Orland Zenith, Volume 3, Number 50, Orland, Steuben County, 6 February 1903 — Page 2

ORLAND ZENITH

WOMEN DIE IN FIRE PANIC.

HITS NORTHERN PACIFIC.

CONGRESS

Supreme Court Rules Against Railroad In ImportantSettlers’Case. The United States Supreme Court rendered through Justice Harlan an opinion affecting the Northern Pacific Railroad land grant. The case was that of Peter and Henry Nelson, who located upon unsurveyed laud within the Northern Pacific grant, in the then Territory of Washington, in 1881. This was after the railroad company had filed its general map showing its proposed definite location. In the opinion handed down by the court it was held that the title of the settlers 'was better than that of the railroad company, and that until the definite map was filed Congress had control of the lands within the grant regardless of the general map. In a dissenting opinion, Justice Brewer said the opinion reverses the judgment of the court of twenty years ago, by which the Interior Department had ever since been controlled in dealing with disputes between the railroad company and settlers like the Nelsons. Millions are involved in the decision.

ORLAND, INDIANA.

VERNICE N. BRINER,

Proprietor.

The statehood bill occupied the entire attention of the Senate Thursday except for a few routine matters which came up during the morning hour. Bills were passed to authorize the President to appoint Brigadier General Merriam, retired, to the grade of major general on the retired list, and providing for additional terms of court in the western judicial district of South Carolina. The legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill was sent to conference. The Committee on Naval Affairs was authorized by the House to investigate the Dossier bribery charges in connection with the submarine boat bill. The Philippine coinage bill reported by the Insular Affairs Committee was rejected and the substitute presented by the minority was adopted by a vote of 14(5 to 128, twenty-eight Republicans voting with the Democrats for adoption. The Alaska delegate bill was then taken up, and was supported by Mr. Cushman (Rep., Wash.), Mr. Wooten (Dem., Texas), and Mr. Sulzer (Dem., N. A'.), and opposed by Mr. Warner (Rep., 111.)

RAID BANK. — BLOW S *E AND GET AWAY WITH , 3,500 IN CASH. )' —- Citizens Fire at Marauders, but Are Unsuccessful in Preventing Consummation of, Robbery—Institution at 6teelvillc,ill., Also Despoiled. Four mem robbed the Citizens’ Bank of Waterloci Neb., and escaped with $3,500 in cash, after exchanging shots with a squat of citizens attracted to the scene by tf ■ explosion of the safe, which was wr d. While two of the robbers worker de the bank the other two stood t . jk dozen citizens appeared on the sevnF soon after the explosion, gathered at the bank, and opened fire on the robbers.) The fire was returned, one of the robbers on guard shouting to the citizens that they had come there to rob the bank and intended to do it. Their work finished, the robbers made a dash into the darkness. Another fusillade of bullets was exchanged, but nobody was hurt, the robbers finally getting away in a stolen rig.

ROBBERS RAID BANK. Safe Blown at Stselvllle and $3,000 In Cash is Taken. At Steelville 111., robbers blew open the safe of the bank, stole $3,000 and escaped in a carriage which they obtained by breaking open a barn near the bank. Nitroglycerin was used to open the vault four explosions were necessary bettre the robbers could gain entrance. One man did the work insida the buildi g, while another stood guard on the si* ?walk outside. Paul Zimmer, an engine r in Elster’s mills, was awakened by tl e report of the first explosion. Mr. Zinur ;r, who lives next door, glanced out of his front window toward the bank and saw a man standing on the sidewalk. i-Ae went through the alley in the rear dp his house to the mill and informed the mill employes. Zimmer and the men (hen armed themselves and started bjek toward the bank. Three other exp/oaions were heard in the bank building in quick succession. The last explosion was followed by a crashing of glass, and sheets of flame poured from the bank windows. The mill employes, headed by Zimmer, hurried to the bank, but before they reached there the robbers "had looted the safe and fled.

CIRCLING THE GLOBE

Three Perish In a New York Cigar Factory Because of Wild Rush. Three women were killed and five women and one man severely injured in a panic in Leopold Miller & Sons’ cigar factory on Crosby street. New York, as the result of a fire in an adjoining build* ing. Flames from the burning building reached the walls of the cigar factory, causing a panic among the 500 men, women and boys at work there. A wild rush for the fire escapes at the front and rear ensued, and the weaker ones were crushed and trampled by the stronger. The men did not hesitate to push the women aside, and when they reached the second story, instead of waiting for the ladders to be raised, pushed the women to the ground, about fifteen feet, and leaped themselves. In this way many women were injured. The worst scenes were on the stairways, by which crowds of the panic-stricken employes tried to escape from the building. The men shrieked as if mad, and, knocking the women down, trampled them under foot. At the third story there was a blockade, and had it not been for the arrival of the police the death list would have been much longer.

CONCISE HISTORY OF SEVEN

MUST ADVERTISE THE TRUTH.

DAYS’ DOINGS.

$1,000,000 LEFT IN HOTEL.

Minnesota Court Decides Merchant Shall Live Up to Claims.

intelligence by Electric Wire from Every Quarter of the Civilized World, Embracing Foreign Affaire and Home Happenings.

Londoner Gives Clerk Valise Full of Securities and Disappears.

The Minnesota Supreme Court says a man is supposed to live up to bis advertisements. In the case of M. 0. Rettner against the Minnesota Cold Storage Company of St. Paul a verdict of $380 against the defendant company given in the District Court was sustained by the State Supreme Court, Justice Collins writing the opinion. The plaintiff sued to recover on a lot of celery stored in defendant’s plant, which was spoiled by too high temperature. The defendant insisted there was no contract with plaintiff as to temperature. The'court holds that plaintiff had a right to rely on an advertisement of defendant guaranteeing “uniform and even temperature.” The court says that plaintiff, in notifying the defendant that the temperature was too high, was not guilty of contributary negligence in leaving the goods after such notification.

An impressive-looking Londoner strolled into the Aidine Hotel in Philadelphia two weeks ago, carrying two large grips. He told the clerk that one of the grips contained a million dollars, and requested that it be locked up iu the safe. The Londoner went to his room with the other grip. The next morning he drove away and has not come baejfc Proprietor William Mitchell, after two days had gone by, opened the grip in the safe. He found a wad of stock certificates and bonds, the lot being worth over $1,000,000.at the market prices. The other day he received a check from the owner of the securities, who is now in New York, and a request that the million-doilar valise be forwarded to him.

The statehood bill again occupied the attention of the Senate Friday. During the debate several spirited colloquies occurred, in which Senators on both sides of the question charged the others with ■ obstructing important legislation. Mr. Burnham continued his remarks in opposition to the admission of Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico. During the morning hour Mr. Fairbanks made an ineffectual attempt to secure consideration of the immigration bill. The House pass235 private-pension bills. They included pensions to the widow of Gen. Franz Sigel at $100 a month, the, widow of Gen. Francis Negley at $50. and the widow of Rear Admiral Henry Picking at $40. The Alaska Delegate bill was passed. It provides for the representation of the territory of Alaska in the House of Representatives by a delegate. It also defines the citizenship and the qualification of electors, and creates the machinery for the elections, the date of which shall be the last Tuesday in September.

Four men robbed the Citizens’s bank of Waterloo, Neb., and escaped with $3,500 in cash, after exchanging shots with citizens attracted to the scene after the explosion. A dozen citizens appeared on the scene soon after the explosion, gathered at the bank and opened fire on the robbers. The fire was returned, one of the robbers on guard shouting to the citizens that they had come there to rob the bank and intended to do it. Their work finished the robbers made a dash into the darkness. Another fusilade of bullets was exchanged, but nobody was hurt, the robbers finally getting away in a stolen rig.

Robbers Loot a Bank.

BANK ROBBERS GET $6,000.

Blow Safe at Somorton, Ohio, and Escape After a Battle.

BANK ROBBERS STILL FREE.

A mob of nearly 600 men, women and boys held up a Chicago and Northwestern coal train at Webster avenue, Chicago, on the Wisconsin division and carried away the contents of five cars before dispersed by the police. Women led the attack, uncoupling the ears in a number of places and intimidating the train crew. For three hours traffic was suspended while the mob increased to more than a thousand persons. A riot call was turned in and order finally restored. Three women and two men were arrested, but the menacing attitude of the crowd caused the women to be quickly released.

Chicago Mob Raids a Coal Train.

At Sonrerton, Ohio, robbers forced an entrance into the City Bank and blew the safe. They got away with $0,000. The robbers broke open James Gray’s barn, stole a rig, and escaped. Officers from Beilaire, Wheeling and other points were put to scouring the country for the robbers. Two of the men started toward Wheeling and one down the river. From Clarington the pair traveled toward Wheeling, took a skiff and attempted to escape. There was a pistol battle between the officers and the men, one of whom dropped in the boat.

Eight Hundred Dollars Recovered

and Four Arrests Made.

The house twelve miles from Union, Mo., where the other day occurred the fight between men suspected of being the robbers of the Bank of Union and officers in which Detective Schumacher, of St. Louis, was killed, has been searched, together with the premises, and a sack containing $800 was found in the cistern. As a result of the fight, Frank Rudolph, aged 60; his wife, aged 45; their daughter Esther, aged 13. and George Harmes, a relative, who were occupants of the home, were arrested. Rudolph is the stepfather of William Anderson, who escaped from the house after the fight and is suspected of complicity iu the robbery.

Constructively, the statehood hilt was on,Saturday, a.s usual, before the Senate, but, as a matter of fact, the admission of the Territories was scarcely mentioned in the course of the day’s proceedintrs. As soon as the bill was laid before the Senate a number of Senators were afforded an opportunity to call up and secure the passage of- bills to which there was no objection. After the passage of a number of such bills the statehood bill was again called up and Mr. Spooner took the floor. He candidly confessed his intention not to speak to the statehood hill, and then discussed the President’s action in discontinuing lie postoffice at Indian'■i,,, i] 'v 1 i>o*~ostair to receive the resignationbf the negro postmistress— Mrs. Cox. He defended the President and was responded to by Mr. McCaurin (Miss.), who said there no threats against Mrs. Cox, bnt who admitted that she was objectionable because of her color. The session closed with the passage of a number of private pension bills. The House worked all day on the agricultural appropriation bill and finally passed it, with only one amend- ' ment—an increase of the appropriation for free seeds from $270,000 to $300,000.

SAYS HOWARD KILLED GOEBEL.

Confession Made by Youtsoy Re-

garding Kentucky Tragedy. “James B. Howsrd, of Clay County, fired the shot that killed. William Goebel,” said Henry E. Youtsey in his confession as to his part iu and knowledge of the conspiracy which terminated in the assassination of the Democratic claimant to the governorship of Kentucky. fle said that the shot was fired from the ,'front, window in the private /rt'TT,. - ■ -^~TTST‘ ers, and t lat he and.“Jim” fewlsrii Woo the only j tersons inside of the room. Unique Crusade on Evil. The Woman’s Christian Temperance Usion of Tacoma, Wash., has inaugurated a crusade against the social evil along on new ideas. Instead of persecuting the unfortunate young women and driving them out of the city prominent members of the union will take them into their own homes on promise of reform.

BEATS WIFE FOR NOT PRAYING.

Many Lives Lost in Arizona Wreck, Two Southern Pacific passenger trains collided head-on uhen running at a full speed near Vails, fifteen miles east of Tucson, Ariz. Eleven ears were consumed In a few minutes. Engineer Bruce and his fireman 5uniF.ncMne.pj- WU.-V' w°re burned i- death and anotherjftren.jn sen.. objured. Eight bodida hare been found. How many were consumed is not known. A relief train with medical aid has just arrived at Tucson, bringing seventeen injured. J. M. Hilton of Cambridge, Mass., was burned to death. At this time no other names of the killed or injured are obtainable.

Man Resents Refusal to Join Him In Family Worship.

John Newdiok, of Kokomo, Ind., beat his wife because she refused to join him in family prayers, and was fined S30 aim cost* m iu« ura> v .-» vjuit, mrsr

TWO KILLED BY EXPLOSION,

Four Injured Because Current

Prematurely Turned o.n. . 1W0 mpj.wip, kjC J mjfl f..«r reno™. ly injured m the eastern end of the Wabash tunnel, Pittsburg, by an explosion of dynamite. Blasts had been prepared by the night crew in the eastern end of the heading, and Day Foreman Florence had gpne in with Night Foreman Taylor to see what had been done. With the foremen were four workmen. As the party were going toward the charges of dynamite some one up at the top of the shaft turned on the electrical current without notification, and when Taylor, who carried the wires, inserted them into the charge of dynamite, the explosion followed.. f ST. LOUIS ROBBER CONFESSES.

New dick appeared in court with two blackened eyes. She testified that she was making bread at the time her husband insisted on conducting family worship and had her hands iu the dough. She told him she could not join him just then, but was always willing to do so at proper times. Newdick gave her a severe drubbing, knocking her down several times.

Newspaper la Upheld.

Dallas (Texas) special: The state court of criminal appeal has handed down its opinion in the contempt ease of Marielus F. Foster, for publishing in the Houston t Chronicle the evidence in a murder trial after the court had inhibited the publication of the testimony. The decision is a complete vindication of Foster and the Chronicle, and is about the strongest and ablest upholding of the rights of the newspapers of today to print the news, that the English language can convey.

WIFE HELPS HUSBAND STEAL.

Confesses to Police that She Participated in Burglaries.

Kills Wife and Himself.

Mrs. Rose Hough, a handsome woman, confessed to the police in Cleveland that she had helped her husband. Frank Hough, commit twenty burglaries in apartment houses. She is 20 years old. She said that within a week after her marriage in October she began helping her husband to rob. When arrested she wore several hundred dollars’ worth of jewelry. They operated with skeleton keys and did their work early in the evening. Mrs. Sough came from a respectable family.

George H. Price, a carriage maker, formerly of St. Louis, Mo., shot and killed his wife in Enid, Ok., and then shot and killed himself. The couple were not living together and Price believed his wife was about to sue him for divorce. Governor Suspends Mayor.

The House of Representatives on Sunday inaugurated the experiment of ing memorial services for deceased ifi'mbort upon the Sabbath. It will be folJowcd • hereafter during this session. •:—

Acknowledges Being Implicated in a Murder and Burglary.

Emil Turk, arrested the other day, confessed to the St. Louis police department that he and two other men, whose names he disclosed, were implicated in the robbery and murder, Christmas evening, of John Moog, a cigar dealer. According to the police, Turk says he acted as lookout while two others entered the store and killed Moog. Bobbery was the motive, and Turk’s share was $15. ,

Governor Hunt, of Porto Rico, acting independently of any judicial proceedings, suspended Manuel Egoscue. the Mayor of San Juan, from office and ordered an independent investigation into the city frauds.

Mr. Quay, in charge of the omnibus statehood hill, insisted on its consideration to the exclusion of other business in the Senate Monday. When Senator Platt, of New York, attempted to call up a committee report providing for the •printing of a document, Mr. Quay objected. Mr. Hale thereupon declared vhat Mr. Quay was confiscating the lime of the Senate. The latter replied calmly that this could be obviated by allowing a vote on the statehood bill. A resolution offered by Mr. Morgan, of Alabama, questioning the credentials of Dr. Herron, the Colombian charge d’affaires, who signed with Secretary Hay the canal treaty, caused the Senate to go into a long executive session. At its conclusion the diplomatic and consular appropriation hill was passed. The House made a new record in the matter of apprspriation bills. The military academy bill was passed without a single word of debate. The Indian hill, which followed, was not completed, as Mr. Burton (Rep., Ohio) made a long speech on it, in general criticism of the policy of the government toward Indians.

Schooner Storm Beaten.

The four-masted schooner Joseph G. Bay of Thomaston, Me., has arrived at Norfolk, Va., from Boston after an awful experience at sea. She met the recent gale off the New Jersey coast and with C 5 -' sails gone was blown far to sea. Food and water became scarce and the crew thought they would perish. A jury sail was rigged and with a fair wind the schooner finally made the Virginia cape in safety.

Molders Guilty—Big Fines Levied. Verdicts of guilty were returned in Judge Brentano’s court in Chicago against four of the six men who were charged with having been members of a committee employed by the Brass Holders’ Local Union, No. 83, to commit assaults on non-union brass workers during the recent strike in the Western Electric and Stromberg-Carlson companies. Heavy fines were imposed against the four. The other two defendants were acquitted.

Honors McKinley’s Birthday. William McKinley's birthday anniver sary was celebrated at Canton,' Ohio with at banquet, at which President Roosevelt was chief guest and speaker The latter and his party first visitec Mrs. McKinley and Westlawn Cemetery

*"OId-Ciothes Man” Retires. Joseph Isaacs, “the old-clothes man,” has retired into private life, a ar more than fifty years of great activity in Baxter street, New York. Before retiring from business Isaacs bought a threestory red brick dwelling in Stanton street, where he now resides. Isaacs is not ' years old and wealthy.

Heavy Theft of Silver Bullion.

Alamo Gorda (N. M.) special: Somewhere between this place and El Paso, Texas, a United States bonded car in transit from the El Paso smelter to Chicago, loaded with six hundred bars of silver bullion, was entered by robbers and eighty of the bars stolen. The value of the missing bullion is estimated at $40,000.

Twenty-four persons were crushed or burned to death and scores injured by a rear end collision near Cranford, N. J., between Jersey Central suburban and Royal Bine passenger trains. The wreckage took fire and was burned.

Many Killed and Injured.

gBrlck Deal Is Arranged, A combine of all the manufacturers of refractory brick who are outside the Har-bison-Walker combine has been arranged at Pittsburg with a capital of $15,000,000. It is the purpose of the company to buy the plants outright and to operate them as one concern, with Pittsburg as the headquarters.

Anthracite coal has been discovered in Montana. The vein is four feet wide, and while not thoroughly developed as to its extent, mining experts state that the indications are encouraging. The strike was made by Davis and Cameron in their prospect on Bear Creek, Madison County.

Anthracite In Montana.

The sentence of death passed upon Col. Arthur Lynch, who was found guilty of high treason in London, has been commuted to penal servitude for life.

ion for Colonel Lynch.

Hero Meets Death. After saving his daughter and her infant child and a boarder from his burning dwelling house, Fred Peets, living on Bake street, Dunkirk, N. Y., went back into the house and was suffocated. Firemen found his body when the fire was under control. Peets was dead. He was 45 years old and leaves a wife and two other children who were away from home.

More Wages on the Erie.

Poses as Woman to Escape.

An increase of wages of Erie switchmen has gone into effect. Ail along the Erie system day men who received $2.10 have been raised to $2.30 a day and the night men from $2.20 to $2.40.

Two Furnace Men Burned. Charles W'eitphal, a furnace man, and Michael Schultz, a helper, employed at the Buffalo UMon Furnace Company, Buffalo, N. Y.,\ were terribly burned while about tcv load one of the coke ovens. When theNoven door was opened a sheet of flame snot out of the furnace, enveloping the men\

Senator Quay made an effort Tuesday to hold the Senate in continuous session to consider the statehood bill, but failed to hold a quorum and was compelled on that account to allow the Senate to adjourn at 6:20 p. in. lie secured another ballot, however, to test the sentiment of the •+•* 'hg vote standinc 17 to

Edward Cruse, the convict who escaped from the Ohio penitentiary four days before, was recaptured while asleep in a house in Columbus, Ohio. He had eluded detection by wearing a woman’s dress, and claimed he would not have been taken but for the treachery of a friend. >

Powder Works Blows Up. The separating plant at the powder works, Marquette, Mich., blew up,wreckIng it and badly damaging other buildings. A ton of powder sxploded. Windows were broken in the town and the ■hock was felt at Hougton, 100 miles away. The explosion caused great alarm and was attributed to an earthquake.

Attempted to Employ Girls. The Postal Telegraph Company tried to use gitls as messengers at Milwaukee because lit could not obtain enough boys, and the attempt almost precipitated a riot, I

Germany Offers Explanation.

Orange Crop BreVl Railroad officials si and 23,000 car loads shipped from sout K ' year and that tlm grown there.

Germany has offered voluntary explanation to the United States of the bombardment of San Carlos fort. It ■ays action was forced, and disavows any intention of oppressing Venezuela. Great Britain has sent a protest to Berlin against further use of force in maintaining blockade.

Fireman Is Killed.

A west-bound Union Pacific pasaenge train ran into a freight train at Gothen burg, Neb. Fireman P. L. Dolan wa killed.

Fifty People Drowned.

A dispatch received at Madrid, Spain, from Pamplona, states that the town of Caparross has been half destroyed by the overflowing of the river Aragon. Fifty persons, the dispatch says, are missing.

Fifty Women Perish. More than fifty insane patients, whom were women, were burned t in a fire at the Colney Hatch i England.

Mexican Volcano Active.

News has been received by the Mexican Minister of the Interior of earthquake and volcanic disturbances near Uriqne, State of Chihuahua. Nentanana Mountain has been riven in twain and the atmosphere is filled with fine volcanic dust.

British Steamer Goes Down. A dispatch from St. Davids, Wales, says: The British steamer Graffoe, from Qlas?low for Buenos Ayres, sank off Ramsey sland. Six of the crew were saved bnt ■eventeen are missing.

Killed by Fall from Whdow. T. L. Hoover, aged 52, of dma, Ohio, fell from a- hotel window i San Antonio, Tex., and was irtstantj' killed.

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