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The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-08-29
CALLED IN QUIZ; DIES
CONTRACTOR COMMITS SUICIDE
AS DYNAMITE PLOT is PRosEO.
Ernest W. Pitman Answers Summons
to Testify Before Boston Grand
Jury by Shooting Self.

Boston, Aug. 2S.-Summoned to give
evidence concerning an alleged plot of
mill owners to secrete dynamite for
use In connection with the recent
strike at Lawrence. Ernest w. Pit
man, prominent AndoVer mill con-
tractor, shot and killed himself
Members of the Pitman family de-
clare his suicide due to worry over
finances.
A number of Boston men who are
officers of mills in Lawrence also have
been ordered to appear before the
Suffolk county grand jury, which is
investigating the affair.
Investigators for the district attor-
ney were sent TO Lawrence some time
ago and unearthed data which he be-
lieves will implicate men higher up
Local prosecutions in connection with
the storage of dynamite at Lawrence
resulted in the conviction of John
Breen, a Lawrence politician, who was
fined $500.
When the dynamite was found
secreted in several places in Lawrence,
the leaders of the Industrial Workers
of the World, who were conducting
the strike, declared they were not
responsible. They charged that the
dynamite was planted for the pur-
pose of leading the public to believe
that the unions were plotting to blow
up che mills.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-08-29
COLOR ISSUE ENDED BY BAR
Race Must Be Made Known When Ne.
sroes Apply to American
Association.

Milwaukee, Aug. 2S.-The American
Bar association adopted a resolution
requiring that hereafter when negro
attorneys apply for membership their
race must be made known In the ap.
plicauon.
Attorney General George w. Wick.
ersham, In a heated debate. DECEASED
the resolution recognized the status as
members OF William II. Lewis. assist,
ant to the attorney general. and two
other negro members who have been
unseated by the executive committee
The race question precipitated a
fight which was ended abruptly by an
appeal by former Secretary OF War ia
cob NJ. Dickinson that further discus
sion would bring criticism OF the as
ISOLATION.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-08-29
MEXICAN QUIZ BEGUN
SENATE COMMITTEE TO INVEsTL
GATE REVOLT IN REPUBLIC.
Charge Is Made That uprisinss Were
Fomented by Certain United
States Commercial Interests.

Washington, Aug. 28.-The commit
tee appointed by the senate to investi-
gate and report whether any persons
within the United States have been
engaged in fomenting revolutions In
Mexico and Cuba will begin its in
quiry at the earliest practicable mo-
ment.
Senator Fall of New Mexico. a men,
Der OF that committee and the only
one who understands the Spanish lam
gnage. has gone to Ell Paso to prepare
for the coming of the full committee
and to conduct preliminary hearings
1t was charged. in the senate that
certain important commercial interests
In this country had been instrumental
In stirring up trouble in Mexico, and
In particular intimations- have been
thrown out that conflicting interests
of the Standard Oil company of the
United States and large English con-
Germ engaged In the production of oil
in Mexico are to some extent respon-
sible fer the revolutions and counter
revolutions
1t may not be possible for the full
committee to participate in the in
quiry. which is likely to consume con-
siderable time. but the chairman, SEN
ator William Alden Smith of Michigan,
who gained experience in the investi-
cation of the Titanic disaster, will join
Senator Fall within few days While
the situation in Mexico still is fresh
in the minds of the American refugees.
and the facts for that reason may be
more accurately obtained, the Ameri-
cans driven out of Mexico and now at
FL Paso, various points in New Mex.
leo and Arizona and at Los Angeles.
Cal. will be first examined.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-08-29
FEARFUL FLOODS
MENACE ENGLAND
Norwich is Isolated and Other Towns
are Inundated.
HAS RAINED FOR TWO MONTHS
Three Thousand Families Have Been
Driven From Their Homes and
Millions Of Pounds Damage
Done to Crops.

London. Aug. 2S.-Special: With
the important city of Norwich practi-
|cally cut off from the world by high
waters, many other smaller towns
are completely inundated. Railroad
traffic in every direction is paralyzed.
Crops are ruined to the value of mill
ions of pounds. and three thousand
families have been driven by the
freshets from their homes. England
today faces a most severe food situar
ton. There was a brief session to-
day in the downpour which has con.
tinued almost continually for nearly
two months, but conditions are not
yet improved. Large gifts have been
made to aid the food situation, but
there are so many sufferers that the
government will probably have to ex-
tend aid.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-08-29
LINSEED OIL SHORT WEIGHT
RETAILERS FIND GALLONS SOLD
LARGER THAN BOUGHT.
Valuable information Contained in an
innocent Circular Issued by
Pure Food Officials.

Des Moines, Aug. 2S.-A brand new
or rather for the jobbers and dealers,
has been precipitated all innocently
enough by the zeal of the pure food
department of the state in disseminat-
ing information. In the last bulletin
issued by this department there was
given the weight of a gallon of var
ious oils and other liquids, so that
the retail dealer could, by weighing
his barrels before and after emptying
+ the same. ascertain by weight just
how many gallons they had contained
Among the substances thus listed was
linseed oil. The correct weight was
given at seven and half pounds.
But no sooner had this fact got out
that a protest came from the jobbers
in linseed oil and they say that from
time immemorial linseed oil has been
sold by weight just about five ounces
short of this amount. They say that
this is known of all dealers and to
change now would work great hard.
ship. But the pure food department
knows naught of this custom, and
merely gave the exact weight Per-
haps a great many retail dealers new
er knew that the gallons they bought
were not as large as the gallons they
sold. Anyway the jobbers or manu-
facturers would have preferred not
to have the exact weight advertised
so well.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-08-29
Bitten by Drunken Man.

Des Moines, Aug. 2s.-Special: Pa
trolman Chas. Moore, of the local po.
lice force, is being examined by phy-
sicians today on a cot in police sta
ton to ascertain If he has rabies.
During the night he discovered the
legs of man sticking out from under
a booth on the east side, where state
fair drinks are sold. and pulled them
out. The man, James Davis, still
asleep and thinking he was being as
saulted, attacked the policeman and
bit him in both legs, chewed his arms
and also sank his teeth into both
sides of Moore's face. If rabies Is
suspected Moore will be sent to the
State University for treatment by ex-
perts. Davis was lodged in Jail and
said he must have been asleep when
he attacked the officer, as he has no
recollection of the affair. ~.. w.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-08-29
Best of All State Fairs.

Des Moines, Aug. 2S.-Special: The
most satisfactory fair in all the fifty.
eight years of Iowa fair history. Al
complete fair and splendid program.
The choicest weather and the largest
crowds. This is the verdict ND to
date as to the Iowa state fair and ex-
position now in session and right at
its zenith. Today the state officials
gave a reception in the forenoon at
the Administration building and lined
up to greet friends by the hundreds,
The state poultry association also
held a meeting. The executive com.
mittee of the national association of
live stock record societies held a ses.
sion on the grounds. Tomorrow the
old settlers will hold a reunion and
have speaking. The ribbons will be
awarded the prize Iowa babies in the
baby health contest, which has been
attracting a great deal of attention
all week. More than $4,000 persons
attended the fair yesterday. This
amount is 1000 short of the record
attendance of the exposition, made on
Tuesday of last year. The largest
crowd that ever attended the fair was
on Wednesday Of last year, when the
official count placed the attendance
at $3.50, but the fair management ex-
poets that to be exceeded today. At
noon there were close to $4,000 per-
sons on the grounds and a monster
pile of tickets was heaped on the table
in the afternoon. G:
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-08-29
U. S. TROOPS TO NICARAGUA
TENTH INFANTRY ORDERED TO
PUT DOWN REBELLION.
Adjourned so Authority Would
Not be Questioned.

Washington. August 2S.-Special:
President Taft today ordered the en-
tire Tenth U. S. infantry at Panama
to sail for Corinto, Nicaragua imme-
diately to quell the rebellion there.
Over 500 marinese are already in Nj
Caragua and with the arrival of the
Tenth infntry 1000 more will be add
ed by the naval forces. The Presi-
dents authority to order troops to for,
eign soil was questioned in the SEN
ate by Senator Bacon. of Georgia, and
the order was not issued until con.
gress had adjourned. The Seventeen
tn infantry at San Francisco may be
sent to Panama.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-08-29
.ENJOINED WHILE IN CHURCH
REV. Mr.. GRuWELL SERVED WITH
PAPERS IN CONFERENCE.
Called From Ministerial Duties to Re-
strain Mt. Vernon From Pay.
ing Sewer Contract.

Mt. Vernon, Aug. 28.-Rev. E. T.
.Gruwell, mayor of Mt Vernon. and
presiding elder of this district for the
Methodist church, was called out from
a conference at the Jan Hus Method
ist church, to be served with an in.
junction by Deputy United States
Marshal NJ. L. Healy, last night. The
injunction was granted by Judge
Smith Mcpherson, of the district fed
eral court, and restraints the city of
Mt. Vernon from paying over to eth.
er the Henning-V Vineyard company or
the Mercantile Trust and Savings
Bank of Evansville, Ind, any money
on a certain contract for all the con-
struction of a sewer and sewer dis
posal plant in that city.
The amount involved is about $751;
900, and the action is by the Illinois
Surety company, who furnished the
bond for the Henning.Vineyard com.
pany on the contract.
Yesterday before Commissioner
HARDWOOD attorneys filed an injunction
which they had secured from Judge
Mcpherson last Saturday. The no
tice of the granting of the Injunction
was given to Deputy United States
Marshal M. L. Healy, who made two
trips to Mt. Vernon to serve it on his
honor. Rev. Gruwell. But both times
Mr.. Healy was obliged to return with
out completing his errand. He dis
covered that Mayor Gruwell was COM
ing to Cedar Rapids to attend a con-
ference with Rev. F. J. Zadovsky, pas
tor of the Jan Hus Methodist church,
nd he with Attorney Davis, called at
he church and read the document to
him.
Rev. Mr. Gruwell accepted service
and the hearing on the injunction is
set for the Gath day of September.
The news of the injunction will be
received with Joy by some of those
in the vicinity Of Mt. Vernon. 1t is
claimed by those in a position to
know, that after the acceptance of the
contract and the securing of the bond
the Henning-vineyard compay, con-
listing of Messrs. c. Henning and Carl
Vineyard, borrowed the sum of $12,-
900 from the Mercantile Trust and
Savings Bank of Evansville, Ind.
That they executed to the bank a
lien on the contract price and that
they were planning to pay them out
of the contract price. instead Of pay
ing for the labor and material which
entered into the construction Of the
sewer and sewerage disposal plant.
News of this had reached Mt. Yer
non. and some of those who had bills
against the company got to be very
impatient.
Mayor Orwell accepted the notice
of the injunction with good grace.
"As 7 understand it," he said. at is
no reflection on the credit of Mt. Yer
non. 1t means that we will paw the
money on the contract into court and
allow the bond compay and the bank
to have it out"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-08-29
LAFOLLETTE MAY
HIT At ROOSEVELT
Des Moinss Officer Terribly Bitten
by Drunk Man.
THE BEST OF ALL STATE FAIRS
surlinston's Speed Ordinance to be
Tested-Third Death From Alco-
hoI-8lood Hounds Are
After Thief. y

Des Moines, Aug. ESPECIAL: To
counterfeit the effect of Roosevelt's
visit to Iowa and his speech before
the bull moose state convention here
Sept 4th, the Progressive Republi-
can Wilson Club" is trying to secure
the attendance of Senator LaFollette
of Wisconsin, at the state fair tomor-
row and Friday for speech making.
If LaFollette comes he is expected to
devote his speeches to an attack on
Roosevelt and his alleged expendi-
lures of vast sums of money in his
pre-presidential campaigns. Fred F.
Keithley, a local lawyer, secretary of
the club, sent telegram to Lafollette
last night extending the invitation.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-08-29
To Test Speed Ordinance.

Burlington. Aug. Especial: An
interesting legal case relative to auto
mobile speeding was inaugurated here
today in the arrest of C. c. Pauley, a
prominent jeweler Of Burlington, on
complaint OF DR.. J. W. Holiday. lead
ing physician, for automobile speed
ing. The two parties to the case are
close neighbors and on friendly terms.
The case will be brought to trial and
II fine is made the case will be APP
pealed to the district court and en-
to the supreme court in an endeavor
TO secure final hearing of the ques-
ton of the legality of city ordinances
which limits the speed of automobiles
in Burlington to fifteen miles an
hour. ;,
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-08-29
HITCHCOCK ORDER
BRINGS PROTEST
No Sunday Delivery Of Mail
EdiCt Causes Trouble.
BOXES WILL BE AVAILABLE
Postmaster General Makes Public
Statement Explaining New Resu-
iations-Says Law Enacted In
interests Of Employees.

Washington, Aug. 2S.-Striving to
check the flood OF protests against
the delivery of all except special de-
livery mail on Sundays. even to hold
ers of post Office boxes, Postmaster
General Hitchcock has issued this ex-
planatory statement:
Mail received up to midnight on
Saturday for lock boxes will be dis
tributed to the boxes and will be
available to box holders on Sunday as
usual
There is at present no street deliv-
cry of mail by letter carriers on Sun
day, and therefore the law makes no
changes in this regard. In short. the
only mail that will be affected under
reasonable construction of the new
law is that received at the post Offices
on Sunday and hitherto sorted on
that day for distribution to lock
boxes
In Interest Of Employees.
LAS the purpose of the law, which
was clearly enacted in the interest Of
the employees, is to reduce as far as
practicable the amount of Sunday la
Dor, the work of distributing Sunday
mail to lock boxes will be limited to
certain classes Of mail that cannot be
held until Monday morning without
serious inconvenience to the ad-
dresses. This mail will include that
for newspapers and for hotel guests.
The latter is peculiarly transient in
character and should not be delayed.
mail will be sorted out at the offices
OF dispatch on the railway mail trains
in order to simplify the work OF dis
tributing in the post Offices on Sun
days. Under the new method its dis
tributed to the boxes on Sunday will
be fastened rather than delayed.
construes Law Literally.
I'm order to give the new law as
liberal a construction as possible,
postmasters will be instructed on ap-
plication to have their employees sort
out in emergency cases on Sundays
letters OF special importance.
This provision does not require the
closing OF post Offices on Sundays.
which would be quite impossible. ow-
ing to the fact that the transit mail
has to be sorted and also the mai
collected in cities for dispatch to 9th
er destinations To stop the move
ment of this mail would mean a seri.
Gus clogging of the whole system of
mail transportation and consequent
Inconvenience to the public"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-08-29
TROTTlNG DERBY TO CHEENY
Takes Final Heat in Handicap Event,
Dash of Mile and Half,
In $40 "a.

Boston. Aug. 2S.-To the little Texas
mare Cheeny went the honor of win.
ming the third renewal of the Ameri-
can Trotting Derby at the Readville
track. The race was divided into. a
series of six dashes, the first five being
preliminaries, in which the money
winners qualified for the final.
Summary:
First division, 2:06 class american
Trotting Darby, purse $1,000-Dudie
Archdale first. Grace second, Gay
Audubon third. Time. 2:O7 IA.
American Trotting Derby final. han
dicap, purse $4,000 lone and one-half
mile dashl-Cheeny won. Castle Dome
second, Kenyon w. third. The Wander.
er fourth. Time, 3: 10 ga.
The Puritan, free-for-all pacing
purse $2,00O-The Eel won, Hal B. Jr
second. Independence Boy third. Best
time, 2:03 ga
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-08-29
TAFT MEN WIN IN KANSAS
Resolution Adopted at Republican
Council Asking Roosevelt Electors
to Resign From Ticket.

Topeka. Kan. Aug 2S.-Taft fol.
lowers won first blood in the Repub.
lican state party councils here when
a resolution was adopted by vote
of 40 to 81 In the state committee
asking the Roosevelt electors to re.
sign from the Republican ticket and
move into the Independent column
for the general election. William AL.
len White, national committeeman
for the Progressive party for Kansas.
announced this action meant a third
party state ticket. The resolution
was adopted with sixteen known Pro-
gressiyes voting for it.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-08-29
WHITE MAN WEEDS NEGRESS
Fifty-YearoId Widower Is Married to
Coiored Girl, Aged Nineteen,
in Washington.

Washington. D. c.. Aug. 2S.-James
A. Jackson, a ffty-year-old white wild
over of Greenville, n. c.. and Lila V
wilkins. a negress, nineteen years old
of Madison, Fla. were married in
Washington by a colored minister
Rev. Wiley Westley The ceremony
took place in hotel on Pennsylvania
avenue. After the ceremony. the min
y lister said:
There's no use making a fuss over
IT. | don't see anything out of the
way about it.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-08-29
WAGON SHAFT PlERCES HEART
Mrs. George A. Push Of kenosha, Wis.
Killed In Crash Between Auto
and Delivery Vehicle.

Kenosha. Wis, Aug. 2S.-Mrs
George A. Pugh, wife of a prominent
physician OF this city, met almost in
slant death In a collision between an
automobile and delivery wagon. The
thill of the wagon came through the
glass wind shield of the automobile
and pierced the flesh of Mrs. Pugh
and tore a great hole in the heart
Ira w Piper, twenty years of age
driver OF the wagon, is being held
pending an examination.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-08-29
SOLDIERS SHOOT
. UP DELAWARE TOWN
Inhabitants Terrorized by Coast
ArtiIlermen. VIZ.
FUSILLADE LASTS 20 MINUTES
Trouble Ensues When MIlitiamen Are
Worsted In a Fight With Youths
OF Suburb Of New
castle.

Newcastle, Del, Aug. 2S.-The sub.
urb OF DobbinsVille, near here. is ter
ror.stricken, following the shooting
up" OF the town by members OF the
Eighty-first coast artillery.
Several OF the soldiers engaged in
rifle practice at the state rife range,
just south OF this city, are said to have
been worsted In a dispute with some
young men who reside in Dobbinsville
Desiring revenge, the soldiers. armed
with heavy bore rifles, started to shoot
up the town.
Citizens Are Terror Stricken.
Citizens crawled under beds, hid In
closets and fed In terror to their eel
lars when the shooting commenced
For more than twenty minutes a fusil-
lade OF lead was kept up. Bullets
crashed through windows. glanced
from the sides of dwellings and sung
by the heads of terror-stricken resi-.
dents. From fifty to a hundred shots
were fired. Twenty men are said to
have taken part in the firing
The main point of attack seemed to
be house occupied by Mr. and Mrs.
William Mohr and their four children,
ranging in ages from twelve to eigh.
teen years, and Mr.. and Mrs. John Cor
bett and son. five years old.
Shoot Out Windows.
Nearly every window was shot from
this house and so hot was the fusillade
that bricks were shot from their fast.
enings on the window lodges. Mohr
appeared at window and implored
the soldiers to withdraw, but a shot
aimed directly at him caused him to
retire In haste. Other citizens who
mustered up courage to shout from
their windows got a similar reception.
Mayor Rodney has taken up the af.
fair with the commandant at Fort Du.
pont
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-08-29
WILL TRY BARROW OCT. q
Judge Willis Sets Date for Second
Trial of Labor Lawyer for
Alleged Bribery.

Los Angeles. Cal, Aug. 2S-Presid-
ing Judge Willis set the second trial
OF Clarence S. barrow. the labor at
torney Of Chicago under indictment
for the alleged bribing of Juror Rob-
ert Balm in the Mcnamara case. for
October 81. This will be the second
attempt to convict barrow for alleged
jury bribing in the famous dynamite
case. he having been acquitted. after
hearing lasting three months, Of
bribing Talesman Lockwood.
Judge Willis announced that Gov
ernor Johnson will probably within
day or two name the judge to hear
the evidence.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-08-29
OIL STEAMER IS BURNED
Boiler Explodes, EnVeiopins Vessel In
FIames-All Hands Are
Landed Safely.

Santa Barbara, Cal, Aug. 2S.-The
tank steamer Rosecrans, carrying oil,
was burned to the waters edge off
Gaviota last night. The steamer was
taking on oil at Gaviota when a
boiler blew up, Fire quickly envel.
oped the vessel. The crew. seeing
there was no hope OF saving the
steamer, turned her oceanward and
all hands landed safely.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-08-29
U. S. HAS 9,S27,763 NEGROES
OF That Number 2,o5o,6 classed as
Mulattos-Blacks Show Big
Gain in Northern States.

Washington. Aug. ga prelimi.
nary statement showing by states the
negro population in the United States
and the proportion of mulattos to full.
blooded negroes has been issued by
the director OF the census.
The total negro population is placed
at 9,S27.763. or this number 1850, $50
are set down as mulattos. The negro
population in 1870 was 1850, 600, with
5S4,O4s mdattos. The percentage OF
mulattos in 1870 was IL per cent, OF
the whole, while In the census OF 1919
it is set down as practically Il pei
cent.
The greater increase has been in
the northern states
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-08-29
Barrel Slave a Menace.

Des Moines, Aug. 2s.-"Negligenee
of the city in permitting barrel
stave TO be upon the street to be
kicked around by pedestrians" Ia
given as the cause for $4,000 dam
ages claimed by william N. s. Evans
and Anna Evans. Anna Evans claims
to have been injured on the left leg
above the ankle by being struck by the
barrel stave while standing on Eighth
street while the memorial parade was
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-08-29
SON OF RICH MAN KILLED
Raymond saekus Of Minneapolis Trips
Over His Rifle and Dies In
House Boat.

International Falls, Mimi. Aug. Is
Raymond Backus, aged twenty-five,
son OF Edward Backus, millionaire
paper manufacturer and lumber man,
who has mills here and in other cities
of the northwest, but resides In Min.
neapolis, was killed instantly In q
HOUSE. boat on Rainy lake. when b..
ripped over a shotgun and the gun
vas discharged.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-08-29
Results Of Michigan Primaries.

Detroit, Mich. Aug 2S-Specia {:
According to complete returns early
today, Amos S. Mussellman has Sc
cured the nomination for governor on
the republican ticket by five thousand
majority over F. c. Martindale. w.
N Ferris had little opposition in hav-
ing the most names for the Office on
the democratic ticket, while L. w.
Watkins. the national eprogressiv
candidate for governor, won with
ease.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-08-29
Three caIamities in Week.

Montgomery City, Mo, Aug. Is
Special The third calamity within a
week struck the home of C. d. Huff,
a farmer near here today when his
1S-months-old daughter fell into a
we'll and was drowned Last We'd
nesday the Huff home was destroyed
by fire. Yesterday their barn and
much valuable live stock and farm
products were burned.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-08-29
BANKER HELD AS EMBEZZLER
Edgar Lord Taken at New Bedford
Mass.-$4o,o 900 Shortage
Charged.

New Bedford. Mass.-Aug. Esd
gar Lord, treasurer OF the New Bed
ford and Acushnet COOPERATIVE
banks, is under arrest here charged
with the embezzlement of $4,000
from the banks. The complaint is
made by Charles w. Levi. a Massa'
chusetts bank examiner
Lord has been in the service OF the
banks for twenty years. He is or
ganist and director OF the choir OF
Calvary Baptist church in Providence
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