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THE ROCK SLAM) Associated Press Exclusive Wire Argus Want Ads Always Being Results SIXTY-FIRST YEAR. NO. 104. . THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1912. TEN- PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS, ROBBERS GET $25,000 IN A TAXIHOLDUP Messengers Attacked on Trip Between Banks in New York. BOTHSEVERELY BEATEN Chauffeur Covered With Revol ver in Broad Daylight in Business Section. L The Weather Forecast Till 7 P. M. Tomorrow, for Rock Island. Davenport, Mollne, and Vicinity. Generally fair tonight and Friday, moderate temperature. The lowest temperature tonight will be slightly below the freezing point. Temperature at 7 a. m. 30. High est yesterday 32, lowest last night 30. Velocity of wind at 7 a. m. 8 miles per hour. Precipitation none. Relative humidity at 7 p. m. 83, at 7 a. m. 84. J. M. SHERIER, Local Forecaster. A8TRONOM ICAL EVENTS. ' (From noon today to noon tomorrow.) Sun sets 6:34, rises 651; moon rises 630 a m.; moon lowest and farthest aoath; 4:13 p. za, moon in conjunction with Uranus, passing from west to east of the planet. New York, Feb. 15. Twenty-five thousand dollars in currency was stolen from a taxlcab In the heart of the financial district this morning by three highwaymen, who sprang Into the "vehicle and overpowered W. F. Smith and Frank Wardell, messengers of the East River National bank. Both messengers were badly injured and tiie robbers escaped with the money. The currency was being transported from the Produce Exchange bank in the lower part of the city. GIN AGAIST C IIAUFFEUR. The taxicab had proceeded Up Broadway without mishap when for some unexplained reason the chauf feur turned west on Rector street Into Church street, skirting the side and rear of Trinity churchyard. Mid way the old cemetery three men eprang from the curb. One jumped! ou the chauffeur's seat, the other two got Into the vehicle. The man on the seat pressed a revolver in his overcoat pocket against the side of the chauffeur, Gino Martini, and commanded hi in to drive swiftly on without making an outcry. MESSENGERS ARB BEATEN. Inside the vehicle the robbers were belaboring the messengers over the head. Smith, one of the messen gers, 61 years old, was bleeding and almost unconscious when the taxlcab reached Park place, a few blocks north. Wardell was beaten about the head, but was not so seriously hurt. At Park place the highway men Jumped from the taxicab bear ing a tin box, which contained the currency. They sprang into a wait ing automobile and escaped. MART1I GIVES ALARM. Martini, the taxicab chauffeur, continued to run his machine until he found a policeman and gave the alarm. The messengers were taken to a police station. Smith's condi tion was so Berious he was removed to a hospital. YUAN IS ELECTED THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE CHINESE REPUBLIC AT NANKING BEAGLE IS TO BE TAKEN TO SCENE OF HIS CRIME Albany, N. V.. Feb. 15. Gover nor Dlx has honored requisition pa pers for the extradition of James J. lleagle of Wellsvllle to Manchester, Mich., where he is wanted on a charge of conspiracy. It being alleg ed be attempted "by soliciting" to have caused a hotel to be burned in August last. MISS HAZEL H0GAN WEEPS WITH JOY AT FREEDOM Chicago, Feb. IB. "It certainly is great to be able to breathe fresh air again. It was a terrible exper ience to be locked up in Jail and 1 believe it was my anger more than anything else that kept up my spirits and saved me from a breakdown." This Is what Hazel Hogan said yes terday when she left the county jail after the contempt charges against her were vacated. She wept with Joy at her release. Her fine of $1,700 was remitted and she was released on bonds of $2,350. She had been sentenced because of her refusal to prosecute four men who were alleged to have robbed her. Miss Hogan is under indictment for larceny growing out of the alle gation that at the time she disappear ed following the robbery she took with her some mortgaged property and $1,500 of the bond money was scheduled to insure her appearance In court when her case is called for trial. The remainder of the bond money was for her appearance in court at any time that she is wanted In con nection with the cases of the men who were recently convicted of rob bing her. Miss Hogan was robbed in the of fice of Dr. Irvine Slslnger, one of the defendants, July 17. Dr. Sislnger, who was an optician, was tried with James Hogan, and Curtin R. Young, and all were found guilty. A motion for a new trial is pending. wrij "Mark-arsy-was" rtnfrgad'wlth robbery, but the court instructed the Jury to find him not guilty. "Many times I was despondent, but then I would become angry at the thought of my wrongful impris onment just because I refused to prosecute for the loss of my own money and then my despondency vanished," said Mls Hogan. "I will go into court any time that I am summoned." Miss Hogan refused to say wheth er, if called upon, she would testify against the men who robbed her. She had been imprisoned about two months. Relatives and friends did their utmost in the efforts to in duce her to change her mind and purge herself of the contempt charge but she remained obstinate and re fused to entertain their suggestions. ONLY SIX OF ACCUSED YET TO BEGAUGHT Government Agents Con tinue Scouring the Coun try for Dynamiters. Nanking, China, Feb. 15. The na tional assembly this afternoon unani mously elected former Premier Yuan president, and decided that the pro visional capital shall be Nanking. The assembly, in accepting President Sun's resignation, paid him a great tribute for his patriotism. Rome, Feb. 115. The Chinese lega tion here today for the first time hoist ed a republican flag. The minister also officially announced the procla mation of a republic. Many callers went to the legation to congratulate the minister. Darrow Case Delayed. Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 15. The setting of Clarence S. Darrow's trial on the Indictment charging jury I rlbery, scheduled for yesterday, was continued until Feb. p3. The court proceedings were monopolized by Harrow's attorneys In an effort to es tablish that some of the grand Jury's testimony had been withheld. COAL GAS FATAL TO TWO; FOUND DEAD BY FATHER Decatur, 111., Feb. 15. Returning from his run last evening at 9:25 W. C. Helronlmus, a brakeman, found his wife unconscious and his two children dying from the effects of coal gas Issuing from an anthra cite coal burning stove. Carrying his loved ones from the choking air of the house the father attracted neigh bors by his grief of grief. The chil dien died before a physician arrived. Nothing had been seen of the fam ily since Helronlmus left early In the morning and they may have been as phyxiated shortly afterward. The children were Walter, aged 6 years, and Eva, aged 6. Mrs. Helronlmus DYING, CLAIMS HE SHOT GOEBEL Helena, Ark., Feb. 15. Fatally wounded in a duel with a bartender here today, James Gilbert, who came from Kentucky, declared he was the man who fired the shot that killed Governor Goebel at Frankfort, Ky., in January, 1900. Gilbert sfiid he had been a member of the Hargis faction, notorious in Kentucky feuds, for two generations. Gilbert came to Helena three years ago. Recently he was made a deputy sheriff. Louisville, Ky., Feb. 15. Gilbert's name did not appear in the proceed ings of the Goebel trial. It is im possible to verify Gilbert's story. the' country, was dismissed today after a hearing. Hunt refused, to go to trial before a committee investigating; the police and refused to obey the chiefs order to appeal for a trial. Today he asked for a postponement of the hear ing and this being refused. Hunt walk' ed out while the testimony was being taken. Actor Is Fatally Shot. Cincinnati. Feb. 15. Max Abbott, an actor of New York, was shot and probably fatally wounded here last u expected to recover, nignt ty ueorge Mone, a memoer or a burlesque company with which both men are connected. Stone Is a brother of Fred Stone of Montgom ery & Stone. FOUR KILLED, 25 HURT IN A WRECK Philadelphia. Feb. 15. Four per sons were killed and 25 others in jured when nine cars of the Pennsyl vania limited express, eastbound from Chicago, was derailed at War rior's Ridge, Pa., this morning. The accident was caused by a truck of the second locomotive breaking. When this occurred the engines and first two cars broke away and ran down the track. The other nine cars Jumped the track. Bingham. Utah, Feb. 15. Five men w ere killed and three others hurt when a locomotive hauling three cars loaded with ore Jumped the track, rolled down a hill, and crashed through the roof of the Citizens' State back and the Bing ham dye works today. The three men killed were sleeping in the tailor shop. Engineer Annis and Felix Lombard were killed. Every bon In their bod ies was broken. Three stores were completely wrecked and the rear of the bank building demolished. 5 SLAYERS WILL HANG TOMORROW Illinois State Pardon Board Re fuses to Interfere in Chi cago Cases. FOUR WHITES AND BLACK LEWS ARE IN LETTERS Correspondence in Indianapolis Offices Name Places to Be Blown Up. Young Men to Pay for Murder Truck Farmer and Jennings for Killing Clerk. of DEATHS IN A DAY BEATTY ALMOST FROZEN WHILE UP IN AEROPLANE Hempstead. L. I., Feb. 15 George W. Beatty, who flew In an aeroplane from Nassau boulevard to Central park, Manhattan, made the return trip of 22 miles to the Nassau avia tion field yesterday In 20 minutes. At one time he was over 2,000 feet In the air and steering by compass alone, owing to the fog. His ther mometer at 3,000 feet registered six degrees above tero. When Beatty reached the ground he was so numb with cold that he had difficulty In standing. KIMMEL'S EYES NOW BLUE FORMERLY WERE BROWN St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 15. In the suit for George A. Kimmel's insur ance, now on trial in the United States circuit court, Bruce L. Cos ner, a railroad conductor of Enid, Okla., testified that the claimant, with whom the witness made a spe cial trip to Nil eg, Mich., was a man who was known In Arkansas City, Kan., in 1897 and 1898, aa "Turkey" White, who claimed 'to be a railroad man. Cosner, who had known Klm mel as a banker, declare! that the claimant was not Kimmel. Cosner identified White by his left band which has the thumb missing. L. W. Wood, who was a member of the same lodge with Kimmel and knew him intimately, testified as to his efforts to converse with the claim ant, who refused to talk to him. White was In court today in re sponse to demands made by the plaintiff's attorneys that the defense produce the claimant. The certificate filled out by a doc tor for the insurance company in 1898, three months before Kimmel disappeared, showed that Kimmel had brown eyes. The claimant now has blue eyes. London, Feb. 15. Admiral Sir Nowell Salmon died yesterday at the age of 77. He was possessor of the Victoria Cross, won for bravery Jn the field during the second relief of Lucknow in 1857. Melbourne, Australia, Feb. 15. The announcement is made from Levuka, Fiji Islands, of the death of Mataafa, ex-king of Samoa, who maintained re sistance against the treaty powers In 1898. Champaign, 111., Feb. 15. Dr. John A. Hoffman, one of the best known physicians in central Illinois, died here yesterday. Elgin, 111., Feb. 15. Dr. Henry K. Whitford, 83, one of the founders of the National Electric society and widely known in medical circles, is dead. Indianapolis, Ind.. Feb. 15. Official reports received by the government before noon today showed only six out of the 54 men indicted in the dyna mite conspiracy had not been arrested. Those not arrested or in custody. according to advices are: J. J. McCray, formerly of Wheeling, W. Va.; J. W. Irwin, Peoria, 111.; Frank K. Painter, Omaha, Neb.; Milton H. Davis. Philadelphia: Patrick Ryan, Chicago; William K. Benson, Detroit EVIDENCE IN CORRESPONDENCE. District Attorney Miller said the government was particularly anxious to apprehend Young, who is one ot rive executive board ' members indicted. Miller admits that a great majority of the indictments were based on evi dence taken by the government from the iron workers' international offices here. The evidence thus secured, he said, was correspondence from local unions in which reference to places that were to be blown up was made. FOUR RESIST REMOVAL. According to official reports only four men under arrest are resisting re moval to Indianapolis for arraignment. They are Brown and McCain of Kan sas City and Reddin and Seifert of Mil waukee. VOl'SG SURRENDERS. Boston, Mass., Feb. 15. Michael J. Young, business agent of the Boston I branch of the iron-workers, indictauJJfiLf the dynamite case, surrendered to United States Marshal Richie today. He was held in $10,000 bail. v IRWIN AND PAINTER GONE. Peoria, 111., Feb. 15. According to Edward Smythe, the Peoria labor leader arrested yesterday for com plicity in the dynamiting case, nei ther J. W. Irwin nor Frank Painter have been here for years. Irwin is confined to an asylum somewhere as a result of an accident, according to Smythe. Painter never was here as far as Smythe knows. DAVIS AWAY SINCE 1906. Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 15. Mil ton H. Davis, under indictment at Indianapolis in connection with the dinamite conspiracy cases, has not yet been apprehended. It is said he left Philadelphia in 1906 and quit the labor movement. Springfield, HI., Feb. 15. All four murderers of Fred Guelzow. a truck farmer, near Chicago, last fall, must hang tomorrow. They are Frank Shl bl'awskL Phillip Summerling, Ewald Shiblawski and Thomas Schultz. Thomas Jennings, a negro, who mur dered Clarence D. Heller, a railway clerk, in 1910, also Is to hang at the same time. ARGUMENTS ARB BEARD. The Jennings case was disposed of late yesterday, but the pardon board, after listening to arguments in the other case, postponed action. This morning Governor Deneen announced the board refused to interfere. STANDARD IN FRESH MOVE IN MISSOURI Waters-Pierce Co. Alleges Bad Faith On Court Ruling. WINNER IN ELECTION Aliegation Is That Effort Is Be ing Made to Perpetuate Trust in New Form. - BANKER MASON MAY BE PROSECUTED FOR CRIME Chicago, Feb. lS.-'-Threats of crlm inal action against' William A. Mason j have been made. Virtually every per son who called at his bank In Ravens wood to ascertain it possible whether there is any hope of realizing anything on their deposits, was of the opinion that the banker should suffer for his connection with their disaster. "I had only $40 in the place, but if no one else prosecutes him, I will," de clared one man, as he hurried out of the bank to find the state's attorney's office. Mrs. R. M. Lord, 2052 Cullom avenue.' another depositor, also indi cated her determination to appeal to the law for the punishment of Mason. Real estate holdings to the extent of several thousand dollars, the title ap parently in Mason, may enable the re ceiver to pay 50 per cent of the claims against the Wilson avenue bank. If Mr. Mason is In Chicago, and. his attorney and friends say ho is, he care fnllv refrains from faclnr those Der- sons who are openly accusing him of j wrongful actions. Efforts ot his credi tors and the, officials Investigating the shortage to communicate with him haveTTailed. word was uruugtil to the investigators yesterday, however, that Mason would appear today for a con ference with the receiver, at the eame time indicating a desire on the part of the missing financier to assist in every way possible in straightening out the tangle. , MORE CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES REGISTER Springfield. I1L, Feb. 15. Among the congressional . candidates who filed nomination papers since Feb. 9 are: ChicagoGeorge B. Pike, oJha F. Waters, democrats Maurice A. Kallis, William C. Moulton, republicans. Bloomington John A. Sterling, republican. Danville William L. Cundiff, demo crat. Amsterdam Tee cocks and ware houses of the Compagnie de I'Ocean burned. The loss on goods stored in the warehouses is estimated at more than f 430.000. YOUTHS IN A SUICIDE PACT; GIRL SUCCEEDS St. Paul. Minn, Feb. 15. As the re sult of a suicide pact, Hattie Kosping, 19 years old, is dead and "Walter Wyn acht, employed at a drug store, owes his life to the action of the other clerks in the store. The girl swallow ed cyanide of potassium, and a few hours later the young man was discov ered taking the poison when It was snatched away from him. He confess ed that he and the Kosping girl had agreed to a suicide pact. Wynacht was arrested. MOVING PICTURES OF LIFE AT WHITE HOUSE Washington, Feb. 15. Moving pict ure men made valentines at the White house yesterday which may go into the records of the government and be handed down to future generations. From the time President Taft signed the proclamation admitting Arizona to the union to the hour when he took a stroll through the White house grounds with Mrs. Taft, the moving picture men were busy. They clicked off a few thousand feet of films, which will be submitted to the president within a few days. Police Captain Hunt Dismissed. Chicago, Feb. 15. Police Captain Hunt formerly an inspector and one of the beet known polite officers in Zanesvllle, Ohio The Byesville State bank will reopen Saturday, it is an nounced, new officers having been elected. O. L. Howard, cashier, who disappeared when the bank -was closed. has not been located. AURORA MANUFACTURER DEVIL'S CAVE SUICIDE Aurora, 111., Feb. 15. George Hawksley, an Aurora manufacturer, who disappeared from his home three days ago, was found dead yes terday in a summer cottage on the banks of the Fox river. He had hanged himself. Hundreds of men had been searching the country night and day for Hawksley. It was feared he had been robbed, beaten and thrown into the river. The cot tage in which Hawksley was found is at the mouth of Devil's cave, a natural cave. Ill health is believed to have caused the suicide. Hawks ley was operated on two weeks ago in Chicago and was told he would be ill a long time. Peoria, 111., Feb. 15. Dr. R. Les Hi- Baker, former coroner of Peoria county, and one of the most promt nent surgeons of the city, shot and killed himself at his home, 823 Main street, yesterday. He had been ill and despondency is thought to have caused him to commit suicide. St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 15. Beaten, on the face of the returns of the an nual stockholders' election, by the Standard-Rockefeller interests fof control of the Waters-Pierce Oil company, Henry Clay Pierce and hla associates laid the groundwork today for a legal fight for control of the corporation. IGNORING DECREET Through one of the representatives of the Pierce Interests a statement was given out attacking the good faith of the Standard Oil interests in complying with a decree of dissolu tion of the United States supreme court and the supreme court of Mis souri, ousting the Standard from this state, and charging that the In dividuals charged by the government with a conspiracy in restraint of trade were trying to perpetuate the oil trust in a new form. REACHING INTO MEXICO. It is also alleged the Standard la planning to control the oil business of ftflexlco. The Standard interests have filed a mandamus suit to compel the tellers at the stockholders' annual meeting to accept certain votes of the Standard faction. STANDARD BALLOTS REJECTED. When the votes were counted the Pierce taction candidates were declar ed elected, directors and, II. Clay Pierce reelected chairman of the board. All the Standard's ballots were rejected. JUDGE MAULS IN COURT MAN CALLING HIM LIAR Midland, Texas, Feb. 15. Judge J. H. Knowles adjourned court for ten minutes Tuesday while he thrashed a man who had called him a liar. The Judge was presiding in the commissioner's court, when a dispute over a land deal arose. He remark ed that the case was unimportant and should be passed. Julius Driver, commissioner, shook his fist and exclaimed: "You're a liar. Judge." "Just a second, gentlemen," said the mild-mannered Judge. "This court is adjourned until I lick this man." Judge Knowles kept his word, af ter which he stepped blithely back to his desk and said: "Court is again in session, gentle men. Let us have order. I fine my self for fighting." The land deal was passed. FAMILY QUARREL CAUSE OF A DOUBLE TRAGEDY Chicago, Feb. 15. A family quarrel caused John Tandyk, a railroad watch man, to kill his wife and commit sui cide here today. , WIRE SPARKS Seattle The Canadian fisheries steamer Alcedo has seized eight Jap anese fishing vessels off Vancouver is land, where they were catching her ring during prohibited hours. Phoenix, Ariz. The Salt River Val ley Water Users' association will ask the government to extend for 10 or 20 years the time for payment of $9,000,- 000 due on the Roosevelt dam. Cleveland By the will of Calvary Morris, capitalist and coal magnate, four local hospitals will receive a per manent endowment of practically his entire estate, valued at more than 1, 000,000. Cambridge, Mass. Dr. Charles W. Eliot has regained his strength suffi ciently to resume his journey abroad. A cablegram received by his son from Ceylon reports that he is about to leave for Hongkone. London The British Miners' Feder ation has decided to appeal to miners on the continent to boycott all attempts to export coal to the United Kingdom in the event of a national strike being declared Feb. 29. ARMY SORE ENDS IN A DISMISSAL Washington, Feb. 15. Adjutant General Ainsworth of the army has been relieved from duty at the war department and soon will be ordered before a court martial. A serious friction long baa existed between the adjutant general's office and the general staff, and the crisis came when Secretary Stimson sided with the latter. It is alleged Ainsworth nas made remarks wnicn were con sidered as reflecting on Stimson as v. eu as various omcers ot the war department. ' MANUFACTURERS TO QUIT WITH NEW TARIFF Washington, Feb. 15. Two manu facturers today told the senate finance committee that in the event of free trade in the United States they would leave the country and established business abroad. They were Frank C. B. Page of Brooklyn. N. Y., manufac turer of machine tools, and Walter L. Stein, president of the Prtmar Chem ical company of Pennsylvania. 3oth were protesting against tariff changes proposed by the house steel tariff re vision bilL The house rules committee today au thorized a favorable report on the Pu jo resolution for a money trust investigation. MEMPHIS MOB RIDDLES BODY OF BLACK BRUTE Memphis. Tenn., Feb. 15. A mob to day lynched an unidentified negro ac cused of having attacked a 16-year-old white girl yesterday. The mob '-used the body as a target for pistol practice. HOME IS BURNED; WOMAN AND TWO CHILDREN DIE Grove City, Pa,, Feb. 15. Fire de stroyed the home of John Perdue, a negro, near here this morning and caused the death of his wife and two children. The fire Is supposed to have started from the kitchen fire. Canada Counts the Lots. Ottawa, Ont., Feb. 15. A commission of 13 members of the Canadian senate will determine exactly what the domin ion lost through the rejection of reci procity with the United States. The commission was appointed on motion of Senator Edwards, a liberal from On tario. At the suggestion of one of the western members it will also report on what Canada gained by defeating the proposed trade pact. 3,000 On Blacklist. Washington, Feb. 15. H. H. Eagle, a Pittsburgh newspaperman, submit ted to the Stanley "steel trust" in vestigating committee today what pur ported to be a copy of a "blacklist" of 3,000 steel workers which had been the property of the Carnegie Steel company. The committee has declar ed he will investigate the matter. Herrick Confirmed. Washington, Feb. 15. The nomina tlon of Myron T. Herrick as ambassa dor to France, was confirmed. Saved by a Howling Cat. Oskaloosa, Iowa, Feb. 15. The bowl ing of a pet cat saved the lives of A. M. Hisxonson, a business man, and his family of five, who came near death by asphyxiation yesterday from gas. Ex amination into the C2use of the cat's howling by an Inmate of the house dis closed three unconscious persons In their beds and another almost overcome. VASQUEZ GOMEZ REBEL PRESIDENT El Paso, Feb. 15. A proclamation signed by Vasquistas commanders in Chihuahua, declaring Vasquez Gomez- president of Mexico, giving reasons for opposing MaUt.ro. and assuring. Americans of a friendly attitude, has been issued at Palomas, Chihuahua. That place temporarily has been made the seat of the Vasqulsta gov ernment. El Paso, Feb. 15. American sol diers went into Juarez today by mis take and caused much excitement for a time. The soldiers were new men here and the company attempted to go from one international bridge to another on the Mexican side. They were arrested by Mexican guards and the whole town quickly was in arms. Business was suspended for a time but when explanations were made, the men were released and the town la quiet.