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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-06-13
For Terrible Asylum Fire
in Chicago.
OFFICIALS PROBING
Tho Case Preparatory to Be-
ginning Criminal Proceed
ings- - Death List Has
Reached Thirteen.

(News-Democrat Leased Wire Service)
Chicago, June 10.-The police coro-
ner and states attorney this morning
began an investigation into the causes
Of. and the Responsibility for the fire
in st. Luke's asylum for inebriates
Monday, which resulted in the death
of thirteen persons and the injury of
over fifty. The probe will be rigorous
and the authorities are confident that
criminal proceedings will be justified
All of the injured are doing well this
morning and it is not expected that the
death roll will be increased.
The victims are: S. ]. Newell, Carl
A. Carlson, Joseph Harrington, Samuel
Dalzell DIR. ]. r. Stanton,J. B. Bishop,
st. Louis, George A. Ribbeck. Hills
dale, Mich, G. S. Gott, Lavergne, H.,
William Kent, alderman of the fourth
ward. Chicago, John B. Knapman,
Mrs. M. Baumann, b. II. Boyd, 78
years old and member of the medical
staff of the institution.
The greater portion Of the patients
in the institution were those taking
cure for the drink habit and those who
were addicted to the use Of drugs.
When the fire broke out there was
on the fifth floor number Of pa
tients suffering from delirium tremens,
and some who we're deranged by drugs
Several of these were slapped to their
beds, and it was found impossible to
save them so rapidly did the fire spread
through the building
The fire originated in the basement
of the building, and spread rapidly to
the upper stories through the elevator
shaft.
As the cry of fire rang through the
building patients sprang from their
beds and before they could be pre-
vented several jumped from the wins
dows. As the windows were filled with
people shrieking for help the firemen
devoted their efforts to save lives and
allowed the fire to burn.
While this was the means Of saving
large number Of people, who were
carried down the LADDERS by the fire.
men, it gave the fire such headway
that there was almost no chance for
those on the upper floors to escape,
and such OF them as were not suffocat-
ed were killed or badly injured by
leaping from the windows.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-06-13
PLEASANT GROVE NEWS.


Pleasant Grove, June 10.--Alfred
Knutson, who. Is In the employ Of the
G. & A. railway company, has invented
an automatic retriever which prevents
the trolley from junming of the wire.
II has been tested on a G. 4 A, car
and works satisfactorily.
j. II. Mcclellan received a telegram
Sunday morning from Milleroches,
Ont, announcing the serious illness of
his mother, who has heart trouble.
Miss Alice B. Hill closed her school
work here Thursday, May 20. with q
picnic for the pupils.
Several young couples from New
Berlin had an outing, Friday. In
Moore's grove
Mrs. John Festerly spent Sunday
with her mother. Mrs. Salinda Treich,
In New Berlin.
w. b. Lesh has sold his milk route
to l.. J. Noaker. of Canton, and in
tends to work at the carpenter trade.
Mrs. Charles Snavely. OF Wester-
ville. is here spending a few weeks
with her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. II. 8.
Graham.
qnorge 3. Schneider Of Massillon.
spent Sunday with his parents.
Everybody Welcomed the rain, farm
Ien apd gardeners In particular,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-06-13
REPR|EVE
OfTayior kidnapers Has
Been Extended BY
Gov. Nash, 100

(News-Democrat Leased Wire Service)
Columbus, June 10.-Governor Nash
today extended the reprieve of the
Taylor women, convicted OF kidnap.ng
Margaret Taylor, of Cincinnati, until
October 10.
This was due to the fact that after
he had made up his mind to let them
go to the penitentiary the parents Of
the kidnapped child, which has been re-
stored, joined last night in request
for pardon.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-06-13
STAMPS SWITCHED
Revenue Collector confisc stes
. Quantity Of WhIskey st
Warren.

\ Warren. o., June 10.---It has been
harmed that a quantity of whisky has
bon confiscated here by General Rev
1ne Collector Harvey 8. Slusser, the
&lsI<y barrels being changed to show
nt the liquor was eight years old.
- the government stamp originally
1o6 Il ~ 1901 manufacture. II is
IS have been sent out by Gin
ooneorp .aAd M, Slusser Is re-
- have nAid Iarte quantities Of
h1oky. ~ beea sent into Ohio,
&lGz1 ond Kentucky.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-06-13
MARRIAGE PERMITS

Leo. C. Weible. 80. and Ida Halter. "a,
Massillon.
Henry e. stroup. Ss. and Kate Jewett,
80. Canton.
John e. Siffert. 80, and vesta v.
Brown, 20, Navarro.
Harry Dixon. 20, and Rose Redman,
"a. Canton.
Jacob schisler. 26 and Agnes Connor.
29,5 Canton.
Robert NJ. Mcmillan ~, and Lucrltia
May Casteel IS, Canton; Frank A. Elm
mer 20. tnd Frances Kagle 20, Canton;
John F. Frouk 50. and Margaret n
Smith ~. Alliance.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-06-13
REMOVAL
OF Bodies of Deceased
Presid ents M a d q
Subject of Bill,

Washington, June 10.-Representa
tive Thompson. of Alabama, has intro
duced a bill appropriating 100000 for
the removal of all deceased presidents
Of the United States except George
Washington to the national cemetery at
Arlington.
The president and governors of the
states are designated as a commission
to make all the necessary arrangements
for the removal.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-06-13
PENSION
First InstaIiment Re-
ceived by Mrs.
Mckinley,

from a Staff Correspondent
Columbus, June 10.--Mrs. Mckinley
has received the first instalment of
the pension of $4,000 per annum al
lowed her by congress. Her voucher
calling for s652.7S for portion OF the
first quarter was received and paid at
the local pension Office Monday. She
will draw $1.25O every three months.
Mrs. James A. Garfields voucher for
$3.50 was also received and paid Mon
day.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-06-13

BELLEFONTAINE.--The ban has
been placed on graphophone music in
saloons by the council Of Bellefontaine
and hereafter 1t is prohibited.
WARREN.-Warren is the only city
in Ohio where Y. M. c. A.. Is main
tained that the association does not
own its own quarters. AT mass meet
ing at the Presbyterian church IT was
decided by fifty business men to go
forward with the work of endeavor-
ing to raise $4,000 for such a project.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-06-13
At SEA
Yale Students Who Wont Sail
ing Have Net Been Heard
Fvom

News-Democrat Leased wIrs servicsl
New Haven, Conn, June 10.-Three
seniors of the Sheffield Scientific
school, who went sailing in a cat boat
from this city yesterday, have not been
seen since and their continued absence
has caused much alarm among their
friends In Yale.
They are G. l.. and G. A. Watson,
brothers, OF Indianapolis, and Hartley
II. Bartlett, Of Worcester, Mass.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-06-13
PLEADED GUILTY AND
RECEIVED SENTENCES
Everett Roiey and Jim Ander.
son Get Fivs and Ton Years
Respectively.

Columbus, June 10-Everett Roby,
who was captured at Moultrie, Colum-
biana county, and his pal, Burglar
Jim" Anderson, pleaded guilty to post
office robberies in the United States cir
cult court here and were sentenced to
serve five years and ten years. respec-
lively, in the Ohio penitentiary.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-06-13
UNCLE OF GOVERNOR
OF New York Disappears With
$500 In His
Pocket.

(News-Democrat Leased Wire Servicc)
Tarrytown. N. T., June 10--Jacob
D. o'Dell. the aged uncle of Gov. Odell,
Of New York, and the neighbor of
John d. Rockefeller, has been myster-
iousiy missing since he went to New
York last Thursday and fear IL ex-
pressed that he met with foul play
or Is detained somewhere. 80
He had $500 with him when no
left.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-06-13

GAI.LIPOLIS.-Monday night Mt
Carlton, small mining village, q l.
200-pound stone fell from an noverhang-
ing rock. badly damaging Sam
Rousch's home. The rock rolled some
two hundred feet before striking the
building. and crashed through the
wall. There were several persons In
the building at the time, but none was
seriously injured.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-06-13
NAMED FOR HELLO" GIRL.

Caldwell, O., June 10.-The Eastern
Ohio Coal company has established a
new town in Noble county along the
Marietta division of the Pennsylvania
railway. which Is named Laura. in
honor Of Miss Laura Mason, the hello"
ptrl of the Independent Telephone
line. " ~ -
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-06-13
COAL DISTRICT IS
SHROUDED| IN GLOOM
Suspension Of Opera tIons Has
Parsiyxed Many Branches Of
Trade --Wright to Meet
Operators Tuesday.

News Democrat Leased Wire Service)
New York. June 10.-Carroll ID.
Wright, labor commissioner, will visit
the coal operators this afternoon.
The coal presidents, judging from
talk with Mr.. Truesdale. of the Della
ware, Lackawanna and Western rail-
way, do not think the inquiry can alter
the situation.
President Truesdale said: 'T shall
receive Mr.. Wright courteously. As to
any change in the situation there is
none. There can be no arbitration"
Wilkesbarre, Pa, June TO- Gloom
has again fallen upon the anthracite
region now that it is generally known
that nothing tangible in the way Of
settlement of the miners strike is ex-
pected to follow the conference be-
tween President John Mitchell and
Carroll d. Wright, United States COM
missioner of labor in New York last
night The complete suspension Of op-
erations has now paralyzed nearly all
lines of trade.
BlueHelds, w. Va, June 10.-- The
strike situation in this district is now
said to be graver than that of 1895.
At least 80 per cent of the entire field,
is tied up. On Saturday but 19C cars
of coal were loaded while on Monday
only about 70 cars Of coal were turned
out. 1t is reported that 400 men at
Black Band on Davis creek, who have
been working will come out, probably
today.
Nanticoke, Pa, June 10.-Two men
and three women were arrested at
Hanover. near here, today, charged
with having incited a riot at the Della
ware. Lackawanna and Western COL
iieries last Saturday and being respon-
L. f~x.,A h. a.,x,, - T-l
and John Fredericks, non-unioh fire.
man and coal and iron policeman. re-
spectively. Prosecution is being press
ed by the coal company.
Fredericks and Sweeney were at
tackled and severely beaten by crowd
Of strikers because th'y refused to de-
sert mines.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-06-13
DOWIE'S ORDERS
start'e Residents OF Zion

Stare'e Hesioents OF Zion
Chicago, June 10.-"Elijah" Dowle
has ordered the Zionites to give no
more SKINNED or sour milk to farmers
because they feed it to hogs, which are
abominatAe to the sect.
Dowie now bars more than eight
hours sleep to his faithful followers,
and says that they will be awakened
by horns He threatens to jail those
who remain out after 10 o'clock in
Zion City.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-06-13
sTEUBENvILLE PREsBYTERY.
(Staff Specially

East Liverpool. June 10.--The
United Presbyterian church In the
east end was comfortably filled Mon
day evening, the occasion being the
opening Of the June s<ssion OF the
stsubenville presbytsry. Many min-
tntsrs were present from surrounding
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-06-13

AOhoWSs
"Hsving had poor health for q great
many months and now having II re-.
stored makes me feel very grateful TO
Peruna. Isuffered a great deaf during
my monthly periods, had severe pains,
and was generally depressed, but can
frufhfuIly say that q few bottles Of Pc
runa has removed all pain and made q
new woman of me..--MISS ALICE
COIN.
The coming Of what is known as the
"new woman" in our country is not
greeted by everyone as II she were .
great blessing. But there Is another
new woman whom everybody Is glad to
see. Every day some invalid woman Is
exclaiming, al have been made a new
woman by DR.. Hartman's home treat
ment." 1t is only necessary to send
name, address, symptoms, duration OF
sickness and treatment already received
to DR.. Hartman, Columbus, o., and direc-
tions for one months treatment will be
promptly forwarded. The medicines
can be obtained at the nearest drug
store.
If you do not derive prompt and satis-
factory results from the use of Peruna,
write ut once to DIR. Hartman, giving a
full statement of your case and he will
be pleased to give you his valuable adj
vice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President OF
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus,
Ohio. -!
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-06-13
NATIONAL GUARD MEET

NATIONAL GUARD MEET.
GERS of the Ohio national guard are en-
camped on the state ground west of
Newark, and another hundred are ex-
peeted to attend the annual officers
meeting. The entire national guard
will come here this year In two
bfigades. In July and August.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-17
LATEST IN POLITICS.

For many months the local eXecu-
tives of the trades union organizations
of Chicago have been engaged In
movement for the establishment of
political organization manned by man
ual workers. The movement has ex-
tended in it's operation as far at least
as Milwaukee, and the propaganda on
behalf of the same has gone out from
those two cities. The recent announce
ment from Chicago, through the press,
now gives a fair understanding OF the
basis upon which it is designed to or
ganize the new political labor move
ment
It does not seem at all credible that
any body of men having an intelligent
conception Of the nature Of American
political institutions, or of the useful
ness of labor organization to their
members and to society in general,
would ever have evolved any such
scheme as that which is now outlined
in the Chicago dispatches. There are
other ways in which members of the
labor movement might successfully as
sail it's usefulness, but it Is extremely
doubtful whether any simpler or more
efficacious way to this end could be
devised than the one of Transforming
the movement into a political machine.
The political programme of the Chi
cago labor people is really unworthy
of consideration. It's closest approach
to doing so is to be found in the pro-
posal of the election by popular vote
of the federal judges, a proposal, by
the way, which was insisted upon by
Thomas Jefferson more strenuously
perhaps than any one other federal
policy. Even that suggestion, however,
is for the time at least out of the do
main Of serious political consideration.
President Gonpers Of the Federation
of Labor very wisely set the seal Of his
condemnation some weeks ago upon
the proposal of the labor unions going
into politics. Every intelligent and re-
ally devoted member of labor ofganiza-
ton who is not afflicted by itch for Of
flee can be relied upon to sustain Pres
ident Gompers' position.
This is a vital matter for labor or
ganization. If the political crusade
thus inaugurated by the Chicago Fed
GRAFTON of Labor should extend to any
considerable number of cities the use
fulness of the trades union movement,
even to it's own members, may well be
said to have neared it's close.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-17
AROUND ROBIN HOODS BARN.

It has been accepted as undeniable
that good share of political shrewd-
ness was manifested by the national
administration in the selection Of the
time and circumstances of the presi-
dents se-called antitrust speech at
Pittsburg on July 4. Congress had adj
journed and the administration major
ity had stood throughout the session
as a bulWark against any effective ac-
ton for the regulation or control of
the trusts. The speech was no doubt in
tended to influence the congressional
campaign then about to open, and the
event has shown that it has been used
for that purpose to the limit by the
campaign committees Of the Republic
an party.
A new departure of the same general
character is now evidently about to be
inaugurated. The current press dis
patches indicate that the leading SEN
ators Of the administration have been
invited to the presidential residence
for consultation on the subject of tar
iff revision. The president is about
to visit the Northwest. The North
west, it is universally recognized, is
the home of aggressive tariff reform.
The forthcoming presidential addresses
| cannot ignore the urgent questions
which are awaiting settlement, grow
i ing out of the existence of the trusts,
which have been fed to their present
| proportions from the high tariff
trough. Hence Senator Hanna, SEN
| ator Spooner, Senator Allison and SEN
ater Platt of Connecticut are in con-
ference with the president for the pur-
pose of meeting the difficulty.
1t would be unsafe to venture upon any
prediction concerning the position
which the president will assume on
the tariff question in his Northwestern
speeches. Judging by the character
the trusts it is pretty certain that none
| of the interests concerned will have
any cause for offense at those speeches.
| Everything possible was done by the
president as an orator in his New Eng-
land speeches to avoid COMMITTING
| himself or his party or administration
to any specific policy on the subject
of the trusts. 1t will be strange in
deed If he does not find as easy way
around Robin Hoods barn In this case
as he did in the other. Whatever the
event proves, it is certain that the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-17
LITTLE WEALTH FOR
THE WHITTAKERS
Bank of England Shows How Numer-
GUS "Heirs" Are Doomed to
Disappointment.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 16.-The
state department made public today the
text of a letter from the chief account
ant of the Bank of England in regard
to numerous inquiries from persons in
the United States relative to alleged
unclaimed estates in England. The
letter says that the bank recently has
received a great number of applications
respecting the Whitaker estate, the
name of Whitaker being variously
spelled.
The original basis of these inquiries,
it is stated, probably is the occurrence
Of the name in lists of unclaimed stock
and dividends published by the bank
in the early part Of the last century.
However, the total amount at present
unclaimed on several accounts with
which the name of Whitaker is con-
nected is less than G100. Some time
ago, it is stated, man called at the
bank and said that he had been dele
gated by the heirs of the Whitaker
estate to Investigate their claim. He
was told that there was no such estate
in the knowledge of the bank, but sub
sequently it was found that it gave
the "heirs" a different version and
spurred them on to renewed efforts.
The inquiries almost all date from the
United States and have been received
since 1897, but never until the present
year in such volume.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-17

line of the Great Northern railway, ex-
tending practically from Minot to west
of Assinniboine, will be the immediate
beneficiaries of this great undertake
ing. Nothing whatever was necessary
to the reclamation of that region and
to the progress of settlement within
it's limits save the movement which
Mr.. Maxwell now declares to be inau-
gurated, as the first step in the ma
tional irrigation policy.
The city Of st. Paul has borne an
active part in the work of promoting
the cause of irrigation. The reward
which is certain to ensue to its busi-
ness interests through the reclamation
of the Milk river valley will fully JUS
tify all the efforts put forward by our
business men and public representa-
tives to promote the enactment of the
irrigation measure into law.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-17
A GOOD BEGINNING.

The address delivered by Mr.. George
II. Maxwell before the Commercial club
yesterday must be regarded as a very
important contribution to the move
ment for the reclamation of the arid
lands. The business community of
st. Paul has a special interest in the
information which Mr.. Maxwell fur
nishes.
The announcement that the first
steps in carrying out the national
policy Of irrigation are to be TAX
en- in the Milk river valley means
that a great section of fruitful country,
the resources of which are practically
untouched and which has always been
tributary to st. Paul, will be opened
to settlement and development. The
city of Great Falls, which is the near
est large commercial center to the
Milk river valley, is in certain sense
the outgrowth of st. Paul enterprise.
There is no richer section of territory
in any state between Minnesota and
the Pacific ocean. Abundance of val
liable metals are to be found within
the area which will be provided with
irrigating@ facilities through the Milk
river improvement The vast table
land included within the district
bounded by Assinniboine and Great
Falls will be made valuable for agri-
cultural purposes. 1t has always been
shcrn Of its greatest value by the al
most total absence of the necessary
water supply.
Outside of the state of Montana the
full significance Of the announcement
made by Mr.. Maxwell will not be ap,
preciated. To the people of Montana
1t means much more, naturally, than
to the people of any other state or ter
ritory, whatever. During the summer
heats the Milk river is practically dry,
but under the operation of the plan
outlined by Mr.. Maxwell as liable to
be pursued by the irrigation commits
sion, reservoir at the head of st.
Mary's lakes will maintain an even
flow in the river and will furnish an
adequate water supply with which to
irr1gate the entire region.
The growing communities along the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-17
MEAT TRUST ACTIVITIES.

When DR.. Ohage, as commissioner OF
public health in st. Paul, inaugurated
his raid against the sale Of unhealthy
meat early last summer it was found
that the packing concerns which con-
stitute the meat trust were the chief,
If not the only, offenders against the
law. Their agents had caused large
quantities of decayed meat, in the
form of sausages, to be disposed Of
among the poorer class of the city's
population. The health commissioner
had the rare degree of courage and
public devotion necessary to secure
the inf1iction of the penalties of the
law upon these INSCRIPTIONS concerns.
Their agents appeared in the police
court, and, being confronted with the
evidence of their criminal misconduct,
paid the fines imposed and the matter
was quietly dropped.
The researches of the state dairy and
food commission, we are now told, have
resulted practically in the same con-
clusion as that reached by DR.. Ohage,
viz: that sausages are the chief agen-
cy through which decayed meat is
placed upon the market after having
been subjected to preservatives, and
that all, or nearly all, the samples of
sausage found on the market, contain
ing borax or other preservatives, were
put there by packing concerns.
In estimating the dangers which are
involved to society through these I'M
scrupulous organizations stress should
be laid upon these raids which they
inaugurate upon the public health.
They are not content to resort to eX-
tortion for their own enrichment, but
they are willing that the public health
should suffer in the pursuit of their
extortionate methods.
1t is now. unfortunately the fact that
there is no law against the sale Of
vitiated meat or to prevent the plac-
ing of such meat upon the market as
wholesome food through the use OF
chemical personalities. This circum-
stance, of course, is taken advantage
of by the packing concerns, and they
have quietly resumed the pursuit of
the criminal offense of which they have
already been convicted in the courts.
Nothing whatever can be said OF
done at this time. either by the press
or public officials, that will put an
end to the commission of this crime.
The representatives of the meat trust
will continue, evidently with innpunity,
to rob the public and to assail the
public health. Indeed, there is no re-
course whatever which is at the dis
posal of the representatives of the
public in the matter except to give the
largest measure of publicity possible
to these criminal operations-which
T h G 10 b e proposes to do.