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The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-08-08
ICEBERG SEEN ON
TITANlC'S PATH
KAISER AND ICELAND PASS ICE
AT SAFE DISTANCE-MOO
HORSES ON NIINNEHAHA

NEW YORK, Special.--The princi-
pal event of the voyage of the North
German Lloyd liner Kaiser Wilhelm
der Crosse, arriving Tuesday after
noon, was the sighting of an iceberg
IN brilliant sunshine three miles to
starboard at 1 p. Nj. last Sunday
The Kaiser came over the regular
long route which the Titanic was fol-
lowing. This lane has been shifted
again further TO the south, but not
as far as the course first agreed upon
after the Titanic disaster.
Because all of the passengers knew
that the Kaiser was upon the regular
spring and summer route the uneX-
pected sighting of the ice mountain
caused great excitement.
Far away as il was, il was plain
~ visible and continued in sight for
three hours. The berg was estimated
to be $50 feet long and so feet high.
The Kaiser was not the only in
coming steamer to sight ice. on Sun
day afternoon, in latitude 41.49 and
longitude 5O.O7, the Red Star liner
iceland, which arrived Tuesday even
Ing, passed a big iceberg, which glis-
| tened like a rock of diamonds, the
| passengers said. 1t was 100 feet high,
| its length was 1900 feet, and it was
| perfectly flat on top. 1t was a mile
and a half away.
The iceland sailed for the first
| time under the Belgian flag, having
|
which she has always sailed, at Ant
werp- The change was made by the
| international Mercantile Marine Com
pany for administrative reasons.
| There was an attempt made by
strikers at Antwerp to burn the YES
sci.
The Minnehaha. of the Atlantic
! Transport line, also arrived Tuesday
evening from London for the first
time in two months, having been an
chored with other ships on the line
in the Thames at London because of
the strike. She was the last steamer
OF the company to leave here and
the first to return. The Minnehaha
brought back forty horses belonging
to Judge Moore, who won many
prizes at the London Horse Show.
They are worth between 100000 and
S25O,OOO, and came over in the care
of Chip Chase.
Miss Vera Catchpole, known as
Vera Pole, the actress of the "Bunty
Pull the Strings company, went to
meet the Minnehaha to get five dogs
that had been sent her They are
Griffon- BruXellois dogs, the only
ones, except Ami, the little pup she
had with her, in the United States.
They look much like guinea pigs and
are Vegetarians. The Minnehaha also
brought over twenty-five horses and
dogs belonging to the Ben Hur"
company.
Out of a crew of $50 men on the
Minnehaha fifty-three were sailors
and the remainder printers, cotton
spinners, farm hands, tile layers and
| tlnsmith, hired because of the strike.
Captain Calret said the ship got along
all right.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-08-08
use EXTRA CARE TO
STAMP OUT PLAGUE
Physicians Fear That Bubonic
Horror May Be General
at Sea Ports.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Special
The public Health and Marine Hos
pltal service sent a warning to.
stations in all Atlantic port cities to
redouble their efforts to suppress the
spread of the bubonic plague An
additional surgeon and number of
trained rat-catchers have been order
ed to New Orleans, where plague
carrying rats have been found.
Confirmation was received today bv
surgeon General Blue that a careful
meteorological examination of rats in
New Orleans had shown the presence
of plague.
He is authority for the statement
that the plague is likely to develop
IN any Atlantic port having trade
with the infected cities in Cuba and
Porto Rico, and would not be sur
prised if it should spread to CONT
mental Europe.
An additional death is reported
from Havana and a new case i'm San
Juan, Porto Rico. This makes forty
nine cases and twenty three deaths in
Porto Rico.
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EXCURSIONISTS
in COLLISION
LLIER HITS PASSENGER
STEAMER-PROMP WORK
SAVES ALL ON BOARD

BOSTON, MASS, Special. - The
steamship City of Rockland, on her
way to Boston from Bath, Me-, with
$50 passengers, was struck and seri-
ously damaged by the collier William
Chisholm in a head-on collision dur
ing a dense fog.
1t is feared that many lives may
have been lost in the confusion of
rescue work.
According to passengers, three or
four of the lifeboats of the City of
Rockland filled with water, throwing
as many as seventy-five passengers
into the sea. All of them were saved
from drowning, it was claimed by the
ships officers. Several were hurt.
The collision happened about 1910
o'clock this morning. All the pas
sengers were in their berths at the
time. The noise of the collision awak-
ened them all, an dsent them scurry-
ing to the deck, most of them scaneily
clad.
The City of Rockland was struck in
the bow, and the entire forward part
of the steamer was badly damaged.
The City of Belfast, with her own
and the passengers of the Rockland
on board, arrived at the Eastern
steamship Companys pier here at
$40 o'clock this morning. The Bel
fast picked up the passengers of the
Rockland shortly after the collision.
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PROVIDE SHELTER
FOR AMERICANS
United States Will Aid Citizens.
President May Take Same
Action.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Special
one. thousand tents were rushed to
FL Paso, Tex, by the War De-
partment in an effort to provide suit
able shelter for the American refugees
who are pouring across the border
from Northern Mexico.
In addition the department will pc
uuon Congress to make Immediately
available the remainder OF the flood
fund-about 500. OOO-for rations for
the refugees.
These measures were taken follow
ing the receipt OF additional dis
patches telling of the arrival Of seve-
raj hundred Americans today and the
probability that a large number of
others will reach FL Paso tomorrow.
Secretary OF War StimSOn discuss
ed the Mexican question in the Cabi-
net meeting, and the President and
his advisers agreed that something
radical should be done within short
time.
If Congress does not act with suf-
ficient speed il is thought the Presi-
dent Will send a special message or
the Mexican situation.
The consul at SaltillO today report
ed to the State Department that q
battle occurred near Jilita on Sunday
in which the federals were victorious
twenty rebels being killed. -Four
bridges near HOrnes were burned 10y
the rebels the same night.
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INJURED TRYING
TO SAVE HER CHILD

NEW YORK, Special. - Fannie
Kaplan, aged three, became so inter-
ested in her play in the middle of
Beck Street, Bronx, Tuesday after
noon she did not hear the honking
OF an auto truck of the American
Bank Note Company as it turned into
the street and bore down on her.
Her mothers alert ears caught the
warning, however, and taking a flight
OF stairs at a leap, she bounded into
the street as the driver was making
futile efforts to put on his brakes.
The momentum of her jump push
ed the child out of harms way, but
1t also sent Mrs. Kaplan sprawling
and before she could regain her foot
ing the truck ran over and broke one.
Of her legs. An ambulance carried
her TO the Lebanon Hospital.
Joseph Mccormick, the truck
driver, told the story to the police.
who let him go after taking his ad-
dress.
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FIVE ARE KILLED
BY EXPLOSION

o., SpeciaI.-With q
force that destroyed a residence
half n mile away, one of the three
magazines of the Austin Powder
Company, at South brooklyn, a
western suburb of Cleveland, ex-
plOded Tuesday.
Five persons were killed, accord
Ing to officials of the company, hut
the company has failed 10 account
for many of the Twenty-Five TO dfty
men working about the place when
the accident happened.
No trace of the five persons be-
IteVed 10 have been killed could be
found after the accident. They
were utterly blown to pieces.
Houses in the neigh bOrhOOd of I'll
powder mill were demolished by the
shattering force of the explosion.
The house of Ivan kneIcie, half
mile from the scene, was de-
StrOyed. Ia Is reported that some
OF the members of the family were
injured. Whether there was any
loss of life In the dwellings nenr
the plant has not been determined.
Several tons OF powder were
stored in the magazine. The eX-
plOsiOn was heard for miles. Plate
glass was broken In Cleveland, sew
eraI miles from the scene of the
accident.
Much damage was done to houses.
Chimneys were knocked down by
the shock, windows broken and
heavy stone and brick buildings
shaken out of plumb.
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IN FLAMES, SHE FLEES
FROM HUSBANDS AID

NEW YORK, Special Isaac Hall,
of 206 West one Hundred and For
tieth Street, heard his wife screaming
Tuesday night and running to the
basement found her with her clothing
in flames. She was mad with fright
ana pain and would not heed her hus-
bands calls.
Hall pursued his wife about the
basement. but she eluded him time
and again until he finally threw him
self upon her and gathered her tightly
in his arms. Then she collapsed and
Hall. with his arms and hands fright
fully burned, beat out the fire in his
wife's clothing.
The wOman's screams and the sight
of her in flames caused a tenant in
the house to turn in a fire alarm. PO-
liceman Brady found the husband
kneeling over the scorched and dis
figured body of his wife and calling
upon her to speak to him. Brady rang
for an ambulance and DR. Ritter took
both Hall and his wife to the Harlem
Hospital.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-08-08
MEXICO CANNOT
GRANT CONCESSION
Senate Will See That Japan Is
Not Allowed Coaling
Station.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Special
Magdalena Bay and the proposed con-
cessions 10y Mexico to japanese fish
ing companies will receive the atten-
ton of the Senate Committee on For
eign Relations within the next few
days. The matter has been before
the committee for some time, but a
difference Of opinion among the
members as TO the character of the
resolution to be reported has DELAYED
it.
Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska.
however, has drafted a resolution de-
claring any concession made by Mex
leo, which might in any way give a
possible coaling station or naval base
TO a foreign power, would be con-
trary to American policies, and should
be made a matter for action by the
Senate
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-08-08

Jack sullivan, another OF the
prisoners under arrest for the no
senthni murder, held "A long con-
ference today with his attorney
DEPUTY Police Commit >Sioner
DOul herty replied 10 statement
bS Rose that ne feared D~ughcrty
and would not confess Ina his pres
ence with a denial that ne had &c
cupIed any but tricndlN relations
10 becker Ia the estiGHtiOn OF
DOT GHERTN TALKS.
DouEhertN said: - have never
had amy supervision over Becker-
never came i'm contact with him or
his work nt all. It was outside OF
my jurisdiction.
when this investigation is fin
tshed a Will be determined shat 4
never had any relations of any
kind with Becker. Every body fn
the department knows that 4 have
nothing to do with gambling.
in the first place 4 arrived Mt
the West FOrty-scVenth Police sta
ton fOrfy-hVe minutes after the
actual murder was reported 40 me
ut my home and the ease WAS alb
sOIutely dry when I got there.
"a ordered the arrest of Libby and
shapiro. I got the FIRST Informal
tiOn from shapiro that the murder
was hired by Rose and that IL
went TO 'BridEey' Webber's house.
WIS the first TO develop the names
of the two men that rode with
Rose. They were WALTON and
ScheppS I secured the first in-
eliminating statements from every
one of the prisoners, and it was ON
this evidence that all OF the de-
PENDANTS were held I'm the first
place.
81 have cO-Opcratcd with the dis
trict attorney throughout the en-
tire case. of course. the district
attorney could promise and grant
Immunity where I could not"
Because of fear that they would 7
murdered If lodged in the Tombs, RIOS
WALTON and Weber today appealed
District Attorney Whitman to be sci
to another prison. He granted this r.
quest and sent the trio 20 the East Sic
Police Court Station. There they wi
be handy to his office.
My investigation is just beginning
said the district attorney. In all prOl
ability the end of it viii be some tin
off, but nevertheless. / hope and eNpe'
that il will end as satisfactorily as
has begun.
Il expect to confer with Rose. Vallc
and Weber from time to time here
after. They have promised to confs
with me whenever 1 say. They al
afraid TO go to the TOmbs. and l hay
agreed that they shall not be ser
there"
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-08-08
BODY OF MISSING
NURSE IS FOUND

CATSKIIIL, n. Y, Special.-An au-
tOpSy over the body of Miss DOrcaS L.
SnOdgrass, the Mount Vernon society
girl and nurse, whose booy was found
floating in a small creek running into
the Hudson here after she had mys-
teriOuSly disappeared from home, was
performed last night.
Hundreds of villagers gathered at a
distance and watched the physicians
at their grewSome task. The scene
was one of the most weird ever wit
messed. The body was laid on a street
cher on n small grass plot in the
cemetery and there for more than two
hours DR.. +. j. Rooney, of Albany
worked over il, assisted by several
Catskill physicians.
DIR. Rooney afterwards declared that
he had found no signs of violence and
that all of the organs were intact.
He will examine the stomach and in
testines for signs of poison in his lab
OratOry at Albany.
Miss Snodgrass was formerly a Vir-
/ ginia girl, her brother. Edward T.
SnOdgrass, of Berryvilie. Va. having
| assisted in the search for his missing
/ the recovery of her BODY, dead or
| alive. or for the detection of the crime.
/ if any had been committed against
her.
on July nth, the young woman dis
appeared from her sisters home. AT
Mt. Vernon, n. Y. She was woman
| of means and was soon to have been
married to Frederick Schmidt an
electrical contractor. For the love OF
| the profession the dead woman took
up the calling Of a trained nurse. and
was following this profession, when
! without any known reason. she dis
| appeared, after she had started out
| on shopping expedition.
Identification by her brother and
fiance was mace through n portion OF
the name on the young woman's un-
! derwear as we'll as by jewelry found
on her person. The body was fright
fully decompOsed and the features
could not be recognized.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-08-08
WORKHOUSf FOR
PULLING GIRLS HAIR
ARCHITECT SENT TO WORK
HOUSE FOR MISSING UP
GIRLS TRESSES.

NEW YORK, Special.-Crime pull
ling a girls hair.
Punishment-Five days in the
Workhouse.
Such is justice as melted out by Mag
istrate Krotel in the Essex Market
Court Tuesday to Arthur Cook, who,
after partaking too freely of drink
ables, was inspired by his effervescent
spirits to yank the tresses of Miss
Helen wilkins. twenty years old, of
ga West Nineteenth Street
Miss Wilkins story of the hair
pulling as related TO Magistrate Kro-
tel was that on Monday evening as she
was quietly passing along Fifth Ave
nue. Cook, whether for pure mischief
or because in her cOiled tresses he
saw menacing reptiles, suddenly
sprang from a doorway and pulled
down ali her carefully erected couture.
She ran to PatrOlman Huber, who ar
rested Cook, but not until the latter
had been man-handled by four men
who had witnessed the hairpulling.
COOK told Magistrate Krotel that he
was employed as an architect by j. B.
Kelly at Fifth Avenue and TWENTY
ninth Street and lived at 1O2 Licking
ton Avenue. He was nattily dressed
and his tentative red mustachc was
jauntily curled.
Il had been drinking since S O'Clock
in the afternoon" said, land scarcely
knew what i was doing. 1 drink a
little now and then, but never was ar
rested until now"
1t had been reported that at the
time of Cooks arrest several other
girls had appeared with similar sto.
ries of hairpulling, but they did moi
carry their complaints into court
Magistrate Krotel gave the work.
mouse sentence to warn Cook to seek
a different form of amusement.
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ributing among the members.

tributing among the members.
1t was Whitman's turn Friday n
week ago. and while waiting with
rifle in his hand for the beef to be
driven in the stable he discharged
the gun accidentally. the ball passing
through his right big toe. lie reload
ed and killed and dressed the steer.
paying no attention to his toe. which
ne regarded as a trifling matter. Fin
iShing the job. he put turpcntine on
the toe and continued his business
ON last Thursday he began to have
pains about over the body and the
lOCkjaw rapidly progressed.
He was forty-twO years of age and
leaves a wife and five children.
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POSSE CERTAIN OF
TAKING MURDERER

CARMEL, Me, Special.-The capture
OF Jasper sherman Gray, charged with
the murder OF fourteen -year-old Naomi
Mitchell, of North Carmel, is only a
question of time now, the posses be-
lieve. He. is now definitely charged
with murder in q warrant issued by
Judge A. T.. Harding, of the Bangor
Municipal Court
The posses have definite assurances
that Gray is having a hard time keep
ing himself alive. An aged farmer and
his wife saw man who, the sheriff's
men are certain, was Gray, a few miles
northeast of North Carmel. They say
he carried neither rifle nor pistol. The
couple said the man was young and
appeared almost exhausted.
His shirt and overalls were terribly
tattered. He wore one rubber boot and
carried the other in his hand.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-08-08
Hold GAMBLER FOR
new YORK POLICE

SYRACUSE, n. ", Special
On the suspicion that he may
have had something To- do with
the ROscnthal case in New York,
Harry Lewis is being held by the
Syracuse police until n New York
officer can reach this city TO
identify him. He was arraiSncd
yesterday on a white slave charge
and held. The police found
blackjack and a bottle of poison
in his room.
Word from New York leads to
the belief that the suspect may
be Harry HOrOwitZ. suspected of
the ROscnthal murder.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-08-08
HAD LOCKJAW
FROM RIFLE Shot
JOHN WHITMAN DIES FROM AC.
CIDENTAD SHOOTING BY
HIMSELF.

STAUNTON, VA, Special - John
L. Whitman, of Mount Sidney, died
Saturday night of lockjaw after his
body had been drawn almost double
and he had suffered excruciating
agony for two days.
He was a member of a farmers
beef club of eight members. one mem
Der in turn killing a beef and dis
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is WORKING TO SECURE
TWO MORE BATTLESHIPS

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Special
Representative SulZer, of New York,
who is circulating a petition in favor
of two battleships among the Demo
craic members of the House, today
announced he has obtained the sigma
lures of twenty-one Democrats, who
Will vote for two battleships, regard
less Of the action of the caucus. Sui
ger says he expects to have twenty
eight or thirty Democrats pledged to
two ships before Saturday
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called into public service, being elect
ed Commonwealth Attorney. He held
this office until 1906. Then declining
reelection he resumed the practice
of his profession.
In 1908 he was elected Mayor after
a heated campaign against Carlton
Mccarthy. He served with such en-
tire satisfaction that in the recent
primary and election he was again
chosen. this time without opposition.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-08-08
CHICAGO RAILWAY MEN
TO VOTE ON WAGE INCREA SIC

CHICAGO, ILL, Special.-Employes
OF the street railway companies of
chicago Will meet tonight to vote on
the propositions submitted in answer to
their demand for a wage increase
Many OF the men favor rejecting the
offer OF new contract at the present
terms. If 1t is rejected day will be
named for the taking Of strike vote
An arbitration agreement, however,
may be adopted.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-02
BUBBLE FOUNTAINS
Not Much Good, Health Officer Thinks,
 Because Not Used Right.

Dr. w. H. Judson, town health off, cer, in his annual report shows that ten cases of consumption have been reported in the whole town during the past fiscal year. Five disinfections of houses where persons had died of consumption were made, two in the town and three in the borough. Mea- sles were epidemic in the town, but not in the borough. In Danielson they were checked to 8 limit of two fami- lies. There were about fifty cases in all the countryside. There was one case of scarlet fever in the town and five in the borough. These cases were widely separated as to time and seem ed isolated, so that in only two cases could the health officer trace the ori- gin. These came from Providence.
 There were two cases of typhoid in the town, neither one in the borough The health officer remarks that proba- bly, there were other mild cases. A severe form of chickenpox occurred in one family in the borough, causing some uneasiness until it was proved not to be smallpox.
 Dayville had two cases of diphtheria Danielson one case. The cause 1T each case was faulty drainage. One school water supply was examined al the state laboratory and proved fairly
 good, but not o. K, This was at the Dayville school. The statutes concern l ing towels, drinking cups, etc., are vel | obeyed, but not much good comes ot | the bubbling fountains, as people pu' | their faces all over the bulb and rut | it with their nasty hands.
 The Assawauga company of Dayvillt has put in it's pipes and catch basins 4r-
 which is highly gratifying to all con. l cerned