Walkerton Independent, Volume 33, Number 36, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 21 February 1908 — Page 2

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT W. A. ENDLEY. Publisher WALKERTON. - INDIANA Georgia is giving a fine demonstration of how to be happy though thirsty. We must not let the president know that colleges act as a deterrent to marriage or he may abolish higher education. The Indianapolis News says anelectrical plant has been discovered in Nicaragua. Was it trying to steal water power? Reports from Germany of an airship that Is expected to carry not less than 100 people sounds as if aerial transportation were nearing the straphanging stage. When cold logic shall have put the blame for our ills and misfortunes back on our tables we shall still possess, thank heaven, the blessed privilege of cussin’ the climate. o A Massachusetts Inan who died recently left to Clark university $5,000 to be used in hunting for ghosts. Anyone who knows of a ghost that ought to be hunted will confer a favor by notifying Clark university. Mulai Hafld, in taking up his duties as sultan of Morocco, promised to ignore the provisions of the Algeciras convention. One or two European powers will be likely to await with a good deal of Interest and impatience the results of the ignoring he may do. In London massage byThe blind is an accepted and successful profession. Some doctors will employ no others. In Japan, until recently, none except the blind were allowed to do massage, and in Yokohama alone it is stated that out of 1,000 masseurs earning a livelihood 900 are blind. A California~architecF~sees 100stoiy buildings ahead. When a man takes the elevator for the top doubtless he will bid his friends good-by as if he were going to Europe. He will have to take his lunch along unless the elevators are equipped with private diners. A man in New York was' sentenced to jail and to pay a heavy fine for contempt of court. All are not so prudent as the famous Irish lawyer who, when accused by an angry judge of contempt of court, replied that he had expressed none—on the contrary, he had carefully concealed his feelings. Presidential elections in Switzerland are not exciting. The federal assembly met the other day and elected Ei nest Brenner to the presidency for the current year without so much as a preliminary torchlight procession, or even a discussion of the importance of publicity in the matter of campaign funds. A poor woman in New York, whose clothes accidentally caught fire, thought of the danger to her little children, and even as she herself was a living torch and in direst agony, —away and the dobr to the room, that they might not share her fate. And yet the Carnegie commission finds it hard to discover heroes. Before Investing in that gold mine at five cents a share, guaranteed to go to sl.lO before the first of next month —before biting off a chunk of this good thing wait until Prof. McCoy has made a few more experiments. He thinks he is about to transmute the metals one into another. It might be well to buy a pile of scrap iron and wait. Lhasa, formerly the mysterious forbidden city, will, if report be true, be joined to the rest of the world by telegraph, and there is to be a Thibetan newspaper. There will be no more celestial calm for a people who must learn to put a telegraph message into ten words, and must read in the morning paper that there has been a terrible fire in Chen Lung's barn at East Hankow. Women watch the advertising columns because upon them devolves the necessity of spending the family income to the best advantage—which commonly means making one dollar do the work of two. It is not love of shopping but the need of practicing economy that keeps them on the look out for bargains. Still, it is not feminine nature to pass a bargain by whether it is necessary to count the pennies or not. The records of Yale vindicate the simple life by showing that the rich students are the poor scholars. The amount of scholarship declines in proportion to the sum of luxury. There is no getting over the stern natural ~ Taw that only a favored few are gifted with the character which is best developed by prosperity. College statistics, emphatically urges the Baltimore American, do not alter the tradition that it is the poor boy, working his way, who has had the most influence in shaping the destinies of the nation. The name of John Herzel of Fowler, who, to save the family honor, has turned over the savings of years to the holders of notes on which his forged signature, as surety, was placed by a rascally son, is deserving of respectful mention in these days ; when so much that is dishonorable is j told of men, says the Indianapolis | Star. Mr. Herzel’s course is something j more than one of common honesty. j The law did not compel him io make this payment, but his own fin> sense of rectitude and personal responsibility did. Scientists of the Smithsonian institution at Washington have been investigating a mysterious hole or crater found hn Arizona, the opening being about three-quarters of a mile across and GOO feet deep. The conclusion is that the enormous depression is due to the intact of a meteor. And this solution of the problem, suggests the Troy (N. Yj Times, affords a thrilling suggestion as io what one of those brilliant and < iraLc visitors is capable of when it "swats* old Mother Earth with full force ami efVct. Fortunately such visits are of rare occurrence.

TORNAGOESINSDUTH TYLER, TEX., DEVASTATED BY TERRIFIC WINDSTORM. SEVERAL PERSONS DEAD Towns of Mossville. Soso and Service. In Mississippi, Are Blown Away and Many Killed. Tyler, Tex. —Tyler was swept by the most disastrous tornado in its history Friday morning about four o'clock. (oming up from the southwest, the storm swept over the main residence section of the city, leaving a trail of death and devastation. The known dead in Tyler number four, C. A. Francis, agent of the Dalias News, wife and child about one year old, and a negro named Moses , Lee, SO years of age. Francis was about 28 years of age and occupied a high place in the esteem of his fellow-townsmen. His dead body was found 100 yards from his wrecked home, and the body of his child was found in the street. Mrs. Francis was in the wreckage of the building. Six Seriously Injured. Six persons w r ere seriously injured. They were Irwin Franklin, Mrs. Franklin and their four children. One of the children is expected to die. They were caught in the wreckage of their homes. Twelve buildings were wrecked and in the confusion which exists It Is difficult to compile an accurate list of the casualties. Wires are down in all directions from Tyler and, while reports from farmers who are hastening in to ascertain the extent of the damage are to the effect that farmhouses all around' Tyler were blown down, it is impossible to ascertain the loss of life or to approximate the extent of the disaster. It is known, however, that the tornado swept everything clean for a distance of five miles. Mississippi Towns Destroyed. Meridian, Miss. — Three small Mississippi towns were practically demolished by a tornado Friday. Reports of the number killed range from six to ten, with the smaller number probably correct. Mossville, Service and Soso are the towns destroyed. .They are all in Jones county and all are very small, being merely a handful of scattered dwellings. L. S. Morrison, a resident of Mossville, who came here after the storm, said he was outdoors during the blow and was compelled to grasp a wire fence to keep front being blown away. He said the deqd at Mossville are Alec Windham and wife, negroes. Near the town, he said, four white persons had been killed, a man and wife and their two children, whose names he did not learn. Near Service one child of Ike Holloway is reported dead and also an unknown negro. BIG AUTO RACE BEGINS. 3i‘x~Cars Leave New York | for the Run to Paris. New York.—The six automobiles contesting in the New York-to-Paris race started from Times square, For ty-second street and Broadway, Wednesday cheered by a throng of several thousand people. Accompanied by more than 200 motors of all descriptions the racing machines made their way n Broadway and Riverside drive to the city limits, where they turned north on the road to Albany. From that city the route to San Francisco, which is the objective point of the first stage of the trip, lies across New York state to Buffalo, thence through Cleveland and Toledo to Chicago, to Omaha, Cheyenne, Ogden, Reno, Goldfield, San Luis Obispo and San Francisco. Mayor McClellan was to have given the word to start, but was delayed, and Colgate Hoyt of the Automobile Club of America took his place. All traffic in the neighborhood of Times square was stopped a half hour before the start. Automobiles clogged the intersecting streets and lined the route for many blocks up Broadway. No such aggregation of machines has been seen in or about New York since the last Vanderbilt cup race was run. A band in the official grandstand played the anthems of the nations as the cars lined up for the start. A pistol shot sent the contestants away amid the cheering of the people. Cervera’s Rescuer Dies. Boston.—George H. Norman of Brookline and Newport, prominent in society and as a polo player, who distinguished himself especially when, as an officer on the gunboat Gloucester during the Spanish-American war. he took .Admiral Cervera of the Spanish fleet off the burning flagship Infanta Maria Teresa, died Thursday night at the Corey Hill hospital, in Brookline. Mr. Norman went to the hospital two weeks ago to undergo an operation He was operated upon twice, after which pneumonia developed. Fire Fighter Is Drowned. New York.—Deputy Chief Charles W. Kruger lost his life Friday while leading his men in a desperate fight against flames in Canal street. He fell through a trap into a water-filled basement and drowned. Ship Wrecked; Ten Men Lost. Portland, Ore. —The American ship | Emily Reed went ashore at an early hour Friday morning at the mouth of the Nehalem river on the Oregon coast and broke in two. Ten of the crew were drowned. Alleged Embezzler Gives Up. Cleveland. O. —Frank Vina, treasurer for various Bohemian fraternal organizations. who fled the city several weeks ago ’Alien he was said to be many thousands of dollars short in his accounts, returned here Wednesday and surrendered to the police. Wisconsin University Regents. Madison, Wis. -Gov. Davidson Wednesday afternoon appointed FredI erick Thwaites and James F. Trottman of Milwaukee aS regents of the I University of Wisconsin.

GIRL’S LOVE USED AS BAIT MOTHER’S PART IN BARGAINING FOR COL. SNELL’S GOLD. Ardent Epistles, Said to Have Been Written by Minister’s Wife, Read at Trial. Clinton, 111. — The pitiful, miserable story of a woman's sordid desire for money was revealed in all of its revolting phases in the famous Snell will case Wednesday. It was the story of a wife—alleged to be a minister's wife —who bartered her soul for gold and sold into bondage her 15-year-old daughter. Mute witnesses of an alleged con tract made between Mrs. Lura Hamilton, wife of Rev. E. A. Hamilton, and the tottering old millionaire, Col. Thomas Snell, in the shape of letters declared to have been written by Mrs. Hamilton, were introduced and admitJM as evidence in Judge Cochran s court. Write letters were unsigned, but they w^v introduced as Mrs. Hamilton's by the attorneys, who declared there will be no trouble in proving their authenticity. "Pet must love you. I will see to It that she is your little sweetheart. Send me money and she shall be yours and do anything you want,” wrote the woman, and from all evidence the 85 year-old lover ran after both mother and daughter and supplied them with money to buy houses and lots and finery, with which to bedeck themselves. "1 love you. You are my own sweetheart. I have loved you since 1 was a girl of 20 years. What a fool I was not to tell you then. 1 have suffered agonies tor 25 years for love of you," wrote this woman of 47 years. Whether Rev. Mr. Hamilton knew the contents of the letters alleged to have been written by his wife is a mooted question. It appears from letters which have been introduced in the case that he was fully aware of It. The writer said: "My husband says that I can go anywhere with you. He loves you. He will trust me to your care. 1 can take a trip to Chicago with you, and 1 am crazy to go. My husband has given his full permission.” Clinton. 111. — Charles Cline, assistant postmaster of Clinton since 1891, refused to give the names of school girls with whom millionaire Col. Thomas Snell corresponded, in the will case Thursday. He admitted that he knew the names of most of the girls, ranging in age from 12 to IS years, for whom the eccentric old man rented private boxes in the Clinton post office that they might send to and receive letters from Col. Snell, but said m -st of them were from the best Clinton families and had now grown to womanhood The witness told how the aged millionaire wrote love notes daily to | numbers of schoolgirls, in which he inclosed from $5 to S2O in bills. He would govern the amounts returned to the writers according to the num- ; ber of terms of endear nientujju*** gestive declarations. •< JAinuoVILLE WOMAN MURDERED. — Hotel Employe Found In Her Room with Her Throat Cut. Janesville. Wis.—Mrs. Martha An ' derson was found dead, lying on a cot in her room Thursday with her throat cut from ear to ear. Investigations by the police indicate she was murdered. They found that the screens of the outer door had been torn away as if some one had used that means of get- । ting into the house, the glass in the inner door broken and the door to the woman's room open. The woman who lives downstairs said she heard voices and then shortly after groans and she called the police. The room was found to be covered with blood. Mrs. Anderson was lying on a cot with her throat cut and the windpipe severed. A razor was found lying on some clothes behind her on the floor. Her two children, who do not make their home with her, but live in the city, said that their mother had a razor, but that the one found on the floor was not hers. Mrs. An derson worked in a local hotel and had always had a good reputation. This is the third death mystery in Janesville.' Two other women, Mrs. Madeline Clayton and Miss Helen Malone, were found dead in the river near the same spot. The mystery of their deaths have never been cleared up. Union Laborers Indicted. New Orleans. —Seventy-two men, representatives of all the classes of labor employed on the New Orleans iver front, and who compose a union known as the Dock and Cotton council, were indicted by the T’nited States^ grand jury Friday on the charge of conspiring to restrain trade in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. The indictments ■ allowed the refusal of the Dock and Cotton council to permit the Coal Wheelers' union to coal the steamer Habil, which cleared here several days ago for Puerto Cortez. Trust Laundries Are Fined. Cincinnati. —The 11 laundries under indictment for organizing a combine to raise prices pleaded guilty Thursday and each was fined SSO and costs. The trust also agreed to dissolve, and the indictments against the laundry proprietors were nolled. Newton Edmunds. Yankton, Dies. Yankton, S. I). —Newton Edmunds, former governor of Dakota territory and president of the Yankton National bank, died here Thursday of paralysis, aged 88 years. Manuel’s Cabinet Changes Front. Lisbon. —The cabinet council has resolved not to rescind the dictatorial decrees promulgated during the last days of King Carlos' reign, except those considered offensive to the public dignity. This unexpected action has caused great astonishment. Chauncey B. Geiger Is Dead. Ashley, 111. —Chauncey B. Geige/, president of the state board of arbitration during the administration of Gov. Yates and well known in Republican state politics, died here.

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SOLDIERS IhT TO ALASKA TROOPS TO QELL STRIKE RIOTS , IN FAIRBANKS. Riotous Crowj^ Congregate on the Streets anl Capture Nonunion Men » They Arrive. Washington —Ry direction of the president. AcWr; Secretary Oliver Thursday ordertl a company of in fantry from For Gibbon, in Alaska. | to Fairbanks, in^hat territory, to pre- , ! serve order durllg the mining strike ■ in that section, Hiis action was taken I upon representaifion from the United States court in laska tojhe attorney . | general that th| presence of federal troops was need^l. Telegrams fro^' Fairbanks to the attorney genera) cb.m that open air mass meetings are bAg held by the striking miners amr that threats of violence have been.'made. The marshal has been directal by the attorney g. n | eral to use all .be force at his command to arrest law-breakers and to prevent intimk^tion. The military is expected to g.ve the marshal moral support and alsg to take action should the disorder pr>ve too great for any force he may bp able to secure. The distance* from Fort Gibbon to Fairbanks is 15b miles and the troops will be carried by sleds over that route, which Inlaid to be a very good one. If there h urgent necessity for the presence ci the soldiers at Fair । banks they can get there in four or under ordinary eonj£ i Fairbanks is > ! a^rrFiu-m- of a nnJWf? I country with <A^nla,dou of 7,00 n << r | 8,000. I Persons in Washington familiar with the conditions existing at Failbanks say the trouble is the outcome । of a strike a year or more ago for higher wages and shorter hours for the miners.

Fairbanks. Alaska. —United States Marsha! Perry has sworn in 250 special deputies for the protection of life and property against riotous mobs of strikers who a^e congregated on the streets. Thest- mobs have been attempting to capture recent arrivals here with a vbw to deporting them. The marshal's force has dispersed the rioters and guarantees protection to all i men in camp. All saloons are closed. ; FOR BRYAN TO THE FINISH. Wisconsin Democratic Convention So Instructs Its Delegates. Milwaukee.—The Wisconsin delegation to the national Democratic con- ; vent ion at Denver, Col., at the closing I session of the state convention Friday, was instructed to vot? as a unit for William J. Bryan as the Democratic nominee for president, first, last i and all the time The platform containing the instructions was unanimously adopted by the convention by a rising vote. Former Governor Indicted. New York.—-Indictments alleging perjury were returned Thursday against former governor of New Jersey, Foster M. Voorhees, and Frank H. Combes, folljving a grand jury inquiry into the afets of these two men I wiille they werelofficials of the Bankers' Life Insurawe company. Driven to /Wnffie by_a Dream. 1 Minneanollsj2l*fr —Haunted by a dream in wliicH he was accused' of crime, Christopher Fagen, a coachman, I committed suici'l shortly before noon । Wednesday in if room in the barn l at the resident eh f D r , MarUa Ripley, 40 Tenth street%outh, where he was employed. 1| Explosion hjures Children. Adrian, Mo. —|n explosion of a boiler in the basement of the public sehc V-Jtere Fridkr tore away the floor of the^^jmary department and precipitatedl^eacl^r and 60 pupils into the basemew, bL-ning and scalding many of them if a frightful manner. t Annapolis professor Dies. Annapolis, Md—Prof. W. F. C. Hasson of the Academic force at the naval academy tied here Friday. He graduated from the academy i lae engineering clas- j n isSO. Making Lord 3 Day Act Odious. Winnipeg. Mai—Police officials are making out and serving hundreds of summonses for a^eged breaches of the Lord's day act. The police are proceeding under instruction of the police commission, their action being a । counter-movement opposed to action by members of the Lord's Day alli- । ance. Each {unday police have pounced upon uiHertakers at funerals, newspaper men taking notes of Suu- ! day sermons, tad editors. Another man was taking a bath when the poj ’ice arrested him I )

CHILEANS GREET THE FLEET. American Battleships Reviewed in Bay of Valparaiso. — Valparaiso, Chile.—The great Amer- 1 lean fleet of 16 battleships, under the ; command of Rear Admiral Evans, passed Valparaiso Friday afternoon and continued on its voyage northward for Callao. Peru, the next stopping place. । All Valparaiso and thousands of per । sons from other cities in Chile wit , । nessed the passing of the fleet. PresI ident Montt and the other high officials j I of the republic went out from shore ' to greet the battleships, and almost ! I the entire Chilean navy exchanged I ' salutes with them as they swung J i around Curaumilla Point and into ' Valparaiso bay in single tile, headed by the Chilean cruiser Chacabuco and live Chilean torpedo boat destroyers. The day was perfect and the spectacle of the fleet stretched in a great semi circle as seen from the high hills ’ around the bay was magnificent. President Montt and other Chilean officials embarked on the training ship j Gen. Haquedano and took a position well out in the harbor. Around the Haquedano the vessels swung at a i speed of tour knots, firing the presi dential salute as they passed in re view. It was one hour from the time the head of the fleet entered the bay , until the last vessel had passed the president's ship and turned toward the open sea. Then the Haquedano lifted anchor and escorted the fleet well out of the bay and on its way to the north. , r ~~ as, fteyer . ■"■m IHl'e been seen in \ alparaiso bay. ■ and one that will l»nr be remembered peop!e^j!^^WP^^?W^ffl^^?fffs I to see it.

NEW AMERICAN SKI RECORD. John E. Venson Jumps 116 Feet at Close of Duluth Tourney. Dulutn. Minn. — Following a day's postponement on account of soft, weather, the fourth annual tourna ment of the National Ski Association I of America was wound up here Thursday afternoon on Chester Creek Hill. The large crowd that had gathered with the expectation of seeing a new American record established, was getting ready to return home disappoint- i ed, when John Wannobo, a director of the local club, hung up a special prize j for the rider that could beat 110 feet - A number of them tried it. but all fell short. Then John E. Venson came i tearing down the mammoth slide, shot through the air and landed 116 feet away from the scaffold. Fire in Brooklyn Courthouse.* New York. —Damage amounting to j probably $75,000 was done, oil paint- ' ings of judges who have presided in ! Brooklyn in the last half century were ■ water-soaked and valuable records i narrowly escaped destruction late Fri- ; day, when fire swept, through the upper part of the Kings county court- ' house in Brooklyn. Curbs Drinking on Trains. Columbus, O. — Gov. Harris Fri- \ day signed the Rathburn bill pro- ' hibiting the drinking of intoxicants on trains, except in compartments or I cars where the same are sold, an • it takes effect at once. Violation of the j law is made a misdemeanor punishable by fine. Mrs. McDonald Acquitted. Chicago.—Mrs. Dora McDonald, widow of Michael McDonald, king of Chicago gamblers, was declared Tuesday afternoon not guilty of the murder ' of Webster Guerin, the artist who was killed in his studio in the Omaha building, February 21, 1907. Double Tragedy in Toronto. Toronto, Ont.—Janies Feohley, a grocer's clerk, Friday shot his wife, ! from whom he had been separated ■ for a •‘Mtnight. Then he sent a bullet into his brain, killing himself ' instantly. The wife will likely die. Paying Teller Arrested. Minneapolis, Minn. —Adolph Stem- i witz, paying teller of the National Bank of Commerce of this city, was i arrested Friday following the alleged i discovery of a shortage in his ac- j counts amounting to $3,450. Uncle Sam Sues Express Company. ; Cincinnati. —Violation of the postal laws by carrying first-class mail matter was charged against the American ' Express company in a suit filed in the United States district court here Thursday by District Attorney McPherson. Gant Convicted of Murder. Belleville, Ill.—Clyde Gant, who has been on trial in the circuit court here for the killing of Henry Dicker- : man, was found guilty Thursday and I sentenced to 14 years’ imprisonment I

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