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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1906-07-19
LiGHTNING's FEARFUL WORK.
One Boy Killed and Many Persons In.
Jured In Chicago.

Chicago.-One boy was instantly
killed, two others and two men serl
ously injured and several more slightly
injured by bolt of lightning which
struck Oak street and the Lake Shore
drive In the climax Of a terrific storm
invading Chicago. The fatal lightning
bolt. after striking the group of men
and boys, leaped to the wires of the
Chicago Telephone Co. across the
street, ran half a mile to the North
Telephone Exchange, and grounded in
the residence of Archbishop Quigley
setting fire to the house, damaging
the building and contents to the extent
OF $4,000.
In the river the masts of a dozen
vessels were struck and broken into
splinters, but none of the occupants
were injured.
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OHIO NEWS.
Happenings in the Buck
eye State.
COAL MINE TROUBLES.
Strike Is Proving More Serious Than
at First Expected.

Columbus, o. = The strike OF
miners in various sections of the
state is proving more serious than at
first expected, and instead of return
ing to work Thursday, In accordance
with the orders issued from state
headquarters, 1t is estimated that sew
eral thousand men are still idle.
An explanation of the present con-
troversy, as given by an operator, Is
that the men on strike we're led to
believe that they we're given the 1903
scale, while the fact is the agreement
provided that they should receive the
advance of 5.ss per cent. over the
190405 scale.
President John II. Winder, Of the
Sunday Creek Co., returned from the
east Thursday. He says he found a
number Of the company's mines IN.
volved In the strike.
"The scale Of prices" he said, "as
fixed under the contrac., are abso.
lutely correct. and there can be no
question about them"
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TRADE BULLETIN.
r. q. Dun & Co. Report Business to be
In Good Condition.

New York.--R. G.. Dun & Co.'S
Weekly Review Of Trade says:
Midsummer quiet conditions are
more In evidence than at any previous
time this season. although trade con-
tinues far In excess OF other years.
and preparations for fall and winter
are unabated. Confidence In the com
mercial sentiment. Induced by excep-
tionally favorable crop reports and
the absence OF any distinctly adverse
factor.
Not only the leading industries. but
nearly all manufacturing undertak.
ings. have orders assuring activity
well into the future. aud scarcity of
labor is still the chief complaint
Evidences of the unexcelled busi-
ness during the fiscal year Just ended
are found In every statement that ap.
pears.
Many iron furnaces and steel mills
have resumed after a brief season of
idleness for repairs, inventories and
settlement of wage scales. so that the
production Is once more very heavy.
Failures this week numbered 202 In
the United States. against 223 last
year. and 2l In Canada, compared with
26 year ago.
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INDICATED AFTER TWELVE YEARS
Captain oreyfus Acquitted Of Charge
Of Selling Military Secrets by a
French Court-Restored to Army.

Paris, France.-The supreme court
Thursday announced its decision, an
nulling the condemnation of Dreyfus
without retrial. The effect of the
decision is a complete vindication of
Dreyfus, emitting him to restoration
to his rank In the army as though he
had never been accused.
The scene as the decision was pro.
nounced was one of impressive dig.
nifty. The court, consisting Of 40 judges,
sowned in flowing robes, mounted the
bench. Deep silence prevailed as the
presiding Judge read the lengthy deci.
sion, infinitely reviewing the series Of
sensational events Of the last II years
and completely disculpating Dreyfus
OF all wrong-doing, freeing him of the
accusation Of being the author of the
famous incriminating documents on
which the entire charge was founded.
and ordering the annulment Of the
Rennes court-martial.
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In a Trolley Wreck in
New York State.
SEVERAL INJURED.
Ran Into an Open Switch and
Crashed Into Cars Which We're
Standing on a Siding.

Buffalo, N. Y.-A train of two
trolley cars, westbound from Lock-
port, on the lines of the Interna.
tional Railway Co. and due at Tona.
wanda at 9:15 o'clock Wednesday
night. ran into an open switch at a
siding just east of Martinsyille and
crashed into trolley freight motor
and train of seven freight cars which
were lying on the siding waiting for
the passenger train to go by. Five
passengers were killed outright and a
score injured, some Of whom may die.
The dead:
John Bittlman, motorman, Lockport,
N. Y.
c. 7. Hutcheson. negro, Lockport.
Unknown woman, head crushed.
Girl and boy, supposed to be brother
and sister, names unknown.
The most seriously injured are:
Theodore Nestman, Buffalo, head
and arms injured.
DR.. e. A. Wieland. Buffalo, head In.
jured, hand crushed.
Fl. J. Walz, Buffalo. head cut, arm
broken.
Mrs. Emma H. Maloney, Buffalo, In.
ternal injuries.
Mrs. Virginia Sanderson, Buffalo, In,
ternal injuries.
Mrs. J. d. Heath, Niagara Falls, In.
ternal injuries.
Lee Johnson, motorman, both legs
crushed, will probably die.
The passenger cars were going at a
high rate OF speed when the accident
occurred and the impact was terrific.
The foremost car was utterly demol.
ished The wedge-shaped end of the
freight motor cut II in half and the
rear car completed the work of de.
struction. Members of the relief par
ties, hurriedly dispatched o.. news OF
the wreck, did not at first realize that
two passenger cars were involved, so
complete had been the demolition OF
one OF them.
The rear car was badly stove In In
front, but remained on the tracks.
There were about 40 persons on the
two cars and most Of them were
killed or injured
At the hospitals In Buffalo Il was
reported at late hour that Johnson,
the motorman, was the only one
among the injured likely to die.
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Operators and Miners
Reach Agreement.
IS A COMPROMISE
Miners Get an Advance and Opera.
tors the Open ShOp-fOrty
Thousand Men Affected.

Harrisburg, Pa. The men In
the collieries of the central Penn.
sylvania bituminous coal district, num-
idle since April /, when the mines
closed down because the operators
would not restore the scale of 1908,
will resume work on practically the
same scale as 1905.
The agreement to do this was made
Friday in a conference that was at.
tended by prominent operators, Presi.
dent John Mitchell and Secretary VIII
son, of the United Mine Workers Of
America, and representatives of the
districts In the affected territory.
The session lasted six hours, and
the following scale was agreed upon:
"First-Pick mining per gross ton,
GO cents; per net ton, 5S.S5 cents; ma
chine loading shall be fve-ninths of
the pick price, plus one-half cent. and
cutting and scraping, whether by the
ton. day or task, will be advanced 6.45
per cent. above the price paid In 1905.
Coke men to receive an advance of
5.S5 per cent.
"All other day wages and monthly
men, both inside and outside the
mines. and all yardage shall be ad-
vanced 5.S5 per cent above the rates
paid during the scale year ending
March 81. 1906.
"Second-Eight hours of actual
work shall constitute days work for
all labor inside the mines, except
pump men and monthly men. who
shall work the Number Of hours re-
quired. All outside labor to work the
number Of hours required and to be
paid as per rates specified.
"Thlrd-There is to be no change Of
working conditions and customs under
this scale from such conditions and
customs as have applied at this mine
and have been in practice thereat dur
ing the scale year ending March 81,
1906"
In addition to the adoption of the
scale the following agreement was en-
tered into for machine loading:
THE right to hire and discharge,
the management of the mine and the
direction OF the working force are
vested exclusively in the operator and
the United Mine Workers of America
shall not abridge that right.
The agreement is regarded as a COM
promise. the miners getting the wage
advance and the operators the open
shop, arbitration and check weighman
points. .t,r-,
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MINING STATISTICS.
Report Of State Mine Inspector Shows
25,s34.e67 Tons Of Coal Mined
In 1905.

Columbus. o. Chief Inspector
Of Mines George Harrison has
filed the annual report Of the depart.
msnt Of mines with Gov. Harris, GOV.
ering the calendar year 1905.
The coal tonnage amounted to 25..
s34.657 tons. an increase of 1.26O,S42
tons. The number Of persons employ
ed was 44.193. average time worked
1863 days. The per cent Of pick mined
coal was 2e. machine mined coal "A
per cent,
The fatal accidents numbered ia, a
decrease Of four. as compared with
the preceding year. serious accidents
amounted to 372, and minor I'll. Total
number Of casualties 657.
The number of persons employed
for each life lost was 3SS; one serious
accident to every 119 persons employ.
ed. Forty-two new mines opened up,
80 suspended and 35 abandoned.
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MEET DEATH IN RIVER.
Going TO the Rescue Of a Companion
Who Had Fallen Into Deep Hole,
Seven Girls Are Drowned.

Cedar Rapids, la. - Seven girls
were drowned Thursday in Cedar
river, only three blocks from home,
slipped into a deep hole and in trying
to rescue her six others were drowned.
Ruth Klersey was the only one of the
party to escape. The dead are:
Lucille, Hazel, Gladys and Josie
Sweeting, Ruth and Cora Coyle and
Clara Usher.
The girls ranged in age from to 16
years.
The Sweeting children lived with
their father near Ellis Park, on the
outskirts of Cedar Rapids. Clara
Usher was the daughter Of Sweeting's IS
housekeeper and the Coyle children
were her nieces, who were on a visit
from Sioux City, la.
Ruth Klersey, the only survivor.
said they were wading when little Lu.
cille Sweeting slipped off a sheet in
the river bottom into deep water.
Hazel Sweeting rushed after her,
slipped into the hole, and FIVE other
girls rushed one after the other into
the hole, trying vainly to save each
other. Ruth Klersey then ran home
and gave the alarm.
Four of the bodies we're quickly re.
comoved from the water, but 1t was
too late to resuscitate them. The
other bodies were recovered later,
while hundreds of people gathered on
the river bank to watch the sad
task.
The children had gone to the river
with Mrs. Usher, who took her baby,
The baby fretted and Mrs. Usher
started home with It, The children
Immediately went wading in the river.
Ruth Klersey went to the end of a
long sandbar and, seeing that the
water was deep at the end Of the bar,
warned the other children.
Lucille Sweeting, however, ran to
the end of the bar, and the sand yield.
ing, slipped off into seven feet of
water. Her cries brought Hazel
Sweeting to her aid. In trying to pull
Lucille back on the sandbar she. too,
fell into the deep water. Another
child went to her assistance and
slipped In. and so on until seven of
the eight children were drowned.
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DOUBLE TRAGEDY IN TENNESSEE.
LOVER SHOT TWO MEN AND
FLED WITH SWEETHEART.
McPherson's Father With Them and
Dressed the Wounds Of the Dying
Sheriff, Shot During Their
Running Fight.

Knoxville, Tenn.-After a night of
crime and murder almost unprece-
dented. DR.. Buck Mcpherson, a well
known physician, and Miss Elizabeth
Winstead, sweetheart of his son, John
Mcpherson, "a, are prisoners in the
Knox county Jail. John Mcpherson,
the son, is fugitive from justice,
with posses of officers and citizens
after him in the mountainous sections
of Sewer county, where many of his
relatives live. He is armed with pis.
tolls and will not be taken alive.
Grant Smith, merchant, is dead,
and Deputy Sheriff VIM. Walker is
mortally wounded, while DR.. Joseph
Waddell is badly injured. Smith was
murdered at the home of his wife, Net.
tie Hall Smith, in the eastern part of
the city. Mcpherson and his son called
at the house, but Mrs. Smith asked
them to leave. Mcpherson struck her
over the head with his pistol and the
weapon was discharged. The noise
awakened Smith and he rushed to the
door to aid his wife in ejecting the in.
truders. Both turned on him, and the
physician, 1t is said inflicted a mortal
wound with his knife, while his son
also made a fatal wound with his pls.
tol. Smith living but a few moments.
Father and son fled in a buggy, go
ing by the home of Miss Winstead, the
pretty 19.year-old sweetheart of the
son. She Joined them in the buggy
and the trio drove south of the city
Two miles from the city they ran into
the buggy of DR.. Joseph Waddell, who
was making a night call. A quarrel
ensued, and John Mcpherson knocked
Waddell from his buggy and badly
beat him, the latter finally separating
the men. The girl was screaming
from fear and excitement meanwhile.
Again they started on their route,
their intention being to escape, the
IDEA in carrying the girl being to keep
down suspicion of the officers who
were after them from this city. DR..
Waddell got in his buggy and drove to
the home of Deputy Sheriff William
Walker near by, and informed him of
the assault made on him. Both hur.
ried after the trio and overlook them 4
mile or two further on. The officer
ordered the men to throw up their
hands, and John Mcpherson answered
striking him in the shoulder and pass.
ing out through the spinal column,
paralyzing him and inficting a mortal
wound.
DR.. Mcpherson dressed Walkers
wounds, and then the trio hurried on
toward the Sewer county line. after
crossing which young Mcpherson left
the buggy, telling his father and sweet.
heart goodbye and going into the
mountains.
The doctor and the girl returned to
this city. Policemen arrested the girl
at the home Of her sister, and she was
committed to jail charged with aiding
and abetting the murderers. DR.. Nc.
Pherson surrendered to the officers.
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Exports Of Food Stuffs.

Washington, d. C.-The advance
statement Of the exports or provisions
Issued by the bureau Of statistics Of the
department Of commerce and labor
shows the total value OF provisions ex
ported. exclusive OF live cattle, hogs
and sheep. at the principal ports OF
the United States during June. 1906
was $l5.365,278. against S13.653,014 In
June. 1905. and for the fiscal year
1906. $19i. .056.535. against 1880. STA
In 1905. The total quantity OF canned
beef exported through principal ports
during June was 2.977.979 pounds
against G.3l0.553 pounds In June OF
last year.
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Chase for q Murderer.

PIttsburg, Pa.-Darkness put an
end to a chase after a negro mur
'derer of Henry Evans, foreman OF a
corps Of inspectors OF the Pittsburg
& western Railroad Co. at Willow
Grove Wednesday night Evans was
sact by the negro, whose name Is un.
known. while the latter was trying to
rob camp car. The negro was RUIZ
into a woods. A picket was posted
about the woods.
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CROP BULLETIN.
Condition Of Wheat, Corn, Oats and
Potatoes on July I.

Washington. d. C.--The crop re-
porting board Of the bureau OF stats
tics Of the department OF agriculture
finds. from the reports of the cores
pondents and agents Of the bureau, as
follows:
Preliminary returns show the acre.
age Of corn planted to be about 95,.
$4,000 acres. an increase OF about
l.524,000 acres. The average condi.
tion Of the growing crop on July was
SIS
The average condition Of winter
wheat on July was $3.50. as compared
with S3 last month.
The average condition OF spring
wheat on July was ola, as compared
with SO last month.
The amount of wheat remaining in
the hands OF farmers on July I is es.
timated at about 46,053, 900 bushels,
equivalent to about &C per cent Of the
crop OF last year.
The average condition Of the oat
crop on July was 81. as compared
with &c last month.
The acreage OF potatoes Is less than
that OF last year by about $4,000 acres
OF 1.3 per cent. The average condition
on July was 91.6.
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THf POOR OF OUR LAND
People In AImshouses In 1904 Mum
bered f63,176.

Washington, ID. C.--Accordirg %
report issued by the census bureau
Tuesday there were in the United
States in 1904, 163,176 persons In
almshouses, and of these 1i1,S17 we're
males.
Although the number of almshouse
paupers is increasing, the increase has
not kept pace with the growth of popu-
lation and consequently the ratio OF
almshouse paupers to population is de-
creasing. In 1880 It was 1872 per 100,-
600 of population; 1t decreased TO III
iD 1890 and to 101 In 1903
While pauperism is less prevalent
among females than among males, the
chief distinction between the two
sexes seems to be that females having
once entered an almshouse are there
permanently, while men are, to a large
extent, only winter boarders. Negro
paupers do not constitute so large a
proportion Of the almshouse popula-
tion as negroes form Of the general
population.
The foreign born whites, whose eco
nomic position is not so high, show a
bicdttT teuuehcy tOWdIuS pdupeiiShi
than the native whites Of native par
entage and native whites Of foreign
parentage.
Commenting on this fact the report
says: There is, however, no reason
to believe that many immigrants drift
into almshouses soon after their ar.
rival in the United States, for only
per cent. OF all the foreign born in
almshouses had been In this country
less than five years. Among the diff.
ferent nationalities of foreign born
whites the degree Of thrift, combined
racial characteristics, seems to de-
termine. In large part, the tendency
towards pauperism."
or the paupers, As per cent. had
been laborers and servants, 10 per
cent. engaged in manufacturing and
mechanical industries and "a per cent.
occupied with agriculture, transporta.
tion and other outdoor pursuits. More
than three-fourths of the female
paupers had been servants.
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TRAINMtN KILLED.
Spiked Switch Causes Wreck and
Three Men Lose Their Lives.

Petersburg, Ind.--In the wreck
Of a westbound freight train on
the Southern railway Thursday eight
miles west Of Petersburg. Fireman j.
B. Tanning. Of Princeton, Ind, and
Brakeman Luther Capehart, Of Wins
low. were killed. Engineer w. B. Nc.
Williams. New Albany. was scalded
and crushed so badly he will die. At.
ter the wreck 1t was discovered that
both ends Of the switch were spiked.
An Intellectual attempt was made
Tuesday night to wreck train at the
same place. II Is believed that rowdies
who have been stealing rides and who
have often been put OF the trains are
responsible for the spiking of the
switch.
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DYNAMlTfD.
Shanty In Which Men Were Sleeping
Blown Up-Three Are Blown to
Pieces and Others Badly Injured.

Chicago, Ill. - Three men were
blown to pieces, three others fatally
injured and several badly hurt. by an
explosion which Friday morning
wrecked a shanty In the Mclaughlin
stone quarries at Bellwood. a short
distance northwest OF Chicago.
The larger part OF the body of one
Of the men killed was taken from q
tree a hundred feet from the place
where the shanty had stood. Parts of
the corpse were found lying all around
the tree. All OF the men killed and
injured were Greek and Italian labor.
ers.
The officials Of the Mclaughlin Co.
denounced the blowing up OF the
shanty as deliberate murder.
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Laundry Men Indicted.

Cincinnati, o. = Thirty-nine laun'
dry companies and laundry pro
prietors were indicted individually by
the grand jury Friday on the charge OF
maintaining a combination in re
straint of trade" Eighteen of these
were also indicted as forming an or
ganization in restraint of trade. Mo
tion to quash the indictments will be
made on the ground that the laundry
men and their association represent
labor only and are in the attitude Of q
labor union and not amenable to the
provisions of the antitrust law. They
held that they furnish nothing but la
Dor. -.,,aeit,saJ x-lfI
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Mystery Oeepens.

Grand Rapids, O.-While party
OF mourners were returning from
the funeral services over the
body of Clara Strayer. II, daughter Of
Lincoln Strayer, a wealthy farmer,
whose body was found drowned Sun
day, they saw a body floating on the
Maumee river, and upon investigation
discovered that the lifeless form was
that Of Katie Winover, housekeeper
for Strayer. to whom the note left by
the cattle buyers daughter had been
written.
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Reappointed.

Columbus, o. - Gov. Harris an
nounced two appointments Friday.
The fact that they were made on Fri
day and the 18th day Of the month
will hardly cause those who received
them to decline. They are reappoint
ments. John F, McGrew. Of Spring
field, board of state library commits
sloners, and Rev. James Poindexter,
of Columbus, board of trustees of vii
berforce university.
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Gould Retains Job,

Columbus, o. - The board oi
peniteneiary managers In theii
regular session Thursday afternoon
reconsider their action In the election
OF Price Russell as warden under the
Pattison regime and reelected War
den o. B. Gould to the position. Rus
sell made no effort to stop the pro
ceedings. Ex-Secretary Frank Coob
was also reinstated.
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Complete Fusion.

Philadelphia, Pa.-Complete fusion
between the Lincoln republican
party and the democratic party o. this
state was effected Tuesday at a reas
sembled convention of the Lincoln
party in this city. The fusion ticket
is as follows: Governor. Lewis EN-.
cry. jr.. independent republican; lieu.
tenant governor. jeremiah 5. Black
democrat; auditor general, William
7. Greasy. democrat; secretary of In
ternal affairs. John J. Green. demo
crat.
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viii Rsmsln Neutral

Detrc.., E!ch.-The international
Association of Photo -Engravers at
their annual convention here Friday,
rescindsd the open shop resolution
passed at their last convention In
Buffalo and adopted Q substitute de-
ciaring that they will be absolutely
neutral In relations with labor.
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Three AppoIntments.

Columbus, o. - Gov. Harris an
nounced three appointments Wed
nesday. They are: Charles T. Per
kins, Of Akron, to be chief engineer oi
the state board of public works; DR.
]. M. Stevenson, of Chillicothe, and
DR.. ]. A. Duncan, Of Toledo, to be
members Of the state board Of medical
examination and registration.
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Mirror Revealed His Wounds.

Collins, Miss.-Crazed by his appear
ance, revealed to him when looking in
the mirror after fight with VIII Hol
land. G. W. Booth, farmer. jumped
from the train which was carrying him
to a doctor, and ended his life. The
weapon used by Holland was an ak.
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Hurt In a Collision.

Marion, O.-Northbound car No
81, on the Columbus, Delaware
G. Marion electric railroad. ran into {
steam engine belonging to the same
road at curve mile north of Pros
pect Thursday, telescoping and over
turning the car and injuring sever
passengers more or less seriously.
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Guilty Of Murder.

Springfield. o. - The Jury In
the case Of Edward Dean, the ne
gro charged with the murder OF the
Big Four brakeman. Mark Davis, on
February 26, returned a verdict oil
guilty Of murder In the first degree
with a recommendation for mercy
Friday evening.