The Syracuse Journal, Volume 6, Number 34, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 18 December 1913 — Page 1

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CONVENTION POT OFF OU, 0. P. National Committee Defeats Gettogether Plan. PROJECT FAILS BY 35 TO 14 Progressives in House Have Meeting and Pass Resolutions — Reiterate Their Demands for Presidential Primaries —Message by President on the Subject Is EndorsedWashington, Dec. 17.—8 y a vote of 35 to 14 the Republican national committee decided not to hold a special national convention to reorganize the Republican party. The states which voted for the convention were Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan. Missouri, New Mexico, New York, North and South Dakota, Oklahoma. Pennsylvania, Washington and West Virginia. By a unanimous vote the committee adopted a resolution pledging the committee to carry out reforms in party procedure and management of its own motion. It is the belief of both the so-called regular and progressive leaders that the day’s work of the committee amounts to a revolutionary change in the organization of the Republican party and that it will go a long way toward restoring the harmonious relations that todk wings in the convention of 1912. Progressives Resolve. Declaring their indifference to promises of reformation on the part of the Republican national committee, the Progressive party members of the house adopted a resolution declaring that: “The Progressives of the house of representatives view with interest the deathbed repentance of the Republican leaders for the sins of the late Republican national convention in their present hyprocritical offers of reform in the representation at future conventions.” The resolution voices the belief that “presidential candidates hereafter will be nominated by direct vote and indorses President Wilson’s direct primary policy. THREE SHOT; TWO KILLED Husband Kills Wife and in Turn Is Shot Dead. Bay City. Mich., Dec. 17.—Ramney Courney and his wife were shot and killed, and a man named Damos was shot through the shoulder, in a shooting affair near Frederic, in Crawford county, according to reports here. It is said Courney and his wife have not been living together and that Courney killed his wife hnd wounded Damas. The latter is said to have killed Courney in the exchange of shots. E. S. Gentry Rhodes Scholar. Chicago, 111., Dec. 17. —E, S. Gentry, a graduate of McKendree college. Lebanon, 111., was awarded the Rhodes scholarship prize for 1914 by the committee at the Auditorium hotel in the evening. C. Z. Easum of Knox college. Galesburg, 111., was made alternate. Killed in Collision. Council Bluffs, la., Dec. 17. —E. L. Wyant, motorman, was fatally injured and five others hurt in a street car collision during a heavy fog. THE MARKETS Chicago Cash Grain Quotations. Wheat—No. 2 red, 96%@97%c; No. 3 red, 93%@95%c; No. 2 hard winter, 90%; No. 3 hard winter, 89%@90%c; No. 1 norther spring, 91%@92%c; No. 2 northern spring, 89%@90%c; No. 3 spring, 88%@89%c. Corn (new) —No. 2 white, 70c; No. 22 yellow. 70@70%c; No. 3, 64%c; No. 3 white, 65%@67c. Oats—No 2 white. 41 %c; No. 3 white, 40@40%c; standard, 41c. Chicago Live Stock. Hogs—Receipts 42,000. Quotations ranged at [email protected] light shippers, [email protected] heavy shippers, [email protected] heavy packing, and [email protected] good tc fancy pigs. Cattle —Receipts 6,500. Quotations ranged at [email protected] good to prime steers, [email protected] good to prime beef cowe, [email protected] good to prime fed heifers, and [email protected] good to best veal calves. Sheep—Receipts 25,000. Quotations ranged at $7J>[email protected] good to prime native lambs, [email protected] good to choice handy yearlings. $5.35 @5.75 good to choice wethers, and $4.40@ 4.65 good to choice heavy ewes. Butter. Creamery, extra, per lb., 35c; extra firsts, 33%@4c; firsts, 25% @ 29c: dairiess. extra, 33c; firsts, 25@26c. .* Live Poultry. Turkeys, per lb., 16c; fowls, 12%c; roosterss, 10c .springs, 12c; ducks, 14c; geese, ISc, East Buffalo Live Stock. Dunning & Stevens, Live Stock Com, mission Merchants, East Buffalo, N. Y., quote as follows: Cattle—Receipts 40 cars; market dull. Hogs—Receipts 70 cars; market slow; heavy and Yorkers, [email protected]; pigs, [email protected]. Sheeps Receipts 40 cars; market steady; top lambs, [email protected]; yearling*, $6.6006.75; wethers, [email protected]; iwei, $4,504.75. Calves, $5.99019.99,

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BROOKIYN’S CLAIM IS LEGAL Attorney fcr Baseball Club Says Tinker Is Lawfully Theirs. New Y'ork, Dec. 17.—After a long discussion by President C. Ebbets and the McKeever brothers, owners of the Brooklyn club, Bernard J. York, attorney for the club, who was present, announced that Joe Tinker would play with the Dodgers next season. Mr. York, after inspecting the now famous agreement signed by August Herrmann, president of the Cincinnati club and Ebbets which stipulates that Tinker becomes the property of the Brooklyn club in exchange for a $25,-00-0 bonus, declared that it could not be upset even in the civil courts. Mr. York showed that Herrmann for thirteen years had acted with undisputed authority for the Cincinnati club and that the Brooklyn club never had received notice that Herrmann’s acts had to be reviewed by the Cincinnati club’s directors. CZAREVITH ALEXIS IS DYING Heir to Russian Throne Not Benefited by Warmer Climate. St. Petersburg, Dec. 17.—Efforts to restore the health of Alexis, the young Czarevitch, by taking him to the Crimea, where warmer weather pre vails, have failed, according to let ters received here from Sebastopol. , They state that the prince is slowly wasting away. SAYS GANGER CURE BY RADIUM IS FAG I Bank for Deposit of Element to Be Established. Philadelphia, Dec. 17—The w >rd ‘‘cure’* can now be properly applied to the radium form of treatment of cancer, according to announcement made by Dr. Howard A. Kelly of Johns Hopkins university and Dr. Robert Abbe of New York, at a meeting of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in this city. As a result of the announcement it is expected that the projected radium bank, at which will be on deposit a portion of the much-sought-after ele menl, will soon be a fact. Then pa tients can be brought from all sec tions and subjected to the radium rays for the treatment not only of cancer but of other diseases in which its use has been found to be efficacious. Dr. Kelly’ exhibited photographs oi patients before and after being cured and told of the cure in forty-eight hours of a man suffering from malignant cancerous growths on the face and head. DUNNE PARDONS TWO Maurice Enright and Joshua Tedford Given Their Liberty. Chicago, Dec. 17.—Maurice Enright, known in labor circles as “Moss,” who was convicted and given a life sentence for the murder of Vincent Altman in the Briggs house, was par doned by Governor Dunne. The governor also pardoned Joshua Tedford, manager of The Hub store, whose remarkable climb in the business. w'orld after his conviction for conspiracy to defeat justice nine years ago has attracted country-wide attention to his case. Cardinal Rampolla Dead. Rome, Dec. 17.—Cardinal Mariano Rampolla, formerly papal secretary of state, who was defeated in the last election in the papacy only by the veto of Austria, is dead. He was seventy years old. WINSTON CHURCHILL Goes to Berlin to Support * Naval Holiday Suggestion. Ml V London, Dec. 17.—Winston Churchill has left London, and it is said he will visit Berlin to discuss his naval holt-, day plan with leaders in the German ! capital.

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38 MINERS DIE BY EXPLOSION Blast Gacsed by Dust Wrecks Vulcan, Col., tene. til THE DEAD ARE AMERICANS Only Two Men Escape—Work to Recover Bodies Almost Completed— Victims Difficult of Identification — Names of Dead Brought to Surface —Work of Exhuming Easy. Afcla.’.Col.,. Qec- 17.—An explosion In the Vulcan mTneof (Ke Rocky’ Mountain Fuel company, one and onehalf miles east of here, entombed L. L. Crawford, mine foreman; L. Walters, fire boss, and thirty-eight miners. This estimate was based on a hurried check of the company’s rolls. Some officials expressed the belief that the number in the workings might be increased to forty. Only about eight of the men in the mine are foreigners. Rescue Squad Begins Work. Charles S. Meerdink. mine superintendent, with five companions, equip ped with helmets, at once began an exploration of the workings. It was believed that the explosion originated In the west workings at a point at least 1,50-0 feet from the portal of the main tunnel, but whether it was caused by dust or gas had not been determined. According to mine officials, six men are known to have been working in the west entry and are believed to have been killed Some May Escape. Examination led to the belief that the east entry was comparatively free from the force of the explosion, and this led to expressions of hope that some of the men employed there would be found alive. No trace of fire inside the mine had been found, and thus one of the most deadly perils to the entombed men and the rescuers was eliminated. All the entombed miners were married, say mine officials. A number of men were in the upper workings, which are reached by a long incline from the tipple, at the time of the explosion. These hastened to the main tunnel, and are said to have been met by a second explosion. J. W. Cummins, district manager of the Rocky Mountain Fuel company, definitely announced a dust explosion as the cause of the disaster early in the afternoon after an investigation. He said the force of the blast shook the whole mountain and rocked the buildings on the mine tipple. He said the explosion occurred at 10:20 In room 13 of the lower level and extended all the way to room 37. The work of taking out the bodies commenced shortly after 1 o’clock. The men were horribly mangled and identification was difficult, but they were gradually checked off from the time card. The Dead. Following is a list of the dead so far brought to the surface: Wallace Baxter, mine shooter; L. Walter, fire boss; M. McLain, mine shooter; Clint Crawford, load boss; Ben Davis, driver; George Smith, driver, and the following miners; D, 8, Nolan, D. Percorelli, R. Filgo, A. Osepke, J. Kalonowsky. L. Fushino, David Tamage, F. Cook, A. Johnson, Ralph Wendell, William Shearer, Joe Farren, M. Mur- \ phy, R. Norton, J. Reed, Frank McCann. H. Wood, Ira Starbuck. Gale ■ Afbeenta. Lee Danta, E. Strong, R. Obeter, Bert Bartle, E. John Alten,

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William Neese. Gabe Monacelli, Joe Monacelli, Tony Monacelli, Joe La Blanche, U L. Crawford, two other unidentified' miners. The survivors: W. J. Finley, John Dawson. The work of rescue will be rushed as quickly as possible. MOB ADMISTRATES PENALTY South Dakota People Displeased with Culbertson Life Sentence. Williston, N. D., Dec. 17.—Cleve Culbertson, recently convicted of murdering thtee members of the Dillon family at Ray, N. D., was taken from the Williams county jail by a mob and hanged from a bridge near here. Culbertson was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murders. There was much criticism heard here because he escaped the death penalty at the trial. OLEOMARGARINE LAW VOID New of Appeals Says Yellow Albany, N. Y., Dec. 17—The New York state court of appeals held the oleomargarine law to be unconstitutional. It was held that the legislature might enact laws to prevent deception and fraud in foodstuffs, but the giving yellow color to oleomargarine was not done with the intention of committing fraud. Folk Lore Authority Dead. Christiania, Norway, Dec. 17.—Professor Moltke Moe, the greatest authority on Scandinavian folk lore since the time of Asbjorson, is dead* His father, Joergen Moe, won distinction in the same line of work, which was taken up and completed ty the son. , MISUSE OF MAILS CHARGED Terre Haute Man Is Arrested on Complaint of Ohio Firm. Terre Haute, Ind., Dec. 17.—0. E. Shantz of Terre aHute was arrested by Deputy United States Marshal Martin on a warrant charging him with using the mails to commit fraud. Schantz was given a preliminary hearing before United States Commissioner Ocph Hall and later was released on $S()0 bond, Dec. 22 being set for the trial. Schantz, it is charged, has been representing himself as a salesman representing a furniture and mattress concern in Hamilton. O. A letter to the company from Schantz asking for money and at the same time representing that he (Schantz) had booked several large orders for goods, is said to have caused an investigation that resulted in Postoffice Inspector Fletcher making formal complaint. MRS. RAY GARY POLICE HEAD Mayor Appoints Suffrage Leader President of Safety Board. Gary, Ind., Dec. 17.—Mayor Thomas E. Knotts has appointed Mrs. Kate Woods Ray, the Gary suffrage leader, to the presidency of the safety board. Mrs. Ray will be head of the police and fire departments. Mrs. Ray, who formerly lived in Chicago, took the stump in a recent judicial campaign in Illinois. She is president of the Gary Civic club. F!».' - «: Makes Cnnrge of Bigamy. Evansville, Ind.. Dec. 17.—After receiving a letter from a sister-in-law in Illinois telling of the death of her husband, Mrs. Thomas Witherow married John Gardner last February. Husband No. -1 has appeared and sworn ofit an affidavit charging the woman with bigamy.

YET OTHER MEN GET PRISON SENTENCES While No Law Punishes This Fellow for His Work. Logansport, Ind., Dec. 17. —With her baby in her arms, Mrs. Sarah BFown of Akron, O„ sat in the waiting room of the Pennsylvania station for hours and waited in vain for G. E. Lawrence, formerly of Akron, who had induced her to come to this city under promise of marriage. The weeping woman attracted the attention of a policeman to whom she declared that Lawrence, meeting her at the train, had told her bluntly he would not marry her, but would keep her here with him as his housekeeper. When she declined this offer and asked him to at least pay her fare back home, he made an excuse to leave, saying he would return shortly. The police found Lawrence. He admitted he had intended marrying the woman, but said he had changed his mind. Finding no evidence upon which to hold him under the Mann act, he was prevailed upon to purchase tickets for himself and the woman and return her to Akron. FOR STANDARD TAXING LAWS Members of Richmond, Ind., Commercial Club Start Movement. Richmond, Ind., Dec. 17.—The Richmond Commercial club has definitely determined on the inauguration of a state-wide campaign for the standardization of the Indiana taxing laws and Secretary Charles Jordan of the i club has received a letter from Eben | H. Wolcott of Indianapolis, a member i of the state board of tax commissioni ers, giving hearty indorsement of the | movement and promising to co-oper-i ate for its success. i Secretary Jordan will soon send letI ters to the assessors of all the coun- ' ties of the state, requesting information as to the methods employed in their respective counties for placing valuations on real and personal properties, also the class of men and the numb'er of men employed to make assessments. . HAWKS AGAIN MEETS DEFEAT New Trial Is Refused Company in Its Injunction Suit. Goshen, Ind., Dec. 17.—Lemuel W. Royse of Warsaw, sitting as special judge, refused a new trial in the injunction suit brought by the Hawks Electric company against the City of Goshen in an effort to prevent the rebuilding of the rqunicipal lighting plant here. Ninety days were given in which to file a bill of exceptions. The injunction actin was filed after complaint had been made to the Indiana public service commission of the Hawks company. In the meantime Goshen city has reconstructed its plant at an expense of $40,600 and will continue to compete with the Hawks corporation. The litigation, it is said, has cost the Hawks company SB,OOO. There Ain't None. Great Picture Buyer (to hostess)— What do you think of an artist who painted cobwebs on the ceiling so truthfully that the servant wore herself into an attack of nervous prostration trying to sweep them down? Hostess (a woman of experience)— There may have been such an artist, but there never was such a servant.— Tit-Bit*. ....

JANE FAVORS FREE LUNCH Hull House Head Says Saloons Are Workingmen’s Club. Chicago. Dec. 17.—Free lunch or no free lunch—that is the question to be thrashed out by the health commission of the city council iu considering the ordinance eliminating free food from saloons Arthur Burrage Farwell, the great law enforcement advocate, is expected to attend and favor the ordinance Jane Addams on the other hand says: “The saloon is the workingman's clubhouse. Why make it a booze shop.” ROOT PUfSWTUS ON HIS G. 0. P. BOOM Senator Says He Would Be Too Old In 1916. Washington, Dec. 17. —Senator Root declared in the senate that he “could not and would not accept the Republican presidential nomination if it were offered to him. My friends who have made these kindly suggestions forget.” he said, “that before this administration comes to a close I will have reached the age of seventy-two years; that before the next administration could complete its service 1 would have reached the age of seven-ty-six. It would be manifestly impossible that I should be president of the United States.” The speech of Senator Root is expected to halt a well- defined boom to make him the Republican nominee for president in 1916. Andrew Carnegie started the boom during a visit to the White House. Senator Gallinger gave it new impetus in a speech on the floor of the senate. Former President Taft put his O. K. on the boom when he declared: “I would be delighted to see him in the White House. He is in the same class as Alexander Hamilton.” CLEVELAND HOTELS TIED UP Waiters Strike and Are Trying to Persuade Others to Join Them. Cleveland, 0., Dec. 17.—Union waiters to the number of 125 at the Statler and Hollenden hotels struck and succeeded in crippling the dining rooms of the two hostelries. Effort? to call out the waiters at the Colonial were successful at noon and added forty to the number of strikers. Union club and Cleveland Athletic club waiters also may walk out. The waiters demand an increase in pay of $5 a month and Statler waiters demand a six day week. Bank Officials Fined. Stigler, Okla., Dec. 17.—E. L. Fannin and E. W. Hickman, former president and vice president, respectively, of the Choctaw Commercial bank, that failed at Spiro last February, pleaded guilty here to accepting deposits when the bank was insolvent. .They were each fined $1,900 and costs of the prosecution. I I WEATHER OBSERVATIONS. || Taken by United States weath- 11 er bureau in Washington, D> C. I; Temp. I; New York 44 Cloudy I; Albany ..*3B Cloudy <[ Atlantic City ...46 Cloudy;; Boston Cloudy j | Chicago Clear ;| St. Louis .......42 Clear |l New Orleans ...38 Clear 11 Washington ....48 Clear J Weather for Tomorrow. ; ; Illinois, Indiana, Lower Michi- ;! gan, Wisconsin and lowa— ! Fair, moderate temperature. I ; JANE ACDAMS Hull House Head Says She Favors Free Lunch Saloons. • Ik -1 Photo by American Press Association.

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MEXICO’S HIGH MAN JOSES ALL Villa Confiscates Property oi Terrazas and Family. CHARGES THEY AIDED HUERTA Spaniards in Chihuahua Accuted of Meddling in the Interior Affair< of Mexico—They Must Prove That They Didn’t—ls Innocent They Will Recover Promises to Pay. El Paso, Dec. 17. —Pancho Villa, rebel commander in northern Mexico. issued a decree confiscating all the property of General Luis Terrazas, Enrique Creel and Juan Creel, personal and real. General Terrazas is now a refugee in El Paso. His sou Luis, Jr., is a prisoner of Villa in Chfc» huahua. The women members of tlpj family are all in Chihuahua. Enrique Creel, former ambassador to the United States, is in .Mexico City and Juan Creel, his brother, ia. now in El Paso, a refugee. Both of the Creels are nephews of Terrazas and Enrique is also a son-in-law o£ Terrazas. The decree declared that these men fomented the revolution that caused the death of Madero and that the proceeds from their property “will be devoted to the widows and orphans made by the bloodshed resulting from this treachery.” . Villa Defiant to Spaniards. El Paso, Tex., Dec. 17. —That does not intend to restore the property tatken from the Spanish residents of Chihuahua, virtually is what Pancho Villa declares in a telegram,, which he sent from Chihuahua City to* General Benavides, his commander iu Juarez. While the telegram is sent, as a denial 6f “the exaggerated accounts published in the United States: of measures taken against the Spaniards,” Villa declares emphatically that is is well known that the majority of the Spanish residents of this state have “continuously mixed them- * selves up in the interior policies of this country by assisting in every possible manner the usurper Huerta.” He then continues: “This they have done in such a notorious manner that I was forced to take certain measures for their own safety if for no other reason,” meaning probably his orders: -to them to get out of Chihuahua. “In regard to the commercial establishments belonging to Spanish residents,” he says, “I wish to state that those. persons who can prove that they have not participated in any way in the interior affairs of this nation will be properly indemnified according to the claims they present and which are correctly proved. Those others who have taken part contrary 5 to all right in the internal policies of Mexico will be considered worthy of the same treatment as Mexican citizens and will have to suffer the consequences which they have brought on by their own actions.” Little Chance for Payment Inasmuch as Villa has sold or appropriated to the use of his army the goods of the Spaniards and has little cash except that issued by the rebel government in the form “promise to pay” the refugees do not consider they have a chance to recover anything. BIGGEST REAL ESTATE DEAL Covent Garden Estate of Nineteen Acres Changes Hands. London, Dec. 17. —The biggest private real estate deal on record w;as completed when the Duke of Bedford’s Covent Garden estate in the center of London was purchased by* Harry Mallaby-Deely, a unionist member of the house o( commons. The eState covers about nineteen acres. It includes twenty-five streets and nine “courts.” There are approximately about 750 buildings in the estate and more than a thousand lease-hold tenants. The price is said to be about $15,660,090. WILSON GETS HIS ORDERS Former Inmate of Maryland Sanitarium is After the Doctors. Washington, Dec. 17. —“I hereby* command you, Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States, in the name of God Almighty, to arrest each and every doctor of medicine In the United States on three charges: Treason, perjury and conspiracy against the right and life of man.” This summons was given to the police by Stanhope, O. Crane, recently released from a sanitarium in Maryland. The man was held for examinination. CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK Taffs Son Passes Bar Quiz at Head of His Class. Columbus, 0., Dec. 17.—-Robert Alphonse Taft, son of former President Taft, carried off the honors of the class that took the state bar exami' ation here last week. He a grade of 90.7. Young Taft duplicated the achievement of his father, who won the highest honors of the class when he admitted to the bar in Ohio.

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