Waterloo Evening Courier (Newspaper) - May 23, 1914, Waterloo, Iowa Popular Paper m of aft Sections Water too WATERLOO DAILY Chicago May tled weather tonight and Banter probably showers warmer portion tonight WATERLOO IOWA SATURDAY MAY 23 1914 PRICE THREE CENTS STILL mm Administration Satisfied With Re ports That Preliminary Peace Negotiations Are Proceeding Satisfactorily VICE SILLIMAN SAFE IN MEXICO CITY BUN SETS FIRE TO LONG ISLAND FARM Intense Heat Flames in Hay Stacks and Several Buildings Are Burned Chas Becker Again Convicted of Murder of Gambler Rosenthal Meanwhile the South American Mediators Proceed Slowly Finding Difficulty in Getting an Agreed Starting Point Washington D C May Watchful waiting on mediation con to be the attitude of the Washington government today in the Mexican situation President Wilson left the White House early for a ride after receiving encouraging reports of the preliminary peace negotiations from American Commissioners Lamar and Lehmann Evidencing no anxiety over the military situation Secretary Garrison had gone to Atlantic City for a few days rest Secretary Bryan was re over the safe arrival of Amer ican Vice Consul John R Silliman at Mexico City He received a dispatch from the Brazilian minister in the Mexican capital stating Silliman was In good health and would remain at the Brazilian legation until Monday Representatives of the Mexican here resumed con over the somewhat uncertain mediation situation as concerning their interest expecting to hear from General Carranza and to receive a call from Jose Vasconcelos Mr Vasconcelos who had been mentioned rs a probable agent of the to keep them in touch with proceedings already had Bounced he had received no In of such a nature and that he coming to Washington to confer representatives of his chief U the war and navy departments routine communications were receiv ed early In the day from General Funston at Vera Cruz and American admirals in Mexican waters Consul Canada forwarded a wireless message sent yesterday from Tampico asking that New York underwriters be ad vised that the steamer Atlantis which ran ashore two days ago 20 miles north of Point Jerez probably will be a total loss The steamer Monterey which left Puerto Mexico yesterday Consul Canada reported would proceed to New Orleans carry Ing 456 refugees At the war department it was an that telegraphic tion between Brownsville and Tam pico had been reestablished and that the railroad between Eagle Pass and Monclova had been reopened Secretary Bryan John Lind Clias A Douglass the latter representing the agency had a long conference at the state depart ment after which Mr Bryan went to the White House the men would reveal the subject of their conference SLOWLY Niagara Falls Ont May While it Is plain the South American mediators of the Mexican situation are anxious to proceed as rapidly as possible and are devoting hard work and long hours continuously to their effort they realize that definite es results must come without undue haste It seems there has been some in getting the parties to the conference to agree concerning an essential phase of the preliminaries The mediators declined to disclose the character of the difficulties which are causing delay but are con their efforts to bring the American and Mexican delegates to gether on common ground Announcement was made shortly after noon today that the first full conference between the mediators and both the American and Mexican delegates will be held tonight It was arranged at the request of the Mexican delegates who met the mediators informally this morn ing after which the South American sent for the American del egates to consult them about matter Freeport L I May limit of early summer heat was reached here Wednesday when it set fire to the David Gale farm leased by Leonard Hass and burned several j buildings Mr Hass who is about 80 years old was in a poultry house gathering eggs when he heard a crackling In the hay stacks outside and saw that they were burning He said the only way they could have caught fire was from the suns rays and the sun was the hottest here this week It has been for many years att this time of year Teachers In the public school which is near the farm saw the lire also and they told all the boys who are members of the Boy Scouts that could leave at once to fight the flames The Scouts had to leave their lessons but they hurried to the scene of the conflagration and by forming a bucket brigade they saved the residence and the smoke house All of the other were destroyed buildings SALT FROM SHOTGUN ROUTS PEEPING TOM Man Is Driven from Womans Bunga low After Nightly Calls Dur ing a Month Former Police Lieutenant of New York City Returned to Tombs Given Ten Days to File Doubtless Will Be Pronounced on Friday May tion Has Additional Evidence to Thwart New Trial New York May the sec ond time Chas E Becker former police lieutenant today occupies a cell in Tombs prison the convicted murderer of Herman Rosenthal gam bler for the actual killing of whom the four gunmen paid the penalty in the electric chair a little more than a month ago Today as on Oct 25 1912 the day following his first conviction for the murder of Rosenthal Beckers only hope lay in an appeal On Fri day of next week he will be sen and soon thereafter he will he returned to the death house at Sing Sing prison which he left last February on the order of the court of appeals that he be given a new trial An appeal which is certain to be of Mrs Frank Bailey and her ters the Misses Edith and Bessie Bailey last night for the first time in nearly a month The reason for his absence from outside a window on the porch of the Bailey bungalow in Northridge street was a generous charge of rock salt propelled from a shotgun in the hands of Mrs Baileys broth Harry Lawrence who was called in by Mrs Bailey to age the peeping proclivities of the unidentified man Every night the Bailey sisters and sometimes their mother were frightened by the face of a man none of them knew pressed against the windows of their bedrooms soon after 10 oclock Thursday night Mr Lawrence awaited the strangers appearance He had the shotgun loaded with rock salt in readiness The stranger appeared at the usual hour What do you want shouted Mr Lawrence The man mumbled a few words turned and fled Mr Law rence theu fired one barrel of the gun The man tried to climb a fence and in doing so presented an appearance Irresistible to the man with the gun The stranger screamed but managed to escape The con stables have not been able to trace the peeper since he left the fence DURN THAT PESKY HEN THEN BIDDIE IS SLAIN Illinois Citizen Murders His Own Fowl in Pays Fine of Chicago May death of a black hen was marked by a trial be fore Carlton Prouty justice of the peace In Winnetka yesterday Sells Calak was accused of putting the fowl to death Mrs Helen Olsen complaining witness said that she heard the distressed squawks of a hen and saw her neighbor drive the hen into a barn by throwing stones She remonstrated Whereupon Calak grabbed the hen and threw it on the ground many times Mrs Olsen call ed up the Illinois Humane society and took out a warrant for her neighbor Calak acknowledged he had killed the hen in a temper We was fined Congregationalists Against the Saloon Dr Schenck a prominent Des Moines specialist who was for merly a resident of Waterloo and is a brother of Mrs F C Sage of this city has gone to New York City where he will take a two months course of special study Smoke El Verso Havana lOc advertisement If through error of the car rier boy or other cause this pa per should not be delivered at your home by 6 oclock please phone 3330 and a copy of the paper will be sent After p m please tele phono all complaints to the night phone or No 2 after 8 p m Marshalltown la May in Iowa was brought squarely face to face with the liquor question Thursday afternoon It was forced to meet the issue which had been injected into the denomination by Rev W M Short pastor of the First Congregational Church of Sioux City signing a saloon petition of con sent and by Rev Mr Shorts church appealing to the conference to sup port it against its pastor Meeting the issue and answering the call of the Sioux City church the state conference put aside all other business late in the afternoon of its i last day put itself on record as posing the whiskey traffic and the saloon and its stamp of disapproval i upon the conduct of any preacher who signed a saloon petition Fol lowing the lead farther it as its opposition to the land j These questions of temperance the i saloon and Rev Mr Short came up i in the report of the resolutions composed of Rev 0 II j Holmes of Cedar Falls F A crip of this city and Mrs Harry Howard of Oskaloosa With tancy that amounted almost to eager ness the conference awaited tho rei port of this committee It was ar1 that It should report In the middle of the afternoons program and practically tho entire strength of i the conference was present an audi ence of between 300 and 400 Dr J L Powers who has been making an stay with rela tives in Belle hns returned here and will spend the summer with his daughter Mrs J A Webb Eleventh and Washington Streets will act as a stay of execution giving Becker more than a year to live and with it the hope of another reversal of the judgment of the trial court Martin T Manton chief of the Becker lawyers announced that hla appeal would be based on the ad mission of the testimony of Mrs Lil lian Rosenberg widow of Lefty Louie the gunman the ruling of the court in refusing to hear before the jury the argument on the ad of the Dago Frank confession and on the jus tices charge to the jury to which he took exception in court Becker refused to discuss the ver dict To a newspaper reporter the condemned man replied to an expres sion of sorrow that I feel sorry for myself Then he was led away to his cell I The only conference today for Becker was with his counsel Martin T Manton and Mrs Becker The basis for an appeal from the verdict HELD Florence Italy May Flor entine art student Pietro Rossi ar rested today on suspicion confessed that he shot and wounded Mrs Mary Flavelle of Chicago on Thursday while she was on a train between Florence and Assisi He said I am a student at the social science institute here and am 24 years old I had gambled almost all the money I possessed and had started on my way home to Monti in order to inform my fam ily of my predicament On the train however I saw an old lady who apparently had one foot In the grave and to whom wealth could not mean much The sight of the well dressed woman tempted me and I attacked her I would not have tried to kill her if she had not screamed when I grasped her valise I then lost my reason and fired The accused man Is kept under close watch The condition of Mrs Flavelle had Improved today and the doctors stated she would probably survive if her constitution waa strong enough to enable her to recuperate from the great loss of blood It was said was the subject under discussion BECKER SPENDS NIGHT Becker spent a quiet night in his cell in the Tombs and awoke refresh ed and comparatively cheerful District Attorney Whitman today received the following letter from Mayor I have Just heard of the outcome of the Becker case Tho whole com munity is under obligation to you Your work has been splendid The district attorney It was learn ed today will submit to handwriting experts a number of letters which he believes were by Becker to the condemned during their Judge Lindsey Is Denied Interview New York May D Rockefeller jr put an end today to rumors of a proposed conference with Judge Ben B Lindsey of Denver rel ative to the Colorado strike situation by stating through his secretary the interview would never take place At Mr Rockefellers office it was said a letter and a telegram had been received from Judge Lindsey asking for an interview but Mr Rockefeller had refused to meet him The report that Judge Lindsey had been admitted to the Rockefeller es tate at Hills last night and had spent the night there was ab surd said Mr Rockefellers secre tary Judge Lindsey who Arrived in this city today said that he still had hopes of meeting Mr Rockefeller I come straight from the people of Colorado said Judge Lindsey and I want to present to Mr Rocke feller some aspects of the situation of which I am suro he is ignorant I shall however adopt none of the tactics employed by the socalled mourners and 1 shall not try to force myself on Mr Rockefeller If he does not care to see me I think I can stand it stay In the Sing Sing death house These letters were turned over to tho prosecutor by the widow of Lefty Louie Rosenberg They passed from Becker to the gunmen it is believed between the leaves of books of the prison library which are permitted to circulate among the prisoners con to death Although written in disguised hand the district attorney believes they came from Becker and he Is holding them In reserve for an op to use them aa evidence against the convicted police ant In the latters efforts tp obtain a reversal of judgment from the court of appeals PROMPTLY SHOOT Naco Ariz May over to the Mexican side of the line early today Alejandro Rochin a former Huerta employe at Naco So nora shouted Viva Huerta and promptly received three bullets which killed him A constitutional ist custom guard fired the shots ac cording to an American army sentry who saw the shooting Mexican authorities said Rochin had attacked the customs guard with a knife The mans body was left lying in the street several hours Rochin who had been a refugee leaves a family here Golf Honors to Scotchman Liner Gang Plank Snaps 3 Drowned Sandwich England May L C Jenkins of Troon Scotland won the British amateur golf champion ship today by defeating C L Hezlet of Portrush Ireland by three up and two to play in the final round of 36 holes IS DROWNED AT ALTON ILL Alton 111 May Cow an an aeronaut was drowned in the Mississippi here last night when the balloon in which he was soaring dropped into the stream j New York May drown ed and 14 injured appeared today to sum up the casualties incident to the breaking of the gang plank leading to the steamship Frederick VIII yes The dead arc Annette Feld schau a child and Mrs Anna Ed wardsen both of whose bodies were recovered and 3 yearold daughter Mary MEXICAN WAR VETERAN AT AGE OF 93 Kansas City Mo May A Drew 93 years old a member of expedition to Mexico and a veteran of Civil war died at his home in Rosedale a suburb here today on an of tho of the Doniphan expedition at Saltillo Trying to Keep Out of Politics Oyster Bay N Y May trying to keep out of politics as much as possible just now said Col Roosevelt today The colonel made this statement in response to a question about tho organization of the Progressive par ty and his opinion regarding pro for its amalgamation with the Republican party He declined to express any views on these subjects Just at present Col Roosevelt said he was busy with preparation of a new book that would take up his spare time until after his return from Spain which will be 011 July 4 Another political conference was to be held today with Al bert J Beveridge Indiana Progres sive leader Theodore Douglas Rob inson New York Progressive state chairman and Regis Post former governor of Porto Rico 24 Firemen Hurt in Chicago Blaze Chicago May fire men wero In horn today suf fering from serious injuries received in the 11 ro and explosion which yes destroyed a saloon conducted by Gazzolo an brother Alderman Frank Six other injured by Hy ing and masonry wore In hos arid six firemen and 19 citizens were under care of physicians ut homes The was owned it was said by of Los An geles Cal The two upper floors were occupied by lodge halls OPEN CREATED BY COLLAPSE OP CONCRETE Breeding Condition Allowed to Remain Dceplte If soldiers to Invade Waterloo they could be cited to a place that would make them wish thoy were buck home again This place that for more than two years has been a discredit to the city is located on Eighteenth street a short distance north of Commercial and along the old mill race There In a natural basin something like two hundred feet In diameter IB de posited all the filth from that part of the city A concrete sewer that runs from the vicinity of the Presbyterian hospital Is a wreck at this point and the sewage all seeps out to perfume the neighborhood and spread the gorms of disease through out the vicinity by High Two years ngo last fall this sewer was laid and the following March It was wrecked by the high water It is claimed by some that it was Im properly laid Through this basin which Is a couple of hundred feet from the river the sewer has lain exposed on the sandy ground with absolutely nothing to protect it When the high waters came they washed the sand out from under It and the concrete collapsed Quite a number of families reside in that Immediate neighborhood and several of them have children who In of all watchfulness will get to this cesspool Some times the little tots got Into the filth and then run home to their mothers reeking with the odor which already pervades the neighborhood Stench la Intolerable In the winter time It is not so bad but in the summer when a hot sultry day happens along the stench is al most unbearable According to res the matter has been brought to the attention of the proper author but nothing has ever been done Nels Sorenson who lived in that lo for some time but who a year ago removed with his family to Ce dar Falls stated that he has made frequent complaints not only to health authorities but to at least one councilman and that promises were made which no attempt was ever made to fulfill While there has been no typhoid fever in that locality it does not fol low that there never will be Con ditions could not be more Ideal for breeding an epidemic Some of the people who reside near this filth hole are Clarence Stephens Roy Kauf man Robert Morrow George King and Bert Baum They are hoping that the day will soon come when they will be given relief Wells not Yet Poisoned That wells In the neighborhood have not been contaminated with the disease breeding filth Is probably due to the fact that the basin where in It is deposited Is quite a little low er than surrounding land There is no assurance however that their purity Is protected for the future Boat Carried Grew of TwentyFive Men and All Are Thought To Have Perished VESSEL WAS NEW AND EN ROUTE FROM PAISLEY Wreckage and Bodies Discovered Near Steam ers Are Sent Out Halifax Nova Scotta May The loss of the new lightship Halifax No 19 with all of the 25 men on board IB Indicated by the discovery of wreckage and three bodies near Liscomb 100 east of day The lightship waa on way this port from Paisley Scotland where she waa built The lightship which waa due hero yesterday IB believed to struck a rock while feeling her way through tho thick fog that has enshrouded the coast for several daya The wreckage was sighted and the bodies picked up by the steamer which reported that life belts marked Halifax No were strapped each of the On receipt of the news of the wreck the government marine agency here made preparations to send out steamers In search of other bodies The lightship sailed a few daya ago from St Johns where she had stopped for coal M BY POLICE OF Des la May Meyer alleged abductor of Elizabeth Huppertz of la who is be ing held by the police of Winnipeg Manitoba at the request of Attorney General Cosson of Iowa has engaged attorneys and will fight extradition it was announced this afternoon He has admitted his Identity The Hup girl who Is 15 years old re turned to the home of her parents at from California last week after an absence of nearly a year fol lowing her disappearance was arrested last night Geo Bid well special agent of the department of justice who Is in Winnipeg today received instructions to employ coun sel and apply to Washington for ex tradition papers UNCLE JOE CANNON 18 SURE A Danville HI May the presence of 40 of the most prominent Republican politicians in the Eigh congressional district Includ ing the chairmen of the six counties Uncle Joe Cannon announced that he would be a candidate for in the coming election The an was made at the home of the former speaker In this city following a luncheon at which the committee and political leaders were guests Replying to a former of the committee chairman Mr Can non said that although he intended making another race and this state ment might be taken by the people as a declaration of his political In tentions he was not yet ready to make a formal announcement Town Criers Special Train a Big Advertisement for Waterloo SEATTLES MI MCI PAL RAILWAY IS OPENED Railroads Pay for Folders Giving Bej falls of Received j from NonMembers Who Contem plate Joining One of Few In Country to Engage Complete Train Equipment HARDTACK CONTRACTOR j OF WAR is DEAD St Louis Mo May D Dozier a capitalist philanthropist and a member of one of the oldest families of St Louis died here today of hardening of the arteries at tho ago of years Mr Dozier was reputed to havn been a millionaire The family for tune was made selling hardtack to the during the civil war Mr Dozier was a member of tho ex committee of the Louisiana exposition lie was one of tho organizers of the St Louia Aero i club and was the first president j Torar cigar for 15000 ADDITIONAL HANDS TO tT CHOP Oklahoma City Okla May 23 additional hands lie needed in ma to harvest the 1914 wheat according State Commissioner hero to diy The commissioner the crop at 411000000 bushels Seattle Wash Mny tion of the first division of Seattles municipal street car system was bei gun today The line extends from the business part of the city to Balj lard a district four miles north Twentyfive tickets are I sold for a dollar but ordinary fare laj five cents Tho city is negotiating for purchase of tho Seattle Renton I Southern railroad which connects tho line opened today i ALBANIA CAPITAL THREATENED England May patches from Albania indicate that tho capital of tho now principality is in danger of attack by insurgent fol lowers of Essad Pasha former min ister of war who was recently de i ported and went to Italy The folders prepared by H E Kiester manager of the Town Criers special train to Toronto and the east which will be distributed among i members and others interested wera paid for by the railroad companies While it Is hoped to fill a train by Town Criers it is likely that others will be taken In by paying a resident membership Many inquiry ies have come from school teachers i and others both locally and in adj joining towns relative to tho and the prospects aro that tho tatton of the Town Criers and of Wa to do really big things will I again be sustained in the journey to Toronto and Portland Me No other single brings such and valuable publicity to Waterloo All through the oast where tho train Is scheduled the newspapers will feature the trip for Waterloo is ona of the few cities In the country to use an entire train All of the other Ad clubs of Iowa will join in what will be known as an Ad Mens Train It is expected that New York Boston and Chicago will have specials and Waterloo will be in that class Tho schedule contemplates that the tourists will spend five nights In their berths on the train Last year they spent seven nights four on the way to Baltimore and three return Ing from New York This year the trip will be much more restful and recreative than last year for there will not be the big program of en en route It is expected however that there will be entertain ment of some sort with automobile rides at Portland and Boston On the return visit the stops at Davenport and Cedar Rapids will be Interesting features because the Town will havo an opportunity to meet the commercial club repre of those cities Because many of those who will mako tho trip will wish to be home for the Fourth of July It has been arranged to reach Waterloo on the night of July 3
