The Gazette from Cedar Rapids, Iowa • 1

VOIiUME 20-NO. 268. CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1902. PRICE FIVE CENTS. A CRUSADE AQAINSTi 0 BRIEF I0WR NEWS NEVADA FIRM' GERMANY WON SHAKEN BY Decorah wants a federal postoffieo building.

A bowling tournament is being held ON ACL POINTS HAS ASSIGNED EARTHQUAKE at Rockwell City. Another brick and tile plant will be SUNDAY NEWSPAPERS Des Moines. Iowa, 18 Rev. Knipe, chairman of the committee appointed by the Ministerial association at their meeting two weeks ago to look up the law regarding Sunday street hawking and the selling of newspapers on the streets on Sunday, has reported to the association established at Fella. The Sioux City Brewing company will build a $30,000 addition.

Mrs; Eghert White's home at Far- MANY UTAH TOWNS DAMAGED BOARDMAN BROS. HAVE FAILED DECISION IN SAMOAN CASE ragut was destroyed by fire. The loss Is heavy. Seismic. Disturbances create small Prominent Commission House of Cen Every Contention of America and Great Roy Houghton, aged 15, of Davenport, suffered a broken leg while Panics In Numerous Villages-Many Buildings Ruined.

tral Iowa In Financial straits Strawboard Co. Involved. Britain Discredited by King Oscar, the Arbitrator. playing football. The Waterloo Rapid Transit company will extend its system to Wav-erly and Sumner.

that according! to the law of the state Sunday Newspapers were un- lawfully published. That their publication could be stopped if an effort was made. Astto the city ordinances regarding the. selling of papers the streets on Sunday, he reported that the committee not yet had an opportunity to By a vote of the association! the report was accepted and the committee continued with instructions to ascertain the city ordinance on' the question. The ministers complain that the Salt Lake, Utah, Nov.

18 Ah earth Washington. Nov. 18 The text of J. T. Crelghton, the confessed hotel swindler, was sentenced at Waterloo quake shook the state of Utah yes the decision, given toy King Oscar II.

as arbitrator between Germany, Eng to thirty days in jail. Sioux City officials made another raid on gambling dens in that city land and the United States, in the claims of the Germans owing to mili terday afternoon, doing damage all over the state. The shocks were comparatively light in Salt Lake, but in the southern part of the state MORE tary operations conducted in Samoa in 1899, has been received here. The substance of the decision ias been buildings were ruined and other ser cries of the newsboys on Sundays disturb their Sunday meetings and announced heretofore in cable dis ious damage patches from Stockholm. The pre LENGTH In St.

George, a place of 3,000 pop that the practice of selling newspapers on Sundays on the streets should be forbidden. ceding publication, however, did not VtUUL. ulation in the southwestern part of convey to the officials here a full the state, nine distinct shocks were realization of the complete victory felt. The school building was shaker won by Get-many, for it appears that NO CHARGES FILED so violently that the ceilings were Nevada, Iowa. Nov.

18-rA business crash that will surprise the people of the state has just been made public in the failure of the great butter, egg and commission house of Board-man Bros, of this city. No official statement of the firm's assets and liabilities has been made public, but the liabilities are said to be about $150,000, with assets about the sam. Perhaps the largest creditor of the firm is the Des Moines Savings bank of Des Moines, but their indebtedness has been secured by the transfer of the real estate in this city occupied by the firm of Boardman that used by the Nevada Poultry company, and the residence property of H. C. Boardman.

This real estate has been deded to Homer Miller, cashier of the Des Moines Saving's bank, by a trust deed, and it Is understood that all other creditors have been or will be securec in like manner. It is currently repo-ted that the firm's indebtedness locally is about $75,000, and that $50,000 of this is to the First National bank of Nevada. $15,000 to the Farmers bank of Nevada, and $10,000 to othei firms on every single point the arbitrator wmi MORE adopted the most extreme German view in opposition to the United AGAINST REV. SMOCK shattered. The falling plaster caused a panic and the children rushed from the building, the teachers losing ail and made a number of arrests.

A canning factory may be estab -lished at Creston, providing the citizens offer the requisite inducements. A fair association has been organized-at State Center, and annual exhibitions will be held, beginning next year. Guy Wright, a Red Oak printer, had a hand so badly crushed in a press that amputation may be necessary. The Great Western will expend several thousand dollars in further enlarging and improving its shops at Oelweln. E.

J. McGookie, a well known N. W. train dispatcher, died suddenly at Boone. He formerly lived at Belle Plaine.

M. T. Gates, the young man who was on trial for shooting his father at Marne, was cleared at the pre-limianry hearing. The managers of the Boone opera States and England. control.

rff "'1 The question at issue was whether or not the British and United Status Several children were, hurt in the Waverly, Iowa, Nov. 18 The board of supervisors completed a lengthy iEADTH crush on the stairs. Houses wer? governments should be considered re WEAR session without any reference being shaken so badly that dishes were sponsible for the losses. He holds made to the sensational rumors in broken and pictures swung violently regard to County; Superintendent on the walls. Chimneys were demolished and several brick buildings Monroe Smock.

His opponents who were cracKea. Clouds of dust rose that they are. In support of the decision he cites the agreement of th'i three powers under the Berlin treaty that they could proceed only by common accord; that their consular representatives had recognized the provisional government of Mataafa, and had threatened to prefer charges against him looking to his discharge from the mountains, which could be I seen to move. Rooks rolled dbwn from office evidently conclyded that their evidence would not be deemed the hills, adding to the damaee. material in a court of law.

The tower of the Mormon temole and individuals, and that most of It Is stated on good authority that at St. George oscillated ten inches at house have issued an order prohibiting the attendance of babies at theatrical performances. Mr. Smock is engaged in preparing its top, and the spire of the taber this is secured. The business of Boardman Bros, is a large and ex a showing that when completed will nacle was shaken out of Deroendio tensive one, and their Integrity is ab- B.

F. Klugger. a former Davenport entirely vindicate him. ular, so that it may have to be taken were bound, to maintain the situation until changed by common accord. The action of the British and American authorities tending to overthrow th provisional government, is held contrary -to the obligations.

Touching the British-American complaint against the German, consul for his refusal to sustain the decision of junk dealer, and convicted of a dar down. The streets were filled with ing robbery at Rock Island, has es panic stricken people all afternoon. Reports from Santa Clara, near St caped from the Joliet penitentiary. western" made George, say that not a chimney was Kufus Itosenberger. residing near Marengo, has Just sold his farm 'for $107 per acre.

When Mr. Rosenberger leu standing. The shocks seemed to travel from the southwest toward the northeast. bought the land he paid $5 per acre for it. In Pine Valley part of a lanre brick C.

D. Atkinson, chairman of the store building collapsed, while abric- A.C3TALEYMFG.C0. i SOUTH JENI! INCL Pocahontas county republican centr.il dwelling was torn apart to such an extent that It Is unsafe for occupa committee, has received the appoint ment to a lucrative position In tion. A spring near the center til the chief justice, the arbitrator holds "it cannot be considered to have been the duty of the German consul to take part in the issuance of said proclamation, and it has not been proved that with regard ta said decision any sps were taken by him contrary to the general act, and therefore no responsibility attaches for the attitude taken by him in this respect." The arbiter finds nothing in the evidence to sustain the British-American contention that their military action was warranted, and he -therefore holds them responsible for the losses resulting from such military action. The board of control announces We, show a complete line' of this celebrated wool un that the reports so far received from county hospitals show general Im the town which always furnished a steady supply of cold clear water spouted up like a geyser.

First it rose only a dozen feet in the air. Then came another shock, and a hissing, steaming volume of water rose to a height of fully one hundred feet. After the shocks subsided the provement in conditions and sur derwear, also a great line of men's union suits, prices from roundings. It is believed that the mulct peti tion circulated in Bremer county has already received the signatures of flow remained strong although there $1.00 to $400 per suit more than the required 65 per cent of the voters. was no more' spouting.

LOOKING FOR WITNESS The second annual meeting of ths Iowa Park and Forestry association Des Moines, Iowa. Nov. 18 A mysterious woman has entered into the will be held in Des Moines, Dec. and 9. An elaborate program is being I Finkelsteln murder case, an unknown John P.

Reese will probably be woman dressed in a white shirt waist and a black skirt. She is the last person who saw Isaac Finkelstein elected to the presidency of district No. 13 of the Mine Workers, which alive and there is even a strong CHOLERA DECIMATING CITIES OF HOLY LAND Jerusalem, Nov. 18 The Cholera epidemic is speradlng rapidly. The populations of Gaza and Lydda have been -decimated and the authorities are taking flight.

At Jaffa there have been fifty-seven deaths in three days. The disease Is raging in the neighborhood and in the villages. People in the stricken districts are in a sad plight and relief 1b needed position he resigned to make the probability that she sawT the blow- race for congress. struck which robbed Finkelstein of A receiver "has been appointed for life. The defense of Harris Levlch the Maquoketa school desk factory.

Its liabilities are about $20,000. The is making every effort possible to dis THE SICK BOY "DARN THAT OLD PIPE." cover the identity and whereabouts of this woman. It has a clue which institution will be reorganized and removed to Anamosa. it is running down persistently. If Lansing will expend $13,000 on a this woman is found the mystery of Flnkelstein's murder may be solved forever.

The defense hopes to prove that the men seen running from the water works system. A site for th; pumping station has been secured. A lighting plant will be operated in connection with the water works. Walter J. Halpine, a well known construction boss at Davenport, has disappeared.

Before leaving he is al BANDITS ARE IDENTIFIED. Morris, 111., Nov. City Marshal Edmundson of Gardner, 111., together with Charles Butterfleld and Thomas Mulvoy, have furnished a eomplei--identification of the five men under arrest and in jail here as suspects charged with the robbery of the Exchange bank at Gardner on th morning of Oct. 29. leged to have secured money to the amount of $240 on three forged checks.

Captain J. F. Merry, chairman of the Iowa Vicksburg commission, will Call a meeting of the members comprising it after. the holidays. Reports of sub-committees will then be scene of the murder were not Levich and Walter.

BEAUTY SPECIALIST HELD. Peoria, 111., Nov. 18 Dr. Rosetta Etzier of this city, magnetist and beauty specialist, is awaiting arrest as a result of the death of Mrs. Hat-tie Hart of Pekin, who expired arter taking a quantity of a beauty preparation compounded by Mrs.

Etssler. The funeral was stopped by the coroner and the case, which had been supposed a suicide, was Investigated. After a coroner's jury at Pekln decided that the medicine was responsible for the death, orders were issued by the Tazewell county authorities to hold Dr. Etzier until officers take her in charge. She will De held to the grand jury.

On the authority of an officer hijrh In the Illinois Central, it is stated that during the coming season that road will build a line from Storm A METEORIC CAREER. New York, Nov. 18 Ronald F. Brennen, 22 years old, who rose, in two years, from the position of an office boy to that of president of a trust company which he organize 1. has been sentenced to Sing Sing for ten years.

He was charged with securing money under false pretenses by filing false satisfaction records of Lake south to Denlson, a distance of QOVs TO fifty miles. Governor Cummins has again ap so pointed Prof. L. G. Weld of Iowa City, state superintendent of weights and measures.

He has held the posi mortgages on property of persons whom he never knew. 401 FIFTH tion a number of years. The salary Is $50 per annum. GIRL PUTS TRAMP TO FLIGHT The Illinois Central is figuring on D0UKH0B0RS NOW HOME. Winnipeg, Nov.

18 Immigration Officer Roy, who assisted in driving the Doukhobor horde back to ViaI l-Hla tma Viae orrlvoH In Wlnni." uas ana Liectnc portable Heading Lamps. reducing one of its heavy grades in Hardin county and a party of surveyors are now at work in Ackley with a view to overcoming the -big Lighting fixtures, the largest and handsomest line ever shown in the city Tripoli. Iowa, Nov. 18 Emma Schwemm. a domestic employed in the household of Frank Kimball, a farmer, Is the heroine of a shootiii? hill just east of that city.

The report of the officers of the FAWCETT, 215 and 21 7 So 2nd Street. peg, and says there was great rer Joicing on the return of the Doukhobor men. The women, since being Rpnflrfl.tpd from the men. aooear to Manchester and Oneida railroad affray with a tramp in which the girl proved victorious. The young laxly was alone in the house when shows that in eleven months the earnings have been $12,654, expenses $8,611, leaving $4,053 as net earnings.

The road is only eight miles long. Miss Jane Cunningham of Chicago the tra'mp approached and demande-l something to eat. attempting to enforce his demands at the point of a revolver. The plucky girl also procured a revolver and several shots were exchanged, during which it was thought the thug was wounded in the has sued George J. Kidd, an under Demented Woman Suicides.

Sioux City, Iowa, Nov. 18 White demented. Mrs. William Tapp, living east of Pierson. threw herself into a pond.

Her husband found her dead body some time afterward. The woman was 55 years old. A Patient Disappears. Davenport, Iowa, Nov. IS Henry Sueverkrupp.

a patient at Mercy hospital, has disappeared from the hospital and the authorities are inclined to 'think that he has made away with himself. He was suffering from nervous trouble. RAPIDS LOAN TRUST CO. SECOND AVENUE and FIRST STREET, PAYS Viz and 47 ON TIME DEPOSITS. taker of Sioux City, for $2,000 dam ages because he buried her brother nude in an old pine box instead of clothing the remains properly and inclosing them In a good coffin.

arm. He made his escape and officers are now searching for him. Charles Gray, aged 10 years, walked 250 miles from Des Moines to St. DEATH IN ARSENIC SPRING. Nov.

18 Hen Paul to see his mother. His father WEDDING STATIONARY ry Amell has arrived here, bringing word of the discovery around a And all other Engraving and Printing. Get Our Prices. CEDAR RAPIDS PRINTING CO. tlephooe 693.

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N. Fr. Hansen, Manager. spring in Timber mountains, southern Nevada, of the remains of several people, supposed to have been a party of prospectors. The cause of death was soon revealed.

No sooner had the members of Arneil's party drank from the spring than they were seized with 'cramps, of them suffering intensely. The water was heavily charged with arsenic MRS. MOLINEUX WANTS DIVORCE. Sioux Falls, S. Nov.

18 The solutely unquestioned. Their local business has always been sound, and It Is said that the trouble has all arisen over their connection' with what is known as the Egg Shippers' Straw Board and Filler company, of which H. C. Boardman is secretary and treasurer. This company manufactures strawboard fillers for egg cases and like commodities, and was considered one of the largest in the world.

It was almost without competition in the United States, the jfactory being located at Tama, Iowa. Just what caused the failure cannot be stated, nor is it known how other capitalists who were interested In the Egg Shippers Strawboard and Filler company will be affected, if at all. K. Boardman, one of the firm, was formerly state dairy commissioner. He has been lying at death's door for many weeks from DID NOT KNOW IT WAS LOADED.

Nov. 18 A sad accident occurred at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jae King, who reside on a farm southwest of Pulaski. Mrs.

King's brother, John Mozingo, oldest Bon-of Mrs. Isabel Mozingo of this city, accidentally shot and killed his brother, Lacy Mozingo. The ball passed through his heart and he died instantly. John was reading and Lacy playing with the shears, snapped them at John, saying: 'I'll shoot you." John took up the gun lying near him and pulled the trigger, not knowing that Lacy had loaded It that morning. Clarkson For Pension Agent.

Des Iowa, Nov. 18 Congressman J. A. T. Hull announces that he has decided to recommend Richard P.

Clarkson for the position of United States pension agent for the Des Moines district. The district includes the states of Iowa and Nebraska. The salary is $4,000 a yea, and the term of office is for four years. Mr. Clarkson will succeed iiL Sperry, -who has occupied the position for the past eight years.

Tno Iowa River Is High. Marshalltown. Iowa, Nov. 18 The Iowa river is the highest ever known at this season of the year. Considerable damage has been done to bridges in the north part of the county.

-v Krebs Bros. Co. latest notable arrival In the divorce colony here for some time is Mrs. have cooled in their fanatic ardor and are quite contented to remain at home. The leaders were still possessed of their crazy notions, but have lost their hold on their folios-- ers FATAL HUNTING ACCIDENT.

Norwalk, Iowa, Nov. 18 Stephen Way, a farmer, was accidentally shot In the" knee by William Talbott while on a duck hunting excursion. Way was taken home, and it was found necessary to amputate the leg. The injured man, however, failed to rally from the ordeal and died in a few hours. Custodian or Press Building.

Des Moines, Iowa, Nov. 18 J. S. Crawford, recently editor of the Cherokee Times, and a former representative in the Itfwa legislature from Cass county, has been appointed custodian of the press building at the St. Louis exposition.

Mr. Crawford was a candidate for secretary of the Iowa commission. No Newsf Waldo Miller. Waterloo, Iowa. Nov.

18 The mystery surrounding the disappearance of Waldo Miller grows deeper every day. Not word has been heard that would lend a clue as to his whereabouts or his reason for taking such an unexpected departure. It is feared he has made away with himself. An agent of the railway company is checking over his accounts. Big Sum for city Missions.

Chicage. Nov. 18 An offer of for Chicago ctty mission work was made' to the Congregational club lust night by Ir. D. K.

Pearsons, the condition of the -gift being that the society should raise $100,000 additional. a unanimous; vote the condition was agreed to by the club. Will De no Military Parade. Memhpls, Nov. 18 The military parade was to be one of the features of Presidents Roosevelt's visit has been abandoned, because the confederate veterans, the gov-ernor's guards, and other local militia refused to join in the parade.

Roland B. Molineux of New. York City, who authorizes the statement IXCORPOKATED. that the object of her visit to Sioux Falls and South Dakota is to secure a divorce from her husband, who was last week acquitted of the charge of murder after two sensational and mother had separated, and fathar remaining in Des Moines. The boy was kept by his father until overcome by a longing to see his mother.

A farmer from Dallas county stopped at a Chariton hotel on his way home from He left his valuables, including a. sum of money, with the clerk when he retired for the night. In the morning both clerk and valuables had disappeared. POSTAL REFORMS ADVOCATED Washington. Nov.

is Edwin C. Madden, third assistant postmaster general, in his annual report, recommends the establishment oi the following new postage rates: A new rate at 4 cents a pound for all publications now admitted to the second class mail, except daily, triweekly, semi-weekly, and weekly newspapers, in the general understood sense of the word "newspaper." This rate is to be paid on the bulk weight without regard to the number of The consolidation of the third ana fourth classes of mail matter and that the postage thereon be at the rate of 1 cent for each two ounces or fraction thereof, to be prepaid by stamps affixed, is advised. Concerning the public Impression that 1 cent postage is probable in tbe near future. Mr. Madden says it is altogether too soon to consider a reduction of the letter rate of postage.

A Reward Offered. Ottumwa, Iowa, Nov. 18 A reward of $300 has been offered for the arrest of the thugs who slugged and robbed John Wagner Saturday night. Fell Down Elevator Shaft. Marshalltown, Iowa, Nov.

18. H. F. Marsh, assistant general freight agent of the Iowa Central, fell down an elevator shaft a distance of twelve feet, at the Armour plant here yesterday afternoon, and was severely Injured. Ft.

Madison Packing Plant Sold. Fort Madison, Iowa, 18 The packing house and stock yards here have been sold to the holders of the morning. The price bid was $6,000 for the packing house and grounds and $4,000 for the stock yards adjoining. Easton Case is Continued. Des Moines.

Iowa, Nov. 18 Attorney General Mullan has returned- from Washington. The case of Banker Easton of Decorah was not argued to the sypreme court because the defense asked a continuance and it was granted. The case, will come on the January term. A CONFERENCE IS CALLED.

Oskaloosa, Iowa. Nov, 18 In the absence of Congressman Hepburn, the ranking member of 'the Iowa congressional delegation. Congressman Lacey. the next in the request of the delegation, has called a conference of the delegation In Des, Moines today regarding the speakership question. i Burglars Caught in the Act.

Ottumwa. Iowa. Nov. IS The police caught two burglars attempting to enter a business house last evening. The same men had entered three other places.

trials. Mrs. Molineux declines to make public the grounds upon which her suit will be based. President Had Poor Luck. Smedes, Nov.

18 President Roosevelt tramped all-day in the rain yesterday and failed to get a Write us for descriptive pamphlet free. When Writing Mention The Gazette. shot at a bear. He has one mora day In which to try to bag at lea3t one, and the guides are still hopeful ot success. Luck was against him, yesterday, and.

instead of the president bagging the 225 pounder secured. if IJiliJf it fell before the gun of Mr.McDou-gal of the Smedes plantation. BESTS. Vermont Is for Cannon. Burlington.

Vt-, Nov. 18 Congress men D. J. Foster and Kittredge Has- kins met in this city and decided to support Congressman Cannon of Illinois for speaker of the house..