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KHU 1-55, ' "' AKRON DAILY DEMOCRAT. VOLUME 10-NUMBER 205 AKRON, OHIO, MONDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 1G 1001. PRICE ONE CENT. r STREWN WITH DIRE DISTRESS. The Track of the Great Storm Is Long and Wide. Many Families Driven Into the Cold by High Water Cincinnati Is In Danger. Ithaca, N. Y., Dec. 16. The extreme cold has frozen the surface waters and the flood here has abated. Two hundred men are working at the dam aged dams and bridges. The total loss Is $800,000. Destitute families me be ing fed by order of the Mayor. Pa tients In the hospitals are without food or beat, the collars being flooded. Many business firms are ruined. Cincinnati In Danger. Cincinnati, O., Dec. 16. The streams in West Virginia which are tributary to the Ohio river, me rising rapidly and are pouring their floods into the latter to such an extent that it is feared that Cincinnati will be visited by high water. It is not yet known In the local weather office, whether or not the river will go above the danger line, but it Is expected that It will come very close to It. Frozen, to death within two squares of his home was tho fate of Dr. W. P. Orr, of Highlands, near Fort Thomas, Saturday night. His body, frozen un til It was hard as adamant, wns not discovered until 11:30 o'clock Sunday morning. It Is claimed that he at tempted to board a car to go home Saturday night, but tho couductor re fused to carry him because he was Intoxicated. Young Man Frozen.' Hartford City, Ind., Dec. 10. All business is practically suspended hero on account of cold. The gas compan ies are short and there Is much suffer ing among all classes because of the gas supply. Not a church In tho city idtPiik-Ki&tjikPiikKikPiikKikK&PiikPi MT " It Wa.s a Record. I $ i Breaking ......tt-1.1. The Mercury Dropped to Five Degrees Below Zero Sunday Night. (By H. V. EGBERT.) The fifteen years' record for low tem perature In December was Sunday night broken by tho drop of the mer cury to five degrees below zero, as shown by the Buchtel College ther mometer. During the past 15 years the mer cury has touched zero, or been below In only four years on the following dates: k1802 26th... ... 0 degrees 1808 11th. ........ 0 degrees 1809 30th 0 degrees 1804 20th ....... 4 deg. below The only occasion when the mercury has gone below was much later in the month than the present low record. The low temperature is tho more noticeable on account of tho height from which It fell. On Thursday two storm centers ap pearedone In the far north-west, moving southeast; another In ' the southwest, movl.ng northeast. Both contors operated to draw the warm, moist nir from tho gulf region to tho north, and thus we experienced on Fri day tho high temperature of 01 de grees. By Friday these centers had united Women Inspectors Must Be (Special Correspondence.) Columbus, O., Dec. lO.-rAttonioy General Sheets has written to the Cincinnati firms which refused admit tance to the women Inspectors appoint ed by State Labor Commissioner Ratchfoid to Investigate the subject of female labor, calling their attention to the fact that they have violated a Stato law, and pointing out that If they continue to refuse to admit tho inspectors to their works thoy will bo COXEY'S BONDS. They Will Not be In Non-Interest Bearing Class. Columbus, O., Dec. 10. A Mt. Ver non special says that "General" Coxey lias returned from a trip to Sandusky, Fremont and Toledo, where he com pleted arrangements for placing $500, )00 bonds. It is stated Coxoy Is short f working capital and tho bonds ho Hold oxo secured by mortgages on his held services last night Several fac tories are closed. One death Is report ed. Herbert Davidson, 22 years old, was found frozen in a cornfield. Cold at the Capital. Columbus, O., Dec. 16. The ther mometer at the United States weather bureau this morning registered six degrees below eero. Damage by Water. Pittsburg, Dec. 16. As a result of the rapid rise in the rivers, many of the mills, particularly those In the Pennsylvania ave. district, have been closed until the water subsides. More than 0,000 men are Idle today from this cause. The cellars and basements of stores and dwellings are partly filled with water and much damage has re suited. It Is thought the worst of the flood Is over. At Syracuse. Syracuse, N. Y., Dec. 16. The flood which visited tho southern section of the city is subsiding. The heavy rain of Saturday night and tho overflow ing of banks of Onondage creek drove 000 families from their homes. Relief. Chicago, Dee. 10. The backbone of tho cold fcpcll for December, has been broken. Though a low temperature record was smashed early Sunday morning when the mercury registered 12 degrees below zero, It was 1 above at 7 o'clock this morning. 'ikH&KI&PitkViikPiiikPiikKikVriZKii, I i i Cold Snap Prof. H. V. Egbert. WW5iWW3. and combined their energies to form a long storm center, extending north and south through tho Mississippi Val ley. In the first place the large amount of moisture brought up from tho south gave a large precipitation In rain and snow, and tho violent dis turbance In the atmosphere produced by tho union of tho two centers caused an unusual down-rush of cold air from the higher altitudes and gave us the recotd-breaking cold snap. More moderate weather Is predict ed for Monday night and Tuesday. The prediction of snow gives promise of sleighing, and nothing would add more to tho joyousness and activity with which the holiday season, Is being ushered in. Plumbers were kept busy Monday. At all the plumbing shops there were hurry-up calls on account of frozen water pipes, etc., but uot so many as would naturally be supposod. The coal dealers did a good business Saturday and Monday, but most people who depend on coal were supplied. Some who depend on gas wore fright ened by the short supply Sunday, and on Monday laid In an emergency sup ply of coal. ' Admitted To Factories. prosecuted. State Labor Commission or Ratchford denies that tho number of convicts employed In penal Insti tutions of the, Stato exceeds more than ten per cent of tho free labor employed in similar Industries, which was stated to be the case In tho report of tho Prison Commission which was filed with the Governor several days ago. Tho Commission charged the Labor Commissioner and Attorney General with not enforcing the law regulating Oils matter. Mt Vernon steel plant and on beds of valuable sand near Masslllon. Coxey claims h0 can do a business of $15,000 per weeu. Three Men Killed. Detroit, Dec. 10. A Lake Shore train from Toledo, early this morning, ran down three men near Detroit, Charles Deeroslcr, was Instantly killed, Fred Wclsner died from his Injuries and Ernest Heraselman will die. All wcro laborers going to work. TELEGRAPHED The Greatest Achievement Yet Recorded In the Art of Wireless Telegraphy Has Just Been Announced by Inventor Marconi. St Jotins, N. F., Dec. 10. Slgnor Marconi lias announced the most won derful scientific discovery of modern times in stating that ho had received clctric signals across the Atlantic ocean fro his station at Cornwall, England. He explains that before leaving England he made plans for accomplishing this result, for while his primary object was to communicate with ocean liners in mid-ocean ho hoped also to succeed In attaining tho wonderful scientific achievement of wireless telegraphy across tho Atlan tic. Signor Marconi's station In Cornwall Is most powerful. Ho possessed an electric force generated there a hun dred times greater than at his ordi nary stations. Before he left England ho arranged that tho electrician in charge of tho station, which Is located at Poldhu, should begin sending sig nals dally after a certain date, which u I Would Rather Bring Capital and Labor Together Than be President!" Tne Greatest Conference Ever New York, Dec. 16. A highly Im portant conference between labor and capital began this morning In this city. It was the opening session of tho In dustrial department of tho National Civic Federation, and Oscar S. Strauss presided. The sessions will last two days and the object Is to devise means to bring labor and capital into closer relations, with a view of preventing strikes, Senator JIanna, ChasM. Schwab, pros. ldent of the steel trust, Samuel Gom- pers, John Mitchell, Archbishop Ire. land and Bishop Potter will speak be fore the conference. Senator Hanna, who arrived last night, said this morning: "I am more than Interested In this President's Youngest Son M&kes Life Interesting t He Slides Down Banis ters Like Any Other Boy. Washington, Dec. 16. Quentln Roosevelt the youngest son of tho President Is tho life and Joy of tho White House. When tho older-children go to school. Master Quentln's rulo begins, and he munages to keep things lively about tho old mansion until reinforcements arrive luter In the afternoon In the persons of Ethel and Kcrmlt. Quentln Is a sturdy youngster, and dresses after a comfortable fashion In blouse and knickerbockers. An am ple apron ofttlmes completes tho cos tume, and Quentln, if anything at tracts his attention In the front of tho house, does not take time to rn niovo the protective fabric beforo mak ing his public appearance. Jack, tho black and tan terrlor, who has grown old in the service of tho Roosevelt children, is now Quentln's special charge, or, as Jack thinks, Quentln is his special charge, and they get along famously together. Jack and Quentln take frequent trips to the basement la the electric elevators, since Jack declines to slldo down the banisters, and if no one is observ ing closely they aro quite likely to give Kermlt's game chickens an in teresting quarter of au hour. ' Tho garret is tho favorite playground for Quentln and Jack on bad days, but fair weather will find them playing in tho White IIouso grounds. Quen tln is anxious to grow up so that ho may own a pony, like Kemnlr, or a bicycle, llko Ethel, and tolls of what great feats ho will perform when ho gets them. NEW ORGAN At the College Will Be Opened Tuesday Morning. Tho plpo organ rcceutly received by Buchtel college will bo opened Tues day morning at 0 o'clock chapel ex erclses. Prof, Clemens, of tho Tues day Musical club will glvo a recital and Prof. Hiird tho new vocal instruc tor ' e college musical department will sing. The public Is invited;. ACROSS THE ATLANTIC WITHOUT WIRES. Slgnor Marconi would cable hlra af ter having perfected bis arrangements here. Slgnor Marconi arrived hero a week ago, Friday, selected Signal Hill, at tho entrance to tho harbor, as an ex perimenting station, and moved his equipment there. Last Monday ho cabled to the Poldhu station to be gin sending signals at 3 p. m. dally and to continue until 0 p. m these hours being respectively 11:30 a. ra. and 2:30 p. ra., St Johns time. During these hours Wednesday Slgnor Marconi ele vated a kite with an aerial wiro, by means of which signals aro sent or received. He remained at the recorder attach ed to the recolvlng apparatus, and, to his profound satisfaction, signals were received by him at Intervals according to tho program arranged prevously with the operator at Poldhu. These signals consisted of repeating at inter, vals the letter "S" which In Marconi's Between Labor and Capital the World Has Known, Opens In Boston. matter as tho, problem Involved in the relation between capital and labor Is one of tho most important now wait ing solution. This is tho first time nnV serious effort on broad linos has been made to bring capital and labor to on understanding calculated to prevent strikes "I would rather have the credit of making successful the movement to bring labor end capital Into closer re lations of confidence and reliance than be .President of the United, States. If by resigning my sent in tho United States Senate I could bring to fruition the plana .that wo are -fostering to make strikes lockouts and great labor disputes impossible, I would gladly do so. ,1 would want no greater mon ument than to have tho world remem Quentin Roosevelt, fhe The above picture Is from tho be has lived la the Wlilto House. WORKED ALL NIGHT. N. O. T. Co.'s Employes Busy With Snow Plow. A number of employes of tho N. O. T. Co. worked all night, between Sat urdoy and Sunday, cleaning tho trarks of snow, As tho result of their work very few delay were reported Sun- toft . t MARCONI. codo Is made by three dots or quick strokes. This signal was repeated so frequently and so In accordance with the detailed plan arranged to provldo safeguards against possibility of mis take that Marconi was satlsftwl that It was a genuine transmission from England. Again, on Thursday, during the same hours, the kite was elevated and tho same signals were renewed. This mode tho assurance so complete that Slgnor Marconi cabled to his principals In England, and also Informed the Governor of Newfoundland, Sir Caven dish Boyle, who apprised the British Cabinet of the success of the experi ments. SENATOR HANNA. ber that I did something to end wars between American labor and American capital." Ralph M. Easloy, after a long talk with Senator Hanna, said the plan which was most favored was that of signing agreements from time to time between employes and employers with no cessation of work while disputed points are under consideration. James Ryan, vice president of the New York Federation of Labor said: "Senator Hanna's remarks will go iiutncr tnan anything I have heard In CO years to cement brotherly feeling between employer and employes." President Schwab said he was op posed to labor organizations as now formed but uot opposed to labor unions that kept their contracts. x the White House ', . vTVk -Af President's Youngest Son. fl -rst photograph of tho boy taken since BOUND OVER. Lavery and Gilhooly Will Answer to Grand Jury. Jomes Lavery and Thomas Gilhooly, accused by Mary 19. Jordon and Irene Thomas, of crlraluul assault, havo both been bound ovor to Common Pleas court. Laverv under charce. of as- sault and Gilhooly under charge of attempted amult ROMANTIC, Yet It May Mean People. How Glara Dandridge's Marriage to an Hawaiin Benefits Her Mother. In 1601, Margaret Poena Magnet a Hawaiian, left her native country and came to America, finding a home at West Middleton, Pa. In 18G0, she was married to Smith Daudridge, a negro, of Akron, and Uved here for a number of years. Her husband be camo one of tho best known and most highly respected citizens in Akron. Later, they removed to Barberton. They had four children, but two died, leaving two girls, one of whom Is the wife of J. O. Evans, a barber, of 136 Silver st The other, Clara Dandridge. was married June 22, 1000, to John Kulla Makumoi, a native Hawaiian, who had traveled with Buffalo Bill's show as a rough rider. She Is now living with her husband, near Hono lulu. Thus, briefly may be summed up the local history of Mr. and Mrs. Dan dridge, who finally left Barberton, in 1808, and went to tho City of Mexico, where Mr. Dandrldge followed his trade that of fireman. In 1809, Mrs. Dandrdge came to Ak ron to vlst her daughter, Mrs. Evans, and later went to Chicago to visit her daughter, Clara. While In Chicago, she, with her daughter, visited Buffalo Bill's show, and saw the Hawaiian riders. Mrs. Daudridge, being an Ha waiian, was glad of an opportunity to talk with people from her native home. After the show, Mrs. Dandridge and SAVED HIS LIFE But Lost the Beer, and Now May Die of Wounds. Altoona, Pa., Dec. 10. Saturday night, when Justice Balte'so got off a Pennsylvania railroad train with a keg of beer which he was to take to the camp of his fellow-quarrymen on the other side of the Juniata, fie found that the foot bridge had been washed H:oM---MH,:-xx Committee to Drevft &. Measure For A New Government For Akron. Mayor Doyle on Monday anuounced his appointment of the following committee, to draft a law to provide a new form of govern ment for Akron: X. D. TIBBALS. C. R. GRANT. l" .. E. W. STUART. FRANK FIEBEGER. , W. E. YOUNG. ', J. M. LAFFER. ', SAMUEL P. ORTH. DAYTON A. DOYLE. W. O. PARSONS. L. O. MILES. Members of tho committee are requested by Mayor Doyle to meet at the City building, Wednesday eve ning, Dec. 18, at 7:30, to organize, and take preliminary, steps in the work. BREATHING Though Four Times Condemned to Die. Massachusetts Aurdercr Again Escapes Death. Boston, Dec. lG.-Luigl Stortl, the Italian murderer, who was to have been electrocuted at Massachusetts State prison after midnight this morn ing, as the first victim of tho electric chair in this State, is still alive. At the last moment Warden Bridges de cided to postpone the execution. He gave no reason but it is believed he feared that Stortl, who is suffering from consumption, would collapse. Stortl has been condemned to die four times. This time a respite was re fused. UJi i TO FIGHT MORGAN'S TRUST. A New Steel Combine Has Bee Organized. London, Dec. 10. An Anglo-Spanish steol combine to light J, P. Morgan's steol trust was formed today. Tho new syndicate Is capitalized at $12, 500,000 and Includes S. If. Graves, of Chicago, O. F. North, Yukon Railway & Navigation Co., Sara Roberts, Lord Mayor of Sheffield. England, and soV' ' eral big steel firms In England and Spain. Land to Akron her daughter, called on tho Hawallana at their tent and had a pleasant visit. Clara, who Is a graduate of the Ak ron High school, was well pleased with tho charming conversation of one of the Hawaiian John Kulla Maku mal, and their acquaintance waa kept up afterward by correspondence Af ter he had left the show, and returned to his borne in Hawaii, he sent Clara Dandrldge money to tako her to him It. Hawaii, where they were to be mar ried. When the marriage license was bo Ing obtained. Miss Dandridge waa ask ed the maiden name of her mother. "Margaret Poena Magnet," sho to piled. jl "And where did she reside? "In Hawaii." "This name," said the lawyer, "re minds me of an heir to some proporty, left by a man named Magnet, to an heir who cannot be found." Investigation showed that Mrs. Den drldge's father had left her 190 acre? of land in Hawaii but that she could not be found. Inasmuch as her title to it was still good, her daughter ah once wrote to Mrs. Dandridge In Mexi co to go to Hawaii Immediately and claim tho property. Mr. and Mrs. Dandridge have left fa Hawaii, but Mr. and Mrs. Evans, oi Akron, have not yet heard of their ar rival. away by the flood. Undaunted, he pushed the keg ahead of him, and plunged into the flood. The filled keg proved to be a bur den, and Baltesso found that he was unequal to the ttruggle. With his teeth he dislodged the bung In the side of the keg and held it up so that the beer might escape. With the empty keg as a buoy he made the farther bank. His countrymen, In censed that the keg was empty, fell upon him and beat him into insensibil ity. He is reported to be in a critical condition. WASHED Her Husband's Feet to Earn a Dollar. Springfield, O., Dec. 16. Rev. O. M. Brodie, pastor of the Blessed Hope Baptist church, entertained his congre gation with nn "experience social," and the women told how they earned a dollar toward the financial support of the church. Tho special prize for originality was won by a Mrs. Linn wood. Sho said she had washed her husband's feet nightly for a week to earn her dollar. WHAT'S WRONG? Friends Uneasy About Joseph Kempel Jr. His parents and other members of tho family, of Akron, are very uneasy about Joseph Kempel, Jr. Ho arrived five wooks ago in San Francisco, from tho Philippines, after serving a term of enlistment In the American army. He was expected home promptly, but has not arrived, nor havo his parents received any word from him. HI father, Officer Joseph Kempel, has written several times to San Francis co, having heard that his son was sick. No replies having been receiv ed, the father has requested Mayor Doylo to write to Secretary of War Root, with a view to having tho matter Investigated. The Weather: CLOUDY AND WARMER TO NIGHT AND TUESDAY; PROBA? BJMT SNOW! TONIGHT. ' - , ov I J tfl -!?"-f"foS iji' "(-. tf " -. J- y'l.Ji'-, K ,v . vs&aSiik Hrt-Lo'i Irl m ..- .!. JAJVwy. ,V 1 . ... tv. f?iv ., "W,