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The Grit-advocate., 1904-05-13
Republican State Convention.

The republican state convention
which met in the Broadway theater in
Denver last Saturday, was a harmoni-
GUS one and was representative of the
entire party of the state. Six tried
and true republicans were elected as
delegates to the republican national
convention and a splendid platform OF
principles was adopted.
Ex-senator Wolcott was chosen tenn
porary chairman Of the convention and
he was also elected to head the delega'
ton to the national convention. Gov
ernor James H. Peabody, A. M. Stew.
enson, T. F. Walsh, n. Walter Dixon
and S. S. Downcr, are the other dele.
gates elected.
The platform adopted endorsed the
administration of President Roosevelt,
and pledged the Colorado delegation
to use every effort to secure his nomi.
nation: Governor Peabody's action in
cndeavoring to maintain law and ord
er throughout the state was heartily
endorsed, aud his candidacy for re-
election was encouraged; altogether,
the principles expressed in the plat
form we're such as might be expected
from a convention of republicans in
which the members OF the party were
in harmony with the national and state
administrations and with each other
They are principles upon which a
glorious victory will be won this fall.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-01-06
REYES AWAITS A REPLY.
officials Considering How Colombia
Should Pc Answered

State department officials have under
consideration the nature of the reply
which Is to be made to the note of
General Reyes. the Colombian minis
ter. regarding the action of the United
States I'm connection with affairs
growing out of the secession of the
department of Panama. Just when
the answer is to be ready is not de-
fnitely known.
General Reyes Is anxious for an
early reply, and the state department
oflo ials are equally as anxious that
the matter shall be disposed of as
quickly as is consistent with care
full preparation of the administration s
answer.
The Colombian note contains a
statement of the grievances which
that country claims to have suffered
under the interpretations put on the
treaty of 1876. II discusses these
grievances In calm and dignlfed
tone. and sets out reasons which Gen.
eral Reyes claims supports the con-
tention he has made. The probable
lty Is there will be several diplomatic
exchanges between Colombia and the
United states before anything like a
conclusion of the discussion of the
matters at issue Is reached.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-01-06
JAIL DOORS BROKEN IN.
Congressman Succeeds In Dispensing
Angry Men Bent on Lynching.

A mob of LOCO men and boys sur
rounded the county jail at Council
Bluffs. Iowa. and battered in the doors
in an attempt to lynch two negroes.
George Williams and Nicely thinner
man, charged with assaulting two
white women Friday night. and were
dispersed only when Congressman
Smith appealed to the mob through
George Sanders. husband of one of the
assaulted women.
The Mayor and all the policemen
of Council Bluffs were unable to dis
suade the rioters from their attack on
the jail. although the policemen re.
peatedly charged the mob.
Congressman Smith arrived just as
the mob crushed in the front doors
of the Jail with railroad iron. He
rushed through the crowd and secured
the attention of Sanders, urging him
to go home and let the law take its
course.
Sanders listened and then started
for home. Congressman Smith
mounted the Jail steps and urged the
members of the mob to disperse. tell
ing them that Sanders had already
gone. This had the desired effect
and inside of half an hour the Jail
grounds were deserted.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-01-06
TRAIN WRECKS CAUSE -FOUR DEATHS
RAN INTO OPEN SWITCH.
Passengers Aroused from sleep by the
Crash-Suffer In Cold-Both
Engines Wrecked.

In wreck of fast passenger train
No. 22 on the Lake Shore Railroad,
near Ashtabula. o.. three men were
killed and six injured.
The dead: George Mcintosh. OF
Buffalo, N. Y. an engineer. Devllle
Spring. of Collinwood, o.. an engineer.
@. w. Kelptin of Buffalo. a fireman.
The injured; q. II. Wood, porter, of
Boston. Mass. F. J. Moore. porter.
of New York city. f. l.. Gage, bag
gageman, of Ashtabula. o. A. G.
Hisley. fireman. of Collnwood. G..
w. Fowler, of Chicago. II. Freytag.
of Chicago
None of the injured are believed to
be seriously hurt. Train No. 20
was thrown from the rails by striking
an open switch in Saybrook, not far
from the Ashtabula boundary line. II
was running at about 60 mileS an
hour. There were seven coaches in
the train and these were drawn by
two large Lake Shore engines. The
locomotives were both thrown cross
wise of the track and are a total
wreck. Some of the cars were thrown
upon their sides. others plowed deep
into the roadbed.
The passengers were asleep when
the crash came. Many of them
ctawled through the broken windows.
Being attired in their night clothes
some of them suffered from the cold
until help arrived. Physicians and
ambulances from Ashtabula rendered
prompt assistance.
The Boswell accommodation on the
Somerset & Cambria branch was
wrecked near Somerset. Pa.
The dead: Engineer T. X. Carri-
gan. of Rockwood; thrown under his
engine and crushed to death.
Fireman Charles Thomas and brake.
man s. II. Mostollor were injured
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-01-06
MOVING ICE CAUSES BIG LOSS.
Damage at Cincinnati Amounts to
100000 and Pittsburg Loses
$4,000.

The ice which has been forming
in the Ohio river for several weeks and
had accumulated in several big gorges
near Cincinnati broke loose and moved
down stream under the influence of
the milder weather and the rising river
doing a great deal of damage.
Twenty-Five barges loaded with 90
900 bushels of coal were swept down
stream and against the Southern rail-
road b;idge and other distractions and
nearly all sank. The barges. worth
s25, 900. belonged to the Monongahela
River Consolidated Coal and Coke
Company of Pittsburg. and the coal,
valued at several thousand dollars. be-
longed to the Cincinnati Gas and Elec-
trio Light Company.
Two big timber RATS. valued at sIO.-
900. were swept away. Other barges
lost will run the to.al loss up to $780,
900.
The packet steamboat Grapevine
was sunk at the landing. by an ice
gorge. being the second boat sunk here
by ice within a week. The loss of the
Grapevine, including cargo. is over
$4,000.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-01-06
BUSINESS BRIEFS.

The Westinghouse Machine Com.
pany yesterday declared the regular
quarterly dividend of 2h per cent,
payable January II.
II is said that the Pressed Steel Car
Company will close its fiscal year
with a surplus of Sl,600.000. as com
pared with SS,4O3 600 last year.
Net earnings of the Cambria Steel
Company for the current year are es
timated at $3,000,OO0.
The regular 3 per cent semi.annual
interest on Wabash debenture AS has
been declared. No action was taken
on the BIS, on which rumor said some
time ago interest would be paid.
The directors of the Delaware
Lackawanna and Western railway
have declared the regular quarterly
dividend of IA per cent.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-01-06
ASK FOR ARBITRATION.
Police Accompany Funerals to Prevent
Strikers From interfering.

More hearses. driven by non-union
men. were used by the Chicago under
takers Sunday in conducting funerals
than at any time since the livery driv-
ers went on strike. but in every case
policement rode on the box with the
driver. In one or two instances regu-
lar funeral professions of hearses and
carriages drove to the cemeteries.
In answer TO the notification sent
out by the Liyerymen's Association
yesterday, that the places Of all the
strikers would be filed at once unless
the strikers applied for their old jobs,
more than 100 men are said 10 have re-
turned to work.
Norman Larson. said to be a union
teamster, was arrested for interfering
with a hearse which was returning
from Rose Hill cemetery, Larson, with
two companions. stopped the hearse
and tried to unhitch the horses, but
seeing two policemen approaching the
three men ran away. The police gave
chase and caught Larson. The other
two escaped.
At a meeting Of the Livery Drivers
Union it was decided to ask the Chi
cago board of arbitration to intercede
in behalf Of the union and endeavor to
settle the trouble by arbitration.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-01-06
Church Choir Struck.

Melville Church. the leading Presby-
terian place of worship in Westmount,
the fashionable residential suburb of
Montreal, was without a choir Sun
day. In his sermon on Christmas
morning Rev. T. w. Winfield. pastor
of the church, severely criticised the
members of the choir for eating candy
during the progress of the service. AS
result of the criticism, deputation
from the choir waited upon the rever-
end gentleman on Saturday and re-
quested a retraction. This he refused
to make. and as a result the choir
without an exception, went out on
strike.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-01-06
LIONS FOR ROOSEVELT.
Commercial Treaty signed with EN-.
peror OF Abyssinis.

The United States expedition to
Abyssinia. under Consul General
Skinner. of Marsellles. which arrived
at Adiz Abeba. December 21. has sue
cessfully executed the principal feat
ures of the mission A treaty be-
tween the United States and the en-
pire of Ethiopia, opening for the first
time friendly commercial relations.
has been signed Emperor MeDelik
has given his formal acceptance of the
invitation to participate in the st.
Louis exposition.
AS a personal tribute from Emper-
or Menelik to President Roosevelt Mr..
skinner has been charged to deliver
to the President two lions and a pair
of elephant tusks. Each member OF
the American party has been tender
cd a decoration. the acceptance of
which Is held in allegiance. owing to
the official character of the exped-
tion. The closing audience granted
by Emperor Menclik to Mr.. Skinner
and the leaders of the American es-
cort was particularly cordial.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-01-06
AIR LINE CHARTERED.
Railway Projected from Hudson Bay
to Argentina.

The Pan.American Railway Com
pany. with headquarters at Guthrie.
and with s250.000.000 capital stock to
build a line from Port Nelson. On
Hudson bay. to the Argentine Re-
public. has been chartered.
From Port Nelson the road Is to
run via Winnepeg through North and
South Dakota. Nebraska. Kansas.
Oklahoma, Indian Territory and Tex.
as. thence through Mexico Central
America. Panama. Colombia. Ecuador
and Peru. into the Argentine Repub.
lie. A branch line is provided run.
ming from Peru through While to Val
paraiso. The total length is 10000
miles. The incorporators. as named
in the charter, are w. b. and G.. r.
Davis. c. ID. Farmer, II. c. lies and
Edward Hillman. of Arlington, Okla.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-01-06
Hard to Exterminate.

The captain of well-known Aus
tralian clipper. the Caduceus. wishing
to clear his ship of rats, offered his
crew a glass of grog for every rodent
killed or captured The result was
speedily apparent in the diminished
number of rats, yet, somehow or other.
there We're always n few, the crew.
anxious for supplies of grog. having
devised a means of manufacturing
them out of oakum. The captains cu-
rlosity was aroused one day by notic-
ing a supposed rodent floating very
flight" on the port quarter. He waited
his chance, and when the next man ap-
peared with rat the captain re-
marked: Throw it to windward." The
result was dead against the sailor, for
the oakum rodent was blown back onto
the poop. Thenceforth there We're no
more rats and no more extra grog.-
Shipping World.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-01-06
DoWlE WILL TRAVEL.
Bids Farewell to Zion Promising to
Return in June.

Preparatory to leaving for Aus.
tralia, John Alexander Dowie bade
farewell to his Chicago adherents at
a meeting in the Auditorium Sunday.
Standing room was at a premium
After an all-night watch meeting" in
Zion City, New Years eve, Dowie
will leave for New Orleans and will
travel to San Francisco via the South.
western route, stopping at various
large cities en- route. He intends to
sail from the latter port January 81,
and counts on being back in Chicago
next June.
Il am agoing to leave everything in
Zion City. and not steal away with
either the lace works or the temple,
said Dowie. THAT was a malicious
lie about my wife taking away $1,000
600, but I'm foolish enough TO deny 1t
again. will only take with me
enough cash for spending money"
Several times in the course of his
remarks Dowie spoke In a friendly
manner of President Roosevelt. and
In his prayer asked that Mr.. Rcose.
yelts enemies be circumyented and
forestalled In carrying out their mis-
chievous plans" '''s '--' ~
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-01-06
TELEGRAPHIc BREvITIEs.

The Jewish societies have appealed
to the President to do something for
their race in Russia.
Federation of Labor has advised work
men not to accept reduction.
Hon. Richard Olney has consented
to allow his friends to use his name
for the Democratic nomination.
The pudding department of the
Spang -Chalfant mills at Etna. Pa, has
resumed. Four hundred employees
returned to work after a shutdown of
eight weeks.
According to the Spanish newspa-
pers. a project is on foot for the mar
rlage of King Alfonso to his cousin.
the Princess Maria del Pillar of Ba-
varia. She is 10 years of age.
Captain Dreyfus. accused of treason
to his country. degraded, dismissed
from the French army and most bitter
ly punished. will have another trial.
this time by a civilian tribunal.
William Daily, of Seneca county,
serving 20 years in the Ohio penlten-
tiary for manslaughter, was shot and
killed in the state shop by Guard J.
w. Craiger, of Drake county. The
shooting was in self.defense.
The White Star line has ordered a
steamer 755 feet in length. 80 feet
longer than the Celtic, the largest ship
in the world. Construction on the
vessel will begin Immediately at Bel.
fast, ireland.
MIS-. Hetty Green, the richest
woman in America. has gone back
to Hoboken and taken little nat
in a building which she rents for SIS
per month. Mrs. Green has with
her her dog Dewey" and her maid.
Soon after the beginning of the year
some of the largest manufacturers OF
patent medicines will, IL Is stated, put
into effect new plan to stop the cut
ting of prices on such articles by drug
, gists and department stores.
AT the request of the state depart
ment, Secretary Moody sent a cable
gram to Rear Admiral Sterling. com
manding the Asiatic squadron to dis
patch a warship to Chemulpo, Korea
to protect American interests there.
Senator David f. Buns. of Grand
Rapids, Mich, was held to the present
term of the Superior Court by Police
Judge Haggerty, on the charge OF ac
cepting a bribe in the water deal. He
gave bend of $4,000,
At Joplin, Mo-. Bert Barron. aged
II, shot and killed his father, Matthew
Barron, while protecting his mother
from an assault. The elder Barron
was intoxicated. Young Barron, who
is under arrest. says the shooting was
accidental.
Mrs. Helen Minerva Wardnei
Evarts, widow of ex-senator william
NJ. Evarts. died on the old Evarts
farm, Runnymede, at Windsor, VT.
after having survived her husband
nearly three years. Mrs. Evarts was
In her saith year.
Mrs Elizabeth Morgan. of Scranton
has brought suit against the West
moreland Electric Company Of
Greensburg, which was recently
merged with the West Penn Heat
Light & Power Company. for $50, ,O0(
for the death of her son, William G
Morgan, who was electrocated.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-01-06
A Ouaint PeopIe.

The heart of Brittany never changes.
but its face Is rapidly losing many of
its prominent characteristics with the
levellng influence of the French repub-
T.. 1t is only far out Of the beaten
track, now, or on special occasions like
fetes. that you see universally the CO.'S
tunes and customs of the old Armor-
lean peninsula. Only an hours jour-
ney from Qulmper, the modernized
chief town of Finistere, and you are
among the Bigoudines, people whose
dress suggests the Eskimos and Chin
ese, whose faces are strongly MongO-
liam in type, and who in language, Gus.
toms, and beliefs seem to have no re-
lation with the rest OF France. More
and more the picturesque problem they
present is coming to attract attention.
Artists. students. and tourists alike
are fascinated by it.-From Andre Sag
Go's "The Bigoudines," in the Century,
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-01-06
HUNDREDS KILLED IN THEATER.
Victims We're Mostly Women and Children Who
Were Attending the Matinee.
SAFETY APPLIANCES FAILED TO WORK.

cony, the bodies were found In black.
ened heaps. piled five feet deep.
Blackened corpscs were packed and
wedged In the alsles. In the wreck of
iron chairs. In the sections of the
balcony that did not collapse bodies
were found wedged upright in the
wreck. the flesh burned from the
blackened bones. Scores and scores
of bodies were burned to crisps.
Police and citizens volunteers.
crying over the sight that their ratt.
ling axes have revealed. stopped wa
gons In the streets and impressed them
as hearses for the dead. In these
wagons-vehicles of every dcscrip-
tion-bodles were heaped like cord
wood covered with taupaulins and
hauled to the stores and rooms that
were turned into death houses.
Ghouls by the score flocked to the
scene of the theater and began rob
bing the dead. They crushed
through the doorways of the temper
aiy morgues by the hundreds in the
guise of frantic mourners seeking for
their lost relatives. and they carried
off rings. watches and purses and jew.
police.
The lroquOls theater was completed
less than two months ago at a cost Of
100000 and was the finest playhouse
In Chicago. II was opened &c the
public on the night of November 23
with "Mr. Bluebeard." The style of
the structure architecturally Is that
of the French renaissance. It had a
total seating caracity of 1.724 chairs,
with plenty of good standing room on
each floor. The balcony had seat
ings for AIS. II was projected and
owned by Messrs. VIII ]. Davis and
Harry Powers, of Chicago. Klaw &
Erlanger. of New York. and Nixon &
Zimmerman. of Philadelphia 1t was
built In the north side of Randolph
street, between State and Dearborn
streets. 1t was . syndicate house.
In personal inspection of the ruins
Mayor Harrison discovered the fire es-
cape doors and emergency exits had
not been marked Exit" as required
by law. and in addition found the
doors were concealed with heavy
damask Alderman William Mayor,
one of the practical builders accom-
panying the mayor. found the law had
been violated in that the top gallery
had no stairway of its own leading
direct to the street. He asserted that
the theater never should have been al
lowed to open in the face of this vlo-
lation of the laws.
Twenty.seven employees of the thea.
ter and the "Mr. Bluebeard" Extrava-
ganza Company are under arrest.
Eight were formally arIaigned before
Magistrate Caverly, charged with in
voluntary manslaughter due to Grim
inal negligence.
Will ]. Davis and Harry ]. Pow
ers, managers of the ill-fated play
house. were called before Chief of Po-
lice O'Neill. They are said to have
given the name Of an employe as the
man responsible for the fire. This
man has left the city. 1t is charged
that the theater authorities are seek
ing to make him the scapegoat.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-01-06
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Inquisitive Person-"What are those
peculiar looking things:" Dealer
Pressed family skeletons for the clos
cts of fat dwellers. Judge.
The poets burn the midnight oil
And lonely vigils keep,
And products OF their wakeful toll
Put other folks to sleep.
Spare Moments.
Nell-"That Western heiress married
a penniless Duke who weighs over 300
pounds" Belle-"Well, you can't
blame her for wanting the most for her
money"
Il Cannot Sing the Old Songs" war;
bled the young woman at the piano.
But this was small relief. for the new
ones she sang were even worse.-Chlca-
go Tribune.
"It's the finest play of the realistic
school I've seen yet" "A real flying
machine on the stage. supposey
mo, but it has a real plot and few
real actors. s."-Phlladelphia Press.
Ella-"Fred shook terribly when he
proposed to mo- stella - II didn't
Rnow that he was difiident" Ella-"I
don't think he is: we We're in an auto
mobile when he proposed. Set.
There was once foppish old beau
Who said, find walking too sleau,
So prance down the street,
And throw out my feet.
And trip my fantastical teau.
--Leslie's Monthly.
"He said he could not live without
me-" "Then you will marry him.
dear?" "No, am going to give paw
chance to make some money"
"How?" "Why. paws an undertake
r"-Phlladelphia Record.
"Smithers. that West Baltimore drug
gist, tells me that he always wears
$40 shoes" Him. that's strange.
can readily understand that he wears
dollar shoes, but l can't see how he
wears ten of 'em." Baltimore News.
"In Hawaii" volunteered the Wise
Guy, "many people live in houses
made of grass" How convenient" re-
marked the Cheerful Idiot. when
they want fresh breakfast food all they
have to do is to take bite out of the
wall" - Cincinnati Commercial-Tri-
bune.
"The only real trouble with your
magazine" remarked the purchaser, rs
that you don't publish enough fiction"
Great Scott, man. replied the over
worked editor. you evidently don't
read our advertising pa-er, yes, I've
thought so. too, at times"'-Cincinnati
Times-Star.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-01-06
DOUBTS FOR COMING YEAR.
Bradstreets Review OF Trade Not cp.
tin,istic for too4--Lessons from
Closing Months.

In its annual review of the business
year of 1903. Bradstreets. says.
Nineteen hundred and three was a
year of lrregularlty In speculation, dis
tributive trade and lndustry-in some
cases of severe strains variously ap.
piled and as differently withstood. As
the residuary legatee of at least Ave
years OF great prosperity. 1t had to
bear cumulative effects OF previous
years mistakes. and at the same time
to carry burdens having their incep-
tion in the year itself. Yet the tests
were well withstood. and. while ex-
cesses occurred. the course of events
so far has proved that the general
trade foundation WAS essentially
sound. and that the structure reared
upon 1t was in the main. well built
Among the causes leading to un-
settlement in stock speculation and
later in important industries the ie-
port gives: THE injury to senti-
ment growing out of disclosures of
OVERRIDING to put 1t mildly, in Industrial
stock fluctuations. scarcity in money
supplies, due to absorption bv these
tlotatlons and to heavy borrowings by
railroads; the feeling that subsi-
dence of the rampant activity of pre-
ceding years was inevitable; but
chiefly the effects of enhanced cost
at which business was done. High
priced raw materials. and last. but
not least. the manifest determination
of labor to get all that the trafFlc
would bear" the review states. were
all elements tending TO check con-
sumption.
The crop situation Yves less favora-
BILE than earlier anticipated, but bet
ter prospects later helped out fall
trade. Clearings reflected dullness
in stock speculation. but November
and December showed a more opti-
m,stlc tone in general business. though
trade in dry goods was unsettled by
the enormous advance in cotton.
Trade as a whole was probably in ex-
cess of 1902.
Manufacturing industry was fever
ishly active early in the year. iron
and steel leading. Curtailment, fol-
lowing a 40 per cent reduction in
prices, cut down the output. and a lib
eral export movement started. Lum-
ber and building material felt the de-
cline in activity. The cut will prob
ably run 10 per cent below 1902.