Mattoon Daily Journal from Mattoon, Illinois • Page 1

MATTOON DAILY 4. WEEKLY ESTABLISHED 1865 MATTOON, FLLINOIS, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1903 DAILY ESTABLISHED 1874 -1 1 DOUBLE FINE BIG REWARD FROST WILt YE HEATHEN Miners' Union Discourages Settlement May Yet Bring Murderer of Stllliona To Justice. by Legal Process. IN STRIKE DOWN ILLINOIS CORN CROP, SAYS WEATHER MAN. HIS BLINDNESS BOWS DOWN TO WOOD AND STONE.

The executive board of the United Mine Workers of Illinois held a meet ThAte interested in ferretting out the murderer of Station Azent Bullions at 01 ton insist that George. Mur ray. the Illinois Central defective, ing at Belleville Wednesday afternoon WEATHER to consider the matter of a fine $10 imposed on each of eight men who worked on the case several employed at the Hibbard coal mini months and who collected a large amount of evidence, knows, what he BUT lOfllNTUGK He Shoots His Neighbors Salvation Army to Send Missionaries Down There. for refusal to wont on July 25 and whp sued the company to recover the is talking about. amount of toe fine, which bad been With Deep Snows In Northwest Like Jy to Send Chilly Wave HHJliAL Southward.

It Is not generally known tow large hv the amount of evidence collected withheld from their wages on the nex pay day. The men refused to work id the case, and if it were all pub fished it might cause a sensation. alleging the weighing scales to be out of order. The mine inspectors The detectives have sifted the mattar declared the scales In order and the down very fine and have unaveleo many threads that at first appeared men were told to go to work. They Chicago.

Sept. 14. Creeping steadily and surely eastward, the freezing weather that now centers tn the Da-kotas is reaching out to threaten the 1 refused and the miners' union Im very intricate and hard to under stand. posed the fine. As a consequence they have settVed corn crop ot iinuuw nu wuctl of tiie entire central west.

The frost The executive board of the state at He meeting Wednesday decided that men who go to trial with their cases in their own minds who knows the (a expected to reach II Knots tomorrow Wednesday. It will envelop Iowa should be fined an additional $10 and ght, and imay reach as far down compelled to pay the court costs n3t about tiie myWertous case and who could clear It In a tew minutes if so disposed. There have several detectives working on the case and they have aH arrived ait rhe same Kansas, unless checked by a ji.i mt.1. i I hn amounting to $31 each. It the men do not pay they will be debarred from work.

weather officials: conclusion, and that conclusion is very damaging to some of the parties The imposition of the fine is in pursuance of an agreement between "Ohieseo likely; will not feel iae full most concerned. Clevnnd. 0.. St 14. Colonel nit-bard E.

Hoiz7 who will command he Salvation Army corps during its rip into the mountain districts of Kentucky and Tennessee, where It will nrlve to bring" about a more Christian 'ondition of affairs than now exists, vas given a farewell by the 1 ipy iraach. Colonel Holz, with Vrmy officials i-itts-hurg and Cincinnati, has left the latter cfty for the field of work. In an Interview Cojonel Hole gave the following details of tne method of work: Regular Homo Miulou affair. "Our object Is to carry fmrirt3anity to the mountaineers of the southern state that will be visited. Thette pro-pie are practically without Christianity.

feci (timt wjl should get l(j touch with these people- have band of our Salvationists personally visit them and try our methods on them. You see we really hnrdly know how to get at them," and that in rhe purpose of our coming trip. WwHl feel our, way. and study the situation thor the operators and the miners' union and the penalty Is Imposed by 'heir own unions. The fines go into the The reward of $1,200 is stimulating the officers to renewed effort to capture the assassin developments are looked for at an early date ihae effect of the drop in temperature before Wednesday.

The humidity of the past few days will then give way to bracing cold, ail the more severe because of its early appearance." An area of high pressure accom state treasury of the miners' union will make interesting reading Cham paign News. i TRAGEDY IT IS BUSINESS panied by freezing temperature and frost has been hanging over the Dakota since Friday. It tee been prevented from moving eastward by storms moving from the sou oh west, which have kept the Mississippi valley warm and radny. Yesterday it began moving and at observation time last evening had affected western low. A difference of twenty degrees To Collect For Your Wares Journal Will Follows This Rule.

Be Put on the Boards by the Catholic Dramatic Club. There has been some anger and In temperature was noticed between eastern and western Iowa, oughly. We are very hopeful that me dissatisfaction expressed by some As soon as Father Brodmann re subscribers of the Weekly Journal at, Mercury "nils Rapidly. the rule of this paper to collect close iw Wnittiu t-Ha temnerature" was up for the paper and some have stop il.jTinnn Mln at Omaha it had ped taking the paper, becoming wrota at receiving a statement of account. to 50 and was still going aown.

difference was observed in All we can say is that The Journal The temperature at Wichita, has an invariable rule that the paper THERE ARE OTHERS. must be paid for or it will not be east, was 84 degrees, while at City, in the west, it was only turns home from Taylorvtlle he will commence to Instruct the members of the Catholic Dramatic club for the production of another "ptey nt the Mattoon theater. The name of the play is "Bvadne, or the and is in the (heavy tragedy class. The play was favorite of Booth, and will call for unusual talent in the production. The former plays given by the Catholic Dramatic club have beer, very successful and there Is no doubt but the members will present "Bvadne" with as much power as they have shown heretofore.

I sent It is far better to keep it col methods of the Salvation Army will prove Just the, thing to awaken this peculiar people and bring them out of their present condition! I can only eay that we are hopeful; our methods may not work at all. The coming trip will tell the tale" 'Will flstsasV The full. Itinerary of the trip is ss follows: Cincinnati, 8ept. 14; Jack-eon, Breathitt county, Ky, Sept. 15-16; SayierviHe, Magoffin County, Sept IT; Prestonbds-g, Fleytf" county.

Ky, Sept 18; PlkesvBle. Pike county, Sept. 19-20; Hlndnmn, Knott county. Sept 21; Hazard. I Perry county.

Sept. 1 24; Whtwsburg. Letcher couu- lected up close rather than let it lag the region affected by tne BIG FOUR along for years and then the subscriber finds that he has a bill much larger ire pressure, and tne FIRE FIEND wna to Che north and than he expected to pay. CLOSE CALL REV. KIRKPATRICK HAS NARROW ESCAPE PROM DEATH.

reported much lower tempera A fr mum n. By our sending statements the subscriber knows Just how he stands and he certainly perfers a newspaper that will hate it out with him at once rath HAS INSATIABLE DE8IRE TO KILL VISITED TOLEDO SUNDAY NIGHT area of hifch pressure ha been SOMEONE nerslstent and has shown no er than let the account run and run in the slip-shod way some newspapers follow. Again, we send no begging letters DINNER PARTY AND DESTROYED HAY BARN. LOSS IS. $10,500 According to the Citizens of Paris- Storms in the states to tne euu Sept 24; Sertbn, Sept SB; Forced to Jump from His Buggy While Creasing Track Near Allen-villa- Other Meega News.

DrlstkM, Sept. 257; Knoxvllle, nor do we apologize for wanting the Carelessness of Gatekeeper Nearly Causes Fatality. Nothing to Stop It. "That condition is passing away pay for the paper. The paper Is wortn one dolar per year and we must have the money or we cannot, continue in business.

and I see nothing which will atop the natural progress of the ntf-cyclone Given by Mrs. William Kadi at Her Home Saturday Afternoon. Sept 28-26. Outside of Cincinnati, Jackson, Bristol and Knoxvllle, all- of the- tdwns'menboned above are small mountain settlements from twenty to twenty-five mUee apart by The man killing ambition which ems to be paramount among em Starger Tossey Heavy Losers Fire Eight Hundred Tons of Hay Burned. ployes of the Big Four of late came INTERURBAN Mrs.

William Kadel entertained a far as Illinois. It would do incalculable damage at this time of year, the Illinois corn Is three weeks behind the season. The frost which would near being abundantly gratified at the number of young ladies at a 6 o'clock Neoga, Sept 14. Rev. A.

J. Klrk-patrick of Allenville has sold his home over there, and will move to his little farm one mile west of Neoga. Mr. Kirkpatrick had a narrow escape from a horrible death some two weeks go. He was driving along the road about a mile northwest of Allenville and attempted toeseross the P.

D. 4b E. where there Is a deep gulch and he lAIff HUMS THE WHEAT Mill. IW There Will Not it Kooufh of the Cereal to Keep Main street crossing of that line in Paris Saturday, according to the nFwimnanv it would do inestimable to Toledo, Sept. 14.

(Special harm And What Ons Will Do for City Difference Noticed. dinner Saturday et her home, 1004 Webeeh avenue, the affair being in honor of Miss Lyda Hart, who leaves tomorrow for Denver. to make her future home, and Miss Pearl Belting, who left today for Champaign to A carriage containing two men tnd "The cold weatiher may ne stavea two women started over the tracks, could not see the approaching train off and poesbly broken by a storm which 4 forming off the gulf coast A typical West Indian hurricane until his horses stepped upon tne going north, the gates being raised, owing to carelessness on the part of the keeper. An engine which haa been placing some cars on the house The Journal Fire broke out about midnight Sunday in the large hay barn owned by Starger Tossey, and together with the contents was burned to the ground. There was about $00 tons of baled hay in barn, anq, all was consumed by the hungry flames.

The fire was first noticed coming track. The train then whistled and he Since the extension last Sunday the Interurban service through to this fleams ixj oe ihiuihik yelled at bis horses, but seelns; that its course would De up Tnrougn mo city from Danville there has been a he could not he Jumped for hU antral states. uch a course wouia a we. it was a top buggy and with ing a return of the rainy conditions marked Increase in the number of daily visitors tn the city from Hay-view, St. Joseph, Ogden and other towns along the line? not a car arriv Lthe latter part or last weeK ana track started out at the some moment and although the engineer saw th? vehicle in time to partially reduce speed, a collision could not be everted.

The pilot of the locomotive strucTi the carriage between the wheels, par take a course in the state universltv. The house was prettily decorated for the occasion, asters predominating. Flinch was the chief an enjoyable period was passed by all present. The guests were Misses Lyda Hart, Pearl, Lucretla and Gertrude Belting, Minnie Sapp. Alice Hawkins, Kataer-ipe Mathers, Cosa McQuown, Ada and Amy Clements and Mrs.

Will Sapp. dashboard, and the geneleman sain he did not know how he did it, bdt id hold the colfi weatner in tne out of the roof of the large structure, and it was but a moment until the building was a mass of flames. Son-e contend that tne fire was of incen ing that it does not bring represen weather conditions of the cen- he cleared everything. And even he Jumped, the rushing engine strucK his buggy and carried It from under states are unsettled and it is dlf- tatives of these towns, says the Cham paign Gasette. "We can notice the difference al tt to foretell what win nappen.

nresent conditions, however. I him. Fortunately the single trees broke and the tongue slipped out of the neckyoke, and nothing was hurt but ready," ssid a Nell street merchant. ieve that we will have a great fall sW diary origin, 'while other believe it was the result of spontaneous combustion. The estimated loss on the hay is $8,000 with $5,000 insurance.

There was no Insurance on the building, which was valued at $2,500. "Heretofore we would see our patrons temperature. fiom those towns perhaps once a LITTLE SON weak and it appears that now we see the buggy. The train was stopped and backed up to the crossing and the mel investigated the damage. Mr.

Klrtc-patrick told them he expected to die then and there, but was ready, having them nearly every day. We will nlT WRECKS There Is no fire department In this be glad when the service is extended to other parts of the city, and for that reason it was fern posstble to save the barn. The citi made bis peace with God years agj. "But," he shudderingly remarked, "ff Of Mr. and Mrs.

Thomas Shea Died Sunday AfternoonFuneral. zene, however, formed themselves In I had been drunk I would now be In to a volunteer bucket brigade and MENKES CAFE Them at Work. Minneapolis, Sept, 14. It la almost lmpossibh- to estimate the amount of damage done to the northwest by tile recent rains. At Minneapolis the fall up to the time it ceased) raining had reached five Inches, aud throughout the northwest, scconitng to reports received by grain men; tjra fall was almost as heavy.

Millions of bushels of wheat which under ordinarf circumstances would have been gnB ed high is so reduced in quality by the rains thai it will ell for from 10 to 25 cents less a bushel on account of the storm. Minneapolis grain men say that si Large amount of the tin threshed wheal will be reduced from first grade, milling to grain to little better than jreed, Actual losses in quantity are ijotte, and the loss In quality is trig. In fact the conditio us are such that unless there is vorAMe ensnge the weather the mill in Minneapolis will be facing a serious crisis, for there will a no wheat of grade for them to nd. The elevator men in Minneapolis am seriously disturbed over the situation. They forsee a shortage, of wheat contract grade.

Great quantities of Jected" and "no grade" wheat anv expected In Minneapolis for some day from now on. Before the rain' tblg same grain promised to be up to ha standard and the millers were expecting some excellent milling wheatWhat the effect in going to be en the many local mills cannot be determined at once. More than likely many of them will be forced to close for lack of wheat snd may hare to remain ItU for some time. II." The trainmen who saw the succeeded in saving two residence tially overturning it and breaking the fenders and daehboard. The vehicle was shoved along for several feet, before the engine could stop and baca up.

Meanwhile the occupants of the buggy were panic stricken and one of the women, on attempting to Jump out. was caught between the on the opposite side of the buggy. Fortunately she escaped injury as did the other occupants of the buggy and the railroad can probably, square the damage done for ten or fifteen dollars. The Big Four pays its tower man the munificent sum of seven dollars 'per week and he works seven days. The quality of the service rendered is naturally in keepirig with the niggardly pay and the wonder is not, that accidents happen, hut that thoy' are not of more frequent occurrence.

In the excitement attendant upon the above mentioned accident, the names of the parties were not learned but the claims department of the rail' road will no doubt have a chance to get acquainted with them in due time. urday Considerable Damage. affair admit that it was a close call. building immediately adjoining the Strong Speakers; structure which was burned. Raymond, the three year old eon ot Mr.

and Mrs. Shea. 1100 The Christian church of Neoga will Changes Hands D. D. James of tre marshal their forces tonight for Big Four was a sufferer from Esssx Houss the Purchaser.

week skirmish with the enemy. Mr. Champaign avenue, died Sunday afternoon after a brief Illness with meningitis. The funeral was held this NEW GASES Dudley of Charleston. Mr.

Kelly of and Engineer Gibson, in chance Era el train, were doing-eom afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the Mattoon, Mr. Harrold of Windsor and a gentleman from Mason, whose chiuR In the yards at Paris Satur- Catholic church. D. D. James, proprietor of the F- aftermKHi.

Because or a ratline The little one was just coming to name we did not learn, are among the preachers announced to be here! sex House, has purchased the restau Filed in the City Court This Morning For December Term. the age when it was dearest to the l. ft 4 i rant known as Menke cafe, the deal Satan had better put on his thinking aesjer irmiii uii uio hukiuo. a sas home, and the bereaved parents have ikl. 1 K.i being consummated late Saturday at cap.

ITI1IMMSH UL I1IO "Hll Muni. ir the sympathy of all in their sadness ternoon. Levi Jopes of Paris is visiting with ire was making pretty fair Mayor Menke gives as a reason Tor V. 1 AAll nn mends here. disposing of his place of 'business that a consequence tse caooose was J.

T. MoAndrew of Trowbridge was trying to sell some "left over" ponios he has had a great amount of trouble of late In getting competent help. saturaay. TWO COUPLES THE MARKETS Chicago Cash Market Reports as Furnished by Whits Commission Co. Lewis James, son of the new pro H.

Anderson and daughter nrietor and who has bad charge Oi jessie returned Saturday from their completely wrecked and the 451 a altered a bady shattered, pilot. Several persona were in the caboose at the time, hut they saw their danger in time and Jumped, escaping injury. The caboose was thrown on its side "by the force of the collision, and it the Alzazar lunch counter, has been Several new cases were filed in the city court this morning and all we placed on the docket for the December term. Among them are the following: Rueckheim Bros, ft Eckstein vs. Mattoon Cand company, assumpsit.

Damages claimed are $337.53. Q. L. Matthews vs. Samuel F.

Ellis, confession. Mercm E. Brown vs. Fred O. Brown, divorce.

Indiana trip. installed as manager of the restaurant Terr and entered upon his new duties Sat- From Thle City Married at Hsute Saturday. urday. Frank Woods, at present the Chicago Cash Grain. necessary to can tne wrecxer this city to pick it up and clear night clerk at the Dole House, win HIGHWAYMEN resign his position at that hostelry Monday, Sept.

and take charge of the Alcazar lunch a side track end traffic wee not do-i stand. Cash wkeat No. 2 red S2i. A BROKEN ARM. toyed.

Ons St Shelby vi lie No. 3 red 8182: No. 2 H-W 7BU. At Work- Hold Up and Rob a Farmer Two Mat toon couples from this ci'y went to Terre Haute Saturday, ana were Joined in wedlock In that' city. Robert Brown and Miss Mary Busier and John Craft and Miss lilce Rodrldaers were the high contractinjr While the wreck crew was at Pan 8H; No.

3 H-W 72; No. 1 N-S 90; No. I N-S 88; No. 3 spring 8088. Saturday Night.

PERCEY picking up the debris caused by thai The ten year old son of Clifford McCoy, who resides on North Thirty- smiskMri TfinT nmnivnn ss rmi Tn mi vjurn no. 2 No. 2 white 61fc52; No. 2 yellow 53 second street, suffered a broken am Bheibyviiie, where inroe cars noa parties in the double affair, and the 3 51S452; No. 8 yellow SSttiffiU.

consigned to a ditch. The aai Herman Joseph, a young German ceremony was performed by farmer who resides north of the city, Oats No. 2 3636; No. a white 38 39: No. 3 3435; No.

3 white runted to Have) a. Doctor, i Annlston. Sept 14. Bev. El-lenburg.

leader of the "Holiness" sect here, has bWn arrested because he refused to allow his daughter medical attention. The daughter is critically HI of tyhpoid fever. Medical attention is now being given the child by ordtfe of Mayor Henderson. 3 1 v. Track Barted by a l.auit Slid.

Hastings, Sept 14. A heavy rain fall undermined a huge porifcm of a high bluff near bre and caused to slide out alnd bury the track of the River division of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul railroad under hundreds of tons of rock. Will Try to Bs Good In the Big City ef St. Louis Went Away. taut, as the care were not oauiy Saturday afternoon.

While scuffling with a companion he west thrown to the ground in such a manner that his entire weight was put upon his am, fracturing the member at the elbow Joint. A physician dressed the Injury and the little fellow is getting along as well as could be expected. 38; No. 4 White standard 37tt38. Brown of that city.

The parties are highly respected young people, and their friends wish them much happiness. MAIL' WAGON DEMOLISHED. Battleships Derailed. Two monster battleships were de Chicago Live Stock. Hogs sWrday; 13.228T"es- jelled in the east yards In this cry Saturday, making three mishaps fw tl mated tomorrow, 15,000: "left over.

Toad tn vicinity Ttn-TmeiaT. Percy Harris, the youngster who has been giving so much trouble to the atituoritlei, and who, together with several other small boys, wa arrested last week on the charge dt rocking a little colored girl was taken quality good; market fairly FELL FROM CARRIAGE. active and firm; prices 5c higher. engines cacn on tne raira, una Rural Mail Carrier Lute MoKee's horse ran away this morning in th south i part of town, and before the animal was stopped In its mad flight the mail wagon was badly demolished. Light.

$5.75 86.20. Rough. Mixed. Heavy, $5. 55 $6.10 Cattle market 5 to 10c was assualted end robbed of a small sum cf money and a watch on Plvt avenue, near Eighteenth street.

Saturday night about 11 o'clock. Joseph came to the city early in the aftermwu 4 Ml 'In wTSTl couple dt young men woo agreed to show him the sights of the city. On ter rounds' they made frequent visits u. the ealoons, and. when they started north about 11 o'clock Saturday night Joseph was pretty well loaded witn the overjoyfoj.

When on Piatt sienna one of bis companions dealt Joseph a powerful blow In the back of the head, and he fell to the ground unconscious. When he revived he found that his watch end money were gone, and he carried a big knot on the back of his head to give proof his story. Th police were notified of the hold up, but no arrests have been made. A nit Semite HI at. Auatriu.Sept.

14. Ansntf. 1 ORDERS While sitting in a baby carriage at her home, the three year old daughter of Mr. And Mrs. John Poptn, Richmond avenue, fell from the vehicle Saturday afternoon, and in falling her bend struck one of the wheels, cutting a bad gash Just below the right eye.

Several sUHohes were required to close the wound. lower. market 10 to 15c to at. Louis Sunday by hit brothe. Lou Harris, who will endeavor make a good boy out of him.

ft la to be hoped that the boy win secure a in St. Louis, and that he will gfvo up his waywardnese and settle down and live In a that will make of him a good man. Sheriff Balrd gave permission for Harris to go to St. Louis In an endeavor to do better in the future. lower.

Semite riot occurred at the annual tuir at Zaltlatov tn consequent of a ro-port that a woman bed been robbed! and murdered in a Jewish houwe. Three Jews were severely injured and a number slightly bin POISONED FINGER. Fred Harrie, the (grocer, Is suffering with a badly poisoned flnfter caused by a mosquito bite. The whole. hand Is swollen out of shape, and it haa been necessary to lance the wound several I linen IKE WAS CAPTURED.

Against the County Will be Cashed at Any of the CARD OF THANKS. Ike Bell, while, wandering around under a load of wbleky too heavy to carry and walk etratgnt, was capturso QUEEN DODO. There is much Joy among the hold SuHl.au Ue law Campaign. DeniKou, Sept 14. Jerry B.

Sullivan, the Democratic csfidlilate for governor, was greeted by a crowd here, when lie del: AT EFFINGHAM. by the police Sunday evening. He was landed in' the pais boose, and this Turning was taken before the police I take this means of thanking the employes of the different shops and friend cf Mattoon for their kind a ad liberal donation on account of eur loving son and brother, Thomas "laughcriy, deceased. The Gibler band went to Efflncchan. Charles HUt, the nineteen year old son of Roy Hltf on Edgar avenue.

Is reported very iU with typhoid malaria The Queen Dodo opera compan passed through Mat toon on a'specla: traia Sunday oVer the Big four, bouuu from HwileuapoRS to in, UuM ers of outstanding county orders. The announcement is made that all orders against the county wig, be honored at any of the banks after noon i i i i this morning and will play for thi fits, let sale in that oil v. I magistrate and fined the usual amount fWmui Audrey tt the and in 4ejfau.it of payment he was i Read Tic awirfei Mb. Mafy; aaugherty and CaiUwt. i m.

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