Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 56, Number 11, Jasper, Dubois County, 2 January 1914 — Page 6

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INDIANA

PANIC

A lull point.

fellow can seldom carry bis

It is In order to publish recipes for mock omelets.

Gambling in food proper pastime.

products Is no

Some men are living examples, others are Itving excuses.

MAN'S CRY AT CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION CAUSES MAD RUSH AT CALUMET, MICH. STEPS BLOCKED BY BODIES Men. Women and Children Are Victims of Fiend's Act Hundreds Rush Down Narrow Stairway Trying to Escape From "Flames,"

PRESIDENT OF MONGOLIA

The modem young man serenades hta best girl with an auto horn.

Some people's idea of modesty is to make it as conspicuous as possible.

When a dictator cannot dictate, he might as Weil buy his ticket to Paris.

Politicians ought to make good tango dancers they are expert side-steppers. " r Iondon military women are studying Jiu Jitsu and a merry time Is expected.

The Chinese republic must be sailing along smoothly. No word to the contrary.

Cold-storage is a necessity and so Is chloroform. Vet each lends itself readily to abuse.

France haa one saloon to every 82 people, hut then drinking in France is a ceremony.

The man who has something to say doesn't have to take much pains with his literary style.

That fellow who tried to swindle a lawyer out of money should be sent to an asylum, not to jail.

The fact that a woman while cooking pancakes Is ment against pancakes.

vras shot no argu-

The people who have set out to beat the egg trust to a custard will not fail if good wishes help any.

"What is worse than s drunken chauffeur?" asks an exchange. Oh. two drunken chauffeurs.

A passion for bungalows keeps the real estate men active and the furniture dealers on the friert.

One reason why a flat is bad for family life is that there is nothing for a man to do but wipe the dishes.

Calumet. Mich.. Dec. 25 Seventyfive persons men, women and children, some babes in arms were trampled and suffocated to death here in a mad panic to escape from what they thought was a burning building. What they really fled from was an insane man's cry of "Fire!" When he let out his fateful cry sevm a

eral hundred persons were gaiaereu round a great Christmas tree arranged for the starving children of the striking miners. It was the first touch of joy they have known in months. A moment later a human avalanche was pouring madly down a narrow flight stairs the only egress from the building to the street Stairway Blocked by Victims. In five minutes it was all over. The stairway was packed and jammed to the ceiling with dead bodies. Seven

ty-two were taken to tmaertaaing rooms and it is not known how many more were torn from the heap by grief-crazed parents and carried off home. The bodies of five rom, 13 women, 21 boys and 38 girls lie in a tempornrv mnrsnip established in the town

hall. Policemen, firemen and citizens pressed into service are visiting the homes of families known to have attended the celebration to see just howhigh the awful toll will be. Man Who Started Panic Sought. TWertives are seeking the scat

ter-brained or, perhaps. worse person whose shout started the rush to death. The miners, already desperate from months of fruitless struggle for better conditions and higher wages, are muttering threats against the Calumet & Hecla properties. Many think the cry of alarm was uttered by some one agent or employe, perhaps not in sympathy with the strike. Investigation later showed there wasn't a vestiee of fire in the build

ingnothing a blaze could have started from. There wasn't even a candle on the Christmas tree the people who gave the celebration were too poor to buy candles. For that reason they gave the celebration in the daytime.

NINE PERISH IN GALE

TERRIFIC STORM SWEEPS NEW JERSEY COAST AND EASTERN CITIES.

MEN SWEPT FROM VESSELS

Stranded Ships Are Engulfed by High Waves and Crews Die With Rescuers Near Damage to Shore Property Reported Heavy.

Outer Mongolia, having been declared autonomous, has elected the Manchu Prince Nan-Shan-Surun, its first president. He has been recently In Russia paying homage to the czar.

JUDGE APPROVES FILING SUITS AGAINST FRISCO

Now comes a crazy teacher and says people can catch cold by kissing. Who minds a little thing like a cold?

Don't blame that man for asking for a divorce because his wife wouldn't cook his meals. She gave him a raw deal.

An Oklahoma cow has swallowed $280. Which raises the question: How big must a roll of bills be to choke a cow?

A western professor advises people to pickle eggs and thus save them. Where are we going to get the eggs to pickle?

What a good time the children will have, after passing through the ordeal of being taught by civic organizations ho-v t play!

It was an Irish philosopher who observed that sometimes the man who digs a pit for another is hoist by his own petard.

The cautious man who always carries hie umbrella may not get rained on. but he misses a whole lot of interesting and Jiealthful excitement.

A self-sacrificing wife has divorced her husband in order that he may marry one he lores: but lent that a bit hard on the other girl?

Slit skirts are said to be roinr oiit of stylo and farsijfhted male citizens are thinking of locking up their extra trousers in iafe deposit vaults.

The famcas London actress who claims that nen ig. rm "brainy" girls must hae gone thr lgn a persistent siege of holding hand by herself.

A Los Angeles man called in a doctor to treat him for nerve trouble and before he departed borrowed a dollar from him Quick cure. that.

A scU nt it says time passes slowe I at the jnator. but we don't suppose that Scientist ever hung around Washington waiting for a federal appointment

First Cry Came From Door. There is some dispute among those who saw the man whose act is responsible for the loss of so many lives as to whether he was in the hall during the exercises. Two women who were near the door when the rush started, but pressed back against the wall and escaped being caught in the maelstrom of death, say the first cry came from the stairway. "Fire!" shouted the man. "Fire!" The crowd turned toward th stairs, but hey saw no fire nor any one yelling "Fire!" The next moment he appeared in the doorway, while all the crowd gazed at him spell bound. 'Fire!" he screamed. A low murmur ran through the crowd and it shifted uneasily. "Fire! FireV he repeated. He wavnl his arms and dashed down the

stairway, with death In his wmke. The next moment the crowd swept to the top of the stairs and began its maddened fight to reach the street. Women with babes in their arms were hurled over the stairway on top of their own and their neighbors' children. The frenzied shouts and

screams of the living mingled with the gasps and groans of the dying in a horrible tumult. Many of the frantic men and women fought to get to the windows, 40 feet from the ground. Some did. Half a dozen bodies, all of adults, crushed bevond recognition, were picked up im ncath the windows. But the few in the hall who kept their heads finally stopped the rush for the windows. . i

and when rescuing parties arrneu

those left alive in the hall Wew ex

hausted from their efforts.

Bodies Piled at Door. Men rushed to open the doors. They

did not then know the extent or tne -

horror and for some time tried to i kfl M ' ! la iMAfl I mmm

press tne d(X)rs mwaru. nus v.a iur

possible Finally axs were brought

and the doors were chopped off :h

hinges. Then the rescuers encountered their real trouble. The bodies wee piled

to the ceiling and to extricate them.

Will Attempt to Recover Profits Made by Officials of Alleged Illegal Syndicate. St. Louis, Dec. 27. United States Circuit Judge W. N. Sanborn has authorized the filing of suits against Frico railroad officials to recover profits made by the officials when they, as members of syndicates, built and sold Feeders" railroad lines to the Frisco system. In rendering his decision Judge Sanborn acted on two requests, one was hied by the receivers, and asked whether they as receivers, should

bring suit against the officials after a demand that they sue, made on the receivers by Miss Hridget Duffy, a St. Louis stockholder of the Frisco. Another request before Judge San

born was from W. D Niles, a wan street lawyer of the Frisco holder. Niles asked that he be allowed to bring suit to compel the Frisco officials to make restitution. In his petition to be allowed to bring suit, Niles named H. F. Yoakum, chairman of the Frisco board; Thomas M. West, a St. Louis banker, director of the Frisco, and formerly one of its receivers; W. K. Bixby. a former director, and James Campbell, Frisco vice-president. The profits Niles referred to chiefly were those made in the celebrated Brownsville deal.

20 LUMBER FIRMS OUSTED Supreme Court of Missouri Also Assesses Big Fines Conspiracy Is Charged.

Jefferson City. Mo.. Dec. 25 The Qiinrpmo rourt assessed $436,000 in

J V x . -w - fines and ousted 20 lumber corporations and revoked the licenses to do business in this state of five foreign lumber corporations in the case of the state ex rel Attorney General vs. the Arkansas Lumber company. Th opinion was handed down by Judge Faris. The respondents are found guilty as charged of a conspiracy to limit the output or amount of yellow pine to be manufactured in Missouri and fixing the prices to be charged in Missouri. The court suspended its decrees of ouster against the twenty companies upon condition they pay the fines imposed and hereafter obey the antitrust laws of the state. The court gave the companies only thirty days in which to pay their fines. If they fail to pry up the orders of ouster will be mare absolute.

Seabright. N. J., Dec. 27 Nine men were swept to death and damage estimated at fully $500,000 was caused by a gale that swept along the New Jersey coast at a rate of ninety miles

an hour, hurling the sea upon the land like a tidal wave. Thie city felt the full effect of the storm. Houses were blown or washed away. The city's lighting plant was put out of commission. Three hundred persons were forced to flee from their homes. Ocean Tragedy Is Enacted. While the storm was battering this city an ocean tragedy was being enacted on the coast off Seaside, NL J. There two boats were driven ashore.

To the mast of one of the vessels three men were clinging. The Forked River life-savinc crew tried desper

ately to reach the men, but the force of the gale and the vast waves drove them back. The men were seen to drop one by one into the boiling sea and disappear. While Capt. Martin McCarthy was leading the life savers in futile attempts to reach the shipwrecked men. word was flashed to Washington and the revenue cutter Seneca was ordered out from New York to attempt a rescue. The revenue cutter Itasca,

which was then at sea, was also ordered to the scene.

While the life savers were toiling in the terrible sea they prayed that the government vessels might come in time, but neither appeared soon enough to render any assistance. Damage at Seabright Heavy. Though Seabright was the heaviest sufferer from the storm, heavy damage was caused in neighboring towns by the gale and flood. When all sections are heard from the damage may go over $1,000,000. Sewer systems have been wrecked and the shattering of telephone poles and the breaking

of cables have left many Jersey towns

without light or power. Hundreds have been made homeless. Fishermen who depend upon their paraphernalia for their living have lost everything. Big Summer Hotel Collapses. Workmen are busy throughout the city trying to prevent the collapse of houses and other buildings that have been undermined. The Peninsula hotel, one of the largest summer resorts here, collapsed because of weakened foundations and immediately afterward the Barle

house also toppled over. Storm Sweeps New York City. New York, Dec. 27 A terrible gale accompanied by a driving rain struck New York and caused widespread damage. Hundreds of plate glass windows were shattered and signs dismantled, causing danger to pedestrians in the streets.

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Miss Peary, daughter of the discoverer of the North pole and who was born within the Arctic circle is one of the season's debutantes in Washington.

WILSON ACTS AS FIRE CHIEF ON VISIT TO MISSISSIPPI

MANY STARVING IN MEXICO

United States Consul Says Country Is Stripped Bare Japan Ambassador Protests.

The Nobel prize for literature goes to a Hindi nam'd Rabtndranarh Tagore. and almost any one will agree that I man uith BUCfl a name who can still think in poey deserves well.

In California women who vote must tell whether they are married or not. but the horrid men have not as yet arranged It so that the ladies will haw to state how many children they ha l

A Sin 1MB in Ueno wants a divorce

frm h-r husband because she says

be Is too much of a gentleman fo

her and sh' u" ls brutality for her

control With such a self made diau

nosis of her case she ought to get the medicine which she craves in liberal

4obe?. If the law did not forbid It

RAMPOLLA WILL STOLEN? Valet of Late Cardinal anc Nephew May Be Arrested Princess Claims Interest.

it was impossible The efforts from abandoned and it begin at the top work downward

below finally was was necessary to of the stairs and

through the mass. Houghton citizens pledped $1.200 for the relief of the relatives cf the j panic victims and appointed a com- i mittee to receive other contributions. Which are expected to be large Reso-

lutions were adopted extending sym

Rome. Dec. 26 The scandal started by the discovery that the will cf the late Cardinal Rampolla. Pope Leo's secretary of state, is missing, continues to grow. Sensational developments are expected. The center of the scandal is the nephew of the cardinal, the duke of Campobello.

I who was disinherited four years ago ' when Cardinal Rampolla found that checks bearing his name, but which . - A I

he did not issue were in circuiauon

tr the extent or aiu.uvu. l ue uunc ,

is a beneficiary under the old will of his uncle, which was made in 1S39. Princess Altieri. the duke's wife, who is legally separated from him and is tho guardian of their two children, has Instructed her lawyer to institute legal proceedings against Cardinal Rampoll&'l sister, the mother of her husband.

Washington. Dec. 27. Pitiful stories of Americans starving, conveyed in official dispatches, and the entry of Japan formally as a Protestant against the intolerable conditions in Mexico, marked the course of he Mexican troubles at the state department. Baron Chinda called the attention of the United States to the unprotected conditions of Japan's citizens. He directed special attention to the Japanese at Juarez and Chihuahua. Fresh stories of anarchy and starvation nf Americans and others came

.-' v. up from Mexico. Consul Canada made a sweeping report in which he said that the farms in the whole province of Tamaulipas are being stripped bare and that "anarchv" prevails outside of Tampico. Mexico City, Dec. 27 Fighting was resumed between rebels and federals near Mexico City. While withdrawing with seven prisoners the federals were overtaken by the main . . i!n i

party of reneis ana do Kineu. The city of Torreon has been captured by the rebels, according to reports current in government circles. Rebel troops are concentrating on Tampico for a final attack from three directions, according to reports received here. The battle that recently began at Tepic is still raging. The federals thus far have the better of the conflict.

President Sees House Ablaze in Pass Christian and Directs Volunteer Fire-Fighters. Gulfport. Nhss , Dec. 27. President Wilson and his golfing party recruited into service as firemen when a blaze broke out in one of the leading residences of the city, as his motor car passed by. When smoke issued

from the home belonging to a clone Jim Neville, a leading attorney of Gulfport, the president ordered his car to stop and two secret service men and two chauffeurs were pressed into service in a bucket brigade while the president directed their efforts. The blaze was quickly checked and the president was hailed by an admiring crowd as the best fireman that ever came to Gulfport. President Wilson mapped out a program of recreation for his visit here.

He will sleep at least nine hours a night, the quota he had hoped to get but often has missed. After breakfast he will go by automobile to the Mississippi Country club, thirteen m;les away, for a game of golf with his physician, Dr. Cary T. Grayson, rj B. N. At noon he will dispose of whatever important letters or telegrams may come from Washington, and after luncheon wil take an autoa mm ä M

mobile ride with his lamiiy. ionoweu perhaps by a long walk along the beach roads. The president plans to spend the evenings reading. With this proportion of rest and exercise, he hopes to get back to vigorous health again. While he will do little official work, there are two things uppermost in his mind the selection of members of the federal reserve board and the writing of a special address to congress on the relations of the government to "big business" and the trusts.

$300,000 FIRE AT DETROIT Old Michigan Central Depot Destroyed by Flames on Eve of Opening of New Building.

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This afternoon a meeting will he MRS. TUUNU Ii nt-CLCU I lU held to take up relief measures. Ar- ; raneements will be made for a com- ! Former Head cf Public Schools In

ADMIRAL GEORGE DEWEY 76 Hero of Manila Celebrates His Birthday at Desk Receives Many Messages.

Detroit, Mich., Dec. 27 The old Michigan Central depot built M years ago was destroyed by fire. Dama to property and records is estimated at $300,000. The old depot was destroved on the eve of the opening of the "new $10,000,000 Michigan Central depot. The new structure was to have been formally opened January 4. but trains were run into it and the change was made with little inconvenience. Th cause of the tire has not been determined. In the buildine. when the fire broke out, were employes, and it is expected that ever? one of them got out of the place. There were many rumors of people being trapped on the third floor, where the tire started, but these could not be verified.

I'lrte suspension of work during the funeral.

Indiana Bank Is First. Washington. Dec. 24. The Marion National bank of Marion has the distinction of being the first national bank in Indiana to apply to the secretary of the treasury for admission un-

I ier the new federal reserve system.

Chicago Is Again Chosen Superintendent. Chicago. Dec. 24 Supporters of Mrs Ella Flagg Young mustered a majority of the board of education to r störe her as had of the public

schools at a riotous meeting of the board Mrs Young was re-elected su-

Washington. Dec. 27. "Yes. I am ; now

seYenty-six. but I certainly do not feel ready

it. said Admiral Dewey as he greeted callers at his office. Despite the fact that it WSJ his birthday anniversary the hero of Manila was early at his foth sad looked over numerous presents and messages that came to him from all parts of the United States, if a man is as old a he feels," con-

I tinued the admiral, "I am at least a score of years younger than the record j in the old fareil:' Hible at Montpelier 1 mm

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Tolmon to Quit for ardon. New York. Dec. 27. -That Elmer K Tolman. son and business successor of Daniel H. Tolman, a money lender

serving a term or six monins. is

to surrender witnout reserve

notes amounting to ow.uvu, auu go out of business, to obtain a pardon for his father, is the statement made by Benjamin F. Spellman, counsel for the Tolmans.

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nerintendent of school by a vote o.' r.iucn as possiuie. anu mai ueiu ou13 lo 7 I derfully in keeping me up.M

Siam Envoy Holds Record. Washington. Dec. 27 The lates diplomatic list" issued by the tta deparunent discloses the fact that tti new minister from Siam holds ) record of having the longest nan among the diplomatic corps here h name is Phya Prabhakaravonga

HOOSIER NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD

Bloomington. The two-year-oW daughter of John Matthews, a Monon fireman, obtained a box o' Lver pills when playing about the house, ate nine of the pill and died in an hour. Evansville, Colonius Tahl. sixteen years old. colored, was found lyin on the floor of s. local theatori urn with a fractured skull, when the proprietor opened the house. He had fallen from the balcony. Terre Haute. Williajn F. Hummel, oil man of Casey. 111., was

eentenced to irom to o years in prison for bringing Inez Bond, aged thirteen, to Terre Haute and keeping her in a hotel two days. Indianapolis. In th presence of their twelve-year-old daughter. James T. Carney shot and killed his wife and then committed suicide by putting a shotgun to the side of his neck and blowing off the side of his head. Mrs. Carney is said to have remonstrated with her husband for drinking on Christmas day. Muncie. -Over-exerting himself in handling rush of mail in the last few days. Benjamin V Harrold. a rural route carrier, uncle of Orville Harrold. famous grand opera singer, fell dead in the po3t office as he started out on his route sith heavily laden. sack of mflfti South Bend. John Mazalin is In Epworth hospital in a dangerous I condition Äs a result of a vicious

attack on him by Julius Phipps, who is alleged to have stabbed him in the lungs during a brawl resulting from a

pre-Christmas celebration. Phipps is held without bond. Tipton. G. G. Campbell, postmaster, of Kempton, has completed an inventory of the property of the Kempt on post office, which was visited by safe blowers, and finds the total loss was $1.203.89. Of this amount there was $474.17 in the postal savings fund which h had not had time to bank. Government operatives made a complete investigation, but found no clue. Vincennes. Golbert Gillette, the Wabash county (Illinois) youth in jail on a charge of raising a $1 bill to $10, and passing it at a local saloon, was arraigned before Dftt! ed States Commissioner James ML House, and on his plea of not guilt j was bound over to the M term of the federal court in Indianapolis. His

bond of $200 was not met and Gillette was returned to jail. Chief of Police Thomas Robertson and Secret Bs llOS Agent Thomas C. Halls of Indianapolis were the principal witnesses against Gillette. Durham. Lake Shore train No 175, west-bound, with coaches filled

M-ith nflRspncprs. fieured in what,1

V A V A a. f-rsm. . . f - 1 9 railroad men term a miraculous wreck

here, when a tire on a smoking car wheel broke into pieces, derailing th4

coach while the train was running at

a fair rate of speed, throwing the pti-

seneprs from their seats. The carl

- was dragged along the rails a consid erable distance without hurling the

other coaches from the track. Traffic was blockaded several hours. None of the passengers was seriously injured.

Greenfield. Thomas Tinder or f ai mouth and Solomon J. Hodge of St. Louis, arrested in Indianapolis last week on a warrant charging them with obtaining money under false pretenses, were released. James Webb and others, on whose affidavits the arrests were made, had the charges dismissed. The men were agents for a stock food company, and Webb and others said notes offered for sale, bearing their signatures, were obtained under false pretenses. All of the notes were returned. Lafayette A bold burglar entered the homes of three of Lafayette's wealthiest families on Eastff South street and took his time in ransacking the places. At the residence of Mrs. Henry Taylor and Arthur Curm

tis he carried away some jewelry ana packages that were Intended to be sent out as Christmas presents. Not

finding any valuables at the home of

Mrs. John P. Gogen, he went to the ice box in the basement, took foodstuff. sat down and had a good meal. There have been many similar robberies in Lafayette in the past two weeks and the police are unable to find any clew.

Lewisvllle Albert Dishman. twenty years old. was killed and his father, Edward Dishman. was seri ously injured when a gravel pit on the IK M. Brown farm, north of here, caved in. Dishman and his father were working in the pit without companions and the side fell in with no warning of any kind. Raymond Goldhall, a farmer working in a nearb;field, heard the elder Dishraan s cry as he was caught and. after calling several other men, rushed to the pit. Edward Dishman was not entirely cov ered by the gravel. He was not unconscious, and, although hurt internau" ly and in great pain, directed the work of finding his son. The youuger mar

died as he was being taken out. Hammond. Fire destroyed Auditorium in Indiana Harbor,

largest building there. The loss win

reach $15, cue. Several families liv

ing in apartments on the upper floor I

escaped in their night clothes. Th

four children of Mrs. Barney Cohei

sre seriously ill with exposure, lower floor vu; occupied by Ban

grocery. Mice nibbling at match

the store room in the basement ai

litvfd tn have tarted the fire.

fire departments of Hammond. Whit ing and East Chicago prevented the destruction of the city, as the Auditorium was situated in it heart.

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