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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
BIG CEMENT CONCERN
GOES INTO OTHER HANDS

Detroit, Oct J.-The Hecla Portland
Cement and Coal company, with a fac
tory at Bay City. has filed trust mort
gage for $131.S1S. conveying all its
properties in Bay City, Iosco. Ogemaw
and Alpena counties to the Detroit
Trust company as trustees The mort
gage is given for the benefit of the
creditors. to raise funds to liquidate
the Indebtedness and to make possible
certain necessary changes in the plant.
No statement has been issued by the
company, but it is said that the eX
pense of hauling the water soaked
mari, from which the cement is made,
from the beds. fifty miles from Bay
City. to the factory is so heavy as to
make change necessary. 1t is report
ed that the present plant at Bay City
will be made into a limestone Portland
cement plant, for which limestone can
be brought by boat from AIpena at low
cost, and that a mari cement plant will
be installed at the mari beds on Ed
wards lake.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05

laws, Anthony COmstock, of New York,
suffered u fracture of a rib and other
injuries. Accompanied by United
States Marshal Parmalee and deputy
sheriff Comstock went TO Doherty's
home, and leaving his companions out
side entered alone.
DOherty is said to have attempted
to escape. COmstock grabbed the doc
tors coat-tails, stopping him so sud
denly that they both rolled down the
stairs together and as Comstock land
ed underneath he was badly injured
by the fall. COmstOck had his injuries
attended to and was able to return to
New York.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
INCREASE IN NUMBER
OF WOMEN CANDIDATES

Des Moines, Ia, Oct. 5.-There are
more women candidates for public Of
flee i'll Iowa this fall than ever before
and the efficiency of those in the past
promises to aid the aSpirants in their
coming campaign. Over fifty candi-
dates are seeking office, most as county
superintendent of public instruction.
The example set by Mrs. Frank Dob
son, of this city, in entering politics
and taking up the duties of county
recorder in the largest county of the
state has given courage to others and
the woman in politics is no longer
rare sight. AS yet none has ventured to
the state field, but some will lobby for
certain bills to be presented this WIN
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
STATE CONVENTION OF
THE w. C. T. 0. NEXT WEEK

Chicago, Oct. 5.-The state conven-
tion of the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance union Will be held in the Y. NJ.
c. \. auditorium Oct. 1916. Miss Marie
{. Brehm is closing the second year
as president. and at the end of the
first year under her leadership Illi-
nois carried off five prizes at the ma
tionaI w. G. T. L. convention. the first
one being for the largest Increase of
members G,77O) Of any state in the
union. Tuesday, Oct. 10, there will be
an all-day evangelistic service in Viii
lard hail, led by Mrs. Mary f. Kuhl.
The convention proper Will open the
next morning.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
IMPORTANT If TRUE
Turks and BuIgarians Reported
to Have Joined Issues in
a Battle.
THEY MEET ON TIE FRONTIER
Goth Sides Sustaining LOsses-Turks
Are Said To Be Spelling
for a Fight,

Sofia, Bulgaria, Oct. 3. - Serious
news has been received here from the
frontier of fighting between Turkish
and Bulgarian troops at Demir-Kapia,
both sides sustaining losses. In Off
cial quarters all knowledge of the af-
fair is denied, but the circumstantial
details given seem to indicate that
there is some foundation for the &C
counts of the conflict. According to
one report the Turks attacked the
Bulgarian frontier post. Another ver-
sion says the Turks pursued num-
bcr of refugees across the frontier.
Turks Try to Provoke a Fight.
1t is asserted that the Turks have
frequently attempted To provoke hos
tilities, firing into bulgarian territory
and crossing the frontier to steal
horses and sheep. The war office here
is working at high pressure and 24,000
recruits will be called three months
before the usual time. Prince Ferdi-
nand has sanctioned numerous other
measures of a warlike natue. All the
cavalry with the exception of single
regiment, which is stationed ut Sofia,
has been sent into the frontier dis
tricts, where are strong forces of artil-
tery
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
Cecil Rhodes SchoIarship.

Iowa City, Ia, Oct. 5.-President G.
e. MacLean, the chairman of the Iowa
committee on selection of the Cecil
Rhodes scholars, has received an Off
cfaI notice from the trustees of the
Cecil Rhodes will that the first cleo
ton of scholars in the United States
will be made in February and May of
next year. One scholarship of $1,5O0
fOr three successive years will be
awarded to Iowa for selection next
spring. All candidates desiring to
compete will be required to notify
President q. +. MacLean, of the Uni
vcrsity of Iowa.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05

lam Jennings Bryan. The chancellor of
the Nebraska Wesleyan university, DR..
Huntington. an Old-time friend of the
bride and her parents, was the officiat-
ing clergyman. The only relative of
the groom present was his mother,
Mrs. y. L. Leavitt, of Newport. r. 1.
The young wife is just IS years old,
and her husband is 32. u native of
Massachusetts and a portrait painter.
The couple fell in love while Leavitt
was at Fairview painting Colonel Bry-
ans portrait. The bride and groom
left at once for St Louis, where they
Will visit friends. and will then travel
for Il time in the east. Leavitt is q
WidoMer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
Seven Killed in Tornado
at St Charles,
MINI.
TOWN NEARLY GONE
Lake Steamer CapSized
and Eleven We're
Drowned.

st. Paul, Mimi, Oct. 5.-The little
town of st. Charles, in WinOna coun-
ty, was almost completely wiped out
by a tornado. Seven people were killed
and twenty-eight were injured, many
of them seriously. The dead are. John
Ebens. Sr.; William Ebens, his soE;
VIII Adams, Oscar Crittenden, George
lesson, Ed Murphy, and Ed Peters,
of Dover, Minn.
The names of the injured are at this
writing unObtainable. as wire COM
municatiOn with the stricken village Is
altogether cut off.
Forty-Two Residences Swept Away.
The entire main street of the town
was literally wiped out, hardly a busi-
ness place being left standing. For
fy-two residences also were destroyed
and the total property damage is es-
timated at 100000. Among the build
ings demolished were the Central
school building, the Chicago Great
Western station, the Roman Catholic
church and Parrott'S Wagon works
The day being Saturday the country
people from the surrounding farms had
gathered in large numbers in the main
street to do their customary shopping.
Killed in COIlapsing Buildings.
Four of those killed We're i'll John
Ebens' saloon when it collapsed, and
they were buried beneath the wreck
age. Two others were in a dry goods
store which was blown away. and they
were killed by the falling walls Ed
Peters, of Dover. was killed in the
wreck of the hotel. The storm came
up on the town with such suddenness
that it was filling the air with the
debris of demolished buildings before
the citizens fully realized the nature
of the calamity. Damage to farm
buildings, dwellings and grain stacks,
without injury to human begins. but
death to live stock is reported from
several points on the line between Min
neSOta and Iowa.
Five Persons Fatally Hurt.
Following is an incomplete list Of
the injured: Jacob Melm (farmer),
Millie Johnson. Robert Pike farmers
boy, Z. II. ROckaway, and Jacob Muir
phy-a1 fatally hurt; d. J. Chandler,
head cut: Ezra Stevens, foot crushed;
Agent Waite, of the Chicago Great
Western, bruised; L. Sheridan, back
spraiTed; Judge Edward Gould, both
legs broken; c. w. Babcock, of Chica-
go, leg fractued, feet crushed and face
lacerated; - - Slesinger, farmer,
badly bruised; William Stevens,
bruised; Mrs. DIR. Rollins, shoulder dis
located, ankle sprained; Baby Rollins,
face cut; family of six, names not
given, all slightly injured
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
LAKE STEAMER GOES DOWN
j. HI. HackIey Capsizes and Eleven Are
Drowned, Including the Captain.

j. HI. HackIey Capsizes and Eleven Are
Drowned, Including the Captain.
Marinette, Wis, Oct. 5.-During a
squal on Lake Michigan the steamer
]. II. Hackley capsized and eleven
persons were drowned. The Goodrich
line steamer Sheboygan rescued the
other seven persons on board the Hack
ley after they had floated about on
pieces of weckage all might. The Hack
ley was stuck by hte squall when sew
en- miles off Green island. The upper
work was blown away before the men
could reach a haven. The boat then
turned over and went down in deep
water.
The drowned are: George lie Claire,
Jr., Jackson Port, Wis; Joseph V.
Crus (captain). Edna Barringer. Law
renee Rabioy, Carl Kelky, and Fire
man Sharp-all of Fish Greek, Wis. :;
Miss Frances Vincent and her sister,
Egg HGrbor, Wis; Nels Nelson, Stur-
geon Bay; Frank Fitzgibbons, Jack
son Port.
The rescued Frank Blakefield
OurseD. 0rrin RQllil -(engineerl. and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
Pool sellers, uniuue Injunction.

Omaha. Oct. 5.--V. L. Chucovich. Of
Denver, proprietor of pool room, Sc
cured court order directing that the
pool rooms shall not be referred to AZ
gambling joint" and specifically
enjoining the police and the sheriff
from arresting patrons of the place as
gamblers. This unique injunction Will
be in force pending Il hearing in Il
case in which Chucovich and his en-
pIoyes are charged with gambling.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
GENERAL TYNER
is ALSO INDICTED
Among Large Number Against
Whom True Bills are
Found.

Washington. oct. 5.-The federal
grand jury, which has been investi-
eating the postoffice department. re-
ported large number of indictments
this afternoon. Among the indicted
are Gen. James y. Tyner. formerly as
sistant attorney general of the post
office department. and Harrison j..
Barrett. his assistant. They are
charged with conspiracy to defraud
the government.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
STORM ALSO HITS WISCONSIN

Several Killed and Many Injured with
Large Destruction of Property.
Milwaukee, Oct. "a terrific wind
storm, approaching a cyclone, swept
over Wisconsin, causing death and
destruction. At independence two per-
sons were killed, three fatally injured
and a score of other badly hurt At
Eagle Valley the Reformed church was
demolished and houses on the prairie
were swept away. At RaciHe trees
Were blown down. also electric light
and telephone wires. and half of the
city is in total darkness. Carl Lar
son. a painter. 50 years old and
prominent member of the Dania so
ciety, was killed by electricity on
State street. He ran into a telephone
wire on the sidewalk, charged with
electricity.
Thomas Galroth was killed and two
men injured by the demolition of Il
farm house at Trempealeau. BarabOO
reports a rain more severe than was
ever known in that section, lasting
three hours. Fully four inches of wat
er fell. Many buildings and wind mills
were blown down, cellars flooded and
several washouts reported. At Osh-
kOsh a terrific wind and rain storm
ragged. The wind blew at fully fifty
miles a nhOur. George Burdick, par
eel delivery man. was shocked by
falling wire and his horse killed. Bur
dick up to n late hour had not regained
his speech, though he had recovered
consciousness.
Three persons are reported to have
been killed at the home of Albert Holtz
near Waupaca. The storm was most
severe at BIain and moved a wide
swath, and great damage and loss of
life is reported at Sheridan.
Two Hurt in One Family.
st. Paul, Mimi, Oct. 5.-A tornado
passed three miles north of Chatfield,
Mimi. destroying houses and barns.
John Patterson's daughter had an arm
broken and one of his sons was prob
ably fatally injured. \ severe wind
and electrical storm accompanied by
the heaviest rain fall of the year. Wis
tied the vicinity of Luverne, Mimi,
reports show heavy losses to farm
buildings. wind mills and grain in
stack.
Storm-SheIter Was Their Death.
St. Cloud, Mimi, Oct. 5.-Two boys,
sons of Stephen Matter, were killed
while seeking refuge from the storm.
They had taken shelter beneath a
string of cars on the railway siding
and a switching crew backed another
string of cars upon them, killing them
instantly.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
InVadeS Affairs of Ma
tiOnaI Tube Com
pany.
employees HELD. UP
Officials Charge Them
Fixed Amount for
Their Jobs.

AIcKe6sport, Pa. Oct. 3. - General
Manager q. q. Crawford of the Ma
tional Tube works. at McKceSport, has
begun an investigation i'll what is said
to be one of the bOldest steals III the
history of the company among it's
employees. According to information
given to Crawford number of fore
men, sub-fOremen, superintendents and
heads of departments has been regu-
IarIy receiving tribute from the work
men in the mills, hundreds of whom
are compelled to pay a certain per-
centage of their wages to the bosses"
in order TO retain their jobs or TO gain
steady work The levying of assess
mentS on the wOrkmen by the bosses
is said to have been going on for at
least five years. The money has been
regularly collected by the bosses.
Practical Among the Foreigners.
The scheme has been practiced al
most exclusively among the foreign
erS in the mills, owing TO there being
less danger OF discovery. The system
was first exposed to Crawford by
Alexander Fisher. who has been enl-
ployed in the tube mills for more than
nine years Crawford Immediately
called III. some of the other officials of
the plant, and for more than an hour
they were in consultation with Fish
err Later in the day Fisher returned
TO the Office with Samuel White and
William Feldman. both of whom were
employed in the mill, and both OF
whom allege that they had paid money
TO bosses.
Statements Are Itemized.
Their statements. containing names,
dates. amounts of money paid. and af-
fidavits, are now in the hands of the
general manager, who viii this week
have the accused men before him
Mana ger Crawford was told by Fish
er than for about five years he haG
paid 81 out of his wages every pay
day to the boss under whom he
worked, and that the money was col
lected at his house on Spring street.
He also told Crawford that his home
was the meeting place for a number Of
his fellOw-wOrkmen on pay days. and
that as high as 500 has been taken
from the men assembled when the boss
arrived.
No One Allowed 10 Get Away.
About three months ago Fisher was
discharged from the mill as a result,
he alleges of his efforts to have the
others join him in a move to stop the
payment of the money to bosses. Some
of the latter are said TO have heard OF
trouble, and ordered Fishers dis
charge. Six other men. including
Feldman and White, We're also dis
charged at the same time. Soon after
they were all reinStated in their po-
sitionS. one by one, including Fisher,
but the latter quit few days ago OF
his own accord. According to the stories
of all the men there is not a man i'm
the laboring departments of the milE
that is not compelled to pay a per-
centage of his wages to hold his job.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
BIOOdhOundS Pursue
Escaped Woman Convict

Valdosta. Ga. Oct 5.-For 10 hours
Saturday Blanche Smith. woman
convict, was chased by bloodhounds.
The woman succeeded i'm eluding the
dogs until nightfall when she was
forced to climb tree to escape being
torn to pieces. The guards found her
sitting in the fork of a tree exhaust
ed, while the bloodhounds were bay
ing below. The woman escaped from
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
Unions Business Agent
Gives Orders to Mayor

Derby, Conn, Oct. 5.-Stephen H.
Charter, the labor mayor of Ansonia,
was ordered off job Saturday by
Joseph Clancy, business agent of the
New Haven branch of the structural
bridge and iron workers union. An
sonia's mayor and another carpenter
we're engaged in laying steel bars in
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
COLOR RUSH TOOK
PLACE ANYHOW
All but Three Students of Ohio Col
lege Suspended for TAX
ing Part.

Akron. Ohio. Oct 5.-President
Church, i'm chapel exercises at Buchte;
college, this morning made speech
prohibiting the color rush. As soon
as chapel was over the upper class
men went after the freshmen and tore
their colors off. Bloody noses and
torn clothes were in evidence. The
faculty Immediately suspended every
man in college except three.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05

the convict camp in the morning and
the dogs were Immediately put on her
trail. She took to the cane brakes
along the river and by doubling on
her tracks kept the hounds at fault.
When freed she was almost nude. her
clothing having been torn from her
by briars and thorns. Much indigna-
ton is expressed because the hounds
were put ON the woman's trail.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
He Got Out of the Cage Alive.

Joliet, H., Oct. "a lioness savage
Iy attacked it's trainer, Captain Briggs,
at the street carnival here. While
Briggs was in a cage with the lioneSs
and several hundred people We're look
ing on the ANIMAL became enraged,
sprang upon Briggs and bit him in the
abdomen, thigh and hand. BY firing
revolver. while employees alta cked the
animal with irons, Briggs got out of
the cage.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05

the house being built by the city for
the Eagle Hose company. Clancy.
seeing them at work, putting. in the
beams, demanded that ops rations
cease, as the beams, he said, must be
laid by members of the iron workers
union. The mayor stopped at once
and work on the building is now at a
standstill
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
morphine Bottle ToId the story.

Fort Wayne, Ind, Oct. 3. =. Peter
Lobse, who came here from South Chi
cago, was arrested in Il yard in the
rear of house a block from the ho-
tel for trespaSs and drunkenness. Next
morning he was found dead in his cell.
He had an empty morphine bottle in
his pocket
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
Insane Man Fights to
See the Presi-
dent.
LANDS IN HOSPITAL
Is DiSarned in a Battle
With a Police
man.

Washington, Oct. "a man who
gave his name as Peter Elliott and
his home Minneapolis engaged in n
fight with policeman at the White
House today. Both the policeman and
Elliott were slightly injured and TAX
en- to a hospital.
Early in the day Elliott appeared
at the executive offices and asked to
see the president. He was mild-man-
nered and the officials told him to
come back later. Some time after he
appeared at the White House and
while talking to Officer Cissell drew a
revolver. In the struggle that ensued
he was disarmed.
Elliott is undoubtedly violently in
sane. Several days ago Secretary
Loeb received a letter postmarked
Washington and written on the let
ter paper of the st. James hotel. The
letter enclosed photograph of Eli
oft and an incoherent request for an
interview with Roosevelt. Loeb, be-
lieving the correspondent insane. is
sued directions to the White House
officers to be on their guard against
him.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
DrownInr DRIVES Insane.

Caseville, Mich. Oct. 5.-By the cap
sizing of skiff containing George
Hoether. a farmer, his wife and four
children, on Pigeon river yesterday,
three children were drowned. The
father is insane as a result of the
tragedy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
Queen VICTORIA IubiIee Presents.

st. Louis. Oct Thirty-eight cas-
kets containing the jubilee presents of
Queen Victoria. which will be dis
played during the Worlds fair, have
arrived from Toronto, Can, accom-
panied by heavy Canadian guard.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
Color LING at BERLIN

Berlin, Oct 5.-The negro residents
here. of whom there are about 200,
mostly United Statesan, have com
planned to the police recently of various
attacks made on colored men by stone
throwing. etc
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
Carrie Nations Ex-Husband Dead.

Wichita, Kan, Oct. 5.-David Ma
ton. divorced husband of Mrs. Car
rie Nation, was taken i'll of stomach
trouble at Medicine Lodge, Kan, and
Ia dead
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
Bissen Reported Dying.

Buffalo. Oct DIR. Dewitt Sher-
man, attending former Postmaster
General Wilson :. Bissell. said this
morning the. e.latter was dying.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
WEDDING OF RUTH
BRYAN SOLEMNIZED
Union With William Homer LeavitI
Took Place Saturday
Night.

Lincoln, Neb., Oct 5.-The marriag ge
of Miss Ruth Baird Bryan and Will
lam Homer Leavitt was sOlemnized at
Fairview, the country home of Will
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
ANTHONY COMSTOCK
SERIOUSLY INJURED
Falls Down Stairs in Catching q
Fugitive From
Arrest.

New Haven, Conn, Oct. 5.-In serv-
ing warrant which resulted in the
arrest of DIR. ]. J. Doherty, of this
city, for alleged violation of the E-ail
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
Was a SocialIst.

Minneapolis, Oct 5~-Inquiries de-
veloped the fact that Peter Elliott, Il
machinist of this city, has not been
seen about his old haunts for several
months. He was "A familiar figure in
the neighborhood where he roomed,
being generally considered rather pc
cular. He talked much of socialism.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
Miners Return to Work.

Springfield, Oct 5.-The miners in
eight mines of the Springfield sub
district. with the exception of two
shafts, who struck Friday, returned to
work today.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
Destitute Refugees DYING.

Vigorous efforts are being made TO
prevent bands from crossing into
Turkish territory. TWO bands which
were sent back have reached Sofia.
Dispatches from the frontier received
at the revolutionary headquarters re-
port that the refugees in the noun
tains are in terrible condition. through
their pursuit by the Turks and cold
and hunger. Many are dying.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
Sought Interview at church.

Yesterday when the president was
attending morning services at Grace
Reformed church Elliott appeared at
the entrance of the church and made
an effort to speak to the president,
but was foiled by secret service Off
GERS and quietly left the vicinity at
their request. About 10 this morning
he entered the vestibule of the eNecu-
tive offices when his arrest followed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
Iowa Pioneer Dead.

Cedar Rapids. Ia. Oct >. - Abel
Washburn, pioneer settler, is dead at
Quasqueton. He was 1O5 years old.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-05
Even, Mich, Struck.

Negaunee, Mich. Oct. 5.-The report
reached here today that the town of
Even was struck by cyclone Satur-
day, causing a property loss of $780,
900. One man was killed and four ia
tally hurt. Several sustained lesser
injuries.