Orland Zenith, Volume 6, Number 18, Orland, Steuben County, 5 July 1905 — Page 2

CHILDREN AS SLAVES.

MECCA OF WIRE TAPPERS.

WRECKED BY DESIGN.

ORLAND ZENITH

TRAIN HOLDUP A FAILURE,

Bandit Stops North Coast Limited, but Crew Foils Robbery.

Many Race Swindle Schemes Operated in Chicago Recently.

ORLAND, INDIANA.

Train robbers made an unsuccessful attempt to hold up the North Coast limited from the Twin Cities west of Puyallup, Wash. A man boarded the train at Puyallup ant when it was three miles from the station ordered the engineer to stop at a fire which was burning near the tracks. Engineer Woods did not stop the train until half a mile beyond the fire. Brakeman Harkins ran up to the engine to see what the trouble was and the bandit shot at him. Harkins threw his lantern into the ditch and started back for the train. The bandit then ordered the engineer and the conductor to get out of the way while he made an attempt to back the train to the fire, where his confederates were stationed. He failed to get the engine started and called for the engineer to come back. The robber began to realize his position and as the engineer stepped into the cab he fired twice, one bullet flattening on the boiler head. The bandit then jumped to the ground and ran into the brush. The train pulled into Tacoma, leaving the fireman and a brakeman behind, as they were unable to catch the train. An engine was sent out for them and they were brought in the next morning.

Chicago has become the Mecca for fake "wire-tappers.” Driven from their haunts in New York, the men who tell their victims that they have a way of “beating the ponies” have swarmed to the western city. Although the police have made several arrests, no case is on record where the confidence men have been convicted. Over $100,000 has been secured by the “wire-tappers” from men whom they have lured to Chicago by “investment advertisements,” according to the police. Those interested in horse racing have proved the easiest victims, and the old game has been worked all over the country, but it never became so prevalent as it has this year. Six men, said to be an organized gang of “wiretappers,” who are credited with having swindled men out of thousands of dollars, have been arrested, but they have no fear of ever wearing the garb of a convict. These confidence men always have a good defense, and for this reason their cases never go beyond the justice court. In court they declare that the money given by the victim was really lost, and the case is presented in such a form that it is useless to hold them over to the Criminal Court, because a ease cannot be proved against them, although the police know that they are crooked.

VERN1CE n. briner.

Proprietor.

WAIFS AND ORPHANS PUT TO DRUDGERY.

FAST TRAIN DISASTER WORK OF A MISCREANT.

Officials Declare a Maniac or Plot Is to Blame for Catastrophe at MentorTwenty - Hour Schedule Will Be Resumed.

Chicago Board of Education to Investigate Abuses that Are Said to Exist — National Guard Asks Increased Appropriation from Congress.

, As a result of the wrecking of thetwentieth century limited train at Mentor, Ohio, in which nineteen persons lost their lives, the railroad company will abandon its eighteen-hour schedule between Now Y'ork and Chicago. The old schedule of twenty hours for the run will be resumed. Another development Is the charge that the wreck was caused through a plot or by some man who had a grudge against the railway or some one aboard the flyer and deliberately threw the switch at Mentor. Declarations that the wreck of the twentieth century limited train at Mentor, Ohio, was the result of a deliberate plot were made by officials of tlie railway. The switch was found open by Conductor Alexander Campbell of the flyer immediately after the wreck, and investigation showed that it had been locked open. What the motives were that induced the persons charged with wrecking the train to throw open the switch are not hinted at by the railroad officials. As the Lake Shore officials investigate the cause of the wreck and get the situation in hand the conclusion is fixed more and more firmly that the sacrifice of lives was the work of a man who deliberately and maliciously threw the fatal switch for the purpose of wrecking the fast train. The railroad company has sot in motion all the machinery of its powerful police organization to ferret out the man who is believed to have committed the mnrdeous act.

Child slavery as a means of solving the servant girl problem in violation of the compulsory education law is charged by Superintendent W. L. Bodine of the department of compulsory education of the Chicago board of education. Startling revelations were made by Mr. Bodine after a hearing in Justice Prindiville’s court, in which Mrs. Ottille Krosuiek was convicted of violating the compulsory education law. “This is the tenth case of its kind that I have had in the last three weeks,” said Mr. Bodine. “Judging from the testimony of various witnesses at the trials of these cases, I am convinced there are hundreds of children from institutions who are drudging as servants in many households of the city, without being sent to school. I begun an investigation into the methods of various home-finding associations and orphan asylums which, operating under the cloak of religion, are binding out their little inmates to lives of drudgery. Besides, In most of the cases which have come under my notice, the children in question have been subjected ,lfl cruel treatment.” Warrants have been secured for several persons who are said to have, taken children from institutions and forced them to do work far beyond their strength. One case cited by Mr. Bodine involved a wealthy society woman who admittedly is training a 13-year-old girl as a servant

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PAST AND PRESENT

AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH.

Telegraphic Information Gathered by the Few for the Enlightenment of the Many.

GIRL BESTS TWO BURGLARS.

Frightens One and Grapples and

DECIDES AGAINoT CLOSED SHOP.

Fights with Another,

Danish Training Ship Sunk.

Hearing a noise upstairs. Miss Ida Mader of Shenandoah, Pa., went to investigate and found two masked burglars at work in her room, one of whom jumped through a window and escaped. Retaining her presence of mind. Miss Mader set the lamp she carried aside and grappled with the remaining man, who was heavily laden with silverware, and succeeded in pulling the mask from his face. The burglar dropped his plunder, and, forcing the girl aside, jumped on an adjoining roof. The young woman followed him, caught hold of his coat and screamed loudly for help. She held on until her strength was exhausted, when she was forced to relinquish her hold. The burglar then jumped from the roof and disappeared. A small amount of money and some papers of no value were taken. A ring, dropped by one of the men, may give some clew to the robbers’ identity.

Bay State Court Holds Unions Can-

not Exclude Nonmembers.

A dispatch from Copenhagen says: The private cadetship Georgestage has been rammed by the British steamer Ancona and sunk. Twenty-two cadets were drowned. All the boys were in their berths when the accident happened. The night was overcast, but objects could still be seen at a considerable distance. Fiftyseven of the cadets were rescued, but the fact that the Georgestage went down inside of a minute and a half after she was struck, made it impossible to get the others off the boat. Only one body has been recovered so far by divers. The Ancona was damaged along her water line. The port authorities have ordered the vessel to remain there until an inquiry has been completed, to learn the cause of the accident.

A decision virtually declaring the closed shop to be illegal was handed down Wednesday by the Massachusetts Supreme Court. It is held a labor union is not justified in procuring the discharge of a workman who is not a member of the organization because an employer has contracted to employ none but union men. Michael F. Berry, the complainant, a non-union man, was awarded $1,500 damages from Jerry E. Donavan by a lower court because Donavan. an officer of the Boot and Shoe Workers’ Union, had procured his discharge from the factory of Hazen B. Goodrich & Co. of Boston. The firm had contracted with the union to employ none but union men. Donavan appealed the case, and the Supreme Court sustained the finding of the lower bench. The decision declares if such contracts were permitted to be executed labor unions would establish a monopoly, and holds that i4|bpersons may be deprived of work because they are not members of unions.

NATIONAL GUARD SEEKS AID. Wants Congress to Pass Dick Ell! Adding Mllitlato Nation’s Defense. The National Guard of the country 'will ask Congress at its next session to amend the Dick bill, reorganizing and making the guard a part of the national defense. The proposed legislation has been carefully prepared. It originated with the officers of the National Guard and has had incorporated in it certain suggestions from the War Department, thus giving it government approval. Its principal feature is the doubling of the annual federal appropriation of $1,000,000 for armament and encampment expenses, which is said to be imperatively necessary properly to equip and instruct the men.

The German government has purchased a splendid site for its embassy at Washington, opposite the property of the new French embassy overlooking Sheridan circle, on C street, in the northwest section of the city. On this site will be erected a splendid stone structure of the style of Frederick the Great.

Germany to Build Embassy.

While the .abandonment, at least for the present, of the eighteen-hour schedule is announced, observing people realize that what happened to the “flyer” might have happened to one of the so-called slow trains, and the result in the latter case, perhaps, would have been more disastrous than in the former because of the lighter equipment of the slow train. It is to be borne in, mind that the “flyer” was wrecked not because it was going at high speed but because a switch had been left open.

FINDS COUNTERFEIT MONEY.

Ohio Man Digging for Fish Balt Un-

earths Spurious Coin,

One hundred and fifty-one counterfeit silver dollars were turned over to United States Secret Service Operative Bolau of Cincinnati the other day by the Columbus police department. The spurious money was found by Frank Carter bidden under a big rock in the northwest corner of the Columbus Slate hospital grounds while hunting for fish worms. The mold was an excellent one. but the edges of the coins were not milled and had evidently been buried under the rock for the purpose of giving them the appearance of age.

WOMEN CROWD OHIO PRISON.

Torpedo Fiend Causes Death of Woman. An electric car ran over several torpedoes placed on the track by boys at Danbury, Conn. The explosions created a panic among the women passengers and Mrs. Mary Davis, 110 years old, jumped from the car and her skull was fractured. She died a few minutes later. Marion Negro Arrested for Murder, Jesse Mitchell, J&j-pars old, was, arrested at Filaiikfort Marion, Jnd., charged with of Ervin Dye, 21, 1900. Th*arrest was made ""under instructions from Sheriff Mills, who refuses to disclose the nature of the evidence against the prisoner.

Two More Just Sent to the State Penitentiary.

With the arrival of Mrs. Harriet Forsythe from Fayette county, convicted of bigamy, and Sarah Lemmon of Cuyahoga county, for forgery, the number of women inmates in the Ohio penitentiary is fifty-eight and the department is overcrowded, the authorities being compelled to use a wide corridor on the third floor. True to her feminine instincts, Mrs. Forsythe, when admitted the other day, said sffe was 35 years old when site is in reality about 00.

OPEN A MONSTER GAS WELL.

Butler, O,, Gusher Believed to Be the Greatest In the World. I Expert oil and gas well drillers believe that the monster gas gusher recentjfHruck at Butler, Ohio, will be the of gas in the world. The well is sending out with tremendous force 5,000,000 cubic feet of gas every twenty-four hours and shows no indications of diminishing pressure. Every farm within a radius of twenty miles has been leased by oil and gas capitalists. Much excitement prevails at Butler.

So far as speed is concerned, the results of a wreck are not much affected by a difference of a few miles per hour. The dangers of railroad travel are little affected by tnt erbeiiulwispeed of trains. There is a certain element of peril that cannot be eliminated entirely, but that peril applies to the slowest as well as to the fastest trains. It was the open switch and not the high speed of the flyer that was responsible for the catastrophe at Mentor.

*TWO KILLED BY LIGHTNIN

Davies County, Ind., Suffers Dam age from Electrical Storm.

STORM SPREADS HAVOC IN OHIO.

Davies county, Indiana, was by an electrical storm Tuesday night Addie Draham, 18 years old, living soutl| of Washington, was killed by lightning) Jacob Huzelmeyer of Freelaudsville was killed while standing near a wire fence Lightning struck the umbrella which Austin Carter was carrying, paralysing! both arms and rendering him unconscious. Mrs. James Smith’s home was wrecked and four cattle belonging to Alfred Killiou killed.

Heavy Rains Flood Fields and Wind Blows Down Houses.

Rains have flooded many fields throughout central Ohio and reports show that corn is badly damaged by the heavy downpour. Wheat in many places is reported to be down and the damage will be considerable. At Spencerville fifty or more oil well rigs were blown down by the wind and a number of houses and barns were wrecked by the wind and lightning. Sons of C. A. R, Formed.

Gustav A. Conzman, cashier of the Vigo County National Bank at Terre Haute, Ind., has resigned. The bank officials have issued a statement that Conzman is short $18,000 and that he has turned over securities to the bank amounting to between $50,000 and $60,000.

Bank Cashier Short $16,000.

KILLS BRIDE’S STEPFATHER.

Charles Parker, Who Eloped, Dispatches Charles Adams with Ax. Charles Parker and Miss Annie Smith of East Cape, 111., eloped to Cape Girardeau, Mo., and were married, and upon returning to the bride’s home Parker and the bride’s stepfather, Charles Adams, iccame involved in a quarrel, terminating by Parker killing Adams with an ax. the coroner’s jury exonerated Parker.

WILL HAVE A SUMMER CAPITAL.

Philippines to Be Given a Connterpar

of India's Official Kesort. The United States is to lay out a summer capital in the mountains, about 150 miles from Manila similar to Simla, the summer capital bf India, to which the latter government is removed en masse on April 1 of every year, and remains until Nov. 1. Thus the government of India has a duplicate set of public offices, one in Calcutta and one in Simla. The books and records are moved back and forth every year, and the officials and their clerks and messengers make an annual migration. Most of them art thus required to keep up establishments in both cities.

Nearly 200 carriage workers went out on a strike at the Barnett Carriage Company’s plant at Cincinnati, Ohio. They declare their earnings have been cut. It is possible that the 3,000 carriage workers in Cincinnati may go out, following the lead of the Barnett employes.

May Canse Big Strike.

Blackmailers Threaten Millionaire.

Dr. S. B. Hartman, a millionaire manufacturer of Columbus, Ohio, received an unsigned letter, in which it was said three persons had entered into an agreement to burn his property unless $10,000 was deposited in a secluded spot designated in the letter. Dr. Hartman took no action and no attempt was made to burn his property. There is no clew to the blackmailers.

For the purpose of perpetuating the name of the Grand Army of the Republic, a society called the “$ons of the G. A. R.” has been organized in Denver. One hundred names have been placed on the charter roll. The requirement for membership is that a man must be a direct descendant of one who fought in the Civil War.

Fires on Carrier; Barricades Self. Mrs. E. Roseberry, an elderly woman, who barricaded herself in her room at Barnesville, Kan., after firing upon a rural mail carrier, surrendered to a posse, was arrested on a federal warrant and placed in jail at Wichita. The woman objected to the carrier using the roadway in front of her house in covering his route. Federal Dams Overflow. Owing to the heavy rains several government dams along the upper Mississippi have overflowed and hundreds of acres of land are inundated, several factories along the river have been compelled to shut down and a large amount of damage has been caused to the cities aud villages along the river. Tarnpa, Fla., Buys Big Hotel. The city of Tampa, Fla., has paid the Ocean and Gulf Realty Company of New York $125,000 cash for the Tampa Bay hotel and grounds, becoming the sole owner of the property upon which the late Henry B. Plant spent $3,000,000. The city will use the grounds as a park and lease the hotel. Boats Collide and Sink.

Three Killed, Fifteen Injured.

Three passengers were killed and fifteen injured as the result of a rear-end collision on the Illinois Central railroad near Vinegrove, Ky. The Illinois Central officials refuse to give out any statement as to the cause of the wreck, saying an investigation is in progress.

S. P. Sheerln Falls Dead.

It is alleged that a steal in connection with the payment of Chickasaw warrants has been discovered which will rival the famous Creek warrant steal and may involve a fugitive banker of Tishomingo and others. The amount stolen cannot be determined at present, but it is between $100,000 and $200,000. Held by Federal Grand Jury.

Steal Involves Banker.

S. P. Sheerln of Indianapolis, a wellknown politician during Benjamin Harrison’s administration and a delegate to the convention of independent telephone men in Chicago, dropped dead in the convention hall while replying to City Prosecutor Taylor’s welcome to the delegates. He was attacked by a stroke of apoplexy and expired within a few moments.

This has been found to be absolutely necessary to the health of the corps of officials and their families. It is impossible for white men to survive the summer climate of Calcutta, while in the winter Simla is buried under snow. The climate of Manila during the rainy season is similar to that of Calcutta, and is exceedingly trying. Few people can live there for two years in succession without suffering for it the rest of their lives, and the strongest of constitutions will break down ultimately. At present the only recourse is to run up to Japan to escape the heat and the humidity of the summer, but that is too expensive a trip for men of ordinary incomes, and the government cannot afford to give its employes the long leaves of absence that are necessary to make the journey. Within live hours by railroad of Manila, however, is a climate as healthful and an atmosphere as purO as that of Colorado Springs, or the Adirondacks. It is about 5,000 feet above the sea, surrounded by forests and bountifully supplied with pure spring water. It has been decided to build a summer capital there, and remove the entire government from Manila to Benguat during the summer months. In order to do this it will be necessary to construct a number of buildings for official purposes and to build hotels, boarding houses, cottages and other quarters for the officials and their families. Several of the officials have already erected houses there, and the medical corps of the army has established a sanitarium to which it sends convalescents from the military hospitals. Two or three of the missionary boards have erected homes and asylums for destitute and deserving invalids, but before any more of the land is taken up and any more buildings are erected it is considered desirable to lay out a city upon artistic lines.

The Animal Harvest Starts in Detroit.

Five persons were injured at Detroit, Mioln, by the explosion of an overloaded dynamite cane in the hands of 10-year-old Andrew Paulszyenki, The boy’s left leg was badly mangled and Walter Jocisowski will lose an eye. Three other., were slightly injured.

Kills His Child; Gets 1 4- Years,

The federal grand jury at Ardmore. Ind. T., which has been investigating the alleged $1,000,000 frauds in connection witli the government of the Chickasaw Nation, returned indictments against several persons of prominence in territorial affairs. Storm Sweeps New York,

In Virginia City, Mont., Judge Callaway has sentenced Grant Plumb to fourteen years iu the penitentiary at Deer Lodge. Plumb was convicted of second degree murder for the killing of his 3-year-oid daughter.

Mrs. Eviga Reilley of Lamoure, N. D., presented her husband with four babies, three girls and a boy. The little ones are perfectly formed and normal iu every particular. Mrs. Reilley is 34 years old and is now the mother of ten children.

Stcvk Brings Four Babies.

Ends Life at Mother’s Bier.

While viewing the remains of his mother, John Antilio, 32 years old, a musician, committed suicide in Pittsburg by drinking carbolic acid. Grief over the death of his aged parent, it is thought, prompted the deed.

Two men were killed by lightning, eight persons were seriously hurt and’ considerable property damage has resulted from a severe storm which swept New York and the surrounding country.

Bout Capsized and Thirty Drowned. Lyons (France) special; A telegram received here from Milan, says that during an excursion for children on Lake Como the boat on which the party was riding capsized and thirty of the passengers were drowned.

The wooden steamers City of Rome aud Linden collided iu the St. Clair river opposite Tashmoo Park. Mich., and both were sunk. Two members of the crew of the Linden, the cook and Ills wife, were drowned. The other members of both crews escaped in safety from the sinking boats.

Britons Prepare for War. Gen. Kitchener declares war between England and Russia for possession of India is inevitable, and the British government has decided to prepare for the struggle.

Details of stock forgeries which have caused a loss of from $750,000 to $1.000,000 to Philadelphia banks have been disclosed by an examination of the estate of B. H. Gaskill, banker and broker.

Stock Forgeries Revealed.

Muncie Has $18,000 Fire.

Fire almost destroyed cne of the buildings of the Indianapolis Brewing Company in the eastern residence section of Muncie, Ind. The loss is estimated at $18,000. The origin of the fire is unknown.

Maniac Wounds Nine, After holding 1,000 persons at bay for two hours in Eddy street, San Francisco, shooting nine people and defying the police, Thomas Lobb, a maniac, killed himself.

Troops Fire on Workmen,

Indianapolis Has $50,000 Fire. Fire almost entirely destroyed the wholesale grocery house of Briukmpyer, Kuhn & Co, in Indianapolis. The loss is estimated at $50,000. The origin Is unknown.

Russian troops fired volleys into a procession of 50,000 Polish workmen bearing red flags and denouncing despotism at Lodz. Eighteen were killed and 100 wounded. Respite for Mrs. Rogers.

$630,000 Fire in Heart of Nashville. Fire in the retail shopping district of Nashville, Tenn., caused damage estimated at between $500,000 and $650,000. The flames were discovered in the Palace, a big department store.

Acquitted on Embezzlement Charge. George F. Ciewell, former secretary and treasurer of the Federal Trust Company, who has been on trial in Cleveland on the charge of having embezzled $8,100 from that bank, has been acquitted.

The Governor of Vermont has granted a reprieve until Dec. 8 In the case of Mrs. Rogers, who was to have been hanged June 23.

Defeat for Russians. Russian troops were routed in a fierce battle on the heights of Manchcnzou, Manchuria, which were stormed by the Japanese. The Russians in their flight were slaughtered by Oyama’s men.

Robbers Blow Safe at Elkhart.

Weekly Trade Reviews,

Eleven Killed In Wreck.

The safe in the office of the Standard Oil Company at Elkhart, Ind., was blown open but only the outer door was disturbed and nothing was secured.

The weekly trade reviews indicate a more rapid expansion of business aided by a bright crop outlook and great industrial activity.

Amendment Author Dies. Judge Stephen Neal, author of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution, died at Lebanon, Ind.

The Twentieth Century Limited on the Lake Shore railroad, the world’s fastest train, was wrecked at Mentor, Ohio, and eleven persons were killed. The disaster is laid to wrecker*.

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