Waterloo Evening Courier (Newspaper) - May 6, 1911, Waterloo, Iowa THE FAVORITE RURAL ROUTE NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED 1858 Chicago in May Increasing cloudiness warmer probably Sunday SATURDAY MAY PRICE THREE CENTS Telegram Contains Three Typewritten Pages Con tents Still Secret RUMOR DECLARES SUES EDITOR FOR LIBEL Ackley Iowa May PRESIDENT of a libel suit was ed laat evening by the deputy sheriff on Ira Nichols editor of the Iowa Palls Citizen The complainant s Lewis estate of Eldora This estate is worth perhaps It is alleged that the Citizen libeled the ee In an editorial comment Encouraging Dispatches Are Cause of Rejoicing by Rebel Leaders EL PASO TEX MAY THE ARMISTICE WAS OFF BROKEN OFF BY MADERO AT 1 OCLOCK THIS El Paso Tev May 1 oclock a long message from Minister Limantour addressed to Senor Braniff reached here It is Inferred that it contained private assurances of the atti tude of the government Senor Braniff was at the Ma dero headquarters three miles from here when it came It probably will not reach him for at least an hour hut the fact that it is on its way may deter the rebel leaders from taking ac tion El Paso Tex May armistice expired at 12 oclock and the insurrecto outpost mov ed to as if making ready for an attack An answer from General Navarre was said to be on its way to the Madero head quarters by messenger Merely Man Throws Money to Strangers One Gets Chicago May at he medal goes to Charles L Watson for variety and originality He is the person who scattered wealth among total strangers about the hotel on Tuesday then he got himself conveyed to a hospital finally winding up yesterday in the Detention hospital He Is In the lat ter place now recuperating after a prolonged nervous attack extending from New York to this city As Col Watson of Louisville Ky he came to Chicago a few days ago on a business trip He celebrated the In by throwing currency and stocks and bonds right and left do 130000 worth of securities to one man he had never seen before JUDGE DECIDES The colonel who is said to have arrived at his military title by virtue of a long run of liberal tips to Pull oar porters and hotel attaches Is a traveling man the brother of Mrs Alfred wife of a Chicago let ter carrier at 4500 West Congress street All of the wealth of securities which hr gratuitously threw around at the La Salle botel is said to have been placed in the name of Mre Berner Mrs Homer said last night that her brothers trouble is only the result of overwork and that he will be in nor mental trim in a few days The colonel is known as the de king having been interest ed In a process of transferring prints from paper to glass porcelain etc Business Mens Interest in Peace at Last Session Baltimore Md May final session of the third national peace con gress today was devoted to considera tion of the general topic The Inter est Which Business Men Have in the Peace Movement John Hayea Ham mond presided and among those who were on the program for addresses are John Ball Osborne chief of the bureau of trade relations of the state depart ment Charles E Masonry of Wash ington and W E Ledoux of Canada PLOT 10 T PENNSYLVANIA STRIKE SPREADS Pittsburg Pa May strike of the Pittsburg shops of the vania spread to the di vision of the Pittsburg district this morning when over 100 men quit The strikers claimed that 325 more work men would Join them during the day STRIKERS PILE TIES OX TRACK TO WRECK Violence in Chicagos Railway Labor War Covers Big Zone Chicago violence zone ELOPERS FLEE BUT ARE GIHT SERVICES INTERCEPTED AT WEIN BY POLICE Married Woman Promised to Return to Illinois With Husband Oelwein la May 1 iil i j LJI cv i ti l n Chicago s labor war yesterday here Intercepted an eloping ended from the downtown district to s j c e from DeKalb 111 The the Calumet region on the southern 1 m nr to hp El Paso Tex May era Blanco and Col Garibaldi have stationed themselves ready to receive word from General at headquarters A de of federals has left Juarez scouting for Insurrecto advances El Paso Tex May answer to the request of Francisco I Madero Jr that President Diaz make public assurance given privately of his inten tion to resign was received here by Judge Carbajal federal envoy It came in a long telegram of three typewritten sheets signed by the dent hut what it contains or when it would be made public were ques tions Carbajal early today said he could not answer Arrange for Conference Judge Carbajal notified General Ma deros gobetween today that they were awaiting instructions from Mexico City as to bow to deal with the rebel proposition of laat Thursday The rebel commander having read In a morn ing paper the dispatch from City stating the resignation of dent Diaz was likely to be announced today said they were confident of re through Judge Carbajal some confirmation of the report Maderos Eyes Beam At the insurrecto headquarters across the Ria Grande the rebel chief Francisco I Madero read with beam ing eye the following headline on a local newspaper Early resignation of Diaz regarded as certain in Mexico City He scanned the page eagerly for details REBELS TAKE CITY Canton China May revo have taken on the East river 45 miles east of this city The authorities have dispatch ed troops to intercept them ON STATE PROGRAM SOCIETY IOWA MEDICAL WOMEN ON MAY 18 and snatched the telephone receiver and In a moment was in tion with members of his family at El Paso as well as rebel leaders Indications Gratifying To an Associated Press correspond ent he said he would reserve com ments on the dispatches until late to day He expressed his gratification however at what the dispatches seemed to indicate and said he was anxiously advice as to the contents of the answer of President Diaz Conferees Are Silent Mexico City May city was quiet this morning An announce ment of the governments attitude to ward the rebels demand for the retire ment of President niaz is not forth coming ns yet Although the cabinet which extended until late In the night last night was reported today none of the conferees would say the president was ready to Drs Clark Grace Jerger and Ida Scott to Speak Waterloo Is to be well represented at the annual meeting of the State So ciety Iowa Medical Women to he held at Hotel Chamberlain Ics Moines on Tuesday May 16 ir Margaret V Clark of this city Is chairman of the section on tive Medicine whose program will be given In the afternoon Two other wo men physicians of Waterloo will take part in this section of the program the topics being as follows Infection and Us Grace Waterloo Relation of Ocular and Hy piene to M Scott Waterloo Townsend Han son Sophia Hinze Scott of Des Is president of the society and from al over the state are in cluded in the membership Mrs War ren Garst of Des Moines will give the address of welcome outskirts of the city The police of South Chicago and ot Hammond Ind began an tion Into what they believe to have been a deliberate attempt by striking section men or their sympathizers to wreck a passenger train The attempt was discovered just In time to prevent what undoubtedly would have been a serious accident Late Thursday night a switch engine of the Chicago Indiana and Southern railroad in charge of an engineer and fireman slowed up just outside of Gib son Ind to wait for a target signal While they waited the engineer saw a pile of something on the track ahead le got out with a lantern and ered a pile of ties and old iron on the rack The obstruction immediately was reported and a wrecking crew It away Plan to Wreck Passenger It is believed the ties were piled on he track to intercept a southbound passenger train which enters Gibson every night about 11 oclock Had not he switch engine happened along ac the construction of the railroad at that point would not have prevented a loss of several lives There are about 250 striking main tenance of way men in the Calumet region hut this is the first serious plot accredited to them To prevent any interference with trains the Hammond authorities have sworn In six extra policemen to guard the state line railroad tower man and woman pleaded to be allow ed to occupy one apartment in the city jail but the officers demurred Yesterday the husband of the wom an an officer and an interpreter ar rived from DeKalb and It was learn ed that the man was a gay lothario who was fleeing with a married wom an After the facts became known the man who would steal anothers wife was allowed to go to his desti nation Miles City Montana and the husband by using much eloquence induced his wife to return home and be good Petit Personal Friend of Senator Protects Ed ward Tildens Books BARS SENATE FROM INVESTIGATION Inclination of Court is Ap parent From First Few Minutes Chicago May 6 Judge Petit in circuit court today declared the Illi state senate could not force in of the private accounts of K1 ward His decision having effect was to uphold tho writ of Witnesses in Ohio Boodle Cases Missing Columbus O May Attorney Turner says that he Is In re of information to effect that Borne of important witnesses who were to have been subpoenaed in the legislative bribe are missing and probably have fled from the state Some of men wanted atv woH known lobbyists whose presence in ho tels and at tho State house was a sub ject of ever legis lature convened A wellknown official who has heen connected with the State houso for years is quoted as haying said that this legislature Is the most corrupt in his experience and he will probably be summoned before the grand jury TO corpus obtained by and Benedict after they had heen ar rested on charges of contempt of the state in refusing to present the ac counts to the Helm committee Inclination Apparent The decision took nearly one hour to read and included a quantity of tes timony taken before the committee at Springfield It was seen from the first few minutes reading that the was inclined to uphold the contention of the defendants attorney N C Sears that the senate had no right to force entry to private accounts aa a person named as directly as the rec ords show was especially when that person under oath declared none of his accounts would throw any light on the subject at issue Tilden named by Funk of the International Harvester company as a person to whom he was directed to send a check for 110000 to make up a budget of 100000 alleged to have been used In electing a United States senator May Cio to Appellate Court Attorney John J represent the Helm committee was given ten days In which to file exceptions He indicated that the case probably would be renewed by the appellate court Judge Petit based his decision In a large part on the promise that the Child Welfare of New York efforts are attracting much newspaper comment Her husband Is president of school board of Now York City The child welfare is endeavoring to bring about bet terment of social conditions in the city especially among thn children of tho Many showing Ideal home life nnd perfect sanitary condi tions were shown in tho exhibit of pictures Mrs Hervey had with her and helped to mako tho mnst Mrs has traveled extensively and has studied conditions abroad and IB a go that every ono enjoyed hearing FINAL DAY ON FREEST Two Weeks Debate on Democratic Cornea To Close in House OVER 100 SPEECHES HAVE BEEN MADE Interest Today is Centered on Committees Report on Statehood Washington May 6 After two weeks debate the democratic placing on the fren list manufactured articles calculated to benefit the far mers of th country reached Its final day nf general discussion In the house torlay More speeches have heen marie since the was called up her The vocal by Miss Schab were very pleasing Miss is an instructor in kindergarten in Du buque and has also studied music making a of childrens BANK STATEMENT New York May statement of clearing house banks for the week shows that the banks hold more than the requirements of the 25 per cent reserve rule This is a de crease of in the proportion ate cash reserve as compared with last week The statement follows Loans decrease Specie decrease 3670300 Legal tenders decrease Deposits decrease Circulation decrease Reserve decrease Surplus decrease U S deposits decrease The summary of state banks and trust companies not reporting to the clearing house Loans Specie Legal tenders Total deposits That Fifth street east shall become one of the best commercial centers in the city and that people shall be at there in large crowds is ap parent from the fact that a fund has been subscribed by the merchants for Saturday evening band concerts by LaRues Waterloo band The first concert of the series will take place this evening Last Saturday evening there was music and thousands visited that part of the city The new electrolier lighting system adds its attractive ness and the merchants and business men are doing everything In their to turn the tide of heavy Sat night traffic from Fourth to Fifth street The blocks between Sycamore and LaFayette streets Is being built up solidly with modern buildings whole proceedings before the committee were Invalid Helm Ousted Employees of Rock Island Arsenal to Return Rock Island 111 May letter has been received from Chairman James McKinnie stating ho has a promise from General chief of the ordnance department of the Unit ed States army that C C Wilson and A Johnson the two employes at the Rock Island arsenal shops who were discharged for allowing names to be used as candidates for nomination for commissioners SUNDAY SCHOOL ATHLETIC LEAGUE H R Tee physical director of the i MC A has under way the or of a Sunday school league in Waterloo Superintendents of the different Sunday schools In the city met with Mr Iee last evening and the plan was outlined in a cen oral way meeting the hearty approv al of those present The question of the organization of a Sunday school v wiu Presented in different schools tomorrow for adoption or rejection and each school will bo asked fo send two delegates to a meeting to be held at tho Y Monday evening at oclock Mr Lee and MC Vaughan of the First Baptist church are preparing an out line of the proposed organization Frank Fuller night operator at the Illinois Central telegraph office has teen kept more than busy torlay all because of a tenpound hoy who arrived at his home last evening Mr Fuller has decided that he will spend all of his evenings at his home 212 Randall street in the future Rev Dr E W Curtis of Des Moines general superintendent of the northern district of the United nomination for commissioners in the Brethren in Christ ban moved his recent city primaries in Rock Island family to Waterloo and Is now locat will be reinstated at once Jed at 1203 Second street weet FRENCHMAN FALLS FROM GREAT HEIGHT Shanghai May Vallon Drench aviator fell from a great today and was Instantly killed Vallon has been giving exhibitions in this country for six weeks in of interesting the Chinese government n military aviation FIGHT RAGES THIRD ANNUAL SESSION OOV CLUDED TODAY Gathering in Waterloo Was a Complete Success H B Addington arrived this morn ng from Chicago and win be an over Sunday visitor at the home of F M Shores on Park avenue east In the neighborhood of fifteen Wa Mystic Shriners left for Du buque at various times yesterday where they are attending the state convention of the order Colo May one bal lot was Taken for United States sena tor at the joint noon session of the Colorado legislature This was un productive of results and fhe Joint ses sion took a recess until 8 p m Denver Colo May the fight to select a successor to the late Senator Hughes Jr will be waged un today from noon until mid night the hour for the final adjourn ment of the legislature with a proba that the deadlock of the last 120 days will be found unbroken at the finish was the indication at the begin ning of the lapt day of the Eight general assembly Efforts to bring the democratic majority of the legislature an agreement on the senatorship last night proved ing The third cession ft the Iowa Kindergarten Union which concluded its two days meeting this afternoon was in every way a most gathering Fully a hundred kindergarten teach ers from different parta of tho state were present including the class of thirty from the Iowa State college which 5s to graduate in two weeks Miss Ward head nf the kindergarten department of the Teach ers college and the first president of the Iowa Kindergarten Union has heen present Miss Bessie Park of Des Moines who was president last year was unable to attend Miss Louise Whitney of is this years Numbers by the East Waterloo high orchestra were also iven Play Festival Morning Feature Tho held their referred ing this morning in the manual train Ing auditorium of East Waterloo high school the program being with a solo by Miss Bessie Churchill sup of Enst Waterloo An Interesting discussion followed in which many points of interest wure brought out in two excellent papers the first on What We Expect to Give a Kindergarten Child by Mies Hen rietta Harken of Cedar Rapids and What We Expert From a ten Child by Mies Charlotte Choate of Waterloo The play waa held In the gymnasium and was led by Miss Ruth Dowdell critic teacher at the Teach ers College and senior class of the kindergarten department The young girls were all In white and as they played different games they marto a pleasing picture In several they pang as they moved about and they showed themselves full of the scious grace which la the charm of all kindergarten workers Beautiful Luncheon At noon today an elaborate luncheon was served by the Waterloo ten teachers in the dining room of the manual training building The tables were beautifully decorated in a pink and white color plan with carnations as centerpiece and with place cards decorated with apple blos soms and nut baskets In pink The de licious menu was served under the di rection of Miss Jessie Sweeney chair man of the committee hy the Water loo kindergarten cadets After luncheon the visitors were giv en an automobile about the city as the conclusion for the delightful two days convention Oat of Town Visitors Among the out of town members present at the convention were Du Whitney Eugenia Hol Frieda Goebel and Anna Thedinga Schab Nelle Moser Elsie Ibach Charles Fell Vera fluent Rock E Saunders Ida M Woods Hawarden Mary Whet a week ago last Monday The democratic leaders asserted to day that all amendments would be voted down and the hill passed as agreed upon In the democratic caucus Statehood Interests Interest was centered today In the forthcoming report of the committee on territory relating to statehood for Arizona and New Mexico which will he the next legislation on the tive program to he considered The subcommittee to which the matter report to the full committee on Monday and It in turn will report to the house probably on Tuesday CHRIST PRIES SUMMED BY DEATH Christ Pries a resident of Water loo for a few months only the fam ily residing at 139 Adams street died this morning at 9 oclock at the hos pital where he had been for the past four weeks Mr Pries underwent a surgical operation for the from an abscess and cancer of the stom ach He was born in Knoxville la July 4 1868 and early became a resident of Sumner la where was married to Louisa Warnecke who survives with four children Funeral services will be conducted Monday afternoon at 2 oclock at the home The remains will he taken to Sumner and services will be conduct ed at that place on Tuesday Burial will be at Sumner Mr Pries was a member of the MB A Local delegates of the United Com Travelers association left last evening for Mason City to attend the state convention They will endorse the names of two for na tional delegates Two small boys have confessed to the that they robbed the OCon nor residence inthe north part of tha city last Sunday They secured a couple of childs banks and about 50 cents in money I J W Marcelus has been cited to appear in police court this afternoon on a charge of reckless driving of an automobile it IB said he ran into a motorcyclist last evening SLEEPY Gnu RIDES ON CAR CLAD IX PAJAMAS Omaha Neb ed only la nnd bedroom slippers Miss Sadie Allen a yonng society woman rode three miles in her sleep on a midnight owl car last night She hoarded the car ano drop prd Into a with eyes half closed and was the object of the mirth of four young men passen gers and the protection of the alarmed conductor the car reached a downtown hotel Here the conductor called a po and a moment Inter MiM Allen was awakened with a dash of water She was taken home in a taxicab AT ARTHUR I A Moires May starting from a threatened ths of business section of Arthur near Ida Grove today 7 flames extinguished by brigade after had destroyed the buildings and burned the roofs off j of welcome which three others president and with the other officers I F hold office until the fall meeting when the annual election takes place Miss Miriam Hoover of Waverly is the secretary and treasurer zel Gray Mason Ramsey Doro thy Hobby Miss Cedar Harken Olive Holmquest Cedar Ward Ruth Dowdell C Hoover Doris B S Harrison has juat from a business trip through southern Minnesota He reports growing crops and crop conditions in that section as never better Able Executive Miss Whitney in her presidents ad dress given yesterday afternoon at the opening meeting in the Central Kin made a plea for the of kindergarten instruction its imp TUnce in the life of the child Beebe Webster Miss Murphy Teachers College Class Besides these are the thirty mem bers of the Teachers college class who are soon to complete the course Thee are Grace Leonard Waverly Tennle Dunham Garnet Tipton Elizabeth Woodward Cedar Falls Olive Diehl Dunlap Irene Tre Walter R Peterson of Cedar Rapids is expected in the city this evening for an visit with friends the state She has built up the kinder work of her city In wonderful manner She is a strong executive and gave a spirited and inspiring address af Mrp GOVERNOR VETOES Des Moines May Car roll today vetoed the Dunlap pass ed by recent legislature which re quired that fams must turn out so that automobile may pass to tho left when both are In the di rection along the public The governor declared the Is too drastic MAY Markings supplied hy Buchanan Optical Co Syndicate Block 12 night 55 6 j 10 1 p m 72 Standard Sc cigar Mason City Grace Petite Atlantic Baker Atlantic Florence Mer rJam Charles City Mabel Edith Roland Anderson Rock Rapid Beu Bingham Gretchen Green Evan White Marlon Wyant and Ber Sampson was much enjoyed as were the delightful child reading by Mis Starr In Local Charge The local teachers who have had loo At thr do of the afternoon session the visitors were Invited to have a cup of tea as guests of Mis Cloyd kinder garten of West Waterloo and the other teacher of the depart ment Mrs Fine The address of the evening was giv en by Mrs Hervey of York The whila the others who helped car ry out the successful plans were Misses Jessie Sweeney Frances Burns Evelyn Elsie Garrison Alice fa son Erma Cloyd and Miss Chapin GOVERNOR SIGNS TWO BILLS Des Moines May Car roll today signed the Clarkson pro Union was better protection for miners In getting Mr Hervey to come and the omnibus which corrects to Waterloo and were able to do so as she came re from the Interna tonal Kindergarten Union in Cincin nati where she lectured Mrs Hervey is a member of tha several defects in the Insurance complete the measures enacted by the recent legislature For gentlemen Saa Sc HONESTY There are men who do not ti vide actions merely Into those that are honest and those that are not but create a third of law honesty of that kind of honesty which con Bists In keeping clear of the pen The distinction upon which we must Insist to the vital deep lying distinction between the honest man and dishonest man There are men who use the practical aa a euphemism for dirty politics and it is snch men who the word politi Into discredit There men who use business is AS excuse for every kind ef and crooked work and these men make honest Ameri cans bang their heads of some of the things thay da The scoundrel who can never by any possibility aa dangerous as the who succeeds and of all man ta the country the wont those who should excite in mr minds the most coo abhorrence are the have achieved great sr any other form of save a dean and
