Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 25, Number 35, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 4 November 1903 — Page 2

THE NAPPANEE NEWS. G. N. MURRAY, Publisher. NAPPANEE, : : INDIANA. a iii§jS All the News of the Past Seven Days Condensed. HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS News of the Industrial Field, Personal and Political Items, Happenings at Home and Abroad. THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD DOMESTIC. Mrs. Catherine Reddy, of Yonkers, has been awarded damages of $50,000 for injuries received in a wreck on the New York Central railroad. Conductor James Rowan and Fireman Leslie A. Helm were killed by the explosion of a locomotive on the Pennsylvania railroad near Rohrerstown, Pa. Two students in Broadus college, the Baptist denominational school In Clarksburg, W. Va., have smallpox and the entire college Is under quarantine. The John Street church In New York, “The Mother Church of American Methodism,” celebrated Its one hundred and thirty-seventh anniversary. President Roosevelt, on behalf of the government, has accepted the $20,000 painting representing the signing of the peace protocol with Spain, presented by H. C. Frick. Six hundred employes of the International Tailoring company struck In Chicago In sympathy with their fellow workers who were locked out by the New York strike. The government Is building up a formidable fleet of revenue cutters on the great lakes, In view of the recent activity of Canada in enforcing boundary laws. St. Louis trust companies experienced a run, but by meeting all demands restored confidence. Dowie so far has failed to make a Mngle convert In New York, and has not collected enough to pay gas bills, thus Indicating that his $250,000 trip is a failure. John Mitchell’s book, “Organized Labor,” makes a strong plea for trades unionism, and in his review of the great anthracite coal strike he pays high praise to President Roosevelt for aiming st settlement. . 4 Unions have begun a war of retaliation on contractors in Chicago who have brought suits against lahor bodies with the intention of disrupting their organizations. Children are barred from a white school-at Richmond, Va., because their great-grandmother was an Indian. Mabel H. Bechtel, a pretty mill employe at Allentown, Pa., was found dead near her home with her skull crushed and two rival lovers and her four brothers have been arrested. “Young Corbett” was awarded the decision otfer Hughey Murphy at Boston after ten rounds of fighting. A wrestling match at Pittsburg for the championship of the world between Tom Jenkins, of Cleveland, (X, and Dan McLeod, of Canada, was won by Jenkins. William McAlpin mortally wounded s farmer named Little, in Smith county, Miss., and was shot to death" by a mob. President Roosevelt celebrated the forty-fifth annlversay of his birth and many beautiful and touching reminders of the event came to him from every part of the country. , The steamer Manhattan, with a cargo of 76,000 bushels of wheat, was burned on Lake Superior. The crew was saved. The annual report of Surgeon General Rlxey to the secretary of the navy ealls for more hospitals and hospital ships. Ira McGriff- a well-to-do farmer, shot his wife and himself at New Paris, O. At Memphis, Tenn., Dan Patch paced a half mile in :56 flat, aim paced a mile to wagon ini: both new world’s records. Engineer T. J. Pettus, Marion McComb, J. B. Higgins and John Thompson, negro firemen, were killed in a railway wreck near Bessemer City, N. C. Six white men were arrested ( at Lindwood, Ala., by federal authorities on a charge of whipping negroes. One thousand canning department employes at the stockyards in Chicago struck for increased pay. A run on the St. Louis trust companies was ended, depositors being reassured by the confluence in the institutions expressed by business men. Secretary Hitchcock days the western land frauds have been exaggerated, but promises to decapitate all officials found guilty of crooked transactions. Gov. Hunt, of Porto Rico, will next January be appointed United States district judge for Montana. At Grand Rapids, Mich., the general conference of the Wesleyan Methodist Church of America requested all members to vote the ticket of the prohibition Party. The National Union of Shipwrights, Joiners and Callers of America have established a nine-hour work day and will do away with all Sunday labor. At the Memphis race track Monk andEquity, driven by Mr. Bilings, their otftier, lowered the world’s trotting record for a mile t 6 pole to 2:08. The cruiser Baltimore has been sent to Puerto Plata, San Domingo, to look after American interests at that blockaded port. - Drivers of all St. Louis express companies, to the number of 400, went on •trike for Increased pay.

Appropriations needed for the District of Columbia government for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1904, aggregate 112,885,825. Cincinnati Is making an effort to get the republican national convention. The First Baptist church, of Chicago, celebrated the seventieth anniversary of its organization with three meetings. The cities of Whatcom and Fair Haven, Wash., .have voted to consolidate under the name of Bellingham. To reduce expenses the Erie Railroad company has discharged ten percent, of the working force In its various shops on the system. The one hundred and fifty-seventh annual session of the eastern synod of the Reformed Church of the United States convened at Lebanon, Pa. Thomas Bechtel, held at Allentown, Pa., on the charge of murdering his sister Mabel, committed suietde in his cell by cutting his throat. Representatives of employers from all parts of the United States met in Chicago to form a national association to combat labor unions. Fully 1,000 business men in Brooklyn, N. Y., have been victimized to the extent of $25,000 by a gang of clever check swindlers. Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow has completed the abstract of his report on the postal investigation. John Bietner, conductor: Benjamin Brown, engineer, and Alexander Thomas, brakeman, were killed in a wreck of a freight train near Confluence, Pa. Mrs. Emma Booth-Tucker, noted in Salvation Army work, vai killed in a railway wreck at Dean Lake, Mo., and many other persons were injured. Mrs. Tucker leaves a husband and seven children. The run on banks in St. Louis has ended and business has assumed a normal aspect At Denver, Col., Barney Oldfield broke three world’s records for automobiles, going five miles in 4:43; ten miles, in 9:28, and 15 miles in 14:24^4. Among the passengers on board the steamer Cedric which arrived in New York from Liverpool were Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie. The tribute of Gloucester, Mass., to the waters of the north Atlantic in the last 12 months was 75 human lives and six fishing vessels. The 75 men left 20 widows and 49 children. J. Pierpont Morgan and a party of railway officials visited the tomb of McKinley at Canton, O. Because of a lack of negro labor five steamboats, including two United States mail carriers, are tied up at Memphis. , William Hays, the colored murderer of Edward Perkins (colored) at Masontown a year ago, was hanged at Uniontown, Pa. The first tunnel under the Hudson river Is completed from the New Jersey shore to within 75 feet of-the New York shore. Secretary Hitchcock received notice that additional indictmentsTiad been returned at Portland, Ore., in connection with the government land fraud casea Thousands of miners in the Pennsylvania districts paraded and held meetings in honor of “John Mitchell" day. Dowie denounced medicine and the newspapers. His lieutenants claim 50 converts have been made in New York. PERSONAL. AND POLITICAL.. Ebenezer Matthews, aged 102, the oldest man in northwestern Pennsylvania, died at Erie. Thomas J. Van Alystne, former congressman and former mayor, died in Albany, N. Y. Charles T. Saxton, former lieutenant governor of New York, died in th'e Rochester city hospital, aged 67 years. Rev. Pearce T. Rhoades, of Attica, Ind., aged 83, and Mrs. Temperance Whitenack, of Monmonth, 111., aged 70, were married at the latter place. Hon. A. M. Clark, past grand master of the grand lodge of Michigan F. & A. M., and for 25 years grand lecturer of the same, died in Lexington. Keokuk, the oldest Indian in the Sac and Fox tribe, died near Prague, Okla., aged 85 years. Keokuk, la., was named for him, as was also Keokuk, Okla. Breese J. Stevens, a regent of the University of Wisconsin and a prominent at Madison. John*E. Russell, member of the'Fortysecond congress, died at his home in Leicester, Mass. FOREIGN. . The czar has extended his German visit, thus setting fears of war in the far east at rest for the present. Ambassador Porter has begun negotiations in Paris for an additional clause in the extradition treaty bet ween the Unit l ed States and France to cover bribery. King Edward has approved the appointment of Sir Henry Mortimer Durand as British ambassador to the United States. The customs.revenues in the Philippine archipelago for' the first Six months of 1903 were $4,449,424, against' $4,338,4G7 for the same period in 1902. United States District Judge M. M. Estee died in Honolulu from an operation performed for kidney trouble. Martial law has been proclaimed in Bilboa, Spain, all the trades have joined the strike and 40,000 men are affected. Stories of Macedonian massacres by Turks are declared on investigation to be largely “.fakes.” Algernon Sartorls, former army captain and grandson of Gen. Grant declared in an interview at Coburg, Ont., that the United States should take possession of Canada. Horace L. Shattuck & Son, hardware, bicycle and automobile dealers at Lowell, Mass., assigned, with liabilities of $500,000. Sagatel Sagouni, president of the Armenian revolutionary society in London. was murdered in the suburb of Nunhead. Henry Klssenger, ex-state Commander of the G.iA. R. of Ohio, was killed during a G. A. R. parade in DaytoV by being thrown from his horse.

President Diaz says that the reported attack on his life at Guanajuato', Mexico, is absolutely untrue. Tod Sloan, the former champion Jockey, is reported to be working as a chauffeur at Paris for a paltry Balary and to lack clothes and a place to sleep. France will join Russia and Austria in enforcing Macedonian reforms. A ministerial organ in Canada declares for independence from Great Britain, or at least a mere recognition of King Edward’s sovereignty. Six persons were killed and a hundred injured during conflicts with strikers at Bilboa, Spain. Russian steamers collided off Hokodate, Japan, and 44 persons were drowned. The government of Peru has called an extraordinary session of congress for November 3. Sir Thomas Lipton’s offer of a cup for a trans-Atlantic yacht race in 1904 has been withdrawn to permit an offer from Emperor William. Riots in Paris between workmen and police resulted in 145 being injured. LATER. The remains of Mrs. Emma BoothTucker, who was killed In a rail way acrident at Dean Lake. Mo., will be burled In Woodlawn cemetery In Brooklyn, N. Y. The First national bank at Toronto, S. D., was robbed es SSOO In sliver. A combine organized In Peoria, 111., with $1,500,000 capital, which proposed to control the leading retail groceries of the country, has come to an end. Albert Jones & Cos., bankers at Mount Airy, Md., made an assignment with liabilities of $135,000. There were 217 business failures in the United States during the seven days ended on the 30th, against 216 the same week in 1902. LonShawandJimChambers (colored), who killed a negro man, were hanged on the same gallows at Luverne, Ala. Edward Tanner, an Insane Swiss, was arrested at the white house while seeking President Roosevelt to obtain protection from his enemies. The will of the late Senator Farwell, of Chicago, leaves $2,000,000 to his family. Dowle during a discourse said that the host had visited 600,000 homes In New York and had everywhere been received with courtesy. An extensive find of gold has been made in Adams county, Wis., near Kilbourn. Acting Secretary Moore, of the department of agriculture; says appropriations needed for the next fiscal year aggregate $6,009,880.. Weekly trade reviews say that the aggregate volume of business throughout the country is large. David M. Parry, of Indianapolis, was in Chicago elected president of the Citizens’ Industrial Association of America, organized to combat labor unions. Col. William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) Announces that: he wilUrettre from the show business. Train wreckers threw a train on the Santa Fe road from the track near Fowler, Col., and over 30 persons were injured, none fatally. Horace L. Green, editor and publisher of tjie Free Thought Magazine, and his wife were asphyxiated by gas at their home in Chicago. J. L. Perkins & Cos., wholesale dealers in tinplate and metals in Chicago, failed, with liabilities of $200,000. Samuel J. Parks, walking delegate of Housesmiths’ and Bridgeman’s union No. 2, was convicted in New York of extortion and remanded for sentence a week hence. A cyclone near Hydro, Okla., killed Mrs. William Brown and her two children, Frank, aged 14, and Mary, aged eight, and seriously Injured a number of others. In an explosion at the Nertraam mine at Farmington, 111., Myron/ McKann, Ernest Anderson and William Jack were killed. Frank Rutledge succumbed to injuries received in a mine disaster at Norris, 111. Sixteen persons were killed and more than 34 injured in the wreck of a special train carrying the Purdue college football team for the game with the Indianapolis university. Several football players are among the dead. President Bacon and Cashier Butler, of the defunct bank of Lockport, 111., have been arrested on charge of embezzlement. The president appointed Sanford B. Dole, governor of Hawaii, judge of the United States district court qf the territory, to succeed the late Morris M. Estee. George R. Carter, secretary of Hawaii, was appointed governor, to succeed Gov. Dole. Funeral services over the remains of the late Emma Booth-Tucker were held in Carnegie hall, New York. Prof. Theodore Mommsen, Hie historian, died at Charlottenburg, Germany. He was 86 years old. ' The,.president has issued his annual Thanksgiving proclamation. Thursday, November 26, is the date. J. M. Young, manager of the Great Northern, building, Chicago, committed suicide. 11l health is believed to be the cause.-—. Four persons, ail white, were killed instantly and a corpse was torn from its coffin by a locomotive of a train on the Southern railway near Concord. N. C. The terms of the will left by United States Senator Charles B. Farweil, of Illinois, who died September 23, showed approximately $2,000,000 remains to be divided among his heirs; Fire destroyed the “House of All Nations,” ’a five-story tenement in New York city. Twenty-four persons, perished. Chief of Police George Airey, of Morgan Park, a Chicago suburb, was shot and killed by a colored man whom he had arrested for playing Halloween pranks. The Vatican authorities believe $lO,-. OOO.QOO would'be accepted by the Philippine friars for their lands. They would then leave the islands."

TERRIBLE DISASTER. Trains Collide Near Indianapolis—Sixteen Persona Are Killed and Many Injured. Indianapolis, Nov. 2.—Sixteen persons were killed and two-score injured, more than half of them seriously, in the wreck of a special train on the Big Four railroad bearing nearly 1,000 passengers, in the vicinity of Riverside Park at 11 o’clock Saturday morning. Ten of the dead were members of the Purdue University football team, which was to have played Indiana University for the state championship here In the afternoon, and nearly all of the people on the train were residents of Lafayette, who had come to see the contest. A list of the dead is as follows: Joseph Coats, substitute player, Lafayette; G. S. Drolllnger, beheaded; Wal-# ter Furr, substitute, Corpus Christ!, Tex.; W. H. Grube, substitute, Butler, Ind.; Jay Hamilton, substitute player, Huntington, Ind.; W. D. Hamilton, center rush, Lafayette; N. R. Howard, Lafayette; Patrick McClair, Chicago, assistant coach; R. J. Powell, Corpus Christ!, Tex.; Bert Price, Spencer, Ind., substitute; E. C. Robertson, assistant coach; Walter Robertson; Walter It. Rouch, Pittsburg, substitute; G. L. Shaw, Lafayette; Sam Squibb, Lafayette; Samuel Truitt, substitute. William Bailey, of New Richmond, Ind., the sixteenth victim of the wreck, died Sunday. Many others are in a serious condition. There are 34 in the hospitals here, 33 of whom are students. A misunderstanding of orders is said to have caused the wreck. The tracks were not cleared for the special, which crashed into a train of six loaded cars while running at good speed in a deep cut near Eighteenth street and- Holton place. The sound of the collision was heard for many blocks, and thousands of people rushed to the scene of death. Fifty or more students were under the huge pile of debris. One body was entirely beheaded and others were so mutilated as to be hardly recognizable. Two of the killed were brothers, the Hamiltons. One lived at Lafayette, the other at Huntington. The usual heartrending scenes of a wreck were magnified, as there were so many more mourners than ordinarily. KILLED FOUR. Train Strikes Funeral Party In North Carolina with Awful Results— Corpse Torn from ColHn. Charlotte, N. C., Nov. 2.—Four persons, all white, were killed Instantly, and a corpse was torn from its coffin by a locomotive of a southbound passenger train on the Southern Railway it a point four miles from Cdhcord Sunday morning. The dead are: John Key, Benjamin Lippit, Daniel Weaver and MlsS Lula Towhsend. AH the victims lived in the vicinity of the tragedy. They were in a wagon with the corpse of Mrs. Kate Lewis and were on their way to a neighboring burying . ground. At the point where the accident occurred the county road runs alongside the railroad track for a considerable distance, the view being unobstructed. The engineer -saw the funeral party but there was no cause for him to anticipate a tragedy. Just before the train was abreast of the wagon the mules drawing the wagon became unmanageable and swerved, carrying the wagon directly in front of the train. The casket containing the corpse was broken to pieces and the corpse was hurled through the air with the victims. HAVOCTn OHIO CITY. Cars Laden with Dynamite Explode In Yards at Crestline—Great Damage Is the Result. Crestline, 0., Nov. 2.—Crestline and vicinity were thrown into a panic Sunday night by a terrible explosion at 8 o’clock. Many buildings were shaken, and in some instances the walls fell. Church congregations were thrown into screaming masses of humanity. People who were at home were terrified by the fearful roar that was heard. Two cars of dynamite, which exploded in the Pennsylvania yards, was the cause of the excitement. The destruction is so complete and so great that it is impossible to say anything of the property damage or whether their is any life lost. Yardmaater Courtier and Clerk Geisinger, who were at work in the yard office half a mile away, were seriously and possibly fatally hurt by the destruction of the buildln’g in which they were working. Hundreds of Pennsylvania employes are at work searching the ruins for the dead or injured. - Dowle’s Crusade Cloned. New York, Nov. 2.—The closing day of the visitation of Dowie’s “restoration host” to this city was celebrated Sunday with almost continuous services at Madison Square Garden. Thirty-eight men and 41 women and girls receiving the triune baptism, about 200 receiving the right hand of fellowship into the Christian Catholic church of Zion, and something like 4,000 persons receiving the holy sacrament. The host will leave today over various roads for Chicago, but “Dr.” Dowle and some of his elders remain for the Carnegie hall meetings during the coming week. Battle Reported. Denver, Col., Nov. 2.—A bloody battle .ls reported ln Wyoming between officers and a roving band of Xirow Indians, who are accused of slaughtering game and stealing stock. One deputy and three Indians are said to have been killed and two officers wounded. Lons of Life Fenreil. Chicago, Nov. 2.—The sighting of an overturned hull in the lake 35 miles southwest of Frankfort, Mich., is believed by marine men to indicate that at least seven* lives have been lost The wreck was sighted by the crew of the schooner Vega. *•>

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