Belvidere Daily Republican from Belvidere, Illinois • Page 1

"TT rr- a ri 1 a. BELVIDERE, ILLIKOIS, FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1912. SIX PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS i. VOL.

80, NO. 115. WEATHER FORECAST POSTAL BILL CARRYING llFT WILL MAKE I miik OF 1872 LONGEST BRIDGE IS PLANNED Ban Francisco Bay to Be Spanned by Structure. Los Cal, May 3. With the passage of a bill by the United States senate granting Allan c.

Rsh, JLot Angeles engineer, a- rtghiot way. across Goat island- and permit to utilize a portion of land in the Presidio military reservation, the first tangible step waa made toward the execution of the plana for spanning San Francisco bay with suspension bridge, to be the longest In the world. High Water Renders More Than 1 00,000 Persons Homeless in Torras (La.) District i BUT RULE OF JOHN WESLEY 13 V- AMUSEMENTS ARE DISCUSSED Resolution as Passed Revokes an. Act of Conference Forty Years Ago Which Attempted to Name the Amusements Which Would Come Under the Ban of the Unchangeable Law of the Church as Laid Down by Wesley. Minneapolis, Minn, May 3.

(Spe- rial by United Press.) The general Methodist conference in session here adopted a resolution in effect opposing President Taft, for hot interfering in -the action of Secretary of Agriculture. Wilson in acting as honorary chairman -of the Brewers' congress; and also returned to the rule as laid down by John Wesley in regard to certain amuse-. mentis in the church. 'i 't: I EE!) BODIES Storm Halts Cableship Minla in Search for Victims of Ti-tanic Disaster. BOAT ON WAY TO HALIFAX Remains of Charles M.

Hays and Fourteen Others Due In Port Monday Burial ef Unidentified Dead Is Be- gun Halifax. N. 8 May 3. On Monday morning the 'cable ship Minla, which haa been searching for the victims of the liner 'Titanic, will arrive in Halifax with fifteen bodies, Including that of Charles Hays, former president of the Grand Railroad company, on board. Captain De Carteret reported by wireless through the Cape Race station that he waa compelled to make a landing owing to a heavy eastern storm which is bearing down on him.

Further Search Is Futile. He says "further search Is futile because the remaining bodies have undoubtedly been widely scattered by this time. The widely diverged locations of bodies at present la illustrated by a wireless received from the Minla showing that the only body picked up Wednesday was that of Assistant Purser T. W. King, found 45 miles east Of one picked up the day The bodies are probably drifting eastward at the rate of eight miles a day or faster, when the gulf stream catches them.

Captain pe Carteret reports that' Icebergs are extremely numerous just now and extend as far south on the ocean highway as 40.30 and 48.30. Will Menace Public Health. An undertaker; who does not wish to have his name mentioned, said: "These bodies at the morgue. Identified or unidentified, cannot possibly be held-longer than the end of the week-' without endangering public health. The condition ofc practically all; and there are still fully 170 there, has undergone marked change in a day." Between (forty and sixty unidentified were burled at a public service here todays Memorial services were held in churches of various denominations In the morning and a special memorial service in honor of the Titanlc's dead waVheld-under the auspices of the Halifax -Evangelical alliance In the Brunswick, street church.

The royal Canadian regiment band furnished 'the music. GOV. BALDWIN IS INDORSED Connecticut Instructs Delegates to Vote for Him at Baltimore, Bridgeport May 3. The fourteen Democratic delegates for Connecticut will enter the Baltimore convention Instructed to use every honorable effort to effect the nomination of Connecticut's governor and Veteran jurist, Simeon E. Baldwin, to head the Democratic national ticket When a motion to this effect came before the convention an effort was made to have supplementary instructions added to the effect that the delegates, should they find the Baldwin boom to lack strength, should cast their strength to Clark.

This was subsequently withdrawn. TURKISH CAMP WIPED OUT Italians Cause Heavy Loss by Dropping Bombs From Balloons. Rome, May 3. A brief dispatch received at the war ministry tells of the destruction of the Turkish camp, "with heavy loss" at Azlzlah by two dirigible balloons which salted over the place and dropped explosives Into the encampment This Is the first serious destruction done by dirigibles in actual warfare. The report says that thirty bombs were "dropped, practically annihilating the Turkish camp.

The, Turks tried to nee their field pieces to destroy the dirigibles with shrapnel but they could not fire at a sufficient elevation and the explosives fell far short PAPKE KNOCKS OUT LEITCH Hard Smash on Jaw In Second Round Ends Gotham Bout, p'; New York, May took Billy Papke of Kewanee, just two rounds at the National Sporting club to put Billy Leltch out of the running. Leitch as hopelessly outclassed. Papke floored bis man with the tap of the gong In the first round and In the second sent hfm down twice for the count before he floored him for good with a hard smash to the Jaw Mrs, W. Vanderbllt Operated On. NewYork, May 3.

Mrs. William K. Vanderbllt, waa operated on for, appendicitis at her home In Fifth tier condition Is reported satis factory. Wall-Known Cartoonist Is Dad. New May 3.

Homer Davenport, one of the most famous of American cartoonists, died, at the sge of forty-five. He had been 111 only five days, 0 11 $260,000,000 16 PASSED House Adopts. Measure Containing Much New Important Legislation, i After Weeks of Debs te, Wythevllle, May S. Probably for the first time, in his existence, Floyd Allen, the Virginia mountaineer and moonBhrner, is beginning to rea-Uxe that when one man takes the life of another he must answer before the bar of justice for his crime. The bill passed by a vote of 22? to 5 without a roll call although roll calls were had on several of the legislative features of the bill Among the important legislative sections of the bill Ip that which creates an experimental parcels post on strict ly rural routes and a temporary par cel post on general routes.

This legislation, however. Is subject to change at the next session, when a joint committee, authorized by the bill, makes recommendations fox the establishment of an unlimited parcels post As adopted the parcels post rates on rural Uroutes will be five cents a pound for the first pound and one cent for each additional pound on packages not exceeding 11 pounds in weight The general rate Is 12 cents a pound with a package limit of 11 pounds. Other legislative. features of the bill embrace the Shackelford good roads amendment: rovldIng for federal aid to good roads by a system of tolls for the use of roads over which rural tnalls are carried: the Bernhardt amendment requiring newspapers and periodicals to publish the names of their owners and stockholders, and committee amendments revoking the "gag" rule in the post office department and also requiring that steel cars only -shall be used for the railway mail service after July 1, 1917. EDISON IN NEW TRIUMPH Commerce Commission Orders Road to Obey Its Nesv York, May 3.

Thomas A. Edison, It lb learned, has accomplished the crowning triumph of his career. He has perfected a method of separating the paying elements of ores that will mean an increase of Thomas A. Edlsort. 000 a year In the productive wealth of the country.

The inventor has been working over his plan for years and, it is said, has spent a fortune his experimental He is not at this time prepared to give out the details of his new method, but those closely associated with the Inventor declare he believes his new invention la the most valuable he has given to mankind. CHICAGO PRESSMEN GO OUT Nonunlonists Aid in Getting Out News i papers Newsboys In Boycott May 3. Union pressmen employed on Chicago newspapers have gone on strike. The trouble was brought about by the Inability of the publishers ahd employes to come to an agreement over a new working contract, the old one having expired on April 30. All of the morning papers were able to get but their city editions with nonunion pressmen.

After the papers were on the street. however, there was great difficulty experienced In getting them Into circulation. Newsboys, either through fear of being ''slugged" by sympathiser with the strikers or being ln; sympa thy fwtth': the pressmen themselves, refused to offer the papers lor sale. Drivers of tBe wagons that carry the papers to the trains' and branch of fices throughout the city declined to, load vehicles and as a consequence hundreds of readers were with out their; usual morning breakfast NOTED CARTOONIST IS DEAD Homer D4 yenport Explrss rem Pneu. ln New York City." New 3.

Worry over the gruesome" cartoons he drew of the Titanic disaster is believed to have hastened, the death of Homer Davenport, one of the most famous of the latter day cartoonists, who died' of pneumonia in the apartments. of Mrs. Abo Melth N. Cochran, a ltfelohg friend. In the delirium that ensued during his illness Mf.

Davenport, worked on Titanic pictures, using the bedclothes as a drawing He leaves a widow and three chil dren, i- Mr. and Mrs. Davenport Sep-, arated a few years ago, she retaining I What the Rule Jt Wesley is. What is referred to aa the rule John Wesley has always been a part of the church discipline, and no general conference or any other authority has the power to abrocate it, abandon it, or change it As laid down by John Wesley and as coming under the head of "avoiding evil," the rule forbids in the language: 'Taking such diversions as cannot be used in the name of the Lord 1 Jesus." As before stotted," the rulo as-set down above can never, be Changed by thea. general conferonco soupht to designate those omusemonts' wluclP would como within the forbidden claBS undor rule quoted, Such anrasentents named by the conference In 1872 in- eluded dancing, games of chance' the theatre, ihorse dancing schools, dancing parties, and uch things as are of questionable nioTality.

The present action of the general conference' is to rescind the action of 1872 and leave the matter just as John Weatey wrote it, or "Taking such diversions as cannot be used iiu the name of the Lord Jesus." It is tile effort to name and point out the specific, diversions that has met with disapprobation, and not tho rule as laid down by John Wesley. This subject is regarded as one of the-most important before the general conference at this session. Thone who have wanted this change made have objected to these amuse- men being classified under proscrip-tions, Sut there has been no general ob- jcctioi. to tbeir being classified under adviscmeuti. Unsettled weather with probably showers tonight or Saturday.

Somewhat higher temperature. Moderate to brisk easterly winds tonight becoming southerly Saturday. TYPOS MAY STRIKE ARE OUT TODAY PENDING AN AD JUSTMENT BETWEEN THE PRESSMEN AND THE NEWSPA-PEES NO EVENING PAPERS -ARE OUT TODAY. Chicago, May 3. (8pecial by Unit ed Press.) An injunction was issued today preventing union newspaper distributing wagon drivers from interfering with non-union men employed on wagons.

The drivers struck in sympathy with the pressmen. Typographical union members were ordered out temporarily today pending a conference to' decide whether typos will work with non-union pressmen. No evening Papers have been print ed. WAS LOCKED OFF ONLY AFTER CONCERTED ATTACK ON GATES WERE THEY BR6KEN DOWN AND THIRD CLASS PASSENGERS HAD A CHANCE FOR THEIR LIVES. New York, May a (Special by United PremV-wflif first steerage Titanic to.

tell his story examined today by Senator Smith of the" senate committee. Daniel Buckley, aged 21, told the senator that an effort was made by the doomed vessel's officers to 'lock the steerage passengers on their own deck following the striking of the iceberg, One man was knocked down, Buckley, said, but later smashed the gate and after that the third class passengers had just as good a chance to escape as anyone, but there were not enough boats for them. SAY BRYCE WAS RECALLED Rumor Current in London Ambassador Wilt Not Return to U. 8. London, May 1 Ambassador Bryce's departure from 'the United States by way of Francisco so soon after the publication of President Taft's confidential letter to Colonel Roosevelt, saying reciprocity would Ambassador James Bryce.

make Canada only an adjunct ot the United States, has given rise to the report hero that Mr. Bryce haa been recalled. Mr. Bryce's active Interest In promoting the reciprocity arrangement Is declared to have made his further services at Washington impossible. CARNEGIE FOUNDS HERO FUND His Gift of $775,000 Is Handed Over by U.

8. Ambassador. Rome, May 3. The American ambassador has banded over to the director of the Bank of Italy title deeds rep resenting about $775,000. being Andrew Carnegie's gift for the foundation of'an Italian hero fund.

It is reported In well Informed circles here that the king has Mr Carnegie to accept the title of count SUGAR REFINERY IN RUINS Morgan Levee, Second Largest In World, Weaken Situation at Baton Rouge Become Alarming- Stampeding Animals Impede. New Orleans, May 3. The hundreds of men who have been fighting to dam up the break in the Torras levee for the past two days have given op the battle against the flood waters pouring through the great crevice which Is spreading ruin and destruction over thousands of acres of rich sugar plantations. All were taken away by a steamboat In a more or less exhausted condition. i Mora than 100,000 people are home-lebs In the" Torras region, which is across the river from Angola, La.

and are fleeing in panto to higher ground, In many Instances, Is several miles distant. The Angola sugar refinery recently erected on the Angola plantation by the state, la flooded and will be, a jotal wreck. Crevice Thousand Feet Wide. The Morgan levee, which Is the highest In the world, except the dykes in Holland. Is weakening and It la feared that it will go out.

The crevice in the Torras levee la nearly a thousand feet wide and la rapidly crumbling. At Baton Rouge the situation Is causing serious apprehension. Although the erect of the flood will not reach there for several days, the river Is already beyond flood stage. The federal government is supplying rations to the homeless la the flooded area. Toe escape of people from their homes baa been greatly impeded by 'the stampeding of animals turned loose by their owners, the JrlgMMfilhjWaet wUsattle swimming up to many the boats and raits car Tying refugees from their homes.

Torras People In Panic. The resident of Torras, relying lm-ptlcttly on the strength of the levee, were taken by surprise when the break came, A panic ensued. Before the streets were entirely suhierged, however, most of the population managed to board passenger cars that had been kept In readiness, and were taken out of town. Several hundred escaped by riding In freight cars. No fatalities' have been reported, but it is feared that there wilt be loss of life In the interior, as the water Is rushing over the country so rapidly that It will be impossible to warn all points affected.

Farmers Pisa to Hills. Cairo, May 8.Wlth the river marking 48 feet and live-tenths on Cairo gauge, water has again flooded a great section of country in Missouri and Kentucky, south of Cairo, and hundreds of families are fleeing to the hills. AH territory around Bird's Point, is again tinder several feet of water' and farmers In that soc- tlon have moved their families and Mock to high ground for the second iltic Ave weeks. The water has Seeded the drainage district north of Cairo to a depth Of about seven feet. Not a foot more' of water is looked for until the rivers commence falling.

COAL SRIKE IS fCU AGAIN Miners Reject Peace Plan by Anthracite Operators. New York, May 3. Negotiations for a settlement of the strike of the anthracite miners Were broken oft when the committee of ten of the miners refused to approve 'i the agreement reached by the sub-committees. The action of the miners' committee was prompted by an urgent protest from the great body of miners In, the anthracite flelda, which was expressed to the leaders by district boards of districts 1, 7 and Who came to New York for that purpose. The rock on which the contending parties have split mainly is the miners demand for a straight ten per cent Increase of the Wage scale.

The tenta- ES Civil 8ervlce Commission Will Rearrange Pay of Guards and Employes at Penitentiaries and State 7" Springfield, May 3.Tbe Illinois state civil service commission Intends to have the salaries of guards and other employes in the two penitentiaries at Joliet and Chester uniform. At present guards at Joliet are receiving $60 per month, at Pontiac $42.50. and at Chester $50. W. B.

Houlton, president of the commission, has visited Pontiac with a view of ascertaining the conditions there, and R. E. Wright, assistant examiner of the board left for Joliet for the same purpose, and W. R. Robinson, secretary and chief examiner of the board, went on a similar mission.

Coal Reserve Is Large. Springfield, May 3. Although the miners of Illinois accepted the terms of the operators and agreed to return to work, only a few mines In the vl-clnfty of Springfield were opened. la inlneB where work was resumed only about one-half. of the regular number of miners are employed.

It Is said that the reserve supply of coal Is large. The Lincoln Park Coal company, the Cora Coal company, the Jefferson Coal company and the Cbicago-Sprlngfleld mines in the vicinity of Springfield are closed and no date for the opening has been given. Miss Catherine Cleary Is Dead. Shobonler, May 3. Miss Catherine Cleary, eighty-nine years old, w.bo was born in Limerick.

Ireland, died here. She came to this country in 1855 and settled in Buffalo, N. Y. In 1860 she moved to St. Louis, where she lived until 1863, when she came here.

Her funeral will be held from Mother of Dolars church at Vandalla. Peoria Loses. Free Lunches. Peoria, May ,3. -Free lunches disappeared from the ,800 saloons of this city because of a city ordinance which went into effect The ordinance was passed following' a petition to the council signed by most of the saloonkeepers in the city.

Police -enforced obedience to the measure in a' number of saloons. No Waverly Quadruplets. Waverly, May 3.A report published that Mrs, John Peters of this elty had glveh birthf fo fwf- children hisaused "much anhoyantr "Mrs; Peters. Mri. Peters ias small child and is at a loss to understand how the report' originated, River at Cairo la Rising.

Cairo, May 3. River gauge at Cairo marks 47.4 feet, and probably will go to B0 feet.before the water' recedes. The drainage district north of Cairo now is covered with six feet, and will be flooded to a depth of eight feet by the end of the week. Police Chief Is Ousted, t'-'- Decatur. 111., May 3.

Police Chief Herman Koeppe was removed frdm office here after an uprisal against vice conditions, and E. O. Allen, for a short time chief under the former administration, was named to succeed him. Accused of Sending Improper Letter. Bloomlngton, May 3.

William Pay-ton, a farmer of Leroy, waa held to the federal grand jury here and taken to Jail at Springfield in default of bond, being accused of sending an improper letter through the mail. Charles Britten to Be Tried. 8pringfleld, May 3. Charlea Britten, alias Charles Officer, will be returned from Madtsonvllle, to Chicago to face trial on a charge of murder. He Is said to have shot and killed Willard Matbew over a card game.

6panish War Veteran Dies. Carlyle. May 3. William Whitney, thirty-eight years old, was stricken while seated in a chair In his home here and died soon afterwards from heart disease. He served In the Spanish-American war.

Freight Kills Two Section Men. Grayville, May 3. Paul Thomas anl James Burris, negro section men on the Illinois Central railroad at Browns, were killed by an I. C. freight near Selgert'B station, about five miles north of this city.

Grayville Pastor Installed. Grayville, May 3. Rev. R. Shafcr has been installed as pastor of the Grayville Presbyterian church.

The ceremony was performed by ministers and elders from neighboring cities. Woman Dies While Visiting. Effingham, May .8. Mrs. Elisabeth Freers, wife of a groceryman of Edwards, died suddenly here while on a visit to ber daughter, Mrs.

John Terrstege. Survivors to Sail Again. St Louis, May 3. Mrs. Edward S.

Robert, her daughter, Miss Georgette Madill and her niece, Miss Elisabeth NV Allen, all of whom wer rescued from the Titanic, will tall again for England on June 6. Built Church In Day. Spartanburg, S. May 3. Tho Methodists here have built a church in one It Is painted, papered and carpeted throughout FEUDIST ALLEN em sen Prosecutor Arraigns Virginia Mountaineer ay Cold-Blooded Murderer ip Address.

SPEECH FOR DEFENSE BRIEF Lawyer for Courthouse Slayer Declares Client Did Not Shoot Until After He Had Been Wounded, and Is Victim of Exaggerations. Washington, May 8 The postofflce appropriation approximately $26,000,000 for the expenses of the postal service for the fiscal year of 1912-13, was pasaed by the bouse of representatives, after several weeks of debate. Six weeks ago, when be was found guilty of a minor offense, Allen and his kin took the law into their own hands and worked their funs until four of their prosecutors and an Innocent spectator were dead. At the opening of. his trial for the murder of Commonwealth Attorney WJUiara M.

propped UP In an easy chair ta alleviate the pain of his own wotnds, heard a new prosecutor thunderously denounce blm as the arch-conspirator1 in one of the most atrocious crimes In de history of the world. Will Try to Prove Consplraty. J. C. Wysof, chief, counsel for the state, In" his opening address characterised the Allen gang as ruffians, outlaws and cold-blooded assassins.

tfe laid great stress on the charge 'of "If prove si eofiprracji lV he said, It doesift matter whether Floyd" Allen shot Foster or not 1 If he entered into conspiracy to kill the doesn't matter who actually, killed Foster. Floyd Allen would De equally guilty of killint; Judge and the sheriff. We Intend to, prove beyond reasonable doubt that these men conspired and confederated to shoot up the court and shoot down the law. "After they had executed the court room; slaughter, the outlaws were heard to aay on the court green: "Let's kill, every one of Then they fled. We Intend to show that the prisoner committed eleven felonies at one time.

He murdered five men and attempted to murder six others, because If there was a conspiracy be was guilty of all." Defense Address Brief. The opening address of Attorney R. H. Willis for the defense 'was brief. He declared his client' had been the victim of gross exaggerations.

He denied that Allen killed Miss Nancy Avers; It was the bullets of either Clerk Dexter Goad or one of his deputies which killed her, he said. He denied the existence of a conspiracy and declared Allen did not draw his own gun unUl after he 'had been shot and theiy be drew it from his hip pocket hot from his vest pocket, beneath the sweater. Judge D. W. Bolen.

of Hlllsvllle, who had. been Floyd Allen's counsel, took the witness chair and detailed the shooting at the courthouse. He declared that Claude Allen fired the first shot S. B. Weddell.

a former resident of Hlllsvllle, said be saw Floyd Allen there the day before the tragedy. Allen told him that day, the witness declared: i "I will kill Bill Foster before the sun goes down tomorrow night If I am convicted." Weddell said he bad always been a close friend of the prisoner. ST. LOUIS COURT IS DEFIED Invents Method to Make All Ores Produce Paying Material. Washington, May 3.

The Interstate commerce commission served notice on the St. Louis Southwestern road that cancellation of allowances to tap lines must go Into effect despite the preliminary injunction Issued by the St-' Louis state court, or the criminal section of the Sherman law will be invoked. Advances In rates on soft coal from Springfield. 111., to Kansas and Nebraska polntaover the Chicago, Burlington tc Qulricy were suspended until November 11 by the commission. British Warship, Rammed.

London, May 3. The British warship, Empress of India, one of the obsolete ships of the navy, was rammed at Splthead by a German sailing Both' vessels were badly Minneapolis, May the second day's session of the Methodist general conference the delegates were confronted with several questions of considerable Importance to the church, body. Colored representatives from the south threw the convention into a whirl of excitement when, with Impassioned eloquence, they demanded a colored bishop. Dr. W.

Lucas ot Mississippi declared that they had not had thirty days of Episcopal' supervision during a quadrennlum. Bishop Earl Cranston occupied two hours In reading the Episcopal address. The address was received with profound attention and many parts were enthusiastically applauded. It deplored world unrest, arrested development of church progress, commercialization and the tendency ot pastors to negotiate for salaries, op-. pqsitlon to a diocesan Episcopacy as destructive of itinerancy, which is the basic principle of thechurch.

Resolutions were discussed and adopted to fix an early date for the election of bishops, not later than May 11. This will head off a good deal of ecclesiastical politics. 1 Fraternal delegates from the British Wesleyan. church, the Irish Methodist church and the Methodist church of Canada delivered the greetings of their respective churches to con ference. Rev.

T. Warde Stafford, Scarborough, spoke for England and Ireland; Rev. Dr. Hearst and Mr. M.

AltklnB, a member, of parliament, spoke for Canada. Elka Hard to Confine, Solflers deployed along tho north" orn border of Yellowstone park havr to Are their rifles continually toi keep the thousands of elk from leaving the grounds until the 'Open season fol hunting Is over. tive agreement submitted offered an Increase of only 6V4 per cent. MINE' DESTROYS TURK CRAFT 8lxten Officers and Men Killed by txploilviw In Constantinople, 'May 8. While In- spectlng mines in the Dardanelles, a tugboat, manned by four officers and twelve soldiers, struck one of tbe'sub-v marine 'explosives that bad dragged Its anchor.

The small craft was da-, mollshed ahd HI on board killed The Work: of removing the mines in the Dardanelles In answer to the protest pi the powerrls progressing rapidly. the custody of the children. i "'3 1'.