Abilene Daily Reflector from Abilene, Kansas • Page 1

blkm skyTY SI 4PftUjD xvn. ABILENE, KANSAS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 22, 1903. NO 1U7: A BIG NEW YORK FIRE. SECTARIAN SCHOOLS. A FRISC0 ACCIDENT.

The Oklahoma Express Wrecked Near Fort Scott, Kan. Catholic Indian Missions Want to Secure Government Aid. Eczema it icildnw the plilu, Itches, oozes, aeil rics! Mime i cull it p.tter, milk crust or rheum. I'm- i inu- It Is sometimes Incense: 1 1 ii 1 1 ic.ni. hi ns are resorted to-Ill, mil icilte.

Inn ciiiii.it cure. It proceeds f-n-n hiiim.rx iiiticrlled or ac-cpiiicl and persists until Unsu have been removed. Hood's Sarsaparilla pnxilivHy removes Unn ra-Iirully and iTiiianently curei. the worst cases, and In without fill iUh1 for all culuneuus erupt ton a. ti mi liit! Ural nitliurtlc.

I'l-icuceuuT CBosing ut I Sale 3 MATTER TO BE l'OLCHT IN CONGRESS AN OPES SWITCH WAS THE CAUSE. A Hre Clilpf I.oe III Life tf the Vt nil I-ailing A I'Mule Anions Italians lu Tenement. New York, Dec. 22. The famous "two nines'' fire alarm, summoning more lire apparatus than any til her alarm provided lor by New York's flr department, was sounded lusi night for a terrific lire which destroyed the six-story factory building of I be Herrmann furniture and plumbing cabinet works In Mod street and the four-story varnish factory of the firm, run under the name of the Herrmann Lumber company.

A quarter of a million dollars damage was done, liattalion Chief Martin Coleman perished In the fall of two great walls of the factory. There was a frightful panic among the Italian Inmates of the swarmlug front and rear tenements opposite and In the rear of the burning buildings and the firemen and police reserves from three precincts had the utmost difficulty In getting the people out to the street. 1 Having decided to quit the retail grocery business I offer the entire Stock, Fixtures and all at special low prices. durd HURD Attorneys at Law. A H1LENE, KANSAS.

B. 8. SMITH, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, ortlceover Abilene stale Bank bi l.ff nr, Kansas. CAPITAL AND LABOR. Ice.

pune '-i H. L. HUMPHREY ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. FOrHc. flrst-Btalrwuy tout)! of pofltofttce Cedar st reet.

Telephone AHU.KNK, KANBAB. A trip.iMltliiii That Cmigre Shall Appro-prlnle HII1.IIIHI a er for Two Venn r.tr llatlon to I'ntill Secretary Hitchcock Opponeil to I'lan. Washington. Dee. 22.

The fight for a revival of the policy of government aid lo sectarian schools will be renewed when congress assembles. The board of Catholic Indian missions has been conducting a quiet campaign In this connection for several months, and its plans are now perfected. The matter will be brought up In the house when the Indian appropriation bill is under consideration, but It Is not expected that that body will act In the affirmative. The Issue is to be fought out in the senate, where an amendment providing rations for pupils in sectarian schools In the Indian territory was ruled out last winter on a point of order made by Mr. Lodge, of Massachusetts.

While the board of Catholic missions, through Its officials, asserts that there is no desire for a permanent policy of governmental aid to the religious schools maintained on the various reservations, Indian officials fear that the present light has such a purpose iih its ultimate end. It Is explained by the board that the action of congress in suspending appropriations has resulted In embarrassment to the Indian schools in a financial way. They are now obliged to depend entirely upon their own resources, Ihe result being thill the elliclency of Ihe schools is somewhat Impaired. II Is desired that the government shall issue rut inns to pupils in the sectarian schools for two years, congress to appropriate $200. for each year.

The argument made Is a convincing one. In Ihe opinion of Mr. Jones, commissioner of Indian affairs, but Secretary Hitibcock is unit 1 1 era lily opposed lo the appropriation of public money for the sectarian Institutions, and there is no doubt that If the amendment is referred to him by the senate committee he will make an adverse report. Interesting developments In this connection are ex peeled when the Indian bill is reported. Prominent leaders In Ihe senate, among them Senator Ilnn-na, favor the proposil ion to issue rations to the Indian pupils In the sectarian Indian schools.

8. BTtELSMITH, Id. lirgoon, AHILKNK' KANf-AS f'mrtlr Hniltrd to Hurtreiy eUirKlnal I) ftRpH, tf Women Mid Dlneaiie 'if Kye, The. Hperlal Committer or tha Manurao-turer' Aoelatlon or New York l'reenu a Keport nn the NuhJeeU New York, Dec. 22.

After working on Ihe problem for over a year, a special committee of the Manufacturers' association of New York presented a report on the subject of capital and labor at the meeting in the rooms of the association in lirooklyn last night. The report, which was laid on the tnble until the next meeting, discusses the finest ion of labor and capllal at much length, dealing with the Inception of the trusts and the rise of the labor unions. It suggests as the solution of some of the labor troubles the restriction of Immigration and the founding of trades schools, a diploma from which will insure its owner a right to work unmolested for such wages and such hours ns may be agreeable to him personally. Picketing at Houses of Mourning in Chicago to Be Stopped. tne announcement that peace plane looking to a settlement of the strike had been launched.

Through the efforts of the Chicago board of arbitration, which was largely Instrumental In the settlement of the laundry strike last summer, a committee of four was appointed at a meeting of the four liverymen anil undertakers' associations to meet with a committee of four from the drivers' union and endeavor tn bring about an amicable adjustment of the trouble. The committee got together last night and agreed upon a basis of arbitrating the difficulty. The proposition will be submitted to a vote of the men on both sides tn-rtav nnrt THE LIVERYMEN'S UNION NOTIFIED. THE J. CAMPBELL LAW AND COLLECTION AGENCY.

All UlncU of li'iful iiiisIik'hh itttendei tn OttireH under eUtrlcnt nni niiKeiiH'tit. it-1 it i rt 1 1 1 retell here, lleuil ol Aitpney, United Statoi Supreme Com Itur. Ovtr Abilene National Batik. Ronrns H. 9, 10.

and 1 1201 Broad wa ABILENE, KANSAH. It Is said that tha result probably will' be an agreement to settle everything! by arbitration. WANT TO PREVENT WAR. Working for a TiirllT (or Iteveiiue Only, Boston, Dec. 22.

Congressman John S. Williams, of the democratic leader of the national house of icpresentatives, was the principal speaker at the annual dinner of the Massachusetts Free Trade league here last night. According to Congressman Williams, the goal In the tariff reform race is not free trade, but a tariff for revenue only. The speaker said that the evolution would be so carefully and gradually effected that il would not disturb industrial and commercial conditions. The speaker assured his hearers that "an earnest effort will be made by the democratic members of (ongivss to revise and reform the "in-liiuilious tariff." 10.000 devils inn your head.

THE BOILERS EXPLODED. At A Kemilt Klffht Tenon Are Demi and About Twenty other Are Injured. Three l'rubnlilr Kmallr nme of Thole Kllleil ami HkmIIj Hurt. Fort Scott, Dec. 22.

The northbound Frisco Meteor, the Oklahoma express, was wrecked at 4:55 o'clock yesterday morning five miles south of here by running into an open switch. As a result eight people are dead and about 20 are Injured, three probably fatally. The train was late and, watu-unnlng at a high Bpeed. The Meteor was to pass a freight at Godfrey. The engine of the freight was, through lack of water, out of steam and it was Impossible to put the train upon the siding.

A man was Bent back to flag the Meteor, so that It would slow up and pass the freight, the passenger taking the siding. By some accident the train was not signaled and the wreck was the result. J. A. Hartley, the flagman, has not been seen nor heard from since he was sent back to warn the Meteor.

Every car was turned over except the two sleepers. The smoking car was reduced to kindling wood. Engineer Deweese and Fireman Dlshard, both of whom are dead, hud been In the employ of the Frisco many years and were two of the best men in the service. The Injured were brought to this city as soon as relief trains could be got into service and the most se.riously hurt are being cared for at Mercy hospital. The dead are at the (Joodlander morgue here.

The damage to the train, except the sleepers. Is almost total, the engine being entirely demolished. When the wreck occurred the baggage and express car leaped entirely over the engine and landed In a cornfield, 40 feet from the right-of-way, leaving the trucks almost secure on the track. Three men In this car escaped death miraculously and when the car stopped they were all on top of the trucks and pieces of baggage. The three mail clerks escaped death by tralililng the iron bars over their heads, and when the roof of the car fell upon the ground upside down the clerks were on the roof, which was the only part of the coach which was not splintered.

Those Killed, except the engineer and fireman, were nil in the smoking car at the time of the accident, nnd when relief came five of the dead were on the engine. When the engine was lifted off of the body of Engineer Deweese his hand was found upon the air lever, hut death came to him before he had time to apply the air. Fire started two or three times in the cars, but each time it was extinguished before It had trained much headway. Had the flames fairly started, the loss of life would have been appalling, as the only niesns of ei less fmm the two chair cars was by the windows, and the work of rescue was, therefore, very slow. The killed are: (Jennie Moyt, of Sa-pnlpa, I.

conductor; Charles Deweese, ergineer. of Fort S'-otl; Theodore lllshard, fireman, of Fort Scott; II. Twyman (colored I. of Fleming, Asa Morebind. of Lenexa, Ion Corliln.

of Ilessie. Ok Corbin. brother of of Hessle. James Kirkpalrick. of Clay county, Mo.

The probably fatally Injured: Sheridan Kun'ihle, ol Cooper-town, face, hands anil limbs burned and cut: John Hlubaker, news a'-'cnt. of Kansas City, burned all over; It. F. (Jurraway. of bnck sprained, face and body burned over.

NEARLY LOST THEIR LIVES. Thirteen Men Who Went IIiihii Mine to t.et Twn le'l 'mnritileM Millie hy the (hh. Ho'iiihton, Dec. After a harrow ins experience in which men pearly lost their lives the bodies of the twi Petersons unci (Jregorivlcli, who were suffocated in the Isle Hoyal ruin" were brought to the surface yesnrday aftetinoon. The rescuers, 1 by dipt.

Movie, went down feet throiiidi old shafts, ladders with them. A.s they moved about in the ojd workings they stirred up the gas and it began to asphyxiate them. One n.an returned to the surface and fell over the moment be reached fresh air. Thirty volunteers at once went to the rescue. Two of the Injured rescuers were found crawling towurd the surface, while the other (en were found unconscious.

After tedious and exciting It bur the asphyxiated men were brought to the surface and restored. KRJIUSES HEADACHE CAPSULES CURES ANY KIIVDOF HEADACHE. reward for any injurious substance found in ihese consoles, fcrft-cily harmless. by dryish Flans Looking to a Nettle me nt of thnNtrtkc LtHuiH-heri A Joint Committee Agrees I' pon tt littHia of Arbitrating the IXfTerencea. Chicago, Dec.

22. Picketing oi houses from which funerals are to start, whether peacetul or violent, by union livery drivers, who went on strike four days ago and which has seriously interfered with the burial ol the dead in Chicago, is to be prevented by the police under direct orders Issued last night by Chief of Police O'Neill. J. K. Wadsworth, secretary, and Charles Stevens, business agent of the liverymen's union, were summoned before Chief O'Neill last night and told in decidedly plain language that any differences the union might havi would have to be settled away from the houses of mourning.

"This picketing of homes from which funerals are being held is beyond the toleration of a civilized community," said Chief O'Neill. "Your zeal has carried you beyond the pale of endurance and such an unheard-of thing as carrying labor troubles to the houses of the dead will not be allowed by the police. Under no circumstances will I permit picketing of any kind around a house where a funeral is to proceed. And 1 must say that It ought not to be necessary lor me to take this step. Law or no law, picketing of every kind around these houses will have to stop.

I shall take my chances with the courts on the question if my conduct is questioned in any court." Chief O'Neill last night Issued a general order to all the Inspectors of police on the line of his conversation with the two union officials. He Instructed the commanding officers to accompany funerals in carriages, If circumstances seemed to require it, to see that last rites of the dead were in no way Interfered with. While the court have Inclined to permit peaceful picketing. Chief O'Neill's order tends to prohibit picketing of any kind around the houses of mourning. He declared last night that in his opinion no court would be found which would fall to sustain an act of such evident necessity and propriety as that contemplated by the police department.

On top of Chief O'Neill's order came NORMAN LICMTV MTS CO. DtS MOINrS.IA A Teacher' Suit Aiftilnftt Sli I'upll. Sullivan, Dec. 22. Miss Krline Sinclair, a school-teacher, yesterday tiled suit for damages against Floyd Deckard, Anna Deckard, (ier-trudo McClelland.

Jessie McClelland, Pearl Parks and Kale Parks, six of her pupils. She complains thai the defendants on Ihe Kth of December overpowered her. bound her hands together with ropes, lashed her to a rail and Jilaced her in an icy pond. Before the school closed several weeks ago for the holidays Miss Sinclair promised her pupils a "treat." Her refusal to tell them what would be the nature Knropenn T'ower ltrlnglnr Pnu.nre tn llwtr on Colombia to Avnlil Ilntllltln v.thtlie I'nlteil S-ie Washington, Dec. 22.

Diplomatic pressure will be brought to bear upon Colombia by several Kuropean powers to prevent war between that country and the 1'nited States. The first step in this direction already has been taken by several foreign powers through their representatives here, who have Informed (Jen. Rafael Heyes of the futility of any attempt by Colombia to retake Panama, declaring that it will result only in precipitating the Bogota government into war with the United States, and have said to him that the result of such a catastrophe Colombia herself must realize. If this is not sufficient the. representatives of these countries at Bogota will be instructed to Inform President Mar-roquln that Colombia can expect no sympathy from the European powers in any movement she may make on Panama which would inevitably Involve her In war with the United States.

The members of the diplomatic corps hae been informed by Gen. Reye himself that he fears he can with difficulty check his people much longer. Oen. lieyes Is not talking for publication, hut to several European ambassadors he has confided his fears with frankness and has said that he is doing everything in his power to prevent an outbreak before the conclusion of his mission, but that, although his Influence with the army is considerable, he is so far away that it Is difficult for him to make this felt as strongly as If he were on the ground and in command. Hv .1.

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1 ulit.irn i BdMwnrxd font. Tuit WhhtmiN IMi-iiik. HTniiHf AukdIhk, CHIl ESTER'S ENGLISH Pehnyroyal pills An Accident at the I'ower Holme or the St. I.oiiIh 1'raiiHlt Company aimed tlm Heath ot Knur Men. St.

Louis, Dec. 22. A battery of seven boilers In the power house ol the St. Louis Transit company at Jefferson anil Coyer avenues exploded last night, killing three employes, injuring six and wrecking the building. The force of the explosion broke window panes for several blocks In Ihe vicinity.

Without premonition ihe boilers let go, Ihe brick walls fell outward and the heavy truss roof dropped, covering Ihe debris In which almost 20 employes were Imprisoned Instantly all the electric lights went out and the darkness prevented prompt work In rescuing the Injured, whose cries could be plainly heard. Fire broke out In one portion of the debris, but was extinguished before It had gained much headway. The dead are; W. Wilson, steainfit-ter; Uiuls llarbi colored, and Frank Steele, colored. A fire alarm and ambulance calls were sent in immediately and soon an army of rescuers were at work with lanlerns and torc hes.

Wilson and Harbor were the first found and both were bandy alive, but died on the way to the hospital. At o'clock this morning a gang of 1 r.0 bad reached the center of the ruins and found the dead body of an unidentified negro. Seven more Injured men had been rescued, making Injured and four dead. of the "treal" Is said to have caused the acts of which they are accused. IKSTKIt'N 1 4ilil iiietIIU Ixiioa crkiail on.

I nUaa.ilkee Mfi.u I'NNfrruui NubotllMtlon and I nit. tin ntt. hujr ut jt.ur hrnxilol, furl W. la ikii.i, rartli-iilur, Tlt all ftii'l Itrltaf tor Uttm, Ij rtf turn Mail. IO.OOO No Id by 4'hlrMatr kmliiil 444 JffadUwa mur.

fA, CATARRH A Suit Oi.r a Hull Settled at l.at. St. Louis, Dec. 22. After going through the supreme court the Kansas City court ot appeals and the St.

IiuIb court of appeals, beside the lower courts, the case of Thomas Sublette against the St. Louis Iron Mountain Railway company, for the killing of bull In Adair county IS years ago, was settled yesterday In the Clayton circuit court by the rendering of $27(i Judgment in favor of the plaintiff. ncrr. Success would be very sweet if it ever Mined Innfr enoug-h for ut to learn the taste. N.

V. Herald. .2 a A Man Itellfved to Have lleen Murilereil. Topeka. Dec.

22. S. C. Haines was, according lo the theory of the police, murdered here Saturday night and then robbed. liarnes has been missing for several days and evidences of his murder were found yesterday evening.

JJarncs had with him. He was a cripple and walked with crutches. lloth crutches have been found and have been identified by a brother of the missing man. le' ALBERT. LENZE MAKES THE VestibuIeanriA merican Rose mother anil llautf titer ANiiIiyxiateu, Chicago, Dee.

22. Opening all the gas jets In her home yesterday at School street, Mrs. Sadie Seabolcl wrapped herself and her five-year-old daughter Fstber in a blanket and lay clown on the kitchen floor, where two hours later an elder daughter returning from school found both mother and sister locked In each other's arms dead. The woman bad been In pool health for some time and had expressed a wish for death on se veral AND OTHER GOOD BRANDS OF Ely's Cream Balm This Remedy is a Specific, Sure to Cive Satisfaction. CIVtES RELIEF AT CNCG.

It flew-iscs, Hootlu-H, heals, anil j.i tlie ineinliriillH, it cures itiu-rli an, drives Bwny Cold in the llcail quickly, lie-stores the Senses of 'luste unci Kiiieil. Kuy to use, Ccmtuins no iiijiiri ilntus. Applied hi to the nustrils uml lisorbecl. I.uri,'e Size, cents ut Drni is Triui Size, 10 centn by tLY RR0THERS. Bfl v-' I'ruteMt Ag-Liiim l.x Marriage Law.

Wiufitld, Kan Dec. 22. In a meeting of the ministerial alliance held yesterday a protest was entered against the lax marriage laws in Hie following resolution: "We express our disapproval of the laxuess of divorce laws and the exercise thereof by the courts; and refuse to officiate at the remarriage of those who are divorced for other than scriptural rea- CIGARS, KEEP THE BEST LINI KEEP THE BEST LINE WE OF tilven the Heath Meiiteni-e. Topeka, Dec. 22.

William Mason, colored, who was convicted ol murder In the first degree for klllint Fred Tut her last. Oc tober, was yesterday sentenced by Judge llazen tc be hanged. In Kansas this sentence-means life imprisonment, as no governor will sign the death warrant. for KIDNEV TK0UBLES and Chewing and Smoking Tobacco IN THE CITY. WE ALSO CARRY A BIO STOCK OF Briar and Meerschaum Pipes.

ALBERT LENZE. CATARRH ol til BLADDER. Cures all Discharges tn 48 Hours Ultra lh jT centervuie, Dec. 22. L.

W. Horn, a farmer residing three miles southeast of here, shot and fatally wounded tils wife at church Sunday night. Jealousy Is the ipposed cause. Horn fled south, pursued by a sheriff and a brace of bloodhounds. At daylight yesterday bis body was found at Sedan with a bullet hole through the bead.

A Vice Wrnilii-ate. St. Louis, Dec. 22. The lastest syndicate Is of the vice variety and formed here with some of the town Lowlier as mala supporters, to Import 00,000 Bids from Europe next year world fair year.

Church societies and the Salvation army are Joining forces to prevent and prosecute the member of the vice syndicate. A Wire Murderer Ciiuiailta SJulehle. Chicago, Dee. 22. Salooukeepei James Vllek, who a few days agt choked his wife to death, strangled himself in his cell at the county jail yesterday with a handkerchief..