Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 52, Number 13, Jasper, Dubois County, 31 December 1909 — Page 7

600 DIE IN BATTLE GEN ESTRADA SCORES DECISIVE VICTORY OVER ZELAYA FORCE. TWO AMERICANS ARE DEAD Nineteen Hundred of Zelaya's Men Surrender to Rebel Leader—Men from Cruiser Des Moines Are Landed to Care for Wounded. Bluefields, Nicaragua, Dec. 27.—Gen. Esrtada has won a complete victory over the government troops at Rama. al of COO men of both armies was v j or wounded. Nineteen hundred t Ziluya'ä men have surrendered. ini Ming Gen. Gonzales, who was In remand. Two Americans are reptrf(I killed. of Zelaya's army of 3,000 men only t escaped. Three Hotchkiss and I ,r Maxim guns, 2.000 rifles and 1.i.i' io rounds of ammunition wero int Jrd In the booty. lien Estrada professes to believe rha his march to Managua will be tini,, sfd. Bluefields Delirious with Joy. W fields and the neighboring fcaiitry are delirious with joy. The r .rt, ry Is said to have been won on hi Jay scheduled for the inaugurat t f Dr. Madriz as president of Nieur h -a In succession to Zelaya. v the request of Consul Moffat c . zander Shipley of the United s cruiser Des Moines sent his b i 'al squad ashore, establishing an 1'3 pendent hospital, whore 40 of the .r.dd are receiving care. The r-riian medical men have been able g " their services to all who were lz t-'d of them. Women Fight in Trenches. "r Zelayas trenches had been J they were taken by assault. Ir t trenches were several women wt i referred risking their lives In tifilct to starvation in camp, l - women wero armed with and fought courageously. One " m was wounded and later - to the hospital here. A large - ; in of the prisoners were ' 1 be boys under 10 years old. v .K rcpted defont as though It welcome. !i Gonzales, the vanquished lead- ' be government troops, shares arters of Gon. Estrada and is f . the rations of his conqueror K-riat relish and smoking insurer . 'tacco as though he enjoyed It. Uncle Sam to Help. Washington. Dec. 25. To relieve starvation of the captured soldiers ? Zflayan army at llama and f urr --L rnuch-needed aid to soldiers of t t the NIcaraguan government ' r s and the insurgents who were r : 1 in the battle near Rama, the ' : !! States government ordered the ". -tr Pralrlo. now at Colon, to take ard $5,000 worth of staple sup- , . secured by funds of the Araerl- : l:-d Cross society, and proceed all possible haste to Bluefields. 'ijr.agua. Nicaragua. Dec. 27. The r- president of Nicaragua. Jose v " is taking hold of affairs with v" :-g hand. a, who fled the country on : he Mexican gunboat General r. left him the legacy of an treasury, and soon after ProslMadriz had publicly announced. t t 1. that the country was practln the verge of bankruptcy, the of Jeaquln Passes. Zelaya's sonand Ernesto Martinez. Zelaya's fi nance minister, was ordered. f--y are now In the hands of the - ' ntles, charged with mlsappror' ri .n of funds, failure to register c v rnment bonds and the circulation signed paper monej. Zelaya Reaped Vast Sums. Francisco Baca, who has displaced It L ilian Irias as minister general, s preparing a decree establishing a Tmssion for the purpose of revokpr bc franchise under which a score ' nopolles, given to Individuals by 7- ''a. have been operated. These ;f!ies poured into Zelaya's purse 4 'ims of money. OLD MAN COMMITS SUICIDE Ret red Farmer Barricades Himself In House, Following Frustration of Attempt to Kill Wife. Joseph, Mich., Dec. 27. A tragr !. re ended in the suicide of one I"sn and Injury to another. At a-' -ne policeman owes his life to a r '" 'e of fate. Tt .mas Botham, a retired farmer. f- -urs old, killed himself after a Y ' ss attempt to slay his wife. f' "ams little granddaughter was " slightly in Jumping from a secf story window in escaping from r Tazed grandfather. Policeman 'ftin Fisher was knocked down by a ! Uk t which grazed his temple. Lurton Writes Resignation. ''"'Innntl, Dec. 27. Judge Horace rton of the United States circuit ' of appeals mailed his reslgna- "' c of that position to President Taft acd began to make arrangements to a me his new duties on the federal "'r-'frne bench. Thö resignation is f "ive January 5. Leaps from Coffin at Wake. t 1 ' naaroln, Fla., Dec. 27. After benK I'laced, Bhrouded, in a casket f'i'h was surrounded by mourners "red for an all-night wake, Mrs. '-'p Miller leaped from her coffin a ! r! we" woman. Physicians 12 ' - before had pronounced lifo ex-

SEVEN DIE IN MINE

BLAST AT HERRIN, ILL Open Lamp Causes Explosion of Gas Three Hundred Miners Escape Uninjured. Herrin. 111.. Dec, 24. A ras ex plosion In mine A of the Chicago & Cartervllle Coal Company In this city killed seven men, among them the civil engineer and his helpers. It is supposed that the explosion was caused by the surveyor and his party walking Into an old worked out room which had gas and which was set off by the lamps they carried. Four bodies have been recovered. The gas is still bad In that portiou of the mine whoro the explosion occurred and a crew of mon have been working for hours trying to fan back the gas and recover the othor bodies which are known to bo lifeless. There were several miners knocked senseloss by the explosion .and suf fered a narrow escape from death by after-damp, but all will recover. Wives and relatives of the 300 mon and boys employed at the mine made a wild rush to the mouth of the mines and could not be driven away until tbelr husbands and friends were all brought on top. GIANT SHIP IS LAUNCHED Battleship Utah, Largest Vessel Afloat Is Named by Daughter of Gov. Spry. Philadelphia. Dec. 24. Doclared to have no equal atloat as a first-class fighting machine, the battleship Utah. the greatest warship over built In the United States, was launched from the yard of the New York Shipbuild ing Company at Camden. X. J. As the big hull started to leave the thickly greased ways. Miss Mary Alice Spry of Salt Lake City, daughter of the governor of Utah, raised her arm. and with a swift, hard swing, broke a gayly be-rlbboned bottle of cham pagne against the keel of the groat ship and spoke the words that gave the vessel Its name. The Utah is the fifth of the all-bic gun type of battleship for the United States navy to be launched. When completed she will be more powerful than the Delaware and the North Da kota of the Dreadnought class, and has been dubbed by a member of congress the "skeered o' nothin' " class. WARRINER GETS SIX YEARS Former Official of Big Four Railroad Pleads Guilty to a Charge of Embezzlement. Cincinnati. Dec. 23. "I'm free for the first time In ten years," said Charles I. Warrlner, the defaulting treasurer of the Big Four, who was sentenced to six years at hard labor In the state penitentiary. Warrlner had pleaded guilty to em bezzlement by prearrangement between the county prosecutor and his attorneys .and the sentence of the court brings to a close one chapter at least of the story of a theft of at least JOla.000, with Its attendant sensational charges of years of blackmail, with a woman as the alleged dominant fig ure. SENATOR M'LAURIN IS DEAD Mississippi Statesman Suddenly Ex pires at His Home from an Attack of Heart Failure. Jackson. Miss . Dec. 23. United States Senator A. J. McLaurin died suddenly last night at his home in Brandon. Death was due to an attack of heart failure. When the fatal stroke came upon him Senator McLaurin was seated in a rocking chair in front of the fire place In his library. He suddenly fell forward without speaking a word, and life was extinct when members of his family reached his side. MARK TWAIN NOT NEAR DEATH False, He Says, for "I Wouldn't Do Such a Thing at My Time of Life." Redding. Conn.. Dec. 24. Mark Twain gave out the following statement as a result of reports concerning his health, following the humorist's recent return from Bermuda: "I bear the newspapers say I am dying. The charge Is not true. I would not do such a thing at my time of life. I am behaving as good as I can. Merry Christmas to everybody. "MARK TWAIN." 484 Ballots; No Choice. Butler, Mo.. Dec. 24. Determined efforts to break the deadlock in the Sixth district Democratic convention called to nominate a successor to the late Congressman De Armond met with failure. Three sessions were held, and öfter the four hundred and eighty-fourth ballot the situation was substantially the same. Battleship Utah Is Launched. Camden, N. J., Dec, 23. The battleship Utah was successfully launched to-da, from the yard of the New York Shipbuilding Company here. Miss Alice Spry of Salt Unke City, daughter of the governor of Utah, was the sponsor. The Utah Is the largest warship of its class ever built In in- United States. Shoots Sister and Kills Himself. New York, Dec. 24. His sister's persistent refusal to give him money so angered Abraham Bennett. Jr., of Brooklyn that he shot her down in the hallway of their home, probably fatally Injuring her, and then shot and killed himself.

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ASSASSINS AT WORK HIGH OFFICIALS IN THREE COUNTRIES ARE VICTIMS OF "REDS." PREMIER STABBED IN SEOUL Bomb and Knife Are Used by Assailants in a Remarkable Series of Political Acts of Violence—Widespread Plot Is Seen. Seoul, Korea, Dec. 23.—Premier Yi, the head of the Korean cabinet, was stabbed and fatally wounded by a Korean. Ylo Cbamtn Yong. The assassin was immediately arrested. He Is a youth of abemt 20 years and is believed to be a mombor of a political secret socioty. The premier was removed to the hospital, where it was said he was dying. Premier YI was formerly minister of education In the Korean cabinotHe became prime minister In May, 1907, when a reconstruction of the cabinet followed a five-hour audience that Marquis Ito, the Japanese resident, had with the emperor. Stabbed Three Times. The assailant was a young Christian, who was for many years a resident of the "United States. The premier was riding in his Jinriklsha when the assailant came up with a long kitchen knife in his hand. lie drove this twice into the abdomen of , the premier and once into the hitter's lung. The assassin then turned on the premier's jinrlklsh a man, whom ho stabbed and instantly killed. Police Chief Murdered. St Petersburg, Dec. 23. Col. Knrpoff. chief of the secret police of St Petersburg, was assassinated. He had been enticed to a modest apartment In a remote street of the VIborg district and there was blown to pieces by a bomb, exploded, supposedly, by his host, one Michael Vosskressensky, who uad leased the rooms for a few days. The murderer rushed into the street following the explosion and was captured. An assistant of KarpofTs who had accompanied him, was severely Injured. Indian Magistrate Assassinated. Bombay, British India, Dec. 23. Arthur Mason Tlppetts Jackson, chief magistrate of Naslk, in the presidency of Bombay, was assassinated by a native while attending a theatrical performance. The motive for the murder is supposed to have been a wish for revenge upon the magistrate, who had recently imprisoned a criminal to life imprisonment Roumanian Premier Shot. Washington. Dec 23. An official dispatch received by the state department from Bucharest said that the prime minister of Rouraania had been shot and seriously wounded oy a Roumanian anarchist. Women Hurt In Church Riot. Washington. Ind., Dec. 27. In a riot at the General Baptist church, one mile west of this city, Willis Ellis, Ed Herron and Toliver Chapel were probably fatally Injured, while many womon and children who used the windows to escape were hurt Four policemen were sent to qtiiet the rioters, but the officers were disarmed. Claude. Arnold and Robert Holton and Chester Turner were arrested later. Former Phenix Head Dead. Greenwich. Conn.. Dec. 27. Neror I knowing that for more than three weeks he had been under Indictment and that a warrant for his arrest was ready as well as requisition papers for taking him from Connecticut jurisdiction to New York as a prisoner. George Preston Sheldon, for 21 years president of the Phenix Insurance Company of Brooklyn, died at his home hore.

TAFT GIVES BROADER MEANING TO WHISKY Reverses Verdict of Former President Roosevelt and Holds with English Conclusions. Washington. Dec. 27.—The definition of the word "whisky" by the highest legal authority was given when President Taft rendered the final decision on the subject in connection with the construction of the pure food law with reference to labeling. The president held that whisky made of neutral spirits is whisky when reduced to potable strength. The president covered other details in his decision and gave directions for the proper branding of various varieties of liquor, holding among other things that Canadian Club whisky and whisky made from a mixture of "straight" whisky and ' neutral spirits" may be called a blend. The decision follows the lines of the conclusions reached by the royal commission of Great Britain and reverses the verdict of former President Roosevelt, former Attorney Goneral Bonaparte. Solicitor General Bowers and Dr. Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemistry. The Roosevelt-Bonaparte-Wiley order denied the use of the word 'whisky" in branding to all liquor except "straight" whisky the whisky which is aged in charred oak casks. Mr. Bowers extended the use of the word to liquors made of "rectified" and "distilled" spirits. President Taft goes a step farther and includes blends and whisky mado from "neutral spirits." TWAIN'S DAUGHTER IS DEAD Meets Death While Taking Bath and Vas Probably Due to Epilepsy or Heart Disease. Redding. Conn.. Dec. 25. Mark Twain"s invalid daughter. Jean, met death tragically In a bath, bringing poignant grief at Christmas time to Stormfield. the country home of the great American humorist She was his youngest daughter, endeared to him not only by long companionship, but by her frail health, caused by recurrent attacks of epilepsy. Miss Clemens died not directly from drowning, as was first supposed, but more probably of strangulation due to an attack of epilepsy, or from heart failure. The body was found in the bathtub with the head only partly submerged. ANOTHER BLOW FOR COOK Doctor Is Expelled by Explorer's Club Committee Finding He Never Climbed Mt. McKinley. New York, Dec. 25. Dr. Frederick A. Cook received another severe blow to his reputation when the board of governors of the Explorers' club received a report from a special committee to the ofTect that Dr. Cook deliberately hoaxed the public when he claimed that he climbed Mount McKinley In 1906. The board thereupon announced his expulsion. In its report the committee unanimously decided that after an exhaustive Investigation covering six weoks they had been unable to find any proof whatever that Cook ever climbed Mount McKinley. Proves He Was Not Lost In Wreck. Ashtabula. O., Dec. 23.—G. Lawrence, porter on the wrecked car ferry Marquette & Bessemer No. 2, supposed to have been drowned when the boat sunk two weeks ago, walked into the office of the Marquette & Bessemer Company at Conneaut, O. He had since been in Port Stanley. Indict Wardlaw Sisters. New York, Dec. 23.—The three mysterious Wardlaw sisters must face trial in Essex county. New Jersey, all charged with the murder of Ocey W. M. Snead, the East Orange bathtub victim. The grand jury reported that two indictments had been found against all three.

EAST STORM SWEPT

DEATH SUFFERING AND DAMAGE RESULT FROM SNOW AND WIND. BOSTON HAS TIDAL WAVE Several Lives Are Lost Railroads Are Badly Interfered With Telepraph Wires Are Down Property Damage Runs Into Millions. Boston, Dec. 27. Grim winter swept Into New England on the wings of a northeast storm with such terrific energy as tu cause great damage, much suffering and a few deaths. The gale drove a tide Into Massachusetts bay, which nearly equalled that of the famous storm of 1S51, the wet snow prostrated wires, telephone, telegraph, olectrlc light and trolley, the railroad trains were stalled. Three persons lost their li-es In Everett and Chelsea by the sudden rise of the tide. Storm Is Extensive. The storm's destructive powers were unusually extensive and severe. Its center was somewhat off Nantucket, but the gale swept over the greater portion of New England and was accompanied by a heavy fall of snow. In this city the tido went across Atlantic avenue on the water front, and filling hundreds of cellars, caused an estimated damage of over $1.000,000. Seventy-Mile Gale at Price's Neck. Nowport, R I.. Dec. 27 The wind attained a velocity of over seventy miles an hour to-day. and at high tide the waves broke against the life-saving station at Price's Neck. On Nantasket beach, in Hull, the damage to property Is estimated at $100,000. New York City Snowbound. New York. Dec. 27. New York and its environs were practically stormbound yesterday for the first time this winter. The west wing of railroad service was almost wholly cut off, wire communication in every direction was crippled, metropolitan streets were blocked with snow, und shipping, even within protection of the harbor, suffered considerable damage. Three Hungry Men Die. Throe deaths In the city were charged to the severity of the storm. The victims were men who had spent tho night vainly seeking shelter and food and finally succumbod to exposure. More than fifty persons were Injured by falls. Seven-Inch Fall at Cleveland. Cleveland. O., Dec. 27. Tho heaviest snowfall In seven years has Impeded traffic in Cleveland, loaving many of the outlying sections snowbound. Street Car Crew Drowns. Seymour. Conn.. Dec. 27. A trolley car jumped a switch alongside of tho Naugautlc river during the storm and. plunging down the bank, crashed through the river Ice. Motorman Fred Beard and Conductor Marcus Donovan wore drowned. Tho five pnssengors escaped. Ice Block Ohio. Evansville, Ind., Dec. 27. A monster Ice gorge. 15 feet high and extending ont over a mile, is reported at the mouth of Wolfs vreek, several miles above the city. The gorge is growing in size hourly and promises to tako in the whole bod of the river. Trains Held Near Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Dec. 27. A snowfall of 16 inches, which drifted in places to a height of ten feot or more, completely tied up for hours all steam and trolley traffic in this vicinity. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company announced that eight trains have been neld at Frazler, Pa., 3S miles west of this city, for five hours. FIRE IN INSANE ASYLUM Three Wards of Central Asylum Are Burned Some of Patients Suffer from Exposure. Jacksonville, 111., Doc. 23. No lives wore lost In the fire which consumed three wards of the north annex of the Central Asylum for the Insane last night. Somo of the wotnon are suffering from oxposure, having hidden in the grounds, lightly clnd, but none of thorn will die, according to Superintendent Carrlel. The refugeos are housed in tho annex. Fifty of them will be tnkon to the general hospital at South Bartonvlllo and room will be found for others In some of the other state Insane hospitals. Investigation shows that tho fire started In the north annex in a room which was uced for storing brooms and mops. The loss is 40,000. U. S. Life Company Solvent. Chicago. Dec. 23. The United States Life Endowment Company gained a victory when Judge Dupuy Instructed the jury to find In favor of tho company In tho proceedings instituted by Fred W. Potter, statu Insur ance superintendent, who charged that the company was Insolvent. Potter's application for a receiver was denied and the court held that the company should continue in business. Child Accuses; Father Held. Denver, Col., Dec. 27. A coroner's Jury which investigated the death of Mrs. Josephine Matilda Ehrhardt has decledd that she was poisoned and that the poison "appears to have been administered by Theodore Ehrhardt. Jr.," her husband. Ehrhardt Is under nrrost. The Ehrhardts came to Denver recently from Kansas City. They had been divorced, but were since on friendly terms.

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

A $50,000 monument to firemen of New York city who died at their posts of duty will be built In Union square next year. Formal announcements show that ten candidates have entered tho race to succeed the late United States Senator A. J. McLaurin of Mississippi. An exposition will be held In Now Orleans to celebrate the opening of the Panama canal and Incidentally the two hundredth anniversary of the founding of the city. Samuel W. Williams, candldato for vice-president on the Populist ticket In 190S, was stricken with heart failure at his home In Vlncennes, Ind. His condition Is serious. Robert E. Entrlken, a fireman, was killed and several other persons were Injured in fighting a fire at Dowinlngton. Pa., which badly damaged the large mill plant of S. A. Bleking & Son. Mrs. Clarissa Ward Marshall, an aged woman of Canandalgua, N. Y., who lived alone, was burned to death In her home. Her only surviving relative Is a son, Fred Marshall of Indianapolis. After drinking a pint of pure alcohol in an attempt to commit suicide, Joseph Bowden, a wealthy merchant of Salmon, Ind., succeeded In dying by stabbing himself In the neck with a pair of scissors at Hot Springs, Ark. He was despondeut over ill health. Robbers blew open the safe of the State bank of Centerllle, Kan., and escaped with $1,500. One of the robbers was fired upon by C. II. Brown, president of the bank. The robber returned the fire, drove Brown to cover and escaped. Neither was wounded. Monslg. Falconio, papal delegate to the United States, is annoyed over discussion of "the probable establishment of an embassy of the United States to tho Vatican." The story, said the papal delegate. Is a pure invention never even thought of in official circles. Statistics compiled by Judge Ralph S. Latshaw of the criminal court at Kansas City. Mo., show that since the passage of the "anti-gun totln law" homicides and felonious assaults with revolvers in Kansas City have decreased one-third. Tho law makes the carrying of concoaled weapons a felony, Entering the chapel of St. Joseph's church, Lexington, Ky., where he was to oliiciate at enrly mass. Rev. Father Edward WIesner, rector of the church, was attacked by n drunken negro, with whom he was compelled to fight In defense of his lifo. The priest was r-Infnlly wounded. The negro escaped. a codicil to the will of Georgo Rhodius. filed for probate, leaves tho residue of his estate, or about $500.000. to be appljd for Improvement of parks In Indianapolis. The original will givos only $50,000 to Eima Date, who has appealed to the Indiana supreme court for the annulment of her marriage to him. Michael Malone., Michael McGraw and Fred Malone, minors, were burned to death noar Harrison, Mineral county. Virginia. Patrick Malone and Frederick Dugan. who boarded at tho same house, are missing. Officers aro working on a clew Indicating that tho fire was started after the colebratlon by a man who had boon ejected. Fire that broke out at Des Moines In the old Jewish tabernacle at East Fifth street and Grand avenue, used as a mill, for n time threatened to destroy an entire block of buildings. The tabernacle and a few other buildings wero burned, causing a loss of $60,000. Thirty men were overcome In one house, but were rescued by companions. Kin of Roosevelt Is Dead. Xew York, Dec. 27. Elbert Roosevelt, a second cousin of Theodora Roosevelt, died at his country home at Pelham manor. He was 45 years old. He was widely known as a golfer. Artist Remington Dead. Danbury, Conn., Dec. 27. Frederic Remington, the artist, died at his homo In RIdgefleld following an attack of appendicitis complicated with aseptic peritonitis. THE MARKETS. New York. Der. 27 UVB STOCK-Sters ?4 25 Sj 7 50 Hons 8 20 fi 9 So Slwtp 3 00 h 4 W FLOlHt-Wlntor StralRhts.. 5 ID 4 5 W W 1 1 EAT December 123 f 1 23H CortN-Docember 0'Yq "14 OATS-Natural White 47H'tf H KYB No. 2 Wustern SI j 82?J nUTTEIt Creamery 31 KOG8 30 jjr 33 CHKESE G 13 CHICAGO. CATTLE Native SU-era J7 23 Q 8 60 Medium to Good Steer.i.. CW w " W Cov, Plfiln to Fancy.... 3 00 Ö 6 25 Cholro Hirers 6W ö00 Cnlvea , 50 4f 5 75 HOGS-1'acker " 75 41 8 00 llHftvy Hutehers 8 20 m 8 60 PI CT 6 75 Ö5M BUTT KR Croamwry 27 Ö 87 Dairy 2fHf LIVE POULTRY j KOGS 17 Q 35 POTATO BS (per bu.) ....... 35 q 4a KLOUn-Sprlni; Whoat Sp'l C 50 Ö 6 60 GRALN'-Wlioat. December.. 1 1 1 1R4 Corn. Dwmbor H Onl. necomhr iV fcV4 MI LAVA UK EE. QUA IN-Wheat. So. 1 Nor'n 1 16HO 1 17 May ' I1 Corn. May V Oats. Stamlartl ya ,e KANSAS CITV. G R A 1 N Wheat, No. 2 Hard ft OS 0 113 No. ! It! ; 1 SH 1 5 Corn. No. 2 Mtxwl M Out. No. 2 VTMi 55 Jf & Kyo CS Ö 70 ST. LOUIS. CATTbB Native Stecr t S3 f S 00 7xa Stf er - 530 HOaS-Piick- 8 40 g J g Rutrliern 33 W W SHEEP Natives 3 DO C 5 25 OMAHA. CATTLE Native Steer t 00 SM Stocken and Kuoders.... Cow and Helfera 3 00 5 SHEEP-Wethers 4 75 47 5 W