Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 29, Number 40, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 2 December 1908 — Page 6

The Nappanee News G. N. MURRAY, Publisher. NAPPANEE, INDIANA.

NEWSIOIES FOR THE Most Important Happenings of the World Told in Brief.

PERSONAL. Frank H. Hitchcock has been offered and has accepted the position of postmaster general in the Taft cabinet that is to be. Mrs. Eleanor Merton Cowper, a widely-known playwright and actress, fatally shot herself in her room at the St. Regis hotel. New York. John Gardner Coolidge, the American minister to Nicaragua, resigned from the diplomatic service. Ray Lamphere, charged with the murder of Mrs. Relle Gunness and her three children, by setting fire to the Gunness house April 28, was found guilty of arson at Laporte, Ind. Judge Richter sentenced him to the state prison for an indeterminate term of from two to 21 years, fined him $5,000 and disfranchised him for five years. At Vermillion, S. D. Mrs. Christina Clark, accused of the murder of her divorced husband, was found guilty of manslaughter in the second degree. Public Printer John S. Leech resigned and Samuel B. Donnelly of Brooklyn was appointed to the place. Wilbur Carr, who murdered Marshal Thomas Nicholson of Gowrie, la., last summer, was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Fort Madison penitentiary. George R. Sheldon, treasurer of the Republican national committee, filed the list of contributions for the recent national campaign. It shows 12,330 contributors. The total amount contributed was $1,579,578.27.

GENERAL NEWS. United States and Japan have made an agreement which not only contains a mutual guaranty to respect each other's territorial possessions in the Pacific, but defines the attitude of the two countries towards China, binding each to defend by every peaceful means China’s independence and integrity, and to give equal commercial opportunity in the Chinese empire to all nations. The agreement, in the event of complications threatening the status quo, binds the United States and Japan to consult each other with a view to acting together. The Philippines coasting steamer Ponting, carrying a large number of laborers from Narvacan to the rice fields in Pangasinan province, struck a rock and sank during a storm off the town of San Fernando, and about 100 persons were drowned. William Kallebrun of Jersey City shot and killed his brother Leo and then hia aged mother, Mrs. Victoria Kallebrun, in New York. Nellie Morton of Belleville, 111., confessed that she watched her sweetheart, Sydney Baker, chloroform aged Peter Waeltz, who was found with his skull crushed. Sixteen thousand miners attended the funeral of Rev. H. F. O’Reilly, rector of a Catholic church at Shenandoah, Pa., for 40 years. ■ All the collieries and schools closed and business suspended. Martin H. Halloran, a Pittsburg, Pa., mining engineer, was robbed of $3,800 in Kansas City. ’: Dr... D. K. Pearsons, the Chicago philanthropist' denying Tr -story that his fortune was gone, said he still had $3,000,000 to give to colleges. The Chipese government decided on Tuesday, December 1, as the date for the crowning of Pu Yi, the infant emperor. A hotel exclusively for Jews was opened at Seventy-second street and Lexiugton avenue, New York, where all the old Mosaic rules of diet will be observed. The Panama line steamer Finance, outward bound, was run into Oft Sandy Hook in the fog by the White Star freighter Georgic, 6 and sank within ten minutes. The Panama carried 36 passengers and of these three were drowned, together with one member of her crew. 0

The Grand Prize automobile race at Savannah, Ga., 402 miles, was won by Louis Wagner with a Fiat car. The contest was most . exciting and the pace was the fasten ever set in an international automobile race in America. A.' B. CummiES was elected United States senator to fill out the unexplred term caused by the death of W. B'. Allison by the unanimous vote of the Republicans in the lowa legislature. Warren Garst, lieutenant governor, was sworn in as governor in succession to Cummins. President Castro sailed from La Guaira on the steamer Guadeloupe for Bordeaux, for the purpose of* undergoing an operation at the hands of Dr. Israel of Berlin. * ' The revolt in Hayti is spreading. The rebels, .captured Minister of the Interior Leponte and Dut him to death.

Herds of cattle infected with foot and mouth disease were found on five farms near Detroit, Mich., and after a conference between Secretary Wilson and other officials the state was quarantined. More cattle infected with aphthous fever were found near Detroit and quarantine against that state was established by Illinois and Canada. The department of agriculture ordered a quarantine against the entire state of Maryland so far as cattle and sheep, etc., are concerned, on account of the appearance of foot and mouth disease. Prominent Frenchmen are involved in a great scandal resulting from the Steinheil case, and the truth about President Faure's death may become "known. Mme. Steinheil was arrested as a result of her confession that ever since her painter husband and Mme. Japy were murdered May 31 she has known who the murderer was and that she had been enacting a farce in her attempts to help the police find the assassin whom she wished to shield. The census bureau says the divorce, rate in America is higher than in any other country, at least one marriage to 12 terminating in divorce.

Protestant pastors throughout the Kansas and Missouri zinc mining district offered Thanksgiving day prayers for a higher tariff on zinc ore. Under circumstances puzzling to the police, Salvatore Baldona, a wealthy Italian grocer of Philadelphia, was found murdered on a sidewalk near his home in Chestnut Hill. Baldona recently received a number of threatening letters demanding money. As the result of a quarrel over a cock fight at Pocahontas, Va., Frank Butt of Bromwell, W. Va,, was shot and fatally wounded; Judge Owen, police justice of Pocahontas was shot through the lungs and Lee Carter of' Pocahontas received a bullet wound. Official denial was made in Hayti of the report that Minister of the Interior Leconte was killed by the rebels. Peter Cunningham and wife of Paterson were asphyxiated by gas from a leaky main, three children were overcome and three men were badly injured by an explosion when they lit a match to find the leak. Ernest Verweibe’s wonderful work as fullback on Harvard’s football eleven, which defeated Yale, has been recognized by President Roosevelt, who has written a letter to Verweibe congratulating him. The British steamer Sardinia of the Ellerman line, bound for Alexandria, with a crew of 44 Englishmen, 11 first and six second cabin English passengers, and ttarly 200 Arab pilgrims aboard burned close to the port of Valetta, Malta, and more than a hundred persons lost their lives, including the captain and many’ of the crew. William L. Hilliard of Boston, driving the Italian entry, the Lancia, won the international light car race at Savannah, Ga., averaging more than 52 miles an. hour for 196 miles. In Madison Square garden, New York, Dorando Pietra defeated John J. Hayes in what was practically a renewal of the memorable struggle between the two men in the Marathon race at the Olympic games in England. A large bulldog belonging to Benjamin Desom of Evansville, Ind., attacked his horse and killed the animal. Much property was destroyed and a number of persons were injured by tornadoes in Christian county, Missouri, and Delaware county, lowa. The Indiana monument to soldiers from that state who died in Andersonville prison was unveiled in the presence of Gov. Frank Hanly and staff and other notables.

Six riotous strikers were shot by deputy sheriffs in Keasbey, N. J., and Gov. Fort sent four companies of the state guard to quell the disturbance. An equestrian statue of Gen. Philip H. Sheridan was unveiled at Washington with elaborate ceremonies in which President Roosevelt and many other distinguished men participated. The hospital ship, overdue at Manila, was badly damaged in a typhoon. R. W. Drake, a prominent planter, was murdered at his home near LanevilYe, Ala. Robbers secured $2,500 from the bank In "fonawanda. Neb,, and S4J)6(P from a bank in Page, Neb. The department of commerce and labor has ordered the deportation of 63 persons who came from Great Britain under an alleged unlawful contract with the Firth Carpet Company of Firth Cliff, N. Y. Walter Wellman sued a Paris sporting paper for SIOO,OOO because it called his polar expedition “an American bluff.” Carl Loose, a New York baker, shot and killed his daughter Meta, aged 17, and probably fatally wounded his son Frederick, pastor of a Lutheran church at Yale. S. P. Three firemen were seriously injured and tea others overcome by smoke during a fire at the new Hotel Monroe in Butler, Pa.

Mrs. Georgianna Sampson of Palmyra, N. Y., widow of Harry Sampson, nephew of the late Admiral Sampson, was arrested charged with the murder of her husband, whose death was at first sajd to bo suicide. Judge Milo A. Root of the supreme court of "Washington, whose official actions are under Investigation by the State Bar association, has resigned. Thousands of the unemployed of London, carrying a banner with the words, "Work or Revolution, the government must decide,” marched through the fashionable districts of the c}ty. 'Three negroes who were arrested for the murder of special Deputy Sheriff Richard Burruss and the fatal shooting of Deputy John kail were hanged by a mob at Tiptonyille, Tena.

NEWS FROM INDIANA ! —— TELEGRAPHIC CHRONICLE OF HOOBIER HAPPENINGS. <€ . - TORNADO SWEEPS MARION Cars Blown from Tracks—Several Persons Injured—Thousands of > Dollars' Damages Suffered by Property Owners. s - 1 Marion. — A storm, approaching the proportions of a tornado, passed over Grant county Tuesday. The path was at least 200 feet wide commencing near Roseburg, five miles southwest of this city, and passing in a northerly direction it swept everything in its path. One mile west of here five box cars on the C.‘, C. & L. train, were blown from their tracks. Lewis Hoagwood of this city was riding in one of the cars and had two ribs broken receiving many bruises. All the buildings on the farm of Mrs. Matilda Holman, two miles northwest of here were badly damaged. The barn was blown down and the top story of the house blown away. The barn of James A. Whiteman, north of the Holman farm, was completely overturned. The home of William Whiteman near by was badly damaged. Although reports from the country districts are meager owing to the wires being it is known that a great deal of datfmage to property was done. .

To Amend Blind Tiger Law. Richmond.—State Senator R. E. Kirkman announced that he was preparing a bill, to be introduced at the coming session of the legislature, which seeks to amend the blind tiger law by eliminating the clause that makes imprisonment for violation of the law obligatory, and inserting a provision which gives juries power to assess a fine only andfjf they so desire to add a jail sentence. Because the present law makes a jail sentence obligatory, the juries in two prosecutions of blind tiger cases, in which guilt was reasonably established, failed to agree, a majority refusing to send the defendants to jail. Captures Fine. Stork. Elwood.—George Myers, an oldtime trapper and fisherman of this city, has caught a fine specimen of the stork species, the only one ever seen alive here, and will send it to President Roosevelt. The bird is a snow-white and is large as a fullgrown turkey hen, having a bill or beak like a kingfisher. How the strange bird came to be wandering around in the swamps adjacent to Whjte river, south of Perkinsville, where it was found in an apparently dazed condition is a puzzle. Still Held as “Suspects.” Logansport. Fred Kinney and Edward Morgan, the train riders arrested here on suspicion of having blown the safe in the bank at Clarkshill, near Lafayette, early Tuesday morning, are still confined in the Cass county jail, and they refuse to talk. In the car in which they were arrested was found a repeating rifle, which had the barrel sawed short. It was a 16-shooter and was loaded. Makes University Report. Bloomington. The report which Indiana university will make the legislative visitation committee when it comes here on December 2 was prepared in the office of President W, L. Bryan. The report is an exhaustive one, containing an account ■of the condition of the university as a whole and its needs of equipment and repairs.

Premonition Saves Lives. Rushville.—Harry Goldman, living four miles north of here, aVoke early in the morning and feeling a premonition of danger walked into the bedroom where his two children slept. He found the bed in flames and only by heroic effort did he succeed in carrying the children outside. Judge Gray Will Serve Till 1916. Connersville. Judge George L. Gray, who was recently re-elected* on the Democratic judicial ticket, has a long time to serve injjfflce. Judge Gray's first term will not expire until October, 1910. when he will enter on his second term and will serve until October 22, 1916. Flee from Dying Brother. Logansport;—‘Vincenzia Sarta, cut almost in two by a Panhandle switch engine, could not speak English, and when several Poles were brought to the dying man to ask him his name, they believed themselves accused of murder and fled. Sarta died. Appeal to Unwritten Law. Washington. The Hale murder trial is progressing rapidly and the state has finished the'lntroduction of testimony. It is evident from the opening remarks of counsel for the defense that a strong appeal to the unwritten law will be made. Dedicate Courthouse. Williamsport.—The Warren county courthouse, erected at a cost .of $150,000, was dedicated here. The principal address was made by Judge Rabb of, Iqdianapolis, who was judge of the Warren circuit; court for 28 years. John W. Kern, who Was to have made the address, was prevented from attending by illness. & . * - ' Will -Auction Thirteen Schools.. Columbus. Thirteen old schoolhouses will be sold at auction in Hawcreek ,._ . ■ . •

RAILROAD MUST PAY FOR LAND. Court Orders Lake Shore to Give $35,850 for Condemned Realty. Laporte.—The appeal to the Indiana supreme court from the Laporte circuit court, in the redemption proceedings of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company and the Gary Land Company against the Lake Shore Sand Company, was dismissed, and the railroad and land company paid into the Laporte circuit court the amount of a judgnient rendered in favor of the sand company last June for $35,850 and costs of the five weeks’ trial before Judge Richter. In order to secure 48 acres for railroad yards and other purposes at Miller’s Station, near Gary, the railroad and land companies brought condemnation proceedings against the sand company. Appraisers fixed the price at $27,000. FOX TERRIER SAVES LIVES. Hammond Family Owes Existence to Faithful Canine. Hammond.—A fox terrier saved the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lippell and their adopted son, Frank Dindendort, Monday. A leak in a gas pipe, while the family was asleep, filled the house with the fumes. The for terrier jumped on the bed and scratched Mr. Lippell’s face until he aroused him from his stupor. He crawled to the door and asked neighbors for help. A physician found Mrs. Lippell almost lifeless. Desperate efforts were made to revive her, and it is believed she will recover. JOHNSON TAKES UP HIS DUTIES.

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Seymour.—H. C. Johnson of Seymour. w bo some time ago was elected president of the Indiana Bankers’ association at its meeting in Indianapolis, has actively entered upon the duties of his new office and he hopes to see the coming year one of the most successful in the history of the association. Find Hermits Treasure Trove. Lebanon. —At the home of David Slay back, a bachelor who was found dead near Lebanon, the neighbors Tuesday found in a pile of corncobs an even $2,000, all in gold. The money had originally been tied up in paper, but rats had been at work and the coins were well scattered through the pile of corncobs. Mr. Slayback was eccentric. A few years ago he was worked for $3,000 by sharpers who sold him some worthless paper. Two years ago he built a church at Rosston for the Congregationalists there, paying all of the expenses himself. Funeral of L. W. Cates. Muncie. —Every city office in Muncie was closed Thursday out of respect to the memory of Luther W. Cates, the late city councilman. Mayor Lon A. Guthrie issued a proclamation asking every city officer to filose his place of business, and for ali officers and employes to attend the funeral of Mr. Cates.

Ruler Dead*; Cupid Delayed. ShelhgSflle.—Pon You, a local Chinese, 'departed two weeks ago for his qative country intending to 'marry as soon as he arrived in China. The death of the dowager empress since'his departure forbids any Chinese marrying within 100 days. "Phis will prolong his visit in his native country. . , Robber Takes Only One Revolver. Washington.—A robber broke into a show window at the Hatfield & Palmer hardware store with a brick and took a fine revolver. Despite the fact that the window was filled with guns, cartridges and revolvers;: only one revolver was missing. ” ——-V —- Miss Meda Gresham Dead. Corydon. Miss Meda Gresham is dead at her home on a farm near Lanesville, this county, where she was born and had spent her life of 81 years. She was a sister of Walter Q. Gresham, secretary of state under President Cleveland. Old Soldier Found Dead In Creek. Waterloo. EbenezeT Delong, an old soldier, age 77 years, was found in Cedar creek,, within 800 feet from his home. His skull was crushed and his head was one foot under water. It Is thought ha* became confused and fell off the Lake Shore bridge. „ Vandaiia Flagman Killed. Terre Haute. flagman for the Vandaiia at Sixteenth street, was killed by a fast passepger trdin.

138 DU MINE HORRIBLE RESULTS OF EXPLOSION AT MARIANNA, PA. SECOND BLAST IS FEARED Flfty-Blx Bodies Are Recovered, But Work of Finding Victims le Slow, Owing to Gases and Debtis. Marianna, Pa,, Nov. 30. —Fifty-six bodies, all but two- of them hoiriwere taken Sunday from the mine of the Pittsburg-Buffalo Cpal Company here, in which an explosion occurred Saturday, killing many men and casting into gloom what was until then considered the model mining town of the world. There is no doubt that the death list will reaclrd2B men. Officials of the company, who had staged that not over 125 mert had been killed, Sunday night admitted that 138 men went down the shaft to work Saturday morning. According to miners and others familiar with the number of men generally employed in the mine, the death list will exceed the company’s estimate by at least 50. Reports have been in circulation that a second and more terrific explosion is likely to occur at any moment. The company officials assert this is not true. There is considerable gas in the mine, however, and there is undoubtedly danger of a second explosion. - Many relatives of the victims stood all day close to the ropes around the shaft, but there were few of the harrowing scenes usually associated with a mine explosion. Most of the relatives are English-speaking people, who bear their grief in silence. It is estimated that one-fourth of the victims are Americans. As rapidly as possible the work of rescue is being carried on. At short intervals new men are sent into the mine to relieve other? searching for the dead. Owing to the dangerous gases and the mass of wreckage in the mine, the rescue work is slow and is being carried on with great precaution.

THREE THOUSAND HOMELESS. Great Flood Works Havoc In West Guthrie, Okla. Guthrie, Okla. —As the result of a 48-hour downpour in the valley of the Cottonwood river and Its tributaries, the Cottonwood overflowed here Sunday afternoon. Several hundred homes are partially under water in West Guthrie and 3,000 people are homeless. The river Sunday night was one foot higher than ever before In its history, and rising 12 inches an hour. Hundreds of people who refused to get out of the flooded district, believing that the river would not rise as rapidly as it did, fired shots of distress before sunset and many boats with an army of rescuers brought the tardy ones to places of safety. Street car service is completely at a standstill. The city’s water plant is under water. Five thousand dollars’ worth of cotton belonging to the Farmers’ Oil mill was washed away down stream and 2,000 bales are still In the water. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Ee roundhouse and shops are Inundated. All railroad trains in and out of Guthrie have been annulled.

WOODRUFF QUITS SENATE RACE. Withdraws in Favor of Root After Seeing Judge Taft. Hot Springs, Va. —Timothy L. Woodruff, chairman of the New York Republican state committee,. Sunday eliminated himself from the senatorial race in favor of Secretary of State Elihu Root. This action was taken after a protracted conference with Presidentelect Taft and was followed by statements by both Messrs. Taft and Woodruff. Aside from these statements, each of which concedes the election' or Mrl KSTO frt stlTcg6a“Sbls7ltor Platt on January 19 next, no details of the” conference were made known. South Dakota’s Gold Output. Pierre, S. D.—The report of ‘ the state mine inspector, filed with the governor, shows South Dakota's gold production for last year to have been the highest in the history of the state —57,460,000. The mica output for the year is valued at $85,000. Carnegie Sends $30,000 Check. Fayette, la.—President William A. Shanklin of Upper Sunday received a check from Andrew Carnegie for $30,000, in payment of his pledge to give that amount when $150,000 had been raised. Indian Bureau Official Resigns. Washington.—Maj. Charles F. Larrabee, assistant commissioner of Indian affairs, and for 28 years connected with the Indian service, has resigned, to take effect November 30. Detained Chinese Escape. San Francisco. —Twenty-one out of 116 Chinese held at the Pacific Mail dock pending the decision of the immigration officers as to whether or not they were entitled to enter-the United States, escaped from th§ detention shed at Second and Brannan streets about 12 o’clock Saturday night. Four of them were recaptured in Chinatown Sunday and returned to the shed. Immigration officials, the local police and the officers of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company are prosecuting a vigorous search for- the others.

HEALTH VERY POORRESTORED BY PE-Rli-NA,

Catarrh Twenty-five Tears—- , Had a Bad Cough. Miss Sophia Eittlesen, Evanston, 111., Writes: “I have been troubled with catarrh for nearly twenty-five years and have tried many cures for it, but obtained very little help. “Then my brother advised me to try Peruna, and I did. “My health was very poor at the time I began taking Peruna. My throat was very sore and I had a bad cough. ••Peruna has cured me. The chronic catarrh Is gone and my health la very much Improved. “I recommend Peruna to all my friends who are troubled as I was.” PERUNA TABLETS Some people prefer tablets, rather than medicine m a fluid form. Such people can obtain Peruna tablets, which represent the medicinal ingredients of Peruna. Each tablet equals one average dose of Peruna. Man a a-lin the Ideal Laxative. Ask your Druggist tor a Free Peruna Almanac for 1909. .

A Clever Fellow. “Did you friend make a hit at the literary club?” “I guess he did. He pronounced *Les Miserables’ in a brand-new way and then alluded to it as Victor Herbert’s masterpiece.” Washington Herald. Catarrh Cannot Be Cured with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the seat ot the disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, and In order to cure it you must taka Internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure la taken Internally. and acts directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is not a quack medicine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians In this country for years and Is a regular prescription. It Is composed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on tha mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of tha two Ingredients Is what produces such wonderful results in curing catarrh. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY A CO.. Props., Toledo, a Sold by Druggists, price 75c. Take Hall’i Family PUls for constipation. The Language of the Planta. “He didn’t care to write to h.er when he wanted her to arrange for a secret marriage, so he sent her a running vine.” * “What did she do?” “Sent him a cantelouDe.” ED GEERS, "The grand old man,” he is called for he is so honest handling horses in races. He says: “I have used years, always with best success. It is the only remedy I know to cure all forms of distemper and prevent horses in same stable having the disease.” 50c and $1 a bottle. All druggists, or manufacturers. Spoha Medical Cos., Chemists, * Goshen, Ind. Is This True? "I wouldn’t do for politics, I guess,” said the pretty girl. “I’d simply vote the way papa votes.” "In that,” remarked an observer, “you wouldn’t differ so very much from most men.”

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