Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1911 — Page 8

GATES FORTUNE IS $40,000,000

Bulk of It Probably Goes to His Son Charles. ■—~ "777: ~ 7/- : /: WILL TO BE FILED IN TEXAS w Man Often Called Stock Gambler Was ' • •• •. ‘' . " . • «s •• In Reality an Empire Builder According to an Intimate Friend. New York, Aug. 11—The late John W. Gates, whose death occurred in Paris, made his residence in Port Arthur, Texas, and it is there that his will will be filed for probate. This much was ascertained at the offices of Byrne & Cutcheon, lawyers, which firm has custody of the last will and testament made by Mr. Gates It is said that the bulk of the property will go to “Charley” Gates, his good-natured son, who is inexperienced in business. The fortune is estimated at between $40,000,009 and $50,000,000. V

“I could not discuss Mr. Gates’ will without the consent of either his widow or his son,” declared F. W. M. Cutcheon. “I have not looked at It for some time. But as you seem to have advices from Paris of its existence in our office, 1 will not deny that we drew such a document.”

“Were any bequests made outside of his family,” was asked. “That I could not say,” was the reply, “but I will say that the public knew very little of the real Mr. Gates. More than thirty families are dependent upon checks mailed monthly at the instance of Mr. Gates.

"Anyone who writes an intelligent and accurate account of the development of the west must write a history of John W. Gates and men of his stamp,” said John F. Harris, a banker, of 15 Wall street, Mr. Gates’ most intimate friend on the New York stock exchange. Mr. Harris said that the body of Mr. Gates will be given a final resting place in the little cemetery at West Chicago in the lot where his parents were buried. “In the development/ of Port Arthur,” Mr. Harris continued, “Mr. Gates, created a plant, an electric light wfrrks, opened a national bank, built the Plaza hotel of Texas, instituted a hospital, started a commercial college, opened a wholesale grocery and organized cotton and lumber export companies, besides organizing an experimental farm of three thousand acres. This is the work of the 80-called ‘stock gambler’ in one locality—rather, I should say the work of an empire builder.”

OPERATION ON POPE PIUS X

Physicians Use Knife to Relieve Pain in Swollen Knee. Paris, Aug. 11.—There is an unconfirmed report here that the Pope is dying. Rome, Aug. 11.—Under the direction of Drs. Marchiafava and Petacci, Dr. Andrea Amici, who also is physician to the Vatican household punctured Pope Pius’ swollen knee and succeeded in extracting a liquid of a serious character. The operation gave the patient much relief. Both Cardinal Merry Del Val and Mgr Bisleti were permitted to visit his holiness. They found his general condition improved. This was attributed to the removal of the'patient from his small bed chamber to more spacious quarters.

PAY PARLIAMENT MEMBERS

Home Secretary Winston Churchill Moves Such a Resolution London, Aug. 11.—Winston Churchill the home secretary, in the House of Commons in moving the resolution that members should be paid, Baid that the basis from which a man could be chosen lor parliament would be broadened by the payment of parliament members. The resolution, declared the home secretary, was really the demand of the democracy for the free choice of its doctor. The house of commons voted to pay its members. The majority was 98. The members of parliament who have heretofore served without pay are scheduled to receive 400 pounds per annum.

VETO BILL HAS MAJORITY

Creation of New Peers to Carry It. Is Therefore, Avoided. London, Aug. 11. —The creation of new peers has been avoided. In the House of Lords when the division was called on the veto bill, 131 - stood for it while there were ■ 114 against the bill.

Choiera Situtin in Europe.

Rome, Aug. 11.—Cholera has broken out in the Palais Farmese quarter. Report from Marseilles are that 1 the situation remains unchanged, while at Paris passengers arriving an transSiberian trains are disinfected. The steamship Cordelia at Hamburg, has been discovered to have cl ciera aboard. ,

WINSTON CHURCHILL

Cabinet Minister Favors Pay For Parliament Members.

KIDNAPPED BOY FOUND

Policeman Picks up Little Angelo Moreno on Street. Italian Child, Missing For Several Days, Peculiarly Returned to Parents in Chicago. Chicago, 111., Aug. 11. —Angelo Mareno, the six-year old son of Antonio Mareno, who was kidnapped days ago, is found.

The child was picked up by a policeman at Oak and Sedgwick streets. He was trying to find his way home. The boy was immediately taken to the Chicago avenue station, where he was questioned for several hours.

A swarthy Sicilian who was loafing near the corner, apparently watching the child, was also taken into custody by the police. The Sicilian is being quizzed on the theory that he may be a member of a Black Hand gang which is credited with having effected the kidnapping for a ransom of (5,000.

MAY NOT RATIFY TREATIES

Senator Bacon Thinks Senate May Take No Action Washington, Aug. 11. —Senator Bacon (Ga.), who is one of the chief objectors to the arbitration treaties with Great Britain and France, recently negotiated, expressed doubt as to whether the,treaties would be ratified at the extra session of congress. He contends that the treaties take away from the senate the power conferred upon it by the constitution, in that they deny it the right to say whether or not each international question shall be submitted to arbitration.

WIFE REFUSES TO ELOPE

Admirer Alleged ,so Have Wounded Her and Himself; Both are Dying. Brazil, Ind., Aug. 11. —Because Mrs. Toney George refused to elope with him, Selin Albert dragged her from her home in Robinson street, after putting the family out of the house, and, it is alleged, shot her twice, one bullet passing through the abdomen and a second through the right -and. lie then turned the weapon on himself, sending a bullet through his neck. Both were taken to the hospital, nhere it was said they would die.

FINNEY TO BE CREMATED

Actor Killed in Carlton Fire Had Had Premonition of Death. London, Aug. 11.—Golding Bright, who was a friend of Jameson Lee Finney, killed in the hotel Carlton fire, states that the American actor had a premonition of death and that he had made his will a few weeks ago and had arranged for the interment of his ashes with those of his mother. Mr. Finney appointed Ada Dwyer the executrix to see that his wishes were carried out. The remains of the actor will be cremated and his ashes will be sent to the United States.

HIS APPEAL IS DENIED

Lrited Wireless Magnate Must Serve Out His Prison Term. New York, Aug. 11—Christopher Columbus Wilson, who was sentenced to three years in Atlanta for using the mails to drum up trade in United Wireless stock, heard that his appeal to the United States circuit court of appeals was unsuccessful. Two of his associates who had had recourse to the higher court, Francis X. Butler, lawyer and director and W. W. Tompkins, head of the New York selling agency, learned the same thing.

Increases Capital Stock

Sprinfield, 111., Aug. 11.—The Rock Island Plow company filed notice with the secretary of state of an increase In capital stock from (2,290,000 to (6,000,000.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

BLOOMINGTON—A well-filled locked mail pocch received at the Monon station here from the BloomingtonLouisville accommodation train and to have been placed aboard the mail car of the Chicago express, was stolen from the platform station. Amos Wiggins, aged twenty-five, was arrested and is being held until the inspector arrives from Cincinnati. The thief who tock the sack carried it to the Hughes lumber yard, ripped it open and rifled the contents, scattering money orders, drafts and other valuable mail promiscuously. A flagman on the Chicago train saw a man cutting open the sack, reported the matter to toe night agent and Chief Hensley with five assistants succeeded in locating Wiggins, seated in front of a saloon.

HARTFORD City Police officers are searching for the two young men, believed to be farmers, who insulted and assaulted a party of women autoists returning home from Muneie. In the machine were Mrs. John Day, her son Fred, who was driving, and Misses Ruth Cortx and Bertha Pattoux. As Day drove to the side of the road to permit a rig to pass one of the occupants arose and struck Miss Cortx a stinging blow in the face with a buggy whip, then drove off, hurling vile oaths at the occupants of the machine. Recently an attempt was made to wreck the Day machine at almost the same spot, fence rails being laid across the road in front of it. MARION Two young men w’ha gave their names as Claude Sanders aDd Harry Miller were arrested at Fairmount on the charge of coun terfeiting. The constable found in the pockets of the two men counterfeit nickels representing the sum cf sl6. The men rented a room in Fairmount a week ago and worked secretly, but were suspected of wrongdoing by their landlady and were forced to move. They then worked in a corn field on the farm of Joshua Hollingsworth, and were found there. The dies the men are suspected of using have not been found. The federal authorities have been notified to take charge of the men.

LAFAYETTE While engaged to make a slide for life on a wire suspended from the Main street bridge to the New York Central railroad bridge, a distance of one block, in a sheet of flame, J. H. Howard became enveloped in flames '-at the start and Wuß forced to jump into the river, was forced to jump into the river. He was rescued unconscious, and it was said at the hospital that he probably would die. He was burned severely and it was feared he had inhaled the flames. GARY More than one hundred Greek fruit peddlers engaged in a riot when health officers confis cated two carloads of spoiled food that had been shipped from South Water street, Chicago.. Arrival of police on the scene saved Health Commissioner Milstone and Deputy Charles Mullen from injury at the hands of the mob. The food confiscated comprised carload of water melons, a carload of grapes and one thousand pounds of tainted pork. SOUTH BEND —The constitutionality of the Indiana state law that provides for the purchase ot voting machines is attacked in a suit filed here. When the commissioners of St Joseph county were examining various kinds of machines on the eve of opening bids, and letting a contract for fifty of the devices at an estimated cost of (40,000 the proceedings were summarily stopped by the filing of an injunction by J. M. Chilias, a tax-payer.

INDIANAPOLIS— John A. Kemper a well known attorney of tnis city, reported to the police that during a two weeks’ absence some one had taken all his furniture and household goods from his home, 2029 East Washington street. Neighbors said that they saw men hauling the furniture away but as Kemper had been gone some time they supposed he was moving.

CORYDON Elaborate arrangements for a centennial celebration in 1913. commemorative of the time Coryaon became the capital of Indiana territory, were made at a mass meeting In the old statehouse. The citizens appointed committees to form permanent organizations for the purpose of planning the celebration. LEXINGTON— Thieves who broke open and entered the postoffice here obtained (500 in stamps and a small amovnt of money. With a pick stolen from the hand-car house near the depot they forced the door of Campbell’s grocery store and from there gained access to the postoffice safe.

LAFAYETTE Samuel W. Marlow, aged thirty-three of Lafayette, engineer on the Monon railroad, fell into a turntable pit at South Hammond, the northern terminal of the railroad, and his neck was broken. He, was dead when he was taken from the hole. LAFAYETTE Almost every hotel and boarding house is jammed to its capacity and private homes have been thrown open to the visitors on account of the big jubilee and encampment of the Uniformed Rank of Knights of Pythias here this week. BEDFORD While he was going through an alley at the rear of the Deckard Hotel here y Edgar McOscar, twelve years old, son of Dan McOscar, a prominent business man, was instantly killed by a live wire. MT. VERNON— CarI Delbauxer, died from injuries received in an automobile accident Four other young men barely escaped death when the machine turned turtle while going at a high rate of speed

MRS. HUBBARD WANTS MONEY

Former Wife of Roycrofter Chief Begins Suit. “FRA” HAS FAILED TO PAY UP Mrs. Bertha Crawford Hubbard, Mother of Four Children, Seeks Twelve Per cent Interest on Her Roycroft Stock. ■ Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 11. —Mrs. Bertha Crawford Hubtard, first wife of Elbert G. Hubbard, head of the East Aurora Roycrofters, is suing him for breach of contract since 1902. It was then she started the divorce proceedings that ultimately were successful. Mrs. Hubbard has been living away from East Aurora. The agitation As now over the alleged failure of the “Fra” of East Aurora to make good on a contract whereby he agreed to give Mrs. Hubbard annually dividends of 12 per cent on 400 shares of Roycroft stock having a face value of SIO,OOO. Mrs. Hubbard alleges that she has never received any money under that agreement The amount involved including the interest is between $15,000 and SIB,OOO. The contract was made in June, 1902, six months before the divorce proceedings were begun. In return for the stock Mrs Hubbard claims that she turned over to her husband her dower right in their property. She alleges that he agreed to he personally responsible for the payment of the dividends which were to be turned over yearly.

The Hubbards have been married since 1881, and there were four children when the divorce proceedings were started. Mrs. Hubbard named an East Aurora woman co-respondent. The litigation continued for about two years, a decree finally being entered in favor of the two women. Hubbard afterward married Alice Moore, an East Aurora school teacher. The court oirected Mr. Hubbard to pay his first wife (1,500 a year alimony and he was to pay two of their children, then under age, (sflo a year each until they attained their majority. The allegation is made that the Roycrofters company is capitalized at (300,000 and that the corporation is now worth considerably more than that sum.

Francis Buys St. Louis Republic. St. Louis, Aug. 11.—The St. Louis Republic, the oldest Democratic newspaper in Missouri and one of the pioneer journals of the middle west, has passed into the control of David R. Francis.

WEATHER FORECAST

Indiana and Illinois —Showers and cooler today or tonight in northern and tomorrow in southern portions, generally fair tomorrow in northern portion, light to moderate variable winds becoming northerly. Wisconsin —Showers today, cooler in extreme southern portion; tomorrow fair, north to northeast winds.

MARKET QUOTATIONS

Chicago Cash Grain Quotations Wheat —No. 2 red, 89%©Sic; No. 3 red, 88%@90*£c; No. 2 hard winter, 91%@93c; No. 3 hard winter, 89%@ 92c; No. 1 northern spring, (1.06@ 1.08; No. 2 northern spring, 98c@(1.00; No. 3 spring, 93 @ 98c. Corn —No. 2, 65@66c; No. 2 white, 67%@68c; No. 2 yellow, 65%@66e; No. 3, 65@65%c; No. 3 white, 67@67%c; No. 3 yellow, 65%@65%c. Oats—No. 2, 39%c; No. 2 white, 41@41%c; No. 3 white, 39%@ 40%c; standard, 40%@41c. Chicago Live Stock. Hogs—Receipts 15,000. Quotations ranged at ([email protected] choice heavy, ([email protected] choice light, ([email protected] heavy packing, and (5.25 @7.60 good to choice pigs. Cattle —Receipts 4,500. Quotations ranged at (7.25 @7.65 prime steers, ([email protected] good to choice fed cows, ([email protected] good to choice fed heifers, ([email protected] selected feeders, (3.40(g) 4.00 fair to good stockers, ([email protected] good to choice veal calves. Sheep—Receipts 13,000. Quotations ranged at ([email protected] good to prime heavy lambs. (4.35# 4.85 good to choice fed yearlings, (3.75 @4.25 choice to prime fed wethers, ([email protected] good to choice handy ewes. Cutt r. Creamery, 23@26c per lt>; prints, 28%c; extra firsts, 25c; firsts, 22c; dairies, extra, 23c; firsts, 21c;xpacklng stock, 18c. Live Poultry, Turkeys, per, lb., 12c; chickens, fowls, 12c; roosters, 7%c; springs, 14%c; ducks, 13c; geese, 7c. Potatoes. New potatoes, Jerseys, (1.25@1A0. Minnesota, ([email protected]. East Buffalo Live Stock. Dunning & Stevens, Live Stock Commission Merchants, East Buffalo, N. Y., quote as follows: Cattle—Receipts 5 cars; market slow. Hogs—Receipts 10 cars; market steady; heavy, (7.90 @800; 'Yorkers, [email protected]; pigs, (8.00. Sheep—Receipts 5 cars; market strong; top lambs, ([email protected]; yearlings, ([email protected]; wethers, (3.90 @4.00; ewes. ([email protected]. Calves, (4.60 t*B.7i. ( % . • -

FATALY SHOOTS PLAYMATE

South Bend Youth Disappears and Parents Try to Hide Crime. South Bend, Ind,, Aug. 11. —Ferdinand Nalatzek, fourteen years old, shot and probably fatally wounded Clement Kazmierczak, nine years old, according to the police, because the latter insisted on telling his father of a series of thefts in which they, with several others, had participated. The shooting took place Monday right, hut, notwithstanding that the Kazmaierczak boy had a gaping wound in his stomach, and is expected to die, an effort was made by the parents of the young “desperadoes” to keep the affair quiet, fearing disgrace. Young Nalazek and his companions, including a brother dying boy, can not be found, and are believed to have been sent out of the city by their parents.

SEEKS TO SET WILL ASIDE

Shelbyville Woman Invokes Aid of Court in Brother’s Estate. Shelbyville, Ind., Aug. 11. —Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson of this city filed cuit in the circuit court to have the w ill of her brother, the late Thomas Miltou Jeffras, set aside. Mr. Jeffras. who was gored to death by a bull cn his farm August 7, 1908, left his estate to his housekeeper, Miss Mary Miller, and the children of Nathaniel Jeffras and Mrs. Malissa Cornelius, his brother and sister, leaving Mrs. Thompson nothing. "t--' ;■ —-——7 --

INSPECTOR SEIZES BAS EGGS

Farmer Attempted to Sell Ninety Dozen Very Aged Hen Fruit. Mitchell, Ind., Aug. 11. —Dan R. Sherwood, a farmer living near here was arrested by A. W. Bruner, food inspector, for attempting to sell bad eggs. Mr. Sherwood took ninety-six dozen eggs to a local poultry house, which refused to buy them. He attempted to sell them to a grocer when Mr. Bruner seized the eggs and had them candled. Bruner reported six dozen were found good and ninety dozen bad, many being moldy.

BLACK DAMP FELLS MINERS

Several Overcome on Entering Shaft Thought to Have Been Cleared. Sullivan, Ind., Aug. 11. —As the result of black damp in the Caledonia mine, near here, nine miners were overcome. Daniel Spencer and Richard Chambers are in a serious condition. Three men were overcome Wednesday, but the miners say that when they went to work they were assured that the damp was all out of the mine.

Miners' Troubles Settled.

Terre Haute, Ind., Aug. 11. —Two thousand Indiana coal miners who had been on a strike for two months, but who returned to work recently pending the adjustment of their troubles, will remain at work as the result of a settlement of the disputes made by International President John P. White of the United Mine Workers of America and President H. N. Taylor of the Illinois Coal Mine Operators.

Pythian Jubilee Meeting

Lafayette, Ind., Aug. 11.—One of, the leading features of the entire week’s program was the jubilee meeting at the Victoria theatre. At this meeting the conferring of the Page rank, the first degree of Pythians, was done by the local lodges. Grand Chancellor John F. Petri, presided over the big meeting.

Two Hurt in Auto Collision

Newcastle, Ind., Aug. 11.—Fay Brown was seriously injured, James Young cut and bruised. Young’s horse Injured and his buggy demolished v/hen a touring car carrying four young men crashed into them near the city. The autoists left the scene without offering assistance.

Kills Himself After Spree.

Wabash, Ind., Aug. 11.—Madison Middleton, fifty years old, a day laborer, committed suicide at his home here. Middleton was despondent after having been unable to secure employment and his death followed a three days’ spree A wife and four children survive him.

Double Crime in Anderson.

Anderson, Ind., Aug. 11. —Jealousy ended in a duel tragedy when James Graves, forty-one, shot and killed his wife, Rosa Graves, aged thirty-eight, and then shot himself, falling dead In the same room where he killed his wife.

Two Thrown From Automobile.

Lebanon, Ind., Aug. 11. —S N. Cragun, editor of the Lebanon Patriot, and Walter Hodge, were thrown from an automobile in which they were riding, against a hedge fence one mile east of the city and painfully injured.

Pleads Guilty of Criminal Herself

Terre Haute, Ind., Aug. 11—Austin McCammon, twenty-one, of Shelburn, pleaded guilty of attacking a thirteen-year-old girl. ' A brother of McCammon was sent to prison for life for attacking two little girls.

Angry Grandmother Kills Herself

Newcastle, Jnd.. Aug. 11. —Angry because a grandchild removed a board from the front yard where she had plar®d it, Mrs. Corintha Ray, aged re- fa "-three, a widow, committed

GENERAL NEWS

Work on the dreadnought New York, which will he the largest and' most powerful battleship the world has ever seen, is under way at the Brooklyn navy yard. The cradle jn which the ; huge frame will rest has been prepared, the traveling cranes' are in position and workmen are placing in position the plates that are to form the outer bottom of the 28,000 ton battleship. The keel will be laid with simple ceremonies early next month and a year later some young woman, to be designated by Governor Dix, will ! smash a bottle of wine on her bows and christen her. Early in the fall of ; 1913 the New' York will take her position as the flagship of the Atlantic , fleet.

j At Chicago Tuesday an alleged attempt on the part of four boy inmates to burn the Uhlieh Evangelical Lutheran Orphan home. 2014 Burling street, where more than 100 children arekept, became known when a report of the affair was sent to the fire attorney’s office. More than S2OO worth of damage was caused by the flames before they were checked by firemen. The boys are said to have set some debris on the fourth floor of the place on fire because they were not allowed to go to Lincoln park, a daily privilege of which they Lad been deprived as punishment. The military value of the cavalry branch has been enormously Increased by the adoption of wireless telegraphy, for the first time in this country thoroughly tried out in the Texas maneuvers. The signal corps had devised an extremely light and portable wireless apparatus, easily carried on a back of a horse and capable of beinp put into operation from any point in the field within a few minutes. It was found that the messages can be reliably received when the cavalry detachment was anywhere within twenty-five miles of a receiving station.

Captain James Watson, the recruiting officer at Indianapolis, Ind., informed the war department that he holds affidavits charging a private, George Peters, with being an Austrian secret agent. The department is considering the charges with a view to determining upon a course of action. This is the first case to he brought up under the law passed at the last session of congress to prevent the disclosures of national defense secrets. This act is broad in its provisions and is applicable to all attempts to secure military information improperly. At Washington Thursday the steel trust investigating committee at an executive session decided not to press at this time questions of campaign contributions, in connection with which George W. Perkins of New York, a director of the United States Steel corporation, was threatened with contempt proceeding before the house of representatives The committee decided to compel the Steel corporation to produce the books of subsidiary companies. At Hammond, Ind., Thursday Lake Bulatovich, who challenged Rodovan Milashovic to a duel to death, inclosing two bullets with his challenge, was heavily fined, sentenced to Jail and disfranchised by Judge Riley. The sentence is the first ever inflicted in Indiana under the statute forbidding dueling. The trouble between the men grew out of the dismissal of Bulatovich from a secret society. At El Paso, Tex., Friday James H. Conlin, aged fifty, at one time vice president and general manager of the Chicago, Rock Island and Mexico railroad, a short line since acquired by the Rock Island road, and in 1908 superintendent of the Rock Island terminal elevations in Chicago, was found’ dead in a room of the Roberts Banner building with a bullet in bis heart, evidently self-inflicted. Denouncing at Washington as absolutely false the charge of William Jennings Bryan that he blocked the efforts of Speaker Clark and others to revise the iron and steel tariff schedules, Oscar Underwood, Democratic house leader, amid uproarious Democratic applause, spoke in the national house in defense of his position and that of the Democratic house. At Washington, the cotton revision bill, which just about cuts the cotton rates of the present tariff law in half, was passed in the house by a vote of 202 to 91. Twen-ty-six Republicans, Representaive Aiken of New York, who is unclassed politically, and Representative Berger, the Socialise, helped to jam the measure through. At Peoria, 111., ten or a dozen firemen were injured, two seriously, when fire destroyed the Greeley school building. Captain James Lynch and Hoseman Frank Hadley were badly cut and bruised.

Taft signed the reapportionment bill under which the house of representatives is increased from 391 to 433 members, with two more when Arizona and New Mexico are admitted to the unioc. Democrats face possible disruption of party harmony in house, owing to rivalry of Clark and Underwood for presidential nomination. Many persons injured in Des Moines strike rioting; saloons closed and persons told to keep oft streets.' Piesident Taft is expected to open his 1912 campaign in September on a few weeks' trip to the middle west Campaign against Camorra marks step tb free Italy of corruption inherited from regimes. Lincoln Beachey won air race from New York to Philadelphia, flying two hours for ss,ofl#i prize.