The Syracuse Journal, Volume 6, Number 36, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 1 January 1914 — Page 1

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WOMENJO FIGHT Will Oppose Payment of ‘ Assessments on Incomes. PASSIVE RESISTANCE URGED in a Statement Issued by the Suffragist Congressional Union the Declaration Is Made That Resistance to ths Law Is Justifiable from a Moral Standpoint—Many to Fight. WASHINGTON — “Resistance” on the part of the women of the country to the federal income tax law, despite the government’s announced intention to impose fines of SI,OOO for each failure to report incomes, will receive the encouragement of the Sufiragist Congressional union. This is announced in a statement just issued by the organization headquarters here. Resistance to the law, it is declared, would be thoroughly justifiable from a moral standpoint. The statement, coming after the suggestion of the Rev. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, president" of the Woman's National Suffrage association, that the unenfranchised women of the country refuse to assist the government in rhe collection of taxes upon their incomes, caused a mild sensation in congressional, treasuny and suffrage circles. >. Sympathy with Resistance. The statement declares that the Congressional union does not intend to organize a wide-spread resistance to the income tax law, but adds: “If, any society or individual, however, should refuse to pay the tax or give information as to the amount of her income, the Congressional union would have every sympathy with such action.” Imposition of an income tax upon women, the statement continues, has made them realize afresh their helplessness under the government. To tax the women without granting them representation, the statement asserts, would be an act of “intolerable injustice." . “Resistance to the income tax law,” It is declared, “would have exxcellent educational value and would be thoroughly justified morally.” It is said in conclusion, however, that the union will not undertake to organise a protest the law. Hundreds Pledged to Fight. The suffragist leaders assert that they, have hundreds of followers pledged to fight the income tax. Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey, honorary dean of the Washington College of Law, takes issue with suffragists . who would accept Dr. Shaw’s advice to offer “passive resistance.” “Women should remember that they receive protection from the government,” said Mrs. Mussey, “and it is only right that they should contribute to the support of a system of law and order in which they share the benefit. In addition to this reason, the income tax was enacted with the aid of legislators from equal suffrage states, and. therefore, suffragists should not hinder its operation.” VOTE TO REINSTATE MRS. ELLA F. YOUNG ■ t Mayor Harrison Uses Police to Settle School Muddle. CHICAGO—Mrs. Ella Flagg Young was re-elected’as the superintendent of schools at a riotous meeting of the '■ board of education. Four new members of the board were seated, only after a stormy scene in which a detail of policemen shnt by order of Mayor Harrison, forced John C- Harding, Henry W. Huttmann, James E. Dibelka and Charles O. Sethness, former trustees, to withdraw. Challenges were hurled at the chair by the defiant members. They were supported in their fight by Trustees William Rothmann, J. J. Sonsteby and several others. - After the new appointees—all predisposed to vote for Mrs. Young were established in the places of the deposed anti-Young quartet, the meetings proceeded to vote on motion to reconsider the vote by which John D. Shoop was elected superintendent at last session and to re-elect Mrs. Young. STRANDED SHIP FLOATED Steamer Tasman, Carrying Nordica and Others, Off the Rocks. THURSDAY ISLAND, AUSTRALASIA —The steamer Tasman, which has been ashore for several days in the Gulf of Papua, was floated with the assistance of the Japanese steamer Inaho Maru. It has fifteen feet of water in its hold, but with its own pumps is keeping R from rising. Among the Tasman’s passengers are Mme. Lillian Nordica, Aiwa Adams 1 former governor of Colorado and \ 'Thomas G. Stallsmith of California, i members of the Panama-Pacific expo- ' sition commission, 1 ,—— - Pindell Is Still in th* Air. WASHINGTON —A strong effort to bring about the confirmation of the nomination of Henry M. Pindell of Illinois for ambassador to Russia before i the adjournment for the holidays failed. „ ..

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j GENERAL NEWS. i EL PASO, TEXAS — Skirmishing continues in the suburbs of Torreon between the federal defenders of the place and the rebels in that vicinity. Meantime, Villa is hurrying southwards as many men as he can spare from Chihuahua to reinforce the rebels and attempt to prevent the federate marching on Chihuahua. Reports in Juarez is that Villa has gone south in person but this is denied officially. Big quanitities of supplies are being shipped southward daily from Chihuahua. Four hundred rebel cavalry have left Juarez on a special train bound for the City of Chihuahua to reinforce Villa’s army. Half an hour after the departure of the cavalry a supply train carrying a large quantity of food steamed out of Juarez for Chihuahua. WASHINGTON. —Although Illinois is generally known as a premier agricultural state, the United States geological survey announces her third among the states in the value of mineral production. In 1912 the total value of the mineral production was $123,900,000, of which coal alone represented more than $7,600;0('0. The total value of minerals in 1911 was a little more than $106,000,000. The report shows that while Illinois produces no iron ore, it is an important manufacturer of pig iron, being exceeded only by Pennsylvania and Ohio. In the production of coal the state is surpassed only by Pennsylvania and West Virginia. WASHINGTON — A resoution has been introduced in the house by Representative Adamson of Georgia, proposing to suspend under certain conditions the act granting free tolls t<? American vessels passing through the Panama canal. The resolution created considerable attention because of Chairman Adamson’s relation to the subject as chairman of the house committee having it in charge and because it is understood to have the approval of the administration. NEW YORK.—The arrest made Saturday night of Alvin. Simmons on a charge of attempting to extort $2,900 from the family of Robert G. McCann, whose daughter, Jessie, is missing, revealed that the heart-broken family has been deluged with letters of a similar character as that which caused the arrest of Simmons since the girl disappeared from home a month ago. NEW YORK—Frederic A. Delano, the former president and one of the receivers of the Wabash railroad, was elected president of the Chicago. Indianapolis and Louisville Railway company, known as the Monon, to succeed Fairfax Harrison, who was recently elected president of the Southern Railway company. ROME, ITALY—The sealing up of the late Cardinal Rampolla's apartments is denounced as a high-handed and illegal proceeding in some quarters. The legality of the act is questioned because it was carried out without the authorization or intervention of the judicial officials. WASHINGTON — Reversal of the judgment finding Samuel Qompers, John Mitchell and Frank Morrison of the American Federation; of Labor guilty of contempt in violating an injunction in the Bucks Stove and Range company case is ask id in a brief filed in the supreme court. CHICAGO — Beginning on Jan. $ the joint through rates on grain and grain products from points in Illinois, Indiana and lowa to destinations in eastern trunk line territory, including Buffalo tnd Pittsburgh, will be readjusted so s to cause a general ad■’■ancj'. ..... s JAMES M. LYNCH New York Labor Commissioner Arranges to Safeguard Workers Ik <»'■ ■'* ■- V SB I wIW ' HHEF JS '' g > j| M ||r ' NEW YORK.—A careful state wide survey of the industries of New York, together with a special survey of factory buildings within the state, is to j be undertaken by Commissioner James s M. Lynch of the state department of • (.labor in the near future. The work s i will he under the direction of the .- division of industrial hygiene.

3RD ACCIDENT ON THE HEIGHTS. / 11 ® W ii il u - A, \ X y Humpty Dumpty, mar the summit, May come down juat like a plummet; He couldn't be raised with block and tackle When once the hem begin to cackle. —Rogers in New York Herald.

AUTO PARTY RUNS | INTO MOVING CARS I ——— I • I Four Occupants Tumble to Safety in Collision. I RICHMOND, IND—The word was received in Richmond of the escape from death of JohnOverman,-his wife, daughter Clementine and son Howard, when the automobile, driven | by Mr. Overman, dashed into a Big Four freight train at a crossing between Fountain City and Linn, Ind., during a blinding, snowstorm. Notwithstanding that the train was composed of sixty-five cars and fully half of them passed over the machine, no member of the Overman family was injured. Mr. Overman said that, when he neared the railroad crossing, the windshield was incrusted with snow, mal<v ing it almost impossible for him to see 1 six feet ahead of him, so he was driv- ' ing his car at a slow rate of speed. He ■ said he did not a train passing ’ the crossing because of the heavy fall [ of snow and because the sides of the cars were white with flakes of ice. i Suddenly the machine crashed into ! a car which was at about the middle : of the train, and as Mr. Overman and his son fell out of the front seat of the I machine The hind wheels of the freight ' car crushed it. They pulled the occupants out of the rear seats to safety. ; ASKS TO SHARE IN ESTATE Elkhart Woman Declares Is the J Daughter of Late Joseph Turnock. SOUTH BEND, IND. — Mrs. Low- ’ ell Parker, fifty-six years old, of , Elkhart. Ind., who declares she is a ‘ daughter born out of wedlock of the late Colonel Joseph Turnock of South Bend., filed suit in the circuit court asking that she be apportioned her ' share of the Turnock estate, which is i valued at $150,000. The other heirs ; are Mrs. Nellie Booth, daughter, and Joseph Brevere, a grandson. Mrs. I Parker married at the age of sixteen and until recently lived in New York. ! The filing of the suit caused a sensa- 1 tion here. Colonel Turnock was one of the most prominent and influential men in ■ the city and widely known throughout : the country as prominent with the I G. A. R. Turnock was killed in an au- I tomobile accident. GARDNER'S CLAIM DISPUTED ! . ; •l Insurance Company Thinks His Shoot- ; ing at Evansville Not Accidental. EVANSVILLE, IND. — The claim ! of J. Preston Gardner, general manager of the Louisville, Henderson and St. Louis railroad, for insurance mon- ; ey for a bullet wound he received here ■ Nov. 20, is to be disputed by the In- ' diana Travelers’ Accident Insurance j company, with which Gardner has a i $5,000 policy. L- According to Elmer Keeler, special investigator, the company does not , think the shooting was accidental. I For the last few years Gardner has made his home in Louisville, but was visiting here when the accident occurred. He is well known in social circles here. Gardner has now fully reI covered. B MARSHALL VISITS CHURCH . Vice President Meets His Old Sunday J School Class. ; 3 INDIANAPOLIS. IND.—Vice Presif dent Marshall went-to the First Press byterian Church in the morning and 8 greeted the members of the Sunday school class that he taught while he > " ; was Governor of Indiana. After Sun- '

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day school he remained to hear the sermon of the Rev. M. L. Haines, pastor. In the evening he was a dinner guest of friends at the University Club. The Vice President and Mrs. Mar- ! shall returned to the home of W. L. | Elder, after having spent most of the day at Crawfordsville with Mrs. Marshall's brother and family. They expect to be in Indianapolis most of this week. . ? | DOCTOR FINED FOR ASSAULT Wife of Evansville Physician Faints When Making Charge in Court. EVANSVU LE, IND. — On a ‘ charge of and battery on his i Wife,' MarjuTO. 25 "years old, Dr. Charles Yeck was fined $25 and costs ! in City Court. The alleged assault took place, ac- . cording to the wife, when her husband found fault with her for not sending i her children to school. Warren Dixon, I 33 years old, Mrs. Yeck’s brother, was : fined $1 and costs for an assault on <TJ)r. Yeck. The wife fainted on the stand when she was called to testify. ' LEAVES WIFE TO GAIN PEACE Rolling Prairie Man Says Imprisonment Was Welcome Freedom. SOUTH BEND, IND. — George ■ Griffith, forty-one years old, who has deserted his sixty-flve-year-old wife three times within the last six months, is again under arrest in South Bend. The couple resides at Rclling, Prairie, Laporte county. Griffith says he can not stand for his wife’s jealous disposition and left her tn order to have a few days of peace. “I knew 1 would be arrested,” he said, “but my short freedom was£worth the impris onment.” Four Birthdays at Once. LAWRENCEBURG, IND—The stork left twin baby boys at the home of William B. Ross for the second time within three years. Both sets were born at the same hour of the same day of the month, making four birthdays arrive together. i The babies weighed twenty-one pounds and were named Damon and Pythias. Mr. and Mrs. Ross will celei brate the fifteenth anniversary of; i their wedding Christmas. Altogether ! | they have ten children. Mr. Ross is | : a real estate dealer. $35,000 School Completed. RUSHVILLE. IND. — The new I Milroy school building was opened • formally. An all-day program was arj ranged and the principal address of ' the day was delivered by Professor l George Tapy of Wabash college, a ■ member of the state board of educaj tion. Dr. Hurty also was present. The building replaces one destroyed by fire a year ago and was completed at a cost of $35,000. Family Quarrel Is Fatal. MUNCIE, IND. —William M. Boyer, thirty years old, colored, had such strong objection to the marriage of his mother to William Dye, also colored, that he shot and instantly killed Dye in*the mother’s home. Boyer says he shot in self-defense to save himself from being cut to death by Dye, who flourished a razor. Running of “Tiger” Charged. BOONVILLE, IND.—Homer Tottpn, a well-known farmer of Tepny '• son, this county, is under arrest under a grand jury indictment charging him with operating a “blind tiger” in Tennyson. EVANSVILLE, IND.—An Increase of 33 per cent in the acreage planted will give southwestern Indiana farmers crops from 25 to 50 per ; cent larger than In any former year ! according to grain men here.

INDIANA STATE NEWS ’ Probably Made For His Job. MUNCIE, IND.—In applying to the county commissioners for a liquor license, Jamis Heitch, at present a bartender, testified that he had never taken a drink of liquor of any kind, had never called any one a vile name, had never used tobacco in any form, ; and had never been arrested or had a warrant served on him and had never been called by a nickname. Leitch 1 topped off all this by adding that his father at one time operated a distillery i in Kentucky and that he worked for him for many years? i At the conclusion of the evidence one of the commissioners squinted his 1 eyes and, looking at the applicant, remarked, “After all this. Mr. Applicant, ' I can’t just quite understand why you ■ want to operate a saloon.” — No Club for South Bend. SOUTH BEND, IND.—The sale ; of the Indianapolis and Springfield ■ franchises by Sol Meyer of Indian- | apolis, and a statement by L. D. ; Heilbroner of Fort Wayne, president of the Central league, that the directors of the league are not all in accord as to admitting South Bend to the circuit precludes the possibility of South Bend again becomink a member of the circuit. Fort ’Wayne and Dayton the especially bitter toward South Bend. The Chamber of Commerce and local baseball men will turn their at- : tention to the Three-Eyes league and endeavor to purchase one of the three franchises which have been offered for sale. Long Road Paved Proposed. ANDERSON, IND.—A movement is being started here to pave the road between this city and Pendleton, a distance of eight miles. It is said this is only the beginning i of a movement the ultimate aim of ! which is to build a brick boulevard between this city and Indianapolis. It is understood that practically all the farmers along the Pendleton road are in favor of the paving project. It is the purpose of the promoters to use the money appropriated by the state from auto licenses to pay for the paving. There iX some opposition to the j proposed roadXbuilding by residents of other parts of the county. Brothers’ Confessions Mix. MUNCIE; IND.—After his broth-; er had been held in jail- for four days on his own confession that he had killed Clem Dyer, colored, Charles Booher, told the police that he had killed Dyer instead of his brother Henry committing the crime. The latter, however, still maintains that he fired the fatal shot. Henry Booher confessed that he killed Dyer with a shotgun. A coroner’s inquest disclosed that Dyer had been killed with a revolver bullet and suspicion then pointed toward the younger brother. Both assert they shot in self-defense." Dispenses Flood Balance. LAPORTE, IND.—Governor S. MRalston has nothing on Mayor Darrow of Laporte when it comes to being burdened by a bank account that he does not know what to do with. In cleaning up various matters pertaining to his office Mayor Darrow discovered that he had a balance of $111.25 ip th? flood relief fund, Through tfle local press Mayor Darrow announced that he would divide the money between tfie Holy Family and the Charity Circle of this city, if no objection was made to this nlan. a Woman Hurt in Auto Crash. EVANSVILLE, IND.—Miss Lucy Hoehner was injured seriously in a collision of ■an automobile with a street car, and two other passengers in the automobile were hurt.

FLEEING MEXICANS ARE DRIVEN BACK United States Troopers Force • Federate Across River. PRESIDIO, TEXAS — With rebel assailants driving them from the south and United States troopers forcing them back from the north, the Mexican federal army at seems utterly demoralized. Its dead and wounded were scattered over the hills, and some of its soldiers were fleeing in panic across the United States border only to be pushed back again. The 4,009 federate, who had made a dramatic retreat from Chihuahua to Ojinaga. the little Mexican village opposite here, were scattered in all directions as a result of their battle with the rebels. Various reports were received by Major McNamee that bunches of federate, ranging from a dozen to several hundreds, had crossed the boundary und cavalry has been sent to search for and surround them. QUEEN MOTHER SOPHIA DIES Widow of King Oscar If Sweden Had Long Been an Invalid. STOCKHOLM. SWE.—Quenn Mother Sophia of Sweden is dead at the age of seventy-eight years. She had suffered acutely for several days from inflammation of the lungs. Her majesty practically had been an invalid for more than a quarter of a century. She was subject to melancholia. which necessitated a constant watch being kept upon her. She took ' little part in court functions, devoting herself whenever she could to enterprises of a religious nature. She was a great sympathizer with the Salvation Army. She also was a strong advocate of MRS. ADLAI STEVENSON DIES Wife of Former Vice President Succumbs at Bloomington, 111. BLOOMINGTON, ILL.—Mrs. Adlia E. Stevenson, the wife of the former vice president, and past president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution, died at 7:25 o'clock at her home in -Bloomington. Mrs. Stevenson had been confined to her home more than-a monte.. -Early in November she suffered a general breakdown. ■ Her condition gradually became worse until death ended her struggle. The end had been expected for several days, and her family was at her bedside. First County Game Preserve. FREEPORT, ILL. — The first of the 102 county game preserves to be established in Illinois by the State I Game and Fish Commission is in Stephenson county- It includes four sections of land in the township of Buckeye, north of this city, which wiU be stocked next spring with ring necked pheasants, quail, prairie chickens and other game birds. Republics Board Replies. NEW YORK. —The board of trustees of the George Junior republic at Freeville, N. Y„ refused to abandon the republic’s methods and in a specific reply to the attack of the state board of charities pointed out that Wm. R. George, accused cf grave im-* moralities, has no connection with the colony. . _ THOMAS TAGGART —- • 1 Who Wins in Every District Convention in Hoosier State. V ■ Photo by American Press Association. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. — Tern Taggart won in all the district conventions when members of the new Democratic state central committee were chosen and he is in complete control of the party organization, Bernard Corbly will be elected state chairman unanimously.

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MANY ARE KILLED I Christmas Tree Rush Smothers ' Women and Children. - STAIRS BLOCKED BY BODIES Man Shouts “Fire” at Celebration at Calumet, Mich., and Starts Disaster —Hundreds Caught in Jam in Narrow Stairway—Grownups Pile on Children. CALUMET. MICH.,—The foul who > ran up the stairs shouting “lire” is responsible for the death . of eightythree persons and the injury of over a score more who were attending a Christmas eve entertainment for tha children of the striking copper minera of Calumet in the Italian hall. Fiftyeight of ( the dead are child?6n. There was no fire. Not a candle was lighted on the three Christmas, treeb* in the, hall, for there were no cradles; the striker "could not afford them. But when the man came rushing in from the street with his wild cry thqre ensued one of those strange panics such as ended so many lives in tha Iroquois theater in Chicago. The majority were smothered “to death. The outside door was opened by passers-by. but the women and children were so solidly- packed at the bottom of the stairs and half way to the top of the single flight that they could not be pulled out. In the meanfime others within the building poured over the bodies of the crushed and lifeless at the hottcui of the stairs, using them as a roadway to escape from the building. Stairway Biocked by Bodies. So solidly were the bodies at the bottom of the stairs packed that it was necessary for the firemen and deputy sheriffs to go into the second story windows with ladders and to come down the stairs and pull the children back off the pile at the top. Only when the deputies appearedin the hall at the top of the stairs were others forcibly prevented from piling upon the bodies below.. It took; two hours to clear the hallway, many in the pile breathing their last while being taken out. ' The first on’the scene to help in the ' work of rescue were members of the Ci- teens' Alliance. # Many of the bodies were snatched, away by grief-maddened parents, as the lifeless little forms lay along the » walks and were taken to their homes, Bodies Are-Taken to Morgue. Seventy-six bodies were taken to the temporary morgue in the Kedjacket Town hall, where iden- , tifications are being made as rapidly as possible. Clamoring about the building is a mob of several thousand strikers and ; others, including hundreds qf women, i Many whose children were at first ; thought to be ?mong the dead later found their little ones. Many sobbing children are in the crowd looking for their parents. The children among the dead'range in age from two or three years to ( twenty. Nearly all were with mothers or fathers in the building, but the older people lost their heads as quiclt- ' ly as did the little ones on the cry of , fire. Deportation Stirs Strikers. > The strikers in the copper region i are aroused over the deportation o£ Charles H. Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners, and the situation has become more grave. Feeling between the strikers and the Citizens’ Alliance, embittered by the disaster of Christmas eve, reached a point where the conservative look forward with relief to the early arrival of ’John D. Densmore, the federal agent delegated to pour oil on the troubled waters. At the headquarters of thsr-Western Federation of Miners is was charged that Moyer was kidnaped because of statements made by him growing out of the panic in Italian hall in which scores of lives were lost.* The Citizens’ Alliance conducted Moyer out of the state because he would not re--tract the assertion that according to -- his information the men who started ■ the panic with the cry of “Fire were at the bottom of the alliance and because of his advice to bereaved families to accept no aid’ from the alliance. Moyer Says He Was Shot. GREEN BAY, WIS. — Lying in a berth in a sleeping car, with his head bound by a blood-stained bandage, Charles H. Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners, passed through this city on a Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul train on which he claims he was forcibly placed and guarded* by two thugs until tha train reached Channing, MRh. He said: j “I was terribly beaten, shot in the dark, dragged more than a mile along the streets, threatened with death by; I hanging, and finally pla’ced abcurd a train for Chicago." Growth In Postal Savings. WASHINGTON. — The growth of postal savings in the United States has been gxpaziag and Illinois stands third in number of depositors and fourth in amount of deposits in the postal savings banks June 30. The report of the trustees of the postal savings system shows Illinois had 24,390 depositors, whose deposits ■ aggregated $3.093,506.