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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-08-15

The automobile ordered some
time ago by Doctor r. D. Wilkin
and A. NJ. Nipper arrived today and
was put in order for use, aud at first
this machine gave them some little
trouble but they soon mastered it
and our citizens now enjoy the nov
ell sight of horseless carriage"
spinning up and down our streets
as they have for some time in the
eastern cities. The machine is a
one-seated run-about. and is GER
tainly beauty. 1t is gasoline
motor, weighs about eight hundred
pounds and is capable of making
twenty-five miles an hour under
favorable conditions. As it is the
first machine of it's kind to be
brought into this section of the
State, it is of course quite curios-
ity and attracts much attention.
Several other of our citizens are
considering the ACCESSIBILITY Of sub.
shutting an "auto" fer their horse
and carriage.-Friday Atlantic Tel
eoraph,
The age-herald., 1901-06-22
UGLY SITUATION
 IN COAL REGIONS
The Union Miners Are Greatly Wrought Up Over Thurs
 day Night Shooting

Matewan, W. Va, June H.-The situa- tion throughout the Thacker, Matewan and Dingess coal fields today Is still a grave one. Things looked bad before yes terday, when the shooting occurred, but the crisis is yet to come. The town seems to be quiet tonight and the men standing about idle and little to say even to each other, but today's quietness has been but the calm before the storm. Word of last evenings trouble spread rapidly, and on early morning trains several union agents arrived They went promptly to work and early this afternoon it was said they had the mob under control, but only to plan for concerted action of the union miners in Mingo, who number nearly 2OOO. They are gathering here this afternoon from all sections, and tomorrow probably in the morning, the strikers will hold meeting. One of the leaders said this af- ternoon that if the non-union men could not be persuaded they would be com pelled. That this time they would meet force for force. This causes great deal of apprehension. The Maratime mines and a few others are running today with half force of non-union men. The guards have been quadrupled and standing all about the mines watching every move.
 Sheriff Hatfield is still on the ground and ready for any emergency that may arise On next Monday morning these operators will make an attempt to eject from their property all the striking min CTS now occupying houses in, the coal fields. This will no doubt cause every thing to break out afresh and the culmi- mating point of the crisis will likely be reached on Monday.
The age-herald., 1901-06-22
HAVANA FREE OF
 YELLOW FEVER
There Has Been No Case in Two Months and Quaran-
 tine Will Be Raised

Havana. June 21.-Owing to the absence of yellow fever in this city, Major Glenn of the Marine Hospital service corps has recommended that the quarantine be raised on passengers from Cuba destined to points north of the southern boundary of Maryland.
 There has not been a fresh case of yell low fever in any parts of the island.
 The strongest objection against admit ting non-immunes from Cuba comes from the boards of health of the southern states. These boards even object to the entrance of such persons at New York, fearing that these passengers will go south before the lapse of five days. Major Glenn is in favor of change in the pres ent strict quarantine regulations against Cuba, consequently Northern ports in the present strict quarantine regulations against Cuba consequently northern ports in the northern states will be open as long as they is no yellow fever
The age-herald., 1901-06-22
LLoYD's MUST PAY.
Court Holds That They Must Refund
 Money Communicated by Boers.

London, June 21.-Considerable interest has been aroused by the success of the Drei- Fountain case in the Appeal Court in which Lloyds Is held for the fSO0,O00 ($5OO, O,O0O which the Transvaal government commandered from train.
 Lloyds published report October g.. 1899, to the effect that gold valued at f50O,- 900 in transit had been commandered or seized by the Transvaal authorities. This was before the South African war had broken out, for the Boers did not enter Natal until October il, 1899 though the Orange Free State October 6, of the same year, had seized 800 tons of coal in transit belonging to the government of Cape Colony. The report of the seizure of the f500 900 in gold was reiterated October I, 1899, and it was further said that the amount commandered while on it's way from Johannesburg to Capetown, being the weeks shipment of gold insured at Lloyds. from the Rand. The gold was subsequently taken to Pretoria.
The age-herald., 1901-06-22
CIVIL GOVERNMENT IN
 THE PHILIPPINES TO BE
 ESTABLISHED ON JULY 4
Secretary Root Issues an Order to That Effect and Names W. H. Taf5 President of the Philippine Commission, as Civil
 Governor-te Will Have Appointing Power

after be established in said islands. and all persons performing duties appertain- ing to the offices of civil government in said islands, will. in respect of such duties, report to the said civil governor. "The power to appoint civil officers here tofore vested in this commission or in the military governor will be exercised by the civil governor with the advice and consent of the commission.
 "The military governor of the islands is hereby relieved from the performance on and after the said fourth of July of the civil duties hereinbefore described. but his authority will continue to be exercised as heretofore in the districts in which the insurrection against the authority of the United States continues to exist or Is not sufficiently restored to enable provincial civil governments to be established under the instructions to the commission dated April ', 1900.
 By the President.
 (Signed) "ELIHU ROOT,
 Secretary of War"
The age-herald., 1901-06-22
BARKER CONVICTED
 ON FIRST BALLOT
He Was Surprised at the Yer dict and Mrs. Barker
 Sobbed Bitterly

New York, June H.-The jury before which Thomas G. Barker of Arlington. N. J., was tried for shooting with intent to kill the Rev. John Keller of the same town, took one ballot this afternoon and returned verdict of guilty. Under the charge of the court they could do little else. The jurors were told they must set aside all else and decide only if Barker with intent fred at Keller. That was the law and they must obey 1t. Notice of ap- peal was given by Barkers counsel.
 Barker tonight went to jail
 Mrs. Barker was not in the court room to hear the verdict. She was in another part of the court house and when told of the verdict sobbed bitterly. MT. Keller was also absent and showed no emotion when told of the verdict. Barker had ex- pected an acquittal. He based his hopes upon the strong plea of his counsel when he dwelt upon the unwritten law that a man has a right to kill where the sanctity of his home is assailed. Whatever the eff feet of this line of pleading upon the jury it was swept away by the cold charge of the court: That the story of the alleged outrage, or the outrage itself, if true, was no Justification of the de- fendants assault"
 MT Keller issued a brief statement in which he absolutely denied the truth of the allegations that have been made by Mrs. Barker.
 Barker tonight said:
 q did not expect such verdict. It seemed to me there was reasonable doubt I believed that no twelve men would convict me after hearing my wife's story. I believe that the Supreme Court will give me new trial and that then my wife story will be told"
The age-herald., 1901-06-22

Washington, June M.-Secretary Root issued the order of the President estab- fishing civil government in the Philip pines The order is as follows
 ''On and after the fourth day of July. 1901, until it shall be otherwise ordered, the president of the Philippine eommis- sion will exercise the executive authority in all civil affairs in the government of the Philippines heretofore exercised in such affairs by. the military governor o: the islands and to that end the Hon. Vim. H. Taft, president of the said commission, is hereby appointed civil governor of the Philippine islands. Such executive author ity will be exercised under and in con- formity to the instructions to the Philip pine commissioners dated April z, 1900 and subject to the approval and control of the secretary of war of the United States. The municipal and provincial civil gov ernments which have been or shall here
The age-herald., 1901-06-22
SOLDIERS ORDERED OUT.
They Are Guarding Negro Who At
 tempted an Outrage.


 Houston, Texas. June A.-A special train bearing the Houston cavalry com pany and portion of the light guard has just left here for Trinity, Texas. where the remainder of the light guard are guarding negro named Spencer, who was today identified as a man who last week attempted an outrage. From a train which was not allowed to stop at Trinity the negro could be seen tied to a treey while around him were grouped the soldiers and surrounding them was mob of people. No news has come out of Trinity tonight. Special correspondents are accompanying the train.
 A telegram at midnight from Trinity Texas, says that the soldiers are still guarding the negro Spencer and the mob is guarding the military to prevent any escape with the negro. Two or three con- ferences have been held, the leaders of the citizens contending that the negro must be left in Trinity county, while Captain Mccormick says that he will not give him up. The special train bearing reinforce ments to the soldiers was reported within half an hours run of Trinity. No de- velopments are expected until early in the morning, when a crisis may be precipitat- ed The soldiers at Trinity number twen- ty-nine.
 According to the best information the mob is several hundred strong.
 The special train bearing endorsements to the troops at Trinity reached that point at 1;15 a. m. A special which came through few moments before that time states that the soldiers guarding the prs- oner had taken stand in a school house and about 200 well armed men were on the outside. No further information has been received and the special is cut short. con- cluding with the words: Captain Mo- Cormick assured the citizens that the prisoner would be protected at all hazards"
The age-herald., 1901-06-22

in exchange the State would retain and sell in 1906 to pay off the retiring bonds.
 q would go even further than Gov ernor Oates resolution" continued MT. Strassburger, ''and if possible would make it compulsory on the next Legisla- ture to offer to the holders of the pres ent bonds a new bond in exchange. The resolution only suggests to my mind that 1t should be mandatory. My own experi- ence convinoes me that our people have been large buyers of state bonds for the past six years. I have bought them in large and small lots in New York and other markets for our banks, private cit izens estates, etc, and 1t Is a gratifying indication of our prosperity. These bonds are very seldom sold again and for this reason especially our people should have ample opportunity to surrender their present holdings and get new long date bonds. They have a right to expect fa- vorable Legislation and our lawmakers should not legislate to allow the proposed refunded debt to get into outside hands and thereby cause our people to pay fancy prices for the bonds to foreign speculators and dealers, if indeed they are able to get them at all
 '"The saving In interest to the state in refunding this debt would equal large premium in the sale of the bonds. Above all. however, whether the premium be large or small, let the bonds remain as far as possible within the boundaries of the state and let our people and their descendants retain and increase their holdings It is a stimulus to good citi- zenship and it places the debt where it properly belongs"
The age-herald., 1901-06-22
FUNDS IN BANK.
Attorney Charges That Syndicate Used
 Money for Political Purposes.

Berlin, June H.-In the course of the trial today. Herr Jansen. attorney for Dr. Liman, offered to prove the asser- tions of his client and named witnesses, who. he asserted, would give evidence that syndicate. composed of the De- beers and other South African compan- les, has large fund in the Standard Bank of South Africa, limited, at Sails bury, Rodesia. for political purposes; that this fund is held without direct ac- countabllity to the members of the syn adicate; that the syndicate paid Herr Ge- l1el, the Pretoria correspondent of the Cologne Zeitung, 4000 marks a month; that Gehel was court-martialed and sen- fenced to death as a traitor to the Boers. and that a check from the syndicate for 200 GOO marks was found among Gehers effects.
 The court declined to hear Herr Jan sens witnesses because Herr Gehel was not on trial.
The age-herald., 1901-06-22
coNeRAruLATEs GOVERNMENT.
Signor Giolitti Declares the Strike
 Troubles Ended Satisfactory.

Rome. June 21.-The Chamber of Depu- ties was crowded today in anticipation of review of the recent agricultural crisis by Signor Giolitti, the Italian min ister of the interior. Signor Giolitti re- viewng the situation. declared that the critical period was passed, and he con graduated the government upon its mod crate course in which it sided with neith- CT the employers nor the strikers. Be- cause of this attitude 511 strikes, in- volving 00,000 men, had been settled by mutual concession. Wages had declined in some districts. but the total wage dis bursements for the year had increased by 4S,O00,0OO lire. Signor Giolitti said that general conditions had improved and the workmen had been shown that the gov ernment had no intention of preventing the peaceful organization of labor.
The age-herald., 1901-06-22
FEARFUL WORK
 IF A TORNADO
 IN NEBRASKA Town of Napgr visited by a Tornado and Many Per-
 sons Killed NARROWING TALES ARE TOLD Men and Women Carried Long Dis tances by the WhirIlng Force, and Their Arms and Legs Severed
 From Their Bodies.
NARROWING TALES ARE TOLD

Omaha, Neb., Juno 21.-Special dis patches to the World-Herald from Ma per, Neb., tell of the frightful work of a tornado which visited that vicinity last night. the details being obtainable only late this evening. Of the family of Jacob Greening, MT Greening and his wife, who are fatally hurt and their 4-year-old daughter Grace, who is seriously injured, are all that survive. The dead are:
 MARGARET GREENING, aged T.
 MAGGIE, aged g.
 JOHN, aged {.
 JACOB, JR., aged 2.
 Of family of six named Anderson. two children, Ida and Clara, aged and 8 respectively, were killed
 A daughter, Albertha, a son, Theodore, aged 10 and 12 respectively, were seriously injured.
 The family of Jacob Berg and man named Metz were injured when their homes were demolished, but not seriously.
 Mrs. Anderson said: When saw the storm coming. grabbed the youngest child and took two with me. The storm took the child right into the air and that was the last of it.
 ''l hurried to my children but the storm took two of them away from me and killed them. I lay down and held my baby. The wind also took 1t away from me. A timber struck me and broke my shoulder. After the storm all my clothes and shoes and stockings were gone.''
 All communication with the outside world is cut off and 1t is impossible to learn what other damage the storm did.
 Mrs. Greenifg, mother of the Greening family, is expected to live but short time Her shoulder is broken and she Is injured internally. Grace, her daughter, though badly injured. may survive.
 The father of the Greening family was found a quarter of a mile from the house badly mangled. Both arms and legs and back were broken and there is no chance for his recovery
 Little Maggie and Jacob Greening were found 600 yards from where the house stood. They were stripped of all their clothing. but were not disfgured. The other two children were close to the house and were in full view of their mother and sister who could see them, but could render no assistance. Six hours before the storm the sun was shining.
 The storm cloud appeared about , o'clock and travelled down the Keyapaha river It seemed to rise up and skip some houses and then swoop down and demoi- ish everything. The tornado was preceded by a severe hailstorm. Stones fell that are said to have measured ten inches in circumference.
 MT. and Mrs. Herman were out short distance and were injured by the hail. Mrs. Herman was struck on the head and was injured badly.
The age-herald., 1901-06-22
ATLANTA POLICE WROUGHT
 UP OVER DEBRAY MURDER

The murder last night makes the fourth time that an Atlanta policeman has been shot to death while on duty, in less than four years. In no case has the assassin been apprehended.
 In asking the City Council to offer a reward for Debray's assassin, Mayor Mims in a special message says:
 "Gentlemen A member of our brave of- ficers of the peace. Patrolman Debray, was assassinated while in the discharge of his duties. He is the fourth patrolman within three years to be thus murdered, and not one murder has been avenged by law. I deem the matter of bringing to justice the perpetrators of such dastardly deeds of such great importance that hope every officer and citizen will use his best efforts to apprehend the mur- derer. In addition to this I recommend that this honorable body offer a substan- tial reward for the arrest of the person who shot and killed Officer Debray."
The age-herald., 1901-06-22
THE BRITISH ARMY.
Capt. SIocum, Who Was With 1t In
 Africa, Submits His Views.

Washington. June A.-Capt. S. L. H. Slocum, Eighth Cavalry, who was mili- tary attache with the British army during the early part of the Boer war, in his report says that at the time of the British defeat at Colenso, December 25. 1ss9 he considered the situation of the British the most critical. They had been defeated by the Boers all along the line and had the Boers assumed offensive operations the English army, with long and thinly guarded lines would have been placed in great jeopardy.
 He says that Lord Roberts was con fronted with a crisis which would have staggered many commanders but the sur render of General Cronje changed the sit- uation. He says if the British were less brave" there would have been many less faults and more victories in this war. Caution they have not, but just bunt ahead and take the consequences. Lord Roberts Is glaring exception to this rule. All in all I consider him to be a remarka- ble man and general.
The age-herald., 1901-06-22

Atlanta June N.-The excitement in police circles over the murder last night of Officer Debray was not lessened to- day, when it became known that Record CT Broyles, the presiding judge in the po- lice court, overheard a conversation be- tween three negroes in which one of them named three policemen whom he said would be the next to De killed by the ne- groes.
 The three officers named. according to Recorder Broyles, were Hollingsworth. Rowan and Hollis. The recorder reported the matter and the three negroes were arrested and fined. The recorder does not attach much importance to the incident.
 At City Council meeting this after noon a reward of $500 was offered for the arrest of the negro who killed Debray, and Governor Candler also offered a re- ward of $20O at the request of the county commissioners.
The age-herald., 1901-06-22
cLYBURN KILLS HIMSELF.
He Was Son of the Late Colonel cly.
 burn.

Columbia, S. C., June 21.-J. Frank Clyburn, 25 years of age, went to Elm wood cemetery this morning and. going to the enclosure where the Confederate soldiers are buried, shot himself through the head.
 He was a son of the late Colonel Cly- burn of Lancaster, commander of the Twelfth South Carolina volunteers. In his pocket was letter to his mother tell ing of the praise given his father by the veterans returning from Memphis.
 No cause Is known for the suicide.
The age-herald., 1901-06-22
Bolivia In Line.

Lima. June 21. via Galveston.-Informa- tion from a reliable source Is at hand to the effect that the Bolivian minister to Peru acting with the authorization of his government. has informed the Peru vian foreign office that Bolivia will pro- ceed in accordance with Peru. the Ar genuine Republic. Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay, if the executive council of American republics in Washington main tains its restrictions as to what questions are to be submitted for arbitration to the next pan-American Congress in Mex ico City.
The age-herald., 1901-06-22
SIXTEEN KILLED IN EXPLOSION
 OF FIREWORKS Tenement House in Paterson Wrecked and Burned by
 the Explosion SHOCK FELT BLOCKS AWAY Flames Leaped Out of the Windows, Blistering Cars in the Street and
 Singing the Hair of
 Passengers.
SHOCK FELT BLOCKS AWAY

Paterson, N. J., June 21.-Sixteen peo- pie are believed to have been killed and number injured today in a fire follow ing series of explosions among a quan- tity of fire works in the store of Abra- ham M. Rittenburg. The store was on the ground floor of a four-story frame tenement building. The cause of the ex- plosion is not known The property loss will not exceed $S5,oO0. The killed were:
 Mrs. Lucinda Adamson.
 Mrs. Charles Williams.
 Charles Williams
 Harold Rittenburg. IS months old. son of the keeper of the fireworks store.
 Henry Elsasser, baby.
 Those missing are almost certain to be among the debris and are as follows:
 Mrs. Bert Bamberg. Charles Bamberg, months old, child of Mrs. Bamberg
 Mrs. Andrew Elvin.
 Miss Mary Elsasser.
 Joseph Evin, baby of Mrs. Andrew Elvin.s
 Clarence Burns, year old son of Mrs. Burns.
 Mrs. Anna Fontemann.
 Miss Anna Fontemann.
 Mrs. Annie Lannigan.
 Two nephews of Mrs. Lannigan.
 The injured: J. Jessup, Mrs. J. Jessup. I. Bamberger, George Soder, Nicholas Hillman, Fireman Edward s. Lingiand, MT. and Mrs. John McGlone.
 A number of people received minor in- juries, but went to their homes. Ten families occupied flats in the build ings. So great swaBt1fe force of the ex. plosion that boy playing in the street half a block away was lifted from hiz feet and hurled against an iron fence. One of his legs was broken
 A trolley car was directly in front of the building when the explosion occurred. The burst of flame blown out into the street scorched the sides of the car and singed the hair of the passengers.
 A number of those who were on the up- per floors of the building when the ex- posion took place were either stunned and then burned to death or found escape cut off and were suffocated.
 Every window seemed to be emitting flame, Mrs. Williams, her clothing on fire, leaped from window to the yard below and was killed.
 Mrs. Williams husband, a cripple, was found burned to crisp in his bed.
 Some of the occupants of the rooms dropped from the windows and were bad 1y injured. Others hung from the win dows until the firemen came and twenty persons were taken down in this way through fire and smoke by the firemen, while others dropped into life nets.
 Captain Allen led with hose line in an effort to keep the fire from the upper floors, where 1t was said many were penned in. The men had hardly begun to throw water into the upper floors when the whole upper part of the building fell The captain and two of his men were buried under the debris. One of the men is badly hurt and the bodies taken thus far are almost unrecognizable.
The age-herald., 1901-06-22
Stabbed to Death.

Knoxville Tenn, June M.-A special to the Journal-Tribune from Athens, Tenn. says that E. M. Montgomery. farmer. stabbed and instantly killed Jas. Hawn, his neighbor, in the harvest field near Athens today. A controversy arose about a contract for cutting a field of wheat. when Hawn, while attempting to unhitch the horses, was attacked and stabbed with a knife repeatedly The sheriff and coroner went to the scene tonight.
The age-herald., 1901-06-22
Officials Refuse to Talk.

Kansas City June 21.-B. F. winchell. president of the Memphis Railroad and attorney for that road. declined to discuss the increase of the Frisco capital stock from s5O,OOO.OO0 to $10O. GOO beyond stat ing that the increase was made to take care of additional bonded indebtedness of the Frisco road. The consolidation plans of the Frisco and Memphis Rail- roads are in the hands of the Frisco at- torneys who refuse to talk