Daily Republican-Register from Mount Carmel, Illinois • 1

BiimrnT'Tri 1M lv. VOLUME 26. NUMBER 134. MOUNT CARMEL, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1923. Price, Three CcnU 1MLY ROBERTL INCOLN ANOTHER AUTO NE EXPLOS ON C0LI1SWILLBE IN 821 YEAR SHASHOP TODAY KILLS HERS REACHED SOON fnlKmf.rni.akl fnrlK nrt F7 fe this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dcdi-I cated to" the proposition that all men are created equal Son of Abraham Lincoln Is in Failing Health and Keeps Indoors.

Worst Disaster In Ger many's Industrial History Seven Are Rescued. Now we are engaged a great civil war, testing whetlier that nation, of any nation so conceived and to dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final mm STILL. ALERT Car Strikes Electric Light Pole and Breaks, It Off.

WOMEN-CRYING Just Missed Transformer Weighing a Ton Which Fell in Crash. SPARKS IGNITE GAS Horrible Scenes Witnessed resting place for those who here gave their lives that the nation might live. It as Rescuers Reach the Blasted Chambers. Possesses, Most Complete Collections of History on Great Emancipator. WASHINGTON, D.

Feb. 12. Abraham Lincoln's son, Robert Todd Lincoln now in his 82nd year is fulling in health and the doors of his BERLIN. Feb. 12.One hundred' and thirty-one miners were killed in a mine explosion at Dormutz shortly About three o'clock this morning some purties in an automobile struck the light polo at the corner of Ninth and Fear streets with such force that the pole was broken off and a heavy cast iron transformer weighing a quarter of a ton was knocked aver forty feet away upon the lawn.

The before midnight in one of the worst quaint old Colonial house, where he Is living with his wife and servants, is altogether fitting and proper that should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dcdkate--we cannot consecrate we i cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, Irving and dead, who struggled here have consecrated fai above our poor power to add or detract The world wiD little note, nor long remember, wKawy here, but it can never forget what they did here. It for us the Eving, rather, to be dedicated here to the unJinishcd work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from those honored dead we take increased devotion to that came for which they gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resoKe that these dead shall rt have died in vainthat this nation, under Cod, shall have a new birth of freedomand mat government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from this earth.

disasters in Germany's Industrial history. Several rescue workers cut their way into gas filled shafts in search of possible survivors sfnd were asphyxiated. When the blast let go only seven were brought out alive. cries of womens' voices were heard by are closed to all except his most intimate friends. Behind the walls he passes his declining yrars in seclusion, as ordered by his physician.

Lincoln's major activity is correspondence with hintorians and writers as he The cause of the catastrophe was laid to sparks from a machine in one rather details of his father's life. of the shafts igniting the gases in the mine. In this he is keen and painstaking and has the aid of one of thu most complete collections of history on Abraham Lincoln in the world, The entire industrial region around Dormuu was cast into gloom by the tragedy and crowds fathered in a mob at the mine entrance threatening to lynch the directors who were making every effort to keep news of the disaster from getting out. November 19, 1863. 1 A pitiful scene was enacted as Will Then Be Down 70 Where He Is Supposed To Be.

HAY SHOE AUVE Radio Tests Ceased Yesterday, When He Was Still Clinging: to Life. AT MOUTH OF SAND CAVE. Feb. 12. An official estimate today stated it would take a maximum of six hours to the level at which Floyd Collins liti.

H- T. Carmichasl, general supervisor of operations, issued the following official communication: "At i. m. today the shaft had reached a depth of about 40 feet Engineer calculated Collins is not more than 40 feet below the shaft. The ahaft is linking the rate of 14 feet in 24 hours, which should bring us into the level six hours from now.

It then will be nec- to burrow a tunnel to Collins, whose position we believe to have Ixed at that level. If our drift fails to locate him, we will make drifta in II directions until we find him." Then Carmichael unofficially; "All this is full of surprises. There will be many fissures in the rock. We might at any moment' strike ene that would lead us to Collins. Our shaft-might strike the tunnel, which would eliminate the necessity of making a side drift" Estimates of workers placed the depth of the shaft at 47 feet Work-are do not know whether Collins is atill alive, the electric light bulb having been burned out With the elee-tru light wire attached to the bulb, radio tests were made up to yesterday, which showed that he was still clinging to life.

SAND CAVE, Feb. 12. As a winter wind flecked snow across the opening of the shaft, diggers worked this morning through the last layer rock that separates them from Collins. The rescurers have bur-Towed their way through nine stone layers which form th-Tof of Collins' walled prison. It may be minutes and it may be hours before their picks find the-Wtom and their shafts nave directed them to their goal.

All preparations have been made quickly to clear out the debris. As soon as Col-- lins is reached they will deliver him to Dr. W. H. Hailett of Chicago.

Dr. Hazlctt then may give him a stimulant or he may announce that the man is dead. -Up until Wednesday, the workers knew that. Collins was still alive. Now they do not know this.

That Collins was still alive in the (Continued on page 2) scores of wives and mothers with little children at their skirts were clam oring to be allowed to enter the pit inose living in the neighborhood but before any one could dress and get out the car was removed. Quite a number of lights were put out of commission in the neighborhood but the Utility company reports that service will be restored before From the damage done it is a great' wonder that some one was not seriously injured. Had the trannfornu'r -dropped on the car everv one would, have been killed. No Information could be secured as to who thtse people were. REV.

WM. ASKEW ACCEPTS CALL OF FIRST CHRISTIAN Will Arrive Here from Lexington, Illinois, About 7 First of March. Bright, pleasing and eloquent. Rev, Wm. Askew, of won, the affections and esteem of the congregation of the First'- Christian mouth to help the hundreds of volun teers who were risking their lives in the Rescue workers with torches and oxygen helmets were try- Cousin of President Lives yzlnziVabash; Brother Mel and Talked The bearded old man, the last living link of the great emancipator, is very modest about his parents and his own career which included a cabinet position for four years, as minister to England and a prominent historical place in the business world.

His mind is still very alert and since his retirement in 1910 he has retained his memberHhip on the board of Full-man Co. and the Chicago Banking Co. NEW GROCERY WILL START SOON IN OLD CANDY STORE i Kroger Grocery and Baking Company Leases Chas. Ing to cut their way into the rocks to the death chambers where the explosion bears most of the victims. A score of miners who were work Living in Wabash far was the ojily one of the family who settled in this territoryr She was ing at the entrance of the- mine were hurled together as the walls of the pit caved in and more than a hundred others were crushed or asphyxiated.

Breaking the passage, rescue workers found chalked on the walls Nine of us still alive." The one ef six children, all of whom are south of the Wabash-Lawrence line and only a little way down the road west of Douglas school house, is a first cousin of Abraham Lincoln, gone but her. Two sisters died as in fants, one brother died while still George Smith entered this land from the government and from the day he purchased it from Uncle Sam to the present time it has not been out of the hands of the Smith family. Mrs. Smith is the mother of four sons and daughters now living: Mrs. Rebecca Smith of Sumner; Samuel Smith of near Bridgeport; Mrs.

Mary Shafer of EfTingham, and Newton Smith, with whom' she lives. Mrs. young, and two brothers grew to martyred Civil war-time president, whose birthday anniversary, is ob nine were found dead hurled together by the heat at the end of the shafts manhood and served through the Civil Bonham Building, -1. war. They were Joseph and Samuel at 1 p.

m. One hundred and ten had served today throughout the nation ih the preservation of which he was the guiding spirit through the greatest civil conflict of all history. That ennsin of the immortal Lin The Kroger Grocery and Baking been blown up from the pit Ten of these were so badly burned and mutilated that were identified nly 4y the numbers on their ianterrm, Co-a. chain, stor corporation with coin is Mrs. Louisiana Smith.

Per headquarters in Cincinnati, has leased the Charles Bonham building, formerly occupied by the "Candy Land" confectionery, and will open a branch haps she is the only person now nvr ing bearing the distinction of being i'DOWELL MUSIC store in Mount Carmel about Feb. 21. Shafer of Effingham is. the mother of Miss Fern Shafer, supervisor of music in the Mount Carmel schools. On a wall in the Smith home is a picture of Joseph Hanks and in the contour of the face there is a marked resemblance to the picture of Abraham Lincoln.

Mrs. Smith has the unusual distinction of having a great-greatgrandchild. The line, broken by death between the oldest and youngest, is established thus: Mrs. Smith, her son C. E.

Vanllorn. of St. Elmo, 111., decorator employed regularly by the Abraham Lincoln's first cousin. Mrs. Smith, now in her ninety-second year, lives with her son, Newton Smith and wife, on the farm where she and her husband went to housekeeping nearly seventy-three church when he filled the local pul--Qit in Mount Carmel about four wevki ago.

As the Tesult of his visit her he was Inter, after investigation and careful consideration by the church directors' extended the call to accept the local pastorship. i i A. E. Smith, this morning received official information from 11. H.

rV ters, state secretary of the Christian 1 Ministerial Association, of Blooming, ton. 111., that the Rev. Wm. Askew had accepted, the call of local church, and would arrive- in Mount Carmel for pastorial duties about March 1. Secretary Peters gives personal assurance of a successful min- istery here, under the leadership of Rev.

Askew. Mrs. Askew, the minister'! wifei who is principal in the xi ntr ton nublic nchonls. will prob Kroger corporation, is- directing a CLUB WILL HOLD CONCERT FEB. 24 force of workmen who are making the interior of the building ready for ears ago.

Her rather, wno was eziklah Hanks, was a brother of occupancy. According to Mr. VanHorn the Kroger company has a chain of ap Hanks. Both, are now long gone, but the descendants of Samuel still live in Douglas Joseph went Missouri after the Civil war and has a daughter in that stated Relatives in those days of. poor communication did not- keep in such close touch with each other as now.

Mrs. Smith never met her distin-1 guished cousin. She recalls, however, that her brother, Joseph Hanks, while in the army during the Civil war, -called oi) the president. They had quite a talk and established their relationship with each other. This was an event in the family's history cousins meeting for the first time, one the president and commahder-in-chief of the army, the other a soldier in that conquering armed host.

Incidentally, the family has quite a reoord for war service. Mrs. Smith's two Joseph and Samuel Hanks, were in the Civil warrlief" fatherTIezikiah was a veteran of the War of 1812, and her grandfather on her mother's side. Hezikiah Hardesty, was a veteran of the Revolutionary war, several D. A.

tracing their right to member Nancy Hanks, mother of Abraham ueorge, his daughter Florence (Mrs, Musical Organization Will William Stillwell, her daughter, Elva daugt proximately 3,000 stores, scattered and Have One of the Rare' her baby (Mrs. hli) Litherland throughout Ohio, Illinois and Mis daughter. souri. The Mount Carmel store will Treats of Season. Lincoln, according to the family record handed down from the long ago.

Thus she is a first cousin of the president. Mrs. Smith, though advanced In years, being one of the county's oldest residents, is alert and active bpth When visited a few days ago, Mrs. be under the supervision of the St. The plans of the MacDowell Music Louis district branch iff ice.

The largest bakery in St. Louis is said ably not arrive until the end of the club for their spring concert are to be the property of the. Kroger Smith sat reading, without glasses. She remarked that she reads everything that she can obtain about Mr. Lincoln, As well as being a prolific reader she busies herself at sewing, and recently has been engaged in rapidly- approaching consummation.

concern. It is the policy of the cor mentally and physically. She retains in- memory-event -of her irlhood to an unusual degree and delights in present school term. Rev. Askew, 'who is aged about years, is a graduate of the Johnson Bible college, at Kimberlin Heights, Tenn.

He received the Fh. D. de- Rehearsals are being held twice weekly under the able direction of Miss Rosalind Keneipp, and a program of great beauty and musical worth Is poration to employ all local help, but until the business has been properly established and a local man trained in talking of those days now long gone. "EGYPT' BOOSTED IN MEETING HELD AHENTRAIIA Resources of Southern Illinois Make it a Land of Promise. free from Chicago University.

Both When visited a short time ago by a representative of The Republican- the work a manager from some other Rev. and Mrs. Askew are said to be being prepared. The public remembers, with much pleasure, previous Kroger store will be sent here tem Kegister, sne recounted many incidents -of -haf nearly life, incidents porarily. efforts of the MacDowell club and needs no recommendations on its be highly cultured and very talented.

The local church membership and citizens of Mount Carmel in general, will extendi to them, a hearty and sin piecing quilt blocks, this. also without glasses. Her sense of hearing also is remarkably acute. She ha been used to- working all her life, she asserts, and she can not bear to be idle. Mrs.

Smith relates an unusual incident in her long and eventful life: When she was still a girl, she lived a year in Lawrenceville at the same placehere-1ivednnothergirrthree which the cherishes as treasures in ship in this organization through this source. And Lincoln himself was a captain in the Blackhawk War of half. The MacDowell club's rendering Influenza Epidemic the afterneoa of her long span of cere welcome. 7- Sweeps thA British Isles of Stamer's "Crucifixion on Good Friday of last year was, the outstanding -musical event in- the hlstonr of Mrs. Smith grew to young wbman- The HaiiK family or whicn Mrs.

Smith is a member came from Vir- the community JThat the coming concert will reach this standard goes years They became firm UUI110 ILlu (fulled I'wnnl LONDON, Feb. 12. Four London school children are in- giniarrinsrorr relates that the Lin-colns and Hanks, forebears of Abra friends. That was seventy-five years CENTRALIA, 111,, Feb. -12.

Pos- gibibties of Southern Illinois as a new land of promise of the home seeker because of the good climate, soil, mineral resources, railroad and hard road facilities and the potential industrial without 'saying. The proirram will be ham Lincoln, came also from Vir- or more ago. The two parted, Mrs. fluenxa victims. Less than the av composed of a special suite of songs erage attendance being in the class mia, settling first in Kentucky, here Abraham Lincoln's grand smith coming to Wabash county.

Long years went by. Recently Mrs. and varied choral and instrumental and vocal solo numbers, and will be ENTERTAINMENT TO FILL RL E. CHURCH advantages of the section, were told father, was killed by Indians in 1784. Smith was informed that living on rooms.

The British Isles are in the midst of an epidemic with alarming ranidity. although the disease is com quite a while, in Lawrenceviiie. bhe came later to Mount Carmel, then a mere village, worked in this city, and finally went to what is now Douglas vicinity. There she met John Smith and they were married on March 4, 1852," at the home of George Smith, father of John. John Smith died about sixteen years ago.

John Smith and his bride Louisana Hanks Smith went to housekeeping the farm on wh'ch Smith jiow lives and so diversified that the demands of all Thomas father of Abraham, here yesterday at a conference of railroad and Chamber of Commerce of- tastes will be met The date for the the hit Jordan farm not far away, in the heart, of the old Allendale oil first married Nancy Hanks and Abra concert has been decided on as Feb, ham was the issue1 of that union. flcials. Among the speakers were J. paratively mild. The influenza has made serious inroads on business, society, and government work.

Many field, "was an old lady who knew Grandma Smith." It was Mrs. Amelia 24 at 8 o'clock p. at the First Nancy Hanks -died when Abraham Entertainers Are AH Ready Lamson. agricultural agent of the was a boy and Thomas Lincoln mar Racob, now ninety-four years old. the functions have been abandoned and Methodist church.

Anniversary" of girl who had lived for a year at the ried again. 1 he family moved to Indiana from Kentucky, in 1816, then manv committees lack a quorum as same place as Mrs. Smith in Law Burlington railroad Dr. Flint Bond-urant, of the Cairo Chamber of Commerce, and William G. Murphy, chairman of the agricultural bureau of the for this Evening Program.

Final arrangements have been made members are retained with the flu. In many -districts throughout England Boy Scouting Being in 1830 moved to Macon countji, a rl'v', Observed this Week Mrs. Smith is a native of Law on which she has continually lived through the seventy-three years since she though the home of her son Newton is a new residence and does not occupy the same site on the farm that the old residence did. central chamber, and Scotland, 1 there is a serious epi demic of measles as well. for the big entertainment tonight nt rencev.uie, They met again.

The three-ouar-ters of a century span of time was bridged in their memory and they went back to the days when they were girls together. rence county, she having been born The conference, one of the most the First M. E. church, given by Mt. important ever held in Southern Illi Thousands of Boy Scouts are ob near JBUlet, Sept.

16, 1833. Her father, Hezikiah Hanks, she says, Carmel Commandery Knights Templar Mysterious Bomb Was nois. from a booster standpoint, was serving the fitteenth of Scouting in the United States. These Exploded in Grocery for purpose of getting the railroad companies to co-operate with the for their members and families aiui all the Blue Lodge Masons in this district together with their families. boys constitute one of the greatest CAIRO GIRL HAS GEORGE HILL REV.

LEE TINSLEY reasons for hopes of patriotic Amen commercial organizations in telling the country about this section known Fitch Cooper, the star comedian, arrived this afternoon from his homo NILES. Feb. 12. A grocery cans" that future generations of American men wilt be clean, virile) was wrecked and a dwelling next door was demolished by a mysterious bomb and robust. cs "Egypt" Robbers Crush Skull in Indiana.

The ladies of the Uoliy Varden Quartette together with the DISAPPEARED ON WAY TO COLLEGE In this age when the unessential PLEADS GUILTY; explosion hero today. Police believe two male soloists from Princeton, will be here early this evening. The is too often emphasized instead of the fundamental things of life, when and Leave Victim Dying that the clash may be the recurrance of the Klan and Anti-Klan war which AT FRENCH LICK; MRS. TINSLEY ILL Pastor "Killing Two" Birds With One Stone' at Indiana Resort. the sense of sin seems to be di program will be proceeded by a lew numbers-from the high- school or- raged there recently.

This is the appearing, not -particularly among fourth bomb outrage in the last two chestra. Nelson Kern, the prgnm.st ot INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. Such Fines Indicate No Lax the young but among' matured men months. Robberv was assigned by police as and women, the Hoy fccout is a re Mary Jewel $yan Did Not Reach Champaign Search Started. fn Mirfii nvni freshin? figure.

ity in Enforcement 1 Here. the probable jmotivg of the attack on Ralph Cunningham, 35, of Advance. who "was found with a crushed skull near the door of the Hay and Boys who mane gooa scoucs win sin ui itt4u LIVERPOOL. England (U, The first overall strike on record has make citizens. CAIRO, 11W Feb.

12. Mary Jew Each Scout pledges nimseii to ao Just finished its stormy career here, George W. Hill, who some time ago The many friends in this city of Rev. nnd Mrs. Lee Tinsley.

the for the church will also play a few selections on the pipe organ. Nearly 1,000 tickets were given out at 3 o'clock this afternon. The churchi will be opened at and the program will begin at 8 oVlf k. The ushers- will be the officers of Mt. Carmel Commandery.

GASOLINE WILL BE UP 2 CENTS A GALLON el Kyan, missing University of lui his, tUitjfc to his Uod and country Grain offices here. Cunningham was at the point of death at the City nois freshman, has not returned to to. help other people at ail times An employer in a cotton works oe. cided to supply all his girls with ov eralls. i Unfortunately, his wife- de.

Hospital A valise case, in which Cairo, and her father, John Ryan, a to himself physically strong, Cunningham was accustomed to carry. mer for many years pastor, of the local First Christian church, will be chagrined to learn that both are indisposed, Mrs. Tinsley particularly terminal foreman of the Mobile signed them. Arid she had Btrong ing the receipts of the day's business Ohio railroad left at noon today for ideas as to how much ankle and to his home, was missing. mentally awake and morally straight.

If a boy-does his best to live, up to this pledge for a few years, it cannot help making a better man out of neck should be shown. Champaign- to aid in the investiga tiorv. ic was caught "with the gooda'V on him, has entered fa plea of guilty to the charge of possessing intoxicating liquor. He was assessed a fine of $150 and costs, which he paid. Such penalties as have been meted out locally in cases of liquor law violations indicate that more has been accomplished toward Volstead law enforcement in this county than in most sections of the state.

neing in very feeble health. A letter from" the Rev. Mr. Tins A. J.

Smith of Fairfield is visiting The girls, when they saw the new overalls, revolted. There was a.strike. friends in the city tor several days. The slogan was "Overalls are all ley Smith states that the former is conducting revival services at French Lick, where he is also Miss Ryan, an honor student of the Cairo high school, and- a very attractive girl, 7 told friends before returning to Champaign Sunday night right, but thewmusn't be over all." GASOLINE PRICES TO BE INVESTIGATED The Weather Arbitration as to length ami cut of the garment forced the employer's that she was pleased with her work and the school and hoped to finish taking baths for rheumatism. Tinslev.

he writes, is suffering considerably from heart trouble, as an after-effect of influenza. wife to back down, i the' four-year course. She had less than" on her person, said her Mostly fair in the south. Unsettled in the northern portion tonight and Fridav. Prob MEMORIAL FROM BUFFALO MAN fl'tiltMfr PrV CHICAGO.

Feb. 12. The retail price of gasoline will be advanced 2 cents a gallon, effective tomorrow, thu Standard Oil of Indiana, announced today. Also kerosene will be advanced 1 cent a gallon. Rising prices of gasoline production was given as the caus of the risa of the retail priced The increasa is effective in eleven middle-western states, covering considerable territory, Mrs.

Rosalie Duncan was with friend in Pjlwcta yc-rf-' BUFFALO. N. (U. A rest cottage by the sea for girls is to be ably some snow built by the lokohoma (Japan) i. (T'nlted Press) -WASHINGTON, D.

jeb. 12. Representative Trammell of Florida, today introduced a resolution calling for an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission of the recent increase in the price of gasoline. The resolution on which no action has been taken, charges the increases were unwarranted. HEAVY STEEL OUTPUT.

CHICAGO, (U. Night and day shifts, overtime employment and orders that are taxing the capacity of the mills mean a production of 450,000 to 500,000 ton of rail steel reinforcing bars in 1925. This is the forecast just made by the Rail Steel products association. Production is expected to doubla the tonnage of last year. Friday.

Warmer W. C. A. It will be the gift of Dr. father, who was notified of her disappearance this morning, Forrest Keneipp of Allendale was a visitor in Mount Carmel today, F.

M. Gordon of Bridgeport Is spending several days in this city. WILL LECTURE AT U. OF C. NEW YORK, (U.

Or. William P. Montague, professor of philosophy in Columbia University, has been chosen to deliver the ,1925 Howison Lecture at the University of California on' January 30, it wss announced yesterday. tonight. Colder Charles C.

Roose of Buffalo as a me morial to his daughter, Mrs. Edith R. Friday in north west portion, f. Lacy, who died in the earthquake Sep- wnn ale. iber, 1923.

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