Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette, The (Newspaper) - October 7, 1895, Cedar Rapids, Iowa VOLUME 237 CEDAR RAPIDS IOWA The of Panama Desire Joint Action in the Cubans in Favor of for the Gem of the Antilles Superior of the Capuchin Monks Renounces Faith and is For Concerted Action New York Oct Herald's Washington special There Is dis- cussion in political circles over the possibility counties may net jointly in the recognition of for Cuban Insurgents The representatives here have been anxiously waiting to see what Secretary Olney will do The has been made informally to the secretary that it would be a sood plan for the United States and all South and Central countries to act in concert either as to the ot the or the in- dependence of Cuba whenever the proper time arrives It is the in- must make greater headway before it will be entirely safe for the United or any other republic to recognize them A Former Superior of Blocks and Family New York Oct Manuel rando of Castile a member of one of the oldest families of Spain and erly superior ot the order of Capuchin Monies has renounced the Roman Catholic church and accepted the faith By this he lost the important mission of his old church and will disowned by his family He will become a Presbyterian ister LANDMARK Destroyed Yesterday Philadelphia Oct Abington Presbyterian church the home of the oldest Presbyterian congregation In Montgomery county and for more than a century a landmark on the old York road in village mile and a half above ed by lire yesterday with all its con- tents The wails erected over a dred years ago are left standing The congregation burned church was organized in Steps were taken today looking to the immediate rebuilding of the edifice Loss insurance A VICIOUS KLK to In a St St Louis Oct attempting to save the life of a young doe Henry Nelson keeper of Forest Park Zoo was gored death by an infuriated elk last evening The elk that caused Nelson's death was brought to this city from Chicago about six years ago He killed a man while confined In Lincoln animal shed its velvet coat and its antlers a few days ago and has been in s vicious temper ever since GERMANS AUK Tanners Trying to Discover American Secrets Washington Oct German leather makers have been obliged to turn to America to learn the latest de- In their trade in order to keep pace in competition for business and are making strenuous efforts discover process of manufacture used in this country United States Consul at Barmen shows this fact in report to the state ment based on publications in German trade The Germans learned at Chicago exposition where the best and cheapest leather in the world could be hart German alum tanned leather has had its day and German makers who three years aso would not at American glazed kid are now importing direct and trying to dis- cover the secrets of its production by sending experts to America and trying to induce American workmen to come Germany Agencies for American leather are found in every large European city the business is largely in English hands American trade Is helped by the high price of German which handicaps the ners and limits Lined up for Work Washington Oct the ex- ception of Justice Gray all the supreme court justices have returned to ington in anticipation of the opening of the full term of Kepf Havana Oct Spanish bark Joven Lola been wrecked on the Colorado reefs of the crew were drowned lu Tangier Morocco pet ber of deaths here from cholera to date is 700 Tetuan reports forty deaths a day Dead London Oct Cavendish the well-known actress is dead Elyria O has an electric car line There is a shortage of coal at Vegetarians Chicago will build a church David B speak at Lima O- Oct All the miners have returned to work Peoria The attendance at Ann will Geo Shoemaker was killed by a train at Tiffin Ohio Gen Miles assumed command of the army Saturday populists have socialist element Rev A L Moore Akron O Is under arest for forgery The protestant hospital was ed today at Joliet Johnson failed to lower the bicycle record at Jefferson St Paul will not married men to teach school Engineer Alls Atkins was killed in a wreck near Atlanta A receiver has appointed for the Bedding Co Chicago dealers think that sugar will be reduced in price Converse Ind has made -a presidential postofllce C C Powell died of heart disease in a Chicago has been found in a gravel pit in Seward county Neb The whisky trust war Is ended the factions having united Thomas Brown was killed by a fall of coal at Dunmore Pa The of the steamer St Paul is about ready for delivery James J McAnna of Chicago was found dead was suicide Wm McCrea was killed by a ing at Ind The paper trust at York lins decided to advance prices Wright's Station near was totally destroyed by lire Illinois Christian Endeavors have sub- scribed for mission work Prairie fires have made scores of ple homeless about Ipswich S D The year old son ot L F Richards of 111 was killed by hoses John Pittsburg by a train at Rochester Amos J Cumings has been ed for congress in New York city George Bryant died at Sabula Iowa from eating poison pressed chicken Car Wheel Co will establish a at St Paul A cut of 2 cents a pound on leather was New York Saturday Coal operators at have agreed to the demands of the miners L L Hiatt and W business men drowned at Wheaton 111 King Pyatt aped SO was burned to -in his house at N J The and Western railway was sold to the Southern for John Miller of St Paul asks the lice to help him find his missing wife C M Lane reformer has been in- for criminal libel at III Tullis and Henry Walsh highway robbers got life sentences at Tecumseh Ok -A was hanged at ton W Va for the murder of his wife John Burns was shot killed at Huntington W Va while resisting ar- rest Mrs Emma McFarland Council Bluffs committed suicide with carbolic acid C J Smith has been appointed re- of the Oregon Improvement com- pany Operatives in the cotton mills ai rora secured a from II to 10 hours Citizens of Portland Ind will ask for forfeiture of company chises Patrick Kennedy was killed at ville Colo his father-in-law Thof Powers A portrait of Judge Gresham by Pebbles is displayed in the state de- Charles Franker a boy fatally at while handling a musket Horn Bear the who threatened to kill whites at Rosebud Is in A leaving the second Improved Washington Oct condition is slightly improved The supreme court holds that Big county is not of the Mississippi story of a New York house fell and was killed A son of Romero the dead Mexican statesman Is a motorman at San Antonio J An explosion of natural gas wrecked the residence o-f Mrs Ind An escaped lunatic drove the engineer and fireman from a freight train at WIs Parker a stepped In front of a moving engine and was The Harris murder tri- al at III today The Js ty Joseph Ames a business man of family was arrested at O Mrs Dr S Shaw while riding a bi- cycle at Chicago was trampled to a horse Iowa Central shops at have the largest force of men in the history of the road John C M St P man was instantly killed toy the cars at Ontonagon Mich The dwelling of V C Carson ton was burned Insured in the ers of Cedar Mrs Decker of Des recovered from Frank for selling liquor to her Will ot was unearthed wife he and taken American athletics eight firsts at from and English at The tramps rounded lip All are The Northwestern alarmed at of r the Current Month all Payments by Cheok Employes the Abolishment of Their Passes Too Much Jesse James Chicago Oct by the ing frequency and boldness ot robberies the of and Northwestern railway have deferr mined to take away from temptation of the Jesse James species of men one most luring prizes ried out city over rails through the west They have and banished monthly pay car From this time this old time Institution will be a thing of memory to the Northwestern employes who have ed its coming every thirty flays nil along the lines Chicago and Sioux City or St Paul Beginning with the month the Northwestern pays its roils by checks On Chicago In- stead Of in currency and gold as This change marks the gassing of the pay car and Is a blow to the profession of train robbery We shall commence with ent month pay the rolls of our em- ployes with SI St man second president of the road These checks ought to as good as gold and bankers merchants ers everywhere should them at value in payment of accounts or as u matfer of'accommodation It to make nearly as possible same day each month and if possible than it has Wen our practice to make them heretofore Checks will be Sent for each pay roll as drawn without waiting for checks to be drawn This will spread the payments over several days better enable and others to cash our checks We shall make specific arrangements with banks to honor such may be It will also be the duty of the station agents cashiers and ticket sellers of the company to pay all checks of the company presented to them We will ask employes to notify us if they are in way sioned hardships through tile system try to make It as con- venient for our employes as possible The recent train robberies have been the chief cause for bringing company ico adopt the check instead of the currency system said W H Newman third vice president matter has long under tion by the and Northwestern roads have abandoned rency of paying and it is fast falling disuse way was more convenient for but the new way is safer Aside from the fact that the pay car placed large sums of the company's money almost within reach of placed lives of ful who guarded the car and manned the trailn in jeopardy The car's movements have always been mysterious Its a station was matter of curious often speculation the waiting em- ployes rioSe of whom not the train dispatchers of its program The pay car never on a schedule and never the same way twice so that difficult lo find and attack yet ing to statement of the officials It is no longer possible to securely guard the money carried about In this way Many long ago abandoned the practice of paying in currency and gold adopted modern ods The Chicago and Northwestern claim pursued it at a because they thought by so doing they simple justice to their employes Prudence their the Railroad proprietors and officials have been astonished at the reign of terror inaugurated at this late day by robbers They have been forced no take every precaution to protect their freight MOST JFARE Railway Deliver a Whin s Deprived of Chicago Oct the Western Indiana railroad are ing to themselves one huge against an order cutting off passes to employes after Nov l: It Is estimated order will affect between 400 and 500 employes causing each of them to expend for commuters tickets at least of the pass system for tried by Western about two and then lasted a month but now the stay organization on the Western alive since there -are many gry employes who would like to have some they think of the order railway all em- ployes do the western and Milwaukee roads financial is said month It seems accepted without those although to A of these tickets must be on i so greatly as a marked annual earnings Until this fall profitable for eighteen months Other radical changes in financial of Dearborn tion prophesied KILLED OXK OXK David Keep Sandusky Oct Taylor dard's wife died recently leaving a child which has since been in the ily X its mother's father right demanded possession of and receiving a refusal slightly wounded Seright departed came his James Goddard abusing Seright who shot gun and killed the elder and seriously wounded lor one James und KlIU 1 Platte City Mo As the result ot a family resulting in separation of Jas Frazler and his Frazier shot and killed his wife's Jacob Oxford In cold blood Fraxier escaped i Fatal Ending of ut du t N on the docks In which 150 boatmen were Involved Captain Phillips owner of two boats was shot in the head and His son had his skull fractured and may die N Express robbers secured at Ont Princess of Hawaii has ar- rived at London Inhabitants of the Island of Crete ject to Turkish rule Von sent on a ial mission to the czar Patti will sing at Carlo during the coming winter The quinine for Spanish soldiers -In Cuba coats soon writing the score of the opera Olivia William Ernest Henley is mentioned for poet laureate of The cost France men and The vineyards in portions of Bavaria are threatened by phylloxera The fast mall project between land and Canada Is in abeyance Agrarians expect to majority In the coming Most ot the German-American erans sailed for home on Saturday Ocean freight rates from Europe to America are to be reduced 10 per cent A of additional arrests of French spies have been made at Col- The concession to the New York Life association has been revoked by many i Lieut C E U S A has been sent Hague an a special mission Emperor William has invited the czar to join a hunting party on the frontier church erected In London in memory of our Pilgrim fathers is to be restored Germany has gained from China the same concessions granted to England Dr has arrived in New York on a special mission from Venezuela to Washington The Union bank of Quito the chief Institution of its kind in Ecuador is re- ported shaky Louis Goldstein of New York was fined 150 marks at Dantzic for evading German military The which sunk the Elbe has been libeled by the North German Lloyd line at Rotterdam Eighteen hundred Spaniards are re- ported to have defeated Cubans In an engagement Saturday has New York In time to enter his head of hair first chrysanthemum shows Frank aw paper has been offered a by the king of Bavaria reports show that lish trade with America Argentina Australia and South Africans ing The city council of Vienna was dis- solved by Emperor of and Inability the cits A new plot against President Morea's of Brazil has One ister several army officers are in- The American Is occupying much space in London papers that -Is usually devoted to and other pet English do hot like United States ple He them by pleasing occasions DEATH or That Man wnn Culled A peculiarly sad Is ot Fred Lee son W ond-.-lIrs which occurred Sunday at de- ceased was born S at lington was years old He was a young of being bright cheerful ner and cause of lal will street West PRICE FIVE CENTS at Stone Ceremonies of St olio Weak Timbers Cause tlie Platform to Give About SCO People One Killed and Ten Fatally and Twelve Seriously Joy to Sorrow Pell of the new St Mary's Catholic church in this city yesterday awful disaster people were in and the were about ready to proceed with the services when the and created -a panic One person ten were Injured and nearly forty badly hurt The foundations of the building ex- tended about ten feet above bottom and on this was erected a platform where the were being held Over were standing on the floor section of it containing about 300 people Its den and precipitated them Into a pit The section which gave away was in two wings and as it sank formed a death trap for the people from which there was very little to escape The an inverted roof of a very steep slant the ends being by stone walls and Into this It was that there were crowded men anil in one struggling mass 1 AS gave way a great cry up from the multitude but in another second it fallen a crash Those at the top of the mass escaped easily but when the pit was partly emptied those victims still en- trapped could not up the steep sides and trampled each other like so many wild creatures the strong getting on top the weak being crushed beneath the greater weight DEAD AND FATALLY INJURED Mary Webber 3 years old daughter of and Mrs Mat Webber of field instantly Those fatally injured Rosa McGee tured Katie S years old hurt Inter- nally Mrs Mary left leg crushed internally Mrs John aged woman left leg crushed and chest injured Mrs Cornelius Sullivan spine in- jured left leg crushed Mary chest crusher hurt Internally Mrs Kelling injured Inter- nally Mrs Kate DIedrick both legs broken and hurt internally John Fieldcamp hurt internally Mrs Margaret Mackert hurt inter- nally OTHERS INJURED badly injured who will er Nellie Dollard head cut Nicholas Wagner skull fractured Leo Theobald 3 years cut Colonel W I Brown leg arm bruised Mrs John Fox both legs broken Mrs William Du Bergot hurt Inter- nally Mrs Mary Latimer right leg crushed Mrs Jacob O'Keefe hurt internally leg will have to be amputated John Martin leg broken John Austin back hurt Mrs M Bruce ankle broken William Ryan leg broken Thirty others were severely bruised CHURCH HOSPITAL Although a thousand people were ready to rush to the rescue they could render very little aid to the helpless persons in and several minutes elapsed before and ladders were placed In position The old Catholic church near by was turned into a hospital and morgue Into this were carried the killed and injures WEAK TIMBERS THE CAUSE The contractors are to for the disaster Poor and Insufficient timbers were used and was given them yesterday that the Insecure but they were It would hold that it Five and a score of physicians were kept for a time The mayor and other city lent a helping hand in for the injured Notwithstanding the shock ot the the succeeded -In ing the crowd afterward and continued the services Very Rev Boff of Cleveland delivered the It was eloquent and impressive so because of the awful dis- COKE TO The E W Team After the gi Oct E Clark hose team of this ing for where they will con- test at v the The team has addition of- crack runners from other towns in the the most of the members are boys faithfully under a- seconds meet y- any good do you want to sell them? men can advertising In MEN'S Fine All Wool best Italian lined silk sleeve linings latest shades guaranteed and ing they wore to sell at and we have sold hundreds at that price all this week yon can take one at 1 1 Our line of Overcoats ranging in price to comprises the largest and best assortment ever brought to Cedar MEN'S ALL WOOL HOMESPUN 1 SUITS H BLUE AND BLACK AT yp No ase to emphasize the fact that they are worth double you can easily see that I Out Suits I We cannot praise too highly all wool cheviot or line finish clay worsteds tailored in the latest fashions in either sack or frock coats Far superior to anything at the money refunded i Have you seen our great I Linen Collars and I v Linen Collars equal to any collar made onr price lOc One Price Clothing House Corner First Avenue and Second Street Codar la MONEY IS LOST IS LOST LOST IS LOST is LOST Many times by place By buy Ins C T SMITH'S C T C T SMITH'S C T SMITH'S a disregard of the best to shoes MAKE MONEY MAKE MAKE MONEY MAKE MONEY our new fall shoes at FINE SHOE PARLOR FINE SHOE PARLOR FINE SHOE FINE SHOE PARLOR THE ARTISTIC TAILOR OF ALL KINDS Special Attention Given to Complete Outfits for Call see tne Before Buying The Prices are Right 120 FIKST AA ENUE
