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AND FIFTY-NINTH YEAH. NO. 234. SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1910. -FOURTEEN PAGES. TRICE TWO CENTS. ROCK ARGUS. QUAKER CITY READY FOR RAIL STRIKE Conductors and Trainmen on Pennsylvania Road Near Walkout. FIGHT TO BE BITTER Company Means to Protect Em ployes Who Wish to Continue Ask Police Guard. Hollidaysburg, Pa.f July 16. The Pennsylvania railroad today served a demand on Sheriff Orr of Blair county for the swearing in of 1,200 special policemen to protect railroad property in the event the threatened strike of the trainmen and conductors is called. WII-l. MEET MANAGER. At the request of General Manager Meyers of the Pennsylvania railroad the entire committee representing the company's conductors and trainmen on thi lines east of Pittsburg will meet the general manager Monday. This announcement was made by President Lee of the Trainmen's order at the close of the afternoon conference. The resumption of negotiations is taken to nean a possible settlement. MEX MADE OVERTl'RES. Later it was admitted by Garrettson of the Conductors' organization the overtures for the meeting came from the men. An official of the Pennsyl vania railroad said the company has nothing new to offer; but will listen to anything the labor representatives may have to say. Rrady to Cnrc tor Mm. Philadelphia, July 16. The Pennsyl vania railroad at noon today announc ed that arrangements had been made to accommodate the men In th yards of the company In West Philadelphia. Freight cars .will be fitted up for their accommodation, and they will be given police protection. No strike breakers, the statement says, will be employed and the men will he recruited from the shops of the company. Hxprcta Many to Stick. The statement says that the com I any expects many 'old men will re main loyal and ia making up train crews the company will send out one iaexporienced man with two experi enced men. The statement calls at tention to the fact that the men who leave the. service and who are more than 43 years old cannot be reem ployed. Mifflit riianpro Rule. When the conference of labor lead ers adjourned for the noon recess no statement was issued, but Garrettson said: "I we can dominate the com pany by winning the strike, we can dominate Its policy as to the age limit." Expwt Vlkint. Philadelphia, July 1G. Represen tatives of the conductors and train men of the Pennsylvania railroad who are considering the question of ordering a strike on the vast system of that company went in secret ses sion at 9 a. m. today. George M. Smith, chairman of the joint com mittee, stated that indications point to a strike within 4 8 hours. 6TH TO BE WITHOUT BAND Period of Enlistment of Musicians Expires lief ore Encampment. Sterling, 111., July 16. The Cth regi ment band'3 time of enlistment expires- the 27th of this month and the band will not go to camp at Peoria. The local band retires from military circles on account of money matters, as most of the members are employed about town and cannot afford to put In the time at camp for the small pay given to soldier musicians. Most of th3 boys have had 10 or 12 years of military experience and think they have done their share. Both the Dixon and Morrison bands are making ef forts to get the appointment of regi mental band for the 6th. ODELL RAPS ROOSEVELT AS A PARTY BOSS New York, July 1C. Former Gbver nor Benjamin R. Odell, Jr., of Xew York, sailing for Europe today, said regarding the political situation that "all wisdom Is coming from Sagamore Hill." Odell said: "I am waiting for Roosevelt's O. K. to the next candi date for governor. He is the leader. We are only followers. However, I do believe in hi3 principles of direct nom inations." In reply to a question as to whether Roosevelt would name the iict candidate for governor, be said: "WfciU. lu uvi an.'' THE WEATHER Fair tonight and Sunday, not much change in temperature. Temperature at 7 a. m., 71. Maxi mum temperature in last 24 hours, S; minimum in 12 hours, CS. Velocity of wind at 7 a. m., 2 miles per hour. Pre cipitation, none. Relative humidity at 7 p. m., 79; at 7 a. m., S5. RIVER 3ULLETIN. Stage. Change St. Paul 1 -1 Prairie du Chlen 6 1 Dubuque 1.0 -ft Clinton 1.0 -0 LeClaire 3 .0 Rock Island 10 .1 A falling tendency will continue in the Mississippi from below Dubuque to Muscatine. J. M. SHER1ER, Local Forecaster. ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS. (From noou today to noon tomorrow.) Sun sets 7:25. rises 4:30: moon sets 12:41 a. in.; 9 p. m.. eastern time, plan et Jupiter's satellite No. 3 missing; the other three on the west; planet Uranus brightest and faintly visible as evening star, rising as the sun sets. HEARD WOW CRY Neighbor May Have Been Warned of Murder of Mrs. Crippcn at London. FORGOT THE INCIDENT Incoming Steamers Searched at Xew York but Fugitives Are Xot Located. London, Jul- 16. The first story of what may have been the actual commission of the crime was told yes terday by a neighbor of Dr. Hawley H. Crippen, in the cellar of whose home was unearthed the body be lieved by the police to be that of i the physician's wife, who was known on the stage as Belle Elmore. Since tiie discovery of the body and the disappearance of Dr. Crippen and his typist, Miss Ethel Clare Le Neve, the Scotland Yard detectives have inquired diligently among those living in the vicinity of the Crippen home in Hilldrop Crescent, North London, for some information that would throw light upon the domestic habits and relations of the American doctor and his actress-wife. Noth ing helpful was learned until yes terday, when the proprietress of a small shop at the rear of the Crip pens' residence told of hearing a wo man's screams and pleas for mercy arising seemingly from the cellar in which the burned and mutilated corpse was later found. Revolver Practice Common. To the police the shopkeeper said: "I had often heard revolver prac tice in the garden. One night about four or five months ago I cannot place the time more exactly I was ! awakened by a woman's cries. It was midnight. The screams appeared to come from Dr. Crippen's house. I listened and heard a woman's voice pleading: 'Don't, oh, don't.' "To me it seemed that the cries were from a woman in the basement of the house occupied by Dr. and Mrs. Crippen. As nothing developed further I soon forgot the occurrence and did not recall it until yesterday when I learned of the tragic discov ery." A revolver was found nearby where the body was interred. Last evening Superintendent Foest of Scotland Yard made the following declaration: "All clews concerning Crippen and Miss Le Neve received thus far have proved to be false. In my opinion Crippen either has gone to America or is hiding in the suburbs of Lon don. Xot on the I.unKnnla. New York, July 16. Search among passengers on board incom ing trans-Atlantic steamships yester day failed to result in the discovery of Dr. Crippen. Police Lieutenants George Leeson and William J. Moody went on board the Lusitania at quar antine and began a systematic search among the 1,374 passengers for the physician and for Miss Ethel Clare Le Neve, a stenographer, who is believed by the Scotland Yard de tectives to be accompanying him. At the Ctinard pier, when the steamship tied up, were other detec tives, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Mills, the latter a step sister of the murdered woman, and Mme. Frederick Glnnett, an English vaudeville perform who. as presi dent of the Music Hall Artists' guild, has been closely associated with Belle Elmore, its secretary, but the watch was futile. Explosion In French Tunnel. Perpignan, France, July 10. A dy namite explosion today killed three and fatally injured five other work men employed in the construction of the trans-Pyrennes tunnel. NEWWORLD'SRECORD BY HURDLES CHAMP London, July 16. G. R. L. Ander son, present hurdles champion of Great Britain, established a world's record for 440 yards over three feet hurdles at the Crystal palace meeting this afternoon. His time was 56 4-5 second. HEAVY IN KENTUCKY Damage Estimated at $2,000,000 Dons by Cloudburst IN TOBACCO REGION Fifty Thousand Acres of Pooled Crop Destroyed in One County, Alone. Henderson, Ky., July 16. A cloud burst over several counties in western Kentucky during the night caused dam age estimated at $2,000,000. Much live stock was lost. The Illinois Central tracks are under water for two miles. AO.OOO Aerea of Tohnoco .one. It is estimated 50,000 acres of pooled tobacco in Henderson county, alone, has been destroyed and one to bacco plantation of 200 acres is a total loss. Hundreds of cattle, sheep and hogs were swept away by floods. Montenegro to Be Kingdom. Vienna, July 16. In response to the Montenegrin note, all the powers have agreed to the elevation of Montenegro to the dignity of a kingdom. The ceremony in conneetion with the proc lamation will take place in August, on '.he occasion of the jubilee of Prince Nicholas. SANGAMON CO. POLITICIAN IS VICTIM OF SHOT Springfield, 111.. July 16. John O'Connor, deputy game warden and member of the Sangamon county re publican committee, died today from the effects of a bullet fired last night through a window of the din ing room at his home when O'Connor and his family were at supper. Be fore his death O'Connor said Frank Stout, an employe at a round house, had threatened his. life. Stout was arrested. He admits the threats but denies the shooting. LOEB: CAN 'OO READ? Mil1 MPMh i i ! few ; : i -wtoiw . t . .... .-fifca "t - , w .asiiiiSlfa ill ROOSEVELT ENDORSE THE TRUST DICTATED ACTS OF G. O. P.? HARDLY BY TAV. (Special Correspondence of The Argus.) Washington, July 14. Regular re publicans are declaring more boldly than ever that Roosevelt will endorse Taft. Vice President Sherman says that Roosevelt "will endorse the Payne Aldrlch tariff law and the ."aft admin istration In every particular. I do not believe it. I do not believe it, because I read Roosevelt to be too clever a politician to put his O. K. on such a band of criminals as that which dominates the republican party. I wish to make no apology for the use of the word "criminals." I em nlriv tha term, advisedly. GOL.J.M. GUFFEY FORGED TO WALL Democratic National Commit teeman Who Opposed Bryan Fails for Millions. RECEIVER TAKES CHARGE Declared That Assets, Consisting of Coal Mine Stock Are Double Liabilities. Pittsburg. July 1C. Judge Joseph M. Swearingen, in the common pleas court of this county, yesterday appointed a receiver for the affairs of Colonel James M. Guffey, national democratic committeeman for Pennsylvania, who led a bitter fight against William Jen nings Bryan in the last democratic na tional convention, held in Denver. J. H. Galey filed a bill in equity on which the action of the court was tak en, and John S. Willard, who is famil iar with Colonel Guffey's affairs, was appointed receiver. Owe frt.TOO.OOO. It Is alleged in the bill filed that Co- lonel Guffey's indebtedness is about $t;,700,i.(ni. of which about $150,000 is unsecured: that the defendant has no ready money with which to meet the payments due, and that certain credi tors are threatening to sell his collat eral and enter suits. It is further asserted that Colonel Guffey has assets of more than $17, ooo.ooo, a large part of which consists of stock of the J. M. Guffey company and the West Virginia company, two coal rnnccrns, which own 13'",. 700 acres of coal lands in the state of West Vir ginia. These properties are asserted to be worth at least. $15,000,000, and the bill in equity maintains that they are estimated to contain 2,000,000,000 ons of coal, which at a profit of 1 cent ,er ton would realize $20,000,000. Million In Slocks. Other assets of Colonel Guffey to the value of $2.000.COO or $3,000,000, con sist of stocks and bonds of other cor porations. All of these stocks and bonds are pledged as collateral and the receivership was found necessary to pre t.it a sacrifice of this collateral. '.'he order of the court restrains all c. editors from disposing of any of the collateral securities or other assets of Colonel Guffey pending further action. MRS. HARTJE GETS DIVORCE DECREE Pittsbtirg, Pa.. July 16. A decree of absolute divorce to Mary Scott Hartje from her husband, Augustus Hartje, the millioanre paper manufacturer of Pittsburg, was granted today. The republican party is today con trolled body and soul by the sugar trust, the steel trust, the harvester trust, the lumber trust, and other sim ilar organizations, each and every one of which is in existence in violation of the anti-trust laws of the country. Having no legal right to exist, each of these greedy monopolies is a crim inal corporation, and if the attorney general of the United States would do his full duty they would be forced to dissolve. But if Roosevelt does endorse the Taft administration, it will be and ought to be his Waterloo, following in the due allotted time his triumphant SHOOTING IS YET MYSTERY Poiice Cannot Explain Deed of C. VV. Rigdon at Chicago. VICTIM UNCONSCIOUS Wife of Dead Man Comes to City from Home in Iowa but Will Not Talk. Chicago, July 1C. An inquest over the body of C. W. Rigdon, who commit ted suicide in John C. Fetzer's office af ter seriously wounding Mrs. Emma Deu fex, was postponed until July 2S. The police have accomplished practically nothing as to the motives and events leading to the tragedy. Mrs. Deufex hovers between life and death at a lo cal hospital, and as her mind is appar ently blank she has been unable to shed any light on the mystery. Ife In lil. nco. Mrs. Anna Rigdon, the widow, arriv- ed here today from LaGrand, Iowa. I She did not reach the undertaking rooms until the Inquest had been post- poned. She refused to discuss the tragedy and hurriedly left the under I taking rooms. IV (man I-'rom St. I'nul. Following a violent quarrel, believed to have been over the possession of some mining stock, Rigdon, who was a vealthy real estate dealer, shot Mrs. Emma Deufex, a young woman recent ly ct St. Paul. Minn., yesterday after noon, in one of the suite of ollices of Feizer, who is a capitalist, real estate dealer, member of leading clubs and former railroad president, in the Bed ford building, 215 Dearborn street. After shooting the woman Rigdon drove a bullet through his own brain, dying instantly. Mrs. Deufex was taken to St. Luke's hospital, where Dr. E. A. Halstead, as sisted by Internes Kohler and Bryant, operated on her. The bullet struck her on the left side of the abdomen, just abore the hip, went clear through her body and perforated the intestines. Her condition is critical. Another Wnmiin There. With Mrs. Deufex when the shooting occurred was Miss Mary Wilson, also of St. Paul, who says she has been living at Hinsdale, where Mr. Fetzer openly endorses such standpatters as Taft and Senator Lodge of Massachu setts, it will mean that he deceived the people as to his true sentiment as completely as the prize fighter Jeffries deceived the sporting world as to his real physical condition. Tuft rnt Redemption. Roosevelt will not dare endorse Taft for these reasons: First Taft personally promised re vision downward, and then personally signed a tariff bill which revised the tariff upward. Second Taft personally aided Boss Aldrich to cheat the people out of an j Continued on xuu, .f-. v also lives, and who declares that she met Mrs. Deufex on the street yester day afternoon, accidentally, and that the latter asked her to accompany her on a visit to Mr. Fetzer's office. From letters found on Mr. Rigdon'r body after It was removed to the morgue, it develops that the dead man and the woman he shot have been In volved in some mining deals, and that Mrs. Deufex has been avoiding Rigdon lor some time. Wife U I-oentei!. Marshalltown, Iowa, July 10. Mrs. Annie Hawbecker Rigdon said today she was legally married to C. V. Rig don Jan. 4, lSnS. at Chicago. She says she never heard of Mrs. Deufex and did not know her husband knew any person by that name. Mrs. Rigdon left for Chicago. MUM 1 THE WORD Facts Connected With Beef Grand Jury Investigation to Ee Kerjt in Dark. JUDGE LANDIS SO ORDERS Does Xot Approve of the "Brass Hund" Tartics followed in Pre vious Investigations. Chicago, July 16. A campaign of silence is to be waged by the govern ment in its investigation of the beef trust. The grand Jury will work with a soft, pedal movement and a leash will be held on the tongue of all interested in the probe. The slip-shod publicity campaign which Judge Land is con demned in the two previous inquiries is to be replaced by one of strict se crecy and Assistant Attorney General W. S. Kenyon is to be the official mouthpiece. The assistant attorney general yes terday announced as much himself. And with the tame breath he said he "had nothing to say, didn't know whether he would have anything to say, and that nobody else would have any. thing to impart to the public until in dictments were returned in open court that is, if the 23 grand jurors who will hear the evidence think enough of the case to vote true bills." Juilee I.nnril Orriera It. Judge Landls is said to have been the power which caused the quick sup pression of information as to the jury's action. The "brass band'" tactics in previous inquiries has net met with ifaiy .-ftHrrrr.' The court believes that "the inquiry should be thorough and that! the real malefactors be brought to , justice. The previous indictments i against "small fry" clerks and book keepers in the packing companies' of- fires are not to be ar.glcd for. It is ! the big men, the head ofiicia's. that Judge l.andi.s would like to see in the , toils. AMERICAN DOCTOR FORCED TO SERVE? State Department ln est igal iny; Up port of Xew High Handed Art of Madriz.. Washington. July !'.. On the strenc'i of press reports the h'.iic department today telegraphed American Consul Moffat at Bluetields to ascertain whether Dr. Lawrence Burgheim of Houston, Texas, is h Id a pruoner by the Mailriz fortes. The report was tha' Dr. Burgheim 1ml le n romp- lied ;o treat the wounded at Blucficlds biuff. ELKS SEE AIRSHIP FLIGHTS Commerce Willi I'i--ign Countries AImi 1 calmed at Detroit. Detroit, July 1 fi. Yesterday was motor day at the national reunion ( Elks here. In tne afternoon over 2.000 automobiles paraded along Woodward avenue. Later Walter Brokins, Duval La Chappcllo and Arch Hoxey made aeroplane flights and three classes of motor boats rac ed over a D'-iiiile course around Belle isle in preliminary events. To day Brookins will attempt to better his altitude record made at Atlantic City and the motor boats will com pete for the $1,000 Elks trophy and for minor prizes. ROOSEVELT'S NEPHEW OUT Kobinson to Oppose Yire President Sherman's Choice for Congress. Plica. X. Y.. July 16. Theodore Douglas Robinson, nephew of for mer President Roosevelt, last night announced his candidacy for the re publican nomination for member of congress from the 27th district. He is the son of Douglas Robinson who married Mr. Roosevelt's sister. The present incumbent. Charles S. Mil lington. is also a candidate? and was elected with Vice President Sher man's support. The latest announce ment therefore presents an interest ing situation. Races Called Off. Torre Haute, Ind., July 16. The Great Western circuit races were call ed off today on acount of rr:in. COLOMBIA ELECTS A NEW PRESIDENT Pogota. Colombia, July 10. Carlos E. Restrepo. vice president of the house of representatives, was elected president of Colombia hi yesterday's WRECK GARS TIEUP A RAILROAD Striking Trackmen on the Boston & Maine Accused. HALT A RELIEF TRAIN Crew Taking Wrecker to Scene of Smashup Face Loaded Revolvers. Albany, X. Y., July 16. A wrecklni tra.n on the Boston & Maine railroad 'ent out from Mechanlcsvllle early to day to clear up a freight wreck neai Ushers was Ragged by Italians before it reached the wreckage. As the train blowed down two Italians covered the engineer and fireman with rifles and refused to let the wrecker proceed. Knllnna Va. Ilallnna. The train carried 40 Italian laborers who found themselves farcing an nery crowd of 60 other Italians, all armed and who declared the wrecking train should not go further. The train was forced to return to Mechanicsville. Strikers Aeeuaed. Striking trackmen are tald by the officials to be responsible for the wreck and today's demonstration. Deputy sheriffs are being sworn in for duty at the scene of the trouble. BOY FIRE FIGHTERS DO HEROIC WORK Help Save Hundreds of feeble Mind ed Patients and Infants at Xew York City. Xew York, July 16. The heroleix of a brigade of boy fire fighters. from the house of refuge did much to ward saing several buildings on Randall's island containing hundreds of feeble minded inmates and babies, and the babies' hospital, with 300 little patients, threatened by fire whkh broke out in the Island tailor shop during the night. The boys did efficient work in helping the reg ular firemen. Panics broke out among both the children and the older patients and nurses and doc tors bad all they could do to control the excit"d inmates. Hard work confined the fire to the building where it originated with ouly nomin al loss. FRIENDS SAVE FROM JAIL Pay I'ine of Grafton Serinlit Who EefiiKi-.l to Pay Poll Ta. Grafton, 111. July 10. The mar tyrdom of John J. Keen, a socialltt of this city, ended when last night, after serving three months in jail his friends paid his fine and costs, aggre gating $.1. Keen was sentenced to prison April 15 to serve six months for failure to pay his annual poll tax of $1. .". The martyrdom of Kcon against the Illinois tax attracted na tional attention. He declared he would spend the remainder of bis life in jail rather than submit to paying for the privilege of currying a poll tax receipt around with him. Had his friends not come to his res ue ha would have been in a fair way of .-rending at hast seven years con tinuously in the Grafton jail for Kcon was two years in arrears In his poll tax. Cannon Chautauqua Speaker. Wintield, July 16. Speaker Can non is a guest here today of the Winfield chatilauqua and Is on thj program for an address at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Today's address will be the firt of half a dozen Cannon is to make in Kansas. Mrs. Eddy is 83. Brookline, Mass., July 16. Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, founder and leader of the Christian Science denomination, observed her 89th birthday quietly at her home here today. OHIO LEADERS FLOCKING TO CALL ON TAFT Beverly, Mass., July 16. Ohio poli tic, continued to hold the center ol the stage in Beverly today. Senatoi Dick, who brought a draft of the state republican platform with him, and W."de Ellis, chairman of the republl cm executive committee, are remain in? over in Beverly for a further con. ference with the president tomorrow II became known today that othei Ohio leaders are hcrrying to Beverly. These Include Sena'or Burton, who l to be permanent chairman of the con AND