The Syracuse Journal, Volume 6, Number 40, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 29 January 1914 — Page 1

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SAVE BY AIRSHIP, —- — I Machines Will Carry Food to Victims of Flood. DEATH TOLL TO DATE IS SIX Close Watch Is Being Kept on the Levee at Bakersfield, Cal., Which Is in Danger of Breaking—One Hun- < dred Thousand Acres of Grain in _ Danger Near Hanfordd, Cal. a i SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. — Aeroplanes will carry food to 750 residents of Lost Hills who are cut off from communication with the outside • world by floods in the oil section. j Preparations are being made to start the flight as soon as the gale subsides. Joseph Loeb, president of the Lost Hills Realty company, who has exhausted every resource in his do sire to get into communication with the new boom settlement in Kern county, got oftt of the Lost Hills country after a heart-breaking struggle of three days. i There are fifty women in Lost Hills, all dependent on the supplies received from the outside. Six Lives Are Lost Six lives were lost in the floods in Southern California. The rainfall in the last i forty-eight hours has been 13.92 inches and the forecast is for more. Santa Barbara reports a cloudburst in the mountains that sent a raging torrent of water down through the city and Menteeito, the exclusive society suburb, causing a damage estimated at 5500,000. The drowning of Hugh Speer Haven, formerly of Chicago, is reported. Other deaths from drowning are: Louis Jones, vice president First National bank of Santa Barbara, and Mrs. Jonesu Rica Rodriguez, Mexican, swept into St. Gabriel river at Whittier; William Clark, eleven-year-old boy, fell' from bridge into Los Angeles river; Frank Rois, aged sixty, drowned near Santa Ana in his Santiago Creek cabin, which the flood submerged. Watch Levee at Bakersfield. With the Kern river out of its banks and rain still falling the situation at Bakersfield was regarded as «rftteftT'sariy in the day. • Gloss watch is being kept on the levee there, which is in danger of breaking. Sudden rise of the Kaweah river is threatening the inundation of 1-00,000 a<res of grain near Hanford. The big Phillips ranch, near Hardwick, hr> been damaged by a levee breas. The backbone of the storm has been broken if the Tehachapi and the Sacramento and San Joaquin have cleared themselves of an overplus of water that for awhile caused fear for the safety of several towjis. At Sacramento the river climbed almost to twenty-eight feet, the highest # since 1909' The lowlands of the Sacramento valley are covered with a veil of shallow water for miles.

GREAT CONFUSION IN U, S. TREASURY Goad al lowa Tells of Discrepancies of Millions. WASHINGTON — That the accounts of the treasuryjdepartment are so muddled and its bookkeeping so far behind that the government is in constant danger of serious monetary loss, even if such loss ‘lias not already occurred, has developed at the executive hearings of a subcommittee of the house appropriations ccnimittee in charge of the legislative appropriation bill. Representative Gooff of lowa said there were discrepancies of several millions in the ledger balances and accounts with national banks. The office force of John Burke, the treasurer of the United States, is so overwhelmed by bookkeeping work that it is impossible strike a treasury balance, and chaos exists. WILSON AND SENATORS TALK Impression Gains That President Will Land Troops in Mexico. WASHINGTON—FoIIowing after a conference at the White House between the president and the members of the senate commiHe on foreign relations, there were strong intimations that this government 's on the verge of making some new move in regard to the Mexican situation. The members of thff senate committee left the White Hopse under pledge not to disclose what hiad passed at the conference, but the irnpression is that the president will be ; obliged soon to land troops in Mexico. 11 MEN DROP 200 FEET Cage Drops in a Coal Mine Near Terre Haute, Ind. TERRE HAUTE, IND. — Eleven men are reported to have been fatally hurt when they were dropped 200 feet by the parting <jf a Cage cable" at the Sanford coal mine, four miles west of Terre Haute. . , •

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Laid to mrs. m cormick Chicago Woman Appointed to the Congressional Committee. MRS. M’CORMICK’S AIDS Chairman of Suffrage Congressional Committee Apoints Six. NEW YORK — Mrs. Medill Mo Cormick, of Chicago, has annuonced here that she had completed the full list of her congressional committee members. The list includes Mrs. Mary C. C. Bradford, superintendent of public instruction, Colorado; Mrs. Antoinette Funk and Mrs. Sherman Booth of Chicago; Mrs. Edward Dreier of Brooklyn, Mrs. John Tucker of San Francisco, and Mrs. Desha Breckenridge of Lexington, Ky. LORD STRATHCONA IS DEAD IN LONDON High Commissioner of Canada Uses In Life’s Battle. LONDON. ENG—Lord Sthrathco'ffa/ high commander of Canada, is dead. Lord Strathcona stood in the friendshfp'bT the late King Edward VII and was appointed to his Canadian position a year before he was created a baron in 1897. He was repeatedly decorated. His fortune is estimated at $125,000,000, and he is credited the largest land owner in the world. He went to Canada from Scotland in 1837 in the steerage and became one of the pioneers for Hudson’s Bay company. He rapidly rose in rank, became governor of his company, and president of the Bank of Montreal. During the Boer war he raised and equipped a mounted regiment. PACKERSFACING INDICTMENT Federal Grand Jury Investigates the Charge Against Swift & Co. CHICAGO — The indictment' of high officials of Swift & Co. and of the Ann Arbor railroad on Charges of rebating was sought by the government before the federal grand jury. The evidence presented was such, it was intimated, that the grand jury might go so far as to indict individuals as well as the corporation. The alleged rebatipg, it is charged, occurred in connection with shipments of dressed beef and beef products by Swith & Co. to Owosso, Mich. The practices charged were admitted by an official of Swift & Co., but he said that they resulted from an error that was corrected more than a year ago and restitution made. BANKRUPTCY RING HARD HIT U. S. Disrtict Attorney Has Confessions Implicating Many. NEW YORK —The big bankruptcy ring, composed of lawyers and business men who have defrauded merchants and creditors not only in this city but in New England, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, is being smashed by United States Attorney Snowden H. Marshall. Confessions obtained, from certain men in the last year had enabled Mr. Marshall and his assistant to gain such headway in a criminal investigation. It is hinted that if one or two other men weaken and make confessions, indictments on several important men in the ring may come this week. BISHOP WALDEN DEAD Prominent Methodist Episcopal Divine Dies at .Daytonia, Fla. DAYTONIA, FLA. — Bishop John M. Walden of Cincinnati 0., who for some days has been critically ill here, died shortly after midnight. He was eighty-three years olid and Is said to have been one of the oldest active bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church. . „ Bishop Walden, after many years in/various fields of church work, was dhosen to a bishopric in 1884. He was born at Lebanon, O.» Feb. 11, 1831. In 1858 he entered the Methodist Episcopal ministry as a memb«r of the Cincinnati conference.

HOLDUP MEN KICKED THROOGJUWINDOW Drug Man Mistook Then tor “Blind Pig” Detectives. MARION, IND. —A very bold attempt at robbery was frustrated at the Dugan drug store in North Marion, when two unidentied men were badly beaten up by William A. Dugan, the proprietor, and his clerk, William Clark. -i As is his practice, Uugan had sev- ’ eral thousand dollars stacked back of his cash register to cash the paychecks of glass workers, when the strangers entered the store. One or them started for the rear of the prescription case and the other tried to crowd past Clark, who was standing near the money. Almost simultaneously Dugan and Clark each floored his man and in the fight which fol lowed the strangers were knocked down repeatedly. One of them was knocked into a window, wnere he hung until he was kicked through by Clark. The men finally got away, Dugan and Clark contenting themselves with staying inside the store. Dugan says he had seen the two around his place several days and believed they were detectives seeking' evidence of illegal liquor seeling. WASHINGTON FAMILY RELIC Portland Residents Have Bureau Formerly in White House. PORTLAND, IND.—A very old arm chair in w’hich a British officer sat the day the capital of the United States was burriew in 15812 and a bureau originally placed in the White House when it was occupied by George Washington are in the possession of Mr. and Mrs. L. L. I-awrenee of this town. The two pieces have been handed down from Henry Ingle,Mrs. Lawrence’s grandfather. Henry Ingle supplied much of the furniture thatw asp laced in the White House and George Washington’s Mount Vefnon home. After the bureau had been in the White House a while one of the drawers stuck and it was returned to Ingle, who sent it to his home. The chair was on the porch of the Ingle home in Washington when the British burned the capitol. An officer f f nisi cf «tawy-s' I stopped in the street went upon the porch, took possession of the easy chair and then ordered the Ingle family to serve him his dinner. WIFE SLAYER REMORSELESS Hs Tells Jail Attaches He is Willing to Suffer Penalty. NEW ALBANY, IND. —Apparently undisturbed by any feeling of remorse, William Schray, who brutally murdered his wife, Rosa Adams Schray, at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Adams, late Saturday night, passed a quiet day in jail. He related the harrowing details of the crime to the attaches of the jail and declared* that he was satisfied with what he had done and was willing tc suffer the extreme penalty for it. After finding his wife in conversation with another man on the street, Schray followed her to her parents' hemp, where, according to his own story, he beat her brains out with an iron pipe and cut her throat almost severing her head from her body. He is a former convict. SMOOTHS OVER CHURCH TILI President of Church Board Drops Complaint Against Rev. Whitsitt. CONNERSVILLE, IND—The Rev. C. A. Whitsitt is still the pastor of Main Street Methodist church here, although he has not apoligized because of a fiery sermon which stirred many older members into hostility when he told them that all sick-look-ing, self-professing Christians ’ would be better off at home in bed. Robert Eskew, president of the church board, said that he was willing to drop the matter in the interests of the church. The young minister I said that he would have not become so angry had it not been for* the rei marks of Mr. Eskew, who came forward after the services and reprimanded him. Mr. Eskew was not feeling well and believed the preacher’s words were aimed at him in particular. ASK SCHOOL HEAD TO QUIT Trustees of Indiana County Say School Welfare Demands IL DECATUR, IND. —L. C. Opliger, county superintendent of schools, was asked to resign his posi- ; tion by eight of the twelve township trustees of Adams county. It has been in the conduct of his offi :e his personal feelings have been allow eu to stand in the way of substan c.a justice toward those whom I he dislikes. So bitter had the feeli ing become that some teachers in the ' county refused to pass an examination before him and went to other counties or had their manuscripts sent to the state board for grading. Other difficulties arose and finally impeachment proceedings were brought by a grand jury. On this, he > ( escaped trial by a plea in abatement. |

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WIU*M SULZER Deposed-Governor and His Foe, CWrles F. Murphy. — ■Bp I Jlß* j Photos @ by American Pres* Association. ••••••••••••••••*••••*»eee • GENERAL NEWS. i MEXICO CITY — A plot similar to the one whereby General Felix jDiaz overthrew President Madero has just been discovered. The chief of police announces that he has discovered a plot for an uprising on Feb. 1. Arrests are being made every minute. Amons those who have been arrested are General Fernandez Gonzales, a veteran follower of Porfirio Diaz, and General Eugenio Rasson, another Porfirista, who vpas a candidate for the vice presidency on the Catholic ticket on which Senpr Gamboa was the candidate for president and who is at present governor of Yucatan, Senator Gumersinde v Enriquez, an old Porfirista, who ¥as the only man with nerve enoughfto ask President Madero to resign dusjmg the Fellcta coup, havsolution in the senate Jose Luis Requena, a prominent lawyer and vice presidential candidate on the Felicta ticket during the last farcial elections. NEW YORK — Assemblyman William Sulzer, the deposed governor of New York state, testified before Chief Magistrate McAdoo in the “John Doe” proceedings that United States Senator James A. Gorman urged him to deny the request of Charles F. Murphy, the Tammany leader, that James E. Gaffney be appointed commissioner of highways. He swore that in doing so, the senator described Gaffney as Murphy’s chief bagman and denounced him as the man who had attempted to obtain a contribution of $150,000 from James C. Stewart, while the bids of the Stewart company on state work were pending before the canal board. It was his refusal to appoint Gaffney that caused Murphy to make his announcement, “Gaffney or war!” WASHINGTON — The new Interstate trade commission bill drafted by the senate committee on interstate commerce and the house judiciary committee was introduced in the house by Representative Clayton. It provides for a commission of five members, not more than three to be members of the same political party. The bureau of corporations is to be merged with the commission, which will perform all of its duties. HEBRON, ILL. — Mrs. Allison J. Cole, wife of the president of a Hebron bank, and one of the wealthiest men of this section, committed suicide by jumping into a cistern at the home of her father. Her body was found by searchers three hours after she disappeared from her home. WASHINGTON — By a unanimous vote the house elections committee reported in favor of seating Representative J. M. C. Smith, Republican, of Michigan, over the contest of Claude Carney, Democrat. The contest, the committee decided, was on purely technical grounds. HOUGHTON MICH. — A “no true bill” was reported by the special grand jury which has been investigating the alleged kidnapping and forcible deportation of Charles H. Moyer and James Tanner, officials of th® Western Federation of Miners, on the night of Dee. 26. ST. LOUIS, MO. — Mistaken for a burglar when she was bidding a. sweetheart good-by on the back porch of her uncle’s home, Miss Lillie Weldele, sixteen years old, was shot and probably fatally injured by her cousin, Chester Stutte, fifteen years old. MADISON, IND. — In the case of Harold Grimes,, eighteen years old Indicted and tried for first degree murder for shooting his father, William Grimes, last August, the jury, i after being out an hour, returned a | verdict of not guilty. .

INDIANA STATE NEWS Poison Pen in Divorce Suit. ANDERSON, IND—An anonymous letter writer was responsible for the domestic trouble of Phillip Bulen, according to his testimony in a divorce case in the circuit count. Bulen said he had lived happily with his wife for two decades in Henry county but that one evening when he came in from work in the field his wife confronted him with a letter addressed to him and purporting to have been signed by some other woman. The letter, which was of an affectionate nature, aroused the jealousy of his wife, he said, and it was followed by many other letters of a like nature. He said he has never learned the authoriship of the letters neither has he been able to convince his wife of his innocence. He said life became miserable for him; that two- years ago he moved to this city and later filed suit for divorce. The divorce was granted. Sues Farmer for $5,000. COLUMBIA CITY, IND. — Grant Chapman, a well-known farmer and stock dealer of this county, has been sued by Bertha Rowe for breach of promise, she demanding damages in the sum of $5,000. It is alleged that the marriage contract was entered into last May and that they were to have been married Sept. 1 last, but that Chapman broke his contract and left her “waiting at the church.” She says he had purchased all of her wedding clothes, made all arrangements for the reception, and had announced the event to her friends, and that she has been humiliated and distressed. Chapman is one of the richest farmers in this county, and announces that he will fight the case to the bitter end, denying that he ever agreed to marry the plaintiff. Accused of Gary Thefts. GREENSBURG, IND.—The theft of $2,000 worth of diamonds, which disappeared after the death of George Seanor in Gary, Ind., led to the arrest of Miss Pansy Miller, his stenographer, who was taken to Gary to answer a charge of larceny. This was preferred by John Fetter, executor of Seanor’s estate. Miss Miller was in Seanor’s home at the time of his death, but she denied taking the jewelry. Mr. and Mrs. Seanor had been separated for four years. Seanor is said to have had a furnished home in Gary and one in this place, where he was once a sheriff. Dies Suddenly in Office. TERRE HAUTE, IND.—R. H. Ihrie, secretary of the Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce and active in civic and commercial affairs, died suddenly while at work in his office. He complained of feeling sick, was assited to a couch by his secretary and died before a doctor arrived. Death was due to heart failure brought on by Bright's tfTseaie. A year ago he was elected secretary of the Commercial club, which recently was incorporated as the Chamber of Commerce. He was president of the Civic league and active in philanthropic work. Governor Likes the Tango. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. — Governor and Mrs. Samuel ,M. Ralston were among the guests at a dancing party here for statehouse officials and employes, and in response to the governor’s wish the “tango” was danced, but it was so different from what the state’s executive expected that he failed to recognize it. Thinking his request had not been compiled with, the governor again expressed a wish to see the “tango,” and seemed surprised when told it was the much-talked-bf dance that he had been witnessing most of the evening. Conviction for Druggist. ANDERSON, IND.—Henry Gante, Who is a well-known druggist of this city, was convicted in the city court of having illegally sold liquor and was fined SSO and costs. - Convicted of having operated a blind tiger in the Farmers Hotel, Paul Finch and Mrs. Maud Stiles were fined SSO and costs each in' the citycourt and each was given a sentence of sixty days in the county jail. Notice of an appeal was immediately given. Hen Starts Farmers’ War. HARTFORD CITY, IND.—When a hen owned by Frank Stewart crossed the road to the George Kirk farm southeast of the city it started war. Kirk waited for Biddy with a shotgun. When Kirk shot at the hen Stewart armed himself and shot at Kirk wounding him in the arm according to charges filed with Prosecutor Sprague. Political “Prophet” Held. EVANSVILLE, IND.—Charles W. “Shorty” Meyer, political “prophet" with a state-wide reputation, was arrested here with four other men on a charge of gambling when the police raided Meyer’s apartments. Indianapolis Gets Merchants. TERRE HAUTE, IND. — Indianapolis was selected as the 1915 convention city of the Indiana Retail Merchants’ association. All old officers of the organization were ree.lected is : LAFAYETTE, IND—As the resuit of injuries received by falling down the stairs at his home, Marcus Hirsch, eighty-seven years old. Is dead.

POBFIRIO DIAZ Former Dictator Is Still Able to Make Trouble in’ Mexico. si Mexico City, Jan. 28. —The wholesale arrests in plots to overthrow the Huerta government have for their purpose the restoration of power of the followers and friends of Porfirio Diaz, former dictator. It is believed he is aiding in financing the uprising. GOETHALS IS NAMED FIRST PANAMA HEAD President Makes Banal Zone Permanent Government. Washington, Jan. 2S. — President Wilson signed an executive order putting into operation on April 1 a permanent government for the Panama canal zone and naming Colonel Goefhals as the first civil governor. The permanent government of the zone, headed by a civil governor, eliminates the commission now in charge. Members of the commission are to be retained, however, until the opening of the canal, as a committee in charge of arrangements for the celebration incident to the opening, though without any administrative functions. Goethals Measure at Albany. Albany, N. Y., Jan. 28.—A bill by which Mayor Mitchell of New York seeks to amend the charter of that city to meet with the views of Colonel Goethals, so as to make possible his acceptance of the position of police commission, is ready to be introduced in the assembly. NEW JAIL METHOD IS USED Safeblower Is Left Naked to Insurs Against Escape. Aurora, 111., Jan. 27.—James Turk, a night watchman in the office of Earlville Grain Elevator company, captured a safeblower, heavily armed, and forced him to telephone for the city marshal to come and arrest him. Raymond Lope, the cracksman, confessed and is lodged in the county jail at Ottawa. Lope attempted to break jail after he hdft been locked up, but a tramp notified Marshal David Large. The marshal, afraid that the prisoner might break out of his cell, stripped him of his clothes and took the garments to his home. Lope was left naked. FLAGMAN GETS A JAIL TERM This Is Punishment in Case of Wreck Which Cost Twenty-One Lives. • New Haven, Conn., Jan. 28—Charles H. Murray, flagman of the Bar Harbor express which was wrecked by the White Mountain express on the New Haven railroad at North Haven on Sept. 2, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and jvas sentenced to one year in the county jail. The sentence was suspended and Murray put in care of the probation officer. Th6 wreck cost twenty-one lives. Kills Father and Mother. Guelph, Ont., Jan. 28.—Edward Simpson shot and killed his mother and father at his home near Hillsburg, about fifty miles west of Toronto, then barricaded himself in the house and held the neghbors at bay with a rifle 00000000000000000000000000 g WEATHER OBSERVATIONS, g g Taken by United States weath- g o er bureau in Washington, D. C. o o ° O Tem P- g o l|jew York 41 Fog o o Atlantic City ...38 Clear g O Boston 42 Cloudy o o Chicago 42 Cloudy g g St. Louis 60 Cloudy o g New Orleans ... 68 Clear g g Washington ....50 Clear g o• " O o Weather for Tomorrow. o g Illinois. Indiana, Lower Michl- g o gan. Wisconsin and Icwa-- o g Unsettled and colder. OQOQOOQOOOOOOOOQOOOQQ3OOQO

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CRAFT IS MILLIONS O’Gorman Is Expectod to Ginfirm Sulzer Story. DEPOSED GOVERNOR STARTS IT Contracts for Barge Canal, Catskill Aqueduct, and Highway Construction ahd Repairs Involved of Nearly $375,000,000 —Fraud and Thievery Written in Every Line. NEW YORK—The present prospect that United States Senator James A. O’Gorman may confirm the sworn testimony of former Governor William Salzer, with respect to the attempt to extort $150,000 from James C. Stewart is thelmost signiiicaut feature to date of the investigation of highway, uarge canal and aqueduct contracts. Swindle Involves Million:. The greatness of the prize which the organizers of the maehi. e held before those whose aid they sought is astounding. The decision f rhe people of the state to build th.*"narge canal at a cost of $101,000,0< , New York’s necessity forcing her to the expenditure of $161,000,000 for the Catskill aqueduct, the authorization of a bond issue of $50,000,000 for the construction and repair of the h ghways-— these were the circumstances that fired the ambitions of these whose ejes were peeled, for publk plunder. The gigantic swindle was already wetl advanced when another bond issue of $30,001',000 was put through to feed the f-rger grafters. t Contracts Held Up. Almost at the start of ihe “John Dee” inquiry in this city the fact was brought out that tbe Democratic organization campaigned as er "stly for the passage of the second $50,000,00C referendum as it did f< r control of’political offices. One phase of the repair contracts for highways was the holding up of contractors already at work for alleged campaign contributions. One contractor has admitted bribing an official in the dipartmentto get his final payment. As for barge canal contracts, tha testimony to date is of the tame general character as that given with respect to the highways. It was an attempt to sell a barge contract that brought Senator O’Gorman to the front of the investigation. Sulzer Started It All. ’ In thg the district attorney hhs given much, attention, r.nd ' : startling information, much of *L involving the name of James E. Gaffney, has been brought out. With the inquiry at its present ‘stage an< with former Governor Sulzer in the dimelight again at the district attorney’s side, it is a fact of grim significance that he actually started the whole investigation. He turned to an investigation of the state'highways when he saw that he' must fight Charles F. Murphy and the Democratic organization. Now the inquiry is at the stage where .some of the'biggest men in the Democratic party 'realize the whole , political-graft combine must go. FRISCO DIRECTORS SOEDJRMILUONS Gharged They Dnlawfully Psld Out $14,000,001 ST. LOUIS, MO.—Suit to recover more than $14,000,000 was fi ed in the United States district court here by the. receivers against ten men who were directors of the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad in 1910. The men named in the suit are: B. F. Yoakum, chairman of the Frisco directorate at the time of the receivership; "James Campbell, president of the North American company, which brought the receiver: hip suit: William K. Bixby, now a n ceiver of tire Wabash; C_. H. Hilliard, former viqe president of the Fris :o; B. L. Winchell, former presidei t of the Frisco; E. V. R. Thayer, A. S. Grieg, Frank Trumbull, Thomas H. West, chairman of the bpard qf directors of the St. Louis Unibn Trust company; Hans Winterfeldt. The suit is based on the sale of the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico railroad to the Frisco. The petition charges that the men named as defendants unlawfully have cs used the Frisco to pay out $14,408,921, without anything of value having been received in e.v£hange; and hat they carelessly and without lawful authority caused a large debt to be created against the Frisco company without the company tyaving received adequate value in exchanged AVIATOR DIES IN BED Charles K. Hamilton Succumbs Suddenly in New York. NEW YORK —Charles K. Hamilton, who gained much fame as an aw iator and who took part in aviation contests in Chicago, died suddenly at his home In this city. His wife was aroused by Hamilton’s groaning and she hurriedly summoned a physician. But the aviator was dead before the doctor reached the house. The cause of death was internal hemorrhage. Hamilton, aged twentyeight had long been in poor health. — - '

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