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The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-01
COMFY ISLAND IS DEVASTATED
PLAYGROUND OF NEW WORKS.
MILLIONS VISITED ~ DlsAs-
TRoUs FIRE.

New York, July 80. - Coney Island
the playground of New York's mil.
lions, was visited by a disastrous fire
early yesterday, and seven blocks in
the amusement zone were completely
destroyed. Tilyou Steeplechase Park
and nearly a score of small hotels
were wiped out. and for a time the
flames threatened destruction to Luna
Park and Dreamland, great homes of
summer amusement, and to the scores
of smaller places which fringe the wa
ter edge for mile. A lucky shift of
the wind to seward aided the firemen
and probably saved the whole pictur-
esque area. but not until 100000
damage had been done.
Three Persons injured.
Three persons were injured, one OF
them, Gottfried Messerli, a fireman.
probably fatally. Only the advance
guard of the 100000 people who flock
ed to Coney Island yesterday saw the
fire, but the thrilling tales of the
fearless rescue of San Dora, the arm
less and legless man, and of the fight
alarm was sounded. were told and re.
told along noisy Surf avenue and in
the less particular Bowery.
The inflammable character of the
many attractions made fine food for
the flames, and Notwithstanding the
many streams of water poured on
them the conflagration seemed to defy
all efforts to stop its course.
Panic Among Freaks.
The destruction of Steeplechase
Park was a spectacular sight. The
alarm of fire woke up doing Ccney
Island with a start, and in few MIL.
utes Surf avenue was damned with
excited freaks and frolickers, chorus
girls, snake charmers. animal trainers
and performers.
The fire put many small dance halls
and bathing pavilions out of business,
and many sandwich men and frank.
furter men who had stored their stands
and carts in hooks and crannies be.
tween buildings lost everything.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-01
Spain and Switzerland have signed

Spain and Switzerland have signed
4 treaty, under the terms of which
hey agree to submit all differences
arising between them that cannot be
settled through diplomatic channels to
the Hague arbitration tribunal.
The khedive of Egypt. Abbas Hilni
has spent two days in Paris in such
strict incognito that his presence did
not become known until after his de-
parture for Switzerland. He will visit
England before returning to Egypt.
An American giving the name of
Curyea was arrested at Balboa. Spain,
while trying to get change for a coun-
terfeit $500 American bank note.
When examined counterfeit bills to
the face value of $4,000 were found
in his possession.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-01
|COlUMBIA'S DEAD NOW 81
SIXTEEN NAMES ARE ADDED TO
LIST OF SURVIVORS OF MA.
RINE DISASTER.

San Francisco, July Is. - Sixteen
names were added yesterday to the
list of survivors of the Columbia San
Pedro collision. These sixteen pas
sengers were in boat which landed
at Shelter Cove. The boat contain
ed two dead bodies, that of Mrs. o. A.
Lewis of Pasadena, Cal, and an I'M
known man, presumably sailor.
The list ct survivors now includes
160 names out of a reported total of
257 persons on board. Three dead
bodies have been recovered. Ninety
seven persons are uuaccounted for.
Officers Tell Story.
Three of the officers of the Colum-
bia who arrived here yesterday on the
steamer Pomona made statements
under oath to Inspector of Hulls and
Boilers Bullcs and Bulger.
Second Officer Richard Agerupp
said:
about 1918 a. m. Sunday ] heard
whistle on the starboard bow and
reported to the captain, who was Oh
the bridge. He said he had heard it,
too. We kept our whistle going regu-
larly and so did the other steamer.
The weather was foggy.
I'VE were going full speed ahead.
The captain ordered me to blow two
blasts. While blowing the second
blast the other steamer answered With
one blast.
Orders Full Speed Astern."
The captain then ordered the engi-
neer. Full speed astern.' Soon after
the steamer collided with the Colum-
bia and struck her about thirty feet
from the stem of the starboard side.
Capt. Doran sert down to the en-
CINE room to learn if the ship was
taking, any water Just then the
Waterman came on the bridge and re-
ported water streaming in forward.
"The first officer came on the
bridge and the careain ordered him to
take the bridge and me to take off the
head covers and get the buoys ready
for hosting BY this time the ship
had listed to starboard and started to
go down by the head.
Leaps for His Life.
Several men were by this time get
ting the boats over. The captain or
dered me to cut the after life RATS
adrift. While Going this I heard the
whistle blow, and looking around saw
the bridge nearly under water. saw
there was no time to spare, so threw
a life buoy overheard and jumped
over the stern into the sea, Thirty
minutes later was picked up by one
of the boats"
In his report Third Officer Robert
Halves tells of the rescue of num-
Der Of passengers and takes occasion
to praise some women who were in
his boat, while he condemns the &C.
ton of the men survivors who were
with him.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-01
STRICKEN IN PULPIT.

Prophetic Words During Sermon on
Uncertainty Of Life.
Knoxville, Iowa, July 30.-Henry de
F. Smith was stricken with apoplexy
in the pulpit of the Presbyterian
church at Madisonville yesterday. He
had been dwelling on the uncertainty
of life In his sermon and had just ut.
tered these words: 1T may be the
last time will ever speak to you"
when he began to totter. Friends
rushed to the pulpit and caught him.
He died last night
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-01
NIGHT RIDERS RAID HOME.
Prominent kentueI<ian and Wife Are
Wounded; Children In Peril.

Prominent kentuekian and Wife Are
Wounded; Children In Peril.
Hopkinsville, KY, July rs. - Night
riders numbering one hundred earrv
yesterday surrounded the residences
of Stephen P. Moseley, a prominent
Trigg county farmer, near Roaring
Springs, and riddled the house with
pistol and gun volleys. Mr.. Moseley
was shot in the face and ear with
duck shot. Mrs. Moseley's right eve
was pierced by fragments of a wire
screen shot out of the door to the
bedroom. Three children in the house
had a narrow escape from flying bull.
lets. After firing one hundred shots
the marauders warned Mosely to quit
talking. Mr.. Moseley had been a
strong anti-association man last
spring after his plant beds had been
scraped and the telephone wires cut.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-01
SENATOR PETrus DEAD.
o'oest Man in Public Life at Wash.
ington Passes Away,

Hot Springs, N. c.. July Ex-senator
Edmund w. Pettus of Alabama died
here last night at 10 o'clock. He was
e1ghty-six years old July 6.
senator Pettus was not only the old.
est member of the senate, but also the
Oldest man in public life in the United
States.
The senator, without apparently be.
Ing seriously, succumbed tn o,d
age: He lapsed into Inconsistencies
while at breakfast yesterday morning
Senator Morgan. three years Pettus'
junior, but his senior in service in the
senate, died two months ago.
Birmingham. Ala, July 29.-The sue.
cessor to Senator E. w. Pettus will he
FORMER Governor Joseph F. johnson
of Birmingham.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-01
Domestic,

SObsCOSuCs
Federal Judge G. B. Adams of New
York declared constitutional the en-.
ployers' liability act passed bv con.
gress June IL, 1906.
Eighteen big ore-carrying vessels
were tied up at Cleveland as the result
of the strike of ore handlers at upper
lake ports. Big fleets are also tied nm
at other Lake Erie ports.
Loggers and workmen in the camps
along Slave river and other points in
the upper Fraser valley in British
Columbia have been driven from their
work on account of the unusual mum.
Der CT mosquitoes in the woods this
season.
James Taylor, one of the best known
lawyers in Iowa, died at San Diego.
CAL. where he had gone for his
health. Only brief dispatch was re.
ceived at Bloomfield, Iowa, his home.
announcing that Mr.. Taylor had died
of taking poison.
The members Of the university partv
have made the first ascent of the sea.
son to the summit of Mount Rainier. in
Washington. headed by DR.. Henry R.
Cowles of the University of Chicago.
Some of the members were slightly
bruised by falling rock fragments.
Three young women of Helena, the
Misses Bertha and Fredrika Volker
and Miss Kenton Kepner, have been
apprised that after three years litiga.
ton in German courts they have been
declared heiresses to the estate of
their grandfather, valued at $4,000.
900. The young women will I'd to
Germany shortly to claim their for.
tune.
The fight scheduled at Brazil. Ind
between Willis Fitzgerald of Brooklyn
and Paddy LAWN of Buffalo, N. Y. did
not take place on account of the small
attendance, the fighters refusing to "a
! on.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-01
is ACQUITTED OF THE MURDER
or FORMER GOVERNOR sTEU.
NENeERG.
WILL PROSECUTE The OTHERS
STATE ANNOUNCES THAT CASES
OF MOVER AND PETTIsoNE
WILL BE PUSHED.

bOlSe, ludNO, July OV. 1AIO lhS'
bright sunlight of beautiful Sabbath
morning, in the stiffness of city
drowsy with the lazy slumbers of a
summer Sunday, William D. Haywood.
defendant in one of the most noted
trials involving conspiracy and muir
der that the country has ever known,
walked yesterday free man, acquit.
ted of the murder of Former Governor
Frank Steunenberg.
The probability of verdict Of &C.
quittal in the case IF the secretary
treasurer and acknowledged leader Of
the Western Federation of Miners had
been
Freely Predicted
since Saturday, when Judge Fremont
Wood read his charge, which was re-
garded as strongly favoring the de-
tense in its Interpretation of the law
of conspiracy, circumstantial evidence
and the confederation of an accom-
plice who confesses.
1t was also freely predicted that in
the event of Haywood's acquittal the
state would abandon the prosecution
of his associates, Charles H. Meyer,
the president of the federation, and
George A. Pettibone of Denver. State
ments from counsel and from Gov.
Gooding issued yesterday dispel this
view Of the situation.
Jury at Last Agrees.
It was after being out for twenty.
one hours that the jury, which first
had been divided at ten to two, finally
came to an agreement. Events moved
rapidly enough after this, and when at
last the principal actors in the trial
had been gathered into the court room
at few moments before o'clock the
white envelope handed by the foreman
to the Judge was torn open and the
verdict read
Haywood's attorneys were fairly lift
ed from their seats, and Judge Wood
made no effort to restrain them as
they surrounded Haywood to shout
aloud their congratulations.
First Thought Of Mother.
Haywoods first thought after his re-
lease was of his aged mother, who
Saturday had suffered a complete
nervous breakdown after the jury had
retired. Haywood walked to st. Luke's
hospital and unannounced rushed into
his mothers room. So great was the
eject of the news upon the elderly
lady that last night she wa SUD and
about and happy.
Next Haywood went to the little cot.
tage where his wife and daughters
have been stopping. Once home. Hav.
wood said: Il want to thank the
people of Boise for their kindness to
my wife. my mother, my family and
my friends
Will Prosecute Others.
Senator Borah said:
i have no comment to make other
than that twelve good men and true
men OF the State of Idaho have passed
upon the case. and that disposes of it
SO far as the State of Idaho and Hay.
wood are concerned. The prosecution
OF the other men indicted will he
pushed vigorously and without any
reference to the Haywood trial."
r. F. Richardson. one of Haywood,s
leading counsel, said:
we nave had fair trial. We have
had an impartial trial and consoion.
tlous jury and an impartial Judge"
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-01
Stella (Wash.l Burned.

Stella, Wash, July 30.-This town
was practically destroyed by fire.
Among the buildings burned were two
hotels, two saloons. wharves, mills,
warehouses and hospitals. The loss is
estimated at 100000. -
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-01
Launches Burned

Houghton, Mich, July 30.-Leaking
gasoline in boathouse of James Pry
or & Sons here caused the destruction
by fire Of two gasoline launches and
two lighthouses. The loss is about
$4,000.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-01
Kaiser wilhelm II. Saved.

Bremerhaven, July 25.-The water
has been entirely pumped out Of the
steamer Kaiser Wilhelm H., that list.
ed Saturday. The steamer sustained
no injuries and will be ready for serv,
ice in five days.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-01
PORK KILLS ONE; EIGHTY ILL.

Nearly Whole Population of Hamlet
. Sick From Eating Bad Meat.
Okolona, Miss, July 30.-Mrs. Mary
Park is dead and eighty others, COM
prising almost the entire population of
Vanvleet, a small station near here,
are Ill as the result of eating pork
which had become poisoned.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-01
SHOCK KILLS LlvERYmAh

Drives OF Grade Into Water and MAR.
rowly Escapes Drowning.
Belmont, Iowa, July 30.-Driving of
grade in the darkness, Henry Car
tenson, local liveryman, and a trav.
cling salesman narrowly escaped
drowning. Their horse was drowned
and their buggy wrecked and the men
regained solid ground with much diff.
f1culty. The shock Of the accident and
the struggle was too much for Carten.
son, who had been in Ill health, and
ne died soon after getting ashore
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-01
Twenty Werkmen Buried.

New York, July PA brick build
ing. one OF a row Of six-story struc-
lures that are being torn down, COL
lapsed yesterday, burying twenty
workmen. Two men were seriously
injured.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-01
Accidental Happeninas.

Five blocks were burned at Victoria,
B. c. Loss, $250,0O0.
Two men were killed and five others
seriously injured by the falling of
some scaffolding at the Pittsburg G.
Conneaut dock at Conneaut, Ohio.
j. l.. Davis. we'll known young
man, and Miss Oocia Vebryke were
drowned by the capsizing of their
boat at Lima, Ohio. The two were to
have been married soon.
Four persons were injured, one seri-
ously, when car collided with a
heavily loaded passenger car on the
Detroit. Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor & Jack
son trolley line at Ann Arbor.
Caught under a shower of molten
metal at the Homestead steel works,
near Pittsburg, five men were serious
ly burned. two perhaps fatally, while
many others received minor injuries.
Arnold Johnson, eight years old,
was electrocuted at Burlington, Iowa,
when he picked up a broken telephone
wire which had become crossed with
wire heavily charged with an electric
current
Mrs. Jennie Lauberbauer. forty-sev-
en- years old. was shot dead and in
stantly killed by her husband at their
home in Chicago. Lauberbauer, who
was arrested, told the police that he
mistook his wife for burglar. The
police are inclined to believe his story.
Pauline Judson, eleven years old,
was fatally burned by the explosion of
a gasoline stove at Ottumwa, Iowa.
The flames enveloped the child and
she ran out into the street a veritable
torch. Before the fire could be ex-
tinguished she was frightfully burned.
On the eve of sending for his wife
and four children to come from Russia
to join him at Sioux City, Steve Be-
beck, a packing house man, climbed
into a tree over the Floyd river and
fell into the water when the limb
broke and was drowned.
Knowing that he could not avert a
wreck. William Elliott, an engineer on
the Northwestern railroad, jumped to
his death. A few seconds later his
train crashed into the rear-end of a.
freight. The accident happened about
three miles south of Belle PLANE,
Iowa
Walter Coulson, seven years old, the
son of a wealthy Mahaska county,
Iowa, farmer, was killed while return.
ing home from Oskaloosa with his
parents. The boy was riding in a
wagon and by sudden Jolt was
thrown out, the wheels passing over
his abdomen.
Three fatalities occurred in Mar
quette county, Mich. Alfred and No.
gel Remeer, brothers, of Negaunee.
were drowned in Teal lake while boat
ing, and John Andorsche of Marquette
was fearfully burned in a gas explo.
sion at the Pioneer Iron company's
blast furnace.
Mrs. Broderick, who has been blind
and an invalid for fifteen years. was
burned to death at Harlowtown. Mont
recently. She was cleaning some paint
brushes with turpentine and accident
ally spilled some of the liquid on her
clothes. which became ignited by com.
Ing In contact with the stove. She
was at once enveloped in flames and
was SO badly burned when assistance
arrived that she lived but a short
time.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-01
NEWS:OF THE. WEEK IN tPiTOM[
DIGEST OF THE NEWS WORTH
TELLING CONDENSED FOR
BUSY READERS.
PeorIe Talked About.

Mai. Gen. George w. Minded. who
earned the rank Of colonel of New
Jersey regiments during the Civil war,
died OF heart disease at his home in
New York.
After brief illness. due to exces.
sive heat. Capt. Bart E. Linehan Of
Dubuque, Iowa. died at Memphis Mr..
Linehan was president of the Dubuque
Light and Gas company.
James +. English. pair clerk OF the
Democratic caucus of the house of rep
: re:sentatives. died in Washington of
liver complications. He has been con-
nected with the house for twenty-five
years.
Mrs. Emma Marius. aged sixty.
three, of Winsted, Conn.,, and Corne.
Illus Andrius. aged thirty-six. employed
as a hired man by Mrs. Marius, have
surprised their friends by getting
married
Francis Patrick Clements, brother
OF the earl Of Letrim, who recently
crossed the ocean serving as a stoker,
is on his way to Denver to become a
real cow boy. He writes that he wants
no-tomfoolery, but expects to begin at
the bottom and learn the business.
While the majority of the world has
been snarling, scratching and getting
things tangled in the divorce courts.
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel H. Pick of Den
yer have been living in beautiful
peace. For sixty years not a word of
contention has passed between them.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-01
POWDER TRUST SUIT
EXPLAINS IT'S
ATTITUDE.
The Suit Is Proceeding to the Entire
Satisfaction of the Department
of Justice.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 1.-THE Depart
ment of Justice toGay issued the following
explanatory statement regarding the suit
recently filed against the so-called powder
trust.
Under the laws of Delaware, the STOCK
holders of a corporation can bring about
Its dissolution by fling their unanimous
consent with the Secretary of State. This
is what was done by the E. l. DID Pont-
De Nemours Powder Company (of Della
ware), which is one of the three operating
companies in the alleged powder trust.
The dissolution of a company does not,
however, under the laws of Delaware, pre-
vent 1t from being sued, neither does II
prevent a receiver being appointed.
THE Christian names of five or six of
the many individual, defendants were I'M
known to the department on July 80 and
these win be inserted by amendment of the
petition.
only yesterday the department was in
formed that there had been a transfer of
the assets of the dissolved company prior
to its proceedings in dissolution. II so, 1t
may be necessary, when the bill is
amended, to bring in whatever concern
ditional party.
Information has been received that all
the principal defendants have been served,
and. as nearly all of the defendants, cor
porate or individual. are in Delaware and
the two great operating companies in New
York and New Jersey and the great New
Jersey holding company have been served.
the suit Is proceeding TO the entire salts
faction of the government"
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-01
BANK PRESIDENT KILLED
IN POOL
E.. r. Watson, Philadelphia %Financier,
Struck Concrete Coping and Died
Shortly Afterward.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 1.-Edmund
r. Watson, president of the Northern
National Bank and treasurer of the
Henry Hess Brewing Company. of this
city, met death early today in the
swimming pool of the Columbia Club,
one Of the leading social organizations
of the city. Owing to the re%ticence of
members of the club some mystery at
first surrounded the tragic end of the
bank president. This was dispelled,
however, when 1t was given out by
several members hat Mr.. W~atson's
death was accidental. According to
these members Mr.. Watson was stand
ing on the spring board n was about
to dive into the pool when he slipped
and fell. His head struck the con-
crete coping of the pool and he sank
to the bottom. The ~janitor was sum-
moned, and with the aid of a long pole
Mr.. Watson was taken from the water
in an unconscious condition. He was
hurried to a hospital, where he was
pronounced dead by the physicians.
Mr.. Watson was about so years OF
age. His wife and daughter were spend
ing the summer at Belmar, n. j., and
he had been at the club much OF the
time. He has been president of the
bank since 1900, having previously
served as cashier.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-01
FISH WILL EXPLAIN
WILL TELL OF ILLINOIS
CENTRAL'S BUSINESS.
Says That He will Vote His own
Shares at Next Meeting of the
Railroad Company.

NEW YORK. Aug. 1.-Mr. Stuvesant
Fish being asked his position in respect
to the mex meeting Of the Illinois Cen
trail Railroad Company, said: within the
last few days quite a numbe of stock
holders of the Illinois Central Railroad
Company have sent me their proxies to
vote at the next annual meeting. to be neld
in Chicago. on Wednesday, October 49,
1907. Others nave written me on the sub
iect. Being unable to reply promptly to
each. / take opportunity to say what my
position is:
"On November 7, 1906, the several direct
ors of the company held shares therein as
follows
John Jacob Astor, 1000: John w. Auchin-
Gloss. COO; Charles NJ. Beach. 500; James
d sW. Cutting, 300; Stuyvesant Fish.
u, 452; Robert w. Goelet. $500; ]. T. Hara-
han, IA; E. H. Hartman, 1870; Wal'her
Luttgen. 800; Charles A. Peabody, 800;
Cornelius Vanderbilt, l,4S4; John C.. Well
ing. 200; total. S2,4s0."
so far as l know the holdings Of others
have not changed materially since that
time, ana mine has not in any particular,
as / still own and hold the same certificates
for the same l., 452 shares.
THE directors whose terms expire his
autumn are Mr.. Aston, Mr.. Hartman and
myself. whose successors will be elected
for terms of four years. A fourth di-
rector will have to be elected by the
stockholders for a term of one year in the
place of John c. yelling, deceased.
Il long since reached the conclusion that,
although | owe n great deal to the stock
holders for the trust which they had for
more han twenty years imposed in me
as the holder of their proxies, they could
not ask me to offer myself as a candidate
for reelection at this time. Nor am |
disposed to make any effort to procure
proxies. In view, however, of the letters
and proxies which nave already reached
me entirely without solicitation on my
part, / do feel bound. If possible. to at
tend the stockholders meeting and shall,
after hearing what may be brought out
thereat, vote my own shares and such
proxies as may be coDfided to me, in the
best interest of the owners of the whole
capital stock.
II shall nlso in probability explain, as
as l can. to the stockholders, what
has been going on in the conduct Of the
business during the past twelve
months, and show them to what extent
their board of directors is and has been
controlled by those of its number who are
also directors of the Union Pacific Rail-
way Company"