The Syracuse Journal, Volume 6, Number 50, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 9 April 1914 — Page 1

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REVENUEJS LESS Record for the First Halt Year Shows Large Drop. IMPORTS AND EXPORTS FALL Underwood-Simmons Tariff Measure, After Six Months, Meets with Decreased Business of All Kinds of Which Custom House Is Barometer X —Beef imports 60,000,000 Pounds. WASHINGTON. — ahe U-l naif year’s record of the new tariff law presents a,spectacle of falling revenues, increased deficits, reduction of industrial activities and smaller exportation of manufactures. The new law ended its first six month's record at the close of busiess April 3rd, and the report of the treasury receipts tells the story of the full pwod so far as relates to revenue official reports just issued cover in detail the commercial operations of five months and furnish a basis for an estimate as to the sixth month of the period. Fall in Customs. The actual figures for the six months shows a fall of over $25,000,000 in customs receipts when compared with the corresponding period of the preceding year. Not a single month in the entire period shows as large leeeipts from customs as that of the corresponding month of the preceding year whefi the Payne-Aldrich law was in operation, and in but one of the five months for which details of imports are available are the imports of manufacturers’ materials as large as in the corresponding month of the previous year. For the five months for which detailed figures of trade under the new latg are now at hand, the imports of manufacturers’ raw material amount to but $253,000,000 against $280,000,000 in the same month of the preceding year tnd those of manufactures for further use in manufacturing are but $122,500,0000 against $149,500,000 in the preceding year. Export Re c ords as Bad. Meantime the export records are equally bad so far as relates to fore- , ing our manufactures into foreign i markets. The official record of the five months ending with February, 1914, shows but $315,750,000 in experts and cf manufactures for further use in manufacturing $149,000,000 against ; $162,000,000 in the corresponding peri- ; od last year. As to the increased food supply under the removal of duties the quantity of beef imported in the five months for which a complete record is at hand show s a total of but 67,000,000 pounds and the reports for the sixth months from current publications which present a weekly record indicate that the total for the full half year will amount to considerably less than one pound per capita. REA ASKS RATE INCREASE President of Pennsylvania Presents Some Interesting Arguments. WASHINGTON, — Samuel Rea, president of the Pennsylvania railroad system, who submitted interesting arguments to the interestate commerce . commission in an effort to show the ' necessity for an increase in freight rates on the railroads east of the Mississippi, said in part: “Our company is owned by over 89,COO stockholders. Fully forty-eight per cent of this number is made up of women, and two-thirds cf the stockholders do not hold over $2,560 each of the stock. No return on many of our lines has been earned, and on almost all of them the return has been inadequate.” PAY TOO SMALL; JUDGE QUITS Son of Justice Day of U. S. Supreme Court Leaves the Bench. CLEVELAND, O. — William L. Day, judge of the United States court for the northern Ohio district, sent his resignation to Attorney General Mcßeynolds and will leave the tench May 1 because the pay is too small. Mr. Day is thirty-seven years old. He was United States district attor? ney previous to 1911. His home is at Canton, 0., and he is a son of Justice Day of the United States supreme court. CROSBY WILL HELPS ART Pioneer Chicago Fiancier’s Testament Is Filed for Probate. CHICAGO. — The wi 1 of Frederick William Qj-csby, a pioneer financier of Chicago has been filed for probate. JThe sum of SIO,OOO was left to the Art Institute; SIO,OOO to the Presbyterian hospital, and SI,OOO to the First Baptist church of Belvidere, 111. The | balance of the estate, valued at about $l,O-00,000 was left to relatives and friends. Judge Kirby Leads Clarke. LITTLE ROCK, ARK. — Analysis of a total vote of 135,558 shows Judge W. F. Kirby to be exactly 102 votes ahead of United States Senator James P. Clarke in the contest as the latter’s successor. Later returns may change this lead.

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INDIANA STATE NEWS ■ Educators Meet April 17. BLOOMINGTON, IND. — A local committee composed of faculty members of Indiana university Is completing arrangements for the conference on educational measurements to be held here April 17 and 18. Professor E. L. Thorndyke of Columbia , university will be the chief speaker. President William L. Bryan will preside, and among the speakers will be State Superintendent of Instruction Charles Greathouse, J. G. Collicott, superintendent of the Indianapolis schools, and Drs. E. H. Lindley, M. E. Haggerty, W. B. Black, and E. E. i Jones of the Indiana faculty. The purpose of the conference is to! report the progress of research in the I science of education and lay plans for the further investigation. KiliecT In Rescue Effort. BEDFORD, IND. —Directory through the burning out of a transformer at the quarry of the Furst-Kerber Stone ompar.y near Oolitic before the em- j )loyes started to work all of the machinery became heavily charged with electricity and when Elmer Lewis commenced oiling his machine he was caught by the current and held fast to the lever. Al Beatty attempted to release 1 Lewis and was killed instantly. Lewis was badly burned and shocked. Horse Jumps; Car Kills Boy. GREENVILLE, IND. — Will Sutton, twenty years old, was instantly killed one mile east of this city by a T H. I.'. nd E. traction car. He was. driving east on the National road v.’hen the horse become frightened at an approaching automobile. Sutton got out to hold the horse and just as the car passed the horse jumped, throwing him directly under the interurban car. The horse also was instantly killed. Six Skeletons Unearthed. COLUMBUS,( IND. — Skeletons of six persons were found near Peter’s j Smitch, twelve miles south of here, by some workmen who were excavat J mg. With the skeletons were found I an iron wedge, a pocket knife, a penny dated 1854 and other articles. i They were an .a tu , ,<•<. on al knoll and the persons are believed to have been murdered many years ago.®’’ Named for Superior Court Judge. MUNCIE. IND. — On the thir teenth ballot Columbus and Christopher Gordon, an attorney -endformer Marion grocer, was nominated as the : Democratic candidate for Judge of the I joint Delaware-C. ant superior court at a convention of the Democrats cf the two counties The nomination came j . when it looked as though there would I be a deadlock for the night Auburn Wins Conference. SOUTH BEND, IND. — Auburn ' made good its claims for the 1915 meeting of the North Indiana M. E. Conference, in session at Mishawaka. The conference on the first ballot i awarded the next meeting to the city j which had been considered out of the | running. The vote was Auburn, 90; Hartford City, 57; Logansport, 47. Bulldog Commits Suicide. VINCENNES, IND—After whining pitiously two days for its master, Charles Scheefer, who is serving as a , juror. Max, a fifty-pound bulldog, com- ' mitted suicide by leaping from the second-story balcony of the hourt house, alighting on the stene pavement in the midst of a crowd of court w itnesses. Patrons Asked to Help. HARTFORD CITY, IND. — Congressman George W. Rauch has asked the patrons of the Montpelier postofflee to assist him in naming the new . postmaster there. He has requested ! each of the four candidates to for- ’ ward petitions bearing the signatures c persons supporting their candidates. O«e District Back to Work. ' TERRE HAUTE, IND. — Miners i f the Clinton field, who had refused i to work when they believed the con- j tract with the operators had expired, have in a mass meeting indorsed the work of the policy committee of the mine workers and decided to retirn io work at once. Indiana Professor Resigns. BLOOMINGTON, IND.—Prof. A. H. Throckmorton, for the last three years a member of the law faculty of Indiana university, has resigned to accept a similar position at Western Reserve (Ohio) university at an increased salary. I Deserted Wife Is Suicide. COLUMBUS, IND.—Being despondent because her husband deserted her a few days ago, Mrs. Kate Shaner, twenty-four years old, of East Columbus, leaped from a bridge and drown-1 ed herself in Haw Creek here. Flees Hospital Nude. VALPARAISO, IND. —Young Joseph Evanow, a student at Valparaiso uni- . versity, who was. ill in the hospital, escaped and ran nude through the ! business district. He was captured in j a home where he took refuge. Former Health Officer. Die*. GOSHEN, IND.—Dr. Herbert O Statler, forty-five years old, former city health officer here, died at Kalamazoo, Mich., after being ill an hour . of heart disease. 4 (

ROCKFORD -‘DRY’’ CITADEL Winnebago Capital Continues Anti-S«-t°on by 4,000. Rockford, 111., April 8. —Intense interest centered about the fight in Rockford, which was the only large city which was “dry” and which the “wets” sought to regain. Rockford voted “dry” a few years ago, but went wet again, and then was later recaptured by the “drys.” The town went “dry” again by over four thousand majority, despite the fact that the men favored the saloons. "DRYS” WIN IN NINE I OUT OFTENCONTESTS Anti-Saloon Leader Says Victory Is Sweeping. Chicago, April 8. —Early report* from the battlefield of the “wets” and ! “drys” all over the state indicate < sweeping victory for the Anti-Saloon league. Th e women’s vote has been the determining factor in many instances. | Over and again the first returns show • that where a majority of the men voted for saloons, the women voted i against them. | F. Scott Macßride, superintendent oi the Anti-Saloon League of Illinois, claims a sweeping victory of the “drys.” The indications, he said, were that they would carry nine out of every ten counties in which the proposition was submitted to a vote. “It is certain that he have won < anton, Knox, Warren, DeKalb, McHenry, Whiteside, De. Witt and possibly McLean counties. Women Vote Clinton “Dry.” Clinton, 111., April 8. —Ten saloons ' were put out of business in Clinton i by a vote of 921 women, only 129 men voting for the “dry” town. . All Go “Dry.” DeKalb, 111., April B.—DeKalb goes “dry” by 388; Sycamore is “dry” by 85; Malta is “wet” by 34; Cortland is “dry” by 11; Maple Park is “dry” by 7 votes. j M<>rrls Remains “Wet.” Morris, 111., April 8— Morris township goes “wet” by a vote of 1,293 to 1,147. Nineteen saloons will continue to do business. Women vote “Wet” 4 to 1. Quincy, 111., April B.—tin the fact of early returns the “w-ets” seem to have swept the city. In seven of the twen-ty-five precincts 656 were for the “drys” and 3,449 for the “wets.” Os the women of this number 366 voted “dry” and 1,461 “wet.” The total vote was 14,893, a record for the city. Rock Is’and Women Vote “Wet.” Rock Island, April 8. —Early returns show’ Rock Island will go “wet” by at least 1,000 plurality. The great surprise of the day is that the w omen opposing the abolition of the saloon are In the majority. Livingston County “Dry.” Pontiac, 111., April B.—ln Pontiac the election was carried by the women, 1,137 voting the “dry” ticket against 364 women who voted for the saloons. The only eight cities in Livingstone county which were “wet” went “dry,” thus eliminating all saloons in the county. Keeley’s Town “Dry.” Dewight, 111., April B.—One of the first cities to be returned as “dry” was Dwight, the home of the Keeley inI stitute. It abolished saloons by the slender margin of 43. Springfield Big for “Wets.” Springfield. 111., April B.—Springfield gave the “drys” the surprise of their lives. There at least the vote was overwhelmingly in favor of the saloons. In thirty-nine precincts women cast 4,079 “dry” votes and 4,587 for the saloons. The men voted two to one for the “wets.” More than ten thousand women registered and the “wets” were sanguine over the outcome. The “wets” won by 3,500. Many Towns “Dry.” Aurora, 111., April B.—lndications are Batavia, Geneva, Oswego. Plainfield and Yorkville have gone “dry” by good majorities. St. Charles is in doubt. Aurora Goes “Wet” I Aurora, 111., April B.—With the biggest vote ever cast in this city, Aurora has gone “wet” by 1,056 majority The total vote was 15,818. seven thousand five hundred and fifty wo I men voted, of which 4,347 voted “dry” and 3,203 “wet.” The following towni’ went “dry” in Kane county: Oswego, • Maple Park, Elburn, DeKalb, Syca- 1 £ or e> Ge noa. Plainfield and Shabbona St Charles went “wet” by sixty-three votes. Plano went “wet” by a nan Tow margin. Galesburg 2,831 "Dry.” -? a ! e T. b , urg ’ ln -’ April S.-Galesburg ’ Voted dry” by a majority of 253 on tie men’s vote and 2,578 with the women s ballots, making a total “dry” majority of 2,831. The “wet” majon ity of two years ago was 273. : Suffragists Win County. Canton, 111., April B.—Canton “drys’ von a signal victory in their third light local option battle winning by a majority of 1,120. The men’s vots would have kept the city “wet” by 74. The entire county was carried by th* “drys” by 2.300. 1 Gft ' MMfi T‘*.'TTT4BFMMBBBBB***BMB

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WOMEN BANISH 2JOOJALOONS First Ssnaral Municipal Eleclious Show Strength. ONLY FEW LARGE TOWNS WET — In Chicago John N. Kimball, Backed by p r ofcss°r Merriam Wins Spectacular Three-Coronered Battle —Comprehensive Subway Lost —Wilson Loses New Jersey District. Chicago, April B.—The first election in Illinois at which women exercised the right to vote in general municipal elections, was made notable by a tremendous vote caat by that sex. in Chicago it is estimated that close to 175,000 cast ballots. Outside of Chicago, it is estimated that many more voted than in the city. The “wet and “dry” contests, in which the fate of over 3,000 saloons was pending brought out a tremendous attendance at the polls. Returns are still incomplete, but it is believed that over 2,500 saloons have been wiped out. U many places the votes of the women decided the issue. “Wet” and “Dry” Contests. Chicago, April 8. The following summary has been sent out of the “wet” and “dry* vote in the state: Down state returns show, Springfield “wet,” by probably 3,000 majority; Waukegan, “wet,” 423 majority. Seven out bf 25 Quincy precincts “wet” by 2 500, Rookford, “dry” by 3,438, woman’s vote 5,005 “dry” majority. Dwight, Odell, Pontiac and Strawn townships, Livingston county, “dry,” ousting 31 saloons. Vernon, Lake county “dry;" Minonk, Woodford county “dry.” Canton, Fulton county “dry” by 1,060, Farmington and Buckhart townships “dry,” making Fulton county “dry.” Other places in Illinois voted as follows: Bloomington—“ Dry,” 1,000. Six thousand women voted; E.gin ‘Dry, 300. With one previnct to hear from the vote on the local option is: Men, yes, 2,403; no, 3631. Womea, yes, 3,869; no, 2,309. Total, yes, 6,272; no. 5,940. Freeport—“ Dry,” 50; Aurora “Wet,” by close vote; DeKalk —“Dry/ 388; Morris—“ Wet.” 100. Big Sttbway Defeated. In Chicago defeat of the comprehensive subway proposition, backed by Mayo* Harrison and other leaders of the Heart-Harrison faction of the Democratic party, was declared to be certain as the returns cn the “little ballot” vote came in slowly. The subway proposition was lost by a vote of al cut three to two, according to scattering returns from all parts of the city which were dcelared by political ol servers to indicate about the ratio of the total vote of the city. Results from 200 Precincts. Returns from about 200 precincts show the follow/, g probable results on important .proposition: Comprehensive subway ’defeated by about 75,000. Home rule for public utilities defeated by about 4,000. The county hospital $4,000,000 bond issue, backed by the Hearst-Harrison faction of the Democratic party, which was fought by County President McCormick and the Progressive members cf the county board, also was defeated by a big vote, according to the first returns. Merriam Man Wins. John N. Kimball, flying the nonpartisan colors, romped home a w tuner in the big Seventh ward fight, the banner contest of the aldermanic elections. He defeated John F. Stewart, Republican, who ran second, and Robert P. Bamrick, Democrat, who was third in the race. This was a hard fought contest from start to finish, with the three leading contenders claiming victory. Aiderman Charles E. Merriam marshaled the Kimball nonpartisans and the Stewart forces were directed by Bernard W. Snow, former aiderman and Republican leader. Four to One Coughlin. Incomplete returns from the First ward indicate that “Bath House John” Coughlin, Democrat, defeated Mks Drake, Progressive, by a vote of 4 to 1. Democrat Wins 2 to 1. Boston, April B.—James A. Gallivan, for the past thirteen years, superintendent of streets here, and a Democrat, was elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mayor James M. Curley as congressman from the Twelfth district. Gallivan received a total of 8,708 votes, which is more than the combined vote of his Republican and Progressive opponents. O’Byrne Defeated. Paterson, N. J., April 8. —James J. O’Byrne, the Democratic candidate for congress, was beaten in the Seventh district. The vote was Drukker, 10,505; O’Byrne, 5,229; Gordon Demarest, Socialist, 5,056; H. C. Whitehead, Bull Moose, 602. City of Paterson complete shows: Drukker, Republican, O’Bvrne, Democrat, 3,960; Demarest, Socialist, 3.687 ——— -*■ -- ——.- Liquor In Garden* Barred. St. Louis, April B.—The sale of intoxicants at the dance halls in St Louis summer gardens will not be permitted this year, it is announced by Excise Commissioner Anderson. < -* w

LONG HUNTED MAN CAPTURED He Did Excellent Fraud Business k Through Mails It Is Alleged. l Terre Haute, Ind., April B.—After a ' chase lasting nearly two months and ' which led through four states, W. M. Cozart, insurance agent of Sullivan, ■ Ind., was arrested in this city by Postoffice Inspector H. H. Wasson of Tul- ; lahoma, Tenn., and D. p. Rankin of Indianapolis, deputy United States marshal. rThe affidavit uled by Wasson alleges that Cozart used the mails to , defraud seme Mississippi men in the ' sale of stocks and bends of the Tishimingo Tile and Stone company of • Tishlmingo, Miss., in which Cozart - was interested. When the authorities i got on his trail with a warrant from ; ti e Mississippi federal court Cozart is said to have fled from Tishimingo. 1 ‘ The prisoner is the agent in Sullivan I county for the Equitable Life Insur--1 ance company and .is said to have ’ i done an excellent business in his few 1 i weeks of operation there. > — PLAN HEALTH CONFERENCE j I } C»ty Official# of Northern Ind'ana and . j Southern Michigan Invited. j ' South Bend, Ind., April B.—Plans - : have been formulated for a health con- > ; ference to be held in South Bend l ■ April 15. Officials of every city in l northern Indiana and southern Michigan have been invited to attend. Among the speakers will be Dr. J. ; N. Hurty and Dr. W. F. King of Inj dianapolis. Dr. Hyman Cohen of the Chicago board of health and Dr. ClifI ford Crulee of Rush Medical college, ; Chicago. A score of medical men and - municipal officers also are on the pro- • gram. ! PETITION TO RALSTON ; UNSIGNER BY KRAUSS ' Murderess of Daughter Is Still ; Free on Parole. I , Hartford City, Ind., April 8. —W. R. > Krauss, who, with his wife, is here on a visit from Fort Wayne, will not sign the petition asking Governor Ral- * ston to revok e the temporay parole given Rae Krauss, his former wife, that she might visit her father, Dr. F. W. Anderson, at Panaville. Although Krauss is anxious to see his former wife back in prison and f expressed himself as willing to bear » any expense attaching to the circula- ’ tion of the petition, he has refrained > from signing it on the advice of his at- - torney in the belief that his name f would distract from the influence the - petition might otherwise have. » The feeling here against Rae Krauss I is not as bitter as one might be led to > believe by reports that have gone out. Although sentiment was against the action of the governor in releasing the ! woman for two weeks there are many > whose compassion for the aged father has caused them to refuse to sign the f petition. , Following the visit to the governor’s • office of Mrs. J. C. Leonard, a <young society woman of this city and a girll j hood friend of Crystal .Krauss, who t I was slain by her stepmother, the petii j tion to have Mrs. Krauss returned to : prison before the expiration of her 5 parole was started by a local newspaI per. It contained only ten signatures, t , five names being those of employes of Um, newspaper office. A second petition at Montpelier is not being freely signed, the people having little inter- • est one way or the other. s COLLECTOR URGED TO QUIT > I . ' Repeal cf Civil Service Law Being Taken Advantage Os. | Fort Wayne, Ind., April B.—L. P. J Sharp, deputy internal revenue collector of this city, was notified by . 1 Peter J. Kruyer, internal revenue collector for this district, that his resig- , nation, effective May 1, would be welcome. T. J. McLaughlin of this city, i president of the Catholic Benevolent League of Indiana, is slated for the t lob. ► i Former Mayor Thumma of Garrett is said to be in-line for the position I now held by Deputy Internal Revenue Collector C. M. Blue, also of this city. Both of these positions were under the civil service until last fall. Slayer Gets Life Term. Evansville, Ind., April 7.—Homer > Groggens, colored, thirty-four years old.who two weeks ago battered down i ; a door in their home to kill Jack ' t Williams, colored paralytic, and his ; ! wife, with an ax, in circuit court . pleaded guilty to a charge of murder j in the first degree and was given a . life term in the penitentiary. Miners Ask Wilson’s A id. . | Terre Haute, Ind., April B.—Delegates representing £I,OOO coal miners , of southern Indiana, in convention here, adopted a resolution calling upon President Wilson and congress to “uphold the constitution of the United States” in behalf of the striking miners of Colorado. Boy Killed by Brother. Petersburg, Ind., April B.—Gus Nolan, sixteen years old, was accidently shot and killed by his brother Argil, eight years old, in a scuffle over a FO-

SUITOR FOR OO OF I Rival Digs up His Penitentiary Record In Indiana. | JEFFERSONVILLE, IND.—The at sections of an orphan girl in Virginia,! involving a fiance and a disappointed ; suitor, are markers in an interesting lomance which came to light through a letter received by Curtis Ballard, clerk of the Clark county court, asking for information regarding the record of C. Rathburn, formerly a prisoner in the Indiana reformatory. The writer of the letter is H. Dickson of, Richmond, Va. He asks Clerk Ballard five questions regarding the crime committed by Rathburn. The questions revived a notorious case in 1901 in which Rathburn fig- ! ured. The latter was accused of hav- j ing taken a tramp to a hotel in Jefferronville and chloroformed him. The I tody was dressed in Rathburn’s < lothes and shipped to Little Rock, | Ark., under pretension that the dead I man was Rathburn himself. A plan ! to burn the hotel so that the body | would be unrecognizable was believed I to have been Involved in the scheme. ; Rathburn was tried and found guilty j of manslaughter and sentenced from , two to twenty-one years. He served ! seven years, at the expiration of which he moved to Richmond, Va. Dickin ! sen’s letter led to disclosure that the former convict has won the affections of a Virginia heiress and another suitor seeks to break this relation by ■ producing the prison record of the I fiance. GETS EXCITED; CAR WRECKED I 1 Auto Turns Somersaults; Two Men Hurt in Plunge. LAFAYETTE, IND. — John T. VanNatta of Battle Ground and Richard Torrenga of West Lafayette were injured when a big touring automobile plunged over a sixty-foot embankment near Battle Ground. The car turned three somersaults, throwing both men out. VanNatta was thrown from the car when it first turned over and Torrenga was thrown out when it i turned over the second time. He landed at the foot of the embankment ' and the car fell over him. Torrenga was seriously injured, but Van Natta's back was wrenched and it is i feared he is injured internally. I VanNatta was driving the car for ' the first time since he purchased it. He became excited and could not keep the machine from going over the embankment. IS VICTIM OF FIRE MYSTERY Man Beaten and Thrown into Fire In J Car Will Die. i j FORT WAYNE, IND. — The poi lice began a general roundup of the city’s vagrants in the hope of catch--1 ing the man who threw William i ■ Whalon in the fire in a box car in ! which he sustained such severe burns that his death is certain. i Whalon was found on the floor of a box car near the Erie Junction, a mile . west of the city, with the clothing ; burned from his body and his flesh simply charred. Whalon recovered ! sufficiencly to declare that some one ! hit him on the head and that he did ’ not know how he was burned. Members of a switching crew, who saw the ■ smoke arising from the fire in the box car, rescued Whalon. DASTARD’S PLOT IS FOILED Attempt Made to Wreck Passenger Train—Fugitive Captured. WARSAW, IND. — An attempt »as made to wreck a Pennsylvania passenger train just east of here. Heavy steel rails were found across the track by U. G. Whittacre, a section foreman, and he removed them in time to avoid a wreck. An Italian section hand, who was recently discharged, was suspected and he was chased with a handcar and captured after a four-mile run. Ht was turned over to Sheriff C. A. Kin zel and is now in the county jail. POOLE IS BELIEVED DYING He Is Young Man Who Convicted His Father of Murder. LAFAYETTE, IND — Emory Poole, the young man whose testimony three years ago sent his father, i John Poole, to the state prison under i life sentence for the murder of Joseph Kempner, is dying of spinal meningitis in a hospital at Oxford, Ind., [ tear here. Poole played detective and dug up Kempner’s body oh the. Poole farm He was the principal witness for the state in his father’s trial. , 3 roach wilFbYTandidate Fraud Prosecutor Wants tp Go to Legislature from Terre Haute. TERRE HAUTE, IND. — Joseph R. Roach, special prosecutor in the election fraud cases, announced himself as a candidate for state representative in the Democratic primary to be held April 24. Chalmers Hamill, •pho is also «s---•ociated with the prosecution in the rand cases, is a candidacy for prose-, { cuting attorney of Vigo county.

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3 KILLED IN WRECK _______ Train Plunges Through Bridge at Attica, led.; Many Hurl. WABASH EXPRESS Y. RECKED Continental L'mited Drops to River When Structure Collar ,es—Steel Cars Avert Horrible Cat strophe— Few of the injured Are I lieved to Be in Serious Condition. ATTICA. IND. — T .ee peri sons were killed, another laully ini jured, and fifty others les. seriously hurt when the Wabash Ki.er brm o e , collapsed and hurled the Cuntinemal I. Limited train of the system ' into the ditch and parti) kito the i river. Wrecking crews had just cleared ‘ away the debris caused by a wreck ■ earlier in the day. Passe- O trs from ‘ the former train were trai»s£erred to j the Continental Limited, atu, arriving | at the bridge, the train started ever I very slowly. The engine had nearly cleared the I last span, about 150 feet from the exI treme end of the bridge, when the ■ crash came. Down went the engine, j and down went the bridge clear back j to the first pier in the *ater, and ; down went the cars on these spans. The dead are: Tim Hull, engineer, I Peru, Ind. ( married; Jacob .• tiler, fire- . man, Peru, Ind., married; J. A. Thomas, Wells-Fargo express messenger, Huntington, Ind. The engine, tender and three cars plunged through the broke span, all I falling a distance of about ;hlrty feet i to the bank of the river, at.l oue car was partly submerged. Only the breaking of the couplings preventer the remainder of the train from falling, and only the fact tha the cars were of steel averted terrii le loss ot life. Engineer Dies in Cab. Tim Hull, the engineer, d ed at his post, and was probably killt 1 instantly. The engine turned o- or back-* wards and Hull was crushei Fireman Miller was flung out of the e gine cab, - but caught by falling fragmt its of the bridge. Express Messenger Thoma ; was killed in the combination exp ess, baggage and smoking car by st lie heavy express packages, or possibi 7 his own safe, falling on him as the ar plunged through the opening in t ie bridge. The Injured. The injured are: Walter C. Rush, Georgetown, 111., head hurt Charles Slt’-scher, Catlin, 111., right It j twisted, accompanied by wife and two children, but they were uninjur. d; Jacob Johnson, Williamsport, It d., back enrained; Mrs. Fred L. Ge..imer, ladianapolis, Ind., shoulder b oken and badly bruised; Lorenz Ge nmer, Indianapolis, Ind., skull frac, ired, left side of face paralyzed, chit, bruised; fourteen ; year-old son of Mrs Gemmer; Miss Marie Kramer, West -afayette, ! lud., right leg sprained a d badly . bruised; Warren C. Scott, A tica, Ind., I right knee wrenched; Rev. A. W. i Wood, Lafayette, Ind., supe intendent lof the Northwest Indian. District Methodist Episcopal chui h, back wrenched; W. E. Squier, Q incy, 111,, neck strained; Walter Ma lies, Williamsport, Ind., back hurt; :rs. Tom Powell, Williamsport, Ind., ack badly hurt; Vans Pollen, Keew; nna. Ind., two ribs broken; J. E. Wt bb, Peru, Ind., negro brakeman, caught between coaches, leg and arm smashed, back wrenched and bruised; J. W. Shaw, Lima, 0., back wrenched; C. D. Durabond. May wood, 111., chest bruised; Frank Warlin, Detroit, Mich . flagman, hip hurt; Ray Wright, Lafa; ette, Ind., shoulder and arm hurt, rit cracked; H O. Black, Danvil!«s, 111., chest hurt; Earl Lincicum, Homer, ill., back bruised and wrenched; Ed Riggle, Perir, Ind., car repairer, hurt in head chest and abdomen, serious, may die; Frank Bliss, express messenger, Deft oit, Mich., leg fractured below knee; A. B. Adams, Legro, Ind., chest and right leg hurt; George Blair, Peru, Ind., both legs sprained and bruised; Leonard C. Gorton, Perry City, Ind., right lobe of ear torn off and head bruised; Edward Susank-a, 338 Concord street, Detroit, back badly wrenched and suffering from nervous shock; Frank Krause, Wheeling, W. Va., head hurt badly; Wiliam Moss, St Louis, Mo., right leg fractured below knee; Charles Grace, 214 West Seventy-fourth street, Delphos, Ohio, broken ankle, head and face bruised; Herman Baumgart, 516 Bryan avenue, Danville, 111., scalp wound, ear torn and back wrenched; J. E. Price, 4247 St. Louis avenue, St. Louis, Mo., pitched through window, body cut and bruised, not serious; Mrs. George Taylor, Clinton, 111., bruised internally and suffering from nervous shocks; Samuel Wheeler, negro, Indianapolis, Ind., sprained knee; J. C. Engl’sh, Danville, 111., mail clerk, shoulder blade fractured; Charles Grace, I’airmont, 111., left foot smashed; H. Primer, St. Louis, news agent, scalp wound. Youth Walks into Train. HARTFORD CITY. — Bert Evilsizer, nineteen years old, of Redkey, was struck by a Panhandle freight train. “I had my mind on s >mething else and didn’t see it,” he st id in’ explaining how he happended to walk into the train. His injuries are seri- | OU6.

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