Semi Weekly Reporter (Newspaper) - July 17, 1908, Waterloo, Iowa HO you worth you aoV It there in which a want wuuMt help not many I ESTABLISHED IN 1368 Waterloo Way Wins In A Campaign Twenty Five ed In Twelve Rais W G T U GAVE AT 9 P M Hundreds Assemble At Building To Await Outcome Last Two Hours Were Anxious Ones Pledges Came Thick and Past Event Celebrated With Blowing of Whistles and Ringing of Bell With whistles blowing church bolls campaign the workers settled down to more methodical way of celebrating their victory Congratulations were offered to each and all the campaigners and those who were present and in fact to everybody ringing bands and the hun dreds of workers shouting with joy and shaking hands and offering con gratulations the Twelve Day Cam of the Y M C A closed last oclock with the desired safely pledged The scene In and C A building where hundreds of anxious supporters and those who had gathered the come was one of joy and ing and an occasion that will long be remembered by the citizens of Water loo Although the that the to night the people were not prepared to receive the glad such ari out burst of at the parks and others who were visiting at the homes of friends went scurrying hither and thither to learn the cause of the of whistle and the bells Many thought an appalling disaster city certain some accident had happened on the river and everyone was hurrying homeward until It was learned that the consternation meant the grand victory of tlie Y M C A workers at ed to joy whole city was uni ted in a general thanksgiving and words of praise and good cheer could be heard upon the streets and in the arising from their beds to join in of the campaign workers and the gal lant victory won On Wednesday morning when the to tal was found that was still to be rais ed and with only one day remaining in It the working forces were doubled and the campaigners set out early with a determination to win The good results of the pre vious days labors were very ing with the admirable and worthy cause In which they were working a new hope and an bore them on to success Up to oclock forty pledges received raising the total to 146 By oclock 41 more were taken and the amount footed up 771 At oclock the ter registered 120136 and at oclock had gone up to Good reports continued to pour in and at oclock was registered With but two hours 575 to be raised tho campaign was on in earnest Telephones were pressed Into service and many pledges were secured in this way as weH as by calls At the W C T U pleased that was received with who the success of the affair James Black pledge of was the nucleus around which the work was perpetuated received an ovation In the way of the following was prepared for the i Youre our Mr Black You raised us from our back Youre out of sight just allright And we thankyou Mr Black Rev Frank Cole offered up a prayer of thanksgiving and dwelt for some time on the theme Blessed be the tie that binds W T Perkins to ex press his thanks and admiration of the citizens of Waterloo for the push and energy and liberality shown during the Twelve Day Campaign His personal thanks were tendered the workers the ministers and the news papers who assisted so materially in the work and paida beautiful tribute to the complimenting her cit zens as being an energetic and zeal bus people He stated that during the past two weeks Y M C the country were watching outcome of the campaign the result ot immediately wired to In New York City y The success ot the work will be a gem crown which may worthily be worn by the beautiful city of Wa PLEDGES WERE MANY The work of checking up the amounts collected by the different teams and arranging the lists Into a formula for collecting has been going on all day and is found to be a ted piece of work when it is taken into consideration that there were a total of 975 pledges secured in the campaign The flve young mens teams made a creditable showing and secured the following amounts Team No Team No 2 82860 Team No 32800 Team No 4 37400 Team No 5 73360 IN THE SUICIDE IN NASHUA GIRL ALSO ATTEMPTS SELF DESTRUCTION Nashua July Delia Simer son aged 14 living north of tempted to commit suicide Tuesday afternoon about tak ing poison The girl her sister and mother had a quarrel alter which took a dose of Paris green bul fortunately aha took an overdose and this worked as ah emetic She was given saleratus and water and vomited profusely No doctor was sent for until abou oclock when the father returnee home Nothing was said to him o what the girl had done until he heard her groaning when she explained her self He sent for a physician who administered an antidote taken an overdose saved her HEe Tupper Left a Note Some light has been thrown upon the mystery regarding the young George Tupper should have tak en his life by hanging on Tuesday as a note was found by his mother the following morning lying upon the tables among some papers where It had been overlooked at the time of his death In it he bade her a loving goodbye stated was tired of living advised her asto what todo with her property gone and Tier whereto look for his body For had been sick with asthma day before his death talked very discouragingly to his mother and suggested that they sell the place There was no coroners inquest held as it was not considered tracts C PROHIBITION PLATFORM SUGGESTS MUCH IT WOULD MEAN A DROUTH WANT INTERSTATE IN ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS STOPPED Some of the Which ate the Body of In at necessary BLUEJACKETS TO SEE HONOLULU AMERICAN FLEET WILL PAUSE THERE SOON Ten thousand feet wrinkled sea changes Us deep blue to a border of vivid green a lace of milk white where the surf breaks in thunder on a lava coait Along the green fields and white plantation houses extend down to the vale of Wailuku This the prospect the clouds looking above them and Oahu on the sharp horizons appear like brown stones in WELL ENTERTAINED FIRST STOP MADE IN TWO THOU SAND MILES Hawaiian Are Claimed to be Very Attractive and Will est the Sailors the The juei blotting Total Some of the many pledges secured are enumerated as follows One pledge One pledge of 1000 Six at 500 One at i 1 HU 250 joy More pledges followed ranging as nne 200 high as and everybody One at VVVVV 11 125 was anxious when It was reported that was needed Tho crowd grew excited Could It be possible that they would fail when was a balance of Wm Galloway call ed for a pledge of onehalf the amount There was no Then one tenth was asked and a voice answered yes another responded two tenths and a third with Victory was in sight More pledges came as the clock tolled shot up tothe mark and the crowd joined inone mighty shout of joy and triumph The campaign was closed The vic tory was won and the oft repeated abused slogan Waterloo Wins was again demonstrated as being infallible Workers Enthuse v After the hilarious outburst that followed the successful close of the One at One at Three at Fortyfour at Ninetyfive at The balance 120 85 75 50 25 ranged in smaller amounts from to Disposition of Funds With the closing of campaign It will beof the many sub scribers to know just to what purpose the will be applied and the uses in will placed As near as can be ascertained at the pres ent time the expenditures when trie money has all been collected are as follows 5000 Notes 4000 Improvements 7000 Gym and lockers 1000 General repairs 1000 Furnishings 1000 Floating bills 3000 Current expenses 3000 Honolulu July 16 A Atlantic battleship fleet has just been sighted off leper on the north side of the island of 40 miles from Honolulu Washington July Ameri can fleet of sixteen battleships will mark oft another stage of Its globe girdling journey when it drops anchor in harbor of Honolulu today Re cent dispatches from the capital of Hawaii tell of elaborate plans that have been made for of the officers and men ot the fleet dur ing their weeks visit there Of all the places to be visited by the fleet on its cruise around the world it is safe to say that none offers more attractions for the visitor than Honolulu and the Hawaii Islands which were annexed to the United States In 1897 Are Volcanic Group DRUG STORE INCORPORATES of J J Knapp Become Stock holders in Company The drug store stock of James J who was for a long period of time a very prominent druggist in the Eight islands comprise Hawaii Oahu Kauai Total GUNBOAT TO HONDURAS Washington July view of the unsettled condition at Porto Cor tez and the threatened re the navy c tyT has passed j department has directed the gunboat the rest of the into the Marietta w t Port The Hawaiian group tropical vol canic beautiful lies more than two thousand miles from San Francisco and about three thousand miles from the nearest mainland to the far west Nowhere in the world is ther to be found a more attractive and delight ful country the group Maul and are the principal ones Situated within the tropics But boundless expanse of sea on every side and mountains towering thirteen thou sand feet above the ocean level with an almost dally gentle rain on the windward and almost absolute dryness on the leeward side the whole island group Is a natural sanitarium Principal Island Oahu is the principal Island ot the group The city of Honolulu is situa ted on It and over two thirds of the population and wealth are on this is land The entrance to the harbor of Honolulu is one of the most charming In the whole world The water Is a enamel Strangely seems to have lit mountains height i float in the sky and the night with her fires sacred to Pele the immense fields of lava their sterility and loneliness the wild loveliness of the deep valley of these are the mind with wonder and delight ALIA DIED CURSING PRIESTS MAN PRIEST PAYS PENALTY ON Canyon City Colo July down maledictions upon the Roman shouting in Italian Long live Long live the Pro Guiseppe Alia the murder er of Heinrichs was car the death trap and exactly a oclock 1 last night paid the ex treme penalty of his crime Allas of Fathe Leo Heinrichs of the Order of Fran at the altar rail In In Denver whll the priest was administering the sac the eucharist struck hor the heart of every person 1 awakened anxiety through out the Roman Catholic world les It should prove the beginning of general priest murder Alia went to the gallows attende by the priest was atthe altar with Father Leo whe he breathed his last and tered the last sacrament to the dyln NOW ENTHUSE COUNCIL ADJOURNS AND NOBLES ENTERTAINED St Paul Minn July the nal adjournment of the council yesterday the egan this morning to give themselves verto three days of uninterrupted leasure This is Minneapolis day for siting and the Nobles and ladles are guests of Zurah temple of that city wife of Walter C Teagle of Cleveland V Ohio an official of the Oil company Is today re dying In a Pasadena hospital roni a bullet wound inflicted bly by herself last night in a fit of the result of ill health priest Allas neck was not broke by the drop He strangled to death OF COURTESIES MELANCHOLY AMERICANS EASILY TAKE WORLDS HONORS IN CUS THROWING TEST London July tes walked away from all opponents in the discus throwing competition free style at the stadium today Mar tin J Sheridan of Ath club retained the championship without great effort His throw was 134 feet 2 inches which was mora than two feet behind his own record M H of Chicago Athletic asso was good second M F Horr of Athletic asso and did not finish In the weight putting contest Rose of San Francisco won Distance 45 feet 7 inches Horgan English second Garrella of Chicago third Five Americans qualified for the finals In this event The four hundred metro swimming race was won by Taylor United King dom Time 5 minutes 36 15 seconds Americana 19 Points Ahead Counting only field events for which the Americans are making a more serious bid the Americans at the con of todays meeting had a lead over the United Kingdom of Columbus Ohio July thai national prohibition convention reas tho on per manent organization With the exception of Charles Scanlon ot who was made chairman the the temporary as permanent and report adopted Tha work of receiving and collecting subscriptions from dele expanses was so prolonged that very little else transacted at the The report of the committee on reso lutions was presented by Chairman Samuel Dickie president of college Michigan Scanlon is Applauded Scanlon upon assuming the chair a most enthusiastic wel come He spoke but Cow words arid then recognized Felix T McWhirter treasurer of the national committee a appeal for financial aid from the party lu or dreto meet expenses ot tho ing campaign His statement of what he expected from the party in this di rection was greeted with applause Following the declaration of appeal made to tho convention for contributions a more generous is being elicited The Platform The platform as presented by the pro party when placed m power to a constitutional amendment by congress give JOY OF SMALL CAUSE Lincoln Neb July The decisive defeat yesterday ot a man for mayor of WallaWalla Washington a republican stronghold was the cause of much at Bryan declared the el was significant in that it show ed to the country the democrats have een justified In their forecasts ot the rend of political sentiment through the country Throwing hammer race 3 discus throwing 9 putting shot 6 race 5 total 811 United Team race 6 put ting shot 3 race 4 total 12 Scores other Sweden 5 Greece 3 Norway 1 First position counts 5 second S third 1 FAST WRECKED ONE WOMAN PEO RLE INJURED Greenwich Conn July r sale and Ipr late v places over which the national go v has jurisdiction repeal 91 the Internal revenue tax on and pro ot traffic In alco holic liquors election of senators by direct vote an equitable graduated Income inheritance tax establishment of postal savings bank guaranty ot deposits in banks regulation of all corporations doing Interstate tommer ce business creation of permanent tariff enforcement of laws against social evil uniform marriage and divorce laws equitable constitutional employers liability act review of department decisions of child labor la White Mountain express on the New workshops and factories leg York Hew Haven and Hartford road l KILLS THREE Boston July men were killed and several Injured In an ex plosion on Pier 47 Mystic wharf to day Among the injured wasUnited States Appraisers Examiner Atwood who was taken to a hospital where he died a little later The two killed out right were laborers The explosion occurred I a locker which It is be contained nitroglycerine hands of his heirs The store at the present time is being conducted with much business efficiency by the son Charles J Knapp and still retains the old name of Knapps Drug Store But after August 1st the store will be incorporated under the title of the Knapp Drug company and the stock holders are the heirs of the estate Mrs J J Knapp a son C T Knapp anda daughter Miss Irene Knapp With the adjudging of O H and ii L Stllson bankrupts by Judge Reed In the federal court at Fort Dodge the last act of the tragedy of the wrecked bank of Corwith was enacted The fugitive cashier J H Standrine of B L Stilson caused the wreck of the bank and the bank of both of the Mrs Etta Sooney of Rockford 111 1 Spending a faw days la city H Vice President at to Kern Indianapolis July 16 The welcome by the people of his home town to John L democratic nominee for vice president of the United States the courthouse yard last night was as and spon as the citizen s of Indianapolis regardless of politics could make it More thousand persons both in Delaware street and in the court gave Mr Kern a hearty greeting him enthusiastic ally nominee addressed the big crowd for about twenty minutes after being presented Charles W Fair vice1 president ot the United States years ago Mr Kern pro LAUNCH BELIEVED 25 PASSENGERS LOST NEAR MANILA Manila July pleasure launch bound from Manila to is land carrying about seventyfive pas sengers was caught in a typhoon to day and floundered It in believed twentyfive passengers including three Americans were drowned The ers numbering about fifty were pick ed up by thp British steamer It is reported an army surgeon is among the dead FILE BIG SUITS July for dam ages aggregating were enter ed in the United States circuit court here today against the Coal company as a result ot the Darr mine when There aro eighteen plaintiffs wives fathers or mothers dt disaster December 19 1907 nearly 300 men were killed was wrecked here this morning One woman Miss Marguerite Armstrong of Wayne Pa was killed Ten per sons were injured The wreck occur red on a bridge almost in front of the station There parlor cars all thrown from the track and over turned Scores Were Injured Miss I Armstrong was Instantly kill ed Evidently she get out of a window as the SUr toppled over she being crushed to death An other woman was probably fatally hurt About a dozen passengers were removed to hospitals Three hun dred passengers were on the train half of them sustained and minor Injuries Cause of Is believed to be due to the of rails SALOON IN OKLAHOMA Use Torch to Enforce New Law Against Liquor Kan July at usk last night Sheriff Riley and three from Nowata Okla after ten barrels of beer for and arresting the proprietors et to and completely destroyed n and saloon erected just over he Oklahoma line a few days ago The by the sheriff was taken in re ponse to his instructions to carry out he application of the new BIllups 11 law of Oklahoma which orders hat all saloons or places of the sort hall be destroyed upon discovery basing suffrage only upon Intelligence and ability read write the English language preservation mineral forest resources of the country and the Improvement at highways and waterways Columbus July platform was adopted by a viva The convention was then dismissed until oclock Port Captain Maxwell is instructed to In and report on the situation TAFT IS SPEECH GETTING FITTING WORDS OF AC READY TO UTTER Hot Springs Va July 16 Pressed by necessity of having his speech of acceptance prepared several days in advance of its delivery at Cincinnati on the inst Judge Taft today de termined to forego his usual recreation and exercise until of his task Is In sight Golf and horseback rides will not figure in his daily routine again until the is per blue and the greal to a big ent bay is by rolling that similar circum PRESS EDITOR AT REST Chicago July services English news editor H H and family are vis iting for a couple of weeks at Guthrie rise one above another and are green thatched by thousand of picturesque cocoanut trees waving palms and ba nana trees In the background rear ing themselves several thousand feet high are to be seen torn and ser rated lava mountains enveloped In verdure of the richest hue Scenery Grand The grandeur of the Hawaiian scen ery was thus graphically described by States Senator Money ot Mis who was one of a party of public men from this country who vis the Islands annexation was being arranged A visitor standing upon Haleakala on the rim of its stupendous cap twen miles In circumference and thousands of feet deep can turn from a field of corrugated lava shining like satin and a chaos of extinct volcanic cones to a far reaching view of moun pUin and remote stances The received Mr Kern was In a cheering mood It cheered Mrs Kern and William Kern and W Kern Jr when they came on the stand Republicans ap plauded as democrats ENTIRE OUT LOSS BY FIRE New Philadelphia Ohio July Tuscarawas county containing five hundred people practically wiped out today by Ire Fire started at p m last night and raged until early today firemen were unable to do anything with the flames which destroyed up wards of forty homes and business estimated at a hun dred day at the family residence Rev W G Smith assistant rector of St Episcopal church officiating Many newspapermen friends o Johnnie English present ROOSEVELT ON NO PHONOGRAPH Oyster Bay July Roosevelt has refused an offer to mak speeches Into the receiver of a talk ing machine for the purpose of making records for public sale AUTO HURTS WAR MINISTER Alencon former minister of war an Interior together with his were seriously Injured In an an tome bile accident near here today Madam Etienne was badly hurt John Lynch of wa in tie ou NOTED MASON DEAD Corunna Mich July Mo Curdy former head of the Templar In the United States and one of the most prominent Masons in the country died ut his home today after a long illness WHITE WINGS DID NOT SAVE Boy Drowned at Des Moines While Wearing Device Des July trying to learn to swim with a pair ot swim ming wings Louis Stafford 12 year TO START CAMPAIGN New York July real work of the presidential campaign on tha republican side will soon be set In mo tion from this city The fifteenth floor ot the big St James building Is now being fitted up for use ot the congressional committee and it Is ex the entire force will move lu within the next ten days Tho na tional committee probably will haya offices in the Metropolitan Life build ing just across the street aa hereto fore In former years the two com their work inde pendently of each other but in tho present campaign the two ers will be connected by private tele phone wires and it Is expected they will work in close harmony GAS PIPE DELEGATES TO LEAGUE MEETING HAD NARROW ESCAPE July The au tour of the city last evening old son of John F Stafford was drown ed in the Des river day afternoon Mr Stafford in manager for tho Armour Packing company Lewis was the second son In a family ot thirteen children the last two of them twins were bora last week and named Bryan Taft Young Stafford was with two compan ions who saw him drown but were afraid to venture beyond their depth to help him Police boats have been dragging the river since the accident but the body has not yet been ered BONI ASKS REVISION Paris July Bonl Do Caa formally filed suit for such revision of decree ot divorce ob against him by his wife ag will give him custody of his given the delegates to the Central base ball association was nearly marred by an accident to the auto oc by President Justice and sev eral delegates The accident luckily was not serious but it Is owing solely to the drivers presence of mind that a serious if not fatal accident did not occur The car was speeding through the residence section of the city where the streets were dimly lighted A large gas pipe was lying near the mid dle of the thoroughfare and was not discovered in time to be avoided driver attempted to pass over the pipe but it was too large and was struck by the front axle of the machine and hurled nearly a half a block Tha passengers were badly shaken up but no one injured tour continued Elizabeth of City In Waterloo
