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0I7LY THLH3KAPIII0 HEWS III CITY. INDIANA WEATHER. Fair, tonight and Thursday. Continued mild temperature. Twenty Fourth Year.

HUNTINGTON. INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18. 1908. NO. 277 JV JUL IDS.

Ji 4 JXJo 17ILIETS WILL SUE To Ask Damages for Explo don STULTS GETS AN INCREASE. Circuit Court Says Fifty Nine Cents Is Coming More Than Commissioners Allowed. Philo Willetta of Andrews' was In Huntington today. Mr. Wllletts time here to eee what redress he might have In the matter of the blowing up of his building at Andrews June.

17, 1906, when the sawmill in connection with the Andrews cabinet works was destroyed by a boiler explosion. Mr. a 'Wllletts had owned the, mill and the machinery therein, but some time be the explosion he had sold the ma chinery to the cabinet company, re talnlng the building in which the ma chinery stood. It is alleged that before the explosion he had called the attention of the company to the defective condition of the boilers, and as their head sawyer had asked that the repairs be made for safety sake. Althought the building was entirely demolished, and William Mote was killed, while others were hurt, Mr.

Wlllets, not twenty feet from the boll er, escaped with his Jlfo? and Blight Injury. He has since been ii vi aow is without employment, the" saw fw work being afforded It Is understood that Mr, Wllett8 will sue for the value of the building The latter, at his advanced age Mr Willetts is beyond 'seventy, although hale and 8trong rU perhaps the more Berlons of the twi C. W. WatkinsV attonjey foi' Mr. "WUlets, said this afternoon' that the proceedlngs would undoubtedly be instituted, but at this time he was not prepared to make known the ground, for damages upotr 5the suit would be There are number of legal phases' in which action could be brought, but' no statements have as to which one will be elected or whelber fba suit will be brought 6n more than one.

FOUND FOR STULTS, In the matter of J. P. Stults vs. Huntington County Board of Commissioners, the Huntington' circuit 'court has fOund'W Stiilta, that he is entitled ii rehate1' of $1'3SI' from the county for. taxes paid in the town of Andrews.

From the state there is due him $3 and the facts are ordered certified to the Btate auditor for adjustment' County oommlssion ers had found for Stults in the Bum of $3.80, but the circuit court increased! this sum flfty nlne cents. The. amount oi increase oeingL greater man ten per cent, commissioners are thrown into the costs, which amounts to $3 or thereabouts, Stults first filed a claim, for a sum several times as large as the judgment lower Courts, sustained. The Indiana' appellate court "has sustained the of the lower courts In the case of Clark ys. Mace, which was started Huntington county about two years ago.

Clark, bartender for1 Mace brought Bult for $126.60 wages due. Squire Moffett found" for him in thenamount' named nd the circuit court affirmed the decision. Now the appellate court has done likewise. Leah Leeh were attorneys for Clark, who now lives in Pern. Technical points of law were involved the appeal.

i i TITLE QUIETED. In the case of Elizabeth Llndley vs. James Martin et title has been quieted as prayed. WITNESS TODAY TOLD OF GUNNESS FIRE. Maxson Belated Escape from House of Horrors on Fateful April Morning.

Special to Th BmliL Laporte, Nov. 18. The fire which destroyed the home of MrB. Eelle Gunness last spring and the events immediately preceding and following it were1 vividly described during today's session of the Lamphere trial when Joseph Maxson was recalled for further direct' examination. Max Eon Is Use farm hand who wortei for Gunnees fron tl.s t'e cf Lrp fire.

Again this morning Maxson told the story of the evening meal on April 27, the night before the fire, in which Belle Gunness and ber children1 and himself participated. VII 1 A ine peacemi prologue ui iuo vrag edy was vlvldly.deserlbed for the Jury 1 by Maxson. On cross examination Maxson related his, first conversation with Mrs. Gunness, which took place in the middle of February. The morn ing of the fire, he said, he was1 awakened about four with his room full of smoke.

His first thought was that Mrs. i Gunness was getting breakfast, and he believed the smoke was coming from the stove. Maxson dressed, lit the lamp and then looked, at bis watch. Seeing it was too early for breakfast he tried to kick down the door which opened into the main portion of the building, where he supposed Mrs. Gun ness and her three children sleeping.

saysjie ran down stairs and tried to break In the front, door with an ax. I That Mrs. Gunness tried to murder him by giving him a poisoned orange was the assertion of Maxson. "One afternoon," ho said, "the woman offered me three or four oranges, one of which .1 got away with. Right after had eaten this" orange I became very2 sleepy and went upstairs to take a nap.

All at once the thought came; over me that I had an engagement 4b. town and I managed to get out of the house. The cool air refreshed me, and I recovered to a certain extent from my drowsiness. This happened about the first of April, 'tm nignt oi ine nre ww other 1 Jne'V bnt I kept on eating it That night I went right to sleep on reaching my bed and I slept very und at noise the reason I did not hear it is probably because I. was.

in such a sound sleep." DATE CHANGED FOR LOCAL CORN SHOW. local torn oi'for Trantingtbtt county farmerswlll be held Wednes Novembet 25. The exhibit will be at C. E. Bash store on Warren 8troot and from these a general exhibit will be selected to be sent to the National Corn exposition at Neb.

The show was to have been several days later, hut the transportation courtesy offered by the Wabash railroad to carry all exhibits to Omaha has caused a change, aa the general exhibit will be sent November. 27., A goood list of prizes will be awarded, a list of which Is 'being to all farmers In Huntington county by Secretary L. Wheeler of this city, a member of the state' corn commls sion. 1 PRESIfJET HOST TO LABQR LEADERS. Following Pinner at White Honse General Discussion on Sibject Was Held.

8 pedal to The Herali. Washington, Nov, 1. The following authoritative statement regarding the White House labor dinner night was given today to the United Press by one of those present: "In the discussion 6f labor questions in the red room after the dinner the president, Commissioner of Labor Nelll, Mr. Mr. Dolan and Mr.

Bell made short statements. The president then took occasion to ask others of those present for their views. "The" use of the boycott, was, the principal subject of discussion, al though the entire labor situation, the applicability of existing laws to labor, suggestions for future legislation and criticisms of certain alleged defects, were thoroughly threshed out "Any one who knows the president would be certain to appreciate the ef fect of such an exchange of views. It Is true, he did not Intimate any future course of policy, except to assure those present that the coming administration would seek assistance from the laboring men in pursuing policies for their advancement "There is no triith In the "report that the name of President Gompers Was brought Into the discussion Tuesday night On the contrary there, was ab solutely no reference to him nor the organization uLlch he represents. There were no statements made which coulj po Ibly tie construed crlti i tf i end any rm I i i i tc u.

1 1 v. EH! California Growers Do Not Want to Be Handed Any. IN A TARIFF, REVISION. Hop Sabers Jamp Into Discission Asking Still Higher Protec the Bates. Special to Tb Herald.

Washington, Nov. 18. Lemons and hops were the interesting subjects of discussion at today's' tariff revision hearing before the ways and means committee. E. P.

Woodward, who is a hop grower at Santa Rosa, and a banker and surveyor of customs at San Francisco, appeared as chairman of the California tariff commission appointed by the government He was reinforced by other able orators in his advocacy of higher tariffs on these California products. "Do you folks recommend reductions on Wy articles?" asked Chairman Payne 'V "We do not," answered Woodward. "We ask for the present tariff except on lemons and hops, they to be "You want a high jlrotectlve duty on California products," Bald. Con gressman Clark. "The more God Almighty does' for your state the more you '''V: i "God "has "done much," said Wood; ward, "but the inen of California have aso done considerable with the aid of a beneficent tariff and they don't want that help taken from Congressman Fordney drew out the fact, that prunes are cheaper now un der protection than they when on the free list He and Woodward agreed that other fruits under con tlnuous protection would also become y' Woodward mentioned the discovery that apples which cost ft dcUara bar Tiji te" Oregon, eQsttwenty five cents at the hotel in this city, of which he is a guest rr.

i A. F. Call of Corona, Cal made a special plea for a higher tariff on v'; REV. HARTMAN GETS A WARM WELCOME, At the Evangelical church on Front street Tuesday evening Rev. F.

Hart man gave an interesting lecture, on "My Trip to Palestine." 1 He bandied his subject in aa able manner and the address was also a financial success. Tonight he lectures at Mt Zlon Evangelical church north of and Thursday evening at the Markle Evangelical church. The young men's and young ladles' classes of the Evangelical church met in the parsonage at the close of the lecture Tuesday evening to tender Rev. Hartman a reception and to talk over Sunday school work. There were about thirty present.

Songs and instrumental muBlc, min gled with other exercises, with light refreshments, made up the program of the evening. The young men decided to effect a class organization. The young people, as they separated bade Rev. Hartman great success In his lecture tour." BICYCLE REPORTED AS STOLEN TUESDAY. Master Earl March of 66 Grayston avenue reported to the police.

Tuesday evening that he had been the victim of a bicycle theft The wheel was taken from beneath the window of the auditor's office on the west side of the court house about 5:30. It was a new Elgin King and had a blactr and red frame. He had an errand to the court house and ran his wheel to one side of the entrance thinking it would be more safe on the lawn than standing along the street curbing. gypsy in TENDERLOIN DISTRICT. Thousands See with Him Scenes Cleveland's Worst After yightfall.

of Bpedal to. The HereM. Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 18. "The wildcat nlht Cleveland's tenderloin ever knew," li the today of i' In I 01 revivalist, who has holding a series of meetings' Tei thousand people followed Gypsy through the tenderloin, past the saloons and "dJJerly houses.

The tenderloin recruits were rounded up in the ClevelandAheatre. After it was crowded to thq. doors, half a dozen ministers attempted to the crowd On the outside, The half drunken mob gathered" there greeted the ministers with a va' Vy of decayed eggs. Ribald orators'," drunken orations with gospel hymng from the Salvation 'Army band and a boisterous chorus of "Hall, hail, the gang's all here," made4 wild dlsord of the min isters' attempt to the crowd. A police escort! had been refused) 1 the evangelist by Chief of.

Police dollars is the aggregate appropriation Kohler and the rlotlngSvent on prac recommended by. Brigadier General tlcally without police interference. 'William Marshall, chief of engineers, Finally Police Captain TJadden order Ut A for.work on rivers and bar ed fifteen patrolmen td stop the dls bors and fortlflcaUons during the com order and one arrest made. iByw ln higVannual report After, the audience the theatre transmitted to the secretary of war to dispersed a great crowd of men and day. 0f this sum approximately $20, boys surged through Ihe tenderloin 000i000 lg for exi8ting contractt on amid scenes of wild disorder.

Charges will probably, be preferred against police' officials as a result of the failure to protect the mlnlstet'T; NO IMPORTANT Tl.lN IN ASIATIC SITUATION. Replenishment of Stores and Anunanl. Won en S. Fleet' Xanfla Goes Bpectal to Tbe Uraudu'' Manila, Nov. l8.4TDcsptte the" fact that there has "been nl publication of orders officers ana men or tne pacific fcquadron; are wonted tup to a high pitch of excItemerV over the prospect of a chance to sail Info Chinese waters.

The replenishment of the coal and store supplies of the vessels continues today and officers of the fleet and marine corps who have been ab fnt on leave are" reporting to the commands. In view of the absepce of announcements from Washington it is believed today that the f.ctivlty hlch lrtgan la; solelyl ytaultoA3r miral Harper's deBlre tO" have his command, the Asiatic squadron, in readiness for Instant action If it should be called upon. It is not ex pected the Chinese situation "will in any way disarrange plans Of Admiral Sperry's fleet, Atlantic which is due to leave Manila on its westward cruise shortly. PUBLISHED REPORTS (1V; PROVED PREVIOUS. Dr.

Mv'H. Thomas returned to this city today after being absent since 1 October 18. While absent he has been at the Post Graduate hospital of New York City, where he underwent an operation for the removal of an ah cess. The operation was a delicate one and Dr, Thomas has just recovered sufficiently to stand the trip: home. Prior reports published regarding his locating In New York, the doctor says, were a trifle hasty, as he had hot decided upon a future location.

He will remain in Huntington for a few weeks until he has fully recovered from the effects of his operation. ATT0RNEY SEES TO LIVE IN COUNTRY. Another Huntington lawyer has seemingly become imbued with the fas cination of a residence in the rural districts: J. V. Sees has decided to move his family to a pretty country home west of the city near Andrews In the near future.

J. M. Sayler also has fine country home a little, west of Andrews. Attorneys Sees and Sayler continue their business ln Huntington, making dally trips via traction as both homes are near the electric line. ARMED TRAMPS SHOOT RAILROADERS.

SpechU'to The HenUd. Laporte, Ind. Nov. 18. Dry berger, a Lake Shore brakeman, was shot and fatally wounded, and G.

Golay, a detective, was seriously injured in a running fight early today with nine tramps who had been rounded up ln the railroad yards near South Bend. Dryberger, hearing Got lay's cries for help, came to his assistance and was Immediately fired upon, falling with a bullet in his abdomen below tie heart The tramps Ccl.iy after they wound If CUT G1GJUDEET Army Department Will Iin proTO r.ivcrs and BETTER NATION'S DEFENSE. Fifty Million Desired to Carry Out Pro Jcctfd Plans Inland Water Ways to Special to The Herald. Washington, Nov. 18.

Fifty million river and harbor Improvements, $21 000,000 for general work on rivers and harbors, lnclading examination surveys and contingencies, and $2,000,000 forwork proposed by the Mississippi river commission. The amount recommended for fortifications is $7,73233, oi which the. most Important estimates are $2,369, 000 for Beacoast batteries at Manila and $448,400 at Honolulu and Pearl Harbor; sea walls and defenses of Galveston, $440,000 repair and protection of defenses at Pensacola, for modernizing older emplacements generally for electrical installation, $92853, and for searchlights, $307,000, Commenting on fortifications of our insular fortifications the report refers to the very necessary additional defenses at Manila and suggests that if the amount recommended cannot be fully, appropriated, at least $2,000,000 should be made available during the coming year, "so that a substantial plant can be provided and work be conducted In an effective and economical manner' 7' "A considerable proportion "of Jthe susgesiea appropriauoo ior iseart lights la recommended to be expended In the PhillppineB and HawaJl. WATERWAY APPEAL J.A Baltimore, Nov. 18.Deolarlng that the developmen of the waterways is a question that vitally concerns the whole nation and therefore is a problem for the whole nation to solve, Gilford Plnchot made the principal address this afternoon before the Atlantis Deep Waterways associar tion at the Belvidere.

"Success In the development of our waterways, both coasts and interior," he said, "depends on whether we take that question ln a broad way. In this great undertaking the loss of so section can be the gain of The country must undertake the improvement of its waterways under the conservative principle of the use of common sense for the common good. "The time for developing Isolated stretches of Individual rivers has gone by. We long since learned to adopt a single gauge for the railroads. We are coming to see that the time is past to scatter waterway improvements over such stretches of time and place that they are out of place before they are completed.

The way to build waterways Is to build them with system and under a great comprehensive plan and get the benefit of them. When all interests concerned in the Improvement of our water ways and that means every interest ln the nation unite in demanding their development under an immediate, uniform plan, the work will begin and not i CLOSING SESSIONS OF CATHOLIC CONGRESS. Secret Societies Scored by Priest Open Coffers for missionary Ex tension Work. Special to The Herald. r.

i Chicago, Nov. 18. The first American Catholic missionary congress entered upon Its final session today with the largest attendance of any session since it began. The immediate result of the address of Rev. Francis C.

Kel ley, ln which he scored Catholic i societies and Catholic laymen for not contributing enough for Catholic missionaries, has been felt Today Father Kelley announced that he had received snore than $20,000 within twenty four hours for the work of church extension, a large part of which was given by the Ancient Order of Hibernians, one cf the ordors he 9 1 1 rl ty an address by M. u. of Cleveland, on "The Layman Opportunity." A. A. Hirst of Philadelphia spoke on "TUe Memorial and Judf M.

F. N. L. Plotrowsk cf Chlca igo, and Alexender Granger ei Kanka Til 1 I nrr, uu intBaiuu 1 This afternoon "Obstacles toBe Overcome," by. Fort Wayne, was an important feature.

Late this afternoon the resolutions committee reported aad recommendations for ths ordination of negro priests and plant tor colonization are expected to be Introduced. The congress will close with a mats meeting at the First Regiment armory tonight, at which Bourke Cockran will deliver an oration on the aim of the congress. Archbishop Quigley of Chl caMa will clrMA the pnntrreae. The morning schhIod wis devoted almost' exclusively to addresses by laymen. The address of Granger of Kankakee, 111., was a scathing denunciation of Socialism in allots forms.

The speaker called It "the greatest peril of the age and urged the Catholic church to Renter labor unions and disabuse tht frorklngmen of the false ideas spread by agitators of these doctrines." 7 jj The resolutions wUly recommend tie estahllBhment ln lare Industrial centers of mlEalczfs manned who have mastered forrn tongues, the co operation of all Catholic so cietles In lending flnar. flal. and moral support to the church extension society; the building of more small churches In the south and northwest among the negroes and Indians, and the use of negro priests and sisters In the south. The congress also will empower the board of governors of the church extension society to devise some means for raising contributions for the mission work. There Is some opposition to the resolution favoring the ordination of negro priests.

CAPTAIN CARTER IN QUIET. BUSINESS. Special to The Herald. Mexico, Nov. 18The plant of the Mexico Brick Fire Clay com ha? hVf for years without attracting' more than casua attention, has suddenly become the center of all interest with the discovery that the modest Carter," recently sent here from the east to manage iht concern; Is no less a personage than Captain Oberlin M.

Carter, former army officer, principal of the Savannah harbor frauds and now contestant with', the government for a huge Bum in a suit pending In the Chicago Captain Carter had lived here for weeks unknown until a local paper revealed his He admitted bis Identity, but declined to talk of his career, or the pending litigation, except to tay that all his hopes center ln his suit and his principal reason for selecting Mexico for a residence was to be close to Chicago! GOVERNMENTTAKES RARE STEP IN STANDARD CASE. Special to The Herald. 1 Washington, Nov. 18. The government In its forthcoming petition to the supreme court of the United States for a writ of certiorari, in the famous $29,000,000 Standard Oil case, will present as its chief reason for such action the necessity for an exact interpretation of that part of the Elkins act relating to the publishing and filing of rate tariffs, Is the intimation given out by a prominent government official intimately connected with the "trusting busting" department of the government The granting, of a writ of cer tiorari by the supreme court, address ed to a circuit court of appeals, is a rarity.

The higher tribunal has consistently refused to interfere with Judgments of the courts of appeals un less the questions at issue involve' the protection of the constitutionality of laws. PROSPECTS AS TO NEW CARDINAL 8peclal to The herald. London, Nov. 18 Archbishop J. J.

Glennbh of Louis is the latest can didate for the cardlnalate, according to a telegram from 'Rome today to the Exchange Telegraph.7 The dispatch says that the opposition to making Archbishop Bourne of London a cardinal is increasing and. that this enhances the chances of Archbishop Glennon. Archbishop Bourne is now in Rome, where he participated ln the jubilee of the pope's priesthood. He i3 said to be strongly favored ty Cardinal Merry del Val, the papal secretary cf 6' ate. HUES Iff OEBS Duke of Abrtzzi Confiden ONTHE ELKINS AFFAIR.

Says Senator Was His Stsmbllng Block Sarprfset at America a Ideas ef rrinees. Speciei to The Heraid. Rome, Nov. 18. Following thi ac tlon of the Duke of the Abruzzi'ia cabling Miss Katherlne Elkins releasing her from her engagement, one of the duke's closest friends, his com panion on a perilous expedition Into the far north, repeated today ft cotv vtTsatlon he recently bad with tho.

duke concerning his of Mlsa Elkins, in which the duke plainly In tlmated that Senator Elkins was the J. chief stumbling block in his love affairs. This friend, who was commit stoned by the duk to writ the history of his polar expedition, repeated to the Press correspondent the duke's words, practically ver batlm, explaining, that it la evident that the match is off, no harm can come now ln stating the duke's post "I would have been the happiest of husbands If I could have arrived at an agreement with the head of the i Elkins family on certain formalities of the marriage cermonlal and on some other points," declared th duke. "But the ElkmseS are so extra ordinary fierce and proud. From all their words and attitudes it appears that, 'as one day Senator Elkins told me, they are convinced that nowaday there are no real princes except those of Intelligence and worth.

"I would be very unlucky If 1 knew pot that generally Americans keep thelrword at any price, because only Katherlne, who has promised to de vote her life to my happiness, can compensate for the sorrow: 1 have suffered, on one side from my relatives' oppojWon and oa the other from' the rude, insolent and contempt ible vulgarity of some of the American newspapers. "You will remember, dear friend. how many times dulrng our expedition to Alaska, seeing my calmness in the face of apparently insurmountable obstacles and perceiving my persistence in overcoming difficulties and obtaining1 my object, you were kind enough to; praise my serenity and strong Well, assure you that, against my will character and serenity have been near to exhaustion at the language of a portion of the press. I believe the prospect of finding myself lost in the vast, frozen solitudes of Alaska would be less disheartening than the idea of fighting the brutal Impertinence of some American reporters) ''My only comfort Is the thought that my disinterestedness will continue to be above suspicion. As yon know I have declared from the be ginning to Senator Elkins that I will have absolutely nothing to do with a.

dowry. I wish the celebration of Miss Elkins' marriage to Lnlgl dl Savoja not the marrlaga of the Italian lira eo the American dollar. NEW ORDER WILL BE FORMED TUESDAY. Fraternal Reserve Life Association Have Sixty Charter Members High Officers Coning. Thursday evening at O.

T. M. hall in the Dick building a new fraternal and benevolent order Is to be Instituted in Huntington. It Is the Fraternal Reserve Life association, with supreme headquarters at Peoria, III John Sheller of this city is district deputy and under, his direction a class of sixty, charter members has been secured. Thursday evening will witness the institution of the local order, with degree work and organization by' election of officers.

Spring ston, supreme president, and N. Carson, supreme clerk, both of Peoria, 111., and their wives will be in the city and in charge of the work of install fnj; the lodge. The organization lays a claim to a safe and strictly reliable plan of fraternal Insurance, with death, accident and old age benefits. Headquarters of the organization are at Peoria and the new Huntington lo 'e will be one of several bf'? In Indiana. The new a starts with a lnrrg and under fivr.