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The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-12-13
BOMBS FOR JOURNALISTS
Death-Dealing Bouquets Handed Out
to St. Louis Publisher and
Editor.

st. Louis, Dec. 12.-Detectives working
on the double bomb-throwing here last
night have found no trace Of the perpe-
traitor. The office of a weekly paper de-
voted mainly to criticisms of prominent
persons was wrecked early in the even
ing, and after / o'clock this morning a
bomb was exploded on the front porch
of the home of Harry B. Wandell, city
editor Of an afternoon paper.
The front door and windows of the
Wandell home were blown in, but no one
was injured. WandeU was sitting in a
chair in his home at the time. A man
was seen to run away at the time Of the
explosion.
The shock Of the explosion caused Wan
dell to collapse, and tonight he was still
confined to his bed. His name was found
on stubs of a checkbook of the owner of
the weekly paper dynamited earlier in the
evening,
He admitted he had been writing for
the weekly paper, but denied that his
contributions were such as to cause any
person to do him injury. A note found
under the door of the Wandell home after
the explosion read:
III Tv-Be careful Next time under
your cha o."
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the middle of &c Enc.

For forty-eight hours the Commodore
Perry has been securing Lake Erie for
traces Of the car ferry, but, until @
tiny ten-man yawl was sighted ten miles
off this port at II o'clock today, the
men in the little state fisheries craft had
almost given up hope of being able ever
to learn even a portion Of the story Of
the fate of the big car ferry.
As the Perry came abreast Of the
drifting and half-waterlogge yawl the
men on the fish boat saw that they had
arrived too late. The nine occupants Of
the boat, which was marked "Bessemer
and Marquette No. T." were found
frozen stif. Taking the yawl in tow,
the Perry made all steam for this port.
News of the finding OF the bodies
had reached the city and thousands Of
persons sWarmed the wharVes. As soon
as the fish boat made fast. a force Of
men with tackle set to work raising
the bodies to the dock.
Conneaut, o., where most Of the men
live was notified by telephone, ana q
hundred residents Of that city arrived
IN two hours. They were taken directly
to the cOrOneT's mOrgue, where the men
were identified as follows:
H. Thomas, second cook, Port Stan
Ley.
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Estrada s Army
Nears It's Goal
LABOR TO DISCUSS
VITAL QUESTIONS
Meeting at PittSburg Today Is
Called to Confer Over Vari-
GUS Disputes.

Pittsburg Pa, Dec. 12.-One of the
most momentous labor conferences Of re-
cent years will begin tomorrow, when
the executive council of the American
Federation OF Labor and national Of
Ulcers Of the Amalgamated Association
OF Iron, Steel and Tin Plate Workers viii
open deliberations over the present strike
Of the union employees Of the American
Sheet & Tin Plate company, a subsidiary
of the United States Steel corporation.
The conference is scheduled to discuss
the tin mill employees strike, but IL is
known that before deliberations cease,
subjects ranging from the strike Of the
sWitchmen in the northwest to the strike
Of the handmade" glass blowers of the
middle states will have been threshed out
and campaigns long and bitter viii have
been planned.
Congress VIII be appealed to and sum
OF money viii be put aside by the feder-
alton council to stand long strike sieges.
Principal among the many subjects to
be discussed will be the fight contem-
plated against the United States Steel
corporation by union men. AS a last re-
sort this strike viii be called in all
plants of the United States Steel cOrpOr-
alton, according to a prominent Fedora
ton OF Labor leader.
''The open shop" policy Of the steel
corporation seems TO be the principal
point of contention.
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DEATH IN UNIQUE WAY
Rail Rips Through the Floors, Kills
Two and Injuries Three Men
and One Woman.

Chicago, Dec. 1.-TWO immigrants
were killed and three men and one
woman injured in a peculiar accident
to a northbound Chicago & Northwest
ern passenger train in the northern part
of the city today. The tracks had been
elevated recently and as the train
passed, a rail was torn loose. It ripped
through the floor Of the baggage car
and through the smoker.
In the smoker the tOrn-up rail decap-
itated one of the immigrants and killed
another.
The engineer and fireman were in
jured. An immigrant woman and a
man also were injured.
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Especial TO The Herald-Republican
Park City. Dec. 12.-The explosion Of a
boiler in the Maple Hail business block
and rooming house this afternoon at $50
o'clock resulted in a fire which caused
injury TO four men and burned four build
ings. The loss is estimated at S26, 500,
partially covered by insurance.
The rapidiJy with which the flames
gained Roadway. following the explosion
of the boiler, threw the town into a panic,
as ii was feared there would be a repeti-
ton of the ccnflagratiop of 1898, which
practically wiped out all the buildings in
the city.
A protecting mantle of snow, which COW
cred all buildings to the depth of a num-
Der of inches, and the gallant fight made
by the regular and volunteer fire ftgN-
ers undoubtedly saved the city from de-
struction by fire yesterday.
While to the men who fought the flames
great credit is due. il is doubtful as to
whether or not they could have kept the
fire from spreading I'm all directions had
iit not been for the blanket Of snow that
covered everything. Blazing embers were
carried by the wind over the city, bus
as they fell on snOW-cOvered roofs no
other fires resulted.
The Maple Hall business block and
rOOming house was three-stOry frame
structure owned by the Salt Lake Sc
curity & Trust company of Salt Lake. The
first floor was occupied by a dancing hall
and the Center saloon, the second floor
,hy the jewelry store of c. T. Fountain,
and the third floor by a rooming house
conducted under lease by Mrs. j, G.
Hayes.
Even though the fire gained rapid head
way, Mr. Fountain succeeded in getting
out his jewelry stock before the flames
had reached the second story. Within
a few minutes from the time of the eX-
plOsiOn OF the boiler both the front and
the rear entrances to the building were
almost effectually blocked by a wall of
flame. Four men who had been taking
an afternoon nap in the TOOming house
on the third floor were compelled to either
run the gauntlet of the flames or to jump
from the windows to the ground. J. c.
Hayes chose TO jump. and sustained a
badly bruised hip and internal injuries.
Ii is not thought that the injuries win
result fatally, Three OtheTs-RObeFt Han
Ion, James Lowney and ", d, Watkins
Continued on Page Two.
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RACINE PLANT IS
ACOMPLETEL LOSS
Manufacturing Company and
Others Lose S650,000 by a
Disastrous Fire.

Racine, Wis, Dec. 12.-The big plant
Of the Racine Manufacturing company,
manufacturers Of automobile tops and
piano stools, and the Daniel Brotherhood
hall, the Mitchell wagon works and sew
eral houses were destroyed by fire today,
entailing a loss estimated at S5500l0, of
which all except $4,000 is borne by the
Racine Manufacturing company The
latter concern carried S250,000 insurance.
The origin Of the fire is not known.
The fire started in the mill room of the
Racine Manufacturing plant, which COM
prises six buildings. The flames spread
quickly throughout the entire plant
A saloon, e boarding house and several
other houses were destroyed, and dam
age was done to a dozen other homes.
The firemen were hampered by frozen
MIGRANTS. About 100 men viii be
thrown out Of employment until the plant
IS rebuilt.
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When placed under arrest at 6;45 O'Clock
yesterday morning he was still labOring
under the fear that the crime ne had com
mitted would bring great woe upon nim-
''For Gods sake take me to some place
where I may hide" he cried when Ser
geant J. J. Roberts came to arrest him
In front of the American House. I stole
the cross and / ripped the candlesticks
from the altar / didn't know what 1
was doing When / had them in a sack
over my shoulder and looked up at the
church walls 1 thought that they would
fall over and crush me. ] tried to run
away. I did run, but soon my legs would
not carry me, and I fell in a heap.
THE only way that / could get relief
was to look back toward the place from
which / had taken the cross. ] could feel
its corners digging into my back and IL
nearly drove me insane. But I mustered
strength and, tossing the sack into a
coal chute from which / had lifted it, |
ran as fast as my legs would carry me.
On what a relief it was to get rid Of
that crOssi Never before has such a bur-
den been inflicted upon me"
Hans Rasmussen is a young Dane Of
but twenty-fOur years. Out Of work and
starving he stumbled into the quarters
of the Volunteers of America a few days
ago and begged for something to eat and
work. None could be found for him until
Saturday forenoon, when he was offered
work in the basement of St. Marks cathe-
dral to assist in the cleaning up Of rub
bish left from the bazaar which closed
there Saturday night He lent willing
hands and worked hard.
Dazzled by Golden Cross.
By chance he happened to go up into
the auditorium Of the church He looked
Continued on Page Two.
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boards. The roof doesn't leak now. be-
cause the snow has frozen there. form
ing protection. But through the cracks
In the roof the ice and snow may be
seen.
Sleep Upon a Pallet.
The floor consists of a few scattered
boards on beaten earth, once forming the
bed of a coal bin There is scant pro-
lection anywhere from the winter blasts
chat sweep down from the north through
he alleyWay. At one end Of the room Is
a miserable pallet, upon which Mrs Mil
Ter and her children sleep. There are
fe boxes In lieu of chairs, and a small
stove When the mother and children
move about this place it is crowded.
The playground of the children is on
the griE'y bed.
The room is dark, unhealthy. unsan-
itary, cold, cheerless and dismal There
is nc way to keep IL clean. The roof is
lined with coal dust. The children are
grimy and dirty. Ice cold water NAV be
drawn from a nearby tap but there isn't
enough fuel in the howell to heat II. lit
tie Leon has just recovered from typhoid
fever He is less than years old and
is constantly Rugged to his mothers
Continued on page six.
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BURLINGTON TRAIN
GOES INTO A DITCH
Eight Passengers Are Injured
When Cars TOppIe Over at
Crossing.

Lincoln. Neb., Dec. 12.-The Denver
Chicago eastbound express on the Chi
cagO, Burlington & Quincy railroad was
derailed at Exeter, fifty miles from Lin
coin, this morning. Two passenger cars.
the engine, the baggage and the mail
cars left the track and toppled on their
sides.
Eight passengers were injured, one Sc
verely.
The wreck occurred at a point where
the Burlington tracks cross those of the
Northwestern road. The cause has not
been determined. A relief train with
railroad officials and surgeons was sent
from Lincoln and the passengers were
transferred and brought here.
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NEW AEROPLANE RECORD
Massachusetts Ma Says He Has Sc
eretly 0utdOns All Other
AViators.

Worcester, Mass, Dec. IA remark
able assertion of the practicability Of
aviation is embodied in the announcement
today Of Wallace z. Tillinghas, vice pres
ident Of a Worcester manufacturing COM
pany, who says he has secretly invented
built and tested an aerOplane capable of
carrying three passengers, and in which
he says he has flown from Worcester to
New York thence to Boston and back, a
distance of 300 miles. A speed of 40
miles an hour was maintained at times he
declares.
The test was made on September s. at
night, according to Mr.. Tillinghas, who
says he circled the Statue of Liberty at
an elevation of 1900 feet, and was seen
on the return trip by a coast guard on
Long Island, when flying low, the fact
being recorded in the newspapers at the
time.
Mr. Tnlinghas says the machine is a
mOnOplane, weighing 1850 pounds,
equipped with a f20-horsepower gasoline
engine. He refuses to tell where the ma
chine is, but says he will bring It to
Worcester for a public demonstration.
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Close neighbors who did not realize the
sad condition of the family until they
read of il I'm The Herald-B publican.
others living In various parts OF he city,
and some charitable organizations imme-
diately started TO work, with the result
that nOurishing food and warm Ii ment
were left IN the humble Miller hom.
Mrs Milers husband. Harry A ril-
Ter, left her three months ago and is NJ v
I'm Idaho. No rent was paid for the twJ
rooms they occupied, and Mrs Miller
was forced to leave there three weeks
ago An empty coalshed, near where she
had been living. became her new home.
and into il she moved with a small cook
stove, a bed and few boxes to complete
The household furniture.
To reach this poverty-stricken home.
one enters an alley on Fourth North. be-
tween First and Second West. goes
through a long yard lined with ram
shackle buildings. Around the corner of
a brick building is a coal shed. one end
of which contains the fuel OF nearby ten
ants while at the opposite end lives Mrs
Miller and her children. What she Is
forced TO call her home is a wooden affair
seven or eight feet wide and about twelve
feet long. The door. opening to the north
affords the only light, except that which
creeps through the cracks between the
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Plan Is to Capture the Enemy,
and Estrada Says Nothing
Will Be Conceded, With
Battle Expected Any Hour.
is BELIEVED ZELAYA
is PLAYING AT GAME
VIII Prefer Humiliation of the
United States Interference
Rather Than Fall Into Hands
of the InSurreCtioniStS,
MANAGUA IS NOT ALARM ED

Washington, Dec. 12.-Senor Cas-
trillo, representative of the Nicara-
guam insuTectiOnists in this city, to-
day received a eablegram from Gen
eral Estrada, head of the revolution
ist movement which declares that the
revolutionists are strongly entreneh-
ed at Rama and that the forces Of
President Zelaya are two days march
from the city. The cablegram as
serts that a revolutionary victory is
certain, but that, following it the
revolutionists will take no definite
steps until their program is approved
by the American state department.
This is presumed to refer especially to
any decision that may be made in the
case of President Zelaya, should the IN
surgents win. The cablegram, as trans
lated by Senior CastrillO, follows
Rama via Bluefields Dec. l2.-Cas-
tTillO, Washington: We occupy our i'm
pregnable position at Rama town, with an
army more numerous and more decided
than ever. Enemy IS two days march
from Rama. From there he asks US for
2 Ddtlty " E are ulopOoGt AluA W tUilNOtAC
anything, and are sure of victory. That
is our true situation, and our plan from
the beginning has been to capture the
enemy at Rama. We are disposed not
to take resOlute action without approval
Of the state department, to whom you
must communicate this When the battle
is expected we will advise you.
(SignedD ESTRADA"
The state department announced that it
was without official adviCes from Mica
1rHff ma FaE
cOntemplates will be taken only upon Of
ficfaI information
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William Ray, Conneaut.
j. w. SOuars, waiter, Conneaut.
G.. II. Smith, steward, Conneaut.
F. Steel. fireman, COnneaut.
j. Schenk. fireman, Conneaut.
j. Hart, Oiler, COnneaUt.
- - O'Hagen, Conneaut.
Charles Allen. COnneaut.
The cook Of the car ferry was the
only man to wear an Overcoat. The
other eight men were dressed iu over
ais and Jumpers, indicating that the
departure from the car ferry had been
hurried. Tia the bOw-end Of the boat
was found complete clothing for one
man, and 1T is the belief that the yawI
originally contained ten men and that
one became Crazed, discarded his cloth
ing and jumped into the lake.
Albert J. Weis of this city, treasurer
of the keystone Fish company, and the
Bay State Iron works. was a passenger
on the Inflated boat His relatives and
friends had not given up hope until
the yawl containing the nine men was
towed into this Port. His body has not
been found. Officers Of the car ferry
company gave up all hope Saturday.
and since Tuesday every available boat
has been searching the lake for some
news Of the wrecked craft
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TO ACT
BEFORE HOLIDAYS
so THE PEOPLE MAY
KNOW

The Herald-Republican's
bona fide net paid Circula-
ton in Salt Lake yesterday
was 55 per cent greater
than the Tribune, and The
Herald-Republican paid IN
Gle Sam three times as much
for postage on its mail cir
culation for yesterday as did
the Tribune.
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DR.. COOK STILL MISSING.
Affidavits on Fictitious Data Will CO
to Copenhagen.

New York, Dec. 12.-Affidavits Of Au-
gust w. Loose and George H. Dunkle.
who say they prepared for DR.. FTeder-
lex A. Cook fictitious arctic data, viii
be sent this week to the University of
Copenhagen. No verdict from that body
is expected until after the proofs ar
rive. Dr. Cooks whereabouts still is
a mystery.
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SPILLER MAY REMAIN.
Supreme Court of Panama Rules That
Deportation Order Was IlIeaal.

Panama, Dec. 12.-The supreme court
decided today that the decree issued by
President Obaldia, expelilng w G. Spill
Ter from the country, was illegal and
rules that Spiller may remain in Panama.
Spiller was charged with inducing canal
labOrers to leave the isthmus. and Lieu
tenant Colonel Cocktails. chief engineer
of the canal, requested the Panaman
government to deport Spiller. To meet
the case, President Obaldia issued an ex-
ecutive decree declaring that the entic-
ing Of canal laborers from the country
was a misdemeanOr punishable by ex-
Dulsion.
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DEATH STILL A MYSTERY.
open Verdict Returned by coroner's
Jury In Poisoning Case.

Pittsburg. Kan. Dec. IAN open YER
dict was returned today by the corOners
jury that inquired into the death Of
GOldie Engberg, who died December 3
as a result OF carbOliC acid poisoning. 1t
was at first supposed that the young
woman was murdered. Reports that the
jury returned a verdict of suicide have
proven arrOneoug.
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NOTE OF CHEER I'M POVERTY
COMES TO CHERRIES SHACK
Charitable Aid Woman and Babes
After Reading of Them in The
Herald RepublicGn.

The First note of cheer that has entered recently the
life Mrs Susie Miller living with her three children
the ZIG West Fourth South yesterday
ied provisions clothing grmy left them
with words Of encouragement and kindness.
Attention drawn to the pab plight Of Mrs Miller through the
publication Of story The HeaRepubican yesterday morning.
and during the day chab inclined persons responded impulse
by making the dismal Sunday brighter for Mrs Miller than
days have been
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SKATE TO THEIR DEATH.
Opening Of Season in Pennsylvania
and New Jersey With Fatalities.

Philadelphia, Dec. 12.--Five deaths have
resulted from the opening of the ice skat-
ing season today in this state and New
Jersey. Four were Of boys who had ven
tured on thin ice. and the fifth, a father,
was drowned after rescuing his twelve
year-old son.
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ONLY ELEVEN DAYS

Only eleven shopping days until Christ
mas! Long days, busy days.
Man or woman you'll get better serv-
ice and have a better view of the holiday
stocks if you shop in the mornings.
Shop today, Tuesday and Wednesday if
possible-the earlier the better for you,
for the salespeople, for us.
Lest you forget Christmas week the
stores will be jammed-it will be hard
work to spend your money.
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CAR FERRY FOUNDERS ina
STORM And 50 ARE DR0 Y. NED
Nine Frozen Bodies Are Taken
From Lake When Tragedy
Is Discovered.

Erie Pa 12-With her flag at halfma the state fisheries
Perry Captain Gerry DseOl commanding brought
this port today the dead and frozen bodies Of nine the the
Bessemer Marquette ferry No which left COnneau o. Tuesday
the middle of
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Railroad Question UP.

The conservation policy, postal savings,
merchant marines and other questions
viii not attract SO much attention, ana
may be more easily put aside than the
railroad question. There is a general
antipathy to bond issues, and any meas
Ure involving such feature win be
carefully considered before 1T is adopted.
No one expects any antitrust leEisla-
ton until the supreme court passes ON
important cases involving the Sherman
law now before that tribunal. So seusf-
tive. however, is congress to all sugEes-
ti0ns on this subject that much concern
is being expressed over the prospect Of
even q message, such as the President
has promised, regarding it, and it is prob
able that even the message may be de-
ferTed until after the action OF the court
Aside from the consideration of apDr0-
pTiati0n bills there VIII be little attempt
at legislation En- either the senate or
house this week. Mr.. Mann viii report
from the house committee on Interstate
and foreign commerce his bill prohibiting
the white slave traffic. and will make
an effort to obtain action upon IT, In-
diCatiOns are that ne may succeed
The senate win meet tomorrow. but the
house viii not be I'm session again until
Tuesday,
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SHINING CROSS is
TAKEN OFF ALTAR
Thiefat St.Mark's Cathedral
Is Conscience Stricken
and Returns Loot.

and fearing that something would
upon strike him dead Hans Rasmussen quietly back St.
cathedral early yesterday morning and with ehaerng
trembling replaced heavy ded and brace
ndeab which mi nue before ripped the altar