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The midland journal., 1907-02-08
WEALTHY men
KILLED At FIRE
Wall CruShes Four Prominent volun'
teer Fighters.
they WERE SWEPT FROM LADDER.
Accident at Fire in While Plains
Results in the Death of Four Volun-
teer Firefghters Who We're Well
Known and Wealthy-Heavy COrnice
Brings Down Brick Wall.

White Plains (SpeciaD -Four vol
nnteer firemen, well-to-do young bus
mess men and members of prominent
families, were killed by a falling cor
hice at 100000 fire here. Some
Of the bodies were so badly charred
as to be unrecognizable.
The dead are:
Chester Cromwell, a recent bride
groom, son of the president OF the
First National Bank.
Charles Cooley, unmarried, of the
real estate firm of Cooley & West.
Caleb Underhill, married, manager
of livery stable.
Elmer Burgess, married, a confec-
toner.
A dozen persons were injured.
Among them we're:
Charles Sutton, both legs broken.
Charles Armbruster, both legs
broken.
Stephen D. Lyon, burned about the
body.
The dead men belonged to Union
Hook-and-Ladder Company, composed
of the leading young men of the
town. Only yesterday there had been
a fire and the Union Company turned
out in frock coats and silk hats to ex-
tinguish the flames.
Mondays fire started in the new
three-story Mead Building with an ex-
plosion of gas on the ground floor.
The building was occupied by the
Westchester Lighting Company, a
manufacturer of mems clothing, and
the Masonic lodge.
The cornice of the building had
become loosened and, fearing it
would fall into the crowd around the
building, the firemen prepared to
pull it down. A ladder was run up at
what was believed to be safe dis
tance, and after rope had been at
tached to the loosened cornice the
men on the ladder began to pull.
AS the cornice gave way is brought a
portion of the wall with it and the
ladder and its occupants were swept
down in the shower of bricks.
Cooley and Underhill were dead
when they we're removed from the
mass of wreckage. The other men
were removed to a hospital, where
they died a few moments after reach
ing the institution.
The section of cornice was so heavy
that is required nearly 100 men to
lift it. Extreme care had to be taken
lest in moving the debris other in
juries might be inflicted upon the
men buried underneath.
The midland journal., 1907-02-08
Caleb Powers Case.

Lexington, Ky, Especially When
the case of Caleb Powers, charged
with completely in the assassination
Of Governor William Geobel, at
Frankfort, seven years ago, was call
ed in the Circuit Court at George
town Tuesday the trial was continued
by agreement. A special term of
court will be called probably for the
early summer. Neither side has
made any preparation for the trial.
This will be the fourth trial of Pow
ers, who has been sentenced to the
penitentiary twice and given a death
penalty once.
The midland journal., 1907-02-08
Vote To Leave .Dowie.

Cincinnati, o. (Special) = BY a
vote of so to 6, the Cincinnati Con-
gregation of Zion, founded by Dowie
and nurtured by Volviva, determined
to cut loose entirely from the parent
church in Zion City, according to
announcement made Monday. A let
ter was mailed to Overseer Volviva
notifying him of the action of the
church. Elder w. H. Cossum, who
sent the letter, at the same time said
mat the action taken was final and
nat there could be no change back
10 the old allegiance.
The midland journal., 1907-02-08
Fish Cannery Bought.

BelIingham, Wash. Especially For
$4,000 E. B. Deming has purchased
the local property of the American
Can Company in South Bellingham,
which will likely be turned over to
the Pacific American Fisheries. The
can-making equipment of the Pacific
American Fisheries has larger ca
pacity and trade than that just pur-
chased from the American Can Com
pany, and the local property had be-
come a burden to the American Can
Company.
The midland journal., 1907-02-08
Minister Has Thirteen wives.

Toledo, Ohio Especially Charged
with bigamy and credited with hav-
ing 13 wives, Rev. Albert Holden,
reported to have two sons also un-
der indictment for bigamy, pleaded
guilty and was sentenced to serve
six years in the penitentiary. Holden
married every time the spirit moved
him. His courtships always took
place during one of his revivals and
his victims were always one of those
whom he had taken into the church.
The midland journal., 1907-02-08
Foreign.


Chinese rebels hold all the noun
tain Businesses on the borders OF
Human and Kiangsi, and all attempts
of the imperial troops to dislodge
them have failed.
The commission to revise the con-
stitution of Holland recommends the
exclusion from succession to the
throne of children born after the alb
dication of the sovereign.
Daniel Osiris, the philanthopist
| who presented Malmaison, the resi-
dence of the Empress Josephine, to
the French nation, is dead.
Smallpox has broken out in the
| famine camp in Central China, and 1t
| is feared a worse pestilence will fol-
low
Relief parties have been sent to
Bareges, near Lourdes, France, where
20 houses were buried by an ava
| lanche.
President Roosevelt, in letter to
| the Norwegian foreign minister,
writes that he will value the Nobel
medal so long as he lives, and after
his death it will be highly priced
| by his children.
officials of the Congo a3ministra-
tion announced that the uprising in
the Manyanza district had been sup
pressed, and that the native chief,
who instigated it has been appre-
hended.
Advices from Solomon Islands, in
the South Seas, state that the en-
tire topography of the islands has
been changed by an earthquake.
Prof. Karl Hau, of Washington
University, charged with the murder
of his mother-in-law in Frankfort,
Germany, admits having worn a
false beard, but still denies the MUIR
der.
| Completed returns from the Ger
man Reichstag elections show that
all the political parties increased
| their vote, the Socialists continuing
the largest party numerically.
Lifeboats from Hartlepool rescued
"a of the crew of the British steamer
| Clovering, ashore at the mouth OF
the Tees. Twenty-nine lives were
lost.
! A formal statement has been is
sued by the family of the private
settlement of the differences between
the Duke and Duchess of Mari-
borough.
Sir Alfred Jones arrived at London
and at once proceeded to white
wash" Governor Swettenham of any
blame for his conduct.
Governor Guidema. of the political
prison on Basil island, Russia, was
assassinated by youth, who es-
capped A prison warden who at
tempted to arrest the assassin was
fatally shot
The midland journal., 1907-02-08
TO KILL THE LOTTERY
The Department of Justice Waging
Crusade.

Washington (SpeciaD As the re-
suit of a conference at the Depart
ment of Justice participated in by
Assistant Attorney General Cooley,
United States District Attorneys w.
B. Ambrecht, of Mobile, Ala, and
John P. Nields, of Wilmington, Del.
and Assistant District Attorneys Will
liam H. Garland, of Boston. and j.
c. Adkins, of Washington, d. c., and
John E. Wilkie, chief of the Secret
Service, and three of his operatives.
it was decided to take steps designed
to put an end to the operations of the
Honduras National Lottery Company
in this country. Assistant Attorney
General Cooley announced that IN.
dictments would at once be returned
against agents and employees of the
company in Boston, Mass, Mobile
Ala, and Wilmington, Del, as a re.
suit of recent raids in these three
cities, in with large number of the
lottery tickets were seized and agents
of the company arrested. The raids
were the result of evidence collected
by the Secret Service men and, ac-
cording TO the government, show in
terstate shipments of a large amount
of lottery matter
Word was received at the confer
ence from Robert c. Aston, assistant
general counsel of the Southern
Express Company, that his company
was in full sympatt with the eff
forts OF the government to break
up the lottery, and would cooperate
with it to the fullest extent.
Boston, Mass. (SpeciaD The Sc
cret Service officers in this city have
been very active during the past
month in their efforts to suppress
the sale of lottery tickets. Raids
have been made in Somerville, Lynn,
Winthrop, East Boston and RoX-
bury, and several thousand tickets,
together with lists of prizes, have
been seized and number of arrests
have been made. In all cases where
the parties have been arraigned be-
fore the United States commissioner
they have been held for action by
the United States grand jury, and
several are at present in Charles
Street Jail in default of bail.
The midland journal., 1907-02-08
David Peck Rhoades Dead.

Bridgeport, ct. (SpeciaD David
Peck Rhoades, one of the founders
of the New York Tribune and an as
sociate of Horace Greedy, died at his
home, in Stratford, aged "a. After
leaving the Tribune Mr.. Rhoades
formed the New York News Com
pany, which business he conducted
for many years until he sold out to
the American News Company and
retired Death was the result of a
shock caused by a fall suffered by
Mr.. Rhoades week ago as he left
the rooms of the Stratford Social
Club.
The midland journal., 1907-02-08
Fire In A Theater.

Philadelphia (Special)-Fire which
started in one of the dressing-rooms
of the Lyceum Theater destroyed the
costumes of the 'City Sports" bur-
lesque show and slightly damaged
the theater. An entire suite of
dressing-rooms was burned out, en-
failing loss of $4,000. The fire
was discovered shortly before z
O'Clock. The evening performance
was given with the members of the
company appearing in street clothes.
The origin Of the fire is not known.
The midland journal., 1907-02-08
Frank Siddall Dead.

Philadelphia (Special). - Frank
Siddall head of the Frank Siddall
Soap Company, died at his~late resi-
dence, at Wycombe, Bucks County,
in his seventy-first year, of apoplexy.
with which he was stricken three
weeks ago. Early in his career Mr..
Siddall discovered a chemical treat
ment in the composition of laundry
soap, from which he started and de-
veloped a manufacturing business
that made his reputation national.
The midland journal., 1907-02-08
Cuba's Rural Guard.

Washington, (SpeciaD AS re-
suit of a conference at the White
House between the President, Secre-
tary Taft and General Bell, chief of
staff, an order has been issued direct
ing an increase of the rural guard
of Cuba from 5000 to 10000 men.
The purpose is a avoid increasing
the number of American troops in
the island, as originally intended,
the native guards being more ac-
ceptable to the people.
The midland journal., 1907-02-08
swindIed Country Banks.

San Francisco (SpeciaD D-The Cal
ifornia Bankers Association is look
ing for man said to be o. T. Mott,
who, it is alleged, has devised a new
scheme for obtaining money from
country banks. Several banks have
lent money to Mott, taking as securi-
ty stock certificates of the Fort Kent
(Me.) Trust Company and Aroostock
County (Me.) school bonds. Mott is
not known by the officers of the Fort
Kent Trust Company, and it is as
sumed by the banks that the certif1-
Gates are forgeries.
The midland journal., 1907-02-08
INSISTS UPON TREATY RIGHTS.
Any Solution OF The Controversy
Must Be Based Thereon.

Toxic (By able).-After care
full survey of public feeling here re-
garding the prospect of satisfactory
solution of the San Francisco school
controversy, it may be stated that
while the approach of the termina-
tion of the disagreeable affair is well
coined, yet the report from Wash
ington that a solution may be ef-
fected by a mutual treaty excluding
the immigration of laborers is gem
orally disbelieved as unreasonable.
According to the prevailing feel
ing, a solution must be effected on
Japan's treaty rights pure and sim
pie.
However, confidence continues that
a solution of the question will be
reached without the least sacrifice
of Japanese honor and prestige.
The midland journal., 1907-02-08
Seymour A. Baker Dead.

Kansas City, Mo. Especially Rev.
Seymour A. Baker, one of the found
ers Of the Republican party, a pro-
slavery agitator, a Presbyterian min
lister and an editor of note, died at
his home here of pneumonia. He
was born in Arlington, VT, 81 years
ago and was one of the oldest min
listers in age and point of service in
the United States.
The midland journal., 1907-02-08

Washington Especially Mrs. Alice
Roosevelt Longworth, wife of Repre-
sentative Longworth, of Ohio. and
daughter of the President, is ill at
her home in this city with what is
stated at her home to be a slight at
tack of grip. The President and Mrs.
Roosevelt spent sometime at the
Longworth home, and were very
much concerned about their daugh-
ters health when they were inform
ed by the attending physician that
her temperature had gone up to 1Q2
The midland journal., 1907-02-08
Late Earthquake Record.

London Especially Professor Be-
lar, the wellknown seismologist,
selegraphs from Laibach that an
earthquake lasting 80 minutes oc-
eurred 4,6S7 miles from Laibach. It
reached its maximum intensity at
9.26 p. M. He points out that his
records of the earthquake that oc-
CURED on January 2 are now shown
to have been those of the disturb
ance that occurred in the Tonga Is
lands.
The midland journal., 1907-02-08
Old INDIAN Chief Dead.

Green Bay, Wis. (SpeciaD Rev.
Cornelius Hill. an old Oneida Indian
sachem, is dead on the reservation
at the age of rs years. He was the
oldest of the Oneida Indian chiefs.
He bore the name of Chief Onon-
Gwat-Ga. and was the most influen-
tial of the present-day chiefs. For
his efficient and lengthy service he
was ordained an Episcopal priest five
years ago.
The midland journal., 1907-02-08
THE NEWS Of THE WEEK
Domestic.


the New York State Insurance De-
partment, refused to accept the resig--
nations of Messrs. Kinkead and
Marks, inspectors of election OF the
New York Life Insurance Company
Richard O'Brein, acting deputy su-
perintendent of public buildings, New
York state, and James Johnston,
chief engineer of the department
were dismissed as the result of an
investigation.
Secretary Shaw declares that 2
published intimation chat certain
financial interests have received ad-
vantageous tips from the Treasury
Department is both false and gra-
tuitous.''
c. A.. Prouty, interstate commerce
commissioner, took testimony in the
case of D. w. Durham, of st. Joseph
Mo-, against the Illinois Central Rail-
road at Wichita, Kansas
The North American Insurance
Company, organized by former agents
of the New York Life, has received
authority to do business in New 'Jer-
sey.
A Missouri legislative committee
that investigated the Kansas City
Stockyard Company charges that the
company mulcted farmers and snip
pers.
Professor Marshall, of Ohio Wes-
leyan University, in an address on
| Race Effects of Immigration, salo
race suicide was due to immigration.
In a dispute at the breakfast table
between John Gebhardt and his son
| Charles, at Steubenville, O., the fatn-
er was shot and killed.
The grand opera house and seven
other buildings in the business dls-
trict of Harrisburg, Pa, were burn
ed. Total loss about $25U,OOO.
Federal Judge Hollard fined the
Camden Iron Works Company, OF
Camden, N. j., $4,000 for accepting
rebates.
Mrs. John McCausland, her two
children and her brother-in-law were
asphyxiated in their home at Day
ton, o.
Capt. George B. Boynton, sentenc-
ed to six months Imprisonment for
completely in a plan to counterfeit
| Venezuelan money, was released al
ter having served three months on a
pardon signed by President Roose-
welt.
The hearing of the Hartman mer-
ger in San Francisco was resumed
before Interstate Commerce Commls-
sioner Lane.
John Aldridge, charged with killing
his wife, was convicted of murder in
the first degree at Cartersville, Ga.
The fight for prohibition is on in
the Oklahoma Constitution Conven-
tiop.
Fire, which started with an eX-
plosion in the paint shop. DESTROYED
a section of the Baldwin Locomotive
Works, Philadelphia, causing a loss
of $1,000,0O0.
The Princeton Elevator Company,
of Princeton, Ind, was placed in the
hands of a receiver. 1t is claimed
the assets are $4,000, liabilities
| 500, 900.
The Senate of California has
adopted a resolution protesting
against the federal government in
terfering in the Japanese school
| question.
The Little Miami Railroad Com
pany has increased it's capital stock
| 100000 and modified its lease to
! the Pennsylvania.
| Two jurors were excused and two
accepted in the Thaw trial, making
nine now in the box.
Five railroad employees were killed
| in a wreck on the Boston and Maine
Railroad.
The midland journal., 1907-02-08
Gen. Brown Injured.

Cincinnati, o. (SpeciaD Gen. R.
B. Brown, commander-in-chief Of the
G. A. R.. received a sprained ankle
in a collision between a Baltimore
and Ohio Southwestern passenger
train and switch engine, near here.
General Brown was on his way from
Cincinnati to GAINESVILLE, his home.
The midland journal., 1907-02-08
Want Presidents Portrait.

Washington Especially President
Roosevelt is having made a full
length portrait which is to be placed
in the Peace Palace of The Hague.
The gift will be from group of
peace friends in Europe.
The midland journal., 1907-02-08
New YORK Artist sufrocated.

New York Especially. = John ].
Schmidt, an artist, built bonfire of
paper in his room in lodging-house
In Bushwick Avenue, Brooklyn, when
he came home and was suffocated by
smoke. The fire was extinguished
without serious financial loss.
The midland journal., 1907-02-08
Arrested For Forgerv.

New York (SpeciaD = Frederick
Norman, 20 years old, was arrested
in this city at the instance of the
police of Chicago, where he is wanted
on a charge OF forgery,
The midland journal., 1907-02-08

Consul Maxwell sends the report
from Funchal, Madeira, that the Ar
gentine government is shortly to can
Gel it's present navigation contract
between Buenos Ayres and Europe,
subsidized at $2S,00 por voyage, the
present company being unable to
agree to the conditions recently i'm
posed by the government in its re-
newal requirements.
The midland journal., 1907-02-08

In Germany it is still customary
to plant fruit trees along highways.
In the province of Hanover there are
1876 miles OF such roads. along
which there are 175,734 fruit trees.
The midland journal., 1907-02-08
A Governor Killed.

Willemstad (By Cable).-Accord-
ing to advices received here from
Caracas, Governor Mata. at the head
of a body of armed troops, surprised
a secret political meeting in the
garden of Vice President Womes, at
Caracas, Venezuela, during the night
of January 81 and in the fighting
which followed Governor Mata and
several others were killed and a
larger number, including the COM
mander of the troops were wounded.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-05-18
TAKING NO MORE CHANCES.
Keepers Had Special Cartridges For
Poor Marksman.

DR.. Seward Webb at a dinner at
Shelburne Farms, his great Vermont
estate, said of a certain poor marks
man Visiting his English brother
in-law, he shot the head keeper in tho
leg the first morning he tried pheasant
shooting. The man limped away ours
ing horribly Next day he had wretch
ed luck, though the wounded head
keeper without malice had assigned
him to fairly good place, Bang,
bang, bang, went his gun every few
seconds, but not bird fell before 1t.
Heswas much embarrassed. II seemed,
too, that at each of his misses the
under keepers smiled at one another
oddly. Finally his cartridges gave out.
He hurried to the nearest keeper and
demanded more. There amt no more,
sir the man answered. No more
Nonsense. Why. you've got at least
1000 In that box The keeper flushed
and stammered: 'Ah, but them amt
for you, sir. They're for another gent.
They've got shot in em, sir"
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-05-18

adopt various devices to protect their
homes from invasion by the Apaches.
Dogs having proved utterly useless,
more than one family has sought pro-
lection by placing stand with Il par.
rot or cockatoo possessing a specially
loud squawk just inside their flats
almost everyone In Paris lives in a
fiat. An electrical engineer, however,
has found a phonograph the best pos.
sible watchman. He locates It with
the megaphone attachment directed
TO the door and he has wired the hall
and arranged batteries so that the
moment the door is opened three
inches the phonograpn gets into ac-
ton IL begins to below police!
Help! Murder! Thieyes!" and II
keeps It up until he gets out OF bed
and turns OFF the current His fiat is
well furnished with plate and other
yaluables and several attempts have
been made to rob It, but no thieves
have yet withstood the photograph
bombardment. They run SO quickly
that they are never caught.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-05-18
SHREDDED NEWS.

Gov. Hughes, of New York, has
been elected president OF the new
northern Baptist convention which
was organized recently at Washing
ton
Three men were painfully burned,
AZ patients badly frightened and $5,-
900 damage done when an explosion
OF gas occurred at the Ohio Valley
hospital, near Pittsburg.
Orrin w. Potter, pioneer steel
man and multi-milionaire, whose life
Is linked with development of the
steel industry of the United States, is
dead. at his home in Chicago
AT Warsaw, Russian Poland, band
Of Terrorists held up the city office
OF the. Vistula railroad and got away
with $4,000 after a severe fight in
which four persons were killed.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-05-18
fRlSCO'S MAYOR TALKS.
He Denies that He Has Resigned His
Office and Says Ruef Never Paid
Him Any Brlbe Money.

He Denies that He Has Resigned His
Office and Says Ruef Never Paid
Him Any srlbe Money
San Francisco May lS.-ln a state
ment to the Evening Post Mayor
Schmitz on Friday said:
"The statement that | have handed
the reins OF government to any person
or committee is an unqualified false
hood. ! called the committee of 90
together some time ago In order that
] might take advantage OF the advice
OF the best citizens Of the city In
financial aud industrial crisis. This
committee OF so selected subcommit.
tees In order that the important work
might be systematized and carried
out, and one OF the committees Is the
so-called committee OF seven.
II have not resigned nor yielded
my prerogative to anybody, and any
statement to the contrary is a mallci-
ous falsehood. There Is no reason
why ! should pass over the reins OF
government TO other people.
"As for Ruefs charges | will say he
mas never paid me any bribe money
and he knows 1t. IL he says he paid
bribe money TO me, he simply lies. |
only know that he has made such
charges from what ! am told and from
the newspaper reports
Patrick Calhoun, president OF the
United Railways, said yesterday that
II Abraham Ruef had told the grand
jury that the United Railways,
through some OF its officials, bribed
the supervisors, Ruefs statement was
absolutely false.
Abraham Ruef on Friday in his Sec
ond appearance before the grand jury
testified regarding the Parkside Trac.
tion Co. deal, by which, according to
the prosecution, the directorate of the
Parkside corporation paid to Ruer
$4,000 TO procure franchise to en-
nance the value of the lots composing
the Parkside real estate tract
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-05-18
Strikers Gain Ground.

New York, May 1S--The striking
longshoremen made a gain Friday
when 400 strike breakers quit work on
the piers OF the White Star line and
Joined their fortunes with those of the
men whose places they had taken.
One stevedore contractor in Brooklyn
made terms with the strikers, grant.
ing the concessions sought. The other
development of importance was the
accidental shooting OF Harry Mar.
shall, vegetable peddler in Hoboken
who was fatally wounded by stray
bullet from the revolver of Benjamin
Vincent, said to be private detec-
tive employed on the docks and who
had been attacked by strikers.