Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 28, Number 2, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 13 March 1907 — Page 2

THE NAPPANEE NEWS. Q. N. MURRAY, Publii'.ier. NAPPANEE, : : INDIANA A WEEK S NEWS IN ' CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF MOST INTERESTING EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Civilized World and Prepared for the Perusal of the Busy Man. REBUME OF THAW TRIAL. What promised to be a very dull session of the Thaw trial was made notable in the court annals of New York city by District Attorney Jerome placing himself in the position of openly defying the presiding judge. He declined point-blank to submit certain authorities to Justice Fitzgerald on the ground that the question of law involved was so elemental and the authorities so abundant that he must assume the court to have knowledge of them. Dr. Wagner was on the stand all day, Mrs. William Thaw waiting in the witness room. Mrs. William Thaw took the witness stand in behalf of her son Harry and told of the change in his mental state after he had heard Evelyn Nesbit s story. She broke down twice, and was treated with great consideration by Mr. Jerome. In a dispute with Mr. Delmas, the district attorney made his first public threat of asking for a commission in lunacy. District Attorney Jerome completed his cross-examination of Dr. Britton D. Evans, alienist, in the Thaw trial and began cross-questioning Dr. Wagner, another insanity expert. Both witnesses admitted that Thaw had an “insane knowledge’’ of what he was doing when he killed White. Counsel for Harry K. Thaw surprised District Attorney Jerome by announcing that their case was closed. Mr. Jerome said that on the evidence as it stood he would got to the jury and not ask for a commission in lunacy. He thought the case might be given to the jury by Friday, March 15. The defense in the Thaw case having rested, the trial was adjourned to give Jerome a chance to arrange his testimony, in rebuttal. Mrs. Evelyn Thaw was subpoenaed to bring into court letters from Stanford White. May Mackenzie and Howard Nesbit also will be called on to testify. It was reported that if Thaw is acquitted his family.will seek to separate him and Mrs. Thaw.

MISCELLANEOUS. Archie Roosevelt was somewhat im* proved and had a quiet rest, but Dr. Lambert said the danger, was not over yet. Abraham Rues, the political boss of San Francisco, who had been a fugitive from court, was arrested at a suburban resort by the court’s elisor, W. J. Biggy. ' The conductors and trainmen of the Santa Fe system are likely to strike unless the road concedes their demand of a ninediour day and a 12 pfer cent, increase in pay. . Leonidas Preston, the millionaire who died suddenly in the Hotel Cumberland, is believed to have committed suicide, the autopsy revealing in his stomach enough hydrocyanic acid to kill six men. A sudden, virtually unanimous and unexpected strike on the part of practically all the electricians of Paris resulted in the almost complete paralysis of the business of the city. . Repulsed by the woman with whom he was madly in love, Henry De Burt, a prominent contractor, fired a bullet into his head while standing in the doorway of the woman's home, 1416 Prospect avenue, one of Cleveland’s fashionable residence streets. He was removed to a hospital in a dying condition. The Nebraska house passed thesenate employer’s liability bill, affecting railway trainmen, and it now goes to the governor. Under the provision of the bill railroads are not permitted to plead contributory negligence as a bar to recovery, nor can they claim exemption from damage suits under the fellow-servant principle. , Two persons were killed and several injured in the wreck of a Great Northern passenger train near Ojata, N. D. Isaac Freeman Rasin, who for nearly 40 years had been the acknowledged leader of the Democratic organization in Baltimore, died of heart failure following an attack of apoplexy. ited train was partly wrecked near Tony, N. M. One passenger and a mail clerk were slightly injured. President Castro and Vice President Gomez of Venezuela- have been reconciled and the former will return to Caracas within a month. Logan E. Bleckley, for many years chief Justice ,of the supreme court of Georgia and a recognized leader of the state bar, died, agea 70, at his home in Clarksville, Ga. One man was killed and several injured in a mine explosion near Logan, W. Va.

In the trial at Danville, 111., of Will J. Davis, charged with manslaughter in connection with the Iroquois theater fire in Chicago, Attorney Levy Mayer, for the defense, took up the entire day addressing the court in an attack upon the validity of the Chicago ordinance alleged to have been violated. The legislatures of North and South Dakota adjourned after passing much important legislation. The bill to extend the right of suffrage to women was defeated in the house of commons, where it was talked to death without coming to a vote. The four-story building in New York occupied by William Green, a printer from whose presses “Smart Set” and “Town Topics” are printed, was burned, causing a loss of about $300,000. Andrew William Mulligan, 51 years of age, well known In the steel business, died at Mount Vernon, N. Y., from paraylsis of the heart. A suit asking for $10,000,000 actual and $30,000,000 tentative damages was commenced in the United States circuit court" at New York by the Pennsylvania _ Sugar Refining company against the American Sugar Refining company as an outgrowth of the failure of Adolph Segal. The report on the operations of the rural-delivery service up to March •!, 1907, made public at Washington, D. C., to-day, shows that there are now in operation 37,323 routes on which 37,174 regular rural letter carriers are employed. That William F. Walker, the defaulting treasurer of the Savings bank of New Britain, Conn., is also a forger to the extent of several thousand dollars is now asserted and a grand jury will consider this charge. - Perry Evans, teacher of a country school near Gotebo, O. TANARUS., who had whipped a boy in school, was assaulted by a number of the male students and injured so that he died. Two men suspected of robbing the Farmers’ Savings bank at Masonville, lowa, are under arrest at Manchester, lowa. Logan Guthrie of Fulton, Mo., was awarded the prize of $25,000 won in a contest, guessing the nearest to the total number of paid admissions into the world’s fair. Guthrie guessed 12,-* 804,616, the exact number announced by the management. After robbing the fine summer homes of John Cowles of Cleveland and W. B. Pratt of Elkhart, Ind., located on the Lake Shore drive, south of St. Joseph, Mich., burglars set them afire and both were destroyed. Hugh O’Brian of Michigan has been appointed marshal for the United States court in China in place of Orville Leonard, also of Michigan, resigned. Former Mayor Nelson Ames of Marshalltown, lowa, is dead; Col. A. W. Lawson, who organized the first Ohio regiment for the civil war, died at his home in Delaware county, Ohio. A severe blizzard raged throughout Newfoundland, blocking trains and damaging shipping. A fishing vessel with crew of seven went down. Judge James J. Dick of the Thirteenth Wisconsin circuit died at Beaver Dam.

Thirty-fiver men, women and chil dren were killed by an accidental ex : plosion of dynamite at San Andoes, Mexico. The United States circuit court at St. Louis rendered a decision overruling the motion of attorneys for the defendants in the government’s case against the Standard and auxiliary oil companies and specified individuals to vacate the order to bring in nonresident defendants and to quash the service upon them of subpoenas. George W. Perkins, former first vice president of the New York Life Insurance company and now a member of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Cos., sent to the New .York Life his personal check for $54,019.19 to reimburse the company for the Republican campaign contribution made from its funds in 1904, in connection with which Mr. Perkins recently was made defendant on a charge of larceny. E. H. Harrtman declared he was ready to make the advancement of a scheme of cooperation between the government and the railways his chief Interest. The revolution in Honduras was said to be increasing rapidly, but President Bonilla was making good headway against the Nicaraguan troops. Railways retaliated for the Nebraska two-cent fare law by abolishing all reduced rates in that state. The Michigan house passed the bill designed to prevent the copper merger, though the senate tried to recall it. Fire in Kalamazoo destroyed a restaurant and store and damaged the Burdick hotel, where two chambermaids were reported missing. Twenty persons were injured when a Rock Island passenger train was derailed at Topeka, Kan. The jury in the trial at* Wallace, Idaho, of Steve Adams for the murder of Fred Tyler disagreed and was discharged. Ao. m. mrancoeur, .a well KiioWff actor, and . St#ge manager for Maude Adams for many years, died at Pittsburg, Pa., of pneumonia. . Seven persont waffe huft In a Tailway collision at Neoga, 111. • Frank - Uampbeil, formerly piiihs Usher of the Lirpa (0.) Republican-Ga-zette, died in Lima, aged 74 years. Mr. and Mrs. John Baker were instantly killed at Donaldson, Ind., hy the west-bound Pennsylvania flyer. Frederick Huneker, a Jersey City letter carrier, is ill at his home of blood poisoning caused by a scratch from a tlnsled postal card ■ i *

With anew record for large appropriations and far-reaching legislation, the fifty-ninth congress was brought to a close. The last few hours were calm, in fact tame, by, comparison with what had been expected.- The president was at the capitol to sign bills and say farewell to the retiring members of congress. The minority thanked Vice President Fairbanks and Speaker Cannon, and Gen. Grosvenor of Ohio was presented with a silver service of 300 pieces. Mrs. Herman W. Quernheim, wife of a St. Louis merchant, was brutally murdered in her home. The senate of Kansas passed the anti-fraternity bill already passed by the house, which makes it unlawful for high school students and teachers to belong to fraternities. Col. Albert S. Tower, assistant paymaster general, has been placed on the retired list of the army on his own application after more than 32 years’ service. , The famous Masonic silver trowel, which is on its way around the world, reached Omaha from Sioux City, S. D., In charge of five past grand masters of the Masonic order. Saratoga, N. Y., has been definitely decided upon for the national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic this year. .- H. M. Brainard, a Cleveland business man, and his wife, filed voluntary petitions in bankruptcy. James and Philip Strother of Culpeper, Va„ were acquitted of the murder of W r . F. Bywaters, whom they killed because, after being forced to marry their sister, he attempted to desert her. Mrs. Nathalie Dole Latham, an American portrait painter, committed suicide in Paris. - S. John Lamoureaux, a member of the Massachusetts legislature, was indicted and’ arrested tor corruptly asking and accepting a gratuity. Attorneys entered a plea to quash indictments against Helen Bloomington, 111., charged with a church theft. The J. H. Crane Furniture company, one of the pioneer furniture concerns of St. Louis, made an assignment. The assets of the company are estimated at over SIOO,OOO. The safe in the Farmers’ Savings bank at Masofiville, la., was blown open. The robbers took $4,000. Dr. Columbus Hixon, one of the founders of the Kansas City Medical college, died at the Kansas City hospital, aged 80 years. An Indian woman said to be 140 years old died at Osorno, near Valparaiso, Chili. Cornelia Fitzgerald, daughter of Bishop James Fitzgerald, of St. Louis, died at Penang, Malaysia. The bishop and his daughter were touring the missionary districts of Asia and the South sea islands.

H. V. Graybill, a Peoria attorney, was sentenced to six months in the workhouse on a charge of having diverted to purposes of his own funds paid to him by Harry Roberts as alimony to his divorced wife. * Attorney General Bonaparte has rendered a decision which makes the importation of immigrants by states, as was done by South Carolina recently, unlawful, 1: 1 .■ ■ Senator Spooner denies that he will become James J. Hill’s personal counsel. , Seven terrorists robbed the University of Moscow of $20,000 . and killed a policeman. Mayor Schmitz, of San Francisco, pleaded not guilty to the charge of extortion. A passenger train on the Pennsylvania railway was ditched near Warren, Pa., and nine persons were injured more or less seriously. Members of the commercial clubs of several cities visited the Cuban battlefields of El Caney and San Juan Hill. Gov. Sheldon of Nebraska signed the two-cent passenger rate bill. The Nebraska house voted down a bill permitting Sunday baseball. The British steamer Lochgarve went ashore on Molokai Island and probably will be a total loss. The British steamer Tampican, London for New Orleans, grounded near Terneuse."" A bomb was exploded under the carriage of Gen. Neplueff, commandant of the Sebastopol fortress and he was Injured about the feet. Frank Fowler, a sawmill owner near Dothan, Ala., was arrested for the murder of his wofe. ' Legislation affecting the reported effort of the Calumdt and Hecla Mining company to get control of the Centennial, Allouez and Osceola copper mining properties was put in progress in the Michigan legislature. Former Senator Chandler announced that a second suit against Christian Science officials might be started by Mrs. Eddy’s relatives in a Massachusetts court. John C. ( Spooner, of Wisconsin, who resigned ills seat in the senate, is to be J. J. Hill’s general counsel and adviser at a salary of $50,000 a year. The poorhouse of lonia county, Mich., burned down, all the 60 inmates being rescued. Fifty-three members of congress flailed for the Isthmus to inspect the Panama canal. , Forty thousand persons made a rev*; olutionary demonstration in St. Petersburg after the- opening of the douma, and were dispersed by the police' with whips and Cossacks with Jances. - Official steps were taken-by the state .of Illinois to attack the validity of $32,000,000 in Alton railroad bonds issued by E. H. Harriman and his associates when they “reorganized” the Chicago & Alton Railroad company. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia university, and Miss Kate LaMontagne were married in New York.

DR. JOHN ALEXANDER DOWIE PASSES AWAY AT ZION CITY Founder and Deposed Leader of phristian Catholic Church Dies Almost Alone—Sketch of His Remarkable Career.

Chicago.—John Alexander Dowie, founder of the Christian Catholic Apostolic church, died at 7:40 o’clock Saturday morning at Shiloh house, in Zion City. He died like the fighter that the was, with his face to the foe, unafraid. Before the end came he forgave his rebellious followers, and his final words, which could not be understood distinctly, contained a reference to Wilbur Glenn Voliva, who succeeded him as general overseer and was ■ regarded bitterly by Dowie as an ingrate and a usurper. To the awe-stricken faithful few who wept at his bedside he promised that he would return to earth in a thousand years. He died as he had lived, ,a firm believer in his exalted position. Wife and Son Not at Bedside. Amid the former scenes of his greatness, in the heart of the community founded entirely by his genius and magnetic personality, the selfstyled prophet died unhonored and almost alon®. There were with him less

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than half a dozen faithful - followers, including paid attendants, and one gs them a negro. No kinsman was at his bedside. Hie wife and son, repulsed last November, when they endeavored to see him, were at their Michigan home, Ben McDhui —practically all that remains of the vast estate gathered by Dowie —when news of the death came. The man who had healed others could not cure himself. His indomitable will was forced to submit to the disease which had had him in its grasp for the greater part of two years, His faith in his own restoration to health was powerless against the effects of paralysis, dropsy and a complication of diseases. t Story of His Life. Born of Scotch parentage in 1847, John Alexander Dowie as boy was a member of the presbyterian church. Little is known of his early life. He went to Australia in 1878, when he was'3l years old, and there began his career as, “divine healer” and evan'gelist that in little over a quarter of a century made him the head of the Zion church, with a following of over 50,000 in every country of the world and the virtual master of property valued at $21,000,000. Had he been able to carry out his Mexican plantation scheme, the largest of his later year plans, he would have increased his’property to nearly double its value at the time of his death. Practices His Divine Healing. He passed ten years in Australia, most of that time in Melbourne, and it was there that he first began practicing divine healing. When he went there from Scotland he believed he possessed healing powers and his first trial was upon himself. He declares he cured himself of chronic stomach trouble. Reassured by this success, he went among the victims of the putrid fever that broke out in Melbourne shortly after his arrival there, and it was always one of his boasts that he cured hundreds of sufferers. In 1888 he left Australia and, with wife and children, landed in San Francisco* where he lived two years

Nicaraguan Amy Wiped Out. San Salvador, Republic of Salvador. —A Nicaraguan column, as a reprisal for victories of the Honduras army, attacked tile ■cavalry of- Honduras at tP®* guare. After three hours’ fighting the Nicaraguans are said to have been annihilated by the Hondurans. Lose Loot! Shoot Officer. Carlville, 111.—After dynamiting the post office safe two men engaged in a running fight with two policemen in which Officer Van MeCter was seriously wounded., The robbers got nothing.

before coming to Chicago. He and his friends always declared that he left Australia in order to enter a wider field. It was repeatedly charged, however, that he was compelled to leave to avoid apprehension on the part of the authorities. Real Career Begins in Chicago. At first his evangelistic efforts in Chicago were of a limited kind. He passed two years laying the foundations of his work and it was not until the fall of 1892 that he was t noticed in the newspapers. A born actor, he studied out those things that he had grown to realize made food for the news columns and using the ridicule that was at first heaped upon him as evidence of persecution, he made this as a plea for support. The faster he grew the more he became a subject for newspaper notice and with consummated skill he deliv* ered his addresses an hurled his philippics in order to hold that.notice and. if possible, develop it. When he came to Chicago it waa then the seat of numerous sects and

“religions,” but with only' two or three minor exceptions he is the only one of the leaders of the cults that succeeded. During the time of his growth his meetings were attacked in many places and broken up. Dowie was many times arrested and put in jail. Stones were thrown at him and his followers and at one meeting held in Evanston the city authorities turned the fire hose on him and his band in •rder to break up one of his meetings. Founding of Zion City. His first great business venture was the purchase of the old tabernacle building at Fourteenth street and Michigan avenue. After he had occupied this building for several years,, filling it nearly every Sunday, he developed his plans for the founding of Zion City. The north shore theocracy is laid out on a tract of land consisting of 6,500 acres, having a frontage of two miles on Lake Michigan and a depth of six miles, being crossed by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad. In 1900 Dowie took a trip to Palestine, where he passed several months going over the Holy Land. A few years later he made a special trip to New York city, taking with him 3,000 of his followers. This trip was his first failure. The press of the city so bitterly attacked him, showing up his past life, his career in Australia and other places, and he was finally vir tually driven from the city because of the hostile reception. The cost of the pilgrimage was enormous and was a severe drain upon his finances, and when he returned to Zion City he was broken in health and spirit. It was shortly after this that his health began to fail him and he made several trips to the Bermuda islands and Mexico for the purpose of recuperating. All efforts failed. It was while he was on one of these trips to Jamaica and old Mexico that he appointed Wilbur Glenn Voliva as overseer, giving him a general power of attorney, and through this appointment brought on the revolt against him and his excommunication from the church. _ . .....

. ..... •■■ 1 - Well Known Ohioan Dead. Cincinnati, O— Robert C. George, chief deputy clerk of the United States circuit and district court for the southern district of OkptfSo? the- past-HSt-years, died Saturday of asthmatic heart trouble, aged 61 years. Will Try to Oust Railroad. O. —After a conference vyth Gov. Herrick and Attorney General Ellis, the state railway commission decided to bring quo warranto suit to oust the Ashland & Southern Railway company.

MAJOR’S PURPOSE IN CUBA. Had No Idea of Going There to D® the Cannibal Act. An officer of the army tells how Maj. Whipple of the Second Massachusetts regiment, a veteran of the civil war hastened to Washington when the Spanish war broke out and offered his services to President McKinley. But all officers, as well as men, had to undergo a physical examination, and It was stated to Maj. Whlppl® that he would have to place himself In the hands of the examining doctor*at Worcester. No#, Maj. Whipple, while a man of great bodily strength and perfect health end activity, was a little deficient In the matter of teeth. An examining surgeon proposed to exclud®him on that account. Whereupon the major waxed wroth. “Gentlemen,” said he, “I’m going to Cuba to shoot Spaniards, not to eat' ’em'! ” The major Vent. —Harper’s Weekly. CASE OF ECZEMA IN SOUTH. Suffered Three Years—Hands and Ey®c Moat Affected—Now Well and la Grateful to Cuticura. "My wife was taken badly with eczema for three years, .and she employed a doctor with no effect at aIF until she employed Cuticura Soap and Ointment. One of her handsand her left eye were badly affected, and when she would stop using Cuticura Soap and Ointment the eczemacame back, but very slightly; but it did her a sight of good. Then wecomplied with the instructions in using the entire set of Cuticura Remeedies and my wife is entirely recovered. She thanks Cuticura very much and will recommend it highlr in our locality and in every nook and corner of our parish. God bless you for the sake of suffering humanity. I. M. Robert, Hydropolis, La., Jan. 5 ancE Sept. 1. 1906.”

Korean Women Advance. The Korean Ladies’ club held meeting a short time ago at which it was suggested that changes should be attempted in the dress of the Koreanwomen, that the matter of education should be held in abeyance for a> time, but that special efforts should be made along the line of life insurance, so as to protect the interests of women in case of the death of th husband. —Korean Daily News. David Belasco drinks an occasional cup ot black coffee while at work. The noted playwright has been known to toil steadily at his desk for 20hours at a stretch, taking nothing but strong coffee —a large cup every second or third hour. ONLYO.NE “ItKOMO QriM\K” That is LAXATIVB BIIOMO Qnlfilne. Simllarlr named remedies sometimes deceive. The tlrst ants original Cold Tablet is a WHITE PACKAGE with black and red lettering, and bears the signature of* Jfi.W.GROVE. 25c. Never judge any man’s worth by his size. A silver dollar is much larger than a $lO gold piece. Especially worthy of notice is Garfield 1 Tea, Nature’s- remedy - for constipation, sick-headache, liver and kidney derangements. It is made whojly of Herbs;. Every day in thy life is a leaf in thy history.—Lycurgus.

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