Logansport Journal (Newspaper) - September 2, 1905, Logansport, Indiana HIE LOGANSPORT JOU THIRTIETH YEAR NO 210 LOGANSPORT INDIANA MORNING SEPTEMBER 2 1905 PRICE TWO CENTS Bon anti Girl fls Attract fit tention at Social HUNDREDS and Last HasKen Deo In the presence of hundreds of rela tives and invited guests Mr Torn Thumb and Miss were united In evening at 8 oclock at the Market Street M E church The ceremony was the usual procedure Bridesmaids and rela tives assisted In the ceremony and at the of the service partici pated in giving congratulations The congratulations of the aged grand parents of the bride wore fib ting arid beautiful A couple appar ently well past the three score and ten mark gray haired and maimed by old ago marchod clown the aisle and with tearstained eyes the aged grandfather gave words of ail vice for happy life and wedded bliss Tho cast of characters of the ding was as follows bride Ruth Gottschall groom Paul Reed best man Russel Wright maid of honor Gladys Dill bridesmaids Doris Wil liams Vera Smith ushers Paul Yon ker Freddie minister and Howard Rasher Metx ger brides parents Robert Naftzger Blanche McLaren grooms parents Clifford Irene Fisher grand parents Mervin Doollttle Ellen Mc Allister cousins of Taylor Long aunties of the groom Marian Florence Reed VanSteenberg brides little brothers Robert Baraes Trevor Brown invited guests Neomi Lines Harold Rosier May Daly Da vid Roads Pauline Harley Paul Har ley Cotner Kleth ler Hazel Fraxier Dennis Uhl Robert Fickle Early waiters Smith Jennie Lines VanSteen berg Ruth Veal MILLERON FORMER VANDALIA SUPERIN TENDENT WHO LEFT ROCK ISLAND GETS PLACE J O Crockett former superintend ent of the division of the system who left this city to become a superintendent on the Rock Island when President Loree took over H I Miller as general man ager Is to go to the B T H of which road Miller is now general man ager Crockett is to be superintend ent of the E T H from Evans ville to Terre Haute and will have Offices at Terre Haute He succeeds J Douglass who has SOLD Two boys giving their as Wili Pate 1G and Charles lb and their address as Logans port were arrested at Marion yesterday and con to stealing two bicycles The boys were arrested near the Clover Leaf depot at Marion a new bicycle in their possession They looked suspicious and were tak en to the police station When placed in the sweat box they soon confessed To the officers they said they were from One of the boys claimed that his fa ther had purchased the bicycle for him to ride in order to break him of the habit of freight Later they said they stole the oi cycles at Bern which is a small place near Muncie They found one of the wheels on the mam street of the town find another in a barn Be Ioro stealing the wheels they had been at Albany near Muncie where they were engaged in buying junk They have not at home for eight weeks The boys reached Gas City Thurs day where they sole the bicy cles for to D A Radabaugh a bicy cle dealer When arrested they had 54il in their pockets They rode to a streetcar and had been there but a short time when they were arrested The marshal of Bern was notified of the arrests and the boys are held In jail until he conies for them SAVES WIFE AND CHILDREN Isev York 1 The sound steamer Maine from New Bedford col with a barge loaded with in the East River near the Brooklyn bridge today The steamer was only damaged but the impact careened the barge until Its cargo of lead slid off into the river When the Maines bow cut into the barge the captain of the latter dived down the gangway into her cabin and came up preceded by his wife bearing his two children in his arms just as the barge heeled over and about to cap size In answer to his call a tug came alongside and the captain tossed his children to the deck hands on board At his order liis wife made tho leap in safety and the captain followed Thousands of persons crossing the bridge the collision and the rescue KILL BIG RATTLESNAKE John Franks and John farmers who reside west of Winamac killed a rattlesnake which was in the road sunning Month System Was Not since the rural service was es in this county has there been a month when as much business was transacted by the twelve routes out of this city as during the month of Au gust just closed More mail was col more pieces distributed and more stamps wera sold and cancelled by the rural carriers during last month than for any single month in the two years the routes have been in force There is no the in crease in business other than that tho people are becoming acquainted with the service and are patronizing ft more thoroughly Postmaster Moss is unable to account for the increase other than in this manner The car riers state that has been noth ing the month that would tend to increase the business also express the belief that the people are beginning to realize what the rural route means The monthly report is as follows Del Col Stamps Route 1 51S1 476 1059 Route 2 5064 3G5 1022 Route 3 4S85 462 895 Route 4 6961 757 1517 Route 5 5551 540 1036 Route 6 3897 390 1003 7 307G 356 604 524 1204 Route 9 4253 315 654 Route 10 3026 330 641 Route 11 4212 503 813 Route 34 4043 325 780 GREEK THRESHING IT IS BURIED Disinter Roto at land Jex tarn It at Houston LODGE OF ELKS GIVES ORDER The body of Clarence Terrell will be removed next week from Sugar land Tex to Houston Tex An or der for this transfer was issued yes by Dr Hurtt secretary of Lo lodge No GG B P 0 Elks Terrell was a member of the local lodge His partly decomposed corpse was along the railroad track in a dich and only such interment at as was possible in that isol ated community was given it Mrs Terrell now living in Peru was noti fied and the Logansport lodge con I with her relative to bringing the body here for She de in favor of having interment in Houston under the auspice of the Elks there Terrell was once well todo For a time he managed the bar at the hotel Peru and he was well known in sporting circles in this part of the state Reverses came upon him and when he was last seen alive he said he was going southwest to join a circus His lodge card and other papers found in his pockets identified the body T H Niles Su garland will have charge of the trans fer The cause of Terrells death ie mains a mystery but he is believed to have fallen from a train or to have been struck by one while walking along the tracks CABLE BROKEN PEACE DELAYED RUSSIAN COACHMAN IN ST PETERSBURG of St Petersburg are picturesque characters and drive their three tarn at reckless speed The typical high class le fur ud many a drosky driver who lacks the necessary rli coachmen are of proportions to their horses and whip much too freely Marshal Oyama be officially informed of the declaration of a truce The armistice proclamation was signed at high BY W S WRIGHT Portsmouth N H Sept armistice proclamation cannot bs com to Japan Word was re here today that neither cable to Japan is working consequently Continued on Page 5 Column 5 PRICE FOR CLOVER SEED As has begun to arrive at the various elevators of the county the grain men have come to an agree ment and are paying from to a bushel The crop this season is There will be more wheat planted in Cass county than in any other fall since the last cen tury o SHOOTS WIFE DROWNS SELF Journal Special Cincinnati O Sept Times Star special from Norwalk 0 says News was received here today of a tragedy near Milan O In a quarrel with his wife William Backman shot her three times one bullet penetrat ing the brain Alter the shooting Bachman com mitted suicide by throwing himself into his well which is one of the deepest in the vicinity It is believed that Mrs Bachman will die CONFESSES SHE SLEW HUSBAND Journal Special Service Troy N Y Sept mystery collected with the shooting of James Wednesday near Ferry has been cleared by the con of the widow who informed the Saratoga County officials today she committed the deed herself on account of harsii treatment by her husband HIT BY FAST TRAIN Journal Special Service Atlantic City N J Sept ing a mile a minute tlie flyer from Philadelphia for this city struck an automobile at N J in were F H Hack Jr and a friend They escaped death by jumping but Hack who was a little late Jn jump ing was hurled into the air FOREST FIRES ARE SPREADING Journal Special Service San Francisco Cai Sept which has continued since last Monday in the mountains ten miles northwest of has got beyond the control of the fighters and is spreading in two directions A large area has been laid waste IMPERIAL BAN ON CHINESE BOICOTT WU TING FANG AND CHINAS BOYCOTT Wu This exminister to the United States denies that he planned the present Chinese boycott of goods China he says urges as the main points of a now treaty that the bettor classes of Chinese bfe treated on tin equal footing with other iliens with the right to retain counsel ind the right of appeal if and that coolies be admitted to Hawaii Oyster Bay L I Sept has suppression or the boycott and hold placed the boycott of American prod under an imperial ban An edict has been issued by the government commanding viceroys and governors of provinces to take measures for the ing them strictly responsible The state department at Washington has received a cablegram from Minister at Pekin giving a summary of the edict SEELEY DYING AS A RESULT OF FALL Edward Seeley who fell from a scaf fold while working at the Broadway M E church yesterday morning is thought to be St Joseph hospital Last night he sank rapidly until toward midnight when for about an hour he appeared to he resting easier Shortly after he began sinking again however and it is not believed he can live long His family Is at his bedside Seeley who is for tuck pointing the building was on a scat fold over the sidewalk directing the work of two men who were preparing t0 raise the scaffold In some manner the scaffold gave a lurch and Seeley who was standing in the middle of the scaffold without any chance to catch himself fell to the sidewalk fifteen feet below He struck OD his head and shoulders arid was rendered unconscious Work men on the church and those from the Haney building across the street rushed to his assistance and carried him into the shade until Drs J B Shultz and E M Hatch arrived They dd what they could for him and he was taken to St Joseph hospital in the Kroeger Strain ambulance His family was telegraphed for at Peru arrived on an car at noon BLOWN TO PIECES IN mm Prof John E Baldwin war aeronaut who has hade baloon ascensions in Carroll and adjoining counties was blown to atoms and his mangled flesh spattered over a square mile of territory while floating in the air 2000 feet above the heads of rhe 25000 persons who vis the county fair at Greenville 0 Thursday afternoon Baldwin has been one of the star at tractions at county in Ohio and Indiana this summer He had a splen did was a fearless performer and added a thrilling finale to his aerial nights by pyrotechnic displays Just before be started bis earthward trip after every ascension he would let off or thirty pounds of powder and dynamite in the shape of rockets and bombs And it was this spectacular touch that caused his death The ascension Thursday afternoon made shortly after 5 oclock Men women and children gathered in huge crowds and with craning necks watched the upward flight of the big gas bag when it was released from its moorings Mrs Baldwin the wife and his two children waved a farewell to bim as Us car left the earth He bent over tlie edge of the basket his hands to his family and smilingly bowed his acknowledgements tothe cheering 03 multitude Perched on the rim of the car was a parrot which shrieked Up we go Up we go Hanging in the ropes was a monkey another pets always went up with binL When the balloon reached an alti tude of 1500 feet it struck an air cur rent and drifted slowly to the north still climbing higher and higher Thirty seconds later when the crowd waiting expectantly for the pyro technic display a cloud of smoke sud denly enveloped the balloon A second later a tremendous report reached the ears of the multitude The smoke drifted away and then the horrified men and ered that there was no balloon and no man in the sKy Mrs Baldwin shrieked and fellin a faint onthe ground A minute or two later the mangled remains of the came to earth The flesh was it was scarcely recognizable aV human Baldwin undertakers shop contains less than onetenth of him Baldwin lived In lad his remains will be taken Initial oi structure THRESHER STILL IN MUD OF GREEK A bridge accident is reported from near Grass Creek in which Smith son of Dan and owner of a threshing outfit was seriously injured Tho Smiths wore moving their big engine Creek where it crosses the road a a half north of the Catholic church when the structure suddenly gave way ami engine separator and bridge wont crashing down into the creek carrying the fireman Mio Smith down it and cutting and bruis ing his bead ami breaking throe ot his ribs The engine and separator being coupled together and Smith be ing on tho platform of the engine and between the two machines they doubled up on him in the fall 2nd it seemed almost miraculous that he es caped alive The bridge 60 foot span and considered very substantial The law requites that long planks be laid of all bridges under the wheels traction engines as they are taken across but whether or not this was done is not known If it was done the county will be for dam ages both for the personal injury to Smith and the breaking and inciden tal damages to the machine but it not the damages would come tha way It is said they worked most of two days to get the separator out of the creek and the engine fs not out yet WOMEN TO MORE ENTRIES MADE FOR AUTO MOBILE RACE AT PARK C DAY MORNING T Announcement was made yesterday that the Womens Label League has arranged for a committee to have charge of checking all dinner baskets sent to the park Labor Day and the committee will be In the building at the street car depot at the park where all baskets may be checked until din ner time Three more entries for the Labor Day automobile races were secured yesterday The three are Jacob Stoll Earl H Moss and Harry Case The races will be held in the and after the regular races It is expected there win test of speed by a high power automobile WRECK FATAL TO TEN IN ENGLAND Special Cable to The London Sept Ex presson the Great Eastern Kail war was wrecked at Chelmsford today and aa official report says ten persons sis of whom were women were killed OLD INDIAN CHIEF 18 DEAD Journal Special Service White Earth Minn Sept Chief known as Cassoway one of the old nne ol the Mississippi band Indians died near Honsford Minn at the advanced age of 80 vears MILLERS HOLD REUNION Tio family its an at Spencer park Sunday Tie picnic will last all day and dur ing the afternoon there speech making and election of officers About a hundred members o family live In this county
