Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1908 — Page 4

jisper conn DEHKUI. f. i urea mm m muaH. SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1908.

LATE NEWS BY WIRE

BILL THAT REGULATES WAGES

Employer* Must Pay Such as the Labor Commissioner Fixes, He Having Arbitrary Power. Guthrie, Okla., May 14.—The bouse has accepted the senate bill demanded by the union labor people of the state, which is remarkable in that it provides that all business concerns must report their business In detail and total to the labor commissioner, and gives the latter absolute power to fix wages.

A scene was enacted on the floor ■when Representative Boyle, a spokesman of union labor, threatened the members with defeat in the bouse of the unions if they failed to support the bill. Under the bill wages will bebased on the profits of the employer, with arbitrary power in the hands of the commissioner.

No Second Place for Hughes.

New York, May 13. Governor Hughes would not accept the nomination for the vice presidency. This announcement is made in a letter from the governor to General Stewart L. Woodford. In his letter the governor says: “For reasons which are controlling and which leave no room for discussion, and though I would l>e deeply sensible of the honor thereby conferred, I should not be able to accept and would not In any contingency accept a nomination for the vice presidency, and even were I elected, could not serve.” ,

Death of Rear Admiral Rae.

Washington, May 14.—‘Rear Admiral Charles Whiteside Rae, engineer in chief of the navy and chief of the bureau of steam navigation of the navy department, is dead at his home here. He was born in Hartford, Conn., June 30, 1847, and was graduated from the naval academy in 1868. He was promoted through the grades and served at the Ixdnbardment of San Juan, Porto Rico. ind also at the naval battle of Santiago.

Spaniards and French in Clash.

Casablanca, May 14.—An encounter occurred here between French and Spanish troops quartered in tiie port. The Spaniards fired first, it is alleged, and the French zouaves replied. One Spaniard was and another wounded, and the French suffered two men wouuded. After the clash Colonel Dcsmoutlers assumed command over the area reserved under the policing agreement to Spain.

Indiana Coal Mines To Be Idle.

lerre Haute, ind.. May 13.—Following the report of the scale committee of failure to agree with the operators the mineworkers of district No. 11 voted to suspend work. The convention adjourned. Sixteen thousand miners in Indiana will lay down their picks tomorrow. The action was the result of a deadlock on certain points in the wage scale. Until this is settled the miners will be Idle.

Jealous Girl Kills Man.

Joliet, 111.. May 14.—Marshall Taylor, twenty-eight years old, was stabbed five times by Lulu Gilson, twenty-five years old, and so severely wounded that lie died a short time later at St. Joseph's hospital. Jealousy, according to the police, was the <'ause of the stubbing. Taylor was in company with Anna Gllwater, who, flie police say. was a rival of Miss Glbaon. ,

Bishop of Cleveland Dead.

Canton. 0., May 14.—The Right Rev, Ignatius F. Horstman, bishop of the Catholic diocese of Cleveland, is dead. The bishop was stricken with heart failure here after celebrating mass at St. John’s church. He remained unconscious for some time, but finally responded to stimulants. Later, however, he suffered another attack, to which he succunil*ed.

Cashier’s Thefts Now $1,350,000.

Pittsburg. May 24.—The defalcations of William Montgomery, former cashier of the Allegheny National bank, has been Increased to the extent of SIOO,OOO. making a total of $1,350,000. according to William L. Folds, tha national bank examiner. Montgomery has made a statement, in which, it is alleged, he implicated several other persons.

“Black Hand" After Hetty Green.

New York, May 13.—Reports which those responsible for them assert are authentic are to the effect that Mrs. Hetty Green, who Is occupying apartments at the Plaza Hotel, recently received a “Black Hand” letter threatening her with death unless she gave #5,000 to the writer. Mrs. Green in going to her office is now accompanied by a detective.

Former Aidermen Heavily Fined.

Rockford, 111., May 14.—Dr. E. O. Dunn, John Nash and C. H. Woolsey, former aidermen. pleaded guilty to the charge of accepting a bribe from the Central Heating-and Power company to pass an •ordinance granting the corporation a franchise. They were fined $2,000 each. . .

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

Asle K. Helgelein will sue the Gunaess estate at LaPorte, Ind., for $3,000, which he says his murdered brother kwt on the farm. It is reported at Rome that Count Boni de Caetellane has detectives trailing Mme. Gould and will ask the courts for the custody of his children. Two wild cats escaped from an express crate in Chicago and are believed to be prowling about the downtown district Victor C. Vaughan, of Ann Arbor, Midi., was chosen president of the Association of American Physicians at the twenty-third annual meeting of the organisation at Washington. The special house wnrmlttee investigating the paper Industry must decide on a course of actlory at once Jf remedial action Is taken at this session of congress. The street car men’s strike at Chicago Is held in abeyance J>y President Mahon, of the unlop, Spending the court’s ruling on an injunction. Samuel Sinn, of the firm of Sternberger, Sinn & Col, members of the New York Stock Exchange, is dead at his residence In New York.

Brewery Workers on Strike.

Kansas City, May 14.—Eight hundred brewery workers employed here failed to appear for work, announcing that a strike had been declared. The old contract between the men and the brewtries expired May 1. Since then negotiations for the sighing of a new pact have been conducted. Last week, however, it was apparent that an agreement could not be reached. The strike closed every brewery In the city.

Fatal Tornado In Louisiana.

Shreveport, La., May 14.—A report received here states that three persons were killed and ten others injured during a tornado which badly damaged the town of Bollinger, La. Gilliam, La., a town of 200 Inhabitants, is wiped out and a Humber of lives have l*cn lost. Oil City is also destroyed with a loss of life and a number of persons Injured. ,

THE WEATHEB Following Is the official weather forecast up to 8 o’clock tonight: niinois and Indiana—'Possibly showers and tliunderstorms; warmer In extreme north portions. Ix>wer Michigan—'Rain. Wisconsin —Showers and probably thunderstorms: rising temperature. lowa—Partly cloudy with probably Showers in north portion.

THE MARKETS

Chicago Grain. Chicago, May 14. Following were the quotations on the Chicago Board of Trade today: Wheat— Open. High. Low. Close. May ...$1.00% $1.02 $1.00% sl.<C% July ... .90 .90% ,88% .90% Sept. ... .87% .87% .8« .87% Corn— Mny ... .74% .74% .74 .74% July ... .65% .66 .64% .65% Sept 64.% .64% .63% .G 4 Otots— May (o) .54% .54% .54% .54% May (n, .53% .54% .53% .54 July ... .47% .47%: .47% .47% Sept 37% .37% .37% .37% PorkMay ...13.32% 13.32% 13.25 13.25 July ...13.47% 13.47% 13.37 13.40 Sept. .. .13.72% 13.72% 13.00 13.65 Lard — May ... 8.35 8.35 8.3 a 8.30 July ... 8.42% 8.42% 8.37% 8.37% Sept. .. 8.60 8.60 Short Ribs— May ... 7.12% 7.10 July ... 7.30 7.30 7.25 7.25 Sept. .. 7.50 7.52 7.47% 7.50 Cash Salos Winter wheat—By sample: No. 2 red, [email protected]; No. 3 red. [email protected]; No. 2 hard. $1.00%® 1.05; No. 3 hard. [email protected]. Spring wheat —By sample: No. 3 spring, 97c® SI.OB. Corn —By sample: No. 3 yellow, 74%@74%c; No. 4, 66@67c. Oats —By sample: No. 3 white. 52@54%c; No. 4 w hite. 51%@53c. Live Stock.. Poultry, and Hay. Chicago, May 14. Hogs—-Receipts 26,000. Sales ranged at $5.45@>5.50 for choice heavy shipping, $5.40® 5.45 light mixed. $5.45®! 5.50 choice light, [email protected] mixed packing, $4.50® 5.15 good to choice pigs. Cattle —Receipts 6,000. Quotations ranged at $6.80®7.30 for prime fat steers, $6.25®6.75 good to choice steers. $4.75® 6.25 good to choice cows, $G.00®6.75 prime heifers, [email protected] good to choice calves. $4.60®4.90 fair to good feeders, [email protected] fair to good stockers. Sheep—Receipts 11,000. Quotations ranged at [email protected] for good to choice wethers. $5.15® 5.30 fair to good wethers. [email protected] fair to good yearlings. $7.25®7.50 gopd to choice Colorado wool lambs. Live Poultry—Turkeys, per ,Ib. 14c; chickens, fowls. 12c; springs, $3.00® 7.00 per dos.; roosters, 7c; geese. $4.00 @600; ducks, ll*c. Hay—Choice timothy. [email protected]; No. 1, [email protected]. Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin feeding prairie, $7.00@ 8.00 East Buffalo Live Stock. East Buffalo, N. T., May 14. Dunning & Stevens, Live Stock Commission Merchants, East Buffalo, N. Y., quote as follows: Cattle—Receipts 2 cars; market slow. Hoge— Receipts 30 ears; market lower; heavy, $5.85; Yorkers, [email protected]; pigs, $5.15 @5.25. Sheep and Lambs-—Receipts 30 cars; market slow; best lambs. $6.90 @7.00; yearlings, [email protected]; wethers, [email protected]; ewes, [email protected]. Calves— Best, $4.00®, 7.50.

DEATH AL WAYS BUSY

Grim Reaper Brings to Hie Aid the Cyclone and the Treacherous Pit Fiend.

TWENTY-TWO DIE IE BTOKME

Tempest Sweeps Over Parts of Nebraska, Texas, lowa and Oklahoma.

Savon Miners Killed by Explosions of Gas While Fighting a Pit Fire —Over a Dozen Others Wounded.

'At least five persons are dead, two fatally injured, a score or more badly hurt, while hundreds of thousands of dollars* worth of property was destroyed by a tornado which passed over portions If Sarpy, Cass and Nemaha counties, In Nebraska. The dead are: Mrs. Frank Hester,near Louisville; Charles Leader, near Richfield; Mrs. Marko, Bellevue; Martin Tieth and son James, near Papillion. Fatally injured —JEdward Martin, near Meadow; Mrs. TruceUe, Bellevue. Telegraph and telephone wires are down so that full details are not obtainable, and it is feared that there may be more names to be added to the death list when it is all known. Besides the damage done by the wind the heavy rainfall caused floods which badly demoralized the railroads in the territory mentioned. The heaviest property losses, so far as hearh from, were sustained by the United States army post at Fort Crook and the Presbyterian college at Bellevue. The storm was the most severe that ever struck eastern Nebraska. The damage to the college buildings at Bellevue was heavy. The tower was blown from Park hall and the building wrecked. Lowry hall and Rankin ball were unroofed. The panic-stricken students ran to the basement, and in this way many fatalities were probably averted. The college stables were wrecked and all the horses killed. A number of small buildings and stores in the village wits blown down. Moving south the tornado struck Fort Creek, damaging several of the barrack bul’dlngs, but nobody was Injured. In the town of Fort ever, a number of buildings was entirely wrecked and other damage done. Tornadoes Hit Oklahom. Eight persons were killed and scores of others injured in several tornadoes in northwestern Oklahoma. The dead are J. E. Hale and Mrs. J. E. Hale, Little Robe, Ellis county; two unknown persons Arnett, Ellis county; Dr. Bowser. Vici. Woodward county; Arthur Slbel, Mutual, Woodward county; William Hand. Estelle, Major county. Mrs. Young, Selling, Dewey county. No list of the injured Is obtainable at this time as telephone communication Is entirely cut off from the stormswept area.

Postmaster E. A. Speck, of Vici, has asked that a postoffice inspector be sent to report on his office, which was demolished and the contents scattered in all directions. The village was wiped off the map. A horse was lifted by the wind at Vici and dashed through the top of a dugout, burying Dr. Hawser beneath the entire earth roof of the dugout and the weight of the animal's body. A horse belonging to Sibel, of Mutual, was killed when a piece of two-by-four lumber *was driven through his body. At Mutual fifteen young persons had gathered for an evening social. Hie storm lifted the house completely off the floor on which they were seated, leaving the floor and the young people unharmed. Seven Dead in Louisiana. Seven are known to be dead, and many others are Injured, as the result of a tornado which swppt across northwest Louisiana. The nttle town of Gilliam, twenty-five miles north of Shreveport, was destroyed and the town of Bollinger, on the east side of the river In Bossier parish, was badly wrecked. Communication with the greater portion of the storm-swept section is interrupted. and it is believed certain that later reports will Increase the Dumber of dead and injured. Texas Has a Fatal Blow. One person is known to have been killed, several others sustained serious injuries, and considerable property damage resulted from a tornado which swept trough the northern section of Texas. At Leonard, lex.. Mrs. A. T. Bowdry lost her life, and her husband was injured when their home, a two-story structure, was demolished. At Crandall about fifty houses were wrecked and several persons were injured. Train Races with a Cyclone. The train crew of the Burlington passenger train from Omaha reported •t St. Joseph, Ma, a race with a cyclone near Island Park, la., barely escaping from the which they report wrecked a bunk train containing a number of foreigners who had been working on the trade. Six men were reported killed and a score Injured. The bunk train had been moved from Bartlett, la., earlier In the day.

DEATH IN THE COALPIT

Seven Men Lose Their Lives by Explosions While Fighting Fire. Seven mineworkers were killed and more than a dozen injured by explosions in the Mount Lookout colliery of the Temple Coal and Iron company at* Wyoming, Pa. The dead are: Pascal Smith, of Wyomingffi Frank

Smith, of Exeter; Michael McNulty, of Arch «1d; Oscar Smallcomb, of West Pittston; George Metcalf, of Exeter; Lewis Pataskay, of Wyoming; Joseph Yancanden, of Wyoming. The injured —John Welsh, William Cos state, Henry Learch, John Pataskay. Charles Babcock, all living in the neighborhood of the colliery. . Five others were burned severely, but their names could not be obtained. The explcr'on occurred six hundred feet underground, aid eighteen hundred feet from the shaft up wKIcS the miners make their exit John Kosmttb, a miner, left a small “gas feeder" burn In the extreme end of a gangway all of the night which set fire to the timbers and the coal. When the fireboss started into the mine to make his rounds he discovered the fire. He nt once reported it and It was in the attempt to subdue the flames that the explosions occurred.

“THE” ALLEE IS DEAD

New York Man Whose Career Has Been Painted Both Black and White.

Theodore Allen, known to sporting world as “The” Allen, died suddenly at the home of his son-in-law, Clarence Ek Owen, in West Eighth street Two hours later the coroner Interrupted preparations for the embalming of the body and ordered an autopsy performed. Members of the family were summoned by the coroner and examined. Allen’s physician. Dr. Hermann Boeker, reported that “The” had died from locomotor ataxia, but one of the dead man’s brothers, Martin Van Buren Allen, declared it his belief that “The” had died as a result of foul play. Allen was seventy-seven years of age and had a notable and spectacular career. Born In a Methodist minister’s family the entry of Theodore Alien upon his career of adventure which won him the appellation of “The" Allen was gradual. He started to earn a living as a butcher’s boy in the lower part of Manhattan island. He was later a waiter in a saloon, and then became a cartman. He was a lightly built youth, weighing but 130 pounds, yet ex-Po-lice Captain Chapman declared “he was absolutely fearless and worth ten other men In a fight” Allen used to speak with great feeling of his civil war career. He enlisted at the outbreak of the struggle and six months later was assigned to the secret service. Henry Ward Beecher once saved the life of the future poolroom keeper. Allen assumed the role of a fugitive from the Confederate states and went to Montreal. A reward of $50,000 was placed on his head.

President and Governors Confer.

The White House at Washington was the scene of the assemblage of many of the most dlstiugutffhed figures In the political and industrial life of the nation. It was, perhaps, one of the most notable gatherings that has ever met to consider a great public question in that historic mansion. The governors of practically all the states and territories conferred with President Roosevelt to consider the broad question of conservation of the country’s natural resources. The subjects to be considered include the use and conservation of mineral resources, resources of the land, and resources of the waters.

THE NEW FURNITURE STORE.

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ROOMS TO RENT. Two suites of rooms with water and lights. Will rent singly or together. In Hollingsworth building on Van Rensselaer street. Inquire at First National Bank. McKay keeps the best chocolate, cold, solid and creamy, on Ice. For Sale: One Bostwlc milk tank with two milk cans and one cream can; also some timothy hay. 'Phone 502-G. H. J. GOWLULND. We invite you to try a sundae or buffalo at McKay’s. I have $300.00 to place at once, on real estate. Anyone wanting $300.00 call and get terms. B. F. FERGUSON.

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- Buggies and Carriages

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