Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 52, Number 12, Jasper, Dubois County, 24 December 1909 — Page 3

PRESIDENT RESIGNS

ZELAYA TENDERS HIS RESIGNATION TO NICARAGUAN NA TIONAL CONGRESS LOOKED UPON AS FORMALITY Ruler's Action I Acclaimed by People with Shouts for United Statei and Estrada Sends Message to Assembly. Manngun, Nicaragua, Dec. 17. President Zelaya haß tendered his reslgrat um as chief executive of the Nicarafijan republic to the national con gr.ss Kne deputies were appointed imridiately upon the receipt of the r.gnatIon to draft a bill looking to j s ceptance, which is now cousldtud a mere formality. Sends Message to Congress. i ompanying his resignation Zel.ia fient the following message to egress: The painful circumstances Into TAfcuh the country Is plunged call for ai ts of abnegation and patriotism on ti,. part of good citizens, who are the w.-r.esses of the oppression of the public hy the heavy hand of fate. V:( country ts staggering under a $ ! ameless revolution which threatens t' t ration'e sovereignty and a foreign r,a ion unjustly Intervenes In our affa.rs. publicly providing the rebels vi-h arms, which has only resulted ,:, th. ir being defeated everywhere t. :. igh the heroism of our troops. Tu avoid further bloodshed, and for t' - n ason that the revolutionists have c- UTt-d that they would put down r arms when I surrendered the ext. ..tie power. I hereby place in the la-ds of the national assembly the : ..Uonment of the remainder of my t. r:.. ..f olllce. which is to be filled by a st-t stute of their choosing, with the ! ;. that this will result In good to V. aragua, the re-establishment of j. . I- and particularly the suspension if -tie hostility of the United States. t which I do not wish to give a pretext iur intervention." Snout for United States. Vws of the president's action Ef.ad throughout the city, and soon g--.it crowds moved through the t'r. . ts. shouting for the United States, ;-:: ida and the revolution. Apparently there was no other c rst- fur Zelaya to take. The people v- - aroused. The guns of the revolut!"!.ifcts threatened. The warships of t:.' 1 nlted States lay In NIcaraguan p. rs lanagua has been seething for days. T spirit of revolt has spread even to Rates of the palace. Zelaya surr .t.dfd himself with an armed guard. 1 r i hi t ked. the people have marched t:.: jgh the streets, crying for the end tf Uc old. proclaiming the new regime. Marines Ordered to Corinto. Washington. Dec IS. The United States ship Buffalo, now at Panama w.h TOO marines on board, has been ordm-d to sail at once for Corinto. This action was taken as the result of a telegram received from the Unlt d States consulate at Managua, In which It was stated that Inasmuch as Z-laya. In his message resigning the rr-idency, had made unpleasant refer.nro to Americans, and owing to a r. port which was current in that u to the effect that civilian adherens of Zelaya had been armed with dapRers. the citizens of the United H a'ps had appealed to the consulate 1'T protection. Irias as President. nother telegram from the American consulate at Managua states that V s currently reported there that whn Madrlz arrives in Managua ZeIj.va will formally surrender his olllce 'he national assembly, and that that l dy has already received instructions frm Zelaya to cast Its vote for Irias as president of Nicaragua. The rumor Is directly at variance wuh the understanding here based on tnspateb.es from Nicaragua, officially or otherwise, to the effect that Madrlz would receive the support not only of Z'laya himself, but of his faction. Would Retain His Power. The conclusion of the United States officers at Managua is that by the lection of Irias, Zelaya would still r-taln his hold on power and continue t dominate the situation. Hear Admiral Kimball, ,who went to Panama on the Dixie, will accompany marines to Corinto. He will then Jkc command of the naval vessels at t hat port. Those now there are the A.bany, Yorktown, VIcksburg and the "Hier Saturn. TAFT AT SISTER'S FUNERAL Is Present at Obsequies of Brother's Wife Recalls Dance Invitations Because of Death. Washington. Dec. 18. President Tff. accompanied by CapL Dutt, his Military aid, left last evening In the rm-ate car Colonial over the Pennsylvania railroad for Watertown, Conn attend the funeral of his slster-ln' V Mrs. Horace B. Taft, which was bld there to-day. Immediately after the ceremonies Mr Taft will start on his return trip Washlngtoln. because o. the death of hu sister-ln-hw-he president authorized the recall or the Invitations for the dance 'hat was to hnvo been given In the White House on December 2D. Kermlt Roosevelt Back at Nairobi. Nairobi, Orltlah East Africa. Doe. Kermlt Roosevelt arrived here having bagged three sables. The Party is preparing to start for Uganda aturdoy.

LEOPOLD, KING OF THE BELGIANS, IS NO MORE Aged Monarch Suddenly Collapses As Doctors Entertain Hope for His Recovery,

Brussels, Dec Ii. King Leopold of Belgium died at 2:35 o'clock this morning, his aged and wasted body bei tig unable to stand the strain put upon it. The collapse occurred suddenly and at a moment when the doctors seemingly had had the greatest hopes for his recovery. Apparently the drainage of the wound was perfect, as no fever was present and during the day the king had been able to take nourishment The public at large was satisfied that the king was on the road to recovery, but within the pavilion, where the king lay, there was a feeling of anxiety, chiefly because of Leopold's great age. After a restful day the patient was able to sleep for a brief period early In the evening and the night passed quietly. But towards two o'clock alarming symptoms appeared. Suddenly the king turned and called to Dr. Thlriar: "I am suffering." Dr. De Page was summoned and the two physicians did everything possible to prolong life, but without avail. THREE HELD IN SNEAD CASE Third Woman Is Placed Under Arrest In Connection with Mysterious Bathtub Tragedy. New York, Dec. 17.—With the arrest of Mrs. Mary Wardlaw Snead, following the commitment of her sister, Mrs. Caroline Wardlaw Martin, to the Tombs, all three old women of mystery in the Ocey Snead bathtub tragedy are in jail. Miss Virginia Wardlaw is in the Essex county jail, at Newark, where she has been a prisoner since the day after she called the East Orange police to the house where Ocey Snead had lain dead In a bathtub for 24 hours. Prosecutor Mott of East Orange declares that he has established beyond a doubt that Mrs. Mary Snead took the victim of the tragedy to East Orange and hired the unfurnished house on North Fourteenth street there, in which she died. Furthermore, he advanced the theory that Ocey Snead was not the daughter of Mrs. Martin, but the daughter of Virginia Wardlaw, the only spinster of the weirdly strange trio of old women, and Col. Robert B. Martin, her sister's husband. Simultaneously with the arrest of Mary Snead, Fletcher W. Snead. husband of Ocey Snead. and for many months reported dead, was located in St. Catherines, Ont., where he is now under the surveillance of Canadian detectives. TAKES UP THE BIG STRIKE Railroad Employes' Department of the American Federation of Labor Meets in St. Paul. St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 18.—Pursuant to the call of Chairman H. B. Perham, the railroad employes' department of tnj American Federation of Labor met uere to-day In special session. This meeting takes the place of the one set for next month by the federation meeting at Toronto, and Chairman Perham said the change of date was occasioned by the switchmen's strike. The department, which has a total strength of nearly 500,000 men. will advise and co-operate with the switchmon, and it is understood that it will prepare itself for action In case a general railway strike should result. The organization of which the department Is composed are the International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths, the Boilermakers and Shipbuilders of America, the International Association of Car Workers, the International Association of Machinists, the International Brotherhood of Maintenance of ,ay Employes, brotherhood of Freight Handlers. Order of Railroad Telegraphers, Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, International Association of Steam, Hot Water and Power Pipe Fitters, and the Switchmen's union. HANGS HELPLESS AN HOUR Woman Is Pinned Under Railway Coach with Leg Crushed Retains Consciousness Until Released. Jollet, 111.. Dec. 17. With her right leg crushed and pinned under the wheel of a Rock Island railroad coach, her clothes caught in the springs of the trucks. Miss Catherine Ryan hung helpless for one hour. She retained consciousness until railroad men raised the car with Jackscrews. In no other way was It possible for her to have been rescued. The passenger train was held under positive orders of the police, for a mere release of the brakes or movement of the engine would have meant loss of the other leg and of a certainty her life. She had slipped on the Icy pavement while hurrying to mount the car which was to take her to Chicago. Gen. Green B. Raum Dead. Chicago, Dec. 20. Brig. Gen. Green Berry Raum, former pension commissioner, died at his home, at the age of 84 years. His advanced age. coupled with anxiety over the condition of his wife, who recently fell 111, is believed to have contributed to the undermining of his health. The body will be taken to Washington and will be Interred In Arlington cemetery.

FATHER AFTER A

STEAD SCORES I. C ATTORNEY GENERAL MAKES NOTABLE ARGUMENT IN TAX CASE. STRONG LANGUAGE IS USED Railroad's Reports to Governor Declared Dishonest and Fraudulent Accuses Company of Diverting Funds to Avoid Dividing with State. Springfield, 111., Dec, IS. Attorney General W. IL Stead uttered a withering arraignment of the Illinois Central railroad in the hearing of the great suit of the state of Illinois to compel an accounting from the road since 1S77 and to pay taxes amounting to f 15.000.000. which it is charged the Illinois Central evaded paying through fraud. Jacob M. Dickinson, secretary of war, and formerly general attorney for the company, was present In court to defend the railroad, as he prepared this suit and had handled. It until he entered President Taft'a cabinet. W. S. Hortou, general counsel, was with him. Mr. Stead occupied the entire day In presenting his arguments. Uses Strong Language. The suit Is based on a provision of the charter granted the road In 1851. It was given large tracts of public lands on the charter provision that It pay the state five per cent, of Its gross receipts, plus the state tax and enough extra to bring the total up to seven per cent, of the total gross receipts. Attorney General Stead spared no language In charging that the railroad had defrauded the state by a thousand devices ever since 1S77, when It bought new lines In which the state has no claim to a partnership basis. He charged that every possible trick of high finance was used to divert funds from the original charter lines, on which seven per cent must be paid, to the non-charter lines, which do not come under the seven per cent assessment agreement. Mr. Stead's long argument bristled with such words as "dishonest and fraudulent," "systematic fraud against the state," "deliberate dishonesty," -robbing of the charter lines and the joint account," "dummy companies" and "attempts to hog all the increased revenues," all aimed at the railroad. Charges $10,000,000 Rebates. He made the startling charge that rebates allowed by the Illinois Central since 1877 amount to the total of $10,000,000. The grand total of receipts which the road dishonestly concealed, Mr. Stead stated, was $214,000.000, defrauding the state out of seven per cent, or $15,000,000. The suit is up on appeal from Judge Stough's decision on demurrer. Big Amusement Hall Burns. Rock Island, 111., Dec. 20. Fire of unknown origin totally destroyed the new amusement hall at Watertown hospital with a loss of over $25.000. The blaze was discovered by Clayton Connors, nn employe of the hospital kitchen, who was on his way to work. The flames swept through the whole structure before discovered, and the efforts of the 300 employes who were soon on the scene were In vain. Skin from 347 Volunteers. Walla Walla. Wash.. Dec. 20. Skin from the bodies of 347 persons has been grafted upon the burned body of Reed Crews, a young lineman who narrowly escaped electrocution when he fell across two power wires at the electric substation here two weeks ago. Henry W. Blodgett Resigns. Washington, Dec IS. Henry W. Blodgett, United States attorney for the eastern district of Missouri with headquarters at St. Louis, has resigned, and the resignation has been accepted to take etfect on December 31.

DAY OF SHOPPING

CREW WINS BATTLE AGAINST FIRE AND COLD. Take to Yawl for Refuge But Nearly Perish In Frigid Weather. Loraine. O., Dec. 20. The fishing tug Penelope of Cleveland burned four miles off shore. The crew of three escaped, after a battle with ice tloes in bitter cold, which almost cost them their lives. The boat, which belongs to A. H. Langell of Cleveland, was bound for its winter quarters at St. Clair. Mich. Capt. Charles Inches discovered fire In the woodwork above the engine room and in a few moments his position and that of the engineer and fireman became perilous. While they were endeavoring to cast loose the larger of two yawls they carried, the yawl caught fire. They were forced to take refuge in the other, the smaller one, where there was barely room for the three to crawl In. The sides of the tug were in flames before they launched their little craft. There had been no time to don extra wraps and the day was one of the coldest of the winter. The men. their oars and their beards were crusted with Ice before they had gone a mile. Two miles off shore they encountered shore Ice too thin to bear their weight, but thick enough to impede the progress of the boat Through this they were compelled to break their way. stiffened by the penetrating wind, endangered every moment by the shifting ice. When they reached shoro, five miles west of here, they collapsed. All were brought Into Loraine where they were given medical attention. MURDERER RUNS CAR WILD Kills Motorman; Conductor Near Death Charges Negro with Shooting Lynching Is Threatened. East St. Louis, III., Dec. 20. A negro highwayman shot and killed the motorman and fatally wounded the conductor of an Alta Sita street car near Fireworks station in the southeastern section of the city. The car bearing the bodies of the dead motorman and the unconscious conductor ran wild at high speed for more than four miles into the heart of the business district after the highwayman escaped from it. The dying statement of the conductor Is the only clew to the identity of the murderer and a general roundup of negro police characters is under way. The conductor was robbed of his money belt and watch. The motorman was not robbed and evidently was killed while coming to the assistance of the conductor. There is talk of lynching as soon as it is certain the right man has been captured. Three Are Drowned In Creek. Bedford, lnd Dec. 20. While returning to their homes from a box supper, near Cale, Miss Zula Kern, daughter of Samuel Kern, Miss Anna Parker, daughter of Mr. Frank Parker, and John Johnson were drowned in Indian creek. No one witnessed the accident, but a boat turned upside down that was used in crossing the creek Is supposed to have been responsible for the drowning. Princess De Sagan Wins. Paris, Dec. IS. The court decided in favor of the Princess de Sagan in the suit Instituted by her former husband. Count Boni de Castellane, who sought an order compelling the defendant to appoint a tutor for the youngest of their three sons, Jay, acceptable to the father. Castellane was condemned to pay the costs. National League Elects Lynch. New York, Dec. 20. Thomas J. Lynch, former umpire, was elected president of the National Baseball league at Its annual meeting. Ills election ended a deadlock between the partisans of John Heydler,the prosont I Incumbent, and John A. Ward.

31 HURT IN WRECK

DROKEN RAIL THROWS BURLINGTON LIMITED ÖFF TRACK. TEARS UP 200 FEET OF TRACK I. C. Passenger Runs Into Freight, Several Are Hurt Rock Island "Golden State" Is Derailed Two Killed, Many Injured. Chicago. Dec. 20. Two women suffered serious injuries. 29 other passengers wore bruised and lacerated, and occupants of live coaches wore throwu into a panic when the Oriental Limited train ou the Burlington road was overturned at Western Springs. 111. The Burlington In its official statement regarding the wreck claimed only 19 passengers had been injured. Broken Rail Causes Wreck. The -wreck was caused by a rail which broke as the fourth car of the train was passing. The three rear cars, all sleepers, were derailed and overturned In a ditch after dragging along the roadbed on their sides for yards. The first three cars and the locomotive left the track, but uiu not overturn, and plowed along, tearing up the track for 200 feet. The train consisted of an engine, a baggage car. two chair cars, and three sleepers. It was over seven hour late and was running at great speed when the wreck occurred. The three Pullman sleepers, most of them filled with passengers coming oast to spend Christmas with friends, slid down an embankment for 15 feet, and that none was killed is declared by railroad mon to be one of the miracles In the history of railroad acci dents. Pinned Beneath Wreckage. The passengers were burled in the wreckage of the partly demolished coaches, many of them being pinned down, where they were obliged to wait until released by fellow passengers and citizens of Western Springs, who were summoned by the whistles of the engine. Contrary to the usual record of railroad accidents, the passengers in the chair cars wore not Injured, beyond a shaking up. The broken rail, to which the accident was due. was curled Into a shapeless mass when the cars came to a stop. I. C. Trains Collide. Several persons were Injured, some seriously. In a wreck of a Chicagobound Illinois Central passenger train and a freight on the Freeport division of the road. The passenger train ran Into an open switch, just west of Hawthorne station, where the freight train was waiting for it to pass. Among the injured are: Callahan. Dubuque. Ia. Dodds. Dubuque. Ia. Frank Earlght, Dubuque. Ia. Charles Relger, engineer. Miss Kathcrine Smith. Dubuque. Ia. The engine of the passenger train was smashed to pieces, the baggage car and several coaches were thrown from the track and greatly damaged. The last car In the passenger train, a Pullman, was the only one that kept the track. Several of the freight cars were thrown from the track and demolished. "Golden State" Wrecked. Tucson. Ariz.. Dec. 20. Engineer Tom Walker and Fireman P. V. Bauer, both of Tucfcon, were killed, ten persons were seriously injured and 13 others cut and bruised when the eastbound Golden State Limited, a Rock Island train running over the Southern Pacific tracks west of El Paso, was wrecked three miles west of Benson. The most seriously injured were brought to St Mary's hospital at Tucson. The train was running 30 miles an hour. Southern Pacific officials say the train struck a curve at too high speed. The Injured were nearly all In the tourist sleepers and In the mall car. Two Killed at Biakely, Minn. St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 20. Westbound passenger train No. 3 on the Minneapolis and Iowa division of the Chicago. St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railroad collided with a freight train at Biakely. Minn., about noon. Fireman Joe Zinneiil and Mail Clerk F. Torgerson, both of St. Paul, were killed. None of the passengers was injured seriously. SEES PERIL FOR TOURISTS Viceroy of Canton Fears Anti-Foreign Outbreaks In That City Warns Washington Authorities. Peking. Dec. 20. Fearing that. In view of the prevalence of anti-foreign feeling In Canton, he will be unable to give visitors due protection, the viceroy telegraphed to the Wal Wu Pu a request that the Washington authorities be asked to prevent the heavy Influx of Americans scheduled to reach Canton next week. The steamship agency has arranged for 700 tourists to visit Canton in parties of 200 a day. The viceroy fears such a cavalcade of chairs blocking the narrow streets might furnish cause for trouble and possible riots with which the police would be unable to cope. Sneezes Out Bullets. Wllkesbarre. Pa Dec. 17. After carrying three bullets In his head for 47 years Francis Hogers of this city, a civil war veteran, ejected them from his nose during a fit of violent sneezing.

THE NEWS IN BKIEF.

Nelson county, Kentucky, west "wet" in a local option election by 653 majority. Following a quarrel over an election of supervisors at Grand Corner, Ind.. Cbauncey Belp shot and instantly killed Ralph Bryant Mrs. Levi Mlnnicb, victim of Clyd Weaver, an Insane Greenville man, several weeks ago. died at her home near Gettysburg. O. The German steamer Utgard, from Portland. Ore, for St Vincent, C. V-ha-i run aground at Baxa Point. Chile, and has been broken In two. Harriet Smith of Hyannts. Mass., on a tour of the world In an automobile, was instantly killed in Honolulu by the overturning of her machine. Gov. Charles N. Haskell left his bed at Guthrie. Okla.. for a short period, the first time since he was prostrated by an acute attack of Indigestion Tuesday night. J. W. Bridge, superintendent of the Pittsburg. Monongahe'.a & Washington Railway Company, fired a bullet Into his left side Just below the heart at Moaongahela, and Is dylr.g at a hospital. The bonded debt of New York city has reached $1.000.000.000. according to a report issued by the comptroller. This amount, however, includes more than $200.000.000 hold by the city tinning tund. Knights of Columbus from all parts of the country will make a pilgrimage next August to Rome and Genoa, the birthplace of Christopher Columbus, according to an announcement made in New York. Head hunters of the Solomon islands are on the warpath because of marriages between their women and white rren. according to news from the antipodes, brought by the Royal Mail steamer Aorangi. A telegram was received at the Anchor Line office in Buffalo stating that the crew of the propeller WIssahlcken had been rescued from the outer Duck Island, Lake Huron, and are en route to Sault Ste. Marie. Conservation of all the timber lands lying within the bounds of the Yosemlte national park in California is urged by MaJ. Forsythe, acting superintendent of the park, in his annual report to the secretary of the interior. After deliberating for nearly twenty-four hours the Jury In the case of Garrett Johnson and Arthur Clear, the alleged leaders of tjie night riders, charged with the murder of CapL Quentin Rankin at Union City, Tenn., is apparently hopelessly disagreed. Before beginning his nine-year sentence In the penitentiary for the killing of Joseph E. Richeson. a taui hand. Ernest S. Stout of Grand Island. Neb., voluntarily settled $1.000 on the children of the man he killed. Stout was convicted of manslaughter. In a target practice at Fort Morgan, Ala., the Ninety-ninth coast artillery is said to have established a record for that branch of the service. Firing 12-inch mortars at targets 5.500 yards out in the gulf, at intervals of 40 seconds. 12 targets were hit out of 11 shots. The end of Cleveland's eight-year traction ßjht is In sight, through Federal Judge Tayler's determination of the Cleveland railway's property and franchise values, a rate of fare and liability for the redemption of guaranteed stock. The city council pledged itself to abide by his decision, and unanimously passed a 25-year franchise based on the Judge's decision. CIGAR CAUSES MAN'S DEATH Aged Pennsylvania Legislator's Clothing Is Set on Fire While He Is Smoking. Media. Pa., Dec. 20. Thomas Valentine Cooper, a member of the Pennsylvania legislature from Delaware county and formerly collector of the port of Philadelphia, was burned to death at his home. While smoking a cigar in the sittingroom of his home he either fell asleep or suffered a paralytic stroke. His bathrobe became Ignited and he was dead before the flames were discovered by members of his family. THE MARKETS. New York, Dee UVB STOCK-Stecrs 3 ffnxH . ............ S 20 Sheep JW FLOl'R-Wlnter Straight.. 5 3) O WHEAT Decembor 1 31 W COnS Dfcemlur 1 OATS Natural White 7 nvrVn Western St HUTTER-Creamcry KGGS 3 CHEESB 5 0 CHICAGO. CATTLE Nntlve Steer 17 CO g Medium to Good Steers.. 6(0 Cr Cows. Plain to Fancy.... 3 " fff Choice Heifers 5 00 O Calves J 12 g HOGS Packers V Heavy Butchers &M CM ft BUTTEU-Crcurnery Dairy g LIVE POULTRY &g KOOS JIM? POTATOES (per tu - . g Kl-OVm-Sprinc Wheat. Rp'l ß ß GRAIN-Wheat December.. 1 16Hg Corn December Oats. December O MILWAUKEE. GRAIN-Wheat. No. 1 Nor"n 1 Cain May - " Oats.' Standard Kye fw KANSAS CITY. GRAIN-Whoni. No. 2 Hard It 07 ff Corn. No.IMI Oats. No. 2 White Rye 0 0 ST. LOUIS. CAlT LE Natt ve Stera... KW g Texas Steers HOGS-Paekers IJutehers Ii H SHEEP-Nattves 3 " OMAHA. CATTLE Native Steers S 9 C Striker ami Feeders W J Caws and Helfers , HOÖS-Heavy & SHEEP-Wethers ,Ä 9 M 7 M 5 2 6M S 73 SCO S 65 773 9) 13 3rt 43 S33 119 CIS 1 17 1 13 63; 4i 7 1 12 1 23 a vi ? 7) S23 S IS S M s en 5 30 7 5 13 4 S37V4 3

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