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Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-08-28

CROSSINGS
City Commissioners Win Pass u
Ordinance Comp ellingall Rail
roads to Use Gates.
HUMAN LIFE IN JEOPARDY
The Automatic Gate viii be
Selected for Oak and Maple
Street Crossings.

AT a meeting Of the city com
;missioners last Monday evening
it was decided by the commission
ers to draft a resolution demand
ing that all railroad running into
WatertoWn should protect their
crossings where there is the most
traffic with automatic gates.
Several people have barely es-
capped death by being run down
by trains in this city and it is the
opinion of the city commissioners
that some steps be taken before
human life is sacrificed on one or
more of these dangerous railroad
CROSSINGS in this tity,
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-08-28
Mayor Wagner Drives
Miles Without Trouble

Mayor Wagner, who purchased
d Studebaker 4s35 s35 early last
spring probably holds the cham
spionship for cheap upkeep Of an
automobile this season. The may
or has driven over 8, 900 miles and
has never had a plncture Of a tire
or one single accident With the
car Of any kind. He said the
other day No machinist has
touched a wrench to that car
while 4 have had it. ''s This Ger.
tainly is 4 good record when the
distance travelled is taken into
consideration.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-08-28
NARROW ESCAPE FROM SERIOUS INJURY
OR DEATH AT A RAILROAD CROSSING

y Z
would it before the woman would
have parted with every dollar
of it to the tax assessor and in
the meantime never have received
a single benefit from dollar of
it. The bills themselves mere
pieces Of paper simply promises
to pay nothing but bank notes
had not and have not a single
intrinsic value. The woman
might have had $4,000 or $780,
600 instead Of the $500 and re-
ceiyed no more benefit under the
same circumstances than she did
from the $500.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-08-28
Patience at an End
With President

Washington, Aug. 27Presi-
dent Wilson arrived On the house
floor at ! :01 p. m. and began his
address Immediately, playing his
trump card in the Mexican situa-
ton. Y, n. II g i.sassss IA VIZ. I. sssi
He advised that all Americans
be urged to leave Mexico; that
Mexico be informed that sum
mary punishment will follow il
American lives are lost or Am
orleans outraged that he deems.
his duty to allow the factions to-
fight out their troubles; that he.
must prohibit the shipment of.
arms to either federals or rebels
to insure neutrality. The presi-
dent reported the failure Of En-
yoy Lind's mission, but said the
door is not closed to resump-
tion Of peace overtures. He re-.
CARDS the situation as critical
The address breathed friendship
for Mexico but pesimism as tol
the outlook for the restoration Of
peace. In part Wilson said
1t is clearly my duty to lay
before you the facts concerning
our relations with Mexico. i need
not describe the deplorable po-
sition Of conditions. What we
do must be done with deliberation|
mpatience would be fraught with
risk. It was our duty to offer
active assistance while we wait
the contest Of various factions
will continue and the situation is
full Of hazard.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-08-28
Mrs. nj. K. Baskerville and Son
Henry HaveHairbredth Escape
atm. & St. L. Crossing.
SPECTATORSHORRORSTRICKEN
Expecting Every Second to See
Occupants Of Automobile
Ground to Death.

w nav EA1eSlV hoNS ApcoAUSS AAs \
serious il not fatal accident was
narrowly averted last Monday
morning at the M. & st. L. CROSS
ing on north Maple street in this
city.
%f'S4rs. M. r. Baskerville and her
son Henry had been down town in
the merning and were returning
home about 10 o'clock. The lad
was driving the automobile and
his mother was sitting in the back
seat. As they approached the M.
& St. T.. crossing on north Maple
street young Baskerville took
particular notice to see that there
We're a1o trains in sight before at
tempting to go over the crossing.
Imagine the young mans sur
prise and terror when he looked
up as he was going over the
crossing and saw a box car head
ed right for Ms automobile. The
box ear came from behind one Of
the many coal sheds near the
crossing and had been kicked" !"
off by a switch engine in what
is known as flying switch. 8
The young n1&n, realizing his per-
il tried to reverse his car, and
get tout of the way d8 the fast
approaching box car. Ia attempt
ing to reverse machine, the engine
was stopped dead. Mrs Basker-
Vile saw the box car coming but
did not have time to get out of
the car. Theaut was a self start
er and young Baskerville got the
engine started just in time to get
the auto off the track as the box
car went opar the crossing.
Conductor Hand, who was an
eye witness, made rush to push
the auto off tthe track before it
was struck by the box car and
he slipped ,and fell and nearly
rolled under the passing box car.
He was badly bruised by the fall
and was taken to one OF the local
hospitals. The autonebile had
barely got off 1.-THE track when the
box ear passed the ear Just scrap
ing the tenders Of the automobile.
DR.. r. F. Campbell, who was
an eve witness ITO the aSSrOW eS-
cape sad to a reporter for the
Saturday News Yes, / saw the
accident and i tell you ] never
was SO ,ssrared IN my life--I ex-
pected #very manent to see Mrs.
Baskerville and her son ground to
pieces ras1ser the wheels G that
box car. 4 never want to witness
;another scene like that was un-
.nerved for several hours after
wards. Il lis. the greatest wonder
in the world that Mrs. Basker
vile and ahes son and Mr.. Hand
were not Killed. / feel that some
thing must lhe done by the rail
roads to protect people at thair
erossings in tthas city or sooner or
later some person is going to b.
killed =
The city commissioners have
taken the matter up and will in-3
sist that the raalroads running
into Watertown provide some adj
equaae and safe means for pro-
tecting peoples lives who are
compelled to pass over the rail-
road crossings in this city. /
City attorney James G. MsFar-
land was instructed at the last
meeting Of the city eommissio ioaers
to prepare an ordinance provid-
ing for the installation Of auto |
,natic gates at all important rail-
road crossings in the city.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-08-28

I'VE Nc Nicol, the florist, Is
home from Mime eapolis, where he
pnt in several days attending the
annual flower show.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-04-05
snty. Tex. and twenty killed in
Pottawatomie county. Ia. on June 10

EOCtaWaCOm1e county, Ia. on June 10
the same year. ~
On July is. 1881, .247 buildings were
wrecked at New Ulm. MINI. and on
Aug. % a cyclone swept from savan-
nah to Minnesota, killing 400. In the
year 1882 more than 300 persons were
killed in various towns. At McAlester.
Indian Territory, on May 10. 12O were
killed. On June II at Grinnell. Ia. 100
persons were killed, 300 injured and a
property loss Of $1.OOO.OOO sustained,
On June "a that year at Emmetsburg
100 more were killed.
In 1883 the loss Of life numbered
ninety-three. Fifty-one lost their lives
In Mississippi on April q, and on MAY
Is sixteen persisted at Racine, Wis. In
Dodge and Olmstead counties. MINI.
twenty-six were killed and eighty in
jnred on Aus. 215
On Feb. 9. 1884. an unparalleled Sc
ries Of storms struck eight states 81
muttaneously. Illinois. Kentucky. Mis-
sissippi, Georgia. Tennessee, Virginia,
North Carolina and South Carolina
were visited by more than sixty lorna
does.N Eight hundred persons lost their
lives, $500 were injured, and 10000
buildings were destroyed. On Sept. 9
of that year in eastern Minnesota and
western Wisconsin 'seventy-five per-
sons were killed and 100000 worth
OF property was destroyed.
Coming down to recent times. eight
states were swept BY a tornado on
April "a. 1903. which left trail of
dead numbering more than 300 Most
OF the deaths occurred in the black
belts of Louisiana and Georgia, where
the wind destroyed the cabins, burying
the occupants in the debris. In Loui-
siana the dead numbered SO, and $50
were injured; in Mississippi 159 dead.
800 injured; Alabama. 81 dead, 113 in
jured. and in Georgia Is dead, 100 in
jured, or more than 300 in four states.
On April 80, 1909, Tennessee expert
enced one Of the worst tornadoes ever
known in that state. Sixty-two per-
sons were killed, and the property loss
was almost $1,OOO,OOO. Five other
states were also visited on the same
day, but the loss Of life was small.
On May 2. 1912, the village of Korn.
Okla, was wiped out and twenty-one
lives were lost. On June Is Vilagony.
another small village in Oklahoma, was
wiped out and four were killed. The
following day the tornado tore it's way
through Bates county and parts of
Johnson and Henry counties. Kan,
killing twenty seven persons.
Nearly 100 persons were killed on
March IA of this year by the storm
which swept seven states. In Georgia
the storm was accompanied by earth
shocks, and twenty mine persons were
Killed. The property loss amounted to
81, 200. 600 or mores.In Tennessee TWEEN
ty-six were killed, Alabama thirteen
and Mississippi thirteen.
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aaRRRAg4 AND MINNEAPOLIS MIN. SATURDAY. APRIL 1918

NEE and ST. Mary rivers on a rampage.
Town without lights and water famine
threatened. Highest water in twenty
years.
Marion. Ind Five hundred persons
forced to flee for their lives.
Ellwood. Ind.-Three hundred per-
sons homeless
st. Louis. -One person known to have
been drowned and many families in the
western part Of the city forced to leave
their homes by sudden rise of the Des
Peres river
Broda Ripple. lnd.-One thousand
feet Of railroad track washed out.
Youngstown. O.-Fourteen thousand
men idle by reason of the closing down
OF mills and factories. The food is the
worst that this city Inexperienced in
many years.
At Delaware, twenty-five miles north
OF Columbus. from nineteen to fifty
are reported drowned as result Of
the food. The town also is isolated,
with the exception Of intermittent tele-
graph service. One part Of the town is
cut off from the other because the river
channel runs practically through it's
center, thus handicapping rescue work.
At Middletown it is reported that fif-
teen were drowned when a bridge
from which crowd was watching the
flood was swept away. Several bodies
were recovered from the stream.
Cleveland. Akron. Toledo and Spring
field also have sent out reports which
show that probably total Of sixteen
lost their lives. ~.
Because of the proportions Of the
flood which washed out practically
every bridge of steam and electric
roads leading out Of Columbus, nearly
all train service was annulled. and op-
erations likely will be indefinite for
several days. State troops at the Or
der Of Governor Cox patrol the streets
in the flooded sections. and scores Of
automobiles are busy carrying the suf
fering to higher ground.
It was estimated that the total
deaths would reach 5000. with hun
dreds of thousands homeless.
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NOTES FROM THE NEWS.

Twenty-seven quail were found starv-
ed to death in a snowdrift at Hokah,
Wis. They had dug their way into the
snow for warmth and were caught by
the freezing of crust on top.
A Canarsie IN. " hen is the latest
entry in the freak egg contest. She is
owned by Herman eager and named
Tootsie. Each egg laid by her is. plain
~ marked with '"T." the initial Of
her name.
Harriet Tubman Davis, born in slav-
cry and who served as scout, nurse
and spy in the Union cause, is dead at
Auburn, N. T.. in, home she founded
for aged and INDECENT negroes. Escap-
ing slavery, she was runner for the
underground railroad before the war
and helped more than 300 slaves to
Canada. At one time there was a
price Of more than $4,000 on her head
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-04-05
WRECKAGE IN OMAHA.

New York.-Tornadoes and destruc-
tive high winds have been of frequent
occurrence in the United States in the
last few years. Although these winds
are commonly called cyclones" scien-
lists distinguish between the cyclone
and the tornado. The cyclone is
widespread low area STORM moving
in an elliphcal path. The tornado
drops with single burst of violence.
OF these the most destructive to life
and property was the st. Louis lorna
do, which took place on May q, 1896,
just before the time set for the ma
tional Republican convention. The
damage to property in St Louis and it's
vicinity amounted to close to $780,
600, and the loss Of life was estimated
at more than $50. The injured num-
bered twice that many.
During the two weeks preceding the
disaster of st. Louis the southern and
western states had been visited by tor
nadoes which demolished everything
in their path. On May Is a storm
plowed its way through northern Tex
as, killing 200 persons and damaging
$1,OOO,0OO worth of property. On May
II Kansas and Kentucky were visited
with great property loss, although the
loss Of life was small Nearly every
house in La Fontaine. Kan, was de-
stroyed on May %. and three days
later eleven persons were killed as a
result of tornado at Cairo, III.
In St Louis 72O street blocks were
mass of ruins, and scarcely building
In the path Of the storm escaped in
jury. In East St Louis the devasta-
ton was as great as in st Louis prop
er. Fire added to the destruction, and
as the streets were Uttered with rub
Dish the fire department was helpless.
The fire loss alone was more than,
$1,0OO,OO0. The dead in St. Louis mum.
bered POP and seventy-four missing.
and in East st. Louis the dead num-
bered ISL.
There have been several other vista
tons Of death dealing tornadoes in the
United States. Two of the most fatal
took place ir Adams. Miss, on May 5.
1910, when BIT persons were killed.
and on June 16, 1912, a storm killed
500. Early in April. 1880, the lower
Missouri towns of Barry. Stone. Web
ster and Christian suffered life and
property loss. Almost a hundred per
sons were killed and GOO Injured. and
81, 100000 worth Of property was de-
stroyed. Twenty-Five persons were
killed and seventy-two injured on
April % Of the same year in Noxubee
county. Miss. On May % forty were
killed and eighty-three injured in Fam
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-04-05
AWAY WITH SLAVES
and HIGH COLLARS
Women Will Legis|ate Them Out
Of Existence For Poor Man.

Chicago.-When the Ohio legislature
attempted to legislate against the ex-
IRENE styles in women's dress it little
knew what it was starting. Mrs. L.
Brackett Bishop. Endorsed by the Chi
cago Woman's club. the National Dress
makes association, the Milliners' Ma
tOnal organization and the Association
of Commerce, announces that she in
tends to maintain ''bureau of correct
dress for men" in Washington and try
to bring about legislation against these
things:
High collars.
Pandemonium vests.
Loud neckties.
The common hairbrush and comb.
Derby hats.
Slaves and short hair cuts.
SEARCHED shirts.
b "Men are becoming bald from wear
ing tight, stiff hats" said Mrs. Bishop.
'"They wear tight collars and high
collars. They look binding and uncom-
Portable and hot. Yet their wearers
declare they keep wrinkles out of the
neck and prevent double chins. The
stiff straw and the stiff derby, the stiff
shirt, the ugly brogan. the nightmare
tie and the cubist vest will all be
eliminated by the committee If DOS
sible.
"Men keep their faces shaved, clip
or their boards and wear their hair
short. Nature intended him to have
his hair rolling about his shoulders.
his beard protecting his Adams apple
from the chilling blast and his mus
tache keeping the cinders and dust
from his mouth and nose.
'The hairbrush and comb should go
with the drinking cup. We are or
ganized for the protection of man and
we are going to dress him right and
comfortably"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-04-05
Death IN wake
OF GREAT DELUXE
1900 Drowned by Floods
Throughout Middle West.
half MILLION HOMELESS,

Ohio, Indiana and Part of Pennsvl-
vania Suffered Most Heavily In
Worst Disaster of tie Kind In His
tory-Work Of Rescue Hampered by
Rising Waters. -
Columbus. O.-While Dayton, with
5000 reported dead. suffered most from
the foods that swept Ohio, Indiana
and part Of Pennsylvania, other cities
were severely stricken. At Peru, Ind,
1t was said in reports to Governor
Ralston that 500 or more lives had
been lost.
Columbus also suffered enormous
damage from the food. Railroad traf-
fic was paralyzed. Fires ragged for
many hours and for time threatened
a considerable portion of the district
Because of the flood firemen were un-
able to respond to the appeals.
Conditions at Indianapolis, Fort
Wayne, Kokomo and other places in
central Indiana were the worst in
many years. In every part of the state
there were reported disastrous inunda-
tons. At Lafayette two spans of a
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-04-05

France, which was based solely on the
ground that he could not afford to take
the place.
Mr.. McCombs' refusal followed that
Of Richard Olney and Charles w. Eliot.
former president of Harvard. to both
of whom the ambassadorship to- the
court of St. James was offered. Mel
Their could afford to take the place.
Whitelaw Reid. the former ambassa-
dor, maintained an establishment that
cost him 100000 year. Ambassador
Herrick. now holding the post refused
by Mr.. McCombs, is said to be spend
ing more than 100000 year in keep
ing up the embassy.
It is known that Norman e. Mack
has been hesitating about going as am
bassador to Vienna because he fears it
would cost too much, and it is said that
81. B. Fine. dean of the faculty at
Princeton. cannot make up his mind to
be ambassador to Berlin, being poor
man.
Representative Nicholas Longworth
not long ago made report on the SUBJ
ject and introduced bill appropriat-
ing money to build embassies It failed.
The salary Of an ambassadcr isS17.-
500 a year. and an expert opiL1 n given
here today by John Barrett. who has
been In the diplomatic service as min
lister end is now director of the Pam.
American union, is that $4,000 is the
least that one can spend and maintain
the dignity Of an embassy. Even at
that figure it costs an ambassador or
minister $1,000 year more than his
salary.
The following table shows what It
costs. to maintain an embassy at the
eight posts of the ambassadOrial rank:
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-04-05

hEPER COLONY IN INDIA WHERE SIR
GEORGE TURNER WORKED.
There was great possibility, he
thought, that some remedy might be
found.
'Generally speaking" he said, ''peo-
pie have very erroneous idea with re-
gard to the contagiousness Of leprosy.
In my opinion leprosy is usually, if not
always. spread by contagion, but most
lepers are not nearly so dangerous to
the public as person suffering from
phthisis." -
Since the terrible day that he made
the dread discovery that he was a vick
tim of leprosy Sir George has lived in
comparative retirement near Exeter.
he has received numerous invitations
to social functions and has invariably
replied:
Il will come if you don't mind my
being leper."
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-04-05
BITES INTO A FORTUNE.

Mrs. Stutz Finds $4,000 Pearl In an
Oyster.
Passa1c, N. J.-August Stuh, pro-
prietor Of a casino, is telling his
friends how he got pearl worth So
600 through the purchase Of A cents
worth Of oysters.
Stutz says his wife bought the oys-
tiers from peddler While she was
eating one Of them her teeth struck
something hard and large and smooth.
It looked like pink pebble and was
the size Of marble. Stutz says
New York jeweler offered him $500
for It.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-04-05
0SLER ACE LIMIT
FOR U. S. JUDGES
McReynoIds Bars Lawyers Over
Sixty For Federal Bench.

Washlngton.-No lawyer of more
than sixty years of age and no lawyers
with large corporation and railroad
connections need apply for appoint
ment on the federal bench.
+ Ibis announcement was made by
Attorney General McReynolds, who re-
ceived delegations from Virginia and
Maryland in behalf of lawyers of those
states now being urged for the va
cancy in the Fourth circuit court of
the United States. composed Of the
states of North and South Carolina.
Virginia, Maryland and West Virginia.
BY this announcement Mr.. Mercy
nolds eliminates almost the entire field
OF aspirants from Maryland and Vir-
g1nla. The half dozen lawyers from
Virginia who are advanced for ill.,
dicial honors are either more than
sixty years of age or have large corpo-
ration connections. The lone Mary
lander, 3. G. Devecmon, was eliminat-
ed because he has had no previous ex-
perience on the bench and has had no
Practice in admiralty courts.
The Virginia delegation was stunned
by the announcement. The men elm
mated include Charles v. Meredith of
Richmond. who is sixty-two years old;
Lucien B. Cooke of Roanoke. who is
division counsel for the Norfolk and
Western railroad; Walter 81. Taylor of
Norfolk, who is counsel for the late II.
b. Rogers Virginia railroad; w. Leigh
Williams of Norfolk. who is counsel
for the Atlantic Coast Line railroad,
and A. w. Patterson and n. r. Pol
lard. barred on account of the age
limit. DR.. Minor Lyle, dean of the Law
School Of the University Of Virginia, is
the only aspirant now in the field from
Virginia who comes within the Mercy
nolds rule.
There are half a dozen judgeship ap-
pointments which the president has to
make. Most of them are carried over
from the Taft administration and
were tied up in the senate filibuster
against all the civil appointments made
by Mr.. Taft after his election.
/ It. Is taken here that the rule laid
down by the attorney general applies
to all Judiciary appointments that will
come up during the coming four years.
It will apply equally to the United
States supreme court ae to the district
courts.
Just now there is pressing demand
upon the president to appoint chief
Justice OF the United States court Of
claims. The work Of this tribunal has
been retarded since the retirement Of
Chief Justice Peel and the refusal Of
the senate to confirm the promotion of
Associate Justice Booth for this place.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-04-05
IN BED FOR FIFTY NINE YEARS

Woman Holder Of All Hospital Time
Records Celebrates Her Birthday.
Philadelphia. Taken III with typhoid
fever at twenty-one years Of age and
still In bed at eighty is the experience
OF Miss Sybilla schnatz. who. after
years. has just celebrated
her birthday in ST. Joseph,s hospital.
She holds all hospital time records.
Since her typhoid attack Miss
Schnatz has been unable to move with
out assistance. She has been an ar
dent student Of scientific subjects. She
has telephone at her bedside and has
seen trolleys and automob bibles from the
window. but her greatest ambition Is
to see an aeropIane.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-04-05
WEEDS nyNith tha Grain.r

Franklin, Ind. Jefferson Madison,
aged seventy -one, refused to marry.
Hattie Mason. aged twenty three. until
he knew how the floor run" He wish
ed to stand in line with the length Of
the planks while the ceremony was
being performed. otherwise his married
life might be full of crosses. Neither
bride nor bridegroom can write.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-04-05
TO SPEND 100000.

Wakes Up to the Trade Opportunities
In West Indies.
Paris.-The appropriations for i'm
provements in the French West In
dies. notably at Pointe Pitre, Guade-
loupe, and Fort de France, Martinique.
In anticipation Of the opening of the
Panama canal amount to nearly $1,000
600. the chamber Of deputies having
awakened to the fact that France had
made no preparation to benefit by that
event.
Colonial Minister lie Brun (now war
m1nister) sent an important mission to
the islands last year, and it's report
and Minister lie Bruins energy. brought
about the present appropriations.