Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 29, Number 35, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 28 October 1908 — Page 6

The Nappanee News G. N. MURRAY, Publisher, NAPPANEE, ; INDIANA, mm | FOR THE § BUSY MAN g Most Important Happen- g 0 ings of the World p 8 Told in Brief. 0 PERSONAL. Setting up the plea of the “unwritten law,” Mrs. Nancy Murrill was acquitted of a charge of murdering Miss Mary Terry, in the circuit court at* Jackson, Ky.

Richard La Gallienne, the journalist and author, is seriously ill in a private sanitarium at New York, suffering from double pneumonia and jaundice. For bravery in rescuing two wounded comrades in Philippine service, Sergt. Seth T. Weld, now stationed at Camp Atascadero, Cal., has been appointed second lieutenant of the Philippine scouts. Broughton Brandenburg, the alleged author of the Cleveland letter, in which the ex-president was made to favor the election of Taft in preference to Bryan, was arrested at Dayton, 0., on charges of forgery and grand larceny.’ M. Gaston Thomson, the French minister of marine, resigned as a result of a vote in the chamber of deputies deploring the negligence in his department as indicated by the lena disaster. BULGARIAN SITUATION. A special dispatch to Paris from Constantinople says that negotiation* between Austria-Hungary and Turkey have been definitely broken off s the porte refusing to accept the annex* tion of Bosnia and Herzegovina as an accomplished fact. The latest phase of the Balkan difficulty points to the possibility of the most serious issues being. settled by direct negotiation before the proposed International congress meets, leaving to the congress the work merely of ratifying and legalizing the arrangements already made. GENERAL NEWB. ( F. S. Beauve of Plaquemine, La., shot and killed Prof. Fred Van Ingen on a train in Louisiana and tried to ■hoot Mrs. Van Ingen. The Van Ingens were on their bridal tour and the murderer had been a suitor for the young woman’s haqd. Charged with fomenting a revolution on United States s£ll against a friendly nation, Precillano G. Silva and . Lecantio Trevino were found guilty by a jsry in the United States court at El Paso, Tex. Speaker Cannon was specifically condemned in' a clause in the resolutions which' were passed at the final day’s session of the Illinois State Federation of Labor at Peoria. The National Woman’s Christian Temperance union began its thirtyfifth annual convention at the Auditorium at Denver. The series of brilliant functions which characterized Japan’s reception of the American battleship fleet came to a close at Yokohama with a dinner on board the battleship' Fuji. The reconstructed Zeppelin dirigible airship No. 1 made a triumphal reappearance and ascension with ten passengers. After a quarrel with his wife Charles Smith, an aged farmer of Toseyville, Mich., shot and killed Wil-11am--Dothan,- -a-“neighbor, at whose home Mrs. Smith had taken refuge, *na then "committed suicide. A disastrous hurricane swept the coast of Nicaragua, destroying the • towns of Rip Grande and Prinzapulka, doing considerable damage in the interior. There was much loss of life. Cracksmen raided the state bank at Heartwell, Kearney county, Nebraska, and secured $3,400. Secretary Root refused to issue a warrant of extradition sought for by Russia in the case of,Jan Janoff Pouren, a political refugee. Peter Marsoln, 18 years. old, of Crawford, N. Y., who received $250 for Walking .half way across the Continent recently, was struck by lightning and hilled near Lawrence, Mass. Joe James, colored, was hanged at Springfield, 111., for the murder of C. A. Ballard on July 3, last. The crime, t© which James confessed, was largely the cause of the bloody race riots inSpringfleld. A grandstand at Savannah, Mo., was blown down by a tornado and 23 highechool boys were injured, one of them fatally,- - Congress will be asked to make an appropriation of $35,000,000 for carrying oh the work on the isthmian canal during 1910. Servians' were enraged because an envoy from Montenegro to Belgrade was arrested by Austrians at Agram, searched and detained for many hours. The steamer New York of the Albany - line was burned at her pier in New York and four colored waiters were believed to have'perished.

The verified known death list resulting from the forest fires in Presque Isle and Alpena counties, Michigan, stands at 41, with several people still , reported missing and a growing" probability of severe loss of life in Northern Pulawski and Krakow townships I in Presque isle county. Forest fires driven by high winds were reported to be raging fiercely in the'Adirondacks. Sugar Island, Mich., was reported on fire from end to end. Near Detour several towns were surrounded by forest fires. Fires in Vincennes, Ind., destroyed the grain elevators of Bartlett, Kuhn & Cos. and the plant of the Empire Paper Company. Two sisters, aged 12 and sis years, are accused of a long series of robberies at Beverly, Mass. Two men were killed and five injured, one fatally, in a wreck of a gasoline • speeder on the Newton St Northwestern road near Gowrie, la. Emperor William's fourth son. Prince August* William of Prussia, and ! Princess Alexandra Victoria of Sch-les- | wig-Holstein were wedded in the I chapel of the imperial palace at Berlin. Many thousands of citizens of Tokyo marched in a lantern parade in honor of the officers of the American -fleet, the demonstration being one of the most remarkable ever witnessed in any country. The- Italian cruiser Fieramosca has been ordered to await the duke of the Abruzzi at New York, whither the cruiser Etruria also will be dispatched. It is understood that the two warships will escort the duke and his bride to Italy. Mr. Elkins Is to be given the title of chevalier of Annunciade. Maurice Tannenholz, a New York Jeweler, was robbed of two diamond earrings and fatally shot by the thief. ' Mayor Tom Johnson and the three--*cent street car fare suffered a crushing, blow, when the franchise under which, the Municipal Traction Company is operating the local street railway lines on the low-fare basis, was defeated by a majority of 879 in the referendum. Train service and business in the northwest were demoralized by a severe snowstorm and blizzard. The supreme court of Nebraska sustained the legality of the Nebraska blue laws forbidding all Sunday business transactions. Seventeen of the women suffragists who were arrested in London during the “storming” of the house of commons were sentenced to terms of imprisonment varying from three weeks to three months. Benjamin F. Gilbert, aged 18 years, was found guilty at Norfolk, Va„ of murder in the first degree for killing his sweetheart, Miss Amanda Morse. Lucile Mulhall, known as “Oklahoma's Cowgirl,” and Martin Van Burgan, a vaudeville singer, were secretly married in Brooklyn, N. Y., September 14, 1907, according to announcements made in Topeka, Kan., by the couple. Dr. Irving J. Cook of New York, accused of causing the death of a young woman, committed suicide in the Wal-dorf-Astoria hotel. ■ Torrential rains ckused serious floods in San Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. , ' • The officers of the American battleships were entertained at a fine dinner and ball by Premier Katsura at his residence in Tokyo. Col. Zachary Taylor escaped from the mob that murdered Capt. Quentin Rankin at Reelfoot lake, Tenn., by a bold dash in a rain of bullets. He was unhurt. The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission awarded medals to 48 persons for acts of bravery and gave about $40,000 cash to some of them. Belated reports at Manila indicate that the storm of October 12 in the Cagayan valley was the worst and most destructive within the memory of living inhabitants of the valley. It is believed 300 lives were lost. Asa result of ptomaine poisoning three children of Mr. and Mrs. Frank“ Hackert of Schenectady N. Y., are dead, the father is critically ill, one son and three daughters are less seriously affected. ■' . - A grand jury ' at Coalgate, Okla., exonerated the officials of,the Rank of Coalgate and recommended the removal of H. H. Smock, the examiner who had closed the bank. Frank C. Marrin, formerly a wellknown Brooklyn lawyer who was convicted of swindling Mrs. Caroline Barry, a widow, out of SBO,OOO, was sentenced to - from 15 to 20 years in state ! e*pcison. ■ " . Three burglars blew the safe of the post office at Mayville, Mich., but were driven away empty-handed by citizens. Mrs. Nels Ingvarhorn and her two children werjp killed by the explosion of a gasoline stove at Sisseton, S. D. William P. Dillingham and Carroll S. Page were formally elected to represent Vermont in the United States senate, at a joint session of the general assembly. *■ An incendiary fire destroyed the elevator of the Hungarian Mills Company at Denver, the loss being $450,000. The timely intervention pf a physician who was not satisfied with the appearance of the body prevented the burial alive of Mrs. Thomas Chapman, wife of one of the best-known citizens of Ellis, Kan. John W. Kern, Democratic vicepresidential candidate, was called home from his campaign tour by the serious illness of his little son- in Indianapolis. , Isy the terms of the will of Gregory Koering, filed in probate court at St, Paul, Minn., $19,000 is left in trust to pay for masses to be held in the Catholic church, ...... f

NEWS OF INDIANA STATED IN BRIEF TELEGRAPHIC CHRONICLE OF HOOSIER HAPPENINGB. RELIEF CORPS IN SESSION Meeting of District No. 3 Is Attended by Women from Many Centers— Other Dispatches of State Occurrences. V Bloomington. The annual convention of District No. 3, Women’s Relief Corps, was held in this city Wednesday. More than 100 delegates attended from Salem, Shoals, Brownstown, 'Seymour, Scottsburg, Orleans, New Albany and Bedford. Erect Cabin to Lincoln. Wabash. —The memory of Abraham Lincoln will be honored next year by Wabash county old settlers : when his one hundredth birth anni- ! versary shall have passed. The Old | Settlers’ association has obtained an j old log cabin, which has long been iin Wabash county. This will be removed and set up in the city park, . old settlers, dressed In the garb of : pioneer days, doing the work. The i cabin is to be called “The Centennial.” , Injured by Dynamite Cap. Kokomo.—lgnorant of .the dan- ! ger of a dynamite cap, Joe Fox and Edward W. Edwards, boys, had j narrow escapes from death at the Sweigart garage. Young Fox brought In a bit of wire and the cap unnoticed, and called to the Edwards boy to get a shock, fie touched the end of the connecting wire to a battery and an explosion followed, the force of which fortunately went upward, but inflicted lacerations upon the victims. Girl Dies of Oil Burns. Fairmount. Miss Alta, 13-year-old daughter of Lase Baldwin, died from burns inflicted when a can from which she was pouring oil into the kitchen range exploded, saturating her clothing, which was iftstantly ignited. The girl dashed out of the door, ran completely around the house and then to the home of a neighbor, who extinguished the flames by throwing a bucket of water upon I her. Indian Weds Fort Wayne Girl. * Huntington.—John Godfrey, a fullblooded Indian and the last male of the Miami Indians, has been married to Miss Edith M. Beckes of Fort Wayne. - He is a graduate of Carlisle and for several years was a teacher in an Indian school in lowa. He now is employed in a factory as an expert dyer of cotton goods. Like to See Horses Run. Wabash. Wabash has had a large number of useless runs by the fire > department as a result of false alarms. To prevent repetitions the city has offered a reward of $25 for the detection of any one turning in a false alarm. The department has had several long runs from people who de : sired to see the run. Boy Killed on Trestle. Fairmount. —George, the two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Holloway, was killed by a* Pennsylvania passenger train. Willard, his three-year-old brother, was thrown to the side of the track uninjuredThe boys Were on -a 30-foot trestle when the train bore down on them. Suicide’s Widow Gets Money. Newcastle. —An echo of the sui cide of Frank Litzenberger, a business and lodge man of Middletown, was heard in a. suit in the circuit court in which Judge Jackson ordered the insurance company to pay to the Widow $5,000, the amount for which Litzenberger had his life insured. Richmond Girl Elopes. Richmond. —Declaring many times 1 W.' i TJgf'“~phrer BT Imd friends that she would not get married unless sbb. eloped, Miss Jennie Wine, aged 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ledger Wine, carried out Her romantic- idea and with W. P. Marshall, aged 24, went to Newport, Ky., and was married. Engine and Car Collide. Frankfort.--A large number of passengers in an interurban car on the Northwestern line narrowly escaped death when it* collided with a Vandalia freight train-here. Motorman Harter thought the right of way clear and started across the track. Cannot Rebuild Plant. Goshen. —By a decision in the circuit court the city of Goshen was prevented from rebuilding -its commercial lighting system at a cost of $40,000. Victim of Shooting Dies. Richmond.—‘William Thornton, colored, who was shot by Sherman Kellar, also colored, died at Reid hospital. Deaf Mutes Hold Carnival. Brazil. —The deaf mutes held a carnival in Brazil in honor, of the birthday t>f Miss Sarah Austin of Terre Haute, who is visiting Mr. and ■Mrs. Walter Finley: The party was arranged by the mutes and was a surprise on Miss Austin. "Night Riders” Leave Note. Columbus —A bundle of switches, accompanied" by a threatening note, signed “Night Riders,” was H found on the front porch of Samuel j Sanders’ residence..

STRIKES AT BREWERS AGAIN. Attorney General Attacks Miller, Schlitz and Pabst Companies. Indianapolis.—Three more suits to oust brewing companies from their charter rights on the ground that ‘they have violated the privileges granted, them under the charter by the state were filed In superior court by Attorney General James Bingham. The state of Indiana, on the relation of Bingham, appears as plaintiff in each of the three suits. The defendants are the Fred Miller Brewing Company of Milwaukee, the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company and the Pabst Brewing Company, all of whom maintain agencies in the city. There are‘already five other suits of the same nature in superior court against other brewing companies of the city. The latest complaints demand judgment of ouster against each of the defendants, excluding them from exercising their corporate privileges in the state, from the holding or conveying of real estate for detail saloons and a temporary injunction restraining the officers from exercising any of the corporate privileges. Upon final hearing it is asked that the injunction be made perpetual. A temporary receiver is asked for each of the companies to dissolve the property and distribute all assets in surplus of court costs among the creditors. The Fred Miller Brewing Company is charged with having persistently violated the law for four years, with holding $25,000 worth of saloon fixtures and 500 parcels of real estate operated as retail saloons.. The Pabst Brewing Company and the Schlitz are both charged with owning $25,000 worth of fixtures, though the complaints state that Pabst has but 50 parcels of real estate, and the Schlitz Brewing Company 100 parcels. Both of the latter two Companies are charged with having been persistent violators of the law for seven years. Sues Ex-County Officers. Warsaw. —Suit was filed against i ex-County Auditor Eff Sharp, Re publican, demanding he refund $2,000 alleged to have been illegally received. Prosecutor T. Wayne Anglin says similar actions are to be filed against ex-Aud!t.or Wilcox, exSheriff William Mabie, who is a nominee for re-election; ex-Treasurer William Magee and others. Takes Up Axtell Inquiry. Bloomington. Judge James B. Wilson instructed the grand Jury to investigate the two Axtell cases. The grand jury first probes Mr. Axtell’s accounts with the'city, wherein he is charged with being $7,000 short in his accounts, and then takes up the alleged Real Estate association shortage, said to be $38,000. Hope to Stop Typhoid. South Bend. —So threatening has fever become in South Bend that City Health Officer D. W. McNamara has taken every precaution to end the epidemic. Asa first means of wiping out the disease the health officer calls upon the people of the city to wage a war of extermination against the fly. Receive Muricie Guests. Fort Wayne. Muncie’s business men came in a body to Fort Wayne Wednesday to examine business and industrial conditions here. ■Visits to the big factories, sight-see-ing trips and other features were arranged for* the entertainment of the guests by the local Commercial club. Inspect Railway Crossings. South Repd,—Judge William Wood of Evansville anl Union B. Hunt of Indianapolis, members of the Indiana railroad commission, inspected railroad crossings of the Lake Shore, Grank Trunk, Vandalia and Michigan Central here. Many crossings were found to be defective. Brothers Wed Twins. Fort Wayne. Two interesting marriages took place here Wednesday when two brothers married twin sisters. The parties were Simon C. and George Hilsmier and Amanda N. and Sopnia- Khiser. The . brothers are 24 and 22 years old, respectively,, and the girls 52 years old. ■ Farmers Capture Suspect. Goshen. A posse of farmers caught Leslie Stephenson, 23 years old and a farmer, who is accused of attacking the 13-year-old daughter of Allen Gripe. He was followed by the posse far two days before caught husking com in a field. > Murder Case Transferred. Jeffersonville. The case against Fred Wilson, Sr., charged with the murder of William A. Bower of Bethlehem July 27, has been sent to Jefferson county on a change of yenue. The case against his son on the same charge was continued. ■ - ' Checks Cause Man’s Arrest. Columbus—W. D. Long has filed an affidavit against J. W Taylor charging him with forgery. He alleges Taylor gave him a. check for srß, which was indorsed by James C. Laughlin. • Girl’s Assailant Sentenced. Goshen. —Leslie Stephenson, who was captured by a posse of farmers and brought here to answer the charge of assault upon the 12-year-nld daughter of Allen Gripe, was sentenced to the Jeffersonville reformatory for two to 21 years. Places Ban on Sprinkling. Bloomington. That the drought here has reached an acute stage is conceded, as the City Water Company issued an 'order against sprinkling. ■

SHIPS LEAVE TOKYO ft . . * , AJ* ; DEPARTURE OFTHE FLEET IS A BEAUTIFUL SPECTACLE. NOT A CASE OF DESERTION Behavior of American Sailors Elicits Praise from Japanese—Preparations for the Entertainments at Amoy. Tokyo.—The departure of the American battleship fleet Sunday was one of the prettiest features of the week, as well as the Anal event in the visit of the Americans^ The flagship Connecticut slipped her cable at exactly eight o’clock. She steamed past the Louisiana and saluted and was followed by the remainder of the first squadron. When, the eight ships had passed, the Louisiana led the second line, and the entire fleet then formed in single column. As each of the American battleships passed the head of the Japanese column, the crews of the ships of both nations cheered enthusiastically and the band on each of the American ships played the Japanese national hymn. When the last of the 16 ships was saluting, the Connecticut was invisible on the horizon. Within exactly 50 minutes the entire maneuver had been completed. The Japanese naval men are loud In their praises of the behavior of American sailors, and are appreciative of Rear Admiral Sperry’s bearing throughout. Among the enlisted men there was not a single case of actual desertion. Amoy.—Order is being rapidly established at the reception grpunds where the recent typhoon wrought destruction. Bamboo structures have replaced the ruined buildings, and the original plans for the entertainment of the officers and men of the American fleet are likely to be carried out fully. All classes consider the visit of the Americans a highly important event The schools will close for a week, and the custom house, the consulates, banks and large business houses will close at 11 a. m. each day. The revolutionist plot which was unearthed Saturday causes great anxiety, the government officials fearing that its ramifications may be far reaching. FINE GIFT TO SOUTH BEND. Y. M. C. A. Building, Presented by Studebaker Bros., Is Dedicated. South Bend, Ind. —The Y. M. C. A. building erected by Studebaker Brothers' Manufacturing Company at a cost of $250,000, was dedicated and formally given over to the association Sunday afternoon, before a large attendance. Col. George M. Studebaker made the presentation address, giving the property into the keeping of the association with absolutely no restrictions. Vice-President Charles W. Fairbanks made the principal address, paying tribute to the Studebaker brothers and their sons and thanking them not only for the city, but also for the state and nation, for their magnificent gift. J. M. Studebaker, Sr., head of the firm, and the last of the five brothers to whose memory the building has been erected, made a few remarks appropriate to the occasion. Ten thousand persons inspected the building. DOUBLE TRAGEDY IN SOUTH. Cowboy and Policeman Kill Each Other at Gulfport, Miss. New Orleans. —News was received here Sunday of a double tragedy during the night at Gulfport, Miss., in which a cowboy belonging to a wild west show and a Gulfport policeman lost their lives. While the show was packing #ip, preparing to leave for New Orleans, Lon Seeley,- the cowboy, Is alleged to have ridden into a crowd of negroes, beating them over the heads with the butt of his rerevolver. Policeman Lee Varnado started in pursuit of Seeley and the two men were "lost in view-In a cloud of dust. Later their bodies were found near the railroad, each body bearing' a single bullet wound, and each man’s revolver containing one empty shell. Seeley was the son of a*ranch owner living near El Paso, Tex. St. Louis Greeks in Bloody Riot. St. Louis.-*Twenty-five men and women and two policemen were injured, some seriously, Sunday afternoon in a riot that followed the arrest >f William Sarkis for fighting. The “struggle took place in the Greek colony at Second and Plum street. The mob demanded that the two policemen release their prisoner. The officers fired into the crowd but this did not stop the onslaught Finally a riot .call was turned in. reinforcements arrived, and the rioters were dispersed. A Greeks were arrested. , Lad Kills Brother by Accident. Harrisburg, Pa. —Albert Bell, a 12-year-old schoolboy, was shot and Instantly killed by his 16-year-old brother Raymond, while hunting In Wildwood park last Saturday afternoon. With the brothers on a hunting’expedition were three other boys, one of whom, without saying anything to any one, slipped a cartridge into the rijle which was the only weapon -they had. i Later On Raymond playfully ..pointed-, the rifle at his brother and pulled the trigger, the youth, sank to the ground with a bullet in his brain.

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