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The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-09-12
PROTEST AGAINST
ADVANCED RATES

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Special
The Interstate Commerce Com
mission Saturday suspended from
September I'd until December 31st
freight advances on commodities
on all tranScOnJincntal railroads.
Several hundred protests have
been received by the commission
against the advanced rates.
The advances increase the rates
from 10 TO 75 cents "a hundred
pounds on automobiles, furniture.
plate glass, petroleum products,
lumber materials, stoves, tin cans
and vehicles.
The action of the commission
affects rates from all Eastern
points to Pacific Coast terminals
having through rates through
Chicago, st. Louis and New Or
leans.
Proposed advances of from 1
TO q cents a hundred pounds also
were suspended until December
Both on lumber rates on the
Southern and twenty other rail
roads operating from Southern
points TO Canadian stations,
through Ohio River crossings.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-09-12
WOMEN SMOKE
CIGARS IN CHICAGO

CHICAGO SPECTACULAR dealers
In Chicago confirm the report from
ndIsas CITY that women are smoking
cigars. c. e. Ingerson, of the STRAIT
ford Hotel, said:
why, women have been smoking
cigars In Chicago for long time. I
get so many orders from women for
cigars that could not tell you off
mana the exact amount. They don't
ask for any light, small cigar, thoush
ana / don't think they smoke il
through a holder.
They usually smoke a brand that
comes about two for a quarter They
select them just the same as men
DO, black, strong ones, and light pan
eIellas. according to their tastes
They're smoking them just the way
they began smoking cigarettes"
AT the Congress Hotel the sales to
women have shown big increases.
They sometimes say the cigars are
for husband or a brother, but we
lind men do not send their wives TO
buy their cigars" said a woman at
tendant
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-09-12

man antitrust law had been n COM
| plete and all-sufticient remedy the
STANLEY committee would not have pro-
posed TO amend II.
What pity the Colonel did not dis
cover there was no value in the Sher-
man act when he was President and
When MS Acknowledgement brought 70
peated suits under Il TO dissolve fba
trusts and his allies. with much soun6
ana tury, proclaimed to the conntrt
that by this means they were yoine~ 10
punish all the malefactors of ssreot
wealth who were not sfriepdI,y' -
sufficiently liberal VI
During his entire encumbencv In
once, Roosevelt never advocated bnt
one amendment TO the sherman act IN
notorious Hepburn bill, and that bin
was actually written. every word ond
line OF IL. by L II. Gary, chairman 81
Ine BOARD OF directors of the limited
states Steel Corporation, and bv Victor
Meredlth and Francis Linde Stetson.
Eor the first time since the Sherman
ACT was written. the STANLEY cOmmitte.
mas proposed amendments with teeth ~
tnem and which, If enacted into law
VIII deprive the Colonel of Sucb vain
aole aids as the chairman of the finapco
committee OF the Steel Trust and the
headS OF the Harvester Trust becanse
these laws, If enforced, will find these
gentlemen so busy Keeping tboir
precious hides out Of the tails tbat
they VIII have no time running The
ponies OF the country or pulline- fod
Ger Tor the Bull Moose"
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-09-12
CHICAGO SWELTERS
UNDER HEAT WAVE

CHICAGO, ILL. Special.-With
two dead from the heat and four
drowned while seeking mOmen-
tary relief in Lake Michigan as a
result of CnicagO's hottest Sep
TENDER list, Labor Day broke to-
day with no relief in sight.
The temperature early in the
morning had mounted well to-
ward 80, and only slight breeze
blew fitfully during the early
hours without Offering any hope
of comfort.
Thousands visited the Lake Yes
ter,'ay TO Hud relief fronI the
scnI ching day, and as result
came one Of the strongest near
nos Chicago has ever seen.
Fathers at the beaches who
entered the water refused TO
leave, although thousands of
others were waiting for a chance
10 go in.
At Diver~cy Beach, policemen
entered the water ami drove ont
the swimmers. Some of the
bathers refused TO get out and the
policemen used their clubs.
There was AN angry demOnstra-
don. but tb@ militant batIlcrs
were soon qpietcd.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-09-12
NAMES OF CROOKED
OFFICIALS in REPORT
Records of Police Grafters NAV
Figure in New York's John
Doe" INQUIRY.

NEW YORK Special.-lIs was dis
closed that the names Of cor.
rupt ponce officials appear in reports
now on file in the office of the Com
missioner of Accounts.
These reports name two inspectors
ana a captain, as well as several other
policemen occupying minor positions
steps are being taken to obtain these
reports for the John Doe graft in
quiry.
If the records Of grating are moi
given to the District Attorney when
demanded action in court will be
taken to compel the surrender of the
secret reports.
District Attorney Whitman and his
assistants are busy today preparing
themselves for the court PROCEEDINGS
tomorrow. when the battle to force
Lieutenant Becker to trial will begin
Becker will be arraigned in the
Court of General Sessions for final
pleading on the charge of numbering
hosenthal after the gambler had ac-
lawbreakers.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-09-12

The crowd held its breath as Owens
missed the building by a hairs breath
me upper air currents Veered and the
nallooniSt was driven in a northeast
cry direction towards Fifth Street
ana hudson Avenue for another half
mile. by this time the bag was be-
ginning TO sag. A sudden puff of air
brought owens crushing against the
cOrnice OF five-story apartment
house. while the crowd saw him with
ing WIN pam. Nainly endeavOring to
throw himself on the roof.
Tried Hard to Keep Hold.
The capricious wind again caught
the balloon. Owens could be plainly
seen. his face blanched ana contorted
with pain, TO be making a supreme
struggle to maintain his hold. But
with final burst of fury the wind
seized the dropping bag, picked il up
with owens swinging body and swept
balloon and baliOonist against the cor
nice OF another five-story building at
AZ Hudson Avenue, West New York.
The crash could be heard by the
crowd.
owens Still chung desperately to the
bar. But as the bag careened away
from the cornice his body struck an
electric light wire, which dragged him
against the third-story fire escape and
loosened his grip. The aeronaut
pitched headlong to the street, and as
VIZ w NNhclSt VI INC DallOOn
dropped over him. Before assistance
could come the huge film enveIoped
Owens in its maze of cords and wires.
and, lmpelled by the wind, dragged
him half block. Charles McCullom.
son OF Union Hill politician, with
Charles COar were first to reach
owens. They cut away the wreckage
and brought the balloonist to the
North Hudson Hospital. Weehawllen.
i've blocks away. Owens skull was
fractured, his right ear was nearly
torn from his head. his face was lace
rated, and he suffered internal iniu-
ries, any one of which. the doctors
say, may be sufficient to cause death.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-09-12
ARREST ALLEGED
COUNTERFEiTER

X c H NJ o n d, VA-Special.-
Information was Monday morning re-
| SSlNed at police headquarters from
Henry L. Thomas, a United Statae
secret service agent stationed at Char
lotte, y. c., TO the effect that the al
Ieged counterfeiter, John Il. Allen. ar
rested here saturday, was probably
Johh Allen johnson, "a notorious Grim
maj, who has been four times con
Victed for attempting to pass spurious
coin ~ OS
He enclosed in his letter a photo
graph which Detective Atkinson. who
- IN charge OF the case. declares is
the exact likeness of the prisoner.
moreover, the detective saws that
Alien when shown the picture, ad-
mitted that his right name was John
son and said that he had been in
similar trouble before.
Detective Atkinson at once COM
municated with Assistant United
states District Attorney Talley. and a
+ FEDERAL warrant will probably be is
sued against Johnson tomorrow. The
washington authorities have also been
ADVISED or the arrest. and n special
agent from the Secret Service Rureau
Is expected here within the next two
or three DAYS
The prisoners case was called in
Iolce Court this morning and con-
tinued To September 18th. when il
80 NC oilNidllN taken up by the FED
cral authorities
written on the back Of the picture
are the following extracts from John4
sons record:
ARRESTED October %. 1910. at Dan
vile Va for making and passing
one dollar coins
Indicted January 3. 1911, at Char
lOttesville, Va.
PLEADED guilty and sentenced to
serve eighteen months in Federal
prison at Atlanta"
In his letter, Agent Thomas. in part.
says: -
Il suspect that you have an old
counterteiter. his right name being
John Allen Johnson, who was raised
near Raleigh. n. c. l am herewith
enclosing YOU n photo Of this man.
Please see if ii is he and wire me
he has served four terms for counter
ieltlng. and will want to plead guilty
10 Keep from having his record proved
against him in order to get a short
term 'i
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-09-12

NEW YORK Special.-Trying to
escape from a flaming West End line
train, fear-crazed men trampled on
women and children Sunday afternoon
as the train was nearing Coney Island.
OF the injuries one woman received
she viii die. Seven other persons were
hurt severely. The excitement came
when the train of six crowded cars
was i'm a cut at Eighty-first Street near
Nineteenth Avenue. Brooklyn.
Feed Pole Leaps from Wire.
1t was $3.50 Z. NJ. when the train
dipped into the cut at Eighty-frst
Street, running smoothly. But the
feed pole on the first of the six cars
bounded away from the overhead
wire, bringing the pole, at a point
about two feet from the end. into a
sparkling, cracking contact with the
current.
AS the train ran on, the pole. swing
ing free, jerked the wire from its near
est cross-piece fastening and whipped
II down like a lash on the roofs of the
first and second cars. The sound Of
the falling wire excited a fear among
the passengers that was mild to what
was felt when burning wood was
smelled as the current set fire to the
roofs. Flames shot from the roofs.
andS 81 Nqcrease the disorder. blue
SEnpEs flashed from the motor boxes.
~There were women in the cars car
rying babies to the seashore, and there
were girls without escorts or older
companions on whom they might rely.
But the men, at the first threat Of in
jury, gave no thought to any persons
but themselves.
They broke from their seats. W.rest-
ling with one another and showing
aside shrieking women and children in
order TO jam their way to the open
windows. At practically every win
dow were three or four men seeking
to get through TO the ground. Where
a woman was in the way she was
wrenched aside.
Leapcd Through Windows.
1t was regarded afterward as amaz-
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-09-12
THOUSANDS WITNESS DARING
AERONAUT BATTLE FOR life

NEW. YORK Special Nearly
$4,000 persons Sunday evening saw
the disastrous flight OF Frederick
owens. an expert acronaut. whose
triple parachute drop has FOR the last
week been the feature Of the NOlksfest
The half inflated balloon hurled him
against several buildings in his two
mile course over North Bergen. Union
Hin and West New York until he was
picked up battered. bleeding and un-
conscious. with hardly a chance of life.
Owens is twenty-fOUr. n member of
well known family of balloonists.
He lives at Owens Park. y. J. He had
narrow escape from serious injury
or death last Tuesday when practi-
cally the same crowd saw his second
paracute drop on top of the third in
his perilous dive. Owens retained his
hold only by "A miracle.
The athletic field at Bergen Park
was damned Sunday at 6 z. NJ, when
the ropes were cast Oft and Owens.
clinging to the suspended bar. rose
unsteadily in the air. From the start
it could be seen the great bag was in
sufficiently inflated.
Carried Away by Wind.
Instead of rising straight to the
usual height of 1000 feet the balloon
wavered uncertainty after reaching a
point less than 500 feet over the hea DIS
of the throng. Then the strong east
erly breeze caught il and il was swept
away. Owens still dangling perilously
underneath.
As 1t sailed eastward following the
course Of the Hudson Boulevard. thou
sands set out in pursuit, hoping to
render aid. several automobiles among
the number. The balloon. losing gas
as ii swept along, was seen to drop
percepubly as ii neared the corner of
bergen and Main Streets in Union Hill.
half a mile from the park. Swinging
his legs and seeking to direct the bal
loon by shifting the weight Of his
body. Owens seemed to be trying to
make the roof OF n corner building.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-09-12
DISCOVERY Of fire LEADS
TO STAMPEDE ON ELECTRIC CAR

ing that the lives Of some of the many
struggles some of the men made to
save themselves. The scenes in the
alsleS of the first two cars might be
llkened to a football game between
teams of lunatics. Man after man,
sacrificing Sunday clothes threw him
self out of a window or from n plat
form, though the cars were still NOV
ing. Not until Eighty-fourth Street
was reached did the motorman. James
Connolly. succeed in stopping the train
Members of the train crew lifted
Mrs. ZaJonezak from the car to the
bank. They assisted the other women
out also and then mounted to the roofs
OF the first and second cars with buck
cts of sand. with which the fire was
put out. Drs. Cavanaugh and Gates
came from the Coney Island Hospital
and treated the injured. Mrs. Zaione-
FAX was taken to the hospital
Insisted on Going Home.
Miss Jackson and Miss Nellman.
who are stenographers, received Sc
we're bruises on the legs but when DR.
Grace suggested that they go to the
hospital in an ambulance they refused.
me other persons injured Mrs. Ia
Jonezak excepted, also declined to ac-
cept further aid, saying they were well
able to go home unasssted
Inc accident to one overhead wire
put the other out of commission. and
this tied up travel on both tracks for
fully one and half hours. Trains
were stalled all along the line between
Thirty-siXth Street and Coney Island
on both tracks. Great crowds. anx-
lous 10 go home from COney. and who
would have been Inconvenience
greatly by the use of any other of the
lines running out of the resort. were
held down there until things were
righted.
A Wrecking crew of the Is. r. II. was
summoned and adjusted the fallen
wire. The two cars were not dam
aged much outside of the burned roofs.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-09-12
STATES FLOODED
RY CLOUDBURSTS
Parts of West Virginia, Ohio and
PENNSYLVANIA Inundated by Deluge.
Thirty Reported Dead.

PITTSBURG, PA Special
Fragmentary reports received up
TO III O'Clock Monday indicate that
more than $1,000, 900 damage was
zone by Hoods resulting from "A
CIOudDurSt in Western PennsVI-
Nania, Northern West Virginia and
Southeastern Ohio.
Iherc are rumorS that the
number of dead as the result of
the disaster will be between thirty
ana fifty, but no confirmation of
thiS has yet been secured be-
cause OF Interruptions in the teIe-
phone and Geographic services.
WHEELING, w. VA SDeciaI.
Heavy loss of life has been caused
Dy the clOudburst that flooded
southwestern Pennsylvania and
night.
Eight bodies have already been
recovered from the Ohio River
winch IL high i'm its bed and fuIi
Oh debris. Close watch is being
kept Tor more bodies aS they are
swept down the stream by the
Hood waters.
\ report reached here early tn
GAY that the small mining Town
ot CoiiIcrS. w. Va, twenty-five
miles north. has been swept away
by clOudburSt.
Ral'rO&d communication he
tween this city and PiitSburg on
the pennsylvania Railroad has
been discontinued ~ the result of
the flood.
Teiephonc and telegraph wires
are Frustrated. and il il feared
that when complete reports are
received the deaths will total
more than score.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-09-12
negro SWEARS HE
SAW BEAR In GULLY
RICHMOND, VA

RICHMOND, VA Special
breathIcss with excitement a
negro rushed into police head
quarters this morning and de-
cIarcd that he had seen n bear
IN the Eighth Street gully. Ua
siiId mat the brute was as bio a.
u car and ran into hole Whom
pursued by dogs.
Inc negro gave his name ne
merry wallace. He said ne was
a waiter and lived at SOB North
Seventh Street. VI
Most every night" ne said
sees the bar i'm the gully. one
hiSht last week he nafcbcIIV
cilawed up u big bull dog. hui
mostly ne runs i'm his hoIe.''
The Eighth Street gully is ono
OF the widest parts of The civ
ana is filled with deeD ravjncs
ana covered with a dense grown
OF weeds and bushes.
Chief OF Police Werner told the
negro that he would send n de-
tectiye after the bear as soon ne
possible, and the man left much
relieved.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-09-12
BEAT
MEXICAN REBELS

Ell PAS0, TE/.- Special.-Ad-
vices received here early Monday
from Cananea, Sonora, where
1000 Americans are besieged by
Mexican rebels, state that an at
tack was made during the night
by the inSurTectos, but that they
were beaten of after sharp
battle.
A messenger was dispatched by
the beleaguered citizens to No
gales, demanding that federal
troops be sent TO protect that
city at once and 10 safeguard the
Foreigners in Cananea.
IL Will be impossible, however,
for the regulars to reach there
before Thursday. The Americans
have been well armed, but an at
tack in force would put them at
the mercy of the rebels.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-09-12
IndustriaIists Are Barred out.

NEW YORK. pecial-Members OF
the Industrial Workers of the World
were barred today from participating
IN the annual Labor Day parade of
trades unionists.
The Industrialists had threatened to
disregard the order against them, and
ponce reserves were on hand to pre-
vent trouble when the parade of 1000
Workmen of various trades moved
down Fifth Avenue.
However, the Industrial Workers did
not try to carry out their threat.
Despite threatening weather. over
10000 persons saw the celebration
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-09-12
MEXICO SHAKEN BY
AN EARTHQUAKE
Mt. COLINA. IN VIOLENT ERUP-
IlON. SHAKES GUADALAJARA
AND PULLS DOWN HOUSES.

MEXICO CITY Special Mount
COlima volcano is in violent eruption
following several earthquage shocks
Which have severely shaken Guadala-
jara, according to advices from that
city.
Guadalajaras Inhabitants are flee
ing in panic from their homes while
the earth tremOrs RACED buildings
badly injured by the quakes of the
last three months.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-09-12
PANIC FOLLOWS
BOMB EXPLOSION
EXPLODED IN HALL LEADING TO
new DIRK SALOON AND ROCK
ED FINIc-STORY RIH.DJNG

NEW YORK. Special.-Half a dozen
women and children were injured early
in panic-like stampede which
followed a bomb explosion in a five
story tenement building at 115 Chrystie
Street
The bomb. which was exploded in a
hallway leading to the saloon of
GaetanO SabatinO, rocked the building
and caused twenty families to rush
precipltately TO the street.
Sabatino, who has owned the saloon
month, denied to the police that he
had received any blackhand letter
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-09-12

In notifying the police of the recov-
cry OF the valuable timepiece he de-
clared II had been found wrapped in a
shaft in the Hotel Nassau at Long
Beach. The watch has a gold case set
with pearls.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-09-12

SINGAPORE, INDIA. SpeciaI.-The
ltlle British warship Water Witch
was sunk with the loss of two lives ~,
me harDor here today following a col
HsI0n with the Governors launch
The sharp Prov of the powerfu1
ocean going launch caught the war
snip beneath the water line. rinnfne a
hole through her armor. .
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-09-12
AT LEAST TWENTY ARE
DEAD AT GOLFERS, w. VA,
STEUBENVMLE. o. SuecioL

IEUBENNlLLE, o. Special.
Reports brought here at ~
O'Clock today from the flood
stricken town of Golfers, w. Va,
across the Ohio River from this
clty, were that at least twenty
persons had lost their lives.
The property damage was very
great.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-09-12
ToNNeI LID sa.ONO XYnfch.

NEW YORK. Special.--A watch and
chain valued at $4,000, reported lost
several weeks ago by II. J. de Mesa,
banker OF Havana, Cuba, while on his
way from this city TO Long Beach, l..
J.. was recovered Friday according TO
information furnished the police by
Mr. de Mesa
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-09-12
BRITISH SHIP is
PREY OF PACIFIC
san FRANCnsCO. CAL snoo;

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL Special.
The British ship Criccieth Castle has
been wrecked near Falkland Island.
in the South Pacific, according to mail
adNlces receiver today by the marine
department of the local Chamber of
Commerce.
The adVices stated that one lifeboat
has reached Port Stanley, on Falkland
Island. in safety, but the fate of a
second was unknown.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-09-12

PHILADELPHIA Special.-John
Wanamaker, merchant and ex-post
master general, has been suffering for
the last two weeks from kidney trou-
bic, but it is learned he is now able
to SIC up. Mr.. Wanamaker recently
underwent an operation which is said
to have greatly relievedd him.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-08
STARTLED
 BY MAN HE "BURIED"

SAN MATED, Cal. Dec. 12. - Undertaken George Sneider of this city is wondering today who he buri- ed in place of Rudolph Lubeck of Colma. who appeared al the under takers deor few hours after he was supposed to be safely under ground, and demanded his belong ings which Sneider had confiscated
 When d body was found at Chris tian Bridge, il was immediately tdcn. tfied as that of Lubeck and Sneider went ahead 10 mlfn his duties as public administrator. When Lubeck arrived home and found his house stripped and himself catalogued as among tue dead he lost no time in getting to San Mateo and demanding the return Of his possessions from the startled undertaken. The re semblace between IHbeek and the unknown dead man is remarkable
The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-08
BOY. IA. KISSES ALL
 GIRLS AND IS ARRESTED

KANSAS CITY. Dec. 12. - Oliver Smith, II years old, of Turner. Kan. was in the Wyandotte county juve. nile court, where the principal of the school attended by Oliver. his teach CT and the truant officer. told Judge Sims Oliver's story.
 He will persist in kissing the girls Miss Arnold, the teacher. said Several times l have caught him running up behind the girls and kiss ing them"
 Yes, Oliver has the kissing bee, the principal testified. 'Lecturine doesn't seem to affect his longing for kisses"
 The truant officer testified to the same thing
 Did the girls ever protest against this promiscuous habit of kissing?' Judge Sims asked.
 "Well-," the principal said, and then paused Now. that I think about it, don't believe that ever heard any protests"
 Oliver was made a ward of the court and paroled
The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-08
Bitterly Cold Weather
 Is l revailing Outside
In New York Eight Below Zero Temperature Responsible for Eleven Deaths and Even Colder Weather IS Predced-Enre
 Middle West Reports Coldest Ever Experienced

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