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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-08
Tracy, the Escaped Convict,
is Probably Dead.
HAS KILLED EIGHT MEN
All Efforts to Capture Him Have
Heretofore Been in vain-oreaon
Desperate Said to Have Met Fate at
Last.

Seattle, July 5.-An unconfirmed re.
port from Ballard that has just been
received, says that Harry Tracy, the
Oregon convict, has been killed al
Woodland.
His Crime.
Tracy was arrested for burglary in
Portland, on Feb. Is, 1899, after an ex
citing battle with Detective David
Weiner. Tracy fired two shots at the
detective, wounding him, and then
jumped into an engine with his revol.
Yer to the head of the engineer. He
ordered the engineer to go ahead at
full speed. The conductor stopped
the train, however, and, seeing that
his plan had been frustrated, Tracy
jumped from the engine, and started
to run. Half dozen shots were fired
at the fugitive, one of which took ef-
feet behind his ear, and he was cap
tured. A month afterward, while be
ing taken from Jail to the courtroom
he exchanged Several shots with the
jailer, but was overpowered
Grimes Since His Escape.
On June 9, 1902, with Convict David
Merrill, Tracy escaped from the Ore
gon penitentiary at Salem. Since that
time he has killed eight men and
wounded six others in his attempt tc
gain his liberty
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-08
EX-SENATOR FOUND DEAD.
Former Wisconsin Legislator Discov
cred iSeIess in Red

cred Lifeless in Bed.
Madison, Wis, July 5.-Willet S.
Main, former state senator. and a
brother-in-law of Senator John c.
Spooner, was found dead in bed this
morning, it is supposed of heart dis.
ease.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-08
TOWN BURNS.
Gc+ebo, Oklahoma, Is Wiped Off the
Map.

nadarko, Okla, July Sit was
learned today that the entire town of
Gotebo, small place on the Rock Is
land Railway system in Kiowa county,
was destroyed by fire yesterday. The
loss is $4,000. The insurance is
light.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-08
King Edward Will Undoubt-
edly Recover.
is FROM PHYSICIANS
Half Million Dwellers in the Sums
of London Enjoy Dinner This After
noon at the Expense of Their Ruler
May Be Crowned October 2.

London, July 5.-The morning Off
eial bulletin says: THE king has had
another excellent night. He seems
cheerful and feels must stronger We
consider him entirely out of danger
and the evening bulletins will be dis
continued"
Fully half a million Of London
slum jewellers were the kings guests
this afternoon at 440 different halls,
schools and parks, the greater number
being at Stepney, where $4,000 enjoyed
dinner and such dinner as they sell
dom partake of. At every gathering a
letter from the king was read express
ing the hope that his guests were en-
joying themselves.
May Be Crowned October 2.
The kings physicians state that pro-
vided all goes well the earliest date
that could be set would be Thursday,
October 2. 1t is now understood that
that is the date Professionally in mind
of the authorities.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-08
HIGH WATER DOES DAMAGE.
Cedar River on Rampage-costs ced
dar Rapids Heavily.

Cedar Rapids, July 5.-(SpeciaD-
The Cedar river is the highest since
1884 and is still rising. The damage
will amount to several thousand dol
lars to property in this city.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-08
Alabama Men Will Return.

Birmingham, Ala, July 5.-The con-
ference committee representing the
miners and operators have practically
reached an agreement, which will be
submitted to the various local organi-
cations Monday for notifications. The
belief seems well founded that the 49,
900 miners now on strike will return
to work next week.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-08
Note AGAINST StriIie.

liza local of the United Mine Workers
of America has voted against strike
and the delegates to the Indianapolis
convention will so vote. Other locals
in southern Illinois have done the
same, but that does not take away the
fear of strike on the part of the coal
! consumers.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1902-05-16
Shame MAere Is 0Ay @lush.
DEATH MAero is 0hy Sting.
3y Clono Row0n.

we were taken out Of Jail and put in
to building used as public hall and
soon after told by an officer that we
must fall in line as he wanted 10 see
which ones wanted to go home and
wanted to go out west and work on
Notifications for the government
All those who took the oath, he sta
ted, would be sent home, the others
would be sent out west and put to
building Notifications. We formed
a line and he requested that those
who we're not going to take the oath
to step to the front. The writer Of
this article stepped out to the front.
AS soon as he did so Harry Dry of
Co. G, 10th Mississippi, stepped out,
and putting both arms around my
neck, with tears in his eyes and al
most overcome by emotion, remarked:
"Oh, ye bloody rebel, be Jesus III
die by the like of ye. Old Harry will
stay wild ye, me lad"
Then five others stepped out in
succession. But fortunately an in
specting Office came in little While
after the above proceeding, to whom
l exhibited my parole, and after Civ
ing the officer who had US in charge a
good cussing, he told all in the house
that we would be sent home the fol-
lowing day. And it was not neces-
sary for anyone to take the oath.
The next morning we started on our
way home via New York to New Or
leans, on the steamship Gen. McClel-
Ian OF the seven men who held out,
all the balance are dead of whom
have any knowledge, unless John A.
Shields, Co. G, 10th Mississippi, is
yet living, as he was few years ago.
Poor old Harry Dry died in the In
sane Asylum because there was no
Soldiers Home for him to go to.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1902-05-16
Is it Right to Defend the Cause
of the COnfederaCy
Continued from page g.

the appointment of a supreme court
justice, would name a lawyer known
to be in sympathy with the contention
of his administration that the United
States has the right, as nation, to con
quer and subjugate weaker peoples, to
tax them without representation, to
govern them without their consent,
without regard to the limitations of the
constitution, without making their ter
ritory part of the United States, and
without allowing them the ordinary
rights and immunities Of American cit
izenship?
Any party which can long control
the appointing power can so make over
the supreme court as that it will hold
ything to be constitutional which the
dominant party desires to be held con
stitutional.
1t is confidently expected by two
great departments of the government,
the executive and the legislative, that
the supreme court will make good the
contention of the imperialist, with all
that it involves, and this expectation
will probably not be disappointed l
demand to know, not of the soldier nor
trader, but of the iurist and statesman,
if the supreme court sustaius the CON
tention of the imperialist now, what
may it not be expected to do hereafter
When the doctrines of imperialism
have been fully engrafted upon our CON
stitution, what shall hinder the rednc-
tion to the condition of subject provin-
ces of those States that may, absurdly
and wickedly, stand upon the rights
yet left them under the constitution
and insist upon regulating their own
internal affairs according to their own
pleasure, even if the exercise of this
right does fail to comport with the in
terests and wishes of the dominant fac
tion in American politics?
I greatly fear that when the results
of the war have yielded their full fruit
age, it will be found that the American
people, while preserving the Union, lost
their liberties, at Appomatox.
Whatever the future may be, the
usurpations of the majority in control of
the general government, the minority
must perforce submit There can ho-
where be organized any effective re-
sistance to CentraliSe deSpOtiSm. There
can be nowhere a nucleus of govern
ment around which revolution may raj
ly, no State can henceforth claim the
allegiance of its own citizens, even to
save the entire body Of them from de-
struction, any act of a citizen done in
support of a State driven to open re-
slstance of oppression, however intoler
able, Will for the future be nothing hut
sheer treason and rebellion. There can
never be organized revolution in the
United States, and insurrectiOn will be
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-03-15
CURRENT COMMENT.

UPresident Roosevelt's message
and his statement on the Schley con-
troversy are fresh confirmation of
his native force as a writer. = st.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
DIn view of the fact that the out
put of gold has increased las per
cent. during the last decade, was not
the demand for 16 to free and un-
limited as absurd as can be imag-
ined?-Indianapolis Journal.
DDavid B. Hill wants the demo-
cratic party in 1904 to make a gen.
eral assault on the Dingley tariff the
paramount issue. A declaration of
war on established prosperity would
be just about as sensible.-St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
UThe American people have never
turned back from the point where
once they have planted their feet,
and no one believes that they will
ever do Il at the bchest of q party
that has been systematically and
consecutively wrong for at least the
last 40 years.-Albany Journal
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-03-15
TRADE REVIEW.
Increase In Reported I'm Spite Of
Floods and snowstorms I'm
the East.

New York. March S-Bradstreets sayss
"Spring trade increases despite serious in
terruptions In the section adjacent 10 the
Alleghenies caused by floods, snowstorms,
interrupted telegraphic and mail facilities
and crippled railroads. Western anc north
the best received and here dry goods. mil
linery, clothing and kindred lines Of spring
goods are most active. All available meas
ures of midwinter trade point to excep-
tional activity despite unfavorable weather
conditions February clearings as whole
Notwithstanding reductions at the me-
tropolis, due to dizziness In speculation, are
slightly larger than year ago. Failures
are 10 more numerous. but few large
bank suspensions, due to acknowledgement,
or worse, have swelled liabilities one-fourth
above year ago. Prices have felt the
quickening influences In slight increase
in strength of textiles, dairy products
among provisions. live stock coal and coke
and building materials. All signs, In fact.
favor the indication that legitimate trade
and industry Is, except In few instances
considerably more active than year ago
at this time. Although there Is less APP
parent tension in iron and STEEL the stu
alton Is really a remarkable one. Floods
and high water have interfered with pro-
duction. limiting supplies OF fuel. hamper
ing productive operations and checking
shipments. Most grades of pig iron are
higher In prices by from Is to 60 cents per
ton. Finished products are active. 1t has
been a narrow market for the cereals. with
price changes few. and the government
crop report Of March 10 on supplies In
farmers hands still hanging over the
market. Hog products are slightly weaker
and speculation has naturally been almost
absent"
Failures for the week numbered 176 In
the United States, against 20S last year,
and II in Canada, against 26 last year"
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-03-15
PRINCE HENRY COMPLETES HIS TOUR.
Through His Aid he His Gratitude the Cordially Of His
cepon Throughout the Country-Prnce Honors Memory Of
Lincoln Chcago-visit to Niagara Falls

New York, March s.-Prince Henry
of Prussia Friday completed his tour,
and Is once more in New York, where
he will remain until Monday, when he
goes to Philadelphia. He was absent
from the city for nine days, during
which time his special train was with
in the territory of 10 states and trav-
eled total distance of 4,35S miles. He
was greatly pleased with his trip and,
through his aid, Capt. Won Muller, is
sued statement expressing his salts
faction at the opportunity which came
to him, and his qualification at the
cordially with which he was received
throughout the country. Capt. Won
Muller said:
His royal highness Is very much pleased
by his trip into the Interior OF the United
States. He is fully aware Of the fact that
he has had only very superficial glimpse
OF very small portion Of the United
States, and he might perhaps have used
his time TO greater advantage had ne re-
manned in one of the largest cities OF the
east. But he Is convinced. nevertheless,
that, considering the character Of his mis-
sion. the trip was the right thing fof him
TO do. In making II no has obtaihed-a very
fair idea of the vastness OF the country
and Its resources, which the capital OF the
United States and the great commercial
centers Of the east alone could not have
given him. But, more than this impress
sion. he values the hearty welcome which
he met In all the places he went through,
a welcome that showed him how the people
of the United States everywhere under
stood and appreciated the intention OF the
German emperor In sending him here.
1.-THE prince mace a speech In st. Louis
in which he said he regretted not to have
been able always to express his thanks
to those who greeted him at the rail-
way stations. or who otherwise desired to
show him their respects. He wishes to
have the intent Of that speech conveyed
TO all those who in the course OF the trip
gave him such cordial reception. and es-
pecially he wishes to express his thanks
10 those who. early In the morning. when
he was not prepared and still In bed. well
coined him with music and cheers.
1.-The receptions by the great cities OF
the south and the middle west were more
than he ever had expected, and so were
the receptions in the east. But his royal
highness is equally thankful for what the
smaller places did In showing him their
good will, though the train In such places
stopped only few minutes, and frequently
not at all.
Altogether the prince is most gratified
by his trip and shall never forget how the
American people everywhere met him with
hospitality and sympathy"
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-03-15
HEAVY SNOwSTORMS.
Worst of the Season Reported from
Pennsylvania-Railr In
q Had Plight.

Pittsburg, Pa, March 6.-From all
sections of western Pennsylvania and
the northeastern portion of West
Virginia the reports are that the
snowstorm of Wednesday was the
heaviest of the season. Business in
many places was practically sus-
pended, schools closed and the heavy
drifts impeded seriously the opera
ton of railroads and trolley systems.
Along the Allegheny Valley railroad
from Pittsburg to Oil City, the snow
on the level is fully ~ inches deep,
and the drifts in some places ere 20
feet high. On the Low Grad divi-
sion of the Pennsylvania road, the
drifts are even higher than on the
Allegheny Valley, and trains are hav-
ing hard time to get through. The
schedule time is not being attempt
ed. The other railroads in this Sec
ton are not in such bad plight,
but trains are pretty generally be-
hind time on all. Washington, Pa,
reports the snow % inches on the
level in all parts of this county,
travel almost stopped, trains late
and the rural delivery service is
paralyzed.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-03-15

was host to Prince Henry of Prussia
for six hours Tuesday evening, and
gave him reception that was highly
enthusiastic and entertainment that
was unique. His special train came
at four o'clock and at ten was away
again on the long run to Niagara
and New England. The intervening
time was all given over to the recep-
ton and entertainment of the royal
visitor. 1t began with a drive
through business and residential dis
tricts in review before crowd that
numbered 100000. Then there was a
public reception, at which Gov. Rob-
ert La Toilette and Mayor David s.
Rose voiced the official welcomes,
and the United Singing societies
raised their voices in mighty chorus.
There was also splendid illumina-
ton and a thrilling night run of the
Milwaukee fire department. Later
there was banquet at which the
prince met the leading citizens OF
the city and state.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-03-15

with power, while the party that
would keep from them the things
mentioned which they desire will be
relegated to obscurity.
And Mr.. Hill wants the party to
declare for bimetallism, against ex-
pansion, against the right of capital
to engage in large industrial enter
prises! He wants it to take up again
the tinkering with the tariff that was
responsible for the last period of
commercial and industrial depression
through which the country passed.
It is almost a wonder that he does
not go little farther back into the
past and call for resurrection of the
democracy's declaration that the war
for the preservation of the union was
q failure and that reconstruction
was unconstitutional.
Mr.. Hill has shown himself to be a
man as dangerous to the country's
interests as Mr.. Bryan was in 1896
and again in 1900. The rumor that
Mr.. Bryan favors his candidacy in
1904 is denied, but it would not have
been strange, II true, II we supposed
that Mr.. Bryan himself had re-
nounced his ambition. Mr.. Hill has
shown himself to be man after Mr..
Bryan's own heart.
1t is well that the people of the
United States have received timely
warning. They will have ample time
to prepare themselves to resist the
renewed attack upon their prosper
ity which probable leaders of the de-
mocracy are contemplating.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-03-15
HONOR TO LINCOLN.
Prince Henry Places n Wreath ut
Statue of the Enamel patOr.

Statue of the Enamel atOr.
Chicago, March 5.--Prince Henry's
visit to Chicago ended Tuesday.
After breakfast the prince took a
drive through the business district
of the city. He visited the Illinois
Trust and Savings bank and other
great financial institutions. He re-
ceived Gov. Samuel Van SAINT and his
staff, bright in gold lace and with
clanking swords. Then he received
the Chicago German Lutheran min
listers, who with their somber clothes
furnished strong contrast to the
gold-braided officers from the Min
nesota farms. The Minnesota dele
cation presented the prince with an
address welcoming him to America
in the name of $4,000 residents of
German descent in the city Of St.
Paul. ......
At IL a. m. the prince and his
staff, his entertainers and his escort
drove to Lincoln park, where the
prince placed a wreath at the statue
of the great emancipation. Then the
prince and party drove to the Ger
mania clubhouse, where the final
greetings were extended and a grand
luncheon was served.
Entertained at Milwaukee.
Milwaukee, March 5.-Milwaukee
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-03-15
A TIMELY WARNING.
David ID. HiIl's Advice to the Democ-
racy Contains Much That IL
Significant.

There were some plain, incontro-
Kelway's letter to the Manhattan
club, which Mr.. Hill had completely
ignored when he prepared his plan
for reconstructing the democracy by
making it, instead of party of no
definite policy, party of all policies
that it has had since the sixties, says
the Albany Journal.
Mr.. McKelway has his eyes open
to conditions. He has learned wis
dom from the sad experience of his
party's past. He knows that the dem
ocratic party cannot ever hope to
win success by resurrecting issues
that are dead, by continuing the pro-
mitigation of doctrines which the
people have rejected. He understands
that in country whose government
is for and by the people, party that
asks to be intrusted with the man
agement of the peoples affairs must
give the people what they want, that
it can never win their confidence and
support by trying to force upon
them what it wants and they do not.
Mr.. McKelway accepts the facts
that the people are committed to
the gold standard, and to expansion,
that they are determined that free
capital as well as free labor shall
have it's rights, that they want an
interoceanic canal, "a navy BETTING
the country's greatness, and re-
stored commerce, and he asserts
without qualification that the party
which will secure to them these
things will be intrusted by them
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-03-15
Request Of President,

Washington, March Sat the cab
met meeting Friday President Roose-
welt requested the members not to
talk to newspaper correspondents
about matters under discussion at
the semi-weekly meetings. 1t was
thought best for the president him
self to make public such matters as
he deemed proper to be given out.
Hereafter the president will do
this
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-03-15
Killed In Mine Explosion.

Monongahela, Pa, March IAN ex-
plosion in the Catsburg mine of the
Monongahela River Consolidated Coal
and Coke company Thursday resulted
in the death of five men and serious
injury of several others, two fatally.
The dead are Mine Boss Robert How.
ey, aged so, married; James Howey,
aged 20, son of mine boss; Isaac
Eastwood, of Monongahela, 40 years
old, married; John Glider, of Char.
leroi, Pa, single; William McFar.
land, of Monongahela, married.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-03-15
VIEWS NIAGARA.
Prince Visits Falls and Is Much Ina
pressed by Them.

Prince Visits Falls and Ii Much Ina
pressed by Them.
Rochester, N. Y, March 6.-Prince
Henry of Prussia travelled from Chi
cago to Niagara Falls Wednesday,,
crossed the Canadian frontier for a
brief stay, during which he was of
ficially welcomed by the Dominion,
and resumed his journey, at night,
bound for Boston, over the New
York Central line. His longest stop
in almost 80 hours of continuous
travelling was at Niagara Falls,
which he saw bridged in with ice.
He viewed the Horseshoe falls from
Table rock, the American falls from
the ledge over the whirlpool on the
Canadian shore, and rode down the
gorge to point below the lower
whirlpool He was much impressed
by the falls. At 6:15 he was of
again on his way to Boston.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-03-15
A Perfumerx Combine.

Detroit, Mich, March THE News
says: The American Perfume COM
pany, with a capital of $5,o00, 900, is q
combination which will be effected in
a few days by about Is of the largest
perfume manufacturers and handlers
Of the United States. Headquarters
will be established in New York, where
the movement emanates, and there
will be distributing centers in Detroit
and Chicago.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-03-15
Cashier Commits Suicide.

Lincoln, ILL.,, March Crank w.
Cottle, cashier of the Elkhart state
bank, which failed Monday, and who
was accused of being short in his
accounts to the extent of $4,000.
committed suicide at his home
Wednesday evening by blowing the
top of his head off with revolver.
Mr.. Cottle, who has been unwell since
the bank shortage was discovered,
has been brooding over his trouble
and disgrace, and dependency
prompted him to take his own life.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-03-15
Porte Gets Another Note.

+, Constantinople, March 10.-The
American legation here has presented
to the porte the second note referring
to the capture of Miss Ellen NJ. Stone.
In this note it is pointed out that as
Miss Stone was captured, the ransom
paid, and the prisoners delivered in
Turkey, the brigands must be within
the Turkish frontier and should there
fore be captured. The note denies that
the authorities were ever required to
lessen their vigilance on the frontier,
and asserts that only the movements
Of the troops in the interior were in
terfered with.