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mrr UTU FIFTY-NINTH YEAR. NO. 241. MONDAY, JULY 25, 1910; FlilCE TWO CENTS. ROCK TQ1 AND 1 JlIJIj r4 FIRE, RIOTS, ON LINE OF TRUNKROAD Indiana Governor Holds State Troops In Readi ness For Service TRAINS ARE GUARDED Company Officials Are Confident Solution of the Trouble Is in Sight. Cleveland, July 25. President Lee of !he Brotherhood of Trainmen will leave here tonight for Toronto, Canada, where he will meet R. Garre-tson, pres ident of the Order of Railway Conduc tors of Cedar Rapids. Iowa, and several officials of the Canadian Brotherhood, Tuesday. Detroit, Mich., July 25. Freight traf fic has been resumed here on the Grand Trunk. The company has succeeded in tunning six trains in and out of De troit. There are no signs of trouble. Montreal, July 25. Company officials are confident a solution of the Grand Trunk strike problem is now in sight. All they ask. they say, is adequate pro tiction of property, and the men who have takn the places of the strikers. The strike leaders, on the other hand, today expressed utmost confidence in the steadfastness of their ranks and their ability to force railroad to terms i in- irremediable freight paralysis, i Shops at various poin ts closed a wee' j ago reopened today. ).-l4 -MitltlR in nrndlBa. Jndi.'u'iapolis, In-J., July 25. Unless there is a reque't iroin Sheriff Urr at i South Bend there will be no troops ! sent there to queil the rioting, accord- j ir.g to a statement from Governor Mar-! . . t .,-. the situation, and if there w as any fur ther rioting the state militia was in readiness to be sent twnu:' ,r.. South Bend, Ind.. Jv.ly -Although a mob is j?atuerin3 yifidaU of the Grand Trunk railroad are U-termined to resume train service today at any cost. Yard service will be most likely to incite trouble, but the yards are so filled with cars, many of which con tain perishable freight, that switching Is absolutely necessary. The Chicago Detroit passenger train came in late and carried a force of armed detec tives who sat at open windows with drawn revolvers as. the train passed through the yards. Officers stood ;uard as passengers alighted, but their presence was not necessary, as no in terference was offered. Louis Free!, the strikebreaker shot by railroad de tectives yesterday, will die, according to the phyr.icans' report this morning. Fire Started by Sympathizers. South Bend, Ilnd., July 25. Fire started by sympathizers of the strik ing trainmen of the Grand Trunk last evening destroyed three cars of a tr3in composed of 30 loaded freight cars and a caboose. Firemen fought the blaze under a guard of police and spe cial deputies and endeavored to pre vent its spread, while a crowd of more than 5,000 persons looked on and sev eral times made threatening demon strations. Several other blazes were started in the railroad yards while the larger fire was in progress, but they were quickly extinguished. The fire came as a climax to a day of rioting in which one man was shot and probably fatally wounded, while a number of others were injured by fly ing stones thrown by sympathizers of the strikers. - Wounded by Mistake f The wounded man is L. A. Freel, night car inspector of the Grand Trunk. He was shot while endeavoring to as certain the amount of damage done a train by friends of the strikers. He was shot by John Peck of Grand Rap ids, a guard in the employ of the rail road. Officials of the road say the 6hooting was an accident. Peck is said to have fired to hold the threatening crowd at bay and was not shooting at Freel. Freel was hurried to Epworth hos pital, where he was attended by Dr. J. H. Gardner. The physician found the bullet, fired from a .38 caliber army revolver, had severed his spinal cord, and he Is paralyzed from the waist down. There is little hope of his re covery. The shooting of Freel was indirectly due to the capture of a freight tratn by strike sympathizers Saturday night. The train was left standing in the streets until yesterday morning, when it was moved to the yards. It was found that during the night all" 'the coupling pins and knuckles of the cars had been taken out, the airbrakes de stroyed and the train literally cut to pieces. Freel went out to investigate the damage and in the trouble follow ing he was shot. t'rlaoner Smuggled Avray. Immediately following the shooting. Assistant Chief of Police Joseph S.. Chappell, who was in command at the I. ; A THE V7EATHE Generally fair and continued warm weather tonight and Tuesday. j Temperature at 7 a. m., C9. Maxi mum temperature in last 24 hours, 97; minimum in 12 hours, 67. Velocity of wind at 7 a. m., 3 miles per hour. Pre cipitation, none. Relative humidity, at 7 p. m. 29, at 7 a. m. 09. RIVER BULLETIN. Stage. Change (4S hour changes.) St. Paul 7 .1 Prairie du Chien 4 .1 Dubuque 6 .1 Clinton 7 .0 LeClaire 2 .0 Davenport S .0 Very slight changes in the Mississippi will occur from below Dubuque to Mus catine. J. M. SHERIER, Local Forecaster. ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS. (From noon today to noon tomorrow.) Sun sets 7:1S. rises 4:47; moon rises 9:47 p. m. railroad yards, two miles west of South Bend, ordered the arrest of Peck, to gether with McReynolds and Eldern oraham, guards who were with him. The men were hurried to the police station, and late last night were smug ged out of town. Rumors that vio lence might be attempted by strike sympathizers caused Police Chief Guy L. Bunker to take this action. He re fused to tell where the men had been sent. Many passengers had a narrow es cape from death or injury on a pas senger train just east of here during the afternoon, when strike sympa thizers are said to have tried to derail it. Tne engineer discovered a switch had been thrown and succeeded in bringing his train to a stop in time to prevent an accident. The crowd about the Grand Trunk yards was much smaller today than yesterday. Although the road was able to operate on freight train out of the city, no interference was offered be yond cries of "scab" at. the trainmen in charge. 200 LOST AT SEA Steamer TetSUrei-MarU, Plying Between Kobe and Danen Is Sunk. WARSHIPS GO TO RESCUE Boat Had 246 Psenger on Board Captain and Majority of Crew Unable to Leave Ship. Tokio, July 25. The Tetsurei-Maru, plying between Kobe and Dairen, sunk Saturday night off Chindo, Korea. The steamer had 246 passengers aboard, of whom 40 were saved. The others are missing. Warships have been sent to the rescue. The Tetsurel-Maru was of 2,100 tons register. It was built at Nagasaki and was owned by the Osaka Shosen Kabu shiki Kaisha. Survivors Tell of Wreck. Direct reports from Chindo stale that two of the Tetsurei's lifeboats landed 40 passengers, who tell of har rowing scenes when the befogged ves sel struck. Six lifeboats were launch ed and filled with passengers. There was no panic and everything was car ried off in the most orderly manner. The captain and the majority of the crew were unable to leave the steamer. Six first class passengers were saved, including W. Cunningham, the British vice consul at Osaka, as well as 13 second class passengers. Hope Othera Are Safe. One hundred and five third class passengers were taken off in boats, and there is reason to believe that these boats have reached land or been picked up by the warships. Sprained Ankle Improving. Rockland, Maine, July 25. The May flower, with President Taft on board, was sighted off Dard Harbor at 1:15. It proceeded on its way to Rockport, and anchored off Beauchamp Point an hour later. The president's sprained ankle is rapidly improving. U. S. MARKSMEN STILL LEADERS OF THE WORLD New York, July 25. American sharp shooters have again demonstrated their superiority over marksmen of other' nations. This time it is at the international match held in Peking. The contestants were picked men from the legation guards of all nations rep resented in the Chinese capital. A score sheet has just been received by the officials at the navy yard here. There were two matches, one be tween omcers' teams of two men each, and the other between enlisted men's teams of three each. In the officers' match the highest score wa3 made by the -American representatives, 272 ; British, second. 254; German, third, 244. In the enlisted men's match the Americans made 415; British, 377; German, 3C3. N CLEWS PROVEFAKES Chicago Police Authori ties Cling to Murder Theory. PROPOSE JURY CHANGE Pressure Brought to Bear to Remove Members Who Ex pressed Opinion. Chicago, July 25. A threatened clash over the personnel of the cor oner's jury impaneled to inquire into the death of Ira G. Rawn in his Win netka summer home and a new "fake" murder clew to the death of Hot Weather the railroad man who is generally believed'- to have committed suicide were yesterday's developments in the suburban tragedy of 'last Wednesday morning. According to an authority in close touch with one of the agencies en gaged in the investigation of the shooting of Rawn, efforts will be made to get a new Jury impaneled to hear the" evidence at 'the inquiry which is set for next Wednesday ev ening at 7:30 o'clock. It was said that the move was contemplated be cause of the reports that certain jur ors had intimated that they favored a verdict of murder. In order to complete the drafting of a new jury it is planned to call certain of the jurors among them C. F. Hately, foreman, as witnesses at the inquest. If this plan fails it was declared that open protests against members of the panel would be made to Coroner Hoffman. Coroner Hoffman intimated last evening that he would make no change in the jury unless it was shown that jurors were prejudiced and members of the panel in Winnet ka declared they would be heard from if such a proceeding was started. New Mnrder Clew In Letter. The new "murder" clew which came after all the other circum stances pointing to the railway man's death at the" hands of an intruder in his residence had been cleared way, was in the form of an anony mous letter received in the morning by Foreman Hately in Winnetka. It stated that a "fugitive from jistice" who might know something of the Rawn tragedy was in hiding in a certain house in Glencoe. Foreman Hately, who is the man who found the "split bullet" in the Rawn fireplace, which later turned out to be a piece of solder, promptly notified Coroner Hoffman of the let ter and turned the communication over to S. H. Greely, president of the Winnetka village board. After con ferring with Acting Chief of Police Schuettler, the coroner and the police official went to Winnetka. There the officials picked up Chief of Police Coutre and proceeded to Glencoe in an automobile. With the Glencoe chief of police they went to the house designated in the letter but found no one in hiding and returned. Reports of Saturday from New York that about $1,000,000 had been offered the Illinois Central directors to drop the civil and criminal con-, RAW gm SOl. A7H0TUL. n5d?T7SK r FlAT 7'a$$. Al 727 STOP ( 3 SmPLV STN, -4&ZW't fp 'gpjri r r splracy suits which threatened to in volve Mr. Rawn and other former Illinois Central officials were confirm ed here yesterday, but on one con nected with the railroad would dis cuss the matter for publication. Still Hunt Murder Clew. Despite the fact that every murder clew made public in connection with the death of Mr. Rawn has been shat tered after investigation, Charles L. Shaffer, representing a private de tective agency asserted that there was good cause to believe that a murder had been committed. "We will issue the circulars to morrow announcing the offer of $5,000 reward for the arrest of Mr. Rawn's murderer," he said. Mr. Shaffer said that his men had discovered no new clews which would indicate that the railroad president had been murdered and said that the circulars would not contain any de scription of "suspects." Operatives from another detecflve agency are carrying on an independ ent investigation into the cause of the railroad man's death, but have refused to divulge from whom they are learning the circumstances. It has been reported that the agency represents a railroad other than the Illinois Central. The private papers of Mr. Rawn probably will be examined today and an effort made to find out if the railroad man left a will. and the Tired Business VIRGINIA MAYOR IS ASSASSINATED Bomb Thrown Under Hammock in Which Ridge way Exec utive Is Sleeping. IS NO KNOWN MOTIVE Negro Shoots White Man in Torre Haute, Ind., and Populace Threatens Lynching. Ridgeway, Va., July 25. Mayor Bousman was assassinated by a dy namite bomb thrown from the street under a hammock in which he was lying last evening. No clue to the murderer or the cause of the crime has been found. 'ea;ro Iltirsliir Shoot; Lynching Feared Terre Haute, Ind., July 25. George M. Lints is dying from the effects of a bullet fired last night by a burglar. He positively identified Albert McGowan, a negro, as the man who shot him. McGowan was taken to jail and. fearing an attempt may be made "to lynch him. the sheriff has made preparations to de fend the jail. Double Kseeutlon i Slnje SlnK. Sing Sing, N. Y., July 25. In a double execution at Sing Sing prison today two men paid in the electric chair the penalty for murders com mitted in New York city. They were Carl Loose, convicted of the murder of his daughter, and Guiseppe Gam baro, a fatricide. Money Troubles; Suicide. Pana. III., July 25. Authorities de clared that Frank May, formerly of Bloomington. proprietor of the St. James hotel here, ended his life be cause of financial difficulties. His body was found in a pool of blood . Friday night when his wife entered his apart ment. He had been dead several hours from a bullet wound in his brain. May was a 32d degree Mason and was well known by traveling men through out the state. He was 4C years- old and leaves his wife, a daughter and a son. He was a native cl Kentucky. HEAT DEATH TOLLHEAVY Several Persons Die And Many Are Prostrated In Chicago Sunday TEMPERATURE OF 102 New York City Reports Nine Victims Claimed During Past 24 Hours. Chicago, July 25. Average summer weather prevailed here today following record breaking temperature of 102 degrees recorded at street level yes terday. The mercury at 9 this morn ing stood 79. The report of several Man-A Study deaths and many prostrations yester day reached the authorities today. Nine Victim In ew York. New York, July 25. After its record rise to 94 yesterday, making it the hot test day of the season, the official mer cury hovered at the SO-degree mark all night, registering a minimum of 78, and at 8 o'clock this morning standing at 79. two above the figures of the same hour Sunday. Nine deaths which occurred in the last 24 hours are at tributed to the heat. Sonthwet Tovn Clet ln. Kansas City, Mo., July 25. With a temperature of SO degrees at 7 this morning, today promised to outdo yes terday, thus far the hottest of the sea son. The highest temperature in the southwest yesterday was at Wichita, Kan., and Enid, Okla., where it regis tered 109. IflO at St. Joe. St. Joseph. Mo., July 25. Heat rec ord for several years was broken here today when lf0 was marked. Kan flnn Crop Dfitnaiced. Wichita, Kan., July 25. Four days of hot winds and temperature that has remained around 100 degrees has ser iously damaged corn, fruit, and other growing crops in central Kansas and northern Oklahoma. Some upland fields are dry enough to burn. HEAT DAMAGE SENDS CORN TO 65 CENTS Chicago Market Eerienccs Wild Morning Following Receipt of Field Reports. Chicago, July 25. An extreme ad vance of 4, cents was registered in the corn market here today. The mar ket was wild and excited on reports of heavy damage due to heat and drouth. December option was the most violently affected. It closed at GOV to cents Saturday and during the forenoon today sold up to C5. Septem ber gained 3. selling at C,C,. and May 4 cents, with sales at 6C'i cents. MAN FOR WELLESLEY HEAD Movement Among Woman's College Trustees Fought. Boston. July 25. A movement is on foot to bring about the appoint ment of a man as president of Welles- ley college. The majority of the masculine members of the board of trustees, who outnumber, the women members, favor a .man. Bishop Law rence, vice president of the board, is among the number. The women on the board want a women as president. The great throng of alumnae of the woman's college are marshaling their forces to fight the appointment of a man as successor to Miss Caroline llazzard and the breaking of the traditions of the institution. The'con flict of opinion as to whether a man should or should not head the school as her successor, it is said on the best authority, was the real reason that Miss Hazzard decided finally to lay down the burden of the work. REPORT CRIPPEN CAUGHT AT SEA Fugitive Doctor and Miss Le neve Are Now Said to Be Aboard Montrose. CONFIRM DISGUISE STORY Claimed Scotland Yard Inspector Is a Day Ahead of Couple on Canadian-Bound Vessel. London, July 25. The wireless reports that Dr. Howley H. Crlppen, wanted for the murder of his ac tress wife. Belle Elmore, and his companion, Miss Ieneve, are in mid ocean, on board a steamer bound for Canada, are generally credited here, although there Is some doubt as to the steamer they took passage on. While Scotland Yard refuses to take the public into its confidence, it is believed that the fugitives are aboard the Montrose, instead of the Sardinian, as reported yesterday. One report has it that the fleeing couple have been placed under ar rest at sea. A Trent at Sea Dlnrauetl. It is now pretty certain that In spector Dew Is on the Laurentic, which should reach Canada 24 hours ahead of the fugitives. It is assured here that the Laurentic picked up the wireless of the Mont rose and one of the possibilities dis covered here is that the former will overhaul the latter steamer and take the couple Into his custody on ship board. The story ascribing the informa tion regarding the whereabouts of the couple to the French police is morfc than" doubtful. There is every reason to believe the captain of the Montrose sent a wireless message on the afternoon of July 22 announcing the presence of a disguised couplo aboard the Montrose. V Confirm Story of rlemle. A corroborative message, reported to include a definite statement that the younger suspect, who, dressed as a young man, had been found to be a woman, followed a few hours later. It is quite probable there was a subsequent exchange of messages between the Montrose and Scotland Yard. It is reported that one of these announced that the suspects were under arrest. This, however, is likely to prove to be conjectural. The Montrose does not carry first class passengers. It has about 20 second class passengers and 400 steerage passengers aboard. The passenger list of the Mont rose does not contain the names of Robinson, under which Crippen and his companion are said to be sailing. It is said they booked their passage two or three hours before the steam er sailed and that the London de tectives who were watching the sail ings from Antwerp did not detect the fugitives. AUTO 'UPSETS; ONE DEAD i Louis I). Yle, Mount Pleasant, Mich., Contractor, Victim. Mount Pleasant, Mich., July 25. Louis D. Cole, a prominent contractor, was killed today by his automobile overturning. 7,593 Jews Expelled. Kiev. July 25. During nine days end ing July 25. 941 Jews were expelled from this city. Records show 7,503 ex pulsions since May 14. CANADIAN WILL ATTEMPT THE N. W. PASSAGE (Xtawa. Ont., July 25 Captain Der nier, the Canadian polar navigator, is now enroute to Canadian arctic wa ters with the government's permission to attempt the northwest passage and bring his vessel around to Victoria, B. C, a feat which was unsuccessfully tried by Peary, Ross, Franklin and oth er navigators during the last century. Enroute Bernier will assert British and Canadian sovereignty over all islands in the north, maii3' of which have not been visited except by early explorers. He also will investigate rumors of min eral deposits at various points in he north. The last time the northwest passage was made was in 1S54 by Mc Clure. He, however, did not bring hl3 vessel through, but walked across the ice to Melville island. Captain Amundson's voyage of two years ago was via the southwest passage south of Victoria island. OHIO FACES A SCHISM m THEG.0.P. Columbus Convention Is Awaiting Word From J. R. Garfield TO INDORSE TAFT? That Is Point on Which Leaders of "Progressives" and "Reg ulars" 'Are Contending. Columbus, Ohio, July 25. Republi can leaders and delegates who arc here for the state convention were today awaiting word from James It. Garfield, the leader of the "progres sives." Although the first session of the convention is to be held tomorrow and nominations are to be made Wednesday, the leaders are as far from an agreement upon candidates for governor as they were a month ago. Slajorlty f npledsed. As a great majority of the dele gates are unpledged, the state lead ers are greatly interested as to the number of votes which Garfield will claim for the "progressives." It is considered this will have di rect bearing upon the platform to be adopted, and hence upon the candi date for governor. Ellla fa Innlateat. The only considerable divergence between the platform suggested by Garfield three weeks ago and that outlined last night by Wade P. Ellis, one of the "regulars" and a friend of the president, is in the endorse ment of the present national admin istration and recently enacted tariff law, which Ellis Insisted upon. It was admitted it was hoped a basis of agreement might be reached on an outline such as that indicated by Ellis. Promlae ot Kept i rnnmln, Holton, Kan., July 25. Senator Cum mins of Iowa, speaking here this after noon, said the systematic arrangement of competition and that alone could cure America's economic troubles. He declared the tariff was not revised as was promised in the republican plat form. He denounced monopolies and cited the case of the railroads, which he said had in 10 years ' added three and one-half billion dollars to their capitalization on betterments and ex tensions without the investment of 8 single penny of Independent capital We must pay the Interest on this sur plus investment." WEIGHTED AND TIED, PAIR JUMP IN RIVER Then Woman Changes Mind, and St. Jjouis Iovers Are Rescued from Watery Grave St. Louis, Mo., July 25. Bound to gether with two Fteol chains and 15 feet of rope and weighted with a va lise filled with sand, Brice Wommack of near Trey Mo., and Mis. Mu'lio Anderson Jumped from a skiff into the Mississippi river. The woman changed her mind about dying after the leap, and through the bravery of James Lan ders, a city employe, the couple were rescued. When Landers reached ihem they had drifted a half mile, clinging to the oarlocks of the skiff from which they had Jumped. The attempt at suicide was the re sult of a compact. The couple had planned to kill themselves and bury their bodies and all evidence of their fate at the bottom of the Mississippi. VICTIM OF MURDER PLOT Cleveland Woman llclicved by Police to Have Ilecn Poisoned. Cleveland, July 25. Mrs. Mary Emer son, ag d fi, who died at a hospital here Thursday, Is believed by the ?o lice to have Ik en poisoned as a result of a murder plot. Two women compan ions vho were with her when she was taken ill have disappeared. CHICAGO BARS PICTURES Chief Steward Issue Orders Irohlb. iting IViiliition In That City. Chicago, July 25. Chief of Police Steward announced today that the Jeffries-Johnson fight pictures would not be allowed to be exhibited in Chi cago. Cady Has an 82. Minneapolis, Minn., July 25 W. I. Howland. Jr.., Glf nview, with 72. turn ed In the lowest score In the first half of the squads which competed In to day's lS-hoIes qualifying round of Ihe western golf championship. J. D. Cady, Rock Island, lad a mark of"i2, and W. Y. Chambers, Omaha, SC. Harry C. Le?g, Mlnnekahda, took th lead in the first half of the qualifying round by scoring a phenomenal 70. ,