Semi Weekly Reporter (Newspaper) - July 21, 1908, Waterloo, Iowa NO tM for to not In SEMI ESTABLISHED IN 1868 VIS a want ad Hl m CUP CAMPAIGN HITCHCOCK MEETS COMMITTEE AND STATE CHAIRMEN THE FEUD DEMOCRATS TO BID FOR THE COL ORED VOTE Conference Held in Lincoln on Sunday What May Happen 17 STATES REPRESENTED WILL BOOM TAFT AND SHERMAN BEYOND THE ROCKIES Meeting at Colorado Springs It Over Republican Effort Lincoln Nebi to leaders who have to Fairview with Bryan amity in the democratic party is se cure and the vote to Ohio will depend largely upon the attitude of So long as he mains outside the works at least as regards Judge Taft the democrats negro support in that state Holding as the of polit ical power there being something like sixty thousand of them the negroes in the Ohio campaign wiil be important factor Should Foraker however become reconciled and lend his support to Taft it Is that there is little probability enrolling a sufficient negro the cause of democracy to materially affect the result Take Advantage of Feud Former Attorney General Frank S of Columbus and E H of was chair man of the last democratic state con vention in Ohio are today speeding home after a conference with Bryan with instructions to size up the situation take every ad vantage of the feud Little Hope in Illinois The feeling of regard to is not While that look ed after it has been practically deter that the in the mid die will be directed toward In Colorado Springs Seventeen states and territories were represented w lican national and chairmen at a called b Frank H Hitchcock chairman republican national committee for th purpose of devising systematic aneth ois for carrying on the west f of Taft and Sherman The leaders were very enthusiastic over the plans made by Hitchcock to bring them together so that by the Ideas up to date methods may be employed in all the western states to get republican vote The conference is expected to extend over two days and will be executive VIEW SPEAKS OF COURTS AND IN HOT SPRINGS Hot Springs Va July at the dedi cUtlon of a new church at Merman town Va five miles from here and of inthe opening session of court He delivered an address upon the administration of Justice1 In his speech Taft said that the feeling among the people ot this country for the gov and courts was largely brought about by the fact that the people are called upon to act as jur ors and In help to decide issues brought before the courts Vacation 3 LABOR TO COURT FEDERATION COUNCIL CHARGED WITH CONTEMPT Washington D C July dent Gompers Secretary Morrison and John Mitchell of executive council ot the American Federation of Labor were today cited to answer in Septem ber on contempt in violat ing the courts Inunction binding them from continuing a boycott against the Buck Stove and Steel Range company RUNNERS REST SUNDAY Fremont July a rest over Sunday the V M OVA boys who are carrying on foot a message from New York to Chicago took up the run again at 2 a m this morning The lap extending to Toledo was begun seven hours and fiftyeight minutes under the schedule If the runners continue to break the schedule at the rate they have main since leaving New York at 101 a m last Wednesday It is believed the message will be In the hands ot Mayor by noon tomorrow The distance from here to Chicago over the boys estimated at 1280 miles The boys of at a rate pf fight miles Although reach Toledo lit 1236 in today tary J of ithe Bellevue Y C the message be turned to the by 6 api iERI IN THE GAMES SHOWING THE OLYMPIANS HOW TO DO THE OLYMPICS FOR FINALS MUCH INTEREST CONTINUES IN LONDON CONTESTS George L of New York In Wrestling United Gains PASS TOLEDO Y M C A relky message from New York to through Toledo at PUN NEW mum Bryan Wants Money v Bryan issued a statement appealing to the democratic the country to begin the collection of funds subscrib ers He this year the democrats will receive a larger fund than ever before and that the necessary Will come from The statement was called forth by receipt of a telegram homa City and the News Scimitar Memphis T th at they had started one dollar tions Bryan expressed himself as very much gratified at this evidence of support Taking Straw Votes A noval method of ascertaining the sentiment of the country toward the two candidates is being adopted by a number of democrats traveling on transcontinental trains through Lin coln For the several days visit tors to have kept Bryan tn formed of the result ot the by them of passengers aboard their trains It is said that the figures pre are highly gratifying to Bryan No Southern Man Chairman One thing was definitely settled and that Is that chairmanship of the national committee will not go to the southern man because ofthe of southerners to negroes Al though highly of Ollie James of Kentucky and his name was prominently considered for the place the position take by James ago in i favoring the dls made his appointment out of the question WILL SECRETARY WRIGHT GOES TO CHATTANOOGA TODAY Chattanooga Tenn July army maneuvers at Camp Taft park hegan this morning The forces are divided into the army commanded by General Clifford L Anderson of Georgia and the blue army under the command of Colonel Gorman Secretary of War Wright and Major General Franklin Bell will arrive this evening and a view of the troops will be held tomor row v ashamed of the wrong and feel that they are responsible for it you can count upon a continuance of free government He upheld the right of the citizen to properly criticize the courts so that those who administer justice may feel that they are under the critical eyes of the men and women who are entitled the courts of the peo ple administered without fear or favor He congratulated the people of Bath county because the Par ties were so equally divided in the county For he continued where a party is constantly in control so as to be overwhelmingly the victor ev ery time it is with great difficulty that evil men are kept out of the ad ministration of the government The speaker concluded by saying that he knew that all would agree with him that he had not stepped across the line of politics ESTAB LISH NEW GROUNDS BELOW THE CITY SIX KILLED TRIED TO CROSS TRACK AND WAS HIT BY TRAIN i HURT IN A RUNAWAY Indy his wife Mtss Fay Bradshaw were killed in an bile accident ify being struck Saturday by a train on the Pennsylvania rail ni road west of this party was ADJOINS BLOWERS FARM in Mr Kings automobile and was go ing to Lake to spend Sunday Mr King was agent for a company and formerly wasa member of the Indiana legislature from county being chairman ot the ways and means committee He was a member of the Columbia club and well known state Mr King was one of the best known republicans of Would Purchase Forty Acres of Land Overlooking the River and Plat Into 4355 Lots The preliminary contract has been SPECIAL MANILA ADVANCE GUARD OF BIG FLEET LOCATED NOW Manila July battleship Maine and Alabama a special service squadron which ing world in advance American Atlantic Here today The battleships start for Sing apore July INJURED ON KEARSARGE Honolulu July the hursting of a star board Of tho battleship Kear sarge of the room ere w we re i n ured se ri y The accident occurred late signed for the purpose ot forming a new cemetery platting forty acres of land for The property is located southeast of the city adjoining the W Blowers farm onthe east The gentlemen at the head of the project state they will carry the project to completion and within a short time file corporation what is to be known as the Cemetery association The property to be secured consists of forty acres located on an overlooking the Cedar River with just the to make It an ideal the purpose The project the purchase of property in addition to that already held by the of Maywood addition andwill be in reality of the the project is for the reason that in view of the rapiA growth Waterloo needs another cemetery and the ideal location is down up the river The plan the organiza as a dato as then secure a gardener and have the property platted so as to did not become generally this morning Indiana and has taken a prominent partin affairs The accident happened one halt City The au a crossing by a freight train and drove on the tracks behind the the driver falling to see the eastbound Manhattan limited passenger train which was passing at high speed The machine was totally destroyed bodies were scat tered along the track for 100 feet and ail i we re badly mangled The skulls the legs were brok en crushed arid the clothing was stripped from the bodies The locomotive of the passenger train was derailed replaced on the tracks without the aid of the wreck The daughters ot Mr King were 16 and Josephine aged 12 was 16 years old and was of Robert F Bradshaw general agent of a range company at Wayne She was qne most beautiful and popular society debutantes of that city MR AND MRS THROWN FAIRVIEW LOST USE Of ONE ARM Mr Sherwood Sustained Injuries to His Spine Which Has Affected His Arm Mr and Mrs Charles Sherwood were both Injured quite badly noon by being thrown from a buggy near their The couple were leaving for the country In a road wagon and Mrs Sherwood raised her umbrella to shade them The quick movement of the sunshade frightened the horse and he ran across the street railway tracks turned and retracing his steps plunged the vehicle over an embankment Mrs Sherwood was bruised and sus Injury to one ot the lower limbs rendering it useless today Mr Sher woods most serious hurt is to his back which rendered one arm partially par PEEKABOO SOLON IN TROUBLE Fair Sex Flays Foe to Fascinating Feminine Fripperies Atlanta Ga July Representa tive Glean who introduced a in the Georgia legislature to prevent women from wearing rainbow stockings peek aboo waists arid othe alluring appar el alleging that by such devices men frequently matri mony IB helps overwhelmed with thre mony is with threatening letters from women in va rious parts of the country Some of the letters are violent in tone from Atlanta go BO far an to say ought to be killed Glenn seems to take matter and the protection of the He says he also has got into trouble with his own wife by reason of the mi letters he Is receiving from other women On account qf tho news paper articles me and let ters and telegrams le from Irate fe male of country JHy wife is a peculiar woman and strenuously ob to my receiving letters ol any kind or character from other ladles whether he angry or whether they be any organization I am compelled to seek the protec tion the legislature My life has been I dont know what moment some vengeful woman may attempt to kill me I had no idea women had venom In them introduced the hill E take it that thi allegations re garding pads corsets etc are true or the women not be so angry compHse ot 4355 lots which may be beautified and sold at reason prices LESLIE CARTER IS CRAZY FORMER PRESIDENT OF CHICAGO ELEVATED ROAD Chicago July Carter for merly president of the South Side El railroad company and promin ent In financial affairs was today ad judged mentally incompetent to man age his own affairs Carter has been seriously ill for several months as the of gas poisoning CITY LIMITS BALLOON SPEED Fla Extends Boundaries Twenty Miles Upward Fla July 20 This place has shown progress even more rapid than the development ot Inven tiona In legislation designed for the control of the products of science This is shown by an ordinance jus enacted by the city council regulat ing the employment of in City The penalty of a fine ot not more than im prisonment for not more r than ninety days in the calaboose is fixed violations The boundaries of the town He on terra surface THE BURNED AFTER ALL NASHUA MAN WAGERED IT WAS WATER BUT Nashua July Special J W Patterson attempted to demonstrate to one of his boarders that the gas oline which he was using In his stove was mostly water and as a result he came very nearly losing his home by fire The stove did not seem placed underneath to catch the dripping oll and in which was about a quart He made the remark to his boarders that it was all water to firma the past this latter offered a wager that e Is projected twenty It was not Mr P Immediately 1 si ot oil aud SEN DOS VALUABLE PRESENT WATERLOO LIBRARY TO RECEIVE 1 S U PICTURE July public li brary at Waterloo has been sent a large group picture of the buildings at the state university of Iowa at Iowa will be displayed In tlie permanently by the libra rian Fanny Duren The picture Is a large one and is framed in oak and of the many large and beautiful buildings on the university center of the frame is the old campus while grouped the buildings of engineering den medicine pharmacy collegiate together with the university armory power house and other places of interest It is thought the paralysis l is Of a temporary nature only The buggy was broken and nees pieces but en caped unhurt After the plunge in the ditch the to a fence a tew feet away and stopped YOUNG COUPLE IN RIVER morning a and gentleman are visiting city with camping at the park had their boat overturned and were thrown into the river Tho ac happened near Cedar River park and but for the timely assist ance of people near by might have proven serious as the water In the river at this time is very high and swift The cause of the mishap was due to this condition of the river and the boat is thought to have struck a submerged log which Immediate ly upset the occupants Shear pluck miles upward so as to bring into the towns control all flying machines above it The city police say they want an aeroplane of the most approved type to arrest all offenders RIVERS RAISE FROM RUINS CEDAR IOWA AND ARE UP AGAIN The Cedar is still rising slowly at this point and reports of high water in other Iowa streams show that the heavy rains in the north which caused this rise were universal in extent The Cedar has subsided to its usual helgath from the early and fishing prospects with good prom ises for boating began to appear These conditions were shattered how ever when the river began to rise again on Saturday evening The wa ter came up slowly but steadily all dvy yesterday and early this afternoon no signs ol abatement had yet bifuu to put In appearance The reasons which tor the high water this are the unusual heavy ratas in the northern part of the state Conditions however point out that the river will not raise more and at not reach the water mark oE tbe Cedar at this point ii The which hixs boon re ported la tile other rivers ot at this time show that the rains wero very heavy last of the week and that they fell over a con area of country The river at Decorah is said to be as high as it has been this year The is doing the most damage at the pres ent time and is out of its banks in all ofthe lower lands At Westgate it july in the catch as catch can wrestling bout ViaS iwon by Mehnert of Na society of New qrk First heat in high diving tion of Chicago with First and second sections of the combined standing broad jump won by of Greece winning withli 10 inches Martin J Sheridan was second with 10 feet 7 inches Platt and Adams ot final In th swim ming match was won by Charles M Daniels of New York Rich of Brooklyn fourth Time 36 The second heat In the semifinals of swimming match in the Olympic games was won easily by American Time 15 Rich three and four of the standing Jump A LeRoy Hoi mes of he Chicago Athletic feet inches Ray C Vork Athletic club won the 10 feet 11 and Sheridan i Mehnert of the National New York easily de Press ofthe United Kingdom in their Wrestling match In the 100 metres run there wero seventeen heats The following Amer leans the Cartwell of the of Pennsylvania W W of the University of Clough of the Chi of the club Sherman of Dartmouth Ryan of University of Virginia the lattar record of 10 45 seconds The Americans qualifying In eight heats of the 800 metre run were Sheppard of the Ath lete club Halstead of the New York Athlete club c B Beard of Ames University There were six heats in the 400 cvent coe of the Uni versity of Michigan Bacon of the Athlete cluj and man of the New York Athlete club were the only Americans In the final won with 10 feet and 11 63 160000 MEN RESUME WORK Southern Illinois Factories Closed by Depression Reopen St Louis Mo July tho next thirty days practically all ofthe and foundries In south ern Illinois which were closed by the financial depression will be reopened and 150000 men will bo put bank to work according to data gathered by the East St Louis Commercial club By ot next month it Is expect ed that conditions on the other side of the river will bo back where they were before the panic Madison Gran ite City and Venice in which are lo some ot the largest factories In Illinois have already felt the return of normal conditions Clouds of full dinner palls are getting more in evidence daily and hundreds of men have returned to work on their part in clinging to the over hanging branches along shore and the assistance oE bystanders undoubtedly saved them from something far more serious than a ducking and a bad fright v has washed out over one hundred and seventy feet of tho Chicago Great SENATOR VILAS VERY ILL Madison TOls July U S senator and member of Cleve lands cabinet William A today suffered a hemorrhage of the brain and his condition IB serious ESPERANTISTS HOLD CONGRESS Chautauqua N Y July first national congress of tho Eapor held in Amorica met here today with M Esmond of Geneva Switzerland Rome July fifth SMITH GOVERNOR OF TAKES Western railway racks and has Blso y of the death ot Popo Leo XI Western railway tracKS ana nas BISO with m done considerable damage to tracks and embankments In other places OF SITUATION Narragansett Pier RI July The conference arranged by the last session of congress for discussion of the financial the country bf which it la hoped the legis lation necessary to remedy the finan cial needs of the country not ed for under existing laws was onen here today by members of the na tional monetary commission appointed under authority of currency tow PEOPLES PARTY ACTIVE Chicago July H Ferris chairman of the national committee of the peoples party announced today that the meeting of the committee will be called for July 28 at Chicago when the will be discussed and matured Miss Hansen teacher of drawing at the state normal school at Cedar Fall was a guest of irn J T on Sunday match to the basin ot oil and it began to burn burning more fiercely all He threw some water upon the thus spreading them One of the curtains caught fire the celling began to burn and there was all evidence of a big blaze when one of the boarders grabbed up the stove It doors Some done to the house son had one pf his hands burned and one of the boarders singed probably water in the gasoline but not tha amount that Mr P had supposed which was demonstrated to his satis faction HEW LAW LOUISIANA NO DRINKING ON TRAINS OR BOOK MAKING AT RACES New La July ing out of a flask on railroad passenger trains in Louisiana consti tutes punishable by fine or Imprisonment or both This law whrich waa passed by the last went Into effect today The law prohibiting betting or gambling In any form on horse races also became effective today Bert Boles was a business visitor at Monday PARTING SHOT AT SUCCESSOR Atlanta Ga July 20 Governor Hoke Smith sent to the Georgia legis lature today a special message giving hla reasons for removing Joseph M Brown as a member ot the state rail road commission In 1907 Brown is at present having defeated Smith in the recent democratic pri mary The governor in his message reviews the act of the railroad commis sion reducing the rates in Georgia this action having been opposed by Brown He charges Brown with fur the railroads and evidence tp attack action ot the commission in the courts A A NOON DAY BLAZE v today the fire alarm from brought the west side fire com meat market where was burning in he cellar among a number of boxes hat were stored there and which had lecome Ignited from the furnace which was started for the purpose of heating water The fire was well under way when discovered and would have destructive one had It gained headway Water was freely applied jy the help in the market and the were used by the firemen which the but not before and floor of the market were badly scorched under J Miss Maude Sauser spent Sunday visiting friends in New Hartford Regular meting Queen No 123 Highland Nobles Tuesday even ing July 21 at K of P hall Im portant business A large attendance is desired FORESTERS IN SESSION St Paul Minn July hun dred delegates from the northwestern states were present today at th opening ot the biennial convention o the United Order ot Foresters Th convention will remain in session fou day a today with a solemn memor al Peters attended by ope the members of the Sacred and other high church arles and the diplomatic representa ives of the various continental coun vies INVITATION TO TRAER Robert Anderson Post and W R Ct May Attend Reunion Commander Anderson of Robt An derson Post No 68 O A R ofthe following letter Dear Sir and asi in by the executive committee Traers council and the officers of the Tama Co Association to extend a In to the Comrads and W R C of Black Hawk county to attend our annual reunion to lie held August 12 and 13 will feed you the citizens will sleep J B Dennis Pres H A Kolp Harry Benham of with his brother Renham employed on the Centralla this city for several days
