Waterloo Daily Courier (Newspaper) - December 24, 1906, Waterloo, Iowa 10 Pages ff Chicago HI Dec cloudy and warmer tonight Tuesday probably COMES UNTITLED Wholesale lit Charged Against a Midwife W T in an at Westbourne Park chapel last night made a stirring peace appeal He demanded that Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman the prime minister WATERLOO IOWA EVENING DECEMBER 24 1906 AKE Southern Pacific Employes Quit Work Yesterday Houston Texas Dec strike of locomotive firemen on the lines of the Pacific com- pany In Louisiana and Texas became effective Sunday afternoon at five when between 300 and 400 men quit work the strike has had effect several roads running into Orleans announced a change In freight bound for points In Louisiana Texas and the Southwest The lines affected by the strike are the Morgan Louisiana and Texas the Iberia and Vermilion the Louisiana and Western the Texas and New Orleans and the Galveston burg These lines extend from New Orleans to El Paso with tranches reaching several in the two states named The trouble has been in incubation ever since the Southern Pacific com- pany according the firemen gated the agreement with them eral by signing an ment with the Brotherhood of motive Engineers which terminated the privileges of the firemen to late the seniority Ust of switch en- and to represent engineers and members of the on grievance committees A large percentage of firemen be- coming engineer's maintain their membership and insurance In the organization instead of ing the engineers brotherhood and this fact seems to be at the bottom of the present trouble ing specific declaration of the firemen that their grievance is against the company and not against the Brotherhood of Locomotive En- WASHINGTON NEWS BUDGET President Issues to Appeal to China v Condition is Reported Worie t Dec Bryce it would appear has declined a age but at any rate to the Daily Telegraph he will go to the United States as British ambassador without changing his name and thus be the first plain citizen to represent his country at Washington The Chronicle Americans and honor Jaines Bryce esteem him ail the more declined a The a successor for Mr Bryce chief secretary for Ireland is maf considerable trouble judging from the many possible candidates named According the latest sip Lewis first er of works declined the tion Most of the newspapers this ing print editorials on Mr Bryce's departure from the cabinet and essary changes in the ministry The Standard argues that a much larger salary should be to the Washington embassy even if it similar increases bassies as it says the existing salary is inadequate to maintain the dignity of the post The comments of the Irish papers of all shades regarding Mr Bryce's departure are rather cool They generally regard Mr Bryce as lacking in necessary as having been a rather weak than a strong Irish The Tribune in an editorial says the close connection into which Mr Bryce will be brought with President Roosevelt will give the ambassador an opportunity of pushing forward of The Hague Conference Indeed if he were to pass for three months from Washington to The the Tribune adds it would solve the critical question of finding a ly suitable representative for Great Dec Britain at the gathering Rev Ferguson a re- today of tho election of Eloy Alfaro to be constitutional president of Ecuador Our Mineral Wealth Washington D C Dee tal value of mineral products in tho United 1905 amounted to an increase over over according to a statement Issued by the geological vey The value of iron produced in 1905 was of coal 000 and The total of gold produced was Recall Doe near platinum The total value of gas tar ammonia liquor and ammonia sulphate produced during the same year was combined GOVERNMENT Hew Religious Measure In France is Imperfect to a Woman Joseph Grownover of Chicago is ex- to arrive at Hudson today for a visit with his father Benson over A MINISTER'S HOME ROBBED Rev S R of Cedar Befriends a Tramp Kindness is Repaid by Theft of Diamonds tired Methodist minister was Saturday evening of diamonds and other articles of value to the amount of Clyde Greer a tramp whom the minister bad befriended 111 V 7 should be sent as the British and he supposed to to The Hague conference as bo He ls about 1S of a means of showing that Great Brit- fsV bear ain meant business WP inches in height ain meant business He hoped he said to see Great Britain with the strong support of her American men a leading force at the ence in an insistant proposal that the powers agree not to increase their armaments and that article 8 the 1899 conference dealing with tion should be made obligatory Castro's Condition Worse Trinidad Island of Dec 3 received here from has no beard is about 5 feet 8 i height and weighs 150 His hair is thick aad brown and he has grey eyes and a dark swarthy complexion He wore a long grey overcoat new suit of dark-colored clothes and a black leather jockey cap Greer was hurt in a railway accident near Cedar Falls six week's aygo and was then taken to the Ferguson home and befriended He has apparently shown his gratitude by stripping the house of its most valuable possessions received nere ironi T Venezuela are to the effect that whn taneouslv with the missing f health of President Castro who is at the missing jewelry and Macuto is becoming more and Macuto is becoming more and alarming An operation is deemed the weakened state of man does not permit ot it I The sailing of Gen Jose Manuel Hernandez is not confirmed but mors of a serious revolutionary movement in the western part of Venezuela continued to be circulated The press of the republic is mute on the subject and it is difficult to obtain details Foreign Briefs Goto the South railway says the guiding the the company forbids the granting of preferential treatment to persons of any nationality Japanese or wise Gotti prefect of the propaganda fide said no steps had been taken yet by the da towards the appointment of a coadjutator to the bishop of ville passive resistance strike of employes of the trian postal service which was be- gun last Friday has ended Paris Dec midwife living in the Vivienne quarter has-been ar- rested on a charge of having ed one hundred and twenty new born infant The following is a list of the were diamond solitaire karat Ring ladies diamond fany setting 1 karrat value Ring ladies diamond solitarie fany setting karat value Ring ladies diamond solitarie fancy setting karat value Ring ladies and diamond fancy setting value Ring ladies diamonds 5 small value Gold watch ladies Waltham filled Lulu engraved on inside case lid value Chatelaine pin watch H F value P E O gold pin engraved la Helen Ch C P Iowa A date star ed At -4 k BURNED TO DEATH A Holocaust Reported from Fris cm Anne Virginia Associated HEAD-ON COLLISION Twenty-Four Persons Injured on the Southern Pacific By Associated Press Sacramento Calif four persons were injured in a head-on on the Southern Pacific at Nev a special west passenger train crashed into a special freight that was standing on tho track waiting for orders Saturday evening None was seriously hurt and with one exception all win be able to Norfolk Va Dec The wife their journeys Among the d child of Samuel Poner arid Mrs James and child of Samuel Poyner arid wife and child of William 111 Mfs L A were burned to death last night Homes Fa Mrs A P house on Morris Neck Cook Kankakee H Princess Anne county The fire is supposed to have started from an stove son Rock Island 111 Bert This evening promptly the THE owe AND BEST NEWSPAPER Congregational Sunday school wilt hold its Christmas celebration A entitled Mother Visit to About Santa Claus one hundred be given will take great be wad a good Mineral Production for 1905 was Over a Billion Dollars Washington D C Dec dent Roosevelt has issued a tion calling on the people of the ed States to contribute funds for the relief of millions of sufferers in China who are on the verge of vation The president says that he will ask congress for authority to use government transport vessels to carry food to the famine stricken region The proclamation To the people of the United There is an appalling famine in China Throughout a district covering over square miles and supporting a population of the crops have been destroyed by floods and millions of people are on the verge of tion thousands of dwellings have been destroyed and their inmates are out homes An urgent appeal has been made for the assistance of the United States Our people have often under lar conditions of distress in other counties responded generously to such appeals Amid our abounding and in this holiday season ol will to man assuredly we should do our part to aid the unfortunate and relieve the distressed among the ple of China to whom we have been allied for so many years in friendship and kindness I shall congress upon its next clay of session for authority to use our transport vessels to carry flour and other food to the famine stricken re- gion I recommend that contributions for the purchase of such food and for er appropriate relief be sent to the American national Red Cross which will take care of the expenditures Such may be made er through Red urers or through the department oE state or may be sent directly to Mr Charles Hallam Keep Red Cross urer United States treasury ment Washington D C THEODORE ROOSEVELT Recall Due to a Washington D C Dec Mortimer King ward's ambassador in Washington is maintaining a dignified silence in re- gard to the mauy reports that are be- ing circulated as to the reasons for his recall from this capital Those who know him find nothing surprising in this attitude for the British envoy is first and last a and he has a proper regard for the proprieties surrounding his official status as a representative of a great power According to a current rumor Lady Susan Townley wife of the former first secretary of the embassy and now minister to Brazil is at Jhe bottom of his withdrawal from the United States Lady Susan is a sister of the of and a ow a ily close to the London foreign office and King Edward As a matter of fact there is nothing to show that the gossip which Lady Susan is supposed to have started in England concerning the ambassador has anything to do with his recall There were private personal reasons why Sir Mortimer as he is generally called here wanted to return to land Furthermore Sir Mortimer is con- while the present ruling party in Great Britain is liberal and politics plays an important part in tho assignment of England's diplo- matic representatives in spite of the opinion to the contrary Nobody here who is familiar with the manner in which the British diplomatic missions are made doubts for an instant that the ment of Mr James Bryce as the to United States was due to his knowledge of American and the high opinion of him in this country Mr is not a member of the permanent diplomatic service of Great Britain It is a matter of common knowledge in Washington that there were ences between Sir Mortimer Durand and the It is said that the ambassador as the officially accredited representative of a foreign government at this capital felt obliged to resent the fast and free comments of the wife of a member of his official staff on the personal characteristics of President Roosevelt and other public men it is declared caused ment or fhe part of Lady Susan hut those In a position to fied that anything that was said about Sir Mortimer and Lady when she returned to England had nothing whatever to do with Sir Mortimer's recall One of the stories that has been ing the rounds since the ment of Sir Mortimer's prospective withdrawal from Washington was irade was to the effect that the Brit- ish government was dissatisfied with bin conduct of the negotiations which resulted in the modus vivendi in re- gard to tho Newfoundland fisheries The British embassy asserts that Sir Mortimer had nothing to do with these negotiations They were ed by the British foreign office and Reid the American sador in London New President in Ecuador D C Dec department is officially advised No Paper Tomorrow In accordance with a custom of this paper there will no edition tomorrow evening ami lie employes will be given the opportunity of en- joying the Christmas holiday in re- union with friends in Waterloo and elsewhere May all tho readers enjoy the day in a and may something of the spirit of the sion enter into the liv all ing it in truth an occasion when the spirit of Peace on earth good will towards may prevail in every heart and every home Shea's Attorneys Move That Hie Case Bo Dismissed By Associated Pross Chicago Dec the opening of the defense in the Plica trial today Attorney offered a motion that the case be taken from Uio jury and the defendants discharged oil tlie ground that the not made out a case of conspiracy The motion was opposed by the state nml arguments upon the motion continued for the greater part of the day A Train in Collision Today With a Light Engine By Associated Press Rochester Y Doc light engine with a passenger train on the Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburg neas fiagle early today Michael Linn of Rochester eer Henry Gain Warsaw and E Palmer fireman were killed George engineer was badly injured The passenger were hurled from the track but nu passenger was injured Frenchmen Concerning Themselves Little Over Church Dispute not them and tho conductors turn them Into tho agent im- they would be resold Tho would bu divided and by the Hound Over Uoc Special II division of the Chicago Western here and C J Johnson section foreman at were bound over in a justice court on a of and obtaining money false in rolls A RACING FOR 380 LIVES A Steamer Enveloped in Flames Reached Shore in Nick of Time Newspapers Emphasize Merry Christmas Paris Dec with which the drawn up nnd rushed through tho chamber of deputies is now producing its natural results It is now plain that many difficult points were left and many contingencies unprovided for That is not surprising in so intricate a tion but it is more tlian surprising to find the as printed in tho official journal misrepresents on points the as voted by the chamber It is noticeable that the abolition of the midnight Christmas not produced any protest Some of the bishops in annulling this mass ex- pressed fear that tho unruly elements would take the opportunity to fane it by making rouble Critics hove said that this was done as a means to induce the most sincere Catholics to resent the conditions which moved to such tion But if such was the object it has failed Paris is calm Partisans in fact appear to be more interested in ing Christmas gifts than in worrying over the salvation of their immortal souls The law of re- pose which in a few months has trans- formed the aspect of Paris although still far from making it a city Sunday as don or Brooklyn was violated yesterday People made chares not as formerly purely for New Year's but avowedly as Christmas presents The newspapers speak in italics of merry Christmas and happy New Year explaining them as happy English ex- pressions and people seem to be more in this seasonal spirit than sorrowful over the unhappy state into which has fallen the ancient church of France To be sure deeper feelings may be den but it is difficult for the diced to find any dissatisfaction with tun existing conditions as ed by government and sustained by the action If the churches were closed there is every indication that France would be inflamed but strange ns H may seem those who have thought France bound to the al faith as minutely declared by the Vatican Frenchmen appear to feel that with the churches open they have as much right in them and to them as or An Brought House By Associated New York Due stock market today caused tiy the of a stock house brought ou heavy selling Prices declined from u large fraction to 47 Hie hitler in Great Northern THK of In Court Hold Uy Associated Press Findlay Ohio Dec Duncan of the common picas court decided that tho Information In the probate court against the Oil Co on charge of the Valentine law was illegal that the case should have filed In the common pleas court The decision In no way affects the Indictments recently returned In the common court by a grand jury against John D Rockefeller and of the Standard Oil company charging them with violating tho laws PREMONITION OF HIS DEATH Wayne McAdoo Told Friends H Would Die Soon Life Ended at Mason City in Ac Yesterday Halifax N S Dec in flames and with panic stricken passengers huddled on the decks the steamer raced for shore in the darkness It was a race with death and tho steamer won The 380 passengers were landed and in less than an hour the steamer had burned to the edge Only the heroism of the engineers and firemen who stuck to their posts prevented a terrible disaster Tho Strathcona loft here Saturday evening under command of Capt Reid Most of the passengers were returning to their homes along the east coast after a few days of Christmas shopping in Halifax A few hours after leaving port fire was discovered in the after hold ami despite the efforts of he cers and crew tho llamas ly Americans feel about ches When the cry of fire was raised the passengers most of them ciad only in their nightclothes rushed on deck and made a dash for the lifeboats but the crew held them back The boats were not launched but were made ready for use in case tho flames completely en- the steamer before land could bo reached While the Strathcona was driven wards land at top speed the sailors tried to fight the flames with streams of water The draft caused by the rapid progress ever fanned the flames into greater and in a short time the entire after portion of the vessel was on fire Down in the engine room the and firemen stuck bravely to their posts although the flames had begun to surround them Not until the keel of the steamer grated on a reef a mile from the entrance of harbor did they abandon their our positions and rush to the deck Then the boats were lowered and all of the passengers together with the teen members of the crew found safety on shore The was only 2 years old and was a vessel of 200 tons in tion to the passengers it carried a full general cargo of supplies and mas goods for delivery at various points along the east It was valued at Not ago the ran into and sank the sailing steamer Havana in Halifax harbor and was condemned to pay damages The Temps says it is authorized to deny the statement widely published as emanating from Rome to the fect that the French government had addressed a note to the powers ex- plaining the reasons for its search of Mgr effects and his ex- pulsion from the country The paper says the government has no intention ot sending any such note A special envoy who was sent to Rome by the Temps telegraphs that the feel lug in Rome is that the private exercise of religion must be resorted to in France as Rome regards the churches as closed He adds that tho here is that Friday's veto in chamber of deputies settles ing and that in one ten or fifty years minimum of guarantees demanded tile pope must be granted It must he said that ments in France not indicate that people at largo concern themselves deeply with this thoughtful care for the more or less distant future Unable to banish from his the conviction that be was soon to die WILLIE WON'T IF TEDDY WILL Wm J Bryan lot to Shy His in 1908 f President Roosevelt Should be a Candidate Makes Declaration to His Lecture Manager William Jennings Bryan told me only a few days ago that if Theodore loosevelt were a candidate for re- to tho presidency in 1908 he vould not himself be a candidate This was tho declaration of Charles Wagner representing the Slayton bureau who has tlie exclusive Management of Mr Bryan's lecture en- was in Waterloo last Saturday Air Wagner had just come from a conference with Mr Bryan at his home in Lincoln Neb and it was while discussing his future work on the that Mr Bryan made the tion that ho did not wish to oppose a candidate for the presidency who has so much in the interests of the people as President Roosevelt Mr Bryan believes Mr velt has been honest in his expressed desire not to serve longer as chief of the nation after 4 but believes the American people ivill bring tremendous upon in the hope of getting low his name to be brought before the next national republican convention Mr Wagner says that Mr Bryan has long been an ardent admirer of dent Roosevelt He believes in his and in his ability to curb the encroachment of corporate greed upon thp rights of the masses In short Mr Bryan is pictured as being fied that Mr Roosevelt is making and will continue to make as good a dent as himself In the current issue of Pearson's Magazine James has an in- forming article on Roosevelt the in which the president is not criticised for his penalties but commended for H Harriman the railway magnate who has recently come into control of the Illinois Central railroad is represented as declaring no stone must be left unturned down Mr Roosevelt ed as stating that was soon to me s mui or and apparently having a distinct Hearst would be to this monition of the termination of his RouSh Rider who rides earthly existence by some dire and meddles edy Wayne McAdoo met u sudden of Wall street death in an accident at Mason City I is about to start on yesterday morning to which place he other expedition but will had gone to spend Christmas with in time to speak at the relatives Foe the past two years on July Mr McAdoo who is 38 years of age has ner nas been experiencing all sorts of been the knees down trouble to arrange Mr Bryan's dates and while descending from the steps is a demand for him that at the home of his parents yesterday ls almost impossible to satisfy all morning fell alighting in such a for his services as a lecturer man r is one of the men on vertebrae at the base oE the brain He lived only a short time after the torra He accident and never regained one of the highest Chautauqua Prisoners Cincinnati Ohio Dec prisoners escaped from the county jail hero Sunday morning taking ad- vantage of extra liberty allowed ing church hours of the tives were recaptured this afternoon Among those stiM at large is don Henri in New York for the theft of the famous picture Girl HE DECLARES HIS INNOCENCE J B Hollenhors Says There is Nothing In Confession as It Relates to Him If there is any truth tn what master J B Hollenhors relative to W V work as ticket clerk a new has been thrown on the ex- on the Chicago Groat Western railway The Marshalltown of Saturday has the ing to say about the John B Hollenhors who is being on two counts preferred by the Chicago Great Western railway in whose employ he has been for twenty says that Innocent of any crime and will be able to prove it in time Mr Hollenhors says that the confession oE Agent of Cedar Kails who is also arrest can not ne borne out when it comes m implicating him in misdeeds charged In speaking of his case Waterloo where he was hold under bonds Mr Hollenhors says confession not only implicates him but three con- two agents and several section foremen A deal whereby the company was robbed by fraudulent ticket sales is made a confession Mr and Mrs McAdoo came here from Mason City about five years ngo At first he was a fireman on the Illinois Central and later about two years ago when he met with an accident he sought easier ment in the factory of the Iowa Dairy Separator Co Of late he had been obliged to walk with crutches News of the death was sent here to a W R Dickey and the hitter's family went to Mason City last night to attend the funeral which will be at Mason City where liis relatives and his wife's re- side WHS Impending It is rather uncanny to accept the belief that McAdoo really thought he had been marked for a sudden and tragic death but his remarks of the past two weeks lead iiis friends to the conclusion that he verily believed life was soon rim with him He spoke about his being only a short time for this world and con- verted such articles of personal erty as he thought he would no er have for into cash He sold his safety razor and other articles and to bo preparing for his exit from the stage of human action McAdoo was a member of the of Locomotive Firemen and carried a small policy of ance in the Ben Hur lodge At the time of his death McAdoo lived on West Mullan avenue be- tween Commercial and Cedar streets but had previously lived at 950 Archbishops to Officiate at Cosgrove Obsequies By Associated Press Davenport la Dec reland of St Paul will preach the sermon Archbishop Kean will celebrate pontifical mass at tho funeral of Bishop grove Thursday morning at ten o'clock gan avenue SEVERE EARTHQUAKE University of California Sell Records Waves guaranteed for his in IRELAND AND KEAN The Hughes sisters win spend the holiday season at their old home In Eyota Minn where they will join the family and relatives in a good old-fashioned reunion and the usual Christmas festivities their business under ment of Miss Emma M James erly of Minneapolis Minn They leave the WE INVITE Small Accounts THE UK Associated Berkeley Calif Dec seismograph at the observatory of the University of California recorded earthquake waves yesterday at nine hours 26 minutes 35 seconds time which indicates a severe earthquake has occurred at a distant point The average percent of waves was fifteen minutes Benson Crownover Is in the city day from Hudson He has recently BOOKS FOR HOLIDAY PRESENTS OUR line of Holiday Books this year is tlie most complete we have ever shown All kinds of Literature Travel Poetry tion and Gift Books in special bindings You can find the book are looking for in oar linois shops it from the Cincinnati art sort ment at the lonot
