a veteran newspaper man of Michigan.

Booker Washington at the White House.

Washington, March 24. —Booker T. Washington, of Tuskegee, Ala., was In conference with the president at the White House for a short time.

Bryan Elected President.

Lincoln, Neb., March 24 The Nebraska Democratic Editorial association, which has concluded its meeting, elected W. J. Bryan president.

THE WEATHER Following is the official weather forecast up to 8 o’clock tonight: Illinois and Indiana —Fair and cooler; brisk southerly shifting to westerly winds. Lower Michigan—Threatening, with showers in east portion; brisk southerly shifting to easterly winds. Wisconsin —Fair; brisk southerly shifting to westerly winds. lowa —Cooler in south and extreme east portions; fresh westerly winds. Read The Democrat for news.

KUROPATKIN BACK TO THE FIRING LINE

Goes as Subordinate Where He Was Late in Command. GREAT FAREWELL AT HARBIN Sure of a Greater Welcome by His Comrades at the Front. He and Lineviteh Just Exchange Places, He Having Taken the Initiative—Lid On North of Tie Pass. St. Petersburg, March 23. —A dispatch from General Lineviteh, dated March 21, says: “Yesterday Japanese cavalry detachments appeared in front of our advance posts. Behind the cavalry were infantry, who halted at the village of Macliantzy.”

Vlborg, European Russia, March 21. —Governor Miasorodoff was shot and seriously wounded by a boy. The assassin, who is about 15 years old, is Mattl Hjaltnar Reinlkke, and obtained an entrance to tbegovernor’s office and fired three times at him, one bullet inflicting a serious wound and the others slightly wounding the governor’s legs. The governor’s clerks and secretary were unable to stop the would-be assassin, who reached the street, where, however, he was arrested without a struggle. The governor’s condition is critical. Warsaw, March 22.—A bomb was thrown from a house window in Volsk street at 9 o’clock last evening into the midst of a passing patrol composed of police and Infantry. Six soldiers and two policemen were dangerously wounded. The assailant escaped. Harbin. March 22.—At the departure southward of General Kuropatkin thousands of civilians and soldiers gathered at the station and gave him a great ovation. Above thundering hurrahs were heard cries of "God send you happiness.” “Good-bye, brother," “Good-bye. father.” As the train started soldiers rushed forward in a surging crowd and grasped the hand rail of the general’s car, throwing their fur caps in the air and running some distance with the car. The scene made a deep impression on General Kuropatkin, down whose face tears streamed. Removing his cap, he saluted aguin and again, and stood bareheaded on the platform of the ear as long as the train was in sight. He Volunteered to Remain. St. Petersburg, March 22. The Russian army in Manchuria is still to have the services of General Kuropatkin, who is considered by many, in spite of his series of reverses, the best general and foremost strategist of the Russian army. Sinking all feeling of personal bitterness because of his supersession. and nil the old-time enmity between himself and General Lineviteh in a patriotic desire to be of service to the fatherland, the former com inander-in-clilef volunteered to remain in any capacity with the army which he had so long commanded. The tender has been accepted by Emperor Nicholas and gratefully received by the new leader of the grand army.

RUSSIAN HOPES AKK HKVIVKO Peril n|>« (he Military Will Pull Together Now—Agrarian Trouble* Increase, The send-off ut Harbin was a mere foretaste of what awaits General Hu-t-opal kin at the front; and his self saeriflcingdeterinination and the equally patriotic course of General Linevlteh in accepting the services tendered are bound to do wonders for the re inspiration of the emperor’s legions and give promise of union and harmony at the council table which that army has hitherto lacked. The retreat is apparently progressing uneventfully. Little weight is placed here on the deduction drawn at certain European capitals from the dispatch announcing that cannonading had been heard south of Tie pass that General Itennenkampff’s corps, endeavoring to rejoin the main army, had been intercepted south of Tie pass. The dispatch in question undoubtedly was erroneous. Llnevltch’s army effected a concentration at Tie pass with scarcely a straggler missing, so official dispatches state, and the absence of so well known a fighter as Rennenknmpff would surely have been noted. Preparations are now making for the mobilization of a number of detachments, not. however, on a general scale, the preliminary orders affecting but twen-ty-two districts In the governments of Odessa. Warsaw and Moscow. The grenadiers have not received orders to proceed to Manchuria. Recurrences and extensions of agrarian troubles are noted, and near Libau workmen and peasants are making common cause. The Caucasus is already the scene of armed reslstence to the forces of civil authority, and in the region around Kieff. where the peasants are increasingly bold, there have been many cases of alolence.

THREESCORE DIE TERRIBLE DEATHS

Boiler Blast in a Shoe Factory Frightful in Results. FIRE FOLLOWS THE EXPLOSION Victims of the Catastrophe Are Burned Past Recognition. Even Their Sex Is Undlscovernble In Some Instances—Many Wound, ed and Many Others Missing. Brockton. Mass., March 23. —Public funeral services were held for more than two acore of persons who lost their lives last Monday In the explosion and Are which created the greatest calamity in the history of the city and one of the greatest New England ever has known. Twenty thousand of Brockton’s inhabitants work in the great shoe factories of the city, and all that vast number Joined in the public manifestation of sorrow. Brockton, Mass., March 21. This city is in mourning for at least three score of her citizens whose lives were blotted out by the explosion of a boiler in a large shoe manufacturing establishment in the Campello district, conducted by the R. B. Grover company. The explosion was immediately followed by a flash of flame which consumed the factory, a long, four-story structure, as If it were a house of cards, and Incinerated an unknown number of men and women who were unable to extricate themselves from a mass of tangled wreckage formed by the terrific unbeaval in the boiler room. More than half a hundred of the employes in the building were maimed, burned or bruised by the time they reached safe ground. Heat Drove Book the Rescuers. Some had jumped from the roof, some from windows, and others had been Injured in the mad rush to escape from the doomed factory, which from all parts emitted the intense, awful heat of an inferno, driving back the band of heroic rescuers who in a few brief moments bad performed gallant service. The Are extended from the factory to seven other buildings in the vicinity and destroyed them. The total financial loss is stimated at a quarter of a million dollars, $200,000 of which falls on the It. It. Grover company. The monetary loss is nearly offset by insurance. Remain* Are Horribly Burned. It may never be known Just how many persons perished in the wreckage. No one knows exactly how many persons were in the factory. The number has been estimated at 400, but Treasurer Charles O. Emerson said he doubted whether there were so many at work. Two hundred and fifty survivors have been accounted for, and at this writing the remains of fifty bodies have been recovered from the ruins. Fragments of human frames which possibly might belong to bodies other than those enumerated have also been found. Few of the remains have been identified. The head in nearly every case is missing, and except in rare instances it was impossible even to distinguish the sex. Harrowing Scene* ; Thrilling Rescue*. The disaster was attended by many harrowing scenes and thrilling rescues. For hours hundreds of the relatives of the factory operatives besieged the ruins and the fire and police stations in quest of missing ones. Some in their violent grief and agonizing stress of mind collapsed. Several of the rescuers and searchers fainted as they beheld the distressing scene. There wns no trace of the body of David W. Rockwell, engineer of the plant, who was not seen after the explosion.

NAMES OF A FEW OF THE DEAD Also of Those Wounded Who May Add to the Death Roll—Miming. The work of Identifying those killed by the explosion progressed slowly, owing to the generally unrecognizable remains of the victims. The list of identified dead follows: J. Ray Cole, Harry H. Hall, Jerome A. Mayo, Geo. Smith, Emma B. Pray, Florence A. Dunham (bookkeeper), Samuel A. Tiley, Ernest Carlson, Nellie Leary. Miss Serena Shaw Burrows, Marion Tufts. Miss Fitzgerald, James N. Bell. The following are part of those who were seriously injured, some of them, it is believed, fatally: Nora Coughlin, Hiram Pierce, William Lightfoot, Churles Rolius, Mrs. J. H. McCabe, George Jones, Mrs. August Burgess, Mrs. John Howard, Kitty Noonan, Mrs. Julia Shields. Andrew Lundell, Elmer, E. Dodge. Mrs. Samuel Bicknell, F. Forrest Wcatherbee. Following Is a list of missing, and they are all believed to be dead: Andrew Johnson, John Lundell, Jennie Styles, Almoran Hallett, Miss Georgle Emerson, Miss Mary Fitzpatrick, George Burgess, Barnabas Lewis, David W. Rockwell (engineer), Hannah Lindberg, Sadie Hickey. J. Victor Turner, Arthur Pray, Alderman Geo. A. Monk, Jessie Chandler, A. F. Nelson, Bror Lundell, Samuel Lovejoy, Mrs. Stella Kelley, Mrs. Clara Atwood, Richard Sprigging*, Mamie

O’Connell, Mamie Leonard, W.R. Armstrong, Kate Kelly, Louis Hickey, Granville Hoppln, Miss Burgess, Linus Burgess, Mrs. William V. Hurd, John N. Sullivan. A 1? this hour the remains of fiftythree persons have been recovered. Fif-ty-three persons are known to be still missing, the names of thirty-one of whom have been obtained. Many others are reported missing, but it is considered possible that some of them are at their koines In near-by towns. The estimates of the dead range from sixty to eighty, and of the injured from fifty to 100. Many persons not seriously hurt, went to their homes and did not report their injuries. BAD JU9T GOT TO WORK Scene of Industry Converted Into n Scene of Frightful Suffering. The explosion which was followed by such a sacrifice of life occurred shortly after the operatives had settled down to work for the day. Suddenly the air vibrated with the roar. At the same moment the large wooden frame of the factory quivered, and then the rear portion of it collapsed. In a fraction of a second this section of the great building had been transformed Into a mass of iron and wood wreckage, in the midst of which human beings were pinioned. In another moment fire had broken out in the debris, and death by fire and suffocation became the fate of scores of the operatives. Scenes of horror followed the wrenching apart of the factory building. In the rear the three upper floors, weighted as they were with heavy machinery, collapsed. Men and women operatives were working in departments of this section, had time but to turn in an attempt to flee after the first dull roar when the* flooring sank beneath them and they were carried to the ground floor, crushed and bruised amid the mass of debris. Many fell Into a veritable fiery furnace. Scenes of horror followed the structure collapsed when a tongue of flame started up from the boiler pit and reaching out as it ascended communicated with the splintered wreckage and immediately afterward with the standing walls. Soon the entire factory was in flames. SOME DEEDS OF HEROISM Those Post Helping Go to Death Helping Others to Life. During the fearful scenes attending the disaster there were acts of self-sacrifice and heroism that should be written in letters of gold. A man whose legs were caught under an iron beam cried to the reseuers that they could not extricate him, and to help the girls behind him. Stretching out his arms he lifted several girls one by one and passed them to the rescuers. Then the tire reuched him and he died. A woman who was entangled in a shoe machine cried out that she was dying and commanded the rescuers to attend to others who might live. She begged to be shot. Soon the flames enveloped her. Many persons rushed into the ruins and pulled out the injured at the imminent risk of their own lives. Imprisoned operatives, too far away for rescue, amd who knew that their lives would last but a few minutes, spoke words of encouragement to tnose who seemed nearer escape. Some prayed aloud. Others pleaded with the rescuers to say “good-bye” to relatives. Perhaps the most pathetic incident of the explosion was Mrs. Lena F. Baker's escape from what looked like certain death, with the assistance of an unknown man, who afterwards lost his life. Her feet were wedged between two timbers. His legs were so tightly pinned down that escape for him was an impossibility. Exclaiming “Thank God, if I can’t escape myself, I can help some one else to do so,” he reached forward, tore apart the timbers which imprisoned Mrs. Baker and then fell back fainting. She escaped by leaping to tlie ground, where she was caught by three men.

CREST OF FLOOD AT PITTSBURG

Loss to Local Industries Since the High Water Began Will Exceed $1,000,000. Pittsburg, Pa., March 23.—The crest of the flood was reached at 8 o’clock in the morning and the rivers are rapidly receding. The highest point reached was in Monongabela, the stage being 29 feet. The rivers started to fall at their headwaters during the night and the flood stage lusted only a few hours as the streams will go down almost as rapidaly as they came up. While not the greatest flood Pittsburg has experienced, the results have been serious enough. Scores of mills have been forced to shut down in various parts of the Pittsburg district thousands of workmen thrown out of employment hundreds of families compelled to abandon their homes, railroad schedules disarranged and telegraph snd telephone service crippled. In fact all branches of trade have been more or less affected by the high water. It is estimated that the loss to local Industries since the flood began will exceed $1,000,000.

Conaerford Bribery Charges Fail.

Springfield, 111., March 20.—Despite the pressure of powerful political influences. backed by the prominant faction of the Democratic party organization in this county, the Sangamon county grand jury, composed for the most part of members of that party, voted against returning an indictment against Richard F. Klnsella. The rote, it is understood, was yeas, 8; nays, 13.

FIRE AND DISASTERS

Flames Nearly Wipe Out a Small Town, Destroying Property Worth $60,000. BAD ACCIDENT ON THE BAIL One Man May Die of His Injuries— Other Serious Mishaps—Trou-' ble In School-Notes. Sun man, Ind., March 24. —Fire destroyed almost every building in this village, causing a loss estimated at more than $*50,000, with but little insurance. The buildings burned include a livery barn, three hotels, two saloons, two residences, a general store, and a cigar store. The local firemen were assisted by the fire department from Morris, which responded to an appeal for aid. Collision May Provo Fatal. Indiannpolis, March 24. lision between two switch engines in the Big Four yards In Norwood, five trainmen were more or less injured and two engines were damaged. The injured men are: Elmer Frakes, fireman, left leg crushed off and other injuries that may prove fatal; A. E. Adbom, fireman, right arm broken and badly bruised; William T. Brown, engineer. scalp wounds and bruises; J. S. Clemens, fireman, right arm wrenched and bruised; William Garrett, switchman, badly bruised. Probable Death to One Man. Marion, Ind., March 24.—High wind wrecked a portion of the American Window Glass company’s fnetory at Gas City. Two workmen were crushed In the wreckage. The Injured are: William Nee, of Marion, back badly sprained, head cut, will probably die; Luther ArnoldL of Marion, collar-bone broken and cut about the body, serious, but will recover. With fifteen other men Nee and Arnold were engaged In razing the factory building, which had been abandoned, when the wind blew down the part of the structure which Jiad been left standing. Only a Car Smub-Dp. Edinburg, Ind., March 24.—Two locomotives and several cars were wrecked north of the city in a collision between a south-bound extra freight train and regular freight train No. 75, north-bound. No person was injured, both train crews jumping in safety. TURBULENCE IN A SCHOOL Soma Pupil* Who Surely Would Bo Improved by a Little Hickory Oil Well Applied. Colfax, Ind., March 24. Because Professor O. W. Little, principal of the Clarkshill high school, demanded an apology from Bessie Young for an infraction of rules. Chum Marcum attacked Professor Little, who is a cripple, and was fast overpowering him when Roland Shaffer, another student, went to the teacher’s rescue. Harry Clark, a friend of Marcum, attacked Shaffer, and Merl Hammel, son of Postmaster Hammel, went Shaffer’s rescue. For several minutes it was a fight for supremacy, Shaffer and Hammel pitted against Marcum amd Clark, with the other pupils interested spectators. Marcum and Clark were pinioned to the floor by their opponents, when Superintendent H. H. Harriman entered and stopped the battle. Marcum was expelled from school, Clark was reprimanded, and Miss Young was sent home.

Hlu Scott May Recover. Anderson, Ind., March 24. Miss Lydia Scott, the victim of Shirley Doyle’s murderous assault with a razor, has Improved after a brief relapse when she was thought to be dying. If she safely passes through another day the physicians say, she will recover. Abraham Doyle, a well-known farmer, and father of Shirley, has refused so far to hire lawyers to defend his son. Gradually Strangled Himself. Washington, Ind., March 24. John W. Davidson, 56 years old, committed suicide In a horrible manner. He had been sick for five weeks. Despairing of recovery, he decided to hasten the end, and tied a handkerchief about his neck, placed a cane in the noose and turned the cane over and over, gradually choking himself to death. 0 Mayer Under 910,000 Bond. Vincennes, Ind., March 24.—Harvey Taylor, of Terre Haute, brother of Ayres J. Taylor, shot and killed by Louis A. Meyer, filed an affidavit charging Meyer with murder in the second degree, and Meyer was released on SIO,OOO bond, which was signed by twenty-five of the leading men of the city. Anti .Treating League. Indianapolis, March 24.—T0 “create a sentiment against the rapidly growing habit of treating" is the object of the Supreme Anti-Treating League of America, articles for the incorporation of which have been filed with the secretary of state. The home office of the organization is in Princeton! Ind. Caught In the Machinery. Portland, Ind., March 24. While starting a gas engine on the John C. Pyle oil lease, near New C-orydon. Adolph Liebert, 60 years old. an oil pamper for the Colonel Drake Oil company, was caaght in the ma< liim ry and Instantly killed.

tu&vo,Manager J. H. S. Bill* take* pleasure in announcing the engagement of The Holy City AT THE Ellis Opera House ONE NIGHT Friday, March 31st The greatest Production of a BIBLE PLAY Ever Presented in this City. CAST OF 50 PEOPLE. GRAND SCENIC INVESTURE. Harmonious and Lyric Music, specially arranged by Herman Ludders & Gustave Knox, By Special Arrangements the Prices will be 25, 50, 75 and SI.OO. Theatre parties now forming. Carriages at 10:30. The Clergy of all Denominations are cordially Invited and Reservations of Seats may be arranged by Phonelng Jessen the Jeweler. If you prefer other catalogue house goods, give us the order and we will save you the freight except on some small wares. Chicago Bargain Store. Remember, horsemen, that The Democrat office is the proper place to get your horse bills printed. We are especially well equipped for this sort of work. Give us a call when in need of horse bills. David Bradley Co., sent two representatives to contract prices that will discount any catalogue houses on farm implements, buggies, etc. Chicago Bargain Store.

THE MARKETS

Chleago Grata. Chicago, March 23. Following were the quotations on the Chicago Board of Trade today: Wheat— Open. High. Low. Close. May ...$1.13% $1.13% $1.12 $1.12% July ... .91% .91% .90% .90% Sept 85% .85% .84% .81% Corn— May ... .48% .48% .47% .48% July ... .48% .48% .48 .48% Sept 48% .48% .48% .48% Oats — May ... .30% .30% .30% .30% July ... .30% .30% .30% .30% Sept... .29% .29% .29 .29% Pork — * May ...12.72% 12.77 12.72% 12.77% July ...12.87% 12.92% 12.85 12.92% Lard— May ... 7.05 7.071% 7.05 7.07% July ... 7.22% 7.22% 7.20 7.22% Short Ribs — May ... 6.87% 6.87% 6.85 6.87% July ... 7.071% 7.07% 7.06 7.07% Chicago Live Stock. Chicago, March 23. Hogs—Estimated receipts for the day, 33,000. Sales ranged at $4.70@ 6.15 for pigs, [email protected](% for light, [email protected] for rough packing, $5.10@ 5.37% for mixed, and [email protected] for heavy packing and shipping lots, with the bulk ofthe trading within the range of $5.20© 5.25 for fair to good averages. Cattle —Estimated receipts for the day, 7,000. Quotations ranged at $5.70 @6.20 for extra steers, $5.25© 5.80 good to choice steers, [email protected] medium to good steers, $5.00© 5.75 good to fancy yearlings, $4.10©5.85 corn-fed western steers, [email protected] fancy cows and heifers, $5.00©6.25 native veal calves, $3.50©5.00 heavy calves. Sheep—Estimated • receipts for the day, 14,000. Quotations ranged at $5.85 @6.25 for good to prime export wethers, [email protected] medium to good native sheep, [email protected] range sheep and yearlings, [email protected] poor to fair native lambs, [email protected] western rang® lambs. ■sat Buffalo Live Stock. East Buffalo, N. Y., March 23. Dunning & Stevens, Live Stock Commission Merchants, East Buffalo, N. Y., quote as follows: Cattle —Receipts, 6 cars; demand, very light; prospects are that they will sell from 15@20c lower than last Monday. Hogs —Receipts, 20 cars; market, slow; yorkers and mixed, [email protected]; medium and heavy, [email protected]; pigs, $5.25 @5.85. Sheep and Lambs—Receipts, 20 cars; market, active; best natives, [email protected]; mixed sheep, [email protected]; fair to good, [email protected]; yearling®, [email protected]. Veals—Market, strong; beat, $8.00©8.50; common and thin, [email protected].

LADIES I) DRLA FRANC O’S t M 'Jr Regulator Superior ' i «*h*r ren-rdte* *ol<l at high prices. C.' * >n»irnc*-e<i. Su*-*- mOiCt hy over *200,000 Women. Frlrr. i'enla, anilgl*t» orl»r mail. Testimonials A tiookiet free. Dr. LaFraseOi Philadelphia, Fa.