Ligonier Banner., Volume 45, Number 18, Ligonier, Noble County, 21 July 1910 — Page 2

. . The Ligonier Banne: LIGONIER, INDIANA e ey INFANTILE PARALYS'S. At various points throughout the country there are vivid recollections of the deaths due to the mysterious outbreak of iafantile paralysis. Not only children, but elderly persons were among its victims. At New York those who died fram the malady included a prominent business man anu a prlest who had visited young members of his flock afflicted with infantile paralysis and caught the illness from them. There were numerous cases in St Paul ana Minneapolis. Specialists in

the Rockefeller laboratories at New York have been working on infantile paralysis for a year, using monkeys fn experiments which have demonstrated that it is not due to an abnormal condition of the blood; but is an infectious disease of the spinal cord. Despite acreful microscopic search for a distinctive microbe, so far none has been found. Experiments are now directed to the discovery of an antitoxin for infantile paralysis such as that which has been used with marked success in the treatment of diphtheria. The knowledge that has been gained.of the -nature of the ‘giseaae is expected to facilitate the discovery of its cure. It transpires that the recent report from Germany that a certificate of inspection on importations of pork from America would be deemed adequate was erroneous. The German government has not removed its interdict in this regard. Kneowing that the special inspection for trichina has been abandoned in this country, Germany will no longer request special certificates as to that disease, because it is' realized thav no such certificates can be produced. -This, of course, leaves matters unchanged. But at present there 1s no 'worry as to exportations of Ametican pork because a short supply of hogs and an avid market for pork have caused ‘prices to mount to heights at which exportation is unprofitable. . A New York yachting writer remarks’ that the schooier Shamrock, once a proud bearer of the New York Yacht club pennant, has been “numbled” by conversion into a fishing boat with gasoline engine. The service may ! » humole in comparison with the royal service of a well-kept racing craft, but it is far from. humble in (‘qmprarisoq with the fate of the latest racers for the Ameriea’s cup, the mafority of which have gone to the scrap vard with their first paint on their plates. . ' - '

A French astronomer announces that the comet which was visible recently

is not ‘Halley’s, and he promises that the genuine comet will appear in August. We positiyely refuse to get excited over any more comet announcements. It is too late Bow to get anything into th¢ magazines about an August comet, anyhow. .

An immigration inspector passed a woman who could not speak the language when her parrot, weary of the parley, ejaculated, “Cut that out!” “All right,” said the inspector. “Your parrot speaks English. That shows you have been in this country, as you say. You're admitted.” T.ook for a Boom 1n educated parrots. -

Ingenuity worthy of a better cause was that of a couple of Jersey r(?bbers who, on calling at a house and being admitted, bound angd gagged the inmates, after which one joyously played the piano to deceive the neighbors while the other gathered up . the! loot. This is the whistler.at the plow with a vengeance. e

It may become necessary for a benign.government to arrange a system of pensions for those who are killed or wounded in the war the automobile is waging on the human race. :

A New Jersey man receivec $2OO for a tooth he lost in a fight with - street car conductor. This is one of the c :dest as well as' most -xpensive cases of dentistry on record. According to a physician everybody will be crazy in 2175, if- the present ratio of increase does not decline. That will be a great year 0T musical comedies.

A Pittsburg sculptor arrested on a Paris street wore fiothing but a pair ot socks. He probably thought he was at home and sufficlently clothed {n smoke.

Man gets five years i~ prison for putting-dynamite on car tracks “just for fun.” It's horrible to think what would have happened to him if he’d been in earnest. - - feh

That professor who wants ir beciles killed at birth overlooks the possibility that he might not have survived to make the suggestion. )

The safe and sane coal mine f{s among the things eagerly hoped for, but as yet not probable.

~Edison plans to build a store where customers will be waited on automatically and clerks done away with. But will the machines be able. to stand the rush of Christmas shopping? :

It 1s pretty difficult for rich Amerteans returning from Europe to pass up the opportunity of notoriety from a customs hotse squabble. :

Virginia has a hen thaé photographs people on her eggs. Will the food comr mission allow retouching?

CRIPPEN 15 HUNTED

BUPPOSED TO BE .ON SHIP BOUND FOR THIS COUNTRY. -

CORPSE DUG UP IN CELLAR

Killing of Belle Elmore, Actress, Strikingly Similar to Charlton Case —Suspected Husband Well Known in Indiana.

l London.—Scotland Yard is seeking lDr. Harvey Crippen, an American | dentist, in connection with the murder ’}of, his wife. He is believed to be on | & steamer bound for New York. Crip- | pen was a native of Coldwater, Mich,, i and was educated in Indiana, where 1 he is well known, { The authorities Thursday cabled the | police of the United States to arrest {.Crippen, who, it is thought, sailed | from England Saturday. . | Doctor Crippen, who is said to be | fifty years of age, made his home | for some time at-39 Hilldrop Cres- | cent, North London. Some time ago [ his wife, Belle Elmore, a vaudeville '®ctress and treasurer of the = Music { Hall artists’ guild, disappeared, and | subsequently a notice -of her death | appeared. in the local papers. | The fact of her demise was gen- | erally credited, but there was more or | less gossip among the women inti'mates and this finally reached the ' ears of the police. The latter visited : Doctor Crippen and the interview ap- | peared to be satisfactory. , . | Doctor Crippen disappeared -last ! Saturday and a search of the Crippen | house was made and the battered body | of a woman was found buried in quick | lime and was; burned beyond recogni|'tion, but the finding of the body, to- | gether with other discoveries, has | left no doubt in the minds of the au-: | thorities that the murdered woman | was Mrs. Crippen. = . | The case is strikingly similar to. | that of the ‘Charlton murder at. Lake | Como, Italy. Porter Charlton was ar- | rested in Hoboken, but in the absence | of an extradition treaty between the | United States and Italy specifically | providing for the return to either | country of a citizen of the other coun- | try who has committed a -crime | abroad may go free. | . In the present case no such com- | plications are probable, as the British- | American extradition treaty leaves | no loophole of which a suspected crim- | inal may take advantage. | .Doctor Crippen, after attending | schools in Indiana and Los Angeles, | completed his-medical studies in Mich‘;igan, Cleveland and New York city. ;He practised in Detroit; San Diego, ; Cal, Salt Lake City, St. Louis and; | Brooklyn as an eye and ear specialist. | He married Belle Elmore, as she | was known on the stage, at New ! York. . ;

PITTMAN IS FOUND STARVING

Nicaragua President Reported to Have Badly Mistreated American Prisoner—Creates Reign of Terror. .

Washington.—The TUnited States must soon intervene in Nicaragua or allow peace to be effected there by England and Germany. Unmistakable significance attaches to important reports frrom its' diplomatic representatives in Nicaragua to the state department Thursday showing that Madriz, has produced intentionally a reign of terror in the western half of Nicaragua, in which fourfifths of the white people of that rerublic live. i i The dispatches show that Willlam Pittman, an American prisoner in the hands of Madriz, was inhumanly ‘treated by starvation and other privations since he left Greytown oh July 4 on his way to Managua. = : When he was put in prison in Managua it was in a “filthy cell,” five feet by six and there again he was starved. A prompt protest from Consul Olivares at Managua secured the transfer of Pittman to a better cell and the United States is furnishing the' money to feed him properly,-and it is also furnishing the money to take care of the relatives in Nicaragua of the murdered Groce.

The more serious aspect of the general situation is that citizens of Germany and Great Britain are protesting agdinst the reign of terror in western Nicaragua. ' Nicaraguans openly make threats against the lives of American citizens and there is nothing to prevent an immediate outbreak of street murders, arson, robberies, etc., which will involve all foreign residents in Nicaragua.

Killed in Mistake for Another,

Kendallville, Ind. — Albert Lehr, thirty-eight years old, was killed by five Italians employed on a section gang while standing on the platform of the Lake Shore depot. The shcoting is thought to be the outcome of the accidental killing of an Italian by a freight train three weeks ago. -

For Mine Rescue Stations.

Victoria, B. C.—The British Columbia government Thursday -placed orders in Pittsburg, Pa., for complete apparatus for three mine rescue sta: tions to be installed in the principal coal mining areas of British Columbia. ; :

Doukhobors Unclad on Trail.

Winnipeg, Man.—Doukhobor fanatics again have shed their clothes and aré on the trail. The mounted police have been sent out to . .restrain them. . :

Submarine Rams a Gunboat.

Provincetown, Mass.—During the maneuvers in the war game Monday the submarine Bonita rammed the gunboat Castine, flagship of the submarine flotilla, and to prevent her sinking she was run ashore and beaghéd. ‘No one on board was hurt.

Wisconsin Sawmlill Burns.

Wausau, Wis.—The sawmill of Brooks & Ross at Scofield was destroyed by fire Tuesday. The mill is valued at $50,000. A heavy rain saved the planing mill

START ON NEW_BEZF INQUIRY SUBPOENAS ARE SERVED IN THE : PACKERS’ PROBE. District Attorney Sims Takes Per sonal Charge of the Proposed Investigation. . - Chicdgo. — Under instructions from Judge Landis deputy. United States marshals will call prominent Chicago packers to appear before the federal grand jury to answer to the charges which have been made agalnst the National Packing company. - - Subpoenas were issued several days ago for different members of the packing firms, but they have been held in the office of District Attorney Sims, awaiting his instructions. Judge Landis will give the federal grand jury its instructions and while he is expected to tell them to make a searching investigation into the methods of the National Packing company, the government officials’ will be looking for the men named in the subpoenas. Men who are claimed to have violated the Sherman anti-trust law and others: who f{t is thought will be able to glve the details of the inside workings of the company will be called. PORTLAND SWEPT BY FIRE Ten Acres In Oregon City In Waste— Two Men and 150 Horses : Die. Portland, Ore.—Two lives at least were lost, scores of persons were injured, 150 horses burned to death and damage amounting to half a million wrought in a fire on the edge of the business district here Thursday. The athletic fleld of the famous Multnomah /Athletic club was swept by the flames and the magnificent grand stand destroyed. The dead are: F. R. Price, foreman of the United Carriage company stable, and a helper whose: name is Prude. Several of the stable employees are reported to be missing. The fire is believed to have started in the salesroom of the Oregon Brush company.- . The burned district covered approximately ten acres, but a large portion of this area was devoted to the athletic field of the Mulnomah club. The fire started in the old exposition building, an immense wooden structure on the south side of Washington street, extending from Nineteenth street to Twentieth, having a length 6f about 400 feet and a depth of 220 feet.

CALL RATES CONFISCATORY

Pullman Company Lawyer Says Commission’s Order Means Bankruptcy .~ for Big Concern. -

. Chicago.—Contending that the interstate commerce commission’s order for a reduction of sleeping car rates is confiscatory, attorneys representing the Pullman company and the railroads appeared in the United States circuit court to argue for a rehearing of their petition for an injunction to prevent the order being put into effect. :

An injunction was previously denied them, but they seek to reopen the case on the ground that they have new facts to present. , Attorney Fernald of the Pullman company told the court that the new schedule of rates would ultimately mean bankruptey for the sleeping car companies. It wouid mean a loss of $116,000 annually on fares between St. Paul and the points of Fargo, N. D., and Seattle, Wash., alone, he said. v " The reduction from St. Paul to Fargo is 40 per cent. on upper berths and 25 per cent. on lower, and from St. Paul to Seattle the fare is lowered 29 per cent on upper and 6 2-3 per cent. on- lower.

TRAINMEN SLAIN IN WRECK

New York Central Passenger Train Jumps Track—None of Passengers ' Seriously Hurt.

New York.—Three men were killed and a traln load of passengers badly shaken up when north-bound train 59 cn the New York Central, known as the Northern and Western Express, was wrecked Monday near Newton Hook, nine miles north of Hudson. Engine and baggage car jumped the track and toppled over. The six other cars of the train, all Pullinans, left the rails, but remained upright and no one in them was seriously hurt. Engineer Tyndall was caught under his engine and was flatly crushed, dying shortly afterward. The other trainmen were instantly killed. : A report received by the public service commission at Albany said the wreck was caused by the engine striking a door of a freight car that had fallen on the track.

President 0_f;53,090.090 College.

Brunswick, Me.—Prof. William T. Foster of Bowdoin college has accepted the presidency of Read Institute, a college to-sbe-built at Portland, Ore., from a fund 'glven by Mrs. Amunda Reed and now amounting to $3,000,000.

Man Aged 184 Dies.

Ripley, Miss.—Mike Cox, a native of Ireland, said to be the oldest man in the south, died here Thursday, aged one hundred and four years. He worked as a farm hand until he was one hundred years old. 2

$5,0C0,000 for Woric ‘air.

Winnipeg, Man.—At a luncw2on here to Premier Bir. Wilfred Laurier of Canada, given by the city Tuesday, he promised a grant of $2,500,000 by the government to the world’'s fair to be held here in 1914. An equal sum is promised from other sources.

Wreck Dead Now Total 23.

Hamilton, O.—Henry Oswald, injured in the Big Four wreck at Middletown July 4, died of his injuries in the hospital Wednesday. This brings the death list up to 23. :

T 0 FIGHT STANDARD | | !AMERICAN AND ENGLISH CAPI- | TALISTS ORGANIZE A BIG [ COMBINATION. E ae e 1520,000,000 IS SUBSCRIBED %Reported That Producing Properties fi in Oklahoma and California Are ! to Become a Part of f New Scheme. E London.—The largest organizatioyr ; that ever attempted to compete witk | the Standard O#l company was formec ; in London Friday. It is a-combinatiox { of American and English capitaliste | The Americans are represented by fSamuel Untermyer, who ‘engineerec | the combine. . Twenty million dollars have beer | subseribed to begin operations, $5, { 100,000 of it being put in cash by Eng | lish members. This has been shippec | to America to be used, it is under i stood, to purchase or secure options | on every available oil producing prop ferty in Oklahoma. But this will be ‘ only a part of the properties, as the { members of the syndicate own im | mense tracts of developed land ir | California, which are already yielding I a large revenue. { Th scheme also includes the build i Ing of the largest pipe line in the fcmmtry from the Oklahoma proper I ties. iy : :

Mr. Untermyer refused to give the details of the c_)rg'.mizati(m. but ad mitted the nature of his business ir London, and said that the necessary English gold had alreadv gone tc America. He said also that the en tire project was independent of Standard Oil operations. = ° “There is room enough for every: body,” he said. “and I am sure this will prove to be a tremendous busi ness success.” i

Mr. Untermyer would, not give the names. of the American members, sayfng it would be iradvisable before the project is further vader way.

ROYAL ARCANUM HARD HIT

New York Court Decides Order Can not Raise Its Assessment Rates Without Members’ Consent.

New York.—Supreme Court Justice William J. Kelly of Brooklyn handed down a decision in which he holds that the supreme council of the Royal Arcanum cannot- raise its assessment rates without permission from the members of the organization. . It is believed that the-decision deals a hard blow to the order. The case was brought to the attention of thae court by Samuel Green of Brooklyn, who is-a member of the DeWitt Clinton council R. A., and who at one time held one of the highest positions in the council.

In deciding in favor. of the plaintiff Justice Kelly declares that the society cannot assume an unlimited reserved power to increase the amount of assessment to an extent which might be prohibitive and could only’ result in depriving the individual of his membership. ;

SHALE ROCK CASES ENDED

Verdicts of “Not Guilty” Are Ordered by Judge Against Two Remaining Defendants.

Chicago.—Verdicts of “not guilty” in favor of Contractor Michael H. McGovern and Ralph A. Bonnell, former assistant city engineer, were signed in Judge Albert C. Barnes' court Friday, the jury acting in obedience to instructions from the court. By the acquittal of the remaining defendants in the identical way in which City 'ngineer Jjohn Ericson and Former Deputy Commission of Public Works Paul Kedieske had previously been eliminated from.the case the trial for alleged conspiracy to defraud the city out of $45,984.20 in payments made for ‘salerock extras” in the Lawrence avenue sewer case came to an abrupt end. The statute. of limitations has run and there will be no more indictments. COL. GUFFEY EMBARRASSED Business Affairs of Democratic Lead: er of Pennsylvania Are Placed ‘ in Hands of Receiver. Pittsburg, Pa.—The business affairs of Col. James M. Guffey, Democratic leader of Pennsylvania, member of the Democratic national committee and one of the best known oil and coal men of the entire country, were placed in the hands of a receiver Fri day. ; The assets of Colonel Guffey are estimated at $17,0&0,000, his liabilities at less than $7,000,000. Inability to realize on his assets, which consist largely of coal lands in West Virginia, is said to be the reason for Mr. Guffey’s embarrassment.

Twenty-Five Hurt in Bridge Crash. New York.—Twenty-five persons were injured early Friday on the Manhattan approach of the Queensboro bridge over the East river when a crowded car from North beach with a theater party aboard crashed into the rear cf a Flushing car.

Demand for Irrigated Land.

Washington.—The drought conditions in the west are reflected in the increased demand for irrigated land, according to Director Newell of the reclamation service.

Beef Freight Ratés Stand.

Washington.—The interstate com- ¢ orce commission announced Friday that the recently filed tariffs, making advances in the freight rates on cattle and dressed beef between Chicago and New York, had not been suspended.

Corporation Tax Payments.

Washington.—Payments on account of the corporation tax are now within a million dollars of the assessments made by the bureau of internal revenue. They amount to $26,285,723.

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ET another palace is to be added to the long list of those the czar already possesses. The new one is to be bullt at Yalta, in the Crimea, as the Big palace, .~ as it is called, has been found too Inconvenient since the Russian court began to spend so large a part of the year there. This new palace, which will be completed in two or three years' time, 18 to be ornamented with a kind of granite known in Russia as Balaclava marble, which, when polished, gives a beautiful .amber effect. The approximate cost of the Yalta palace is to be about $900,000, which {s by no mgans a large sum for one of the czar’'s houses. His list is not only long in itself, but the buildings glve house room to some of the most costly objects of art in the .world. Among palaces which are also, in their way, museums, may be noted the Winter palace, the Hermitage, Peterhof and Tsarskoe Selo, in or near St. Petersburg; the Kremlin, {n Moscow; Lazienki and Sala, in Poland, and the Great palace in Yalta. The Winter palace, the whole of which has never been photographed at once, is a vast red stucco building overlooking the admiralty quay on one side. It is a collection of vast, mournful rooms, many of which have not been occupied for over twenty years. It was from this palace that the people expected the czar to show himself on the memorable “bloody Sunday,” and on the open space before it that the crowds were shot down by his orders. Neither the eczar nor the czarina likes this palace and for many years the court has kept away from it. It has been rumored that it will be opened this year, but so far the blinds remain down and the shutters closed. A far more cheerful abode is Tsarskoe Selo, 15 miles from St. Petersburg. Here the court has spent the winter for several years. There are two palaces, the Catherine and the Alexander. The principal salons are known as the gold=n, the ballroom, the Chinese room and the agate room, but like most of the czar’s palaces the coloring is too varied and the ornamentation too rich to please western taste. The czar likes plenty of gold, turquoise blue and red in his decorations. Peterhof is an example of this, for what would otherwise be a beautiful palace is spoiled by means of the deep yellow paint, relieved here and there_by a little blue, which has been lavished on it. But the park at Peterhof dips down into the Gulf of Finland and the trees and fountains are very beautiful. Here, too, is a pond which thé imperial children delight in, for the fish in it have been trained so that when an attendant rings a .bell they all rush to the banks. Some of the fish in it are said to be over a hundred, years old and to have lived there since the pond was made. At Peterbof, too, is a funny little cottage furnished with a tiled kitchen. There fs a story that Catherine 11. used to amuse herself by cooking her own meals there and inviting ber favorites to share them with her. Nicholas L was also fond of Peterhof and built some baths in “the park. The view over the Gulf of Finland is superb.

Gatchina, about 29 miles from St Petersburg, has nothing of interest. For some years the dowager empre has used it as an autumn and wintz% residence. The czar does not often go ‘there, but he and his family ez caped thither from Peterhof some years ago when the sallors of the Cronstadt fleet mutinied and he feared they would attack Peterhof, which was within range of their guns. ‘ The hermitage contains over two thousand pictures and curiosities and gems which are said to be priceless.

Breathing at High Altitudes. A well-known English traveler, who recently gave an account of his mountaineering experiences in the Himalayas, seems to have formed some new ideas regarding the difficulty of breathing at high altitudes. At an elevation of more than four miles above the sea level he and his companions felt no inconvenience in breathing except what might be expected from: the muscular exertion they had gone through. Loss of sight, nausea, bleeding at the nose or ears and other unpleasant symptoms often described by travelers were entirely absent. But the heart was sensibiy affected, its rapld pace being easily perceptible and its beatings quite audible. : Two distinguished aeronauts, in the course of an experimental balloon ascent some years ago, nearly lost their lives by the effect upon their breathing organs of the highly attepuated atmosphere to which they had risen. But the altitude then reached was about double that attained by the Eng\shmap. in the Himalayas

Four trousand of the pictures which were originally intended to bang there have been distributed among the other palaces. This is one of the few imperial palaces open to the public, as the imperial family are kept as much out of touch with the outside world as possible. i

The Kremlin, at Moscow, is only used by its owners on state occasions. Coronations take place here, the czar placing the crown on his head with his own hands, whereas, in ether countries, this ceremony is performed by a priest of high rank. .Here, too, are treasures and works of art. It is one of the most imposing palaces in Europc, though most of the rooms are small and dark compared with those in modern buildings. Spala, being in the midst of forests, is used for hunting and shooting. The Lazienki, one of the prettiest and at the same time the smallest:of the czar’s palaces, hds only been visited by him once. It is built in the French style of architecture and stands on an island in the middle of a lake. Here Napoleon the Great stayed before marching against Russia, and the bed he slept in and the desk he wrote at are still shown to visitors, One of the chief attractions of Lazienki is the open-air theater, built on another island in the lake. The stage is surrounded by real trees and real water, while the audience sits on the share close by. The palace used to contain a great deal of beautiful furniture and rare bronzes, to say nothing of a very rich collection of old English prints. ‘But little by little dishonest officials have taken them out and sold them. Now the rooms are almost bare, while costly bronzes have been replaced by worthless modern imitations. ;

. Needless to add that the czar’s palaces are, for the most part, crammed with rare china, dazzling gems and heavy golden objects, some of them so rich that it is difficult to realize they are not ‘“stage properties” but real things of priceless value. He is sald to have more costly belongings than any monarch in Europe, the sul tan of Turkey not excepted. And yet hé never sees most of them, for they are stored away in rooms he has entered, perhaps, once in his life. A private collector, with one-hundredth part of these valuables would derive more pleasure from them.

In sharp contrast to these palaces is a small house in St. Petersburg, where Peter the Great used to lodge and work. The tiny rooms are simple in the extreme, 8o simple and poor that many a prosperous Rassian factory laborer of today would turn awdy from them in disgust. Only the barest ne cessities are here and everything has been left exactly as it was when its great owner dwelt there. Here the founder of Russia's greatness worked -and thought and laid his plans for the government of one of the vastest empires the world has even seen. This man, who planned a score of palaces and built a capitdl of frozen mud, liked best of all to dwell in these two tiny rooms, bereft of every comfort and through whose wooden walls the icy northern wind blew flercely.' In many ways Nicholas 11. has inberited his great ancestor’s simple taste; for he likes none of his palaces so well as his simple yacht Standart, where cleanliness is the only substitute for luxury and space so limited that his own cabin is little more than a cupboard. Those who know him best say he is never so happy as when on his yacht, with his ministers far away in Petersburg, while he is free to chat in the gunroom like any other mortal who knows not the weight of fifty crowns upon his head. ISAAC JAMES M'INTIRE.

An Aeroplane “Hangar” Is Latest. Work was begun recently on the new aeronautic field of the Aero club of Pennsylvania on the grounds of the Philadelphia Motordrome ° association at Clementon, N. J., which is expected, when completed, to be the most spacious and elaborate aviation grounds in Amerieca. A large force of men was set %o work laying out a splendid straightaway flytag course of 4,500, feet ard in scraping the first of the taketracks, 1,000x50 feet, which will be one of the most valuable features of the grounds. Within two weeks this will be completed, and at that time the first compartments of the “hangar” or aeroplane shed will also be ready for occupancy, so that by next month it is confldently- expected the first of numerous meets and exhibitions can be held at the new plant.

Sure Thing. - “Oh, they have their uses.” ‘*“What have?” “These barefoot dances. Since they cameé in lots of people sre beginning to understand art”

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