Logansport Journal (Newspaper) - July 24, 1904, Logansport, Indiana Detailed Statement 299O v4 June IMITATION BY COMPETITORS PROVES JOURNAL LEADING PAPER 2QQA o TUt rtw v PAPER A OF ANY DESCRIPTION REGULARLY BY WIRE THE JOURNAL IS THE ONLY PAPER THE LOGANSPORT T NO 177 INDIANA SUNDAY MORNING JULY 24 19O4 PRICE 2 CENTS BICYCLE RIDER NEARLY KILLED Ralph Ellis Knocked From HURRIED HOME As a climax to series of tunes Ralph Ellis a young man re siding on a farm between Kewanna and Grass had a narrow escape from death in this city last night He was riding along Sycamore street on a bicycle when the wheel veered and threw him He struck the ground with terrific force and many who saw the accident believed he had been killed For some time ho showed no signs of life A physician was cahed but before he arrived man had regained consciousness and Benjamin Long one of his neighbors who had been in Logansport placed him in a car riage and for the Ellis home It was not believed that the young mans Injuries were of a serious na ture but one side of his body was badly bruised Yesterday seemed to be an unlucky day for Ellis As no came to this city In the morning he punctured one of his bicycle tires and was forced to several miles After reaching here he lost his pocketbook which contained over cloven dollars Then came his painful fall WILL STONE THROWERS PANHANDLE COMPANY OBJECTS TO HAVING ITS COACHES USED AS TARGETS The boys who have a mania for throwing stones at passenger trains are again getting busy Within tho last week several windows In vania passenger coaches have been broken by a party of boys who station themselves on the west side of the railroad bridge across Eel river T local of the road say that the police will be asked to take the matter in hand and if they are not success ful in stopping tti depredations a de will be put on the track of the offenders LOAFERS GIVE BATTLE TO POLICE A free for all fight on the north of Third street bridge occurred last night between taw policemen and a gang of loafers As a result B W Clem a gash over the head from a policemans club Patrolman and Carson were standing at the railroad crossing seeing that no one was run over by trains when a gang of men Including Clem gathered on the sidewalk the policemen claim refused to allow the people to pass A fight followed and Clem was hit over tne He for resisting an officer RED GOMES NEW FREAK HITS TOWN WHICH JARS NERVES OF BI OLOGISTS The owl must now jive way to another freak which is de stined to cause the biologists to throw up their red rat The the crimson coat Is not a native of Cass county but came from the sunny south in a car of bananas shipped to this city It made its debut by jumping out of a load of bananas In front of the Caruso wholesale establishment The agile August Cira decree 1 that the rat should not live and ex its spark of life with a bam boo cane n size the animal was between that of an ordinary rat and a weasle Its body was rather slim and Its legs were long and bony It came from New Orleans PANHANDLE TO PUT ON 100 CARS During the last fow days there has been a vast improvement in the traf fic over the local division of the Pan handle In fact there has been a de cfl increase all over tiie vania system The increase in the east is attributed to the improvement in tho steel business but none of the officials is able to account for the sud den activity in the west Beginning tomorrow the road will bring 100 ad cars day GOES TO FIGHT WITH JAP NAVY Mr and Mrs Fred James Eastend received a letter from Thom as San Francisco yesterday stating that he would leave in September on board the steamer Southerland for Japan where he will join the Japan ese navy James is a machinist and It is through his trade that he expects to bo put on board a war ship ROW IN CLERKS OFFICE It is reported that there were in tne office of the city clerk morning between Weidon Webster former city engineer and Deputy Clerk Fansler juie trouble is jaid to have arisen over a letter which Webster declared Fansler had misplaced The differences however were amicably adjusted after the excitement RUSSIA RELEASES SHIPS St Petersburg July Czar has notified England that no more British vessels will be held by the Russians Two more were captured today but were immediately allowed to go on orders from St Petersburg to release them DRUMMER SAYS INSIDE INN DELUSION AND A SNARE If you want to have the beveled edge bunk handed to you strong with frills furbelows and trimmings just take a trip to the St Louis fair and stop at the Inside Inn said J J Flynn a Toledo traveling man at tlie Murdock last night The advertise ments are Buffalo They tell you Its the only hotel inside the grounds and that by residing in the corral you save the price of admission to tho fair Now thats all well and good so far as it goes I have just returned from I can speak from experience I had my wife with me and forked over six largo every day for a dinky little room and some picnic grub Far be it from me to say that the advertisements lie They are per truthful The round that you hand the clerk pays your board and it also entitles you to ad mission to the fair But please kinti friend just list while I tell you You dont get In on that Inside Inn pass until after each one of the j 79G400 clocks on the grounds have I struck ten p m Vic tims Floating in the SUSPECT GANG Thousands of dead fish were seen floating clown tlie river yes Several persons examined a number of specimens and they say the fish had either been Killed by dyna miters or had been poisoned It is be however that tnc destruction was wrought by dynamiters operat ing between this city and Peru The fish ranged in sixe from minnows to those weighing four to five pounds The local fish have been apprised of the unusual circum stance One of them will go up the river tomorrow morning and If dyna miters have been at work every effort will be made to capture them Dur ing tho last year a number of depreda tions of this kind have been commit ted along and many believe that the old gang once routed is again getting busy FULL INTO KILLS RETIRED ARMY OFFICER KILLED Journal Special Service Nantucket Mass July Charles S Stewart United States Army retired fen from Uie roof of the hotel was stopping at and received injuries from which he died Tho accident is sup posed to have resulted from or temporary aberration Mrs flight Meets Mishap In CARPET SAVES While working in her kitchen hue yesterday evening Mrs Reid Hight Chicago street fell through a cellar door and was painfully injured At the time of the accident she was alone in the house Her screams however were heard by neighbors who immed came to her Assistance She was severely bruised and gashes were cut in her face Mrs Hight had been warned by her husband that tlv door was dangerous but she said that she thought he was only joking The steps leading to the cellar are of stone but they were covered with carpet which probably saved the from instant death MOGUL ENGINE SPREADS RAlfS Wabash engine 517one of tho new mogul switching type which was taken through spread teh of a Danville 111 yesterday with two coal cars went to the ground was not delayed by the accident ami the engine and cars were gotten back on the rails without the aid of a wreck train 1 CLOSES IN A BLUE on Island Last Week Was TENTS FOLDED After one of the most a carnival ever held in this city amidst a confetti battle above which arose the screams of women and the yell of the speller as he talked the people to his last show the Gaskill Cornival Company bade Logansport adieu last night This morning where all has been covered with tents and crowded w people the place is dreary and de While the city slept the tents were furled and the company silently went away Next week the company will be at Dayton Ohio As the peo ple filed out of the gates at midnight many expressions of regret escaped the lips as they took their lost look at the scene of gaiety Although the attendance was not as large in the aggregate this season as the first year the show was here the manager said that Logansport is one of the best towns he ever struck About 40000 people the car nival during the week The exact amount cleared by the association can not be told as yet but it will be close to MAN IS ROBBED AS HE SLUMBERS GIRL NEXT JULIA MORGAN AND HER FIVE CHILDREN COMING TO CON VERT CITY Ihe Girl Preacher is coming She is now at Wabash and the latter part of next week will arrive in the City of Bridges The title of Girl Preach er is applied to Julia Morgan a wo man of 24 years but looking fully ten year solder and having with her five children She began preaching when only 11 and since that time has traveled through the Middle states She does not believe in creeds but believes every individual must work out his or her own salvation CONFETTI MAN GIVES UP RING BRIBERS ARE SENTENCED St Louis Mo July J and Charles J Denny were sentenced to two years each in tho penitentiary for bribery KUROPA TKINS ROUTED ARM Y HAS BEEN JN A TRAP Quite a sensation was caused at the carnival grounds last night by a con fetti man and a girl of this city in one of the stands The girl had given the man her ring to wear early In tht week obtaining his promise to give it back Last night when tho girl asked for it lie refused A little later the girl came back accompanied by a man six feet tall apparently her brother wno in plain language told the vender to return the girls property At the man refused but upon looking over the big sixfooter he returned the ring without further voras The name of the girl not be learned SWIGART GETS EVIDENCE IN CASE Referee of Bankruptcy Frank Swi gart and his stenographer Miss An derson were in Wabash yesterday on matters pertaining to the Wabash Bridge and Iron Company and the Wa bash Stock Farm Co The evidence in regard to a number of claims against the companies was heard but no de cisions were made public Referee Swigart and Miss Anderson returned to tills city last night FIND HUGE CAVE IN KENTUCKY Journal Special Service Sergeant Ky July possible rival of the great Mammoth cave in county iias just been dis covered on Line Fork creek in south ern part of Letcher county A party explored it for seven miles but was unable to find its end Gad loses Money ano Watch in Broad SNEM THIEF ENTERS ROOM Another robbery was added to tlie list for carnival week yesterday after noon and Cad is minus and a gold watch who rooms over saloon went to sleep Saturday morning at S oclock and neglected to lock the door When ho awakened at 2 oclock in the after noon upon searching his trousers ho found bis money and watch had been taken The police believe that a gang thieves travels with the carnival com pany who have been operating all week in spite of the vigilance of the local authorities The class of crooks which makes practice of following circuses and car is peculiarly adept In tne art of avoiding detection as the thieves are mostly on the order which takes no chances with the law and it is expected many more rob will come to light today NEW MARKET STREET STRUCTURE SOON WILL BE READY FOR OCCUPANCY The new Market street M E is now rapidly nearing com and will probably be ed during the latter part of September Very little remains to be done except finishing the interior and installing he new pipe organ The work of excavating for the Broadway M E church is also prac ically completed A large force of men will begin on the stone work this veek o j ANTISEMITIC RIOTS OVER ROBBING GRAVES Corpses Disinterred and Pitched Into the Street Special Cable to The Journal Berlin July occurred at Bracht in Prussia where mob excavated the Jewish cemetery nd disintered many corpses pitching hem into the street The rioters then tacked the synagogue and destroyed ail of thj in it JAPANESE SOLDIERS ADVANCING THROUGH a VILLAGE London July Kuropat Mn has been trapped by Kuroki fol lowing the Japanese commanders brilliant victory at Kiaotung This together with the reported capture of by the Japs and dispatches elling of the seizure of a near Port Arthur comprises the important news from the Far East to day Absence of official messages from Kuropatkin to the war office at St Petersburg for the last two days is regarded as ominous in view of the persistent rumors that Liaoyang his headquarters has fallen a prey to the advancing Japanese A report from Shanghai also states that the Mikados soldiers are now within a mile 01 the main defenses of Port Arthur which they are bombarding The Russian garrison is said to be fight ing and disease to 20000 men In the battle which took place at Tung the Japanese casualties numbered 421 including cers Major Hiraoka wno was a mili tary attache in the South African war was among the Russians lost more than a thousand in killed and wounded ana fortyseven were ta ken prisoners As a result of the five clays activity the Japanese have secured much better strategic lines from their advance and the have lost their best de fensive positions both on the Yang roans Heavy rains have commenced SIGN WITH TERRE HAUTE Frankfort July Gray Frankforts phenomenal southpaw pitcher has signed with the Terre Haute Central League Club He left for Terre Haute yesterday ami will pitch his first game Monday CHURCHMAN KILLS Journal Special Service New Castle Pa July C Mclver prominent in business Ma sonic and Methodist church circles committed suicide by shooting him self in the head He was fiftyseven years oW and had been a merchant tailor here many years GIRLS WEARING BROTHERS SHIRT WAISTS SHOCKING Now dont anybody blush because its necessary to tell it Of course Its legitimately within the province of the fashion editor to break the but ag our Madame de is out calling on his best girl the painful duty devolves upon the sporting editor So here it is right off the bat The Logansport girls are wearing mens shirtwaists Anti wouldnt that put a crimp in your kimono The fad struck this city just twelve it was created in Chicago and yesterday a dozen of the most modish girls in town could have beea counted on Broadway each with the unmistakable Her which indicated that she had made a raid on her brothers stock of wearing apparel Ton cant miss spotting them They have a peculiar bulge Just over the southwest and northwest sections of the belt line and there is a notice able tightness around the shoulders Whether they are going to last re mains to be seen The girls who havent any brothers to rob say they are fierce who have greatest ever
