Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1914 — Page 4

HUNGER AND RUIN SEEN EVERYWHERE AROUND VOLCANO

Homeless Japanese Return to Kagoshima. WILSON ASKS U. S. FOR AID Sailors Rescue Party From Hot Ashes Breast Deep on Sakura Isle — Feared Mountain of SakuraJima Will Collapse. Kagoshima. Jan. 16.—A relief party reports that in four villages of Sakura 1,000 households were destroyed and buried in lava by Sakura-Jima s first eruption. Villages pn the coast are still Burning. The villages of Arlmura and Yokohama were exterminated Part of Refugees Return. Kagoshima, Jan. 16. —Officers of the cruiser squadron sent by the Japanese government have taken charge of the •ituatlon created by the volcanic eruption and earthquakes and are rapidly restoring a semblance of order along the water front.

Many of the people of Kagoshima returned to the city. All their houses were in ruins and the returning refugees were compelled to camp, in the open. The warships brought a large stock of food and supplies, which were dispensed freely. The property loss in this city is immense The clearing away of ashes and debris has not gone far enough to allow even an approximate estimate of the loss of human life.

Fear Mount Will Collapse. Houses on the Island of Sakura that remain standing are enveloped in lava and resemble gigantic wasps. Refugees who returned are in a terrified condition and refuse to enter the houses except to make a hurried search for valuables. It is feared the. mountain of Sakura-Jima will collapse. Throughout the eruptions the staff of the Kagoshima observatory remained at their posts, facing extermination and calmly recording each phase. They were almost suffocated by poisonous gases. Find 33 Last Survivors. Thirty-three refugees were rescued amid a great waste of steaming kiva at the foot of the volcano ■ SakuraJlma. \\ ith their rescue no Jiving being remained, so far as known, on the Island of Sakura. The rescue was effected by a boat’s crew of the Japan ese. flagship. After a perilous trip an officer in one of the launches noticed something being waved in the air a short distance from the shore. A detach!: ' f i<: :i heavily bundled to pr. them from the heat, was l.u 1. Tn w hur l struggle they made their way through soft -..••• r .:ashesi hr< : • high until they reached a great rock. •

Escaped in Cave. .-hflteretj behind this rock they Tout'd 33 persons, all coated with thick dust, starving, thirsty and weak. The refugees- were taken on board a warship and provided with food and .drink. They explained 'hat they had hidden in a great cave near the shore Until the rain of ashes was over. Quake Panic in Italy. Leghorn, Italy, Jan. 16. Six violent earthquakes caused a panic among the inhabitants of this city. The people rushed into* the streets and gathered in groups on the squares. The shocks started at 4:25 a. m. and lasted till 9:27. No casualties were reported. Wilson Appeals for Aid.

Washington, Jan. 16. —President Wilson issued an appeal to the American people as president of the American Red Cross for funds to people of Japan. The appeal says: “Our sister nation of Japan is suffering from two very serious disasters. failure of crops in the northeastern part of that country has brought hundreds of thousands of persons face to face with the terrible mis ery of slow starvation and in the southwestern islands of Kiushiu a sudden volcanic eruption, has carried death and desolation to large numbers.

“I appeal to the humanity 1 of our American people' that they may give expression to their sympathy for the suffering and distress of so many of their fellow men by generous contributions for their aid. “Such contributions can be made to the local Red Cross treasurers or Sent directly to the American Red Cross, Washington, D. C.” Q6l. Robert M. Thompson, chairman of the executive committee of the Navy league, started a subscription list with $1,250.

MITCHELL WIDOW ALSO DIES

Former Mary Cadwalader of Philadelphia, Succumbs Week After Husband's Funeral. Philadelphia. Jan. 16.—Mrs. S. W'eir Mitchell died of pneumonia. She became ill after the funeral of her late husband last week. Mrs. Mitchell, who tfas seventy-seven, was MarjCadwaladef, member of a famous Philadelphia family. She was prominent in social affairs for more than half a century.

Postal Employes Are Indicted.

Duluth. Minn., Jan. 16.—Six true bills were returned by the federal grand, jury, three against postal employes charged with embezzling $1,306-

ASKS NATIONAL MINES

SENATOR MAKES WEST VIRGINIA STRIKE REPORT. Martine Assails Employment of Armored Trains Against Men, Women and Children. Washington, Jan. 16.—Government ownership of coal mines is urged in the report which Senator Martine of New Jersey made to the senate committee which investigated the strike in the Cabin creek and Paint creek , districts of West Virginia. The report says government ownership is the only way to assure coal supply for future generations. The senator urges the passage of a bill making the private hiring of armed guards illegal. The report also states, “that the hiring of armed bodies of men by private mine owners and other corporations and the use of steel armored trains, machine guns and bloodhounds on defenseless men, women and children is only a little way removed from barbarism.” Senator Martine, as a member of the commlttep, took testimony in regard to charges that alien contract labor was being employed in the mines and there were attempts to suppress the delivery of the mails. He says the evidence failed to establish either of these charges. Arguments were begun before the interstate commerce commission in the Illinois coal rate cases which involve practically the entire rate fabric in the central west The case is that of the Auburn & Alton Coal company and others against a number of railroads. The complaint of the coal company is that the rates from its mines In the northern part of the Springfield rate group are too high because the group has been unduly extended.

The rates which axe assailed are those from its miaes to lowa, Missouri, southern Minnesota and southern Wisconsin points. The commission made two rulings. It dismissed the complain of the Ohio Iron & Metal company of Chicago, which attacked as unreasonable certain demurrage, drayage and switching charges made by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad. 1 he commission also dismissed the complaint of the Ludowici-Celadon company of that city, but ordered the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad company I to modify a rule under which notice of was denied to persons not residing at the point of destination. I Philadelphia. Jan 16.-—Attorneys for i the interstate commerce commission inquired here into the alleged rate fix-, ing" between the anthracite coak carrying railroads and, the so-called rail-' road coak companies.

Millionaire Weds Stenographer.

Ottawa. Oht., Jan. 16.- -A. Vickers, a millionaire of Port Arthur, Oht., has surprised his friends by marrying his stenographer. Miss Marcelle G. Finn.

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, Etc. ' Chicago, Jan 15. 'Apen- High- Lbw- Cl(>=.Wheat— ink. est. esL , ing: May :. ■ .92'- *9l \- >4 July .. ..88\.88% ■ Corn—-' - < . May ,£•;%-% *66%-% July ■ ... ,66 .65% .65%-% OatsMay ..4'l':,-", ,40’h .39% .49%-% July. .::•%% .39% .39%-% FEOPR—Spring wheat, patent. Minneapolis brands, wood. $5.2<)@5.39 to retail trade. Minnesota and Dakota patents, [email protected];. jute, straight, $3.70®29i>; first clears, jute. &.35@3,30; second clears, jute, 52,404*2 low grade, jUte. $2,[email protected]; winter. Wheat, patent JUte, [email protected]; straight jute. 53.7541".90; rye flour, white, patent, $2,804(3.00: dark. $2,70'92.50. BUTTER—Cri-amery, extras. 32%c; extra firsts. -2.8(9 30c; firsts. 254128 c;. seconds, 21c; ladles, 20c; packing stock. 35c. EGGS —Current receipts. 26@32c; ordinary 'firsts. 30c; firsts. 32c: extras, 36c; checks. 20@22c; dirties. 22@ 24c; storage, firsts, 2S%e.

LIVE POULTRY—Turkeys, 18c; chickens, fowls, 13c; springs, 12%c; roosters, 10%c; g£ese. 14c; ducks, 15c; guinea hens, $6.00 per dos. DRESSED POULTRY—Turkeys, 20@22c; chickens, mixed, 15c: fowls, 15c; springs, 15c; roosters, U%c; ducks. 16c; geese, 15® 16c; rabbits. $1.25 per doz. POTATOES—Wisconsin, white, 67@72c; red, 63@67c; Minnesota, white. 67@72c; red, 63@67c; Michigan, white. 67@72c; red, 63.® 67c. New Yorok. Jan. 15. WHEAT—Steady, quiet trade; No. 1 northern. $1.01%; No. 2 red, $1.02: No. 2 Mard, 99%c; May, SI,OO 3-16; July, 97%c. CORN—Firmer, moderate trade; export, ®%c; No. 3 yellow. 71%c; Argentine, 71c. OATS —Firm, light trade; No. 2 white, 46@46%c: No. 3 white, 45@46c; standard, 45%®' 46c. Live Stock. - i Chicago, Jan. 15. CATTLE—Steers, good to choice heavjy. [email protected]; steers, fair to good. [email protected]; yearlings, good to choice. $8.00419.00; distillery steers, $8,[email protected]; inferior steers, $7.00'9 7.50; stockers. $6.00417.00; feeding steers, $6;[email protected]; medium to good beef cows, $5.25 @6.00; fair to good heifers, $7.259125; good to choice cows. $5.50417.25; common to good cutters. [email protected]; butcher bulls, s6.lG@ 7.50; bologna bulls, [email protected]. ’ East Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 15. CATTLE Market active and steady; prime steers. $8.75(99.00; butcher grades [email protected]. . „ ■ -GAUKES—Market st eadv: cull to choice. [email protected]. SHEEP AND LAMBS—Market active for choice, common slow; choice lambs, [email protected]; cull to fair. [email protected]; $6.00477.25; sheep. $3.0006.25* ■ ’ . . : ' ’ HOGS—Market active and steady to strong; Yorkers, [email protected]; pigs, $8:60478.65; mixed, $8.50(98.55; heavy, [email protected]; roughs, $7.35477.65; stags. $6.00@6;50. Omaha. Jan. 15. HOGS—Market higher; heavy, $7.9.'@ 8.20; light, $7.60478.65; pigs, [email protected]; bulk of sales. $7.85(8'8.10. CATTLE—Native steers, [email protected]; cows and heifers, [email protected]; western steers, $6.50 @8.00; Texas steers. [email protected]; cows and heifers, $5,508:7.00; calves, $7,[email protected]. SHEEP—Yearlings. $5.8006.29; wethera [email protected]; lambs. [email protected].

COMMITS SUICIDE IN MARION JAIL

Fairmount Barber Ends His Life With Bullet. ARRESTED FOR INTOXICATION Earl A. Wilson Asks Permission to Enter Bath Room, Then Shoots Himself—Said to Have Had Domestic Troubles. Marion. Earl A. Wilson, aged thirty-four, a barber of Fairmount, committed suicide in the bathroom at the county jail. Wilson was arrested for Intoxication. He asked to step into the bathroom as he entered the jail office, and a moment later the shot was heard. The bullet entered his temple and he died instantly. Wilson was married and Is said to have had domestic troubles. He had been arrested frequently on charges of intoxication. Take Wagon Load of Liquor. Bloomington.—Sheriff Walter Jones, Deputy Sheriff Newton Wright and Prosecutor Joseph Barclay raided an Italian "blind tiger” kept by Joseph Delilio and Mrs. Theresa Palone. A wagon load of whisky, beer and wine was confiscated. The parties will plead guilty, and it has been agreed by attorneys and Judge Nelson that the fine in each case shall be ; |SOO, with six months’ jail sentences, the heaviest ever Imposed in Monroe county. Three murders have occurred in the vicinity of the place in the past two years.

Chicken Makes Many 111. Anderson. —Chicken eaten by a number of persons at a supper is said to have been the cause of the serious Illness of more than a dozen persons. Among the victims were City Controller W. T. Richter, Dr. McGarr Chapman, Mrs. Etta Miller, Miss Jessie Springer, Mrs. W. R. Forkner, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Fisher, Mrs. Alice Eycke, Miss Louise Eycke, Dr. and Mrs. C. W. Orland, Miss Lucille Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Keltner and Mr and Mrs. H P. Cook. The victims are improving and all are out of danger.

Boy Faces Murder Charge. Madison. to be tried in the Madison circuit court during the January term, which opened, centers in that of Harold Grimes, age seventeen, for the alleged murder of his father, William Grimes. The father was found dead in a field by the son in August last. A special venire, of 4 8 talesmen has been drawn for jury service. Curtis Marshak prosecuting attorney, will be assisted by F. M. Griffith of Vevay. P. E. Bear of this city is attorney for the defense, • . a t Stolen Clothing Is Found. Greensburg—-Two suit cases fjlled With men’s clothing were found in the woods on the Aaron Logan farm and taken to police headquarters here. C. E. Koerner of Columbus identified the clothing as his own and that of Ja,ck Keegan and Hugh O. Donnell, friends of his. The clothing was stolen from a hotel in Columbus where the three men are boarding. A watch, some articles of jewelry and a razor stolen from the room at the same time were not recovered.

Suicide in a Poolroom. Evansville. Lord Darton, aged twenty-four, drank a bottle of carbolic acid in a saloon here, and, throwing himself across a pool table, died in a short time. “Good-by, boys. I’m going; I’m glad to die,” gasped the dying man as his companions worked over him. Darton was recently married, had quarreled with his wife and was despondent. He had just finished playing a game of pool when he took the poison.

Train Injuries Are Fatal. Hazleton. —A youthful forger, said to be a member of a wealthy Pike county family, cashed three worthless checks at local stores and got away before his forgeries were detected. The young fellow transacted all his “business” a few minutes after the local ‘bank had closed for the noon hour and then hired an auto and was taken to Princeton, where trace of him was lost.

Pay Fines for Drinking. Anderson. —John and Jacob Fullmer, who were arrested, charged with having drugged John Suiter and, after robbing him, throwing his unconscious body into Greens branch, were arraigned before Mayor Mellett in police court. The two entered pleas of guilty to intoxication and paid fines.

Hear From Missing Mafi. Greensburg.—Daniel Taney, missing from his home in this city for more than eight years, and mourned as dead, has been heard from la the west. It developed that Taney sent a cash present to his wife and each of his three children in this city. Taney’s whereabouts was unknown to the family until a young man of this city, while traveling in the west, came upon him. Through this young man Taney learned that his family was living, and got in communication with his wife.

WEEK'S NEWS

Summarized for Very Busy Readers

Washington The name of John Skelton Williams, assistant secretary of the treasury, was sent to the senate at Washington as comptroller of the currency by President Wilson. • • • A federal inquiry’ by the senate committee on education and labor at Washington into the Calumet, strike is proposed in a resolution Introduced by Senator Ashurt of Arizona. The resolution stirred up a spirited debate, but no action was taken and the resolution went over. • • • Secretary of Labor Wilson made public at Washington reports on the strike situation i,n the northern Michigan copper region. He officially announced that investigators were unable to bring the warring factions together, that the department could do nothing further to bring about an end to the trouble. « • •

Congress resumed its work after the ( hristmas recese, with matters of great importance scheduled for action. .■* * • Legislation taxing dealings in cotton futures with the object Of regulating the exchanges will be passed at the present session of congress at Washington, according to Representative Lever of South Carolina, chairman of the house committee on agriculture. » • • The United States district attorney for the southern district of Georgia has been directed by the of justice to have reassigned for trial the cases against the members of the alleged naval stores trust. • * •

I Negotiations between the American ; Sugar Refining company and the deI partment of justice at Washington I for a settlement out of court of the government’s anti-trust suit have been terminated. They were ended after the department of justice had rejected a drastic plan of reorganization which the company proposed. Domestic The .Marion National bank of Marion Kan., has been placed in the hands of a national bank examiner, according to word received at the office of the comptroller of the currency at : Waelringeoh. i '

In a pistol fight l with detectives William Schmulzer, said to be one of the convicts who recently escaped from the state prison at Indianapolis, Ind., was shot and probably fatallywounded at Pittsburgh, Pa. »■ • • ■ After being permitted to sing a hymn and pray, Lewis Pack and Wal,do James, negroes, were lynched for attack on Cass Tompkins, white planti er, at Tampa, Fla. * * * I Judge Smith McPherson in the fedi eral court at Kansas City, Mo., enjoined John T. Barker, attorney genI eral of Missouri, from proceeding in , state courts with suits for $24,000,000 , overcharges against Missouri railroads, and took the Missouri railroad rate case under further advisement for three weeks. Barker made a vitriolic attack upon Judge McPherson. ♦ ♦ ♦

Ihe Standard Oil company’s steamer Comet, with its engines disabled in a heavy sea, was picked up by the revenue cutter Acushnet and the tug Standard a few miles south of Nantucket. One thousand striking miners were charged by two troops of cavalry with drawn sabers at Trinidad, Colo., and several men were seriously hurt. The cavalry was escorting an automobile in which "Mother” Mary Jones, the strike agitator, was being rushed to jail. • • •

Miss Ethel Smith of Gary, Ind., for whom Billy Rugh, a crippled newsboy, who was not acquainted with her, gave up his life, eloped to Chicago with Leon M. Cline, a clerk, and was married to him. Three thousand . unemployed men stormed the Akron (O.) factories demanding work. Many are strangers brought by erroneous reports to the effect that the rubbef industries are taking on mep. * * * A general strike throughout South Africa was proclaimed by the Trades Federation and the Rand miners by a two-thirds majority voted to join in the movement. Governmental retaliation was swift. It took the form of the proclamation.of martial'law , ~ * * —■

A large number of relics of the revolutionary war were discovered at Philadelphia in a secret vault on the site of the residence occupied by the pro'ost marshal during the occupation of this city by the British under I.ord Howe, . “» ♦ » All Chicago national banks voted to enter the new federal reserve system. The verdict was reached at the annual meetings of stockholders. Several state banks and trust companies also have elected to enter the system.

“I m glad he has been caught. He deserves his punishment,” Mrs. Frank M. Henning, wife of the absconding assistant cashier of the Farmers’ State bank of Schaumberg, 111., made that comment when informed that her husband had been caught in New York. • • • The first marines to be withdrawn from the Philippines in accordance with Secretary Daniels’ previously announced plan will sail about -January 19 on the steamer Supply for Guam for drill and instruction in advance baee work. Eight officers and 275 men will remain on duty on the island. Ev idence obtained by the use of a telephone device in the headquarters of the M estern Federation of Miners at Houghton, Mich., is said to have Played a large part in the presentations made to the grand jury of Houghton county by Special Prosecutor George Nichols. Harry Kendall Thaw would not be a public menace if he were released on oail, according to the report of the commission appointed by Federal Judge Aldrich of Concord, N. H„ to inquire into the state of Thaw’s mentality. The commission finds Thaw is not afflicted with any of the mental diseases from which he was suffering when he slew Stanford White. After nearly three weeks of restand recreation at a little cottage near the gulf coast, President Wilson hade farewell to Pass Christian, Miss., and started for Washington. Justice George H. O’Keefe, president of the Emerald Association of Brooklyn. says its annual ball has been given up on account of the opposition of the Roman Catholic church authorities to the turkey trot, the tango, the hesitation waltz and other steps. The ball has been held for 76 years and" the receipts, averaging between SB,OOO and $9,000, have been devoted to Roman Catholic orphan asylums.

Reports of the early marriage of Mrs. Ava M illing Astor, circulated so freely last fall, are being heard again. This time they have a definite basis, as friends of the millionaire American widow say they have letters from her from London in which there are pointed hints about a new romance. ■* * * Mexican Revolt The Mexican government will default in the payment of the semi-an-nual interest on the bonds of the internal and external debts due this month, according to a decision reached at a cabinet meeting at Mexico City. All iunds are needed to carry on the war, Huerta said. All the Mexican federal soldiers in the custody of the United States border patrol at Presidio, Tex., will be transferred to Fort Bliss and interned indefinitely. Secretary Garrison ordered the transfer from Washington, » • »

Twenty-eight hundred Mexican federal soldiers, six Mexican generals and 1,500 civilian refugees are in the custody of the I nited States army border patrol at Presidio, Tex., as the result of the federal army’s evacuation of Ojinaga, Mex., and the occupation of the village by Gen. Francisco Villa’s rebel forces. One hundred and fifty prisoners were executed by Villa’s men. » • • A plot to kidnap American Charge O’Shaughnessy and his wife by holding up a train was behind an attack by rebels on the Mexican railway, said a federal officer at Mexico City. Information obtained by federal spies from rebels along the railway enabled the O Shaughnessys to escape running into the danger. • « • The Japanese have landed an armed force from their battle cruiser Idzuma for the protection of the mikado’s legation.at Mexico City. Washington has been advised of the step by Charge d’Affaires O’Shaughnessy. • » • ' Foreign

Japan is heroically meeting a double affliction, famine in the north and earthquakes, a tidal wave and volcanic eruptions in the south, where thousands are eaid to have been killed. Ten million people are in need or food and many have starved to death. In the south the Islands of Kiushiu and Shikoku are in the grip of seismic disturbances. The Royal Mail steamer Cobequid, with 120 persons aboard, went aground on Briar island, in the Bay of Fundy, as she was battling against a terrific storm just before dawn. All are believed to have perished. Cardinal Leon Adolphe Arnette, archbishop of Paris, France, in an admonition which was published in all his churches, forbids the dancing of the tango as a sin which must be confessed and require pennance. He also will publish ah official admonition on the daring and eccentricities of modern dress.

The pope at Rome has appointed Cardinal Merry Del Vai, papal secretary of state, archpriest of St. Peter’s, to succeed the late Cardinal Rampolla. Personal George F. Baker resigned from the board of directors of the Chase National bank of New York and was succeeded by John I. Mitchell of Chicago ■♦ « > Andrew Mayfield, seventy-two, member of the bodyguard of President Abraham Lincoln during three years of the Civil war, died at Marion, O.

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ROUND THE WORLD

Courtship in Bohemia often lasts fifteen years. There are floating "movies’’ in the Netherlands, New Y.ork.is giving street mashers workhouse, terms. There are only twenty women among the 900 advertising canvassers in London. Professor R. W. Wood of Johns Hopkins university says the craters of the moon are full of sulphur. An experiment station for the study of flax cultivation and manufacture has' been established at Moscow. ' There are tons of coal in the world, according to an estimate »made by the Coal Age. Philadelphia will rigidly enforce the weights and measures regulations in efforts to reduce cost of living. The total amount of money reposing on the oceans’ bottoms in the shape of submarine cables is $250,000,000. Retail dealers in Hongkong are discovering the advantages of window dressing after the American plan. A mine, now exceedingly rich, was sold by its native African owner for a pair of trousers and a cricket cap. In buying soaps the natives of India are guided by strong scents and pretty colors than by the lathering qualities. The Germans will mount 40,000 candle power searchlights on some of their airships to illuminate the enemy’s camp.

The largest electrical egg hatching plant in the world is in England, having an average output of 8,000 chickens a week. Cleveland women are planning a chamber of commerce which will be the first women’s chamber of commerce in the world. Experiments on the Philippine island of Mindanao seem to ipdicate that the finest qualities of rubber can be produced there profitably. The first apartment house in America was built about 1860 in East Eighteenth street, in New York city, and is still standing in good condition. The world’s largest stone statue, a figure l of a patron saint 240 feet long, is being carved from a rock overlooking the sea on an island in Japan. A church organ has recently been made in Belgium which is composed entirely of paper, the pipes being rolls of cardboard. The sound is sweet and powerful.

In Afghanistan barbed wire is used very extensively for defensive purposes, especially where there is danger from attacks by barbarous neighboring tribesmen. In 1900 there were sixty-two beef cattle in the United States for each 100 persons of population. Now there are thirty-seven cattle to each 100 of population. As a universal danger signal a Den- ' ver firm has designed and copyrighted signs bearing a human hand across the palm of which appear the words "Safety First.”

An iron monument in the form of a stepped pyramid surmounted •by a globe ninety feet high has been erected at Leipzig to symbolize the German iron and steel industry. Under the conditions of the will of Mrs. Thomas Barclay of Glasgow. Scotland, all widows in Perth who have attained the age of fifty years will be entitled to a pension.