The Inter Ocean from Chicago, Illinois • Page 1

The Only Republican Newspaper in Chicago. Chicago Weidher Today -Showers cooler in afternoon. VOLUME XXXVI. XO. 140.

CHICAGO, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 11, 1907. SEVEN PARTS. FUTCE FIVE CENTS. I worlds tat 1 LARGEST vIOTTTTTUTuTTTT. JACKSON I -i5'? 4 sX--- V'" rA men's $20 and $22 blue serge 3-piece i ts, 1 0.

5 0: is a ii ii ce ment, rnade in the cidily press of Wednesday j. last, under the signature of -'The -Hubknown Chicago over as a store that always "makes good' 'created considerable stir hiorig cloth- ing buyers generally, transforming a what sluggish business period into one of 7 J-- fact is, no store has ever before offered such remarkable values in blue serge as these; not excepting even The -j. Hub itself. They were made by one of the country's topnotchers, a maker whose integrity is unassailable, and whose name has stood for over a quarter of a century for all that is best in good clothes-making. The Hub guarantees every suit to be all-wool and fast color, and will refund money if it fadeis within twelve" months from date of purchase.

it doesn't matter whether you need a suit now, or riot buy one or two of these 'fine blue serge suits at half price, any-' way they'll come in handy later on. The styles are single and double breasted. Not a suit worth less than $16, rt A and from that upto I I 1 1 I Choice, while they A V7V winding up the outing suit season reductions so pronounced that our object a clea.n sweep must speedily be accomplished. Choice of hundreds" of outing suits all-wool fabrics A -made specially for The Hub by the best 1 1 makers, reular $15, $16 now 1 '-men's single double breasted suits, made of worsteds, tweeds, cheviots, velour finished cassi meres browns, graysj bl ues all colors and pattern tvery. suit from stocks and sold earlier in for $20, $22 and $25 clearing sale .1.......

$16, $18, The Hub own high-grade is a uwil lllgu gl4UC $14.50 the season midsummer MIT Robbers. Cow Employes at "Pistols Point, Loot Cash Drawer, and Try to Blow Safe; but Are Scared Off by Buzz tr Signal From Upper Floor and Flee. CAPTIVE FORCED TO AID IN CRIME Terrified Youngster Obliged Assist Id-Opening Money Re. Thlvs Before -Es-: caplng Drive 1 hrce "Victim Into Elevator and Order Them to Ascsnd to Roof Oj Dun gfar Recognised; Two itakked bandits beld up the Hamilton rlubat .9:50 o'Mock last eight aai robbtt the moaej drawer at tbe cltrks desk, Vhilt the' elevator boy and wo bellbiya. ere jforced lo (ace the wall with band above their heads and "foarth" boy cowered behind, a curtain not twenty feet away.

Aa they finished with the each drawer, from which 'they- obtained $40, -the cracksmen turned, to the safe, kwudk the-outer door opea, and were" preparing to.intert an ex ptoslre when they were 'interrapted by the roUe of a.buEsec at th clerk'a dexk trans iQlt.tlBc a from the bllllartj-room oa the sbth Hoof, where half a dozen Club mem-be'rs were play'lng," wholly unaware'ef what was occurring on the eeoonj floor. Fare Boy a Into Elernur. by the toundof the buzzer, the robbers commanded the three ot the. club to i no elerator:" Covered by two dangerous looking retol vers, -the boys obeyed. Then th.

elevaior 'ioor had been lammed In obedience to th- order of on of tne rebbere, Joepb Stone, the elevator boy. men, ran the elevator to the As the elevator shot upward tfas rlghtned boys saw the robbers running dowa the stair-way to Monroe street. 'The backs of the two men brought Back the wanftig- courage of the boys, and as they neared the sixth floor they began shouting for help. 'Members of the club in the billiard room dropped their cues and ran to the elevator entrance. They were brushed aside by the youngstert.

who rati to the nearest windows, and, thrusting out their heads, called for the Matraier Report la Spread. Pedestrians In Clark and Monro streets spread the that soma one had been murdered in the club, and within a few minuter the club entrance on Monroe street was blocked with a crowd of excited Officers from Central and Harrison Street stations arrived within ten minutes after the daring hold-up, and although a close search of the loop district by a score of detectives mad at once r-o arrests had been made up to midnight. An importaut elew, however, was gives to the police by Mervin Taber, 81 North Clark street, one of the bell boys, who was forced to stand with bia face to tho wall and hi, hands above his head while the, robbers did belr work. Reeoaralsetl Owe Rabber. Young Taber told the police that although the robbers were closely masked' and wore tight fitting taps be believed thai on of them is a former roommate; who ia now employed at the Onwentsia club house in Lake Forest.

Following immediately upon the escape of the two hold-up men, Dr. A. W. Baer, Chesley R- Perry, and E. P.

Eastman, three ot the club members who were In the billiard-room when the robbery" occurred, accompanied two detectives and a police office? in a search of every room in the club. A. B. Smith. 44 Sherman street, the bell boy who.

hid behind the curtain, said he was no: certain that the two men had left the building. No. trace of men was found on any of the upper floors. Bell Bay DeKrllw Rskkery; John Garnttt, 420 Wabash avenue; the bell boy who first saw the two men coming up. the stairs of the 'club, told the following story of the robbery; "It was Just 9:30 o'clock when the robbers first appeared.

I remember, because Smith had put down a newspaper which he was reading and had walked back to the reading-room when I remarked that It was nearly 10 o'clock. "Taber, Stone, 'and myself were Jounglng near the clerk's desk. All the members of the club had left or were on the upper floors. Some one coming up the stairway attracted my attention and I glanced that way. called to Taber, who waa behind the counter, to look." Crawling, rather-than walking erect, two men with tight fitting gray caps' and long black mafcks and revolvers held up in front ot them suddenly yumped In front of us.

Foreed to Hold Haact. with your hands! one of tne men yelled, and all obeyed. 'Now, walk up to the wall with your faces toward It and keep your hands above your the same man cautioned. "Although we couldn't see them, we could hear them at work on the cash drawer. It failed to unlock.

One of the men then attempted to use a Jimmy on it. Still- It did not come open. Then he called to Taber to come back and help unlock it. Taber wont and opened the-drawer for tho men, and then, under- their command, came back and again faced the wall with his bands above hitt head. V- "Just then, as we heard one of the men working at the safe a though be was putting some powder or.

something In place, tne' buzzer began ringing from the 1 'To 1 with her, Jim! Come on and 'et out of this. the robber who had been do- jng alt the talking said." i JOHfl D. BRANDED BY HIS BROTHER FRANK AS CRUEL MONSTER Relative Quoted by New" York World' as Saying That Hidden Evil in Oil Magnate's Life Has Made Aged Father a Fugitive. AVERS ROCKEFELLER MOCKS WORLD BEHIND PIETY MASK Threatens Terrible Exposure Which, He Says, Will Force Standard Ruler to Flee Country 'and Impel People to Stone Him. ieelI Dispateli to Tha Inter OoieiL, i.

NEW YORK. Aug. 11. The World this morning prints the following story: John D. Rockefeller's family physician.

Dr. H. F. Biggar of Cleveland, uttered the prediction a few "days ago that John D. Rockefeller, now 69 and "actually husky." would "out record hi father, now These word of Mr.

Rockefeller's doctor deliBltaly establish the fact that William Rockefeller, father -ot the richest man in the we? id Is alive. The question arises. Where lsheT-rV The only definite answer that can be given to fbis query Is: Rockefeller la fn.hloitig. -iw': Kiwd Father. f-'V.

For eighteen months the World has conducted a thorough search fdr the elder but without "suecees. -1 clsw has been run down: The States of Iowa. Kansas. Wisconsin, and Missouri, to which In turn the clews pointed as being hi domicile have been searched with, great care, but without avail. 5 The reporters intrusted by the World with the task of finding the father of John D.

Rockefeller have been secretly aided by some of closest friends or the Rockefeller family. These, men and women, socially prominent In New York. Chicago, and Cleveland, have exerted every influence to learn the carefully guarded truth, but In vain. Only four persons hold the secret of old William Rockefeller's place of concealment his children, John William. Frank, and Mrs.

Mary. Rudd and they absolutely refuse to reveal it. C-hwaareet Ilia Jtaaie, la Belief. There Is reason td believe that many years ago -William A. Rockefeller changed his turned his becktipon wife and family, and somewhere Id the middle West established a new borne.

In thl plaa it is cer tain bis- laentttv. a lo -father of Jnhn Although the World has not yet located the elder Rockefeller It has developed many important facts. Early in the search Frank Rockefeller. John youngest brother, in an interview stated that his father was not only alive, burin good health; that his whereabouts was a aecret, and that there were grave reasons why this secret must not now be divulged But Frank Rockefeller went further M. spoke of "a time coming" when he would make public simultaneously the true life history of his brother John and the secret or his ratter's condition and whereabouts.

1- HI mtm mt 3f yatvrlwaa Reaaea. Throughout the lone interview containing denunciations of John D. and hinta at mys terious reaaona for the concealment of their agea latner. jrrank Rockefeller kept these two Ideas closely linked: One was that hidden evil In theltfeof John D. was aione responsible for conditions that made the aged a fugitive, dreading discovery.

"Go ask John D. where our father la." he. said. "Tell him that I sent you, and that I dare him to answer." In the next breath he added: "But the time will soon come when I can safely Then it will not be safei lr John Rockefeller to upon the- atreets of any American city. He would be atoned by the people.

Nothing but flight from the country into aome foreign land will aave his life when the monstrous truth is known." Ida Tarbell l-ea Flrat Gliaawa. The public got Its first glimpse of thi strange character) William A. Rockefeller, from Ida If. Tarbell In her atudy or John- D. Rockefeller, published in a magazine ot July and August, lttOS.

Previous to that (Continued on Page 4. Column 6.) Page. 1 Hamlltaa elah held bh. Boy haabaad at wield. Jaka J.

Uae dead. '-r "7 Telearrapla saeratan' strike. s.Maay atrlke aaeetlaajra. 'J Llsrhta atwd ahadewa of strike. 8 Strike la other eltlea.

4 Strike atreet aceaea. Galdea weddlaar aaalreraarr, aettleaaeat aitaatlow. Jwdaje Lladaey and hla frlead. Relaatatemeat af Haat. Haate Carlo Barter aayatery.

-v Htm of the Bellttelaaa. Editorial. Soeletr hy Willie Dearbara. KxwloaloB aear Detroit. State-aatloa rate clash.

Checker aad whlat. Act ob laaaraace aaattera. Water work aile, Speed aaaala la Enclaas. lit Sltaatloa la SPOKTISU. 1 M.

C. Ka-a a wlaa ajrolf title. loss lalahea C. A. A.

loag avrlaa. Boat are beatea hjr Boatoa, 4 to 2. Cwba loae to Phllllca, 4 to 2. Laaswoad act tearaty cada. -1 5 Newa of the arolf arreea.

wlaa salo grlad. Scaal-pro aad aaaatcar baseball. Carale'a boxlaar letter. Ready for Uploa cap nee. Clark'a letter of the horses.

-4 Raelag reaalta aad handicaps. Reaalts of local trots. MAGAZINES. Thla paper la Incomplete wlthootthc arcacral tnaaraatac of twelve pa area, eight page woman's scctloa, aad foar pases of colored comlca. CAIILE.

3, 4 later Ocean cables. tj Aatonaobllea. AVASTS. 1 Real ealale. Summary of tte DayY News." KEY STRIKE -TO BE MONDAY; ROCK ISLAP INVOUYBD; GHIGAQO ISLAND i GIRL PICKET PERSUADING STRIKER.

asa 1 -f am OBBB a '-i "im r.r-- jaiaia, jf a a. a 7 1mm -The above is a code messagv sent by Aetinjj" Pre Kident Wesley Russell on the. strike situation, and, translated," is as follows: t3he strike entered the second day vtith the local members still enthusiastic for a general strike The greneral strike is coming fast enoufrh to suit the national officers, and we have exercised all power at our command to keep the men from joining the strike forces too rapidly." BOY HUSBAHD BEATS WIFE: KILLS Young "Husband Knocks Down His 16-Year-Old When She Uses Slang, and Then Swallows Carbolic Acid in Crowded Street! BEREAVED GIRL RELATES HONEYMOON OF HORROR Saves Mate Three Times From Suicide, Suffers DailyWhippings, and Draws Line Only When Re- questejd to End Life With Arter attempting to the girl with whom he etoaed two months ago, and after trying four times to athom the mytterles or the life after death from which he Insisted he would return, James Frank Carutbert, a 17-y ear-old bridegroom, killed hlmtelf by swallowing carbolic acid jester-day. He was found dying in the street two blocks from the parental home of his wife, Julia Trlnker Caruthers, (420 Morgan street, from whom he had been separated for forty-eight hours because of his erueltr. Child Wife.

Telia Story. Widowed at the age of 18, Mrs. Caruthers told between sobs latt night to what extent a girl can suffer mentally and physically and still blindly love him to whom she Is wed. Married against the will o( her mother, the girl declared she bad dearly paid for her in-discretion. --1 "But my only regret.

said she, "Is thst I am still alive while he Is dead." Caruthers, the only ton of Influential people living at 7114 Carnegie avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, swallowed the acid which ended his life at the residence of Mrs. John Bates. StlO Morgan atreet, early yesterday morning. The youth is tld to have been temporarily insane at the time because of being separated from his wife. The separation had come two days previously, after he had struck Mrs.

Caruthers while on the street. The assault was provoked by the young wire; use of slang. "There's nix doing," she -had said, when he asked her to move from her mother's home to a rooming house. Kaocka Girl Seaaeleaa. "Haven't I told you never" to use slang?" the boy said; then he dealt a which knocked the girl senseless.

Caruthers went to the Bales residence to tContinued on Page s. Column 6.) HIMSEL JOHN J. LANE IS DEAD Political Editor of The Inter Ocean, Spending Vacation in Former Stricken at Amusement Park in Presence of His Wife. KNOWN TO LEADERS OF BOTH PARTIES TWENTY-0NE YEARS Came to The Inter Ocean in 1895 and Made Many Friends Death Attributed to Exercise in Row-boat Under-Hot Sun. John J.

Lane, for the past twelve years political editor of The Inter Ocean'and one of the best known -writers of state politics in died suddenly at 5:30 o'clock y'es-terdsy afternoon ia' St. Louis. where he was visiting relatives during bis Mr. Lane, accompanied by hla wife, had gone to Ramona pack in Sh Louis to escape the heat. He hired a boat and went rowing on the lake.

suddenly to bave become frightened 'at something which appeared to have happened to the craft, and commenced to row toward the shore with tha greatest possible speed. Thiak Ezeretac Caaaed Death. He arrived at the shore in an exhausted condition, and fell dead before he had walked -ten feet from the. point -where he landed. wife, who was with him In the boat, had no warning, and he died without a word to She was lc such a condition after th tragedy that she could not explain what tt was that had caused him to make such hart to get ashore.

1 A coroner's Jury last night held that death was due to heat. The body was taken to thi home of Mrs. Flynn, bis mother-in-law. 710 Thomas street, with whom be and his wlfo were visiting. John J.

Lane was born In In 1858. He was educated at Wyman'a academy and the St. Louis -university. After being graduated from the latter institution he took a position as political reporter with the old 6t. Loula Post.

r. la Chicago Ttreaty-Ose Years. In 1S86-D5 esme to Chicago and was ith the Chicago Mail from that time until 1891, writing politics: He left the Mall and went to the Chicago Times, where he was political editor for a short time, but in the same year he became political -editor, ot the Chicago Post. He remained with the. Post until 1895, when he went on the staff of The Inter Ocean as tContinued on Page 4.

Column 7.) OF HEAT IN ST nuis GENERAL ROAD TIED UP Operators Plan to Si-; fence All Wires to Force Companies to Come to Terms. WILL APPEAL TO ALL LABOR BODIES Blow Aimed at Local Tele-' phone: Service to Cut Off City" Completely, Dis-i t- serision i Ran ks Hinted At in Court Case. DEVELOPMENTS IV TELEGRAPHERS i C. STRIKE YESTERDAY, Ueaeral. atrike rallea Uaaaar Weateta Postal, coaaicrctalr aaal leased' wires' all csprctea ie ta atlcat by Maaatar tkraatlaat' tae eaaalrr.

ntlaaataaa acat taRack. Islaaa. Frlaca rallreaat aystcaa tkreatealag' atrfke af Order at Rallroaal Telearra aera aaat trtaar mm catlrc rM If aav-eratar aHacaarsrca far refaaal kaa. all, eaaaaaerrlal baalacaa la mot rcla. tatcaL Strike at eeaaerelal tclcarrapKcra' to aarcaat ta.

Caaaaa. StrfUera apaeal a tesaaatera' aalea ta kaycott tclcgraaa eaapaalea' baild. lasr." Twa waajraaa with aaapllca fa West era laJea aallaHaa; taraca laacVc yeaterdsy. -Tac Ortcat caalc alcclarcal tae la' aaeratlr awlaar ta atrlke. Marry call acat for Prealdeat Gaaaacra af tkc Aaerieaa Fcacratiaa of Labor' aaat.Katloaal Prcalacat Saaall of tho eleajraokere.

wi. Strikers dcaoaacc Bsaa aaak Chief Shtpay. Strike tkreateaed at laaaj dlatakco telaphoac, which waald cat off the city coaaplctclr. -1 Poa'tal' aaat "VTcatcra TTaloa check boya artrlkc. Board of trado coaaplrtcl tied ap.

Sabataatial laereaae proaalaed coot aacrclal apcratora by hrokcra. Strike aprcada la Sew Orieaaa aad other eltlea ajo oat. Ulaaeaeloa la atrlke raala hlatcd by thrcatcacd lajaactloa asalaat aa-tloaal coaanaittcc. Associated Preaa aarrowly escaped st rlke order whea Operator Jaeoh Croke was rcfascd adaalttaace lato Weatcra laloa bolldlaar. Meetlag at 1 o'clock today, will do teralae fate of leased wire operator Mcctlaa; will be held, la Bra ad's hall.

prior to special aacctlaa; of the aaloa at same place. W. rapes acat letter to foraaer eaa plo ea of Poatal aaaaaaclaa; they wcro'-coaaldcrcd cllarlbic to-eaaploynaeat It they" waald apply ladtvldaally fop. Secret aacctlaar of rcprcocatatl tea of Order of Railway Telearra bcrs, aa-t tloaal exeeatlre board, aad local afri-' clalar of coaaaacrclal telearra phcra held" at aa early taar this Baornlnar. Each af coatcadlaar forces clalaas re, era Its.

The eooapaales assert they bare' 'caaaajh aaca to haadle baslacas with oat aa boar's dela. I'oanpaales faralsh cavclopcs for; caatoaacra to an all aacssages. Perishable fratts aad sacats held ap. ketaaie strlko asakca ft liupoastblc to 1 direct their dcstlaatloa. Announcement ot a general strike, including, every Western Colon, Postal, and commercia)" telegrapher 1 la the Ctlud States, and sJJ operators on the Associated Press and tested' wires of every kind, to be called Monday, morning, -and -an ultimatum" to the Itland-Frisco system, -Which may tie up that" road at o'clock this morning, were yester-' day's developments in the telegraphers: which has spread from Chicago to all parts of the United States and threatens to A Invade Canada.

Rock lalaad Syatcaa lavolvcd. The discharge of a union telegrapher at. Lenox, threatens to Involve the entire" Rock system in the telegraphers'i trtrike. The operator was discharged for not' receiving a commercial message over tie-railroad wires. President Perham of tho' Order of Railway Telegraphera served notice on the chief train dispatcher that If the Len- ox '-operator was not reinstated wlthla' twelve hours he would order out every op-: era tor on the system.

The time limit on the ultimatum given tho Rock'Ialand official expiree at o'clock this morning, and unless reinstatement of the union telegrapher Is made at that time every" operator will be called out. If the Rock Island la Involved In the pre, ent atrike through the order of the chief train, dispatcher it is not unlikely that other rail-' ways will be drawn within the vortex ot the trlke storm sweping the entire country. Ffltjht Coafereaee Ia Held. At a late hour last night President Perham and J. Dal Jonea of the Order of Railway Telegraphers; E.

M. Moore, chairman of the local executive committee, and Frank Likes, chairman of the grievance committee, held a conference with -Wesley Russell, deputy-president of the Commercial of America, over the developments that threaten to involve the railway telegraph ers' union. The general strike of -the commercial telegraphera was announced by President. Samuel J. Small of the national executive committee of the telegraphers' union.

This means a complete tie-un of the en-- tire country. If the order to strike Is carried into effect, and there is little doubt in tho-mlrtds of those close to the heart of th? bituatlon that it will be. Id addition to the United States, this cet.