The Syracuse Journal, Volume 6, Number 38, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 15 January 1914 — Page 1

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UJINAGAjS TAKEN Federal Generals Find Safety Across the Border. VILLA EXECUTING HUNDREDS Gen. Caravco Is Among Generals Unaccounted for—Luis Terrazas, Third, Is Missing—Major Mondpza Proves Hero and Is Killed—Rebels Capture 400—All to Die. PRESIDIO, TEXAS — It is how generally agreed that Generals Orozco, JoseY. Salazar and Antonia ReJas, the federal volunteer generals most wanted by Villa, have, with 300 or 400 loyal followers made their escape. It is also said now that they were joined by General Marvelo Caraveo, another federal volunteer; general Caraveo was reported to be among those who had surrendered to Major McNamee, but when a census was. taken .in the morning, he was not found among the federals who had sought asylum in the American camp at Presidio. Villa Hunting Federal General*. When it became known that Salazar &nd his fellow federal volunteer officers, who are considered by the constitutionalists as airch traitors, and upon whose heads’a; price has been put, had escaped, Villa sent detachments in every direction with instructions to overtake them and capture them either dead or alive at any cost. Some of these detachments, have returned to Ojinaga reporting) failure, while others are still scouring the hills with the hope of catching the much-wanted men., Major Luis Terrazas, third, grandson of General Terrazas, the Chihuahua land baron, is missing. Mondoza Proves Hero. Major Mondoza of the federals was killed while making a stand at the custom house on! the bank of the Rio Grande, while holding at bay a detachment of rebels intent upon cutting off the retreat of' the main bod/ of federals. Had it not been for Mondoza’s brilliant work, the slaughter of fugitives along the ; banks of the river would have beep terrible. The rebels captured between 300 and 400 prisoners at night, the most ■ of them volunteers and hundreds of these have been executed. Villa has refused to allow foreigners to visit Ojinaga. The constant bark of rifle and revolver heard across the international boundary tells of the work of wholesale execution of federal prisoners. I. Entire Army Deserted. That the entire army deserted, is borne out by thh fact that hundreds of belts were full of ammunition while very few were -wounded. These hundreds of deserters are nearly freezing to death and the question of food is important. Qhneral Mercado, the federal commander. ’in an interview claims that Villa won by a fluke as the federal outposts rushing in for ammunition caused a panic among the federals in the trenches. Generals Stole Money and Decamped. R. F. Flores) confidential man to Orozco, appeared on this side and declares that all. federal generals held a conference prior to an attack and agreed to desert. He is the man who took $70,000 to Ojinaga last week to pay off the federal soldiers. He claims that the officers divided up ■ most of the money and that the soldiers got but little. Federal Paymaster Shot. Guadalupe Sanchez, a federal paymaster in an automobile, was shot between here and Marfa by a United States soldier while trying to escape to the railroad in an automobile. The. soldier called on him to halt, but the automobile speeded up and the sentry fired, hitting the paymaster in the back. The wounded officer will die. THOUSANDS MAY BE DEAD Terrible Havoc Wrought by Volcano on Japanese Island. NAGASAKI, JAPAN—The indications are that the death list from the earthquake and volcanic disturbances around Kagoshima will run into the thousands. Government authorities declare that any official estimate of the extent of the disaster will be im possible for several days. The pepu lation of the city of Kagoshima, which is almost cofnpletely buried in volcanic ashes and stones, was 60,01’0 at tht last census. The population of the adjoining island of Sakura, the center of the disturbance, is given as 15,000. On this island hundreds are reported to have perished beneath the streams cf mol ten lava from the volcano, of Sakurajima. Many mqre were uidoubtedly drowned while trying to escape. MUST FIGHT OR QUIT FLIGHT Aerial League Tells Vedrines He Must Accept Challenge to Duel. .CAIRO, EGYPT — The around-the-world flight of Jules Vedrines will be halted unless he accepts the challenge to a duel issued by H. Roux, a rival airman. Vedrines was instructed by the Aerial League of Paris, under whose uaspices he flew to Cairo, either to accept the challenge or return to Paris. The quarrel arose from Vedrines’ charge that Rouz tried to persuade Turkish officers to prevent the former’s flight over Turkish territory.

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JUDGE EDGAR ALDRICH I Who Appointed the Commission | Which Reports in Favor of Thaw. X / c. I BB&wt ■ THINKS THAW IS SAFE MAN Commission Appointed by Judge Aldrich Makes Its Report. CONCORD, N. H. -- The commission appointed by Judge Edgar Aldrich of the United States court to reach a finding as to whether it would be a public menace to liberate Harry K. Thaw on bail, pending a final decision of his case in the federal court, reached a conclusion and filed the same in writing with the clerk of the United States court in this chy at midnight of Saturday. The report of the commission has been made, public and its conclusion iis couched in these words: “In our opinion, it is reasonably .probable that Harry K. Thaw’s liberty under bail would not be dangerous or a menace to the public peace and safety.’’ PAROLE SENATOR'S RELATIVE Indiana Trustees Free C. E. Van Pelt, Convicted of Manslaughter. INM* x’.\ p.'j .H-._, ’X’ >: • ' E. Van Pelt, serving a two-to-twenty-year sentence in the sxate prison at Michigan City for manslaughter was paroled by the board of trustees of the institution. Hq is a brother-in-law of United States Senator Works of California. About two years ago Van Pelt shot and killed Charles H. Tindall, a lawyer, at Shelbyville, Ind., when the latter accused Mrs. van Pelt, who was treasurer of a lodge of being short in her accounts, it developed at the trial that Mrs. Van Pelt’s accounts were correct.

DAZED MAN LANDS IN CREEK Brothers Are Accused of Drugging snd Robbing Anderson, Ind., Victim. ANDERSON, IND. — Jacob W. Fuitner, forty-two years old and John Fultmer, forty years old. brothers, were arrested,, charged with !■_ drugged John Suiter, thirty years old, robbing him of s2l and throwing him unconscious into Green’s Branch. Chief of Police Mountain asserts that the Fultmers have been, don yicted of crimes in many places. It is said the two men were of holding up a furniture man at Greensburg/ and having sold liquor illegally aU-Mt. Vernon. They were placed in jail and affdavits were filed in the circuit courts German Officers Acquitted. . STRASSBURG, GERMANY — Colonel von Reuter and Lieutenant Schad of the Ninety-ninth infantry regiment were acquitted by, the court-martial which tried them on charges arising out of the recent violent incidents between the military and civilians at Zabern, Alsace.. There is little question that with the Increasing scarcity of wood post material steel posts! will come more and more into favor. As it is now, they cost but a trifle more than wooden posts and when set are practically indestructible. To this they add great strength and firmness, while several types are made so that the wire can ; be attached without the use of sepa- ’ rate staples or hooks. A methbd that Is being followed by a good many in • setting them is to pour cement into the t bottom of the hole in which they are set. fill in with earth well to the top and then give the post a collar of cement at the surface of the ground. , A lady friend who is a close student and friend of the birds reported an incident the other day which seems to show that have the play instinct as have human beings and quadrupeds. A brood of bluejays, which had hatched near her home and which w ere large enough to fly about, were observed one i day going through some odd antics in ' a wire hammock. Leaves had fallen • therein, and the jays seemed to be get- j ting a good deal of fun poking these through the meshes and then peeking over the edges of the hammock to watch them as they fell to the ground. Our friend said that since this exhibition she has had a ■warm spot in her heart for even the disreputable jay. |

CONGRESS MEETS AFTER A RECESS Work Expected to Cover Wide Rai'ige of Subjects. WASHINGTON—Congress has got back to work again after a holiday recreation spell. In the hov.se, promptly at noon. Speaker Clark dropped his gavel and a similar scene was enacted in the senate with Vice President Marshall in the chair. Fresh from a vacation which followed nine months of tariff and currency debate, members i f both houses returned ready for work at a new point in the. Democratic administraFor the first time since President Wilson ordered the special session last April, congress is without the overshadowing influence of a dominant issue such as tariff, or currency reform, to be fought out to the exculsion of other business. As a consequence the work of the next few months in national legislative halls is expected to cover a wide range cf subjects. Anti-trust legislation remains as an important factor in President Wilson’s legislative program that must be considered by congress, but it will not displace other important legislation, as the bills for tariff and currency revision did. GEN. SIMON B. BUCKNER DIES Mexican and Civil War Veteran and Vice Presidential Candidate. MUM FORDVILLE, KY. — General Simon Bolivar Buckner died at his home here in his ninety-first year. General Buckner was former governor of Kentucky. He was a graduate, and afterward an instructor at West Point. He commanded a confederate brigade at Fort Dcnelspn and was afterward a division commander under General Bragg in Tennessee. He . as wounded in the Mexican war. General Buckner was the candidate of the gold Democratic party for vice president in 1896, running on the ticket with Senator Jehu M. Palmer of Illinois, candidate fcr president. 50.000 STEEL MEN TO WORK Orders for 125.C00 Tons Make Pittsburgh Industry Hum. PITTSBURGH. PA. — More than 50,000 men who have been idle for from one to three months will be reemployed before the end of the week in the Pittsburgh district. Steel orders aggregating 125,000 tons have been received. This equal to s.ooo shaves Adam Edward Krug, a Barber, Can Learn Something Interesting. FORT WAYNE, IND.—If Adam Edward Krug will only communicate with Fort Wayne friends or the local police authorities, he will receive $1,200 left him by a German relative. Krug formerly conducted a barber shop here, but left Fort Wayn,e ten years ago and has not been heard from since that time. The local author!- • ties have sent out a description of 1 him and are hoping to locate him. ' Word of the small fortune left him was received by a local firm of attorneys, who are connected with a big German firm.

SENTENCED IN MURDER CASE Massey Miner Goes to Prison for Part in Killing Woman. PRINCETON, IND. — Charles H. Waller, a coal miner of Massey, this county, pleaded guilty to a charge of manslaughter in circuit court and was sentenced by Judge Vandever to a term of from two to twenty-one years in the state reformatory. Waller was arrested in connection with the killing of Mrs. Anna Riley at Massey a few weeks ago. . ,

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INDIANA STATE NEWS Gets Fine and Prison Term. ROCHESTER. IND. —Quick justice was meted out here to John Oglesby, son of a Tipton lawyer. Oglesby was arrested in the morning on a forgery charge and was given a $lO fine and sentenced to two to fourteen years by Judge Bernetha in the Fulton circuit court. Oglesby, who on last Saturday forged the name of L. M. Brackett, wholesale grocer, to a sls check, was given a chance to make good and failed. He had been in trouble before having but recently been pardoned by the governor of Illinois after serving eighteen months of a Hie term in Joliet, given after he shot and killed a South Bend man who ran away with his wife, formerly Miss Zella Castle of this city. Oglesby says he has forged other checks, which until recently his father made good. The son is now disowned. He pleaded guilty to the forgery charge. Indiana History in Schools. TERRE HAUTE. IND.—The sanction of the state board of education to add a chapter oh Indiana history to the text-book now in use in the public schools of the state will be sought at the meeting of the board of Indianapolis next Friday. The offer to prepare authentic material for the work made by John Morton Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution, has received the approval of Wilbur F. Gordy, author of the book, and has been indorsed by two members of the state board. A committee has been appointed to go before the board and present the plan. The chapter will be devoted exclusively to the history of Indiana, with a page of questions intended to develop local history of every county in the state. Body Is t’ound in the Field. LAFAYETTE, IND.-—Gearge M. Martin, fifty years old. one of the largest land owners in Tippecanoe county was found dead in a stock field on his farm south of the city. He had been missing since the night before and discovery of his body followed a night of anxiety at the Martin home. He was in his usual health when he took leave of his wife and daughters to go down to the pasture to look after some horses. Cerebral hemorrhage was the cause of death. iMartin was a member of Murat Temple, Mystic Shrine, of Indianapolis, a member of the Romney Lodge of Masons and the Lafayette Lodge oi Elks. He had beep active in Republican politics in Tippecanoe county for years. Endowment Up to $133,000. RICHMOND, IN D.—With a total og $133,000 obtained for the endowment fund of Earlham college, a two years’ Campaign to become beneficiary of Rockefeller general educational board w.as formally closed when the executive committee of the institution- forwarded a detailed report to the Rockefeller board, which meets in New York Jan.lo. President Kelly issued a statement in which he said that if the educational board accepts the Earlham report on a pro rata basis, the college will receive about 23 per cent, or between $26,000 and $27,000 for its endowment fund. Train Injuries Are Fatal. MARION. IND.—Crist W. Miste, twenty-seven years was struck by a Pennsylvania train near Sweetzer, six miles west ,of here, receiving injuries to his head and spine which caused death shortly after he was brought to the City hospital here. He had been working the railroad company and evidently had started to walk to this city. His pockets contained $l2B and papers which disclosed his name and that he had a wife and two children in Macedonia. Bought Land Already Mortgaged. EVANSVILLE, IND. —Henry Reimer, coming from Nebraska to look after some land he had bought, found that it was heavily mortgaged, exclaimed that he had been swindled out of all his savins '•"<1 fainted. THE KIRK

COURTS INDICTMENT, SAYS LAWYER ROACH Terre Haute Special Prosecutor Attar Election Fraud. TERRE HAUTE, IND. — While there were no new developments in the proposed probe of political conditions in this city and county the air was full of rumors of a sensational character. One story had it that witnesses were ready to go before the special grand jury and’ testify that the tally sheets in five precincts in the city were filled out the night before the recent city election. Special Prosecutor Joseph Roach declined to discuss any of the rumors, contenting himself with the declaration that he would be prepared to take before the grand jury men whose testimony would result in a ftumber of indictments. All kinds of pressure is being brought to bear on Roach to get him to drop out of the case, but Roach declares he is going through to the bitter end. Roach says he’lias been threatened with indictment. Roach says that the machine organization hoped, by having a number of criminal cases in which he was interested set down for trial today, to keep him from going before' the special grand jury when it organizes. Roach reported this to Judge Fortune, who immediately sent for Werneke and told him that all of Roach’s cases set for trial would be continued, as Roach was now “occupied with more important matters.” Starts War on “Gunmen.” GARY, IND. —War was declared upon Gary gunmen by Chief of Police Heintz, who sent a squad of officers into the “Patch” to make arrests. A dozen foreigners and several vagrant negroes were taken in tow. They were each fined SSO and costs. Recently there have been numerous shooting affrays in the “Patch,” and for several nights parts of the south side have beep “shot up” to such an extent that residents complained that sleep was impossible. Poison Dose Is Not Fatal. MARION, IND—Miss Freda Prail, who is nineteen years old, was found by a neighbor on the floor of her home unconscious and suffering from chloroform poisoning. It is thought the poison was taken with intent to commit suicide, but the physician says she will recover. i - Northern Indiana Merchant Dies. LAPORTE. IND.—Leopold. Lowe, a pioneer and very wealthy Indiana merchant, also the founder of one of the largest retail clothing establishments in northern Indiana, died in Laporte, aged seventythree years. The widow and four children survive. Chosen Road Superintendent. PRINCETON. IND. — The Gibson county commissioners have named Joseph P. Yocum road superintendent. TO HAVE A $500,000 HOTEL Parties Supposed to Represent Tom Taggart Investing in Lafayette, Ind. LAFAYETTE, IND. — Indianapolis capitalists are behind a movement which will give Lafayette a. new $500,000 hotel. They are negotiating for two properties on North Fourth ■street, just opposite the postoffice, and while the deal has not been definitely settled an agreement had been reached by all parties concerned. The Lafayette men have carried on their negotiations with men who are representing others, presumably Crawford Fairbanks and Thomas Taggart. The plans for the, new hotel in Lafayette call for an eight-story modern fire-proof building. It will have rooms and will be furnished ip fine style. The corridor will open on Fourth street and the Ferry street side will be given to storerooms.

MERRY DE VAL ■ — ■ Papal Secretary cf State Is Made Archpriest of St. Peter’s , Mb X ■■■■*'■ w Bbl ROME, ITALY—The pope has appointed Cardinal Merry Del Vai papal secretary of state, archpriest of St. Peter’s, to succeed the late Cardinal Rampolla, according .to official announcement. A deputation of the cancns of St. Peter’s was received in audience by the pope and discussed with the pontiff the appointment of the the new archpriest. j GENERAL NEWS. i ••••••••••••••••••••••••a* SUPERIOR, WIS. — The First National bank of Superior did not open for business, the doors being closed at the orders of the comptroller of currency, according to an announcement of 4 President C. E. Adams. The cause of the closing of the institution is not definitely known, a hastily called meeting of the directors. taking up the matter. The bank was believed to be In excellent financial condition. It is believed heavy investments in a big corporation recently organized here may have some connection with the closing. WASHINGTON — The Jefferson Park National Bank of Chicago applied for membership, in the federal reserve bank system. In addition, the following downstate Illinois banks applied: Merchants’ National of Peoria, Citizens’ National of Princeton, the national banks of Havana, Joliet, Rochelle, Atlanta and Greenup and the First National banks of Waterloo, Marion, Steward, Tremont and Peoria. NEW YORK — Secretaries McAdoo 'and Houston abruptly ended, their hearings on the organization of the federal reserve. They stopped one day ahead of time and left conviction in the minds of bankers that they would not recommend a big reserve bank in New York with forty or fifty per cent of the country’s banking resources. as proposed by a majority jaf the financiers here. AURORA, ILL.—A new movement to gain the release from the penitentiary of Herman Coppes, fourteen years old, who is serving a term in the Joliet penitentiary for the slaying of Mrs. Mannie JSleep and her two children of Planoj 111., has been started oy the boy's fatAer, Charles Coppes, of Plano. He claims he. has new evidence provinfe that<athe boy was not the murdereA NEW YORK — Dr. Julia Seton Sears, head of what she declares is the original New’ Thought church says she will shortly start divorce proceedings against her husband, Frank W. Sears, leader of .another creed which is also called the New Thought church, both of which are exponents of harmony, naming a young woman member of his church as the corespondent. CHICAGO — The board of education, by a vote of 13 to 7, abolished the teaching of sex hygiene in the public schools of Chicago. The resolution was introduced by Mrs. Florence Vosbrink and - seconded by John J. Sonsteby. Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, who was supporting the “fad,” was not present. OLD POINT COMFORT, VA. — Five sailors of the crew of the flagship Wyoming of the Atlantic fleet were drowned wffien a big sailing freight cutter of the flagship was stamped with sixteen sailors aboard. Twelve men were picked up by the tug, which went to their rescue. WASHINGTON — The senate is practically certain to order an investigation of the Michigan copper mine strike. This became known following the introduction of a resolution by Senator Ashtirst of Arizona calling for an exhaustive investigation of conditions. GENEVA, ALA. — Mrs. Ida O. Tillman, postmistress at Geneva, Ala., has given up her fight to hold the postoffice here and has placed all her records in the hands of W. K. Kenan, her Democratic successor, who was confirmed by the senate.

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FERRIS WINDS UPJINE QUIZ ; Governor Says That Outsiders ’ Prevent Settlement. PEACE IN REGION SEEMS AFAR Grand Jury’s. Report Pending—lt is Expected 23 Will Be Indicted—Strik- < ers Object to Attorney General Being Present with Grand Jury—Official Defends Act. HOUGHTON, MICH. — Governor Ferris has wound up'his personal work in the copper strike district ami gone to his home in Big Rapids. “I got what I came for,” he said, as he stepped aboard the train. "This strike can no.t be settled in a week or a fortnight. 1 think that if it were left to the miners and employers themselves it would be settled very quickly. It is the advice of the outsider- and this is a somewhat x nturesome thing to say—that is likely to. do more than anything to prolong this strike.” Tlie governor saiij he thought the present an inopportune time for executive action calling attention to the fact that the judicial machinery of the state is in full swing. Evictions Become Big lisue. Two additional eviction cases were related to the governor, and it became evident that this phase of the situation is likely to assume major proportions soon. The men who told their /stories were strikers from the Winona mine. . Theodore Dessenette said that his furniture was thrown out Thursday, and was still in the snow. His wife and four clnldren. ranging in age from ten to eighteen years he said, were housed ' with neighbors. Josip Burcar, whose family consists of f6ur I children, 'the eldest less than live years old. said he was not sure his family had bden evicted, but that this action had threatened. He said he got a letter a mouth ago, but could not read, and therefore did not know its contents. He said'one o' his children was sick, and that the doctor at Winona “wouldn’t come for nothing.” This brought action from the governor. Turnlng’to Dan Sullivan, president of the union’s district council, he , told hmi to see. that the strike relief provide a doctor at once. Stllivan explained that Durcar had nu de no report of the illness to his union. Sullivan said that he recognized the union would have to meet the eviction situation soon. He thought that arrangements could be made for sheltering and feeding families in halls or commons. Twenty-three May Be Inditted. The Western Federation of Miners, through the attorneys representing them in the copper country, will attack any indictments returned on grounds of illegality. The charge is made I y them that Attorney General Grant Fellqws was present in the grand jury -room when Charles H. Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners, testified regarding the deportation and assault charges made by him against the citizens of Hancock. Twenty-three names are said to be on the list of these to be indicted, but under-the Michigan state law the public announcement of an indictment before the return of the capias is contempt of court, and the strictest secrecy is observed-.. PRESIDENT IN CAPITAL | Mr. Wilson Appears to Be in Splendid Physical Condition. WASHINGTON — President Wilson returned to Washington from Pass Christian. Miss. He and his party, including Mrs. Wilson, the Misses Eleanor and Margaret Wilson, Miss Bones and Dr. Gray Grayson, President Wilson’s private physician, wert at once to the White Jlouse for an early breakfast. The chief executive plunged imme< diately into the final draft of his message on trust legislation. The president appeared to be in splendid physical condition. IDA VON CLAUSSEN LUNATIC ' Enemy of Roosevelt Is Ad udged Insane by New York Ccurt. NEW YORK — Mrs. Ida von Claussen, known as “Coumess,” and enemy of former President Roosevelt, was adjudged insane by Judge Malone and ordered confined ii. the Mattea wan Criminal Insane asylum. Mrs. von Claussen for mmy years declared government officals in a conspiracy against her. She once threat* ened to sue Roosevelt for $1,000,000, because he would not let her be presented to the Swedish court. TWENTY ARE HURT IN BLAST Sewer Gas Explodes In Cleveland Telephone Conduit. CLEVELAND, OHlO—Twenty persons were injured and fifteen buildings were badly damaged by an explosion of sewer gas in a telephone conduit. A manhole cover was blown 100 feet into the air and the explosion knocked down horses and felled people on the street and in offices and hofiies. One building -was almost completely

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