Logansport Journal (Newspaper) - June 24, 1908, Logansport, Indiana THE LOGANSPORT JOURNAL YEAR NO 149 Showers today followed by fair WEDNESDAY JUHE 24 1908 All the Hem lint TWO GDIS FOUR GRADUATE FROM ACADEMY DID YOV SEE IT WEL WHAT WAS IT Joint of Holy Angels Academy and St Vincent School in St Vincent Hall This evening in the hall of the St Vincent tie Paul school will be held tae annual graduating exercises of the 7Ioly Angel Academy and the St Vin school Four girls will be grad from the academy They are Misses Paula Elliott Marion and Ma Tie E Spitznogle Mary W Guthrle and Mayme P Eisele of this city A long program for the commence ment is arranged as follows Vene aial Nevin N Porter M Gartland M Murphy L Frazier N Daily and M Eisele St Vicent Stars Minims Boys Our Flag chorus and senior boys Essay Reunion Bays Paula Elliott Merry Japs juniors and minims Polonaise Chop in L Gormly L Whitehead M Guth erie M Lynch military drill junior toy Ribbon compli mentary to the graduates accompan ist M Mahoney Crown Old Un N Campbell F Murphy G Minneman accompanist Madeline Mahoney With the Shadow of Thy Wing accompanist M Porter Love is a Rose Sans Souci Paula Elliott Essay The 19th Star in Our Flag Mary Wait Ing Wright Marie Spitznogle March Militaire Schubert Miss Gormley 2nd piano Misses White bead and Lynch Vocal Class Wag ner 2nd piano L Whitehead 1st pi ano L Gormley essay Men Letters Marie Spitznogle Goodnight Daddy M Murphy duo Fidelis 1st piano Paula Elliott 2nd piano Marie Spitz nogle essay Our Home City Mayme Eisle Holy City senior class accompanist L Gormley solo ists M Murphy and L Donohue vale by graduates Rev P J Crosson will confer the gold medals and diplomas o WILL WIN IN A WALK OF UNKNOWN TIES TROYS TE 1 ERSt TION OF BASN 1 MILE OF YOUNG HUCK STER WAGON Fire of unknown origin destroyed the barn on the Henry Peters farm one mile south of Young America last night There were no implements horses nor grain destroyed but a huck ster wagon belonging 10 AI Thomas who runs the grocery at Poplar Grove town the settlement one mile south of Young America was destroyed It was stocked with groceries and full equipment of huckster The loss is estimated at about StOO partial ly covered by insurance i The fire was discovered about 10 oclock last night and at once a great crowd of neighbors rushed to the assistance of Peters and to save the bam From Young Amer ica quite a number hurried out but the fire had gained headway and ths barn was soon consumed The origin of the fire is puzzling the storm had long passed and it not have been struck by light ning W B LEEDS IS DEAD IN PARIS PENNSY HANDLES 1287 FREIGHT TRAINS THROUGH HERE IN JUNE OF HERE Breaks Cuts Bruises and Fractures Keep Phys Busy A number of accidents major and minor swelled the physicians lists during the past two days The 6 months old child of Mr and Mrs Sylvester B Gresham 2104 Market street is suffering from a fracture of the arm sustained playing on the ground The taby over backward its arm behind it and breaking the wrist bones The fracture was reduced and the injury will not be serious Otis Woodruff newsboy at the Panhandle station did not work yes as the result of an accident in which one foot was seriously crushed He was knocked down by a Record of 3 Weeks Does Not Bear Out Report of Poor Business The Pennsylvania railroad during the first three weeks of June now passed handled in and out of this city just 1287 freight trains Nearly 750 trains per week and 60 to SO trains per day That is what dull business means on the Pennsylvania In big business the number is about 1800 in three weeks or 600 a week The officials reported yesterday that business during the past week was picking up Not the kind of picking up bhat has been announced before but a real advancement in the amount of moving goods It is felt in reality that the worst of the traffic slump is over Few persons have an adequate idea in a traffic slump The number has a direct bearing on the persistent howls of hard times have been heard from many who felt the lay During the best working times from 40 to 60 crews are required to out of the city in 24 hours This necessitated about 120 crews in serv ice When the traffic slump came Dr C H Good Republican candi date for congress in this district is highly pleased with the nomination for the presidency Secretary Taft of whom he is a warm admirer says Tae nomination of Taft will be satisfactory to all Republicans of the Eleventh district and he will carry it by more than 5000 majority In every place he has ever filled ne has made good and in November he be triumphantly elected Under his leadership the splendid policies of Theodore Roosevelt will be continued and the nation will prosper under his leadership as never before a horse stepping on the boys heel causing injury The boy was j lnd continued the work which scarcer was distributed among were taken to the office of Dr Hethering men and tie old employes were ton and the injury The j able to make a living while escape from a serious injury was i the extra men asked for furloughs to MRS W B LEEDS narrow The boy resides in Shultz town Samuel Stouffer agel 11 residing in 171S George street this city sus a fractured arm at the Coun try club where he with other boys was himself climbing the cables of the suspension bridge where they reach the ground The boy fell from a cable striking the ground with great foce seek other jobs In consequence the working force was rapidly cut down and the recent lay offs of even two men has not entirely evened up the short time made by the crews in the traffic slump which by actual figures in counting trains is 33 per cent Before the middle of month the officials expect to be handling in and out of the city about 500 trains a week By that time the company Ed Rhea a Vandalia machinist will have more work for the attending the Indianapolis Saenger fest with his wife swallowed a small chip of porcelain while eating at a restaurant Monday The sharp frag ment seriously lacerated his throat the internal wound being a danger ous one and he is still in the care of physicians 800 SLAIN AS MOB FIGHTS SOLDIERS IN STREET SEIZE CITY Political Leaders Urge Cavalry to Slay Women and Children IBy United Press Association Teheran Persia June hundred women and children politicians and killed today in a battle between troops and a mob The city tonight is a shambles Rioters surge through the and a bloody reign of terror Is sweeping the entire country The carnage resulting from direct v V orders shah started ifi the streets of the city when the imperial artillery opened fire on a mob which surrounded the capitol and down hundreds Maddened troops and citizens then mingled in an inde scribable freeforall butchery Wom en and children were not spared The bodies of the dead in many cases were mutilated beyond tion Limbs were chopped off gouged oat and noses and tongues slashed off Even the bodies of the women were not spared and inde scribable outrages occurred on every hand Eighteen reform leaders were drag ged before the shah and without even the formality of a trial or court mar tial were condemned to death Before men HOST AT HEN PARTY Del and wife en a party of 50 women from their home at their Point cottage yesterday The party was from the Delphi Eastern Star lodge They passed through this city early yesterday morning by traction en route to the Point spending the en tire day at the Crampton cottage Returning the party did not reach this city until evening They reported a big time boating bathing and fishing on Page 5 Column 5 TAGGARTS GO THROUGH TO LAKE Mrs Thomas Taggart and family three daughters and one son will pass through Logansport tomorrow en route to Lake They spent the spring at Taggarts French Lick hotel The National Democratic chairman will join his family at the Lake after the convention in Denver Magnate Who Laid F For Fortune Here Dies Abroad William B Leeds formerly su of the Logansport di vision of the Panhandle here and afterwards president of the Rock Is land railroad system died yesterday in Paris France He leaves an es At MB his wife Mrs Nannie Worthing Leeds whom lie married after divorcing his first wife formerly Miss Jeannie Gaar a Richmond girl whom he mar ried while a conductor on the Rich mond division of the Panhandle In 1SS9 Leeds came to this city as superintendent the Logansport division of the Pennsylvania and re mained here until 1S91 when with D C Reid he organized the big tin plate industry and started the fac tories at Elwood Leeds made a trip to WaliS and investigated the making of tin plate and came back and reported to Reid that with com petition barred there was a quick fortune in it by using imported ma chinery You get the men to make the plate and Ill furnish the tariff said Reid and they set to Reid drove into the McKinley tar iff and the clause putting a pro tariff on tin plate Politi cians thought it just a political play but once the tariff wap in effect Leeds started the big factories at Elwood bringing skilled Welsh workmen to manufacture the pro duct In less than a year he was a multimillionaire While railroading Leeds had been let out on the Vandalia when a conductor was malting a week on a salary of a month L F Loree afterwards superin tendent of the Pennsylvania here had been the official who took Leeds had Leeds joined in 1900 with the Moores who had obtained of the Rock Island road Loree was then with the road and one of the directors and he decided to even up with Loree for the turn given him in Logansport At this stage of his career Leeds suddenly divorced his wife and later married Mrs Nannie Worthing ton of Cleveland Ohio For this the Moores broke with him and forced him out of the Rock Island but in going he took Lo ree with him driving him out of the road and forcing the stock of the corporation down by dumping his 4 weeks HILL PLEADS GUILTY GETS LIFE Wife Slayer and Would be Suicide is Sentenced George Hill colored barber who aft er shooting his wife to death fired two bullets into Ms own body in an at tempt to commit suicide about a month ago was arraigned in circuit court before Judge John Lairy yes afternoon pleaded guilty to murder in the first degree and sentenced to life imprisonment The action was by prearrangement between Dr Clarence Hill brother of the murderer and Michael F Sullivan attorney for the Mary Hill estate of which the murderer is an heir But few people were in court yes afternoon when Hill was brought in by Deputy Sheriff Stanley and the indictment read to him by Court Clerk Jacks Guilty said Hill when asked to plead is the judgment of this court that you be confined in the tiary through life said Judge Lairy and the colored man sat down a min ute and was led back to jail Hill it is said is suffering from tuberculosis in an advanced stage and by the wounds he inflicted on himself after slaying his wife This morning Hill will be taken north GOOD IS AT CRYSTAL The Crystal is running a strong this week including and i Chandler singers and yodelers who made a tremendous hit here two Mysterious Hi in East Puzzles Have Been Cornet Did you see it What was it Was it a comet or luminous gas thrown off by some swiftly moving body or a northern light or an opti cal illusion About last night a a light appeared in the heavens directly in the east over this city It appeared a long streak which would dim brighten and dim again It was very bright it had what appeared to be two sort of tails or tributary streaks it moved slowly the stavs could not be seen through it it was visible for about a quarter of an hour and then became invisible Twenty minutes after it was in visible Jrom here Lucerne reported it was plainly visible there directly east The amateur astronomers standing about on the streets made many guesses but none were certain Other local men who give atten tion to such things found the sight most interesting I believe there is a comet visi ble al this time said Dr N W Cady last night That could have a cornel but it was it is it was we will hear about il icni the observatories and in a few know exactly what it was we saw 1mfdssor W Gonble in dis cussing them uter last night said It is hardly probable it was a comet It might have been an elec condition it might have been luminous gas generated by friction of some small body attracted to earth and driving almost stationary in the upper strata where the air was not circulating swiftly Of course it could have been a comet but it is hardly Had it been a comet the stars would have been visible through It especially at tails or portions of the least den sity THREE AFTER THIRTEENTH CHANCE Democrats of the Thirteenth Indi ana congressional district will hold their convention postponed from last month on July 23 in Plymouth Indications point to the presentation of three names for the congressional nomination Hon B F Shively South Bend A Barnhart Rochester and A J Bunnell of North Barnhart is quoted as having said while in Logansport at the Editorial Association meeting that in view of the nomination by the Republicans of former Attorney General Charles W Miller of Goshen he would like to make the race but would not have cared for the nomination had John L Moorman of Knox been the nominee Barnhart is one the trus tees HAVOC LEFT IN WAKE Storm Passes This City But Does Great Dam age in Cass Towns Greatest Damage at Lake WRECK TRAINS CLEAR TRACKS Logansport got the tail end of big tornado yesterday which pasa of the did big damage to small towns railroads and in its path Between and last even ing the temperature in this city fell nearly 20 degrees giving some relief from the excessive heat the fall fac ing chiefly due to the storm swept the districts north of the city The storm belt extended north wept through Royal Star City and Culver Telegraphic communication be tween this city and Chicago and be tween this city and South Bead along the railroad and telephone lines was entirely cut off except bjr round about routes For one mile between Royal Cen ter and Star City the entire telegraph Allies J of pole wires and all were stretched flat with the ground It nec essary to almost suspend traffic A special train rushed all the line men of the division to the trouble but it was late last evening before a line to Chicago was cleared Line mens camp cars went out of here on passenger trains last night to be placed at Royal Center while the work of resetting the poles ana re communication is in prog ress At Lake the storm wrought great havoc the wind blow ing even harder than In the on the 14th when damage was done The storm was the hardest in years All the of the Vandalia were laid on the ground The of both of the big along the tracks were blown off one falling squarely on the track Trees were uprooted and many cottages portions of their roofs and verandas Last night no estimate of the dam age about the lake could be given A Vandalia wrecking train wan lushed from this city to Culver to clear away the debris on the tracks impeding all traffic working for ser eral hours Continued on Page 4 J SHERMAN IS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL MAY BE OPERATED ON TODAY Nominees Con dition is Serious IBy United Press Association Cleveland June condition of Congressman James S Sherman Republican nominee for Vice Presi dent who has been ill here at the home of Myron T Her rick since Sunday assumed a serious phase early this morning when tae patient suffered a severe chill Mr Shermans illness which at first was diagnosed as a bilious attack now turns out to be gall stones On the advice of Drs Allen and Carter who were called to attend the patient he was removed to Lakeside An operation may later be performed but this step has not yet fully decid ed on It was decided that Mr Sher man suffered no ill effects as a result j of his journey from Her ricks home to the hospital which was made in an invalid carriage Herrick this got into communication with Mrs Sherman over telephone She was greatly agitated on the condition of her husband and de clared her Intention of coming at to Cleveland An effort to persuade her not to come at tBe failed and she and her son Richard U Sherman an instructor in Hamilton College at Clinton N T started tor this city Congressman Sherman suffered a similar attack in New York city two years ago while serving as chairman of the Republican congressional cam committee He was then taken seriously ill but no operation was per formed At Lakeside Hospital It was that Sherman was nest ing comfortably It was announced at the hospital this afternoon that an operation would probably not be performed un less Mr Sherman suffered another
