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The age-herald., 1901-12-24

vantage over Senator Tillman, for the former has two eyes.
  President Roosevelt seems to be swapping his strenuousness for State bosses, Boss Payne of Wisconsin has already been bagged.
 -------s---~---- The Pilgrims walked ashore 281 years ago last Saturday, and things have been busy ever since in this country.
 Labor and capital are still devising a method of settling differences. They have been doing this fifty years at least.
 Standard oil has again been applied to the Chicago University. and it Is moving along serenely.
 ------s--- The only drawback to Christmas this year is the high price of eggs. for this reduces the egg-nog crop.
 .------.s.------------- Just at present the wireless tele- graph is taking few days off as a Christmas vacation.
 
 The cable companies will ascertain after while that they do not own the upper air currents, The Filipinos are asked to grasp the idea of peace before they do that of self-government. The political c ptionists see in Henry c. Payne a complete recovery of lost ground,
  The vultures of public life begin to scent large profits in the Nicaragua canal.
 Marconi now needs a harmless in junction in his wireless telegraph busi- ness.
  There is no quarrel over Santa Claus. All bow to him as the hero of the day.
 
 King Lawson's copper ventures are not doing much better than his yacht Tn philanthropy Andrew Carnegie is without a serious rival. This is to be General Prosperity's Christmas.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-08-06
Z EXCUSES.

Was it Doolan2 No, it was Donlan,
no it was something like that and he
kept harness shop in the vicinity of
where John Motifs store is now on King
Street. The name does not matter, but
his memory is recalled by reading the
admirable excuses made by some OF the
jurors yesterday. The Irish gentleman
to whom reference has been made had
an invincible objection to serving on a
jury. He certainly won out against
Judge Hartwell then judge OF the SUI
preme Bench, who tried Circuit Court
matters.
Looking over the list of yesterday one
finds that Henry Macfarlane retired as
Danish Consul. He looks after Edmund
Norrie, who claims to be the solitary
Dane in the Territory, and even he will
soon become an American Citizen. l..
G. Abels claims to have done too much
jury service. Geo. p. Castle wanted to
go to Maui. P. L. Jones and b. F. Dill
ingham had week granted to them be.
cause they wanted to attend to business
or pleasure, or philanthropy or h d
started on the new walking lad. But
none of these came up to Donlan or Don
nelly or whatever his name was.
The Irish gentleman in question was
summoned for jury duty. The case, it
was civil suit, involved some five or
six thousand dollars. The Irish sad
dler had considerable amount of prop
er Y, but he got up with the gravest of
faces and said;
Judge, am not qualified to sit upon
the jury. am a poor man. | keep no
books Iget the price OF saddle and l
put it in me pocket. l sell a harness
and pay me little debts. II it was a
matter of tens or hundreds, l might
know, but thousands, judge, thousands
could not calculate" And the Irish
gentleman was duly allowed to depart
in his simplicity, but he wirHed as he
went down the hall, and the crowd
grinned. He knew more of thousands
than many in the court
Now this was a long time ago. Tho
method of getting off jury duty was
decidedly witty and ingenious. The
question now is whether the excuses
by modern juries are any better than
those of The Stars old friend. Jurors
always want excuses, and seeing the
way they are treated, they cannot be
blamed for making them.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-08-06

cases. Possibly those parties would
have been exonerated by a coroner's
jury, on the other hand they might
have been convicted and met the full
penalty of their crimes. But the coron-
er's jury was only in small use in those
times, and persons now living are re-
garded as possible criminals because
there was no investigation. Maui Off
cials had better take brace and hold
an inquest or two. Why wasn't the
death of Mary Jane Pomper ever prop
erly investigated?
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-08-06

Warden Henry seems to have used
his time well when he was away and
has studied some of phases of prison
life and prison discipline on the main
land. 1t is a ~ity that the time for an
entire remodeling of the Oahu Prison
has not yet arrived. Every warden
who has had charge of late has felt
the need of reform, and has done the
best he could under the circumstances,
but the prison needs rebuilding on an
entirely different plan and upon an en-
tirely different site. The improvement
will come in time. We will not always
have such a legislature as the late one.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-08-06

The idea that the forest of Hama
kua should be replanted is a GOOD one
The question is who is going to pay
for the labor of replanting. Jared
Smith has spent a considerable amount
of his appropriation in cutting down
the replanted forest of Oahu, so there
cannot be much coming from him.
The local people have rather scant
funds for the necessary routine. Prob
ably private money may assist in the
effort to reforest. If the reforesting
proves a success it is to be hoped that
no federal experimental station will
come within half a dozen Islands of it.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-08-06

Summer homes" in Waimea, Ha-
wall sounds very well but among the
hills of Oahu there are many sites for
summer homes. If the electric rail-
road is run round the upper part of
Pauoa Valley and up to Tantalus, there
will be summer home sites enough for
all those who can afford them. Wal
mea, Hawaii, has a fine bracing clim-
ate, but there would have to be great
deal of money invested before the place
could furnish ideal summer homes
The water problem in Waimea is an
other objection to the Summer home"
proposition on that spot. In summer
home o.e wants conveniences.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-08-06

Mornings, buoys and wharves ought
to be the property Of the Territory.
Private wharves have been very much
misused at times, and the general pub
lie have been fairly cinched over the
wharf charges. The subject has often
been argued both pro and con, the main
point, however, cannot be blinked. All
such works should be owned by the
Territory.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-08-06

Japan is evidently going to make a
new departure in the matter of allow
ing its surplus population to seek for
work elsewhere than in the overcrowd
ed labor markets of the empire of tho
chrysanthemum. The embargo upon
Japanese citizens leaving the Islands
is soon to be lifted and there will be q
stampede for our Territory certainly
Hawaii is a paradise for Japanese. A
large influx of these people, now, would
have little effect upon us, but before
we became an integral part of the Unit
ed States it would have been a serious
menace, Few people ever appreciated
the danger that we We're under from
Japan.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-08-06

The erection of a tea house at the
terminus of the Pacific Heights electric
road is a great addition to the convent
ence of that enterprise, Mr.. Desky
seems always to hit upon what is need
ed and to supply the want. There is
nothing in the world which is more sat-
isfactory to people who take little trip
as to find conveniences for slight re-
freshment In this way Pacific Heights
has been much improved
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-04

about 80 years of age and for many
years has been in the employ of the
Commercial Cable Co, being in charge
of me of the departments in New
York.
The Rev. Mr.. Keller is about 3S years
old and a native OF Philadelphia. He
was graduated from the General The
illogical seminary in New York in
1886, and the same year was made a
deacon. In 1883 Mr.. Keller was made
chaplain to Bishop Starkey and in 1895
was made chaplain of the First regi,
ment, but at the solicitation of the
the bishop did not go with the regi-
ment when it was called out during
the Spanish Two years ago last
May he was made secretary of the do
cese and still holds that position.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-04
CRAZY SNAKE ARRESTED.
The Big Chief of Sixteen Minor Lead
ers of the iscontented
Creeks
Landed in Jail by United States Cav
a~iryHnen and Deputy MarshaIs.
Lotap MekkO Will Be Next Ar
rested.

MUSKOGEE, l. T., February g.
Chitto Harjo, or Crazy Snake" the
leader of the warning Greek Indians,
and seventeen of the minor leaders of
that tribe, have been landed in the
federal Jail here, where they will be
held pending trial for treason. The
Indians were brought here from Hen
rietta under escort of troop A, Eight
cavalry and United States Marshal
Bennett and his posse. 1t is stated
that certain attorneys, who, it is as
serted here. misled the Indians, may
be prosecuted.
Marshal Bennett states that while
most of the Indians are in hiding some
are still trying to hold meetings. A
posse will be sent tomorrow to arrest
Chief Lotap Mekko. the local chief Of
the Creeks. When placed in prison
here Harjo and his followers were
searched, fumigated, their shackles
removed and all were placed in one
large cell. A newspaper correspond
ent, with the assistance OF an inter
prefer, had an interview with Crazy
Snake, who said that he saw no rea-
son for arrest and felt confident when
the Indians were given a trial before
the great white fathers courts that
they would be released. He said they
were acting in good faith and had pa,
pers from Washington that gave them
the right to establish their old gov
eminent.
AS to all the talk about killing whites
he said it was never their intention
and they expected only to treat and
act with their own people and in 50
doing expected to get all whites out.
He also said that the great spirit
would see that they got justice. even
through their white father in Wash
ington and the oil syndicates were
trying to rob them Of their once happy
hunting ground"
The Indians under arrest here are:
3 Chitto Hario. alias Crazy Snake;
Fred Smith, Ben Deere. Noah Deere.
John Creek. Louis Mitchell, Sam Boga.
Jackson Tiger, Louis Yaarde, Sam
Emarthika, Narke Shields. John Tim
othy, Robert Fisk, Abraham McKin-
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-04
NEW JERSEY SENSATION.
Rev. Father Keller, Secretary to Rt.
Rev. Bishop Starkey,
Shot and Seriously Wounde Ycstcr-
day Morning by Thomas g. Barker.
Mrs. Barker Mixed Up in the Case.

NEW YORK, February 3.-The Rev.
John Keller. secretary to Right Rev.
Bishop Starkey, pastor of Trinity
Episcopal mission in Arlington, \. j.,
and chaplain Of the First New Jersey
regiment, was shot and seriously
wounded by Thomas G. Barker, in Ar
lington, this morning. Mr.. Keller had
just left the house of John S. Sands,
where he had mis- meals when Barker,
who was in front Of the door, opened
fire. One bullet went through the ia
cial bone from the right side and de-
stroyed the sight of the right eye.
Another bullet shattered the fingers of
the right hand and another passed
through the clergyman's nat. The
fourth went wide of ia mark.
The shooting, it is said, was the re-
suit of a disclosure made by Barker's
wife, although Mr.. Keller denies the
accusation made against him. Bar
ker. after the shooting, surrendered to
the police and was locked up. He will
have a hearing tomorrow. Mr.. KEEL
Ter was carried into the Sands home
where the doctors said he had an even
chance for life. Mr.. Keller said after
the shooting that he did not know who
shot him. He refused to sign a com
plant.
According to a story told by Barker
to several friends, after the shoot
ing, his wife last night told him that
the illness from which she has suffer
ed for nearly a year and which caused
the Barkers to break up their home
and go to boarding, was due to an as
sault committed on her at her home
by the Rev. Mr.. Keller.
The assault, it is alleged. was COM
mitted after a hard struggle during
which Mrs. Barker became uncon-
scious. The Bankers and the minister
were very friendly and had continued
apparently friendly. Mrs. Barker was
a member of the mission but her hus-
band was not When Barker heard his
wife's story he waited until morning
and then lay in wait for the minister
and shot him. Barker has lived IN
Arlington about ten years. He Is
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-04
IT IS A QUESTION
Whether or Not the Miners and
Operators viii Agree.
Elwood.

COLUMBUS, O., February "a cam
vass among the miners delegates to the
joint conference reveals a disposition on
their part to insist strongly upon the sin
gle run-of-mine standard and a fixed diff
ferential Of seven cents between machine
and pick mining. These are the two lead
ing propositions in the miners scale for
mulated at the indianapolis convention.
President Mitchell says the miners and
operators are no further apart than they
We're at the beginning of the joint con-
ference a year ago. He Is hopeful OF an
agreement. Some Of the operators, on tho
other hand, regard an agreement as n
very remote probability. There is no
prospect of a meeting Of the joint con-
ference for several days, as the scale
committee viii not reconvene until 2 p.
m. tomorrow and no material progress
has yet been made in it's work,
President Hunter, of the Illinois min
ers, stated tonight the joint convention
OF Illinois operators and miners would be
held at Springfield on February 18th. as
originally proposed, the matter Of chang
ing the place of meeting having been
abandoned.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-04
PRESERvATIVE ACID
- EnB S-7lI0u EIEeI3 40 .4sIIb4b
Used to doctor" Pork the Cause of
Death and Illness in
PittsburS.

Mrs. Ann Fox is Dead and Five
others Are Seriously Ill as e Re-
suit of Eating Spare Ribs for Sum
per.
PITTSBURG, Pa, February 9.-As a
result of eating pork, supposed to have
been "doctored" with some sort of pre-
sentative, a whole family was poisoned
last evening. One member is dead and
five others are seriously i'll.
The dead:
Mrs. Ann Fox, widow of a former
well known coal operator.
Seriously i'll:
Mrs. Ellen Cuddy, a widowed daugh-
ter of Mrs. Fox.
Ella Mccartney, a granddaughter OF
Mrs. Fox.
Thomas Cuddy, a grandson.
James T. Fox, a son.
And Harry NJ. Fox, a son of James
Fox.
The family, who live at No. 2 Lam
ark street, West End, all ate of spare
ribs for supper last night, and within
a short time afterward all were with
ing in agony. Fortunately a Iteighbor
noticed Mrs. Fox in the yard vomiting.
Upon investigation she found members
of the family scattered all through the
house, each suffering and helpless. She
summoned the family physician, Or.
Ryall, and his prompt attention saved
all except Mrs. Fox. who died during
the night. The others, though still in
a critical condition, may recover
The physician says there is no doubt
that boracic or salicylic acid in the
p~reservative was the cause Of the
trouble.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-04

PiTTSBURG, Pa, February 3.-Prof,
Willis Brown, of Chicago, chairman
Of the Federation of Young Peoples
Societies of America. who came here
recently to conduct an a~nti-cigarette
crusade, has taken up the cudgel
against prize fighting. He has made
informations and warrants viii be
served tomorrow on all the principals.
their assistants who took part in the
Kennedy-kenney fight at Millvale last
night. The informations are made IN
der the act Of 1857. which makes the
spectators equally liable with the prin-
cipals and Prof. Brown accordingly has
included a long list of spectators in his
informations. No names will be given
out until the warrants are served but
it is said quite a number of prominent
people are included in the roundup.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-04

MANILA, February 3.-Fewer than
four hundred persons attended the
meeting called to-day by Senior Buen-
eanlino sat the Rial theatre in the
Tondo ward of Manila to inaugurate
the Evangelical movement" Con-
siderable interest was manifested in
the proceedings, and there We're some
expressions of approval of the address.
No attempt, however, was made to
commit the meeting to professionalism
that aspect of the ase being left for
subsequent action, at his discretion, to
Rev. James B. Rodgers, a missionary
of the Presbyterian board, who was
present.
Senior Buencamino explained that re-
ligious effort was wholly outside Of the
Federal party; which had been organ
lied solely to promote political peace.
The first mild applause occurred
when he compared priests to white
ants which eat the substance and leave
nothing of value"
Senior B~uencamino argued in favor
of supplanting the present priests with
Filipinos having the privilege of mar
rying. Gradually he led up to protes-
tant ideas and asked whether they
were any longer to submit to the au-
thority~ Of a pope or an archbishop.
Some shouted mo-" but others remain
ed silent.
The Rev. Mr.. Rogers preached a
short sermon, but refrained from any
criticism of Roman Catholics.
The Rev. MI. Prautch, Of the Metho-
dist mission, offered the four gospels
in Tagalog and anti-Friar tracts, which
were sold at the door by Nicholas
Zamora, a native Methodist revivalist,
who conducts exhortation meetings
every Sunday.
Prior to the meeting in the Rial
theatre was a political gathering at
tended by practically the same people,
at which the advantages of American
sovereignty were explained from the
Federal party point Of view.
A Methodist minister baptized a hum
bred Filipinos this afternoon at Mali
bay, about four miles from Manila. The
Rev. Mr.. Prautch has secured a score
of signatures in a n~eighboring village
to a declaration in favor Of handing
the church over to protestant worship
and declaring Roman Catholics.
President Taft, of the Philippine
commission, this evening entertained
at his residence the members of The
directorate o fthe Federal party. The
reception was attended by many Fill
Pine ladies, and a number Of high
military and civil officials. There was
a charming gathering on the lawn.
Three hundred insurgents, members
of Delgardo's former command, have
surrendered at Santa Barbara, island
of Panay.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-04
The Governors Statement.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, February Gov
ernor Nash to-day made the first
public statement of his position with
regard to the proposed Jeffries-Ruhlin
fight at Cincinnati. and the grounds
upon which his determination to pre-
vent the fight taking place in Ohio is
based.
The statement is contained in a
letter prepared and mailed this after
noon, in reply to a petition from the
John C. Roth Packing Co., and one
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-04
~ Knights Of St. Joseph.

PITTsBURG. Pa. February 3.-The
third annual convention of the Order of
Knights Of St. Joseph. a Hebrew benevo-
lent society, with lodges in all parts Of
the United States, began its sessions here
to-day. Delegates are present from nearly
all the lodges. Supreme Commander Is
rael B. Heller, of St. Louis, read his an
nual address. in which he
that the regular assessments be reduced
from - cents to Sc cents per member and
that the medical examination Of new
members be move strict in future. He
advised a Uniform initiation fee through
out the order. Twelve new lodges were
instituted during the year. The report of
Supreme Secretary David J. thinner. of
Cleveland. showed the order in a flourish
ing condition, financially n otherwise.
Eighteen deaths occurred during the year
and benefits to the amount of 5000 were
paid out.
The standing committees were appoint
ed and adjournment taken until mo
rowe
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-04
tosh, Noah T:saoihy. choyka. Littls
Tiger and James Starr.
ANOTHER BRITISH POST
Captured by q Commando OF One
Thousand Beers.
Details of This Latest Disaster to
British Arms i'm South Africa Un-
known-Two Thousand Beers i'm
Portuguese Territory.

LONDON. February THE war
ONCE has received the following dis
patch from Lord Kitchener, chief in
command in South Africa:
PRETORIA, February Our post
at Medderfontein in the Gatesrand,
southwest of Krugersdorp, was attacked
by a thousand Beers. The relief coll
m sent out from Krugersdorp failed
to prevent the fall Of the post. No
details yet at hand, but officers and
men captured at the post are arriving
at Vereeniging."
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-04
A HOLE IN THE GROUND
All That Was Left After a G~Iycerine
Explosion.


Explosion.
INDIANAPOLIS, February BY an
explosion Of 760 quarts of nitro-gly-
cerine at the magazine of the Gas Belt
Torpedo Company, four miles north
east of Alexandria, to-day Perry Fort,
a carrier for the company with his
team of horses, the wagon and the
magazine We're blow to atoms, not a
vestige OF either having been found
after the awful accident. Fort started
from Knightstown Saturday evening
with 100 quarts of the explosive il his
wagon, hauled the dangerous load over
rough roads and arrived at Alexandria
at 1880 a. m. He passed through the
city and had evidently reached the
magazine in which forty quarts of the
glycerine were stored when the ex-
plosion occurred. A hole fifteen feet
deep and forty feet wide was left where
the magazine had formerly stood. Win
dows We're generally shattered in Alex
andria and the report was distinctly
heard at Kokomo. Muncie. Marion and
Elwood.