Waterloo Daily Courier (Newspaper) - October 3, 1906, Waterloo, Iowa SIXTEENTH YEAR WATERLOO SITUATION is MORE SERIOUS Rebels in Vicinity of Refusing to Disarm Revolutionists Continue Con- About Santiago Associated Santiago Oct is reported that two thousand rebels in the ity of have refused to disarm The situation here is still serious Revolutionists continue to concentrate around Santiago Quiet About Havana Havana Oct of the rebel forces in the immediate ity of Havana began today without opposition Many men were allowed to they claimed as personal property No trouble is to have occurred in any the island Begins Today Havana Oct Die disarmament of the rebel army occupy the attention of the American military officials in Cuba It is expected that inside of three days all the rebels shall have dis- homes The chief today will Santiago de las under the superintendence of Maj when of Gen Guerra's troops will disarm Of these will be sent by rail to del Rio while another will march to their homes the United States furnishing them with rations Two hundred marines from Camp Columbia were dispatched westward last night for the purpose of having the men in adjacent towns when the first installments of Gen Guerra's disbanded meu reach these places day While no disorder is ed when the revolutionists reach their homes the provisional government and the military authorities er the actual military occupation of the Pinar del Rio region quite as as the occupation of other portions of the island and regard it best to have an American force there to insure preservation of order The most probable center of ble is Cienfuegos The situation there is delicate There is much grumbling but no overt act has yet been committed There are COO rines at Cienfuegos and 200 more are due to arrive today This will make a force strong enough to quell any disturbance that may arise It is the policy of Gov Taft to show every consideration for the views of the Cubans consistent with the public interests All his efforts are bent to the restoring of normal conditions with the least possible dis- So far he has boon successful in this direction Havana is quiet even gay and ness is going on quite as usual The government will be entirely civil unless the former insurgents sume a belligerent attitude In that case Gen and the troops are ready to take over the real control There is every prospect however of a peaceful and of normal conditions The moderates seem to be ed since their leader retired Those of the party left in the capital are de- pressed The liberals however have assumed lie airs of groat victors The city is full of generals belonging to hat parly each of in a uniform to suit liis own They drive in automobiles md dine and wine in popular cafes dently in big feather Taft Havana Oct Taft day denied he had criticized the Palma government He FLOE CIRCULATION OF ANY c PAPER IN WATERLOO WHEN YOU SEE REMEMBER THE WATERLOO SAVINGS BANK 529 COMMERCIAL STREET P A P E R Now Is the time to buy We will sell all our paper at a discount of O We can do the work for Henderson Drug Co ed the situation as disgusting and the elections of 1895 as rotten The states he has avoided giving interviews respecting his persons upon the issues of the question The arose through faulty transmission of news over tho telephone Artillery Moves Chicago 111 Oct artillery in command of Capt G G Galley left Pt foi Tampa en route for Cuba today on i special train ISLAND WEMS Convention At Providence to Stulo Ticket By Associated Press K I- Oct democratic state convention for the nomination of candidates for state of- fices here today The form denounces the boss system which is declared dominate national and state affairs and favors the tion of United States senators by di- rect vote James H Higgins mayor of tucket was nominated for governor by acclamation WINTHROP IS THE President Selects Taft's Successor in Cuba Judge Magoon Chosen for the Philippines By Associated Press Washington D C Oct president today decided upon man Winthrop present governor of Porto Rico to be provisional governor Cuba Judge Magoon will go to the Philippines as vice governor and of the Philippine commission Students Associated Chicago 111 Oct students were expelled from Forest college today following their refusal to sign a pledge that they would refrain from hazing freshmen Packers Organize Chicago Oct the big Chicago packers yesterday became members oC tho newly organized American Meat Packers Association Members of the executive committee the tion called on the heads of the various concerns in the morning explained the project and submitted a copy of the constitution and by laws HUGHES PLANS Will Confine Discussion in New York to State Issues nent Speakers Now York a result of the conference between President Roosevelt and Mr Hughes on the train between has been definitely decided that the campaign in New York state shall be conducted strictly on state issues Help of the leaders of the republican party in other states not be de- On the contrary it is hoped every one of the Washington men from Vice President Fairbanks down will participate in the New York fight They will be asked however in their to confine themselves as ly as possible to the issues at stake in New York this year and to subordinate uhe usual talk on prosperity tariff finance Philippines and other things President Roosevelt is a New York man He has participated in politics in this state personally since his hood when he used to organize ile processions in behalf of his ite candidate It is therefore ed to be entirely proper to play upon the name of Roosevelt at every His intimate connection with Mr Hughes is known to a great many ple Those who are not acquainted with the fact will learn it before long because it will be iterated and ated from every country stump and every city corner until election day THE STORM Orleans Oct lighthouses either swept into the sea and lost or the so badly damaged that no lights can bo shown and four lighthouse keepers drowned during last week's hurricane the summary of the report made by United States Lighthouse Inspector Hears of New Orleans These lights were located on tho coast and adjacent islands between the mouth of the Mississippi river and Mobile Mr Hears did not In- tho lighthouse losses be- tween Mobile and He has not yet made public an estimate of the money loss involved TRY A AD A PARALLEL IS DRAWN Russian Press Discusses Atlanta Race War INDICATIONS Chicago III Oct Generally fair tonight and warmer tonight Assassin of Gen Rostov ed More Terrorism St Petersburg Oct bold at- tack made by a number of ists this afternoon on the cashier at the branch custom house was ed by the quick action of the police captured several of the attacking party after a during which one is reported to have been killed a St Petersburg Oct have published editorial articles on the events at Atlanta Ga comparing them with the anti-Jewish massacres in Russia The expresses the hope that the United States now will cease to at- tribute the Russian excesses to cial provocation instead of admitting that they are the result of natural animosity In spite of the appeal for mercy of the widow of Gen of the headquarters staff who was ed in the park at on July 14 last in mistake for Gen Trepoff the executed in fortress where he was con- by night Slays General Russia Oct the trial of the second section of the troops who mutinied here June an unknown man entered the room and killed the judge advocate General and attempted to shoot the president of the court eral The assassin was shot down by an officer Attack Prison ical prison was attacked yesterday by a crowd of workmen bent on ering sixty-one prisoners who ed yesterday It took several leys from the guards to rout the crowd which fought back with re- and stones Several guards and workmen were wounded The prisoners have been hurriedly dis- throughout outlying dis- of the penal colony in fear of a renewal of the attack Renew Terrorism Warsaw Oct executive committee of the socialists at a ing decided on an active resumption of terrorism DOUBLE WEDDING Young Will Sliady Grove Jubilee Oct double wedding being planned to take place at the home near Shady Grove on October IS Lena Widdell and John Dage and Tillie Schroeder and Pullers will be united in the holy bonds of matrimony The ceremony uniting the young people will be said at Hie German Lutheran church by llev J Adlx ana a big reception will be bold at the home It is expected that Q wedding will be the largest in this part of the county that Hie people will be a JiHo lire it id blessings of the married roJ Miss Schroeder formerly in Waterloo Her mother married Mr us second husband ler first husband died Mr in John s a nephew of Henry unl F A Ice of Waterloo and ot Airs KM Smith oC Orange township CALLED TO HIS REWARD B T Rager an Old Soldier Died Yesterday at His Home on Sycamore Street The funeral services for the hue Benjamin Theodore Rager will lie neld from the residence at Sycamore street tomorrow after- noon at two o'clock The G A Fl will have charge of the services as Mr Rager had been for n number of years a member of the post and the Ladies of the Cl A R will attend In a body Mr Hager died yesterday at the re oC seventy-three years His wife Mrs Lizzie Rager and one son George ire the relatives who survive Mr was one of the old of having lived here over years ago His dence here was not continuous for after settling in Waterloo he moved from here to Minnesota later moving to Vinion anc afterward to Cedar Falls where he was living when the war broke out He enlisted at Cedar Fails in the Third Iowa and served faithfully throughout the war His birthplace was Ohio and the date of his was March 7 1833 NOT In His Usual State of Health Ju Od many about Uor W B Allison's health have been sent out from here and printed In of tho state thm It ban real condition Almost every day Hie may be wen on tho streets greeting Ills friends and transacting matters of business So far as one can judge from this appearance he Is enjoying good health for a man of bis It should be remembered that the senator is getting along In yours He is abmu T-S years old but lias excellent care oC himself arid conserved Ills energies He ho feels well in fact us woll as usual and expects to return to Washington ut the opening aC Con- gress The senator is not quite up to weight but his oyo just as bright and his complexion as pink and his mind as alert u.s ever This is fine and fair and warm a summer lay as one could wish joy Tho temperature has boon 79 degrees With tho exception of two light frosts thorn has noon nil tasto of what is certainly in store for the people as the procession of autumn comes marching by fC Kettle and family have gone to Waterloo la for several days visit with tives They were accompanied by Mr Kettle's parents Mr and Mrs lames kettle oj who have visited hero for some time Senator Beveridge to Speak at Des Moines Tonight Fairbanks and Cummins at Wa- October 13 i Des Moines Oct Special Active work in latins republican campaigners has commenced at re- publican headquarters Two big tral rallies are on the list Tonight Senator the eloquent In- diana leader will address a crowd in Des Moines It is expected that Congressman Hull who has iust re- turned from the east will preside and that Senator who this afternoon in will be present and A big republican rally has been ar- ranged for at Waterloo This will bu on Saturday Oct Vice President Fairbanks will speak in the noon and Governor Cummins will speak both afternoon and evening with others yet to be selected ager Converse the speakers reau has just from the distinguished vice president that he will be glad to speak at Waterloo on date He has participated in other campaigns in Jowu and his presence insures a great crowd at Waterloo Petition is Circulated at Cedar Falls to Free Charles Burns Falls Oct A petition in being circulated and numerously signed asking for tin pardon of Charles Burns the young man who shot incl killed Stone throR years city Burns pleaded not guilty bnl was convicted at his trial held before Judge in Waterloo He was lo years im- prisonment in the il where ho lias n el prisoner Burns plea was self-defense lie was defended by Attorney A Switzer of Waterloo The trial was attended by a large throng many of them from hen where the murderer had lived many years and was well known Burns had married Stone's daughter who failed to testify in be- half of her and who ed a divorce custody of child Up to the timo of the tragedy it claimed by Hums friends he had borne an excellent reputation The petition asks the pardoning board to act favorably on liis case RUNAWAY Wife and Daughter of County Attorney Nichols Hurt Afternoon Vinion la Oct Special Mrs Clarence wife of the county attorney and her little daughter wore from a yesterday afternoon about -I o'clock While riding on street near the railroad track the team be- came frightened at a meat wagon a ml turned so quickly that the KY was upset ifra Nichols had both ankles badly sprained and was ed and scratched She was unable to walk and carried into the home of Walter Goodhue in front of whoso the accident red The little glH received some but was not seriously hurt DEMOCRATS ARE BITTER Campaign Text Book Arraigns The President Declares That He Surrendered to the Railroads And That He Truckles to the Corporations Washington IX C Oct the motto rights to all special privileges to on its title page democratic campaign book for nso in tho approaching congressional has boon issued by tho cratic congressional committee II is ono of tho most voluminous of any similar publication heretofore gotten out being composed of IMI pages and containing a vast amount of matter di signed to combat tho claims and policies of the republican party while at tho same time it upholds ail tho principles for which democracy con- tends Although tho bonk embodies a fund of valuable information from a democratic standpoint in tho way oil statistics speeches and other useful data Iho principal subjects discussed are tariff history trusts and com- bines corruption and Lhc at- of democracy toward labor the wage question extravagance of republican appropriations and r questions of national Interest Iti s asserted that all the panics in this country have occurred under re- publican auspices and wilh tho highest protective tariff and in France I ho same conditions prevailed while in free trade thoro has been only one panic since boom will bo followed by a the book continues is only a question of time Numerous instanced of republican tariff changes are quoted from which the deduction is made that in five years the republicans have ed or revised the tariff law forty-eight times But at the book stales republicans and their allied and providers of fat campaign barrels protected monopolists secured n measure that has so fostered and tened the corporations that they are quite willing to stand pat as they have succeeded in defeating tho reciprocity treaties to provide for which tho tariff schedules wore increased 20 per cent beyond tho rates that the protected monopolists as sufficient to protect them from competition Henro the people now burdened with this extra rate plus a revenue a protective all told is Demanded The evidence is overwhelming it is that the present tariff law fostered trusts and combinations anil a demand in made for n revision f tariff toward a reduction of Iho duties By reason of the shelter of tariff it is declared thai the trusts and have advanced prices of their and at the same lime sell to foreigners linn to our own Coupled with this statement aro a number of quotations to show that republican leaders admit tho barge immediately following which a of products shipped in large quantities and upon which it staled the lower arc The subject of railroad is discussed in the book thai Iho democrats from he very had striven for such a and with regard to the re- law enacted there has this Tho present congress enacted a law amending tho of would have been law hud the s so disposed years iSo controlled by the railroads were of tho senators thai liis could not have passed thin Fifty-ninth congress without the action of the democrats the president's bis which ove and kejit enough republican senators in line to pass it At a very staye of the contest the president ound it necessary to request a con- with leading democratic tors They gladly conferred with him the papers madt great note of this act His position at that time that which for years the hail occupied hut he was forced the opposition in his own party to move ground and to break faith with democratic conferees by consenting to the broad court In this way the present best that the people could get rein a republican congress was ed Nothing was left undone in either house that could and honorably an ing republican senate to act If the republican senate had done its duty there would have been a railroad passed into law long be- cre Under the caption The Motive the Big it charged that President Roosevelt favors big cor- in Porto Rico and the and that he would mako laws for them that he wants a big military and naval force to in- subsidized marine arid hat he has the Monroe trine in the interest of tho asphalt in Venezuela It is stated that lot until he found It necessary to win support for his policy of imperialism lie ever say a word u praise of any democratic statesman or democratic achievement tions follow from some of tho lent's books referring in alleged un- terms to Jefferson Madison and and if is declared reflect the true spirit of Theodore Roosevelt What ho now says in suld only to win approval for he big stick policy by insinuating Unit a policy was really by Jefferson anri and not by tbo big American which he is nerving which ho Hecks to enthrone in Iho Philippines Porto Cuba and Sanlo Domingo Even when ho tolls the truth HO In order to disguise an evil purpose or o justify by precedent he wicked icy no ono who values cerity will bo influenced by tho ances of Mr Roosevelt Mr Roosevelt has shown greater for the interests of corporations ami loss regard for he law limn any other executive the country has ever bad SANTA KI- u and My York Oct Directors of Fe today a of 1 cent on T ELECTROCUTED Walter L Harvey Meets With Serious Accident Yesterday Got Hold of Live Wire While on a a Pole Harvey a lineman and employed by the Citizens fc ji from by llo was on a pole on avenue suddenly and unexpectedly ho came Into con- tact with a wire that carried a high of electricity Illy right liana touched the wire but though scious wrenched tbo member with such that the wan thrown out nC Tbo band where hrt grasped tile wire was burned Fortunately Mr Harvey was to the poln by a leather strap commonly called In lineman parlance a safety This prevented his being farther Injured by a full to the ground a distance Fellow workmen seeing plight en me to Ills and conveyed him to homo where a wan called lie was found to be fer Ing from a severe well as from UK and Hi from the time Lhat he eel the pole Harvey IH a very refill and been em- ployed in this work for a long time TO RETIRE Shaw and Moody According to Report Will Leave the Cabinet Washington J Oct re- from the president's cabinet ire for the coming winter They ire those of Attorney Moody whose resignation will become about Iho of December and that of Iho Treasury Shaw who according to present intentions will retire in February For one oC tho vacancies to ho created the will nominate George V L American ambassador to Init for the other he is not yet ready announce a successor Mr Roosevelt has sought to prevail on Attorney General Moody to remain in the cabinet but the latter because of business arrangements ho has made has found it impossible to do so He also would like to have Secretary Bonaparte take Mr Moody's place when the latter retires but the former prefers the position at the head of the navy with whose ings he thoroughly iar Some suggestion has been made that Secretary of the department of commerce and labor take one of the positions to be made vacant in the proposed shifting of cabinet officers but he also has expressed a preference to remain where he is Flames Overwhelm Workmen Tu a Steel lly Baltimore Md Oct men were killed and eight were in- ired two perhaps at tin Steel company's plant at Point today The victims by a rush of In B KHS from a bole In a blast nace A Colorado Parallel Pueblo Oct men wore killed and two fatally injured as tho result of an explosion of gas at the Fuel Iron company's steel works early today ft be- several others are buried be- neath the debris Mrs IH Iho nT hi CLOSING UP BIG FAILURE Final Distribution in Fields Case is Ordered Creditors Received Only For Cent of Claims Final Claims to the Amount of Filed Aggregate liabilities Disbursed to Assignee received Attorneys received Creel I tors received per cent to disburse for final distribution 22 14 o IS DO 77 35 00 20 37 54 Tho above are taken from tho reports of tho assignee in failure of Wm M Fields Bro former bankers of Cedar Falls who made an assignment May 20 1893 a failure which in its scope was tho worst in the history of the county showing a looting of the bank not paralleled by the Milwaukee officials in Chicago for which Paul O lias just been lod to tho penitentiary to serve an Indeterminate sentence This failure by which many poor people lost their all and by which many well-to-do and rich people lost many thousands of dollars Is ed to mind by an entry in the court docket yesterday which directs a dis- of the remaining funds in the hands of the clerk of the district court S M this amount be- ing after all court costs have been will pay about 2.5 per cent on the dollar for tbo last claims filed amounting to of Claimants The following is a list of the claims filed to participate pro rata in this hist Marshall Silver Colo Ambrose George Alfred Grundy Vv T M Miranda Spuer If J J VV Camper Carl Bassce Ida M King Christena Hanson Herman Gutknecht M Larson Cyril Dumont George T FT T F Murphy S M Murphy Jonsen J Acker man 350.00 921.44 200.00 600.00 250.00 7 100.00 400.00 Just It is a matter of interest to know that among the claimants to pate in the former distribution was L J Ackerman inquiry for whom had been made for several years It was only a few days ago that Mr Aukerman appeared at the office of the clerk of the courts and received the amount due him Assignee AVns The reports show that Assignee If TI Clay ono of he sturdily men of Cedar Falls wan in his charges for his vices which extended over a period from May 20 when ho was pointed Juno of 1902 when ho was discharged For his services ho asked the court for only which was allowed to Also in Charges Boies Boies of this city who were the attorneys for the assignee put in a claim for only which allowed by the court Most of this amount to be exact 100 of for carrying two cases to the supreme court The creditors may congratulate themselves over the moderation of the charges made both by the assignee and attorneys Dealt in Pine Horses Wm M Fields Bro dealt sively in horses and their fine farm near Cedar Falls was a of interest to equine fanciers No doubt that much of the money for which they failed was due to tions outside of the bank and the inventory of property indicates that there was a large number of horses on band at the time of the ment The schedule by the assignee shows real estate sold tin the value of and personal property to the value of These two items constituted the assets Much of the liabilities was in the nature of notes given by the Fields Tho assignee disbursed on preferred claims such as labor interest tain land payments etc up to May 3 1900 balance of from which was taken the additional assignee's fees of 100 leaving a net sum of 56 per cent of which was to bo dis- among claims aggregating Fields in The Fields left the county and aro now engaged in farming operations on a large scale in Saskatchewan Canada A recapitulation of this failure may be harrowing to some uut It should be a warning to tho public Kro other failure of such has been in tho county assignment where such a disparity between the assets and liabilities Mies Pino from Tipton yesterday and will visit for
