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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-05
STEEL CARS SAVE MANY
Wooden Coaches Cut Through Like a
Knife Through Cheese and All
Of the Dead Were In
Those Cars.

SS1s1sANNd, N. T., July 0.-W1th
twenty-five bodies remaining unidenti-
fled. and with many Of the injured in
an extremely dangerous condition, the
horror Of yesterdays rear-end collis-
ion on the Lackawanna railroad con-
tinues to grow. Many of the bodies
whose identity, has not been learned
will probably never be recognized, 90
terribly mutilated are they. The
death list today was forty-one. In ad-
dition Nellie Shandel. Of Newark, N.
j., and James Griffith were declared
by doctors to be dying and six others
were not expected to recover.
The wreck was the worst in the his
tory OF the road whose boast pre-
viously that only two passengers had
been killed on 1t since 1900. The road
officials blame Engineer Schroeder.
He was in the cab Of train II which
crashed through the standing Buffalo
limited. The company officials say
that the semaphore mile distant
was at danger" that the block IN
which the limited was stalled was al
SO set against No. II and that flag
man from the passenger tried to stop
y the on-coming train half mile from
the accident. The engineer says that
the distant signal was at clear" and
that he saw no flagman. He insists
that the fog which had welled in from
the Chemnng river was so dense that
! 1t was almost impossible to see the
track trains length ahead.
The police admitted today that
bodies of the dead and dying were
robbed as they lay in the open fields
beside the tracks. Coroner Smith has
detailed fifteen special officers to aid
Deputy Sheriff Sullivan In protecting
the property of the victims which was
picked up from wreckage and stored
near the temporary morgue
The story OF the wreck, like others
which have recently preceded it, was
ore OF steel cars as havens OF refuge
and wooden cars as death traps. None
Of the dead were in the steel cars.
The great solid train cut through the
wooden day coach and Pullman like a
knife through cheese. but the sAael
Pullman cars and the steel day
coaches held fast They were bent
out of shape with the terrific force OF
the blow but they held intact and
their occupants were injured. not
killed.
representatives from the state pub
lie service commission and the inter
state commerce commission are on
the ground personally investigating
the wreck. All of the survivors agree
that there was little warning. The
great limited was standing quietly on
the rails while the crew Of the freight
that had stalled 1t were trying to get
onto the side track so that the road
to Buffalo might be cleared. Train
No. II, running more than 60 miles an
hour, crashed into 1T SO suddenly that
some of the passengers who had been
standing on the rear platform did not
have tinl< to jump and we're crushed
to death even as they tried. The
wreck took place on curve that ends
stretch OF ten miles Of straight
track, on which engineers make up
lost time and No. IL was no exception
to this rule.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-05
injured e4s.

To show the result Of the passage of
sane fourth ordinances over the coun-
try, the Tribune publishes this table
today comparing this year with the
Fourth OF four years ago in several
large cities:
Cities 1912 1912 1908 1908
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-05
WONDERS WORKED
BY SANE FOURTH
Only Twenty Lives Sacrificed Yester-
day as Against Flfty-seven Last
Year and 21s Three
Years Ago.
INJURED NUMBER s4s
Americas sanest Fourth Was OBJ
served Yesterday and as Result
There viii be Fewer
Funerals.

UNITED Press Leased Wire service.l
CHICAGO, July 5.-The Tribune to-
day gives the following table on the
result Of Americas sanest Fourth"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-05
Two Wilson Replies.

WASHINGTON, July Oscar w.
Underwood, whose action in with
drawing his name from the contest
for the presidential nomination at
Baltimore FASTENED the nomination
of Governor Wilson, today received
the following telegram from the New
Jersey executives:
Your message of congratulations
has given me deep pleasure 1t cheers
me as much as it strengthens to have
the support Of man whose charac-
ter and leadership in congress all the
country adnires. Please accept my
assurances of warm personal regard.
(Signed)
WOODROW WILSON,
Speaker Clark was also the reci-
pient of message from the democra-
tic nominee as follows:
your message of congratulation
has given me deep pleasure and your
generous offer to do all you can to
aid in my election is characteristic
of your readiness to undertake every
task imposed upon you. Pray accept
my warmest assurances Of warmest
pers0e-. rsre-d and pleasure at an
tieipating working with you.
(Signed)
WOODROW WILSON,
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Local Observations.

MedH Temperature, July 4, 81.
Highest temperature, 93.
Lowest temperature, So
Lowest temperature last night. 73.
FRED q. GoSEWIscH,
Observer.
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WOODROW WILSON,"

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are Served the fuil Leased Wire ser.
vice Of tho United Press Associations
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30

Washington. July 29.-After a series of satisfactory conference with the Japan csc minister, President Taft and Secre- tary of State Knox, regarding the condi- tions surrounding Christians in orea, five representatives of Protestant foreign mis- tions surrounding Christians in Corea. five expressed to the Janasese ambassador their concern for the Corean Christians who are accused of complicity in anti Japanese conspiracies.
 Ambassador viscount Chinda while indi- eating that the conference with the mis- sionary representatives was satisfactory, would not discuss the matter. He took the attitude that it would be improper for him to mako any statement while the conspiracy cases are on trial in the Jap anese courts. The Secretary of State. however, after long talk with the mis- sion representatives said that he had indorsed their method of taking up the Corean matter through the Japanese arrl- bassador. The missionaries told the Sec retary that they had nothing to lay be- fore the department that would call for diplomatic action in the natter
 Bishop Candler of Georgia and Rev. pr. Cook of Nashville represented the Methodist church, south.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30
COREAN CHRISTIANS ARRESTED
 CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY

The Rev. Frank North of New York. secretary of Northern Methodist board of missions Bishop Luther D. Wilson. president of the northern board of for eign missions, and the Rev. Arthur J. Brown, secretary of the Presbyterian board of foreign missions.
 The delegation called first upon Wis., count Chinda, the Japanese ambassador and then saw the Secretary of State.
 MT. Knox summarized the conference. which lasted an hour and half, as follows:
 ''The representatives of the missionary board of the Presbyterian church and the Methodist Episcopal church. north and south, called upon mo this morning to ex- press the deep interest and concern about the Corean Christian, under arrest In Corea charged with conspiracy against the life of the governor general.
 Their call was partly one of courtesy and was also to inform the department that reports to the contrary, they had no complaint to make arising out of tho Korean situation for diplomatic action upon the part of this government. They said. however. that they would be glad to have the department advise them as to what they should do in the interest Of their Corean friends involved in this trou- ble. to which I replied that they had been pursuing the correct course in my judg ment by manifesting their solicitude for their friends in the Japanese government through the Japanese ambassador here"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30
MONTGOMERY MAN
 IS CHARGED WITH MURDER

Montgomery, July 29.-I. E. Boyett
 manager of the Montgomery .Cooperage company, ana son-invlaw of Richard Tiles, street car magnate and owner of the Citizens Electric Power company, was arrested Monday afternoon charged with the murder of P. J. Westhofen, also connected with the cooperage company
 westhofen died at a local infirmary of lcckjaw earlier in the day. The arrest comes as the continuation of a shooting near McGees Switch two weeks ago. l.. s. White. negro chauffeur of the Boy cites, told the sheriff today that Mrs. Boyette started on an afternoon drive two weeks ago and that before leaving the city Westhofen was picked up. White says he drove the two to McGee's Switch, eight miles from the city, and after turning around for the trip back. Westhofen ordered the car stopped. The negro says Wethofen went possibly a hundred yards in the woods and almost immediately a shot rang out On Mrs. Boyettes comamnd White says he in vestigated. and found Wethofen shot in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30
TWO AUTOMOBILES
 CONSUMED BY FIRE

Lanett, July g. - Special )-Messrs. Griggs Shaefer and Grady Webb both lost their machines by fire a few days ago, MT. Shaefer, while returning from trip to Chattanooga, Tenn, lost his car near Tal- ladega by an explosion of the gasoline tank. The car was totally burned in about 20 minutes.
 The other ear was burned while MT. webb was on his way to LaGrange. Ga. The car was driven into deep mud and it is supposed that the friction caused by the repeated attempts to rull out set the car on fire.s It was a total loss
 A petition in bankruptcy has been filed by A. H. Stywald, one of west Points s oldest business men. MT. stywald had been in business for, over 2n years. and was considered in good condition by out siders. Liabilities about s21co, assets $l2oo, as given at rough estimate.
 Howard & Knowles, a Lanett firm, after having been closed by creditors for over four months, opened and began business this week. Only the stock on hand will be sold, no new goods will be offered for sale
 The sale for a division between the At kinson and Turner heirs will he made on July 20, 1912 Property valued at about s20O,O00 will be sold.
 The school census is about completed. Returns show about 20o0 children of school age in Lanett.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30
SECRETSOF THE O|L.
 TRUST REVEALED Compelled Pierce Company to Purchase Refined
 Oil From It

St. Louis, July 29.-Attorneys for H. Clay Pierce and associates revealed in the federal district court here today Secrets of Standard Oil's alleged dom nation of the waters-Pierce oil com pany. The statements were made dur ing an argument for the defense in Henry M Affords suit to oust Pierce and other officers of the Pierce com pany.
 Tilford, representing the Standard in- terests. alleged in his suit that Pierce dominated the Pierce company and that the concern had been mismanaged. He seeks to prevent Pierce and his associates disposing of s3,000,000 gold notes of the Pierce ompany.
 Attorneys for Pierce declared during argument that one of the peculiar fea- lures of the relations of the Standard and PierA companies was that the Standard did not permit the St. Louis company to own a refinery in the Unit ed States, thereby compelling it to pur- chase its refined oil from the Standard company.
 Attorneys also told the court the Stan- dard compelled the Pierce company to re- duce it's price to the retail trade without itself suffering loss. The Standard. they told the court, made its profit out of the price the Pierce company was compelled to pay for it's refined product
 The Pierce company was permitted tt operate a refinery in Mexico according tt the attorneys but the product of that refinery was not sufficient to supply moro than the Mexican trade.
 One of the contentious Of Tilford in charging msmanagement of the Waters Pierce company by Pierce was that the company had built refinery in Okla homa The building of this refinery ac- cording to the attorneys was necessary for the Pierce company to get out of the clutches" of the Standard company.
 Attorneys charged that when the government ordered the dissolution oi the Standard oil company the contract between the Pierce and Standard com panies compelling the former to buy it: product from the latter remained 1T effect. It was then. the attorneys said the Pierce company bought the re. finery in Oklahoma.
 The charge also was made that tht Standard tried to injure the business of the Pierce company by sending it' agents through the country telling thu trade it sold the Pierce company its re fined oil and that it. therefore, could undersell the Pierce company
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30
FORGERY CHARGE
 AGAINST AN AGENT Sewing Machine Man Ar
 rested in Etowah COLLIDES WITH A PIG
Etowah Farmers Meet Saturday-Odd Fellows Picnic This Week--Suc- cumbs to Operation--Must
 Screen Fruit Stands

Gadsden, July 2e.-(Speeial.)-A E Hammit, agent for sewing ma chine company at Attalla, was ar rested today, charged with forgery He was unable to make bond and was placed in the county jail. His trial will be heard at the next term of county court in August. Hammit Is charged with having made $500 through his al- legged operations.
 Stands Must Be Screened
 Agitation has begun again to require keepers of fruit stands to screen their products and to observe the sanitary regulations.
 Farmers Will Meet
 A meeting of the Etowah County Farmers Life club, which was organ ized last winter. has been called to meet at the courthouse next Saturday The call is issued by G. N. Day, pres ident. At that time 1t is probable that plans for a picnic for Etowah county farmers will be made.
 Collides With Pig
 While riding at the rate of about miles an hour Birmingham motor cyclist, whose name could not be learned collided with a pig Sunday morning neal Springville. He was thrown from his machine and the handlebars were showed into his side. making gaping wound.
 Street Improvements Plans are being made for the perma' nent improvement Of Twelfth street from Irorast avenue to Chestnut street. Slal will be laid and will be covered with lint screenings.
 Fraternal Picnic
 A fraternal picnic will be had Saturday by the odd Fellows of Keener. At that time addresses on Odd Fellowship VII be delivered by J. w. Blackwell, Judge .J A. BiIbro l.. B. Rainey and Rev. J. S. Brock.
 Succumbs to Operation
 Mrs. Charles Brown, "A years old, of IaGrange died last night after an op- eration. The funeral was held this aft ernoon at o'clock.
 Infant Dead
 After an illness of three days Paul Morgan. the 14-months- old son of MT. and Mrs. Morgan Mccall. died early today.
 Surprise Their Friends
 Much surprise was created through out the city today upon the announce ment of the marriage last Thursday of Bruce Armstrong and Miss Margaret Bradford of Centre. The ceremony was Bradford of Centre. Hhe ceremony was nerformed at Centre last Thursday by inc Rev. l.. M Harris, pastor of the Methodist church of that place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30
Change of Venue Refused
 by Judge Brown
COURT ROOM PACKED
Defendant Charged With Murder of Rowan at Union Station July Is. z Every Available. Deputy Is
 Pressed Into Service


 Montgomery. July 29.-Assuming an az gressive attitude from the start the at torneys for the defense in the trial of c. Walter Jones, for the murder of Sloan Rowan doggedly contested every step of progress In the course of the hearing Monday, drawing heavily for ammunition upon a stock of legal technicalities. The mass of exceptions on the court records remains a proof of the days work.
 After an all day session the court re- cessed at o'clock, prepared to go into the evidence Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock. A jury was selected during the afternoon session of three hours. The special venire of 60 men and the regular venire of 50 were exhausted before at torneys began to strike. Of the 100 men, only 40 qualified. Twenty-Five were de- clared unfit for service because they ad- mitted they had fixed opinions in the case which could not be changed by any evil dence adduced.
 There was no disorder in the court dur ing the day. Deputies were stationed at every door, and the slightest noise in the court room attracted the notice of both judge and deputy. During the morning hours. the room was almost silent except for the words of attorneys.
 Jones was accompanied in court by his wife, his mother. and sister, Mrs. J. M. Woods, widow of tire man killed i, in Hayneville during the recent Arison cases in which Jones is interested.
 Judge Brown, following two hours legal battle today. over- ruled the motion for change of venue, announcing it as his opinion that Walter Jones could have and would have an absolutely fair trial in Montgomery county. The state then announced its readiness and witnesses were called, paving the way for the selection ofthe jurys body.
 Every available deputy was pressed into service as a precautionary meas- ure and no one having arms on his person was permitted in the courtroom when Judge Armstead Brown at 10 o'clock this morning called the case Of Walter Jones' white man. accused or first degree murder for the killing of Sloan Rowan, prominent Benton merchant, at the railroad station in this city on the evening of July 16.
 The trial has excited the attention of the entire state and the court cham Der is packed to it's capacity. Hundreds of spectators are In attendance from Lowndes county, the neighborhood where factional disturbances led to the Rowan homicide.
 A motion of the defense for change of venue took precedence and arguments on this question were begun without de- lay.
 Attorneys for the defense declared Jones could not receive a fair and im- partia, trial in Montgomery county. They cited the prominence of the man slain, the alleged prejudiced condition of the public mind and numerous newspaptr articles relating to the tragedy and de- yelopments.
 The motion declares that there is a widespread sentiment of hostility to de- fendant in the city and county of Mont gofnery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30
REPORT IN SMITH | CASE THIS WEEK

Montgomery, July 2s-(special)-Th committee from the state normal school board appointed by Governor ONeal to investigate the charges against Prof. B. F. Smith. president of the state normal institution at Moundville. will report to the governor this week. according to the statement made today by R. D. Evins. who accompanied the committee to Moundville on last Saturday to invest.- gate the charges.
 Professor Smiths reelection as the pi esident of the normal school at Mound vile has brought forth considerable pro- test from residents of that city and patrons of the school and the report of the committee that investigated the charges is awaited with considerable in-1 terest. It is understood that the grounds of complaint against Professor Smith were based on his attention to athlstts sports.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30

the arm, with a revolver at his feet. Wethofen declined to get back in the car and told the negro he shot himself.
 White says Mrs. Boyette started back to town, and passing pr. John Anderson a. short distance from the scene, told tho surgeon man had just been shot, 'up the road" and continued to town. Dr. Anderson brought the man to Montgom- cry in his machine
 Westhofen at the infirmary repeated his statement that he shot himself, but Monday, Sheriff Hood was told to como immediately to the inrirmary to obtain an ante-mortem statement. Before the sheriffs arrival Westhofen died.
 pr. Anderson told the sheriff that West hofen in his delirium said Boyette did the shooting, and added that others had been mentioned in the same connection. At lucid intervals Westhofen told the hospital attendants he shot himself. pr. Anderson is of the opinion that West hofen could not have shot himself judg- ing from the wound in the arm.
 Boyette denies the charge. and refuses to make a statement. He says Westhofen shot himself as was first given out He promises a statement Wednesday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30
CIVIL SERVICE RULES VIOLATED
 q Shake-Up Expected in Tus- calOOsa POstOffice TNnIuDV T0TTDT uEI n
INQUIRY COURT HELD
Morton, Former Assistant Postmaster, Charged With Pernicious Political Activity-Tuscaloosa to Cele-
 brate Opening of Railroad

Tuscaloosa, July 29.-( Special. IA H. Ahlgren, secretary of the Fifth dis trict of the civil service department is in Tuscaloosa to investigate some violation of the civil service rules. A court of inquiry was held yesterday, but nothing definite has been given out as to the outcome of the investi- sation. It is charged that the viola ton occurred In 1907 and Ned Morton is charged with the trouble. He has been assistant postmaster here until recently, when he was reduced to a clerk pending the investigatio He Is charged with obtaining aid in his ex- animation and he is also charged with pernicious political activity in the of- flee. A general shake-up Is expected in the> local office and developments of a sensational nature is expected Tn the near future.
 z Barbecue Arranged
 The Tuscaloosa Board of Trade has issued 2000 invitations to the big cele- bration and barbecue which will mark the opening of the Tuscaloosa Mineral railroad. The barbecue will take place right on the railroad in the big oak
 
 Miss Annie Wallace Hayes has been selected as sponsor for the day and will drive the silver spike which will mark the formal opening of the road. She will have an attractive bevy of young so- ciety girls as maids of honor.
 Water Problem
 Tuscaloosa has been confronted with a water problem for some time and an effort will be made Immediately to secure an adequate supply of pure water for Tuscaloosa at once. An expert from Pittsburg has been sent for and he will investigate all possible sources of water supply for Tuscaloosa and the best means of handling it.
 Worm Damages Crops
 Congressman R. P. Hobson has wired Judge Brandon for information concern ing the army worm which is invading this county just now and states that he will order the agricultural department to send an export to help in the fight against the pest. Judge Brandon thinking the situation serious wired that an expert 8 services were needed right now In this county for great damage had been done within the past week to the grass and corn crops.
 Fant Obseauies
 The. funeral of Lewis Fant occurred from the First Baptist church yesterday afternoon. Lewis died on Friday after a long attack of typhoid fever. He was the only son of Mrs. Emma Fant wife of the lamented Dr. J. L. Frant, a physi- clan loved and honored by every citizen in this section of the county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30

The weather has been hot over the southern half of the country, except in the Rockies. where 1t was moderately cool Temperatures ranged near 1o0 degrees over Oklahoma and the southwest and reached or exceeded 90 degrees through out the entire cotton belt Rain fell along the Mississippi and in Tennessee. but in other portions of the south the weather continued fair.
 Temperatures were normal in this sec- tion. Fair weather is expected to con- tinue Tuesday
 Summary of observations made at United States weather bureau stations, July 29:
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-30
MANY CONTESTS
 AMONG REPUBLICANS

Lincoln. Neb., July @-Iwo hunoreu and forty seats in the republican state convention here tomorrow are in dispute between the Taft and Roosevelt factions. Roosevelt followers could control the con vention by getting one-third of the number but the Taft forces must have nearly the whole number to win In nearly every case the question is whether op- ponents of Taft have right to sit In republican convention.