Plymouth Republican, Volume 45, Number 39, Plymouth, Marshall County, 15 August 1901 — Page 1

D) VI o Uecorders office llfebOl VOLUME 45. PLYMOUTH, INDIANA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15. 1901. NO. 39 STREET CAR GREAT GOLD ROBBERY IN BALLOON NO STRIKE YACHT RACES LAWTON OIL

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MADE SCENE OF SENSATIONAL ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE. .

Passengers Panic Srrkken and Women ralr.t When Unknown Man, Standing on Scat, Snoots Himself In Chicago Tunnel. Chicago, Aug. 13. Standing on a seat in a crowded Blue Is land avenue cable train, as it descended the Van, Buren street tunnel last evening, a welldressed man took a revolver from his coat pocket and fired a bullet through his left temple. Passengers were panic-stricken and jumped from the cars. Several "women fainted. The train -was brought to a standstill in the center of the tunnel, and the unconscious man was carried by the conductor and a citizen to the west approach of the tunnel. The ambulance of the Desplaines street police station hurried him to the county hospital and the attending physicians stated that the man would die. .Mystery surrounds the identity of the man, and the police are endeavoriug to learn who he is. Considerable money, jewelry and 2k note book was found in the clothing of the man. The pages were torn out, and on the flyleaf in a good hand was written the following: "This is my last request, and I hope it will be complied with. The party that finds me please care for my body, but do not try do find out who I was. Yours truly. "P. S. The reason I die is for the love of Mary McCr -ick, Eighteenth street nea tate .street." Near the mouth of the tunnel was found the back cover of a note book which corresponded with the one found in the man's possession. 'Theodore Marko, St. Louis," was printed on it. The police believe that Theodore Marko is the man's name, and that he threw the back cover away just before attempting to end his life. The man is about 23 years old. Conductor George Hendricks, who was in charge of the car boarded by the man, believes that the stranger got on at Adams and Dearborn streets. He was seen taking from his pocket several letters and reading them over. Then he tore the notes into small particles and threw them from the car. Louis Schmidt, No. 3022 Archer avenue, was seated next to the stranger and he heard him talk incoherently. When the train turned into the tunnel the man suddenly sprang to his feet and to the seat, pulled the weapon from his pocket and placed it against his left temple and fired. Detectives were sent to Eighteenth and State streets to locate if possible a woman named Mary ; McCormick, but no one by that name lives in that'n eighborhood Pnnce Henry of Orleans. Chicago; Aug. 10. Prince Henry of Orleans, who died in Cochin, China, yesterday afternoon, is the oldest son of the duke of Char tress, who served in the American civil war, and a cousin of the Duke ot Orleans. He was born in 1867, and was not married. The prince had been dangerously ill for some time past. He was on his way. to the United States by way of San Francisco, and was to have passed some time in Newport this fall. His name has been mentioned asTk suitor for-vthl hand of a well-known American heiress, and at one time he figured as a suitor for the hand of the eldest sister of the young king of Spain, the Infanta Maria de Las Mercedes, who was married in February of the present year to Prince Charles of Bourbon, eon of the count of Cascrta.

Jack Winters Describes Fully How and Wnu He Stole 5280,000 Bullion From the Seibu Smelter.

San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 12. Jack Winters told his story of the Selby robbery to newspaper men Saturday night, and his statements are generally accepted as true in the main, although he may have lied in regard to some of the details. His story, told in reply to questions, is as follows: "I committed the greatest robbery of the century, and I did it alone. These stories about my having committed small robberies are false. When I plan a job I plan a big one. 'On Monday evening, when I took the bullion out of the vault at the smelter, I did the hardest work of my life. It took me a whole night to finish drilling through the bottom of the safe and to carry away the gold. If there had been more time I would have taken the $130,0001 left behind. Daylight came too soon. When I saw I would have to quit I dropped two bars on the beach. I preferred to lose them rather than to risk losing a quarter of a million. "It took me six weeks to dig the tunnel under the vault, and two nights to get through the brick foundation. I did a large J pare of the drilling the last night ?s forced my way through the b .torn of the vault. Then I climbed into' the vault and threw down about half the gold. I carried the gold to the outer end of the tunnel and went back and threw down the rest. Then I began to carry off the gold. "I made fourteen trips from my tunnel to the wharf, where I lowered the bullion into the bay. I made a murk on the wharf where I dropped each bar, so that I could readily find it when I was ready. "I planned the robbery well but spoiled it all by 'leaving my pistol and that package of tacks in my cabin. It is too bad, but it can't' be helped now. The shovel I used I threw in the bay. I didn't use that electric light they found. If the fools had looked they would have seen that it was burned out and would not make a light. I used a little patent bicycle lamp to light the tunnel. "I planned how I would get rid of the bullion without bring ing suspicion on myself long before I committed the robbery. I planned to remove the gold from the bay a bar at a time. I had intended to melt the gold, to mix it with alloy and to dispose of it in quantities that would bring me about $10,000. - It would have been an easy matter at intervals of several months to sell the gold at different places. I intended to take several years in disposing of the bullion. "If my plan had been Success f ul to the end and if I had gained the wealth I stole I would not have spent it in rich display, but would have lived simply and fru gally, as I do now. I would have traveled in foreign coun tries. I had no fixed idea in my mind when I stole the gold as to what I would do with all my money, but I wanted to quit work. uesiaes, l wanted tne money with which to build an airship. I have a model in my cabin part ly completed. It may take time, but I will complete my invention and it will fly. I shall begin work on it as soon as I get back to Crockett." It is certain that Winters will will be rewarded for returning tj le stolen gold. While the story that he would be given 25,000 is denied absolutely. ex-Chief of Police Leo did admit certain con cessions were made to him. "We kept the law in view and nothinrr was done that has not

been done before," czid Leo.

MANIAC Telvgraph Operator Goes Aad Over a Wreck

Bu Givina Wrona Order He Brings Two Trains Torjether and Is Drlven to Insanity. Omaha, Neb., Aug. 14-. James Greene, station agent and telegraph operator at Otno.Ia., gave out orders yesterday which sent two trains towards each other on the same track; ther, realizing his mistake, his mind gave way, and he is a raving rianiac, confined in the baggage-room and prevented by his friends from killing himself. The mistake caused a collision, which wrecked two engines, but cost no lives. It was the suspense and mental agony of waiting, after he realized his error, for the disaster which he had caused and which he could not prevent, that shattered Greene's mind. He is being kept under the influence of chloroform in the hope that his reason may return after a period of insensibility, but the physicians in charge of of the case do not hold out much encouragement. Greene does not know what happened when the trains met. In the moments when the chloro form wears away he raves, striv- j ing in every way to prevent the wrectf, fighting for a chance to reach his telegraph instrument, and pleading with those who restrain him to permit him to die. Greene received orders to send out a gravel train on the Minne apolis and Omaha road, to pass the fast freight running south from Fort Doüge before the lat ter left the yards at Fort Dodge. Subsequently he received orders to hold the gravel train at Otho until the fast freight passed. Through some' confusion Greene sent out the original order and permitted the gravel train to go on. Within a few moments after the gravel train started north from Otho Greene, in running through his messages discovered his mistake. An instant later the operator at Fort Dodge re ceived a wild plea to stop the fast freight, which was just leav ing the yards. An effort was made to reach the train, but it pulled out with no hint. Then followed a series of messages from Greene, who was raving in Jiis office, trying to prevent the collision. There was no telegraph point between Otho and Fort Dodge. All that could be done was to call out the wreck ing crew at Fort Dodge and send it to the scene of the accident. Greene kept at his wires, pleading wildly for some impossible interference. At the moment when he knew the two trains must meet Greene jumped to his feet, seized a knife which was on the desk, and tried to cut his throat. The baggageman, who was watching, sprang upon him and overpowered him before he could do himself any serious injury. The cries of the baggageman brought others to the rescue, and together they held Greene down until physicians could be summoned. Before they arrived Greene was raying. The gravel train and the fast freight came together on a heavy grade. Both engineers reversed their engines and the crews on both trains jumped before the shock came and escaped unin jured. The engines were demol ished. : ' Gold Mining S&mpede. Helena, Mont, Aug. 10. An old-fashioned mining stampede has been started to the Big Snowy mountains, 100 miles east of Helena, by the discovery of gold deposits. From one source it has been learned that the dis covery wa3 copper ore extremely rich in gold, one sample having been found which assayed $1,200

in gold to the ton.

Santos-Dumont has Narrow Escape From Deatn on Housetops at Paris.

Paris, Aug. 9. M. Santos-Du-mont. the aeronaut, met with an accident yesterday in his attempt to make the trip from St. Cloud around the Eiffel Tower, then return in order to secure the Deutsch prize. He reached the tower in nine minutes. When half way back, about fifteen minutes after he started, he noticed that the front of the balloon was collapsing, which would indicate that the gas was escaping. Thereupon M. San-tos-Dumont attempted to drive air into the balloonet, which is a small balloon within the larger one, but the motor: failed to act. Then the gas went out of the rear of the balloon, which hung in a flabby way and threatened to catch the screw. M. Santos-Dumont became fearful of an explosion and fall, and in order to avoid this he stopped the motor, thus leaving the balloon at the mercy of the winds. It drifted about a while and then came down in an awkward position between two blocks of the Exposition Trocadero Hotel, where it hung suspended. M. Santos - Dumont climbed up to the toof as quick ly as a cat by means of a rope, which was lowered, and escaped without injury. NEW BANK SWINDLE. Chicago, Aug. 13. A, "bank worker" swindled a Chicago fi nancial institution out of $30,000 in cash the other day. He es caped with the money. An effort is being made to keep tne matter secret and not even the name of the bank is given. The story of the loss of the $30,000 leaked out in New York yesterday when John Farson, Leach & Co., of this city showed to a friend a letter from W. D. Sheahan, one of his clerks in his Chicago bank, telling of the af fair. This letter reads as follows : "Chicago, 111., Aug. 10, 1901. Dear Farson; I learned last night of a very clever game which had been worked on one of the banks here recently. "It seems a man kept an.ac count aft one of tho institutions which I did not care to ask, but the story may be relied upon for several years. One day he appeared in the president's office with a draft on London for 6,000 which was perfectly good and which the president knew to be good. The customer informed the latter that he desired to deposit his London draft, and at the same time to check against it, presenting his check for $30,000 for the president to O. K. The latter put his initials on it and thought nothing more of it. It seems, however that the customer went out in the bank and de posited his London draft and the following day presented his check for $30,000, which was paid to him, the teller knowing that that amount was to his credit on the books. Later in the day he again appeared at the window and presented his check for $30,000, which had been initialed by the president. The teller paid this check and no more was seen of our friend. "This trick apparently could have been worked any day since the banks were first started, though the writer never heard of its being worked before. Word was passed down the line that no mere checks be initialed by any of the officers. Very truly yours, William D. Sheahan. " When seen last night at his home. No. 385 Superior street, Mr. Sheahan said that the source of his information was such that it was absolutely impossible for him to give the name of his informant, but that there was no doubt as to the swindle having been perpetrated.

mestern workers do not obey ORDER OF SHAFFER

South Chicago and Day View Operatives Vote Almost to a Man Against the General Strike Order and Continue at Work. Chicago, Aug. 12. By an overwhelming majority the members of the Amalgamated Association of Steel Workers in South Chicago decided yesterday to live up to their agreement with the Illinois steel company, and ignore the mandate of President Shaffer to go out on a general strike. Many speeches were made by the radical element in favor of obeying the order and standing by the association, but when it came to a ballot only four voted for a strike. JFor political reasons the actual vote was kept secret and wrong reports were given out, so it would not appear that so few favored standing by Shaffer's order. The actual count, as given by a member who attended the meeting was 198 against a strike and four in favor of it. When the vote was counted a committee of six was delegated to carry the news to the officials of the company, so that the fires may be started up and preparations made to resume work as usual at iO o'clock last night. After General Superintendent C. H. McCullough had been noti fied of the action taken at the meeting, the following state ment was given out by the men: "It is the spirit of Lakeside lodge, No. 9, and Commercial lodge, No. 14, of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers that owing to ex isting conditions between said lodges and the Illinois Steel company, we are justified in standing by our contracts. Owing to a ruling made by President Gar land in 1897 that the asso ciation never broke an agree ment, wo do not wish to bring the Amalgamated association into disrepute with our employers, all labor organizations, or the general -public, by breaking a contract at this time. We extend our financial aid to our brothers in their struggle for the building up and maintenance of the Amalgamated association in the East, and pray that their efforts may be crowned with success. No Strikt at Milwaukee. Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. 12. The local lodge of the Amalgamated association yesterday voted unamiously to pay no attention to the strike order issued by President Shaffer, and the 1,500 men at the Bay View P.1 ant of the Illinois Steel company of this city, went to work as usual this . morning. BOURKE COCHRAN SNUBBED. British Officer Resents New Yorkr's Sympathy for Boers. , London, Aug. 10. W. Bourke Cochran had an unpleasant experience last night at the house of commons, which he visited as the guest of Winston Churchill. While taking Cochran around, Churchill met Colonel Arthur Lee, recently the British military attache at Washington, and called himover. " "Don't you know my friend, Bourke Cochran?" he asked. "Yes," said Colonel Lee, curt ly, "The last time I saw him he was welcoming Boer delegates to Washington," and the ex-attache turned on his heel. Cochran only smiled, while Churchill made profuse apolo gies for subjecting his guest to such a rebuff. The incident is typical of the temper of the min isterialists toward all who sym pathize with the Boers.

International Contest Between De

troit Cadillac and Canadian Invader now on at Chlcaoo. . Chicago, Aug. 12. The American yacht Cadillac won a decisive victory over the Canadian yacht Invader Saturday in the first of the series of races for the Canada cup. Piloted by William Hale Thompson, the centerboarder from Detroit crossed the line eight minutes and thirty-five seconds ahead of the fin-keel from Toronto, after a race sailed in a half gale of wind and a heavy sea. Captain iEmillus Jarvis, skipper of the Invader, sailed a splendid race and made no mistakes in handling his boat, but Invader never had the lead after the first half of the first leg in the triangular course. It was Cadillac's day and weather, and the finish off Van Buren street was a sight long to be remembered. The wind came from the northeast, and neither boat had any advantage in it, except perhaps Invader, in the first two lega. v A larger number of people turned out to view the race than ever turned out for a yachting event in Chicago. Big passen ger steamers went out, covered to the hurricane decks with yachtsmen and those who knew a yacht only when it was pointed out to them. Nearly every sailing yacht in the fleet was out at some point during the course, and there were steam yachts and tugs in large numbers. It was an ideal day for a yacht race, but somewhat disheartening to those whose stomachs were easily affected by the toss ing waves. The increasing seas, which gladdened the hearts of many of those who believed in the Cadillac's weatherly qualities, caused many to lose their interest in tacks and sails. When the race was over and the yachtsmen gathered again in their boat-shaped house at the end of the south pier, there was not one to be found who would express a doubt but that tha Canada Cup was safe on this side of the boundary line for a year at least. The triangular course, meas uring twenty-one knots, or over twenty-four miles, was covered in the record-breaking time of 2 hours and 46 minutes and 35 seconds, which is nearly nine miles an hour. The course was laid out at first to make one leg a beat to windward, but the breeze shifted after the start and little tacking had to be done. The race throughout was without a hitch. When the anchorage was reached in the afternoon nothing was found to be com plained of. In the evening a banquet was tendered the crews of Invader and Cadillac at the Athletic club, fifty persons being pressnt. The second race of the series is being sailed to-day, and all bets are on Cadillac. MORE TROUBLE IN SIGHT Reports that Chinese Empress is Urging Anti-foreign Movement Port Arthur, Aug. 14. Ad xniral Alexeiff has . officially warned the ministers of war and navy that the situation in China is rapidly becoming dangerous. He fears that it will be necessary to send European forces to pre vent the renewed outbreak of hostilities. The Chinese are as sembling large bodies of troops, and it is rumored that the dow ager empress is encouraging this new antif oreign movement. fires Pu'.!td t Republic Mil Pittsburg, Aug. 12. The fires were pulled at the Republic mill and at the Painter mill at 3 o'clock this morning because of a lack of men.

NEW OKLAHOMA CITY EXCITED OVER PROSPECTS.

Sixty Saloons Opened Yesierdau anP the Town Grows Like Magic Lots Bring rotxjlous Prices Arrangements for Waterworks In Progress. Fort Still, Ok., Aug. 13. Oil companies, with fabulous sums announced for their capital stock are being organized hourly in the new town of Lawton, near here. Twenty or more promoters and oil experts, direct from the Beaumont district, had bottles of oil on display yes terday. No gushers have yet been brought in. The excite ment is not confined to any particular district. Evidence of oil can be found in all directions, but what is known as the oil district is about eleven miles north of Lawton. Oil locators have plastered the entire country with mineral claims, and an Ottumwa (Iowa) company has 2,000 acres staked in one body. Another company claiming a capital of 1250,000, has claimed a large tract nine miles northeast of Lawton, and a third com pany has been organized, on paper at least, and placed its capital stock at $1,000,000. Lawton has sixty saloons in full blast. That many having opened yesterday morning when the prohibition limit expired. Comparatively few of them have located in the town site. A fav orite location is on the homestead of J. R. Woods. Cold storage plants have sprung up as if by magic on Woods' claim, and frame houses have been built for storing bottled goods. Woods' attorneys have appealed to the civil authorities, and their application for troops tc eject trespassers has been referred by ex-Governor Richards to the secretary of the interior. The Woods homestead has the appearance of an independent town, with one main street of tents a mile long, and almost the entire homestead south of the business thoroughfare is covered with all manner of tents and crude frame buildings. The north east corner lot in the land office block sold for $2,000. The lot faces C street, and the adjoining lot sold for $1,000. The northwest corner lot in the same block sold for 1,080, and the southwest corner for $1,305. Inside lots brought by far the best prices of the sale so far. There was no delay in the bidding. The waterworks companies have been formed to supply Lawton with water, but Lawton wants to own its own waterworks and a movement has been started to ask for an appropriation from the sale of town lots for this purpose. Crispi b No More. Naples, Aug. 12. Ex-Prime Minister Francesco Crispi died at 7:45 o'clock last evening. He was surrounded by the members of his family and several intimate friends. The news was immediately telegraphed to King Victor Emmanuel and Queen Helen. The evening papers assert that the body will be conveyed by steamer to Palermo, where the municipality will arrange for a great public funeral. It is rumored that Signor Crispi's will authorizes a prominent Italian politician to examine his papers and publish his memoirs. Darius Green's Emulator. Chicago, Aug. 12. Ambition to traverse the "air led James Stuart, a 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Stuart of Bellwood, to trust himself in a fortyfoot flight to two umbrellas, which he used in lieu of a parachute. The performance was a failure, and the boy is in bed, suffering from a broken arm and nose and severe bruises.