Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 29, Number 42, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 16 December 1908 — Page 2

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

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

WASHINGTON NOTES. The National Rivers and Harbors Congress at its concluding session, by a resolution, which was one of a series adopted, declared for an authorized issue by congress at its present session of $500,000,000 worth*a>f bonds, the proceeds to be used in the payment exclusively for such river and.harbor work as may be authorized by congress, provision for the issue to be similar to the Panama canal bonds. The house adopted a resolution providlng for the naming of a committee to consider the proper means of dealing with the part- of the president's message relating to the secret service and reflecting on members 'of congress. President Roosevelt declared that if the authors of the Panama canal graft charges could be reached for criminal libel he would try to reach them. William Nelson Cromwell branded the stories as absolute falsehoods. Members of congress who resent President Roosevelt's language in the part of his message concerning the secret service planned to rebuke him. Senor Arosemana, minister. from Panama, presented his credentials to President Roosevelt. That the outbreak of the foot and mouth disease now prevalent in several states was due to the importation into this country of either biological products or such material as straw or merchandise, or in the clothes or effects of immigrants, is the opinion of Secretary Wilson. Andrew Carnegie was subpoenaed to appear before the house ways and means committee to testify in the tariff revision hearings being conducted by the committee. The total estimates of the war department for the next fiscal year, as shown by the annual report of the secretary of war, amount to $189,755,039, an increase of about $52,000,000 over the appropriations for the present fiscal year. Secretary Wilson decided that flour bleached with nitrogen peroxide is an adulterated product under the law and that it cannot legally be sold in the District of Columbia or in the territories or be transported in interstate commerce. The government decided that the withdrawal of troops from Cuba shall be gradual, running into April. PERSONAL. United States Senator Hansbrough of North Dakota was atfficked by serious illness in Minneapolis. Abraham Rues, former political boss of San Francisco, was convicted of bribery. He is liable to a maximum penalty of 14 years in the penitentiary. President Castro was allowed" 'to land at Bordeaux and was assured by the government that he would be welcomed as a private citizen and protected. Charles E. Davis was found not guilty of the murder of Dr. Frederick T. Rustin in Omaha. President Castro of Venezuela, interviewed at Santander, SpffTn, said he would-latnV at--Bordeaux' and that''his trip was taken for the purpose of settling all the International quarrels of his country. His general health was good. . - John L. Sullivan, former champion heavyweight pugilis„t, was granted a dlvdrce in Chicago. Once reputed to be worth several million dollars, Samuel E. Gross, formerly of Chicago, was discharged in bankruptcy proceedings in the United States court in Detroit, Mich. Gov. Deneen will take the University of .Illinois “short course” in agriculture in 1910. v GENERAL NEWS. Umpireß'Kletfi and Johnstone, who officiated, in the, decisive Chicago-New York game in thd; National league, have made charges that attempts were made to bribe them. The Minnesota state stipfepm court affirmed a; decision of the' district court* holding it unlawful for a practicing physician to practice dentistry. Independence, Kan., voted A adopt the commission form of govenmrat. •Capt. James Watters of the British steamer Hornby Castle, which has arrived at Norfolk, Va., says the vast tract pf still water in the Atlantic known as the 1 Sargossa sea has -disappeared. The body of Rear Admiral. Coghlan was interred in the Arlington national cemetery with full military ceremonietr. E. N. Blacker, a prominent business man of- Bakersfield, Cal., shot and fatally wounded Adrian vod Flank, an actor.

Proclaiming himself to be “John the Baptist, come to save the world,” an armed fanatic, wrought up to a high pitch of maniacal fury, terrorized Eyewater, N. J. He appeared suddenly on the main street, waving a big revolver, held up the proprietors of several stores, exchanged many shots with a hastily formed posse and at last was wounded when the police and a mob of citizens ran him down. The lumber interests represented by the Weyerhaeusers, O’Briemfe Cook of St. Paul and Duluth and Edward Hines of Chicago are in Duluth working on the formation of a iumber trust which will control practically all the pinfe in North America. A woman leaped with her little son from the wjp(lgw„Q,f a bnmin& gaxagfi- * in Chicago and both,were so badly hurt they died in a few minutes. A force of 200 men, which landed from the Haytian gunboat, took without resistance the town of Gonaives, Hayti, and established authority there in the name of Gen. Simon. Frank' Cassini of St. Louis fatally shot his wife and himself. The Springport (Mich.) State Savings bank, with deposits of about $90,000, was closed by Banking Commissioner Zimmerman while an examination is made of its affairs. Eleven buildings in the village of Paton, la., were destroyed by fire. The Peninsular & Oriental Steamship Company will begin next year to import hogs from China into. Great Britain. John R. Hegeman, president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, was freed by the New York appellate court in a decision that, if it stands, will serve to quash all indictments now outstanding against insurance officials, Louis Pratt, the religious fanatic, and Officer Mullane, wounded in the street battle in Kansas City, died. James Sharp, the leader of the band of fanatics; was arrested. Laboring, under the delusion that he had been marked as a victim of the "Black Hand,” Thomas Fitzpatrick, aged 36, shot and killed himself near Gaines, Mich. After a brief argument with a crg,wd of negroes in a saloon in Memphis; William Latura, a white saloonkeeper, shot and killed three of* the negroes and wounded others, one mortally. Dr. A. S. Pitts, a prominent physician of Hazlehurst, Miss., was shot and killed by Dr. Thomas Birdsong, a dentist. ~ r ~ Three men held up an east-bound Great Northern train near Hillyard, Wash., and robbed the mail car. They missed $20,000 in the express car. J. P. Garroty, accused of attacking two little girls near Willow River, Minn., was saved-from a mob by being spirited out of town. Dr. G. E. Barnes, a veterinary surgeon, was burned to death in a fire that destroyed his house at Woodvllle, O. The various copper properties of Phelps, Dodge & Cos., the output of which has been as high as 100,000,000 pounds a year, are to be merged into anew corporation, capitalized at $50,000,000. Representative George L. Lilley, governor-elect of Connecticut, has been served with a subpoena to answer the complaint that in the recent campaign he, himself or through a financial agent, violated the corruptpractices act. Two bunco men worked the timehonored satchel substitution game at Minneapolis and got $7,105 from R. F. Cargell, an aged cattle dealer from Clyde, N. I). —* TB&*board of regents of the University of Minnesota decided that members of the faculty must retire '•on reaching the age of 65 years. . More than a score of persons were injured, five of them seriously, and 100 more were thrown into a panic when a bomb was hurled into the air shaft of a tenement bouse at 320 East Sixty-third street, New York. W. H. Crowninshield, aged 40 years, of Boston, Mass., said to be a nephew of Rear Admiral Crowninshield, was run down and killed by a railway train in Cleveland, O. The police of Kansas City and a . band of. religions fanatics headed.by. John Sharp, who styles himself “Adam God," engaged in a fierce revolver street battle. Over 100 shots were exchanged, one patrolman and a little girl being killed, Sharp and two officers fatally wounded and two other officers slightly hurt. "*F. D. Hirschberg op St. Louis, a millionaire merchant and prominent Catholic, was shot and killed in his I house. It was not known whether it was a case of suicide, murder or accident. Probably fatal injuries were sustained in an automobile accident near * Washington glenor Don Juan Barrios, -minister of foreign affairs of jGuatemala, who nn a special * mission. . His companions, Dr. Luis ' Herrarte, Guatemalan minister to the, . United States, and Gen, John Drum- - mond, a wealthy planter in South America, were painfully hur^ t Miss Helen Chaffee, daughter *of t Lieut. Gen. and Mrs. Adna R. Chaffee, ■•waa.jyedied.at Los to Lieut. . John Hastings Howard, U. S. A. t Sir Wilfrid LaUrier, premier of Can--ada, was shaken Up by the ditching of 1 his train on the Great Northern at St. - Vincent, Minn; u t Charles W. Blow of St. Louis, man--2 ager of the American Linseed Comi- pany, shot and killed himself. Thomas F. Gilroy, Jr., receiver of 1 the Fidelity Funding Company of New York, which went into bankruptcy on f- October 28 last, announced that stockholders and. creditors of that corporai- tion would lose more than $5,000,000 t as of the failure. The creaQ Itors are mainly Catholic churches, priests and nuns.

HBDSIER BREVITIES r 'l NEWS OF INDIANA TOLD BY CORRESPONDENTS. WINS OFFICE BY ONE VOTE Commissioners Decide in Favor of a Democrat- Recorderahip the Stake in Contest at Boonville— Other Notes. Boonville. The commissioners’ court, which has been hearing the -Goad-Carter "-contest case EereT”*3edared Eli Goad elected by one vote. Sydney Carter, Republican, was declared elected by the election judges by'two’votes, but in the recount a mistake of one vote was found which made his majority one; &oad, encouraged by his attorneys and supporters, filed a contest case after Carter had received his commission as recorder. The commissioners' court is composed of two Democrats and one Republican. The hearing occupied four days, during which many witnesses were heard and a great amount of evidence produced. Eight protested ballots were considered and the commissioners gave Goad five and Carter three. This decision has given the Demo crats encouragement tha't they will win in the Eskew-Wilson case for treasurer, and the Madden-Williams case for representative. Alleged Forger Found. Kokomo. —In the person of J. E. Coatel under .arrest upon the charge ,o| uttering forgeries, the authorities have discovered Earl Wiles. He was the hero of an heirship fiction which attracted attention at the time of his marriage. After leading to the altar Miss Barnett, daughter of D.. L. Barnett, a workman of the levee district, Wiles created a sensation by declaring that he was heir to SBO,OOO in Lafayette. Hotel Employes’ Training School. Indianapolis.—An agreement securing for the Winona Technical School of Indianapolis anew $200,000 hotel employes' training school, Including what will be a modern hotel building suitable to house 400 students, was reached Thursday by the committee of the International Stewards’ association, and representatives of the board of trustees of the Winona institute. Rabid Dog Eludes Miners. Clinton. —Suffering from a dog bite which was supposed to have been inflicted by a* rabid dog, John Sciphers, the 11-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Sciphers, living near the Klondike mine, west of Clinton, was taken to the Pasteur institute at Indianapolis. A posse of miners searched the neighborhood for the animal, but were unable to find It. Great Mass of Coal Burns. Fort Wayne.—lgnited by spontaneous combustion two weeks ago, a great mass of coal stored on the premises of the Fort Wayne & Wabash Valley Traction Company's power station in Spy Run avenue, has been slowly burning. From 7,000 to 8,000 tons of coal were in the mass, which at some points, was 30 feet deep. j Rat in Hair Saves Her. Richmond.—To the fact that she wore a "rat” in her hair, Miss Shiloh Van Meter escaped a serious and possibly fatal accident. Miss Van Meter is a resident of Cambridge City, near here, and while descending the nteps at the Masonic hall at that place her foot caught and she fell, striking her head. Wants More Care of Insane. Fort Wayne.—A. W. Butler, secretary of the state board of charities, has just forwarded to the county commissioners the report of a visit made by State Agent W. S. Reynolds to the Allen County infirmary, in which the county is urged to obtain competent attendants to take care of “ttee- frtteTO*pattentt.3 * -~rVisits State Reformatory. Jeffersonville. —The legislative commute named to visit the state Institutions, consisting of Senator Horace Hanna and Representative Qus Greiger and John P. Siske, inspected the'state reformatory and received the statement of Superintendent Whittaker as to the needs of the institution. Give $35,000 for Church. Bloomington.—At the official board meeting of the College Avenue Methodist church, annduncedient was made that $35,000 has been sub- _ jJcribed of the $75,000 required >to construct the new Central M. E. church at Washington and Fourth streets. ■v - Form Insurance Company^ Crawfordsville.—A number of tusi.ness men of this city and county have organized the Bankers’ & Merchants’ Hdfe association. ■ Urges District Workhouse. Richmond.—The Associated Char ities of Richmond will' urge upon the Indiana legislature the passage of, a bill creating a workhouse imeach . congressional .district, thereby doing ! away with many of the jail conditions that exist. , - - " * Laporte Doctor Dies in Kansas. „ Laporte.—Dr. ' Nelson S. Darling, a widely-known physician of this city, is dead at Wichita, Kan., where he Recently went on a visit. He wad,.77 years old. .

CITY CLOCK WINDER MW PAY. Tells Commissioners Courthouse Custodian Holds Up Money. Columbus. —Thomas Shatto, of this city, has a kick coming. He has been official winder of the clock In the courthouse tower for several months, and he assents that his pay Is being held up by Newton Clark, custodian of the courthouse. He has addressed a communication to the county commissioners in which he says he was to receive $3.60 for this work, and that after the month of September the custodian did not give him a “pleasant look.” He asks for the money which he says is due atjdjie also desires the commissioners to appoint him official clock winder for the coming year. Custodian Clark says he has already overpaid the man for winding the big clock and that Shatto owes him instead of his being in debt to Shatto. Not Guilty of Whitecapping. Rußhville. The six persons charged with whitecapping John B. Tribbey were acquitted here Wednesday evening. Tribbey was taken from his home on the night of August 5 last by masked men, and was severely beaten with a board into which nails had been driven. Later he was tarred and feathered, being nearly dead when discovered. His wife, Leona Tribbey, Charles and Harry McFatrich, nephews of Mrs. Tribbey; Burt Kennedy, Perry Collins, and Lafayette Goldman were charged with being implicated in the deed and were* arrested. Pass Out County Plums. Crawfordsville. —James Shapre was chosen to succeed Abner Jones as custodian of public buildings, salary SI,OOO a year. Johnston & Johnston were chosen to succeed themselves as county attorneys at S4OO a -year. Charles Lookabill, a graduate of the Indiana University Law school with the 1908 class, was made paupers' attorney at $l5O a year. Dr. Harvey Sigmond was made county health officer to succeed Dr. W. G. Swank. Wabash County Takes Lead. Wabash.—Because of an error in the injunction proceedings brought by saloonists to prevent the county commissioners granting a county' local option election, they were forced to return to their offices and make new papers. In their absence commissioners ordered election for Tuesday, December 29. This makes Wabash county the first to vote under the new law. Seeks License in Henry. Newcastle. —Despite the fact that a blanket remonstrance is in effect in Henry township and this qity, and will be in effect for another year, the county commissioners, who met Monday had before them an application for a liquor license. McCormick’s application was believed to be a test of whether or not the county option law repeals the remonstrance law. Loot Store; Elude Hounds. Westfield. —Burglars entered the general store of R. A. Funderburg & Son at Westfield by way of a cellar door. They obtained two gold watches, two fancy meerschaum pipes, $1.50 in pennies, a quantity of tobacco and other articles. Hounds were brought to the place and took up the trail but later lost it. Issues Cord Wood Defy. Hartford City.—John Skinner, aged 83 years, asserts he is the most powerful man of his age in the United States and issues the following challenge; “I hereby challenge any man of similar age to run, jump, wrestle, fight or cut cord wood for any amount of money not to exceed SSO. John Skinner.” Jury Holds Eye Worth $25. Versailles. —According to the verdict of a Ripley circuit court jury the value of a human eye does not exceed $25. That sum was assessed in the case of Henry Kelsh vs. Frank Moody. The plaintiff, asked for $5,000 damages for an assault in which he lost-aR'-eye ■a.nd-atistained' abroken nose. Body Found in Arkansas. Goshen. —W. T. White, whose mangled body was found along the tracks of the Rock Island railroad at *Biscoe, Ark., formerly lived in Goshen. He left here about two years ago and since then relatives in this city have known nothing of his whereabouts. Talks on Saloon Problem. Wabasha —Rev. E. F. Daugherty preached a sermon upon "Does Wabash County Want and Need Saloons?” He personally invited all the saloonkeepers to attend his services. Rev. Mr. Daugherty has been a leader in the county option fight. ■*. Discuss Church Work. New Albany.—A conference and institute of the men of the New Albany Presbytery was held in this Tuesday to discuss practical problems in church work. Option Law Is Upheld. Wabash. Judge Plummer of the Wabash circuit court Wednesday held Indiana’s new county local option law constitutional and that an election could be ordered even, before an appropriation Is made by the city council. ■ ~ Hoosier Gets Appointment. Washingtop, D. C. —The president Wednesday* sent the following nomination to the senate: Member of the Philippine commission, Nelson W.JSilbert, Indiana. . /r,

NAB CHS BOAT GUARDSHIP ALIX 18 CAPTURED BY DUTCH CRUISER. IS TOWED TO WILLEMSTAD t Gelderland's Prize Greeted Joyfully by People of Curacao—Venezuelan President Talks on Way to Cologne. 'Willemstad, island of Curacao.—The Dutch cruiser Gelderland came into this port Sunday morning towing the Venezuelan coast guardship Alix with the Dutch flag flying and a Dutch crew on board. The Gelderland captured the Alix off Puerto Cabello on Saturday. The seizure of the. Alix was in accordance with the plans of the Holland government when instructions were issued to the three Dutch warships now in these waters to make a demonstration off the coast of Venezuela and to capture any Venezuelan ships of war or guard vessels that they might find. The arrival of the Gelderland at Willemstad was greeted with unbounded enthusiasm by those who noticed the cruiser’s approach, and soon the entire population were down to the water's edge to welcome the return of the Gelderland, towing the first of the enemy’s ships, as though from a great conquest. 1 Naturally the people of Curacao, who have long been clamoring for activity on the part of the Dutch govern-ment,-are greatly rejoiced over this evidence that Holland has at last begun active measures against Venezuela. * Paris. —President Castro of zuela and his party left here Sunday for Cologne, where a consultation of physicians will be held to determine upon the advisability of an operation on the president.. If an operation is found necessary Dr. Israel probably will perform it at Berlin. On the train Sunday Castro accorded an interview to a representative of the Temps, saying that as he was leaving France he felt at liberty to receive a journalist. The interview, while guarded, fully confirms the representations made by Castro at Santander to the effect that he was desirous of settling Venezuela’s outstanding diplomatic differences and, so far as France is concerned, had already mgdp the first steps in that direction. FOURTEEN DIE IN CANAL BLAST. Three Americans Among Those Killed at Ba Obispo. Colon. —The explosion Saturday at Bas Obispo of a 21-ton dynamite blast was the most serious accident in connection with the building of the Panama canal since the United States took control. The known dead now total 14. That many bodies have been recovered, but it is possible that a score or more are still under the masses of rocks and earth that were thrown up. Fifty were injured. The charge consisted of 51 holes, 60 feet deep, and spread out over a large section of territory. The last hole was being charged by John J. Reidy, an experienced powder man, when it exploded. The others were exploded by the concussion.- Reidy was blown to pieces. The other American dead include John J. Korp, steam-shovel engineer, and J. T. Hu iffmer, steam-shovel crane man. Two Spaniards were also killed and eight West Indian negroes. FLEET ARRIVES AT COLOMBO. American Battleships in Harbor of the Ceylon City. Colombo, Ceylon.—The United States battleship fleet arrived here Sunday and was greeted by vast throngs of Europeans and natives. The health of the men on the ships is excellent, with the exception of one case ”oifsmallpox~o)i the Georgia, which detached herself from the fleet on December 9 and arrived here Saturday. This is one of the most difficult harbors the fleet has yet entered, but all the battleships were berthed without incident, the perfect maneuvering of the vessels occasioning great admiration. During the period the fleet will remain here the officers and men will be entertained extensively. The official reception took place Monday. Taft Talks About McKinley. New York. —President-elect WUW&frI H. Taft, speaking Sunday night $t the dedication of a McKinley memorial organ In the Metropolitan Temple, told, to an audience which repeatedly interrupted him with applause, the story' of his official association with the late president and declared with reference to the Philippine islands that the policy laid down by Mr. McKinley in 1900 had been the policy of the present as it will be the policy of his own administration. Good Thing for National Guard.. Washington.—National Guard interests are substantially promoted by a recent order of the war department contemplating that all requisitions received from militia authorities * for clothing and equipment be filled by the issue from the army source of supplies of the latest style of articles called for. This will have the effect of equipping the militia with nothing obsolete or old-patterped fn the way of material. Officials say it is a case of the regular army being sidetraokeil for the benefit of the militia.

The Symmetrical Figure. Speaking of that rare gift, symfnetry of person, 114* more desirable than beauty of feature, because it out* lasts youth. The symmetrica] figure is perfectly proportioned and articulated anatomy, and nothing is more rare. Be thankful, fair ones, when you have "points” which cause us to to overlook any little discrepancy in form. —Exchange.

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