The Rock Island Argus from Rock Island, Illinois • Page 1

JLL. ROCK PUTT FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR. NO. 4. MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 190(.

TEX PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. PACKERS TO Markets normal me SINKS DRIVE OUT BLACKS ACCIDENT OR FAILED; A SUICIDE WATOR BE UNITED? COAST SHIP FOUL PLAY? Stocks Recover Both in London Whites at Casey, Tire Long Series of Crimes. P. MacFajdin, London Banker, Threw Self Under train in Tunnel.

and New York From Re cent Flurry 1 IBjLAND A 11 Jl EX-SE English Holding Company due to advanced rate- Said to Have Been Formed Lines Most Affected By Stump Advance England Borrows From France. Two Hundred Drowned by Explosion at Vladivostok. Capital Required to Swing the Deal Is Denied. Russian Ammunition Ship Sunk at Sevastopol is Raised. London Oct Tl.

The tone on the- FOR AMERICAN PLANTSUcu -change gult.ralIy BUT ONE SAVED was much more hopeful, operators hav ing about concluded the per cent dis count rale of the Hank of England would prove effective in stemming the outflow of gold. American securities had an exciting morning, prices advancing two iKjinls lurk lteeoer. New iork. Oct. 22.

Vigorous re 1. ill New York. Oct. 22. Wall sireet V- i London.

Oct. 22. A dispatch reeeiv- bankers have been informed that Ltwck t.xclunu;e The strength of the ed from ladivostok by Lloj a age uc Holding company is oeing or-1 ionjon luarket helued to this result. I says the Russian, wooden coasting to take over all the packing I Rumors from abroad pointed to a largo steamer Warjagin struck a lloatim, interests of the Tinted States. loan of gold by the Hank ot ranee to miuu foundered Saturday.

The Inquiry at the offices of firms which the bank of England. The strongest a lu might undertake the financing of such I rallies were in stocks which suffered iMnii r.nnliM mnsi in Saturday's break. 10 na pei isucu. oniy one ocing saveu. IWUIV X.

I would readily lUIl to elicit I nil )lnry ulls lluek. I Huie Ammuuiliun arKi. almost no iniormauon. i ran money fell bacK to i per cent. net Thu ii was asceriaineu.

now ever. uis-i after opening at i. rrmays nignesi patches coming supposedly from pack- rate. New buying orders poured into! ins house interests in Chicago, that the the market after a period of hesitation over 500 Pyroxylin mines and a great protracted visit of Sir Thomas Lipton :,1 were carried to a substan- Quantity of ammunition on board, was in thai city lias a significance more rially higher level. i Ulan SOCl.ll.

I I'iriii Sunrnl l.ipiun Mill i xev York. Oct. 22. The suspension Several years ago the interests T. I 0f i.

T. White, a heavy trader, was an J. Lipton Co. were taken over by uounced on tile consolidated stock ex other Chicago packing concerns, and I change today. the lulimation Is that the tormer lieau I York.

Oct. 22. Tlie failure of of the company, tamed securi-1 Helming. an operator on the ties represented by Hie transfer, must I Xtw stoik was an be consulted in any transaction. sunk here in llt'5 during the mutiny for fear she- would fall into the hands of the mutineers.

PRINCIPLES ARE REAFFIRMED CHIEF OFFENDER ESCAPES Mob at "Mobile Enters Jail While Guards Sleep and Lynch a Negro. iotiay. By World's W. C. T.

U. at Close of Week's' Meeting at Boston. Boston, Oct. 22. Amid great enthu- nounccd on the Hour of the exchange siasm the triennial convention of the World's Christian Temperance union closed late Saturday.

Resolutions were adopted pledging the union's ad herence to the principles of teial abstinence and prohibition, urging that steps bo taken to se'eure greater indi vidual and national purity, asking the heads of nations: to unite in taking ev ery possible step toward accomplishing universal peace and declaring the Ileuniug was a large trader on the exchange. It is said he suffered losses in St. Paul stock in April last. Furthermore, these Chicago dispatches say that instead of the rumore-d sale of the Armour interests to the Swifts. gossip of which was uenied several weeks ago.

the Armour interests will dominate ihe packing company, and J. Ogden Amour practically will be the filler. Ilrnl Humored in blent Chicago. Oct. 22.

The forcgoiug ad vices bear out rumors which have been current in La Salle street for several I Heavy Loss Caused by Earth Tremor union's purose to use every legitimate QUAKE WRECKS A PORTLAND BRIDGE Saturday Evening on Maine Coast. we-eks. For some' time the activity in the shares of Swifl Co. on the local Ktoek exchange has attracted a good deal of attention. The street tried to ixulain tlio suailv biivlns of all the stock that was offered "on the market 'luake hocKs Saturday night destroyed and was content to believe that a pool I about 10o feet of the temporary high- nimuH to se'eure the franchise -for "women on the Fame terms as men.

Pot Hand. Oct. 22. Two. earlh- CHICAGO CABLE CARS WILL NOW RUN NO MORE was operating in tiic shares for solely sjieculative purposes.

A national merge-r or all packing concerns has been a logical economical pos sibility and even probability for several years. In llJ)2 the Cnited States Packing company was all but organized, with a prospective capital of for just such a purpose as that outlined now. Armour Mukm Ornlal. Chicago. Oct.

22. When asked re garding the reported amalgamation of the packing Interests both J. Ogden Armour and I-oiiis Swift emphatically denied that there was any foundation for such a report. THREE KILLED ON CROSSING Northwestern Train Strikes Carriage Near Lowden, Iowa. Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Oct. 22. A Chicago Northwestern train, east bound near Lowden. yesterday afternoon struck a carriage, at a grade crossing, containing Mrs. Charles Luett and two children and William Luett.

All were instantly killed except a baby girl. Electric Trolley System Replaces An tiquated Method of Transportation Throughout City. way structure which crosses tne upper harbor. The first shock was at o'clock and the second at 7:07. IJoth shocks were light but distinctly felt by I Chicago.

Oct. 22. Cable cars jester pedehtriaus. Accompanying tbe rum- day morning ceased to operate in Chi f. i .1...

I uiing was eue souim maue CaKo trolley cars taking- the crasmug umuers or me temporary structure and tho bridsre bean to sway. The bridge continued in posi- underground steel ropes. The cable Hon i. mil the secon.l shock when a ssiem as "dialled years ago, su portion gave sank about six feet I-erseding horse cars, and was at that oct. zz.

negroes in this place have fled from a mob which threatened to lynch them. The mob marched through the negro sec Hon crying "Death to the negroes," but none was found, all having ben-n warn ed in time to escape or had barricaded themselves i their homes. The mob fired shots in the air and shouted execration at the negroes, but none of them was harmed. They were all warned, however, to leave the town within 24 hours on pain of death. KerlluK Hun tirotiu.

Ill iteling toward the blacks has been growing for several months as a lesult ef various crimes ceanmitte'd by the negroes, including two attempted attacks on white women. This ill feeling burst all bounds ot restraint when it became known that a negro, said to be John Johnson, a cook, insultexl a beautiful white girl. Friends and relatives of the' girl. whose najne has been suppressed, or ganized lynching party and started out to capture Johnson. He had fled from the town, howevtr.

The lynchers ailed a mass meeting, which was attended by nearly all the white citize-ns the town. Fiery speeches were made urging the extermination of the npgroevs. Cooler-headed ones argued that the blacks should be? given an opportunity to leave the town and their advice finally prevailed. The negroes are packing their be longings ami leaving the town as rap idly as possible. I.jut'hrtl an (iuanl.H Miimltrr.

Mobile. Oct. 22. When two deputy sheriffs who were? guarding Robert Clarke, a negro, in the of Jackson county. ffll asleep yesterday morning a meb masked men spirited the iie-ro away and hanged him to (telegraph pole near LUcedale-- Clarke was arrested Frld'ay for attempting Mo assault two white.

wohien at Lucedale and stealing a horse. Body of Patrick Nevins unidentified for two days in Cellar of Burned Home SOUTH OF MUSCATINE Arms, Legs and Head Gone- Circumstances Are Peculiar. STANDS COLLAPSE AT FUUTdALL and slid toward the harbor. It is fear ed great damage has been dene the foundation of the new highway bridge for which a quarter of a million dol lars svas appropriated recently. ANOTHERFARMERSXONGRESS One to Unite Agricultural Interests of West and South Meets.

Topeka. Oct. 22. The Farm ers' Cooperative Business congress with a large attendance of de-legates from western and southern states met here today. The purpose of the meet ing Is to more closely unite the agricultural interests of the west and south.

time the most modern means of street car operation in existence. The electric trolley of late has caused Ihe cable to appear as a slow and uncertain means of transportation and for several years Chicago has been looking forward -to the abolition of cable lines. FATHER CULEMANS GOES TO MOLINE CHURCH Transferred to New Field After Suc cessful Work in Pastorate at St. Paul's Church. ALL PITTSBURG CROOKS AND GAMS FATTENED ON BIG BANK STEAL Pittsburg, Oct.

22. It Is learned that th-j exact amount of money stolen from the Union Trust of Pittsburg by Receiving Telle-r Wray and Bookkeeper Hixton was ISXJJ.nno. District Attorney Stewart has begun an investigation which threatens to land others in the same penitentiary to which Wray and Hixton were sent yesterday. Already several well known gamblers and bucket shop keepers have left tus city. AW Cr(Mik la.

It is known that nearly every crook and gambler in the city got a bit of the immense turn of money stolen from the banking house of H. C. Friek and United States Senator Kuex and that crejoked games of every sort were framed for Wray ami Hixton. In one game of iokcr in a downtown hotel, a game arranged specially for ray's benefit, the back teller lost over He lost In one dc-a' thme'i Father J. B.

Culemans. fer tfie last several years pastor of Paul's Bel giau Cathedic church in this city, has been transferred to the new Belgian Catholic parish at Moline. It is understood that Father Culemans' succes sor Mill come from abroad. Father Culemans was for some years in charge of the Belgian members of St. Mary's fore the draw and an immense amount church previous to the organization of of money was put in before cards were gt.

Paul's church. The organization of drawn. Wray discarded his black card I the present St. Paul's congregation, and drew to his four diamonds, and, and the building oi the nyw church at picking up his card, dealt by the orfe Twenty-fourth street and Eighth av-handling the pack, he found the I are due to Father Culemans' ef- of diamonds, giving him a 'royal I A new church is now beiu flush." The gambler who had raised the I Word has been received that Bishop pot before the draw look no cards and I SivaMiiiii of Pe-oria will be In Rock Is after Wray had bet heavily this man jautl Sunday, Nov. 4.

to assist in the raised several inousana dollars. Wray. UC(icatory ceremonies of the newly re-with his "royal flush," called the bet intMleleel St. Joseph's church. He will for all the niouey he had with him, rf.diratc the new Belgian Catholic raahing ne naei in nils one pot, at Moline.

inrew nis nana tiown tace up on the table and began to rake in the thous ands. On Card The gambler who had not drawn cards reached over, turned Wray 'a Harris face down on the table, and ilnk building Saturday evening spread them out, then called attention allj the number In attendance indi to the fact that one card was a -ales that it will be as uouular as last Hundred Injured and Three May Die As Result of Accident at Syracuse, N. Y. VHT1MS ON ID-IKON. Siriously Kilk-tl.

Iujuri'il. I 10UIJ (to 5 17 MANY SKATERS AT THE RINK Amueement Promises to Be Even More Popular Than Lat.t Season. The roller skating season opeued at lie neld tae mvinciDie poKer nana a -stranger." that the pattern on the back 6ea5on and even more so this year. royal nusu. iuu were uiauipu-.

uItI not correspond With the Other Work- tho floor in lateel that a pair of sixes beat Wray. How the "Sdrr Thln" Worked. The royal flush hand play was as follows: "Wray had the ace. king, jack, and ten of diamonds, with a black card when he "staid" In a jackpot. The play, er to his left raised the pot hard be- cards This "stranger" was the queen of diamonds, which had been dealt Wray, evidently from the top of another deck and it made his hand foul excellent condition for the sport.

Busy Day for Fairbanks. Kansas City. Oct. 22. Vice All the President Fairbauks was booked to de- Syracuse.

N'. Oct. 22. During the foutball game between teams from Syracuse and Colgate univeisities Saturday afternoon a portion ef the upper section of the bleachers collapsed. Four hundred persons were precipi tated into the enclosure under the stands.

No one was killed outright, but of the 100 or more injured the death of three is expected. Rev. Christopher J. Donigan, pastor of St. John's the Evangelist church, sustained an injury to his spiue which may prove fatal.

Professor William Lusk, principal of the Union Free school, Hamilton, sustained serious injury to the spine and Is in a precarious condition at a hospital. John West of Rome was injured internally and may die. Syracuse, N. Oct. 22.

Rev. Christopher J. Donigan. assistant pastor of the Church of St. John, the Evangelist, who fell with the bleacher stand during the Syracuse-Colgate game Saturday, died this afternoon.

His back was broken. OUSTS OTHER CONCERNS Bridge Companies Still in Ohio Hit by New Decision. Bellefontaine, Ohio, Oct. 22. The circuit court today handed-down a de cision which in effect ousts from the state all bridge companies that failed to surrender at the tocalled bridge trust hearing two weeks ago.

SEVERAL REPORTED KILLED IN A WRECK New Orleans, Oct. 22. The Sun set Hmiteel on the Southern Pacific was was wrecked near Bouatt, 25 Bryan in Indiana. Indlauapolis. Oct.

22. William Jen- money went to tho other fellow, who! liver 10 speeches la Oklahoma today, miles from New Orleans this after-1 nings Bryan began a three days speak-had not drawn cards and who showed I The rice president passed through I noon. A number of people are re- ing tour of Indiana today. The first Iowa. Oct.

22. (Special.) The body of Patrick Nevins, an old man living with his sou 12 miles south of this city, was found in the ruins of Ihe house which burned yesterday morning. The head, legs anil arms are missing, and foul play is leared. Ilolh II ii Het-n The Nevins. who lived alone, were in Muscatine Saturday and left for home it night rather the worse for liquor.

According to the seat's story, the old man attempted to light his pipe during the night and set fire to the bed clothing. The house was quickly in Humes ind the father was unable to escape. Neighbors wen; aroused by the sent about o'clock yesterday morning, but when they reached the scene the' was doomed. Trunk I'onnil iu Cellar. The trunk of the okl man.

who was 70 years of age, was found in the cellar. While the arms and legs may have been destroyed by tire, it is belie ved ilia portieuis of the head should have: scaped So far, henvever, no signs of this part of Ihe' body have beiu discovered. Ihe suspicions ot foul play are strengthened by the fact that a sum of money which the dead man had iu a bank at Muscatine was drawn out Saturday. Hint TriMiltle With Sun. The son iias several times had tremble Ids in-tber and on more ihmi ou occasion" -they been, known to come to blows.

Once, recently, the son came? to Muscatine1, reported bis father dead, and sent a hearse to bring the remains to the city, evidently as a joke. Deliberately Went to Death After Post ing Notice on Door of Place of Business. London, 22. P. Ma Fa ileii, head of MacFayd bankers, whose suspension was announced Saturday, committed suicide within an hour alter posting notice of the failure on the doorof the bank, by tnrowing himself before a train tunnel.

Weill llireel In Tunnel. MacFaydeii appears to have gone reel from the bank to a station (In-City and South London railway to have entered the tunnel unobserved and deliberately lain down iu trout of an ap proaching train. It -MrO-)l ol.f ru-lloii. 1H JAIL J. R.

Burton, of Kansas, Goes Behind Bars at Ironton. ACCOMPANIED BY WIFE Says She Was Never More Proud of Her Husband Than New. St. Louis, Oct. 22.

Former United States Senator J. R. Burton of Kansas, accompanied by his wife and niece, ar- Thi- engineer reported having run lived this morning from Abilene and w.i. in me imiiiei. ami surrendered himself to begin serving revealed the mutilat-' -i sintriiee ol six months in the Ironton -t niiiv.ii txa iiiiiii leie'iii iiie.i as MacFayden's.

WABASH TO ISSUE $200,000,000 BONDS jail. IIiin Niif hnuiceil. Apparently he has changed little since he was tried and cemvlcted a jye-ar ago in the federal court here of having aecepied for services reu- (I tin-Rialto drain iV- Security coin-Object to Refund A'l Outstanding Ob- 0,11 .1 pany ol hi. I.ouis before the post office ligations and Make Ex- at Washington In lraud or-tensons, (b-r proct edmgs. A ireelaten nlnre.

Toledo. Ohio. Oct. 22. At a special I As he stepped from the train this meeting of stockholders of the Wabash 1 morning he said: "I am feeling very -wereiweJi, exceedingly well under the cir- IVrhaps the trees, bluffs railroad today.

nrranize-mciits made for the issue of 4 per cent ciinistaiici CLEMENCEAU AT WORK ON NEW FRENCH CABINET year refunding mortgage bonds by the company to the amount of The money to be n-ed- to rtire existing mortgage bonds, and all note and eqm'pnii ut the remainder to be used for bettc rnienis of the property, extensions and cquipim ut. COLORADO IN GRIP OF A SEVERE STORM or nature generally look sweeter to rue this morning than they shall for i.e time. I expert to go to Iron Urn tenia to Ik the Jile lhat is laid out for me." After taking breakfast at the union station ihe fornier senator went to the oilices of aitotiK and preparations were beuii jut- ojiicial surrender to the Unhid States marshal. Airs. Burtou maintained her composure remarkably well and with spirit.

1 was never more proud of my hua- Tsrrnd'fhaii" af "tJds 'moment, when he is I on the way to jail," she declared. l'rlfnl -hv ti.l)r. Abilene, Oct. 22. That sorrow I or irouble Mud make men brothers Chicago.

Oct. 22. The blizzard iu was proved lu re yesterday when ex-Colorado lias abated, but a heavy snow-: Senator Joseph Ralph Button, adjudged storm prevails iu western Kam: day. Snow fell in pesota throughout the iiiuhi. many 1 will serve six mouths In prison to sat-towns reporting six inches or more.

isfy the demands of law. The train 1 i-EJnczard Hinders Traffic in Some Citie Snow "Western Kansas. to- a criminal by the highest court in the en Min-'land, left lor Ironton, where he r.f.rc w.th aH Street ear traffic in an Colo-j was an hour late, and during this time i 1 i rado is badly and probablv Other Leaders Bourgeois Refuses. Paris, Oct. 22.

As was expected. M. Clemeuceau, minister of the interior, was summoned yesterday to the Ely-see palace and intrusted with the task tf forming a new ministry. M. Cie na neeau expre ssed his acci pianco.

During the day he conferred with M. Dubost. president of the senate, and M. Botirgceds, minister of foreign affairs, whom he urged most pressingly to re- lain his portfolio. M.

Bourgeois was iufU'xible in his refusal, pleading il! health. It will take M. Clemeuceau four days to choose bis ministers and another four or live days for the new ministry to agree 011 a program. railroad tracks from the eat aie il a hundred persons called. There was no demonstration, neither layed.

Temporal lire at the latter point vvi te there tears. Mr. Burton amused is l.j degrees above zero. iin4 in with political incidents and em Kansas the temperature is mo.ler- -Mrs. Burton was the center of a group ate, but the snow is drifting consider-1 01 women.

ably. COLDLY RECEIVED AT liieniieM nn liter. Men who have opposed Burton politl- FEZ Nak kindly of him. All say that, whi he rettMiis Abi lene will extend a friendly hand aud forget or leave unspoken the past. ROBBERS HOLD BACK CROWD OF CITIZENS TRAIN PLUNGES 200 FEET Combined Freight and Passenger Drops Into Valley.

Lexington. Oct. 22. A combined freight and train on the Mountain Central railroad, a narrow gauge line running lroin isaturai Bridge, to Campton. Wolfe coun ty, left the track on a mountain side near Campton Saturday and plunged 200 feet down to the valley below.

The train was smashed into splinters aud the engineer, conductor, and a passen ger were killed. The other passengers umped when the engine; left the track. MAYOR ROSE'S FINE ALLOWED TO STAND U. S. Supreme Ccurt Refuses to Assume Jurisdiction in Kansas City Case.

American Emb9ssy Attaches Unexpectedly Return tc Tangier. Tangier, Oct. 22.. A from Fez announces that Commander Fremont and Captain Cuignard, respectively naval and military attaches at the American embassy in Paris, and who accompanied I'nited States Minister 011 his recent, mission to Fez. 1 Three Hundred Shots Exchanged in are unexpectedly returning; to Tatigb r.

I Battle That Goes on While Their return is attributed to the slight-! Bank Is Looted. ing disregard which they received at the hands of the Moroccan foreign board. Cummere will remain three wt, X. Oct. 22.

Mabkcil weeks longer at Fez. banuits held a crowd of excited citi- zens at. bay for three bouts here last Grain Probe at Kansas City. while part of the gang blew a Kansas City, Oct. 22.

Ti inter-1 "fe iu the Sawyer State bank aud state commerce commission here today took from it 4,500. Over U00 shots began the investigation of the rtla-j were fired. The robbers escaped on (ions of railroads to grain dealers and horseback. One citizen was bhot la elevator companies. the head, but wll recover.

PERFECTS THE STORAGE BATTERY; EDISON'S TRIUMPH IS REALIZED "Washington. Oct. 22. The supreme court of the United States today refus ed to assume jurisdiction in the con tempt case of Mayor Rcse of Kansas City. Kan.

A liue of $1,000 was imposed against Rose by the supreme court ef Kansas for assuming ollice as mayor after he had been deposed on the charge of failure to enforce the liquor laws. The sentence of the stale court remains in effect. a pair of sixes. I here early today enroute to Oklahoma. ported, killed I speech was made at Brazil.

New York. Oct. 22. Thomas A. Edison has woiked out tlir problem of cheap power and to put on the maiket within six months his new storage baiteiy which will enable every man to travel in his own private carriage at the cost eif car fare.

With out danger, without, breakdowns, with out cost, almost, the carriage wiil be supplied witli new power, and for will travel without repairs for 13 for a hundred thousand mtlt- if necessary, says the "Wizard." II reite-ate the rfeciaratien that he invented a storage battery which will solve the problem of congested traffic in the big cities as soon as he can manufacture enough of them. He is erecting two largo factory buildings and installing new machinery for the manufacture of the motor battery. Coala SIM a Cell. He says he will be able to t-ell at the cost of $10 a cell a storage battery cells will be all that will be needed for a iiinabo'it or brougham, tit) cells will be enough for the largest and heaviest truck For $20 one will be equipped with motive power that will need no renewal for years. Mr.

I-Mison experimented for years before he found tho secret. Cobalt an-swe red his purpose and he scoured tho corn try until he wuh able Jo tnlue it Iu large quantities. For the laist three years he has kept 25.000 experimental batteries workiDg and thi result I- success in big letters. Speed Mini I 3l Miles. Unfortunately for thofce anxious to own a mile-a-niinute automobile, the small cost ejf the new battery will not be of much service.

The maximum speed will be 30 miles an hour. "But I am not an automobile manufacturer," said Edison In explanation. "I have thought only of solving the problem of street traffic, which Is seri- that will be indestructible. Twenty ous in all great citps of the world." 4.