The Syracuse Journal, Volume 6, Number 37, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 8 January 1914 — Page 1

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MORGAN’S FIRM • QUITS TRUSTS Firm Bows to the New Era In Sensational Step. I ———— SAYS ACTION IS VOLUNTARY Step Is Taken in Response to an Apparent Change in Public Sentiment on Account of Some of the Problems and Criticisms Having to Do with So-Called Interlocking Directorates. NEW YORK. —J. P. Morgan & Co. announced that they had severed their connection with some of the biggest corporations in the country, with which they have long been connected. This step, the firm announced, was taken voluntarily in response to “an apparent change in public sentiment,” on account of “some of the problems & and criticisms having to do with socalled interlocking directorates.” Among the companies from which they retired are the New York Central and the New Haven railroads. ; Statement Made by Morgan. J. P.' Morgan made the following statement: “The necessity of attending many board meetings has been so serious a burden upon our time that we have long wished to withdraw from the directorates of many corporations. “Most of these directorates we have accepted with reluctance, and only because we felt constrained to keep in touch with properties which we had reorganized, or whose securities we had recommended to the public, both here and abroad. “An apparent change in public sentiment in regard to directorship seems now to warrant us in seeking to resign from some of these connections.” George F. Baker Withdraws. George F. Baker, chairman of the First National bank of New York, and one of the dominant figures in the financial world of America, withdrew from the boards of corporations with which he is identified. No Effect on Market. The only effect on the stock market of Morgan & Co.’s announcement was to bring trade vitually to a standstill. Wh?n the news was flashed by telephone and news ticker to the stock ex- . change, brokers dropped their business, and for some time the exchange was practically given over to discussion of the announcement, which probably yras a complete surprise to every man on the floor. The announcement, had no effect on the market. Even the stocks of corporations most directly connected with the house of Mor\an did not vary in price. ; DYNAMITE CASE DECISION Sentences of Twenty-Four Union Labor Men Are Upheld. CHICAGO — The judgment of the federal district court at Indianapolis in sentencing to prison thirty members of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iren Work- . ers was alarmed by ’the United States circuit court of appeals in twenty-four cases. Six cases were reversed. The defendants whose cases were reversed are Olaf A. Tveitmoe, Francisco; William J. McCain, Kansas City; Richard H. Houlihan, Chicago; Fred Sherman, Indianapolis; William Bernhardt, Cincinnati; and James E. Ray. Peoria, 111. The cases of the twenty-four men. who lost in the circuit court will be taken to the Supreme court according to attorneys. Among the sentences affirmed is that of President Ryan of the iron workers to seven years imprisonment. SMITH’S~DAUGHTERWEDS Union to Ensign Simpson Is Attended by Families and Intimates. WASHINGGTON — The wedding of Miss Lucie Hoke Smith, daughter Os Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia, and Ensign Alston R. Simpson, U. S. N., took place in the home of the bride’s parents. Rev. Charles Wood, pastor of the Church of the Covenant officiated. The ceremony was attended by only relatives and a few very intimate friends. After the wedding breakfast Ensign Simpson and his bride left Washington for a wedding trpi to last ten days, at the end of which time the bride will return to Washington and the bridegroom to the Dolphin in .Mexican waters. EGGS AT SI.OO~DOZEN Pennsylvania Lecturer Says That Will Be the Cost in Two Years. FRANKLIN, PA. — Eggs at $1 a dozen within two years was the prediction made by W. Theodore Whittman, a state lecturer on poultry, in addressing a gathering of farmers. He said the increase in egg product tion, although large, is not keeping up with the increase in demand. He urged the farmers to take better care of their hens. Ex-Mayor Reyburn Is Dead. ■ WASHINGTON — John E. Reyburn, former mayor of Philadelphia, died suddenly of heart disease at his residence here .

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INDIANA STATE NEWS Crap Shooters Lose Roll. LAFAYETTE, IND.-r—Thomas W. Burpop, Edward Harter, William E. I Derschon and Philip Owens, who gave their place of residence as Indianapolis had an exciting experience in the Douglas club, a colored organization. They had spent several hours shooting craps and were about $350 to the good. When they said they were going to quit the game the four men alleged that Robert Ridley, president of the club, pulled a revolver and commanded the visitors to hand over their rolls. James McGuire, who was the referee of the game, went through the white men’s pockets while Ridley had them covered with the gun. All the gamblers were arrested and the Indianapolis men gave bond. A charge of robbery was placed against Ridley and McGuire. Ellis Smith, who it is alleged guarded the door during the holdup, was also placed in jail. Captain John Kluth had some trouble in taking the gun away from Ridley, who threatened the officer. Girl’s Screams Save* Her. LAFAYETTE, IND. —A number of negroes were taken into custody by the police on suspicion of having been the one who attacked Miss Esther Elser on a dark street near the Wabash da pot. The negro rushed out of an alley, seized Miss Elser and tried to drag her into the alley. The girl screamed and fought so hard that her .assailant was forced to free her, He grabbed a mesh bag from her hand and ran. Miss Elser was in a state of nervous collapse and she was unabla to tell the story of her experience until later. The police believe that the man who attacked the girl came from Danville, 111. Dr. William R. Genung Dies. PRINCETON, IND. — Dr. William R. Genung, eighty-seven years old, died at his home in Fort Branch, Gibson county. Dr. Genung was probably the oldest physician in this part of the state and was widely known. He had not been engaged in active practice for the last few years on account of failing health, but his mind remainetr clear to the last and his recollections of the early days in this county were intensely interesting. Dr. Genung was the oldest living graduate of DePauw university, having graduated there from in 1845. Farmer Is Killed by Train. LOGANSPORT, IND.—John W. McClelland, a farmer residing near Galveston, this county, was instantly killed at Lincoln, near his home, when the team he was driving was struck by a fast Pennsylvania passenger train. McClelland was takng a load of corn to the elevator,; and the wind blew the exhaust steam from the elevator across the railroad tracks, obscuring the view. The train struck the wagon square, hurliyg McClelland high in the air and instantly killing him. Both horses were killed. Stepped in Front of Train. LAPORTE, IND. — On Her way to church with her father, twelve-year-old Fannie Drevetski stepped in front of west-bound 'train No. 3 on the Lake Shore road near Chesterton, west of here, and was instantly killed. The lather, John Drevetski, and his daughter had waited for- a freight to pass and then started to cross the tracks without noticing the marl train coming from the opposite direction. The father escaped death by a hair’s breadth as he made a futle attempt to snatch his daughter from death. Barely Missed by Bullet. SHELBY VILLE, IND.—Mrs. George A. Powell narrowly missed being struck by a bullet that was fired from a revolver in rooms occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Allen McFarlan, colored, next to those of Mrs. Powell in the Akers flats. McFarlan, who is a chauffeur for Mr. and Mrs. Akers, refuses to explain the incident. No arrest has been made. The bullet passed within six inches of Mrs. Powell’s head as she lay in bed. May Have Police Woman. Hoosier Officials Go in. INDIANAPOLIS, IND.—New x "cifr' officials were indupted into office in practically every city in Indiana as the result of the municipal election held throughout the state last November. In Indianapolis, where Joseph E. Bell, Democrat, became mayor, there was a parade, and Governor Ralston assisted in the ceremonies. Monon Freight Derailed. GREENCASTLE, IND.—An extra freight on the Monon, south bound, was derailed about four and one-half miles south of here, ten cars of coal being upset and traffic blocked far more than six hours. Aa broken arch bar caused the derailment. No one was injured and the property loss will be less than $2,000. Running of “Tiger” Charged. BOONVILLE, IND. —Homer Totten, a well-known farmer of Tennyson, this county, is under arrest under a grand jury indictment charging him with operating a “blind tiger” in Tennyson. 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 Jmru -

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MISSING GIRLS MAY BE BUILDING VICTIMS Quiz Into Collapse at South Bend, Ind., Is Started. SOUTH BEND, IND. —Two girls, in addition to three men, the bodies of whom have been recovered, are believed to be dead in the ruins of a building that collapsed here. The girls, whose names were given to the police by their parents have been missing from their homes since before the accident and are known to have been acquaintances of Delbert Hibbard of Niles, Mich., wnd’was killed, and Theodore Metzger, who was injured in the fall of the building. With the dead and injured removed from the wreck the city has begun an investigation into the cause of the disaster. The inquiry is being conducted by a commission appointed by Mayor Goetz. The revised list of the dead follows: Wilbur Churchill, aged twenty-two; Delbert Hibberd, aged twenty-one, Niles Mich.; Long Hong, 216 W’est Twenty-second street, Chicago, employe of Wah Ching Lung of Chicago. The injured: Theodore Metzger, Niles. Mich.; Ling Mine, manager of the chop suey case; Jacob Wagoner, and John King. Vestal Is Made Chairman. MUNCIE, IND. —At a recent meeting of the Republican county chairmen ol the Eighth district here Albert E. Vestal of Anderson was chosen district chairman to succeed the late George W. Lilly of Andersen. Mr. Vestal, who formerly was district secretary, will serve as chairman until a permanent district chairman is chosen nt the district convention to be held in this city, Feb. 10. DR. S. WEIR MITCHELL Noted Author and Physician Who Is Dead in Philadelphia. ft ; ' A IM J / - PHILADELPHIA, PA.—Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, noted author and physician, died at his home, 1524 Walnut street, at three o’clock in the morning. * Death was due to an acute attack of grippe, the seriousness of which was accentuated by his advanced age, eighty-five years.

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WILL ENTERTAIN MERCHANTS Terre Haute Program for Indiana Retailers’ Association Completed. TERfcE HAUTE, IND.—The program for the anpual convention of the Indiana Retail Merchants’ association, which will be held here January 21-22, has been completed. Mayorelect Donn Roberts, Spencer F. Ball, president of the chamber of commerce, and H. R. Ihrie. secretary of the organization, will deliver addresses of welcome, and the Rev. J. E. Sulger, of St. Stephen’s Episcopal church, will pronounce /the invocation. The sessions will be held in the chamber of commerce rooms. The visitors will be entertained the first evening at a smoker and vaudeville show in thp chamber of commerce rooms. The principal address of the convention will be made by. Mr. Tolles, of the Marshall Field ~ retail house in Chicago, and his subject will be “Salesmanship.” GUARD IS ABOUT ARMORIES Threatening Letter Is Received by Sergeant Taylor. INDIANAPOLIS, IND.—A guard has been established about the premises of the Indiana national guard armory, at Senate avenue and Sixteenth street, since Monday afternoon because of the receipt of a threatening letter bySergeant Theodore of Battery A.. The letter, which was written in a scrawl on a piece of cheap paper, warned officials of the battery, which has the armory as its headquarters with other companies of the guard, that the members had better “get out” before “this place” is done “like we did the other.” The reference to the other place is taken to mean the armory at Thirteenth street and Ashland a,venue, burned several days ago, after a fire of unknown origin had started near the center of the building. BOARD AUTO AND ROB DRIVER Five Highwaymen Stop George Hann at Bridge Near Dayton. LAFAYETTE, IND. — Sheriff Fisher, several deputies and the local police are searching the country for five men ,who held up and robbed George Hann of Otterbein at an overhead bridge near Dayton. Hann had been to Indianapolis and was alone in his'automobile. He was drving slowly over the bridge when the robbers jumped out from under the bridge and climbed into the machine. Three of the men held Hann ‘while two went through his pockets, obtaining $45 in money, a gold watch and other jewelry. The holdup men, after the robbery, ordered their victim to speed up his machine and he cam 6 on to Lafayette and reported his experience to the sheriff and police. FEARS TERRE HAUTE STRIKE Company Holding Bonds Asks Injunction Against Employes. INDIANAPOLIS. — A petition for an injunction to prevent a strike of the street car employes in Terre Haute, was filed in federal court here, on behalf of the Fidelity Trust company, which has its main office in Philadelphia. Judge A. B. Anderson declined to act upon the petition until notice had been given the defendants. He set Jan. 28 as the time for the defendant’s answer. The trust company holds a mortgage on the Terre Haute lines and represented JJhat, if operations are suspended by a strike’, the company will not be able to pay the interest on the bonds. Probably the best paid farm foreman in the world is Vernon Cooke, formerly a noted dry farming expert who lived in the United States and now is in the employ of the Brazilian government, with charge ov?r a farm tract 500 miles square.

BANKER FLEES BUT SAYS HE WILL PAY Leaves Mew Year’s Greeting for Victimized Institution. SCHAUMBERG, ILL.—“I have lost $40,000, but I’ll pay it all back if you’ll give me time and not prosecute me. Happy New Year!” Such, in brief, is the message left the other officials or tha Farmers’ Bank of Schaumberg, ny Assistant Cashier Frank Henning, when he disappeared on Dec. 30. To show that he took himself seriously, Henning left notes, covering the entire shortage, the notes due.in from six months to five years. Also Henning took $2,000 in cash from the vaults, and also in lieu of that he left securities to the value of SI,OOO and his own SI,OOO in stock in the bank. Henning left his wife and baby girl in his rooms on the second floor of the bank building. Mrs. Henning has gone to live with her relatives at Dundee, 111. “The bank is in good condition and will open for business today,” said President Fence. “The directors held a meeting Saturday, the capital stock was raised from $25,000 to $50,000, and the twenty-two stockholders made up the shortage. The business will go right on.” Warrants have been issued for Henning. Florence Schenk Is Dead. NEW Y’ORK — Florence Schenk, who in 1906 eloped with Chas. H. Wilson, manager of Alfred G. Vanderbilt’s show horses, and who was disowned by her father, Dr. Powhattan Schenk, died at the latter’s home after a recent reconciliation, at Norfolk. Va. As soon as the ground freezes mulch the strawberries thoroughly with some light material, <*such as straw, hay. strawy manui-e, etc.—Rural. Farmer. » ~T GEORGE C. HOLT Judge U. S. District Court of Southern New York Who Retires. s ..'IL. Ik f '1 A\ E * w - ■ WASHINGTON, D. C.—The resignation of Judge George C. Holt as federal district judge for the southern district of New York was receivea here to take effect Jan. 15. Judge Holt desires to return to the practice of law. He was appointed by President Roosevelt.

•••••••••••••••••••••**••• : GENERAL NEWS. I •••••••••••••••••••••••••a WASHINGTON — The defeat for the federal forces at Ojir.aga was predicted here following jjie reception of unofficial dispatches showing the conditions within the federal lines. According to accounts received here, the federal soldiers practically refused to fight and are being held in their position by the threats of their commanders to use force to keep them from running away. DETROIT MICH. — The greatest melon ever cut in Detroit was sliced for the benefit of the employes of the Henry Ford Automobile company. Henry Ford, president of the concern, announced that $10,000,000 would be distributed among every one of the 26,500 persons employed by the concern in this and other cities. NEW ORLEANS, LA. — The ring generalship and ability borii of experience and study brought to Freddie Welsh, champion lightweight of Great Britain, a margin of the honors in his ten-round contest with Johnny Dundee of New York at Pelican Park. It was in the tenth round that Welsh won the unanimous newspaper vote. MILWAUKEE, WIS. —Ad Wolgast had a runaway match with Jack Redmond his old enemy, and got a complete revenge for past suffering at Jack’s hands by beating him so severely that the referee stopped the fight in the middle of the fifth rouna and gave tjie Cadillac boy the credit for a knockout. NEW YORK—The dead body of Miss Jessie Evelyn McCann has been found. The high waves of the morning washed it high on the shore at Coney Island, at a point not more than ten feet from where she was last seen alive, late in the afternoon of Dec. 4. The Identification is absolute. CHICAGO — Beginning on Jan. 8 the joint through rates on gram and grain products from points in Illinois, Indiana and lowa to destinations in eastern trunk line territory, including Buffalo and Pittsburgh, will be readjusted so as to cause a general advance. GARY, IND. — With the return of two thousand men to work at the Gary plant of the American Sheet and Tin Plate company, which has been idle for some time and the reopening of the Rumely company plant at Laprate, additional orders have been placed with the Gary Steel works. WASHINGTON —A nation-wide investigation of labor disturbances is to be undertaken immediately by the federal commission on industrial relations, it is announced here. A decision to do so was reached, following a five day executive session. NEW YORK—The late dispatches from Paris announce that the name of Sarah Bernhardt has been submitted in the New Year’s list of persons nominated for membership to the Legion of Honor. BALTIMORE, MD.—Otto Frederick Knabe, second baseman of the Philadelphia National league club, signed a three year contract to manage the federal league team in Baltimore. SAN FRANCISCO — There were no knockdowns in the Gunboat SmithArthur Pelkey fight until the fifteenth round, and then two in succession brought victory to Smith. NEWARK, OHIO — Five persons were killed and six injured, two of whom will die, when fire early in the day destroyed the Gus Kern hotel on Second street here. 7 ... RECORD IS MADE IN EXPORTS Foreign and Domestic Commerce Gains $100,000,000 WASHINGTON—The American export trade made a new high record during 1913, according to statistics compiled by the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. The bureau predicts that exports for this period will approximate $2,500,000,000, against $2,390,217,993 in 1912. Imports during 1913 will approximate $1,750,000,000 in value, leaving an export balance in favor of the United States of $750,000,000. Famous Suffragists Dead. ENGLEWOOD, N. J. — Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake, a pioneer in the cause of woman suffrage, died in a sanitarium here, aged eighty years. She has been ill for several years, and recently had a turn for the worse, when it was seen that because of her advanced age her recovery was hopeless. WRECKERS DITCH TRAIN Switch Sawed and Fireman Is Scalded to Death Near Mobile, Ala. MOBILE, ALA. — What the railroad officials declare was an attempt to wreck Mobile and Ohio passenger train No. 2, bound for St. Louis, at a siding twelve miles north of this city, resulted in the ditching of the engine, express and baggage cars and the death of the fireman, and serious injury of three other persons. The engineer threw on the emergency brakes as the train struck the switch and saved the passengers from injury. Fireman Hodge was scalded to death beneath the engine. It was found that the switch had been sawed and then left open by the miscreants.

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ATTACMJINAUA Federals Maintain Their, Position al Border Town. >” j BOTH SIDES WELL SUPPLIED Rebels with 6,000 Men Directing Es« fective Fire—Federal Losses Said to Be Less Than Foes—Gen. Martinez Has Wounds Dressed in U. Territory. | PRESIDIO, TEXAS — More than 6,000 rebels, the combined forces under General Ortega and General Rodriguez, renewed the attack on Ojinaga shortly after noon and stormed the . town from the west. , The fight from the new position seems to have given the rebels a slight advantage and they rapidly advanced on the garrison. Early in the day the rebels attempted to take the garrison from the north, but this proved disastrous to them and many of their troops were mowed down from the terrible resistsace put up by the federals. Retreating from the Arroyo, a mile and a half from the garrison, the rebels under the command of Ortega moved to the Conchos river and there joined the forces of General Rodrigues and resumed their attack. Rebel Fire Effective. The rifle and cannon fire of the rebels have been very effective and more thafi seventy of the government forces are said to have been killed and 150 wounded. The federals believe that the rebel losses are equally as heavy, and reports have been received in the .own indicating an enormous death list. Two thousand federal cavalry left Ojinaga at dusk, headed for the Arroyo, a mile and a half from the city, and will make an effort to flank Ortega’s section of the attacking army near the Conchos river. This tep was taken when the assault from the combined rebel force became so fierce that the rebels began to drive in the federals. Fifteen wounded constitutionalists crossed to the American side about noon and were taken in charge by the Red Cross nurses. Federal Brigadier General Martinez was seriously wounded in the morning and . is now on his way to Marfa, having crossed to the American side for medical treatment. Both Armies Well Supplied. —BotH-Uie j-fibfet a?bd federal a,rmjes_ have sufficient food and ammunition and if the government forces stand by their guns; it will be days before the rebels will be able to capture Ojinaga, if at all. ’ Major Luis Terrazas, third grandson of General Luis Terrazas, multimillionaire land baron of Chihuahua, of the federal army at Ojinaga, was shot in the foot. The federal desertions have also stopped since the were paid. The dead so far is estimated at 200 for both sides with about 300 wounded on both sides, a total of 500 casualties since the fighting opened a week ago. The rel?el claim to have 6,000 men and the federals 4;000. MANY DIE DURING Z ‘ STORM ON COAST Three Ships Sink and Property Loss Is Heavy. ■■ Z NEW YORK —Three big ships have been sunk with a probable loss of seventy lives, seven persons are known to have been drowned and more than a million dollars loss has been caused by the gale sweeping the Atlantic coast. The tank steamer in trouble off Sandy hook was the Oklahoma, and thirty of her crew perished. Eight were saved. This was the substance of a wireless message received here. The storm raged from Portland, Me., to Norfolk, Va. In New York harbor shipping was halted by the pinety-mile-an-hour gale. Many small craC have been lost, in addition to the three ships. The Jersey coast has suffered the greatest damage. At Atlantic City a 590-foot extension of the million dollar pier has been carried away and nearly a mile of the board, walk at Chelsea, adjoining Atlantic; City, has bees washed away. '' 1 More than $500,050 damage has been done at Seabright. The Octagon hotel is practically a wreck and more than half of it has either crumpled or been washed to sea. GET ALLEGED LOPEZ LETTER Outlaw Purports to Tell Authoritiee That He Is in St. Louis. ST. LOUIS, MO. a —Ralph Lopez, the Mexican bandit who has been sought in a mine at Bingham, Utah, is now in St. Louis if a letter received by a St. Louis paper is authentic. The letter, dated Jan. 1, was written in Spanish and/was mailed in St. Louis. The lettey, as far as it could be translat .d, says he arrived in St. Louis Wednesday and walked the streets downtown until 2 o’clock in the morning and had the pleasure pt making the acquaintance of the St. L.ouis police, who, he says, are lon* talk, but short on action.

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