Waterloo Daily Courier (Newspaper) - November 24, 1902, Waterloo, Iowa Associated Wire 4 Iowa Evening Frees Association Daily Courier Established 1890 Weekly Courier Established 1858 WEATHER Chicago Nov and probably rain and In the east Tuesday TWELFTH WATERLOO IOWA MONDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 24 1902 WHOLE 3787 RIOTS AT HAVANA Liber Treaties Load to at Capital Wounded and Two are Killed Trouble Occurred in a tlan Refers tht Pallet i Associated Havana Nov strike became general today the street car traffic stopping at o'clock The are unable to protect the cars Several of them were wrecked anc some motormen and conductors were injured The situation is grave The police will not make arrests owing to the pronounced of the mayor and other city officials with the ers No bread or meat is on sale and a continuance of the strike will cause much suffering to the poor The police have captured Maizo Two officers and two policemen were wounded and two strikers killed and several injured during the tion today in front of the palace The chief of police now has the situation under control The cars are running and mobs are dispersed Depot It Nov Union depot at Hedrick was burned to the ground yesterday The cause is unknown The loss was A FINE FARM NOME IS A Near Mt n fers Loss Manchester Nov The home of Anthony near Manchester was burned today Loss is LOOKS LIKE NEW DEAL Transit Laying Steil May Tike Om C B W The Rapid Transit company are now engaged In the work of laying ard steel on their tracks be- tween this city and Cedar Falls This Is supposed to be the first step of the Rapid Transit In an agreement to take over the business of the C G W between this city and Cedar Falls U Is that the Great Western will boon construct a new viaduct over the Illinois Central tracks in this and It Is believed the Rapid sit will soon build a connecting track with the C G W skirting Waterloo on Ihc east and avoiding the streets of the city n their freight traffic It is also that the street car company will acquire a private right of way at Falls thus placing in a position to carry on their freight traffic without conflicting with the ordinances of the city buch a deal will require the con- struction of a new bridge across the at the parks and the building of terminal depots and freight houses which is believed will be done before another season SEARCH IS GIVEN UP Relatives of Wilde Miller Return Homo Without a Clue Have Exhausted Every Means to Clear Up Still no Clue to ef Missing Cashier R E Miller and H H brother and brother-in-law of Wildo Miller thr missing cashier of the Great ern depot returned to their homes at Skidmore and Maryville yesterday morning While in Waterloo they made a thorough investigation of cine that would lead to the cause of tho mysterious disappearance of Miller Every rumor was given a searching investigation but no ible ciuc could be discovered After every resource had been exhausted the were compelled to return home without a single clue that would guide them In the location of the iriK man whether he had disappeared on his own accord wandered away while in a nit of mental aberration or been foully dealt with The burden of mystery is a heavy one for the ly and the relatives are almost broken over the affair that something may turn up to clear the mystery and that Wildo will be found safe and sound There seems but little hope at this irom the view 01 the police ery possible aid was rendered the by the officers but without effect If the curtain of mystery could be raised over the dark circumstances surrounding the case it would lift a load of anxiety from the shoulders of the relatives Even if as feared do has been the victim of foul play the recovery of his body would go far to mitigate the suffering of the family Ine police have not given up the by any means and will do all in their power o find some clue that will throw light on the matter The tives departed from Waterloo with the impression that Wildo has been ly dealt with The young lady who had been ing company wita Wildo could throw no light on thes The couple had not been going together for some weeks and she knew nothing actions of Miller since that Everyone in Waterloo will hope that Miller may be found and that he is safe and well The case has e everyone in the city and has been the source of much sympathy for the missing man and his family WOMAN CONFESSES TO MURKER Slayer of Mr and Mrs Conn Tolls of the Crime Associated Butte Mont Nov Hank held on suspicion of being the murderer of Mrs Patience Conn and James Conn and believed to be insane has confessed She killed Mrs Conn with a hammer and shot the man It has been thought the murder was com- mitted by the robber who held up the Northern Pacific train at SUES FOB DAMAGES Teressa Files Suit Af Husband's Parents Mrs has filed a suit in the district court against Frederick and Caroline for 000 damages for alienating the tions of her young husband John whom she married in this city August 28 of this year The plaintiff alleges in her petition that she and her husband were engag- ed for a period of two years before their marriage That at the time they became engaged sue was eighteen and her husband 19 years of age She so states that they have been married only a little less than three months but that she is about to become a having allowed improper relations prior to the marriage on her faith in promises of to marry her She alleges that during the period of the engagement a great love and fection existed between herself and the man who afterwards became her band and during the first weeks cf their married life the husband was loving and dutiful and gave her every care That the father and mother of lier husband exerted a great influence over her husband on account of his youth and induced him to desert her withdrawing his companionship care and support and that she has been left to shift for herself She asks the court to grant her damages In the sum of for the oss of the society love and support 01 her husband of her husband Mrs was for- Miss Teressa K Krug The funeral of Mrs Sarah A ord will be held at her late home cor- ner Oak avenue ano Lafayette street at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon DEATH OF MRS COVERT Well Known Waterlaa Lady Passes Away Yesterday Morning Summons Came Suddenly She Leaves an lafant Sen IT'S ITEMS WE WANT Rex at Corner of Wellington and West Fourth St Use It An item box nice and new and red has been placed at the corner of West Fourth and Wellington streets and the residents of that part of the city arc urged to leave their notes notices and any other for the editorial room n the receptacle thus provided The ox will be opened every afternoon at o'clock and the contents Riven the same evening That is a part of the city the Curtiss flats being near and all he people are asked as kindly and cor- as it is possible to conceive of o do their duty in giving legitimate news items publication It is a good hing so our readers tell us that the Waterloo dailies have not yet attained hat eminence in metropolitan sm where the personals and the other local squibs are not countenanced Most readers find the City in Brief he most interesting part of the per and it is to add to the scone of his field that the box Is placed t is The little items give the reader a panoramic picture of the doings of he day the and n of the people and we are always in folks Don't be too st to tell about yourself but give any visitors and that may be with your family The re- attempt to cover the local field n this regard but they cannot bo in places at the same time to do he job as thoroughly as they would ike So come and help A letter was received in the city lay from J A Mears formerly tice of the pence in this city It states that he is now located at Albany gon where he has entered the tice of law with R X Blackburn one of the most prominent attorneys in the state of Oregon Mr Mears new partner is at present Attorney general of state He expresses himself as well pleased with his new location and his business connection Was Daughter of Late P R ton Early Settler A death was that of Mrs A B Covert which occurred day morning at at the family home on Allen street between Second and Third Death was very sudden and resulted from the breaking of a blood vessel in the brain But while the mother's life has gone out her baby boy is alive with every prospect of The funeral will be held trom the home at 2 p m on Wednesday inter- ment being in Fairview cemetery her father lies buried This lady was very well known by all the people of Waterloo and ally the earlier settlers Her maiden name was Rissa A Stanton and she was the daughter of the late D B Stanton a pioneer of loo and one of its most honored and respected citizens who was in the hardware business for many years and his public spirit and generosity reached out until many if not most of the early projects for the ment and improvement of the city found in him a willing champion The daughter was born here Jan 8 and she was therefore in her year when the death angel came to take her from her loved ones She at- tended the public schools of the east side and was a favorite among the cial set of her day Kindness and generosity were her ing virtues and these endeared her to her schoolmates and to all who came within her cheery sunny ence Always sympathetic anu to help others she took a course in trained nursing in Chicago and graduated from the Cook county pital spending several months caring for the sick and afflicted On June 18 1890 amid tne flowers and grance and beauty of the season she and Mr Covert took the vows that united their lives which have since been lived with such devotion The couple went immediately to town N Y where resided until 3900 A year spent at Minneapolis and ft year here closer her earthly career a life short In the units of time but long in the measure of Its good deeds In Its helpfulness to others and iti radiance of good cheer The survivors arc the husband the little son the mother who Is now iting in Nevada a sister Mrs H A of Nevada and another sister Mrs U A Cutler of tnis city This boy IB the second child Two years birth was given a daughter but the little one aid not live The husband and father Is greatly cast down under his burden of grief as their married life had been the most ideal one that could be imagined He has the sincere sympathy of all in his bereavement W WILLIS Mrs J H of this city received a telegram Saturday afternoon an- nouncing the sudden death of her brother George W Willis an old resident of Chicago Death occurred that forenoon Decedent waa about 68 years of age and had been a dent of Chicago since the war For many years he was special police at the Union stock yards He waa a tive of New York He never lived in Iowa He leaves a wife and one son Frnd who is also a resident of go Besides the sister here decedent left two sisters residing at or near La Porte Mrs Phoebe Mclntyre and Mrs W W Cooper He also leaves a sister in Missouri and a brother and sister in Nebraska None of the tives In this vicinity went to attend the funeral ELUDE THE OFFICERS Train Robbers in Hiding in Cedar River Davenport Nov men who held up the Rock Island express train and broke open and cleaned out the safe in the express car just west of this city early Saturday morning are believed to be Hiding in the Cedar river bottoms an ideal refuge for fugitives from justice about fifly miles northwest of here Officers and bloodhounds have found all clues ing In that direction The team and wagon stolen by the bandits and with which they made their drive through the darkness toward the Cedar have not been found and are believed to have been abandoned in the swamps Saturday's sensation was caused by a telegram from railroad agent at Buchanan a small station on the Burlington Rapids Northern that he had been and locked Into bis station by the bandits A special train carrying a heavily armed poss was at from Davenport to Duchanan but before its arrival the Cedar county sheriff had captured the gane that figured in the incident They proved to common tramps had drawn ft gun on the station agent when he ordered them from the station The bridges and of the low lands on the Cedar are closely guarded the hone that the robbers have not carried cut their evident purpose of getting out of the hood through some point on the In their flight they crossed the Rock Island main line and several branches ot that system but were evidently afraid to board any of its trains Attempted Jell Delivery Atlantic Nov might have resulted in a jail delivery was by Sheriff Duval The deputy sheriff noticed tracks leading up of the the jail Where Richards Burns and Saunders the three men who are being held to await the action of the grand jury for in this city a few days ago are confined He thought nothing of it at the time but later in the day when seated in hiss office near the jail noticed a man go up to one of the windows He went out to where the man was and caught him and brought him to the office He was searched and three saws were found secreted on his person The man gave his name as Barney Clarke He is evidently a member of the same gang as the three men who are in jail An- other man was arrested Thursday evening as a partner of Clarke's The second man is or claims to be a ple and was peddling shoestrings here VOYAGE WAS EXCITING W T Whitney Tells of Trip Around the Horn It Was In War Times and Was Rebel Ship Alabama and Her Quest for Union Prey It was 40 years ago today on Nov 24 1862 that Wm T Whitney of Waterloo landed In New York from a great ocean voyage around Cape Horn In a letter to the Daily Courier Mr Whitney gives the following ing account of that Forty years ago today I arrived in New York by an ocean voyage from San Francisco The Alabama was at- that time the terror of the sea We ran around the point of Cuba about three or four hundred miles out of our way and were four without lights One morning when we were about where the condition was considered most dangerous a long dark ship which the captain it OUCH decided was a war vessel appeared at our left hearing across our courne At first it wna a more speck but it was evident they had sighted us and were going to stop us All was confusion and everybody was frightened for we felt sure if Captain Sems got us we would have our pockets picked and be went to lie bottom of the sea Our carried a large amount of silver and gold which at that lime was very desirable especially to the south as it was worth an enormous premium On board was a southern woman the wife of the captain of a union war vessel which we met at Acapulco and he sent her home with us for fear she would create a mutiny on his ship he was so hitter against the union She was very willing to argue the question with us yo we all became familiar with her and often she expressed the wish that Captain Sems would catch us all When it became evident the strange vessel was going to stop UK every glass on the ship was brought into use to detect her colors but before this could be decided she fired a shot across our course as a signal to heave to which of course did All this time the fear and confusion was increasing among the passengers and I ventured to say to our southern lady that if Captain Sems caught us I could tell just as good a rebel story as she ould so probably he would not be- lieve either of us or treat us any better than the rest She soon became as much troubled as any of us Soon the best glasses told the story It was a union ship the Tuscarora out coking for the Alabama The change was wonderful I have been to many patriotic gatherings but never before nor since heard such a thrilling cheer for the old flag as went up from that vessel's deck and that southern woman stretched her arm above her head waved her hief and with all the force of a rebel yelled and cheered the flag From that time until we landed we heard no more of her rebel talk We had a frightful time about Cape Hatteras but our good ship Ariel with her noble captain landed UK safely in New York November 21 On December 1 she started back for the Isthmus and down about Key West the Alabama popped out from behind a little barren island and picked her up put the passengers ashore took he few from the safe and proposed to sink the ship scolded old man for not coming that way when he wont up saying he had waiting for him Then the shrewdness of our old silver gray captain came into play Ho argued with captain Sems that people ought not to be destroyed that it would be better to sink them with the ship than to leave them on thr island to would bo civil fare Th result was a contract was drawn un signed hat the pood ship Ariel should be in Rood order to the rebel authorities within thirty days after the recognition of the She was never so delivered NEBRASKA OBJECTS Ta lawa Building Societies Doing Business There Supreme Court Declares They are Simply Managers of Companies Worried Over Outlook Des Moines Nov ers and managers of the various home co-operative companies engaged in doing business in Iowa and there are a number of them both of home tion and outsiders are a little ried over the decision of the Nebraska supreme court rendered this week in which it is held that this form of ing business so nearly approaches the lottery in its essential features that it can not be tolerated under the braska law This is the time these companies have been attacked from that quarter Nearly all this business was being done by societies firms partnerships or associations because it was not found convenient to expose tue ness by incorporation The last Iowa legislature tried to head It off by Ing a stringent law to compel these unincorporated concerns to come un- der the rules of the building and loan associations and put up securities and make public their plan of doing ness When it became known this was to be done a number of companies were incorporated under the general laws for doing a home co-operative business and these companies are ing a hard light to perpetuate their ex- istence A strong effort is being made to have the new law declared because if It stands it means an end to the whole business probably even with the companies pre- Incorporated Now conies the Nebraska supreme court with a deci- sion putting them on a plane with the outlawed lotteries of the country The case came before the Nebraska court on quo proceedings by he attorney general against the I uBka Homo Company organized in Nebraska but now doing business from from Kan sax City and Justice declared that the company IK not only a lottery but is not entitled to da business because it makes ises which can not be fulfilled This company Is doing business by bering and the one gels first chance at the money in the treasury While the first 32 applicants out of may receive the benefits promised Inside of the period after the filing of the applications the thousandth application has little for In this world as it- will lake him 70 years to realize and he company IK not in a position to guarantee hint a home hi the next world The tial features of tnis an In all of tho home whether they purport to sell houses or horses or dia- monds la that some of the certificate holders are favored before others er by the chance of numbering or by drawing lots or In other way The Nebraska court holds this to be a tery and therefore will not tolerate them There is an Impression that the new Iowa law will finally be de- in some manner bin if the braska precedent is followed the at- torney general of Iowa who has de- clared war on the whole system of getting money under various fuges will have an easy way of Ing them more directly than by the Iowa law At any rate the Nebraska decision is of especial Interest in view ot the determined effort being made to break up this class of business in Iowa Champions of Southwest Iowa Creston Nov the high school football contest here Saturday between the and Council Bluffs elevens the former won by a score of 18 to ti The game was played in twenty-five minute halves and the score at the end of the first half was i to 0 But Creston has always had the reputation 01 putting up a better game in the second half than in the first hence scored more twelve more points This game decided the championship of southwestern Iowa WHO OWNS THE TELEPHONE LIRE A Foxy Boy at opera house night Question Arises After the Transfer of Farm to New Owner Muscat inc Nov novel case has arisen near and is now being tried at Wapello the question at iie being the claim to ownership of a rural telephone line and poles on a farm in which there was a rence of ownership The buyer of the farm claims that the line belonged to him to do with as pleased original builders will not concede this and still claim the line though it was built inside the fence along the public highway The richest farmers in Louisa county are concerned and dreds of users of rural all over state watch the outcome of Use lino WHS built by Noah Letts now a Chicago commission chant and all property owners and a part of it WRS on the Letts farm of 1.000 acres running along the highway Letts sold his farm to Sons stork and they ing the to the telephone lint transferred their in It to the County Mutual Telephone company which fs now ed on to defend its claim against that of the builders The plaintiffs claim thai the line was their property and being of a quasi-public nature did not pass to the buyer of the property which the poles are located The de- fendants claim that buying the farm also meant the buying of the poles and lines inside the fence thus they acquired a valid right to the lines It is to be the first time this point has come up in an Iowa court and Judge Smythe will make an im- portant decision when he decides whether or not he will grant a manent injunction against the dants using the lines in dispute Careless or Saved Des Moines NOA ness of an express agent who neglected to throw off a package for the Arthur bank recently robbed resulted In the saving to the stockholders of said Fred Whinery cashier of the who has been visiting his father H M Whinery of Fifteenth street and East Grand avenue The Farmers Loan and Trust com- pany of Sioux City had shipped a package containing to the bank the night of the robbery But the ex- press agent neglected to throw off the package at Arthur and it went on through with the train Needless to say the man was not reprimanded The robbers got just and yesterday it was charged to profit and loss Mr J J Toy of Sioux City who hae offered for the arrest of the robbers believes in having each of his twenty or more banks carry their own insurance so that in case of robbery profit and loss gets the figures Mr Whinery brought with him pieces of the safe and the clay and soap used by the bank robbers in their work Evidently five shots were used each one ripping off a plate of six-ply steel The mode of operation showed that the robbers were experts They first made a hole in the bottom ged it with a mixture of clay and soap and then bored a hole In the top An air pump was attached to the ton of the safe and a ot af an aperture at the bottom The air was exhausted from the interior of the safe with the pump and the vacuum drew nitro- glycerine into the safe Itself STOCK BROKER TAKES HIS LIFE Ghas M Maore of by Associated Chicago Nov M Moore a of W Sherman and a member of the firm of A J Whiffle Co stock brokers ted by shooting thin morning at his home Ho waa aged 35 years and had been In poor health for Home time Members of family nay thn shooting have been accidental on he had no reason for suiciding MAY RE THE THIEVES Two Men Arrested Last Year's Associated Chicago Nov men who registered at a hotel as E H and 13 B Fuller of Minneapolis were arrested last evening and are said to be wanted in connection with the Chicago robbery of last year ROW RELIEVED HE WAS MURDERED Suspicions Surrounding Mysterious Death William Cedar Rapids Nov It is now believed William Gilland of this county whose dead body was found Friday in a pigpen at Rock Rapids was murdered The body was brought to Central City for burial day It showed knife stabs and a tured skull besides a pistol wound Gilland was known to have had ey FINE TEAM OF HORSES STOLER Center Point Livery Owner Victim of Thieves Center Point Nov A fine team was stolen from land's livery at Center Point last night There is no clue FELL DOWN STAIRS RROKE RECK Fata of Middle Man at Mus Today Muscatine Nov James a middle aged man fell down the stairs over Harman's saloon and broke his neck dying soon after He leaves a family FOURD DEAD IR RIS FIELD lad Fate of a Farmer Rear Ing lew Morning Sun Nov a farmer aged 50 wars was found dead in his cornfield near Morning Sun this morning He received an accidental wound on his recently and It is thought he war demented and wandered away and died of exposure A at IOWA IDEA IS SPURNED ef ftr Caiman It Eye Declared lewi Members Wara far III la el sea First far for Cannon Des Moines Nov fact that the Iowa congressional delegation waft the last in the west to declare for Cannon for speaker is being commented on by the Iowa tors Some are inclined to the that the Iowa congressmen made a take by delaying their action others think that it was the best thing to do As a matter of fact there never any question that the majority of the Iowa congressmen would be Cannon Babcock had some friends bi the delegation however and at least two of the congressmen Hull and Hepburn had declared themselves In favor of Babcock Whether they would have held out against the rest of the delegation or whether they would hate been reinforced ay enough others to make a majority for the man it is impossible to say Hull waa for Babcock because he had been with him during the Just why Hepburn was for Babcock is not known but it un- that he and Cannon are not personally very friendly BABCOOK FAVORITE OF ISTS Before the announcement of cock that he would not be a candidate he was strenuously supported by the Iowa editors who are in favor of tariff revision because he was opposed to the do nothing and was larly supposed to be a follower of that popularly known aa the Iowa idea Whether this kind of support embarrassed the gentleman from Wisconsin or not it would hardly be fair to say but he evidently ar- at the conclusion that he could not be elected speaker The unanimity with which the delegation declared lor Cannon leads many to the belief that the majority of the members were for him all the time but on account of personal friendship for Babcock kept aloof until he attitude The general Impression which pre- vails among politicians is that the dec- of the delegation for Cannon gives the Iowa Idea a black eye It IB not that the delegation declared tor Cannon Naturally they would be for a western man While Babcock waa In the race or while he to be In the race there were two cm men The declaration for did not in Itself hurt the Iowa idea The point of the whole matter was that the withdrawal of Babcock did not leave a single candidate for speaker who was even to be in favor ol tariff revision at this time An- other peculiar feature of the matter was that neither of the two Iowa con- gressmen who originally declared for Babcock favor tariff revision IOWA IDEA IGNORED All of these things would indicate that the republicans In other states disposed to ignore what is termed as the Iowa Idea Minnesota waa supposed to favor it Minnesota was one of the first states to line up for Cannon With absolutely every enue ot progress toward the realization of the Iowa idea cut off the cans of the state are beginning to der If they are to be to re- affirm the Cedar Rapids platform again next year so as to be ready to the Iowa idea with them to the nest national convention as their mascot It does not seem to be meeting with favorable reception in other states The Iowa republicans who are anxious to maintain the high standing of Iowa republicanism in the national councils are not over anxious to go to the next national convention committed to Its support Birdsall of the third district came up ly for Camion after Babcock withdrew as speaker He even went so far M to telegraph to the other ot the stating that he believed that the best thing to do was to de- clare for Cannon since Babcock had withdrawn Some of the congressmen who had been Cannon men before sail was even nominated were rather amused at this solicitude in tht ter Judge Birdsall is sure to be 4 strong man in congress and will un- doubtedly be a worthy successor to Speaker Henderson In regard to the speaker it is believed that no one could have been selected as his cessor who would be any more factory to him than Mr Cannon SOME NEW BOOKS The by the ot BfM tor W tlM of Wt Tht UNM WMM THk
