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a 4 5 5 5 Editions Daily. National Press Service THE DAILY JOURNAL GAZETTE. Eighth Year. 262. MATTOON, ILLINOIS WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 28, 1913.

Price Thirty GETMATTOON ON AUTO MAP IF YOU DO THIS, YOU WILL HAVE TO TAKE MORE INTEREST IN THE HIGHWAYS. SHOULD LOG THE ROUTES Journal Gazette Will Be. Glad to Pub: fish Such Routes, to Be Placed In the Blue Book. Do con Mattoon on the automobile map! If you have ever looked up routes in the Blue Book, you were perhaps surprised. when you discovered that Mattoon has been completely ignored.

It is not on the map. A through route over the Old National road from Terre Haute to St. Louts and another scrous the state from Vincennes to St. Louis are shown, but aside from these routes not a route is given in the state south of Decatur and Springdeld. Yes, there is some reason for this.

The main reason is that southern Ill nols roads are notorious for being impassable at some seasons of the year and bad practically all the time. Recently a representative of the Journal-Gazette called on the editor of the Blue Book in Chicago and was informed that there is a good chance of Matzoon getting on trunk line route, that is if the people in this seetion and through the territory to be traversed by the trunk line, If it goes through, show enough interest In the project, to encourage better roads. At the present time the only able route from the east to St. Louis, other than via Chicago, is over the old National road. For many years this road has been sadly neglected and is not At at any season of the year for enjoyable motoring.

There are few towns of any importance along the route and very little if any sentiment for good ronde bas been devejoped along the route. The proposed route is from Terre Haute, through Paris, Charleston and Mattoon on to Alton. Alton automo bilists are much interested in the matter, and The Journal -Gazette has It from the editor of the Blue Book that I suficient interest is developed Book automobile will go over the and carefully log it and at the cam time encourage public meetings for the purpose of working up good road sentiment. As. Mattoon is not now on any trunk line route, this opens.

an opportunity for getting through touring routed through this city, and automobile touring is becoming a matter of great Importance. The Journal representative was also informed that if some of the reads to neighboring cities are carefully logged for use in the Blue Book they will be published in future issues of that publication. It local automobilists will log routes to neighboring The Journal Gazette will pub: them and after thorough revision will forward them to the Blue Book. Logging a road is interesting work and with the aid of a speedometer can be easily Every automobile driver In this city can drive to Charleston or any of the other neighboring towns, but to tell a stranger just how to get there is another matter, and those who have tried to follow directions given usually know just how unreliable such direcions are. This paper will be pleased to receive the logging of local routes with credit to the person making the same.

The logging should conform to the style given in the Blue Book, with AT which most are familiar. REVEALS A RIVAL OF JOHANN HOCH Chicago, May 28. -The coroner was asked to investigate the death of Ho mer Edward Morrison, who was involved in a mystery which wit rival that of -Johann. Hoch. Methson died last.

Thuraday at a hospital of what was diagnosed an acute nephritis, but Dr. Darwin, B. Pond now suspects his patient was Two women already have appeared who say they were defrauded by man named Morrison, who posed as a real estate dealer, and the police have record of a third woman who claims also to have been victimized. Mrs. Pearl Devitt, a widow, asserts she gave Morrison $1,600 upon his promise to marry her.

This money included her husband's Insurance. The second woman says she was Louise Beck before, she married Morrison three ago at Hillsdale, Mich. She says she gave him $15,000. Mrs. Devitt appealed to the police on Saturday to find Morrison.

The police then found that Morrison had resided at 4919 Winchester avenue with woman who says she was his vite. She knew nothing of his apart meats on Chicago avenue, ANOTHER AVIATOR KILLED. National Telegraph Service. Berlin. May 18 Herr Hora, an avia or.

was today while dying near over 1,000 ASHMORE WILL OBSERVE MEMORIAL DAY FRIDAY Special to Journal-Gazette. Ashmore, May 28. Memorial day will be observed in Ashmore in manner somewhat unusual for this place. The program at the PresbyterIan church will consist of music by the orchestra, national songs, recita: tione and a play given by the children and young people of the village. In the play "The Army of Peace," an old veteran and his wife see an army of school children coming up the road.

The children stop for a while on their way to the soldiers graves to pay re specta to the old soldier. The army consists of the bugler, drummer boy, fifer, color-bearer, captain, soldier boys, Red Cross nurses and dower girls, This play under the direction of Miss Blanche Sparks. DR. BURTON IS NAMED POSTMASTER AT NEWTON Special to Journal Gazette. Newton, May Dr.

E. Burton has been named by President Wilson as postmaster of this city, suc 'ceding Judge James P. Jack, who has been in charge of the office for eight years. JURY DECIDES ASHBY TOOK HIS OWN LIFE Hutton Township Farmer Had Taken Carbolle Acid, But -Cause for Act Not Known. Special to JournalCharleston, May According to the verdict of the coroner's jury, which inquired into the death of John H.

Ashby, well known Hutton township farmer, it was a case of suicide and not from natural causes, as had been claimed by his friends on Tues. day, Ashby had gone into the hayloft of his barn and swallowed carbolle acid. Death must have come soon, 88 there were no signs of any struggle. Ashby was one of the most tial men of Hutton township, being at the time of death a the peace and treasurer of the school district. and at one time was a candidate for supervisor.

He la survived by a widow and eight children, six daughters and two sons. IDEAL WEATHER GREETS THE CONFEDERATE VETERANS National Telegraph Service. Chattanooga, Tenn, May -Ideal weather, greeted this morning the attendance at the second day's session of the convention of the confederate veterans. The crowd present is estiminted at was 100.000. dedicated The this Alabama morning.

monu- ROYAL ARCH MASONS GET NEOGA INVITATION Local Members Probably Will Go to That Place Friday Night to Put on Royal Arch Degree. The Royal Arch Masons of this city have been tendered an invitation to present the Royal Arch degree to a class of candidates of the Neoga lodge on -Friday night: In the event that they accept the invitatiop, most of the members will make the trip in automobiles. The Royal Arch Masons of Neoga are preparing to serve a dinner at the close of the initiatory work a and to have a program appropriate to the op casion. The Masons. very proficient in their work in this branch of Masonry, and will- take a sufficient number with them to put on the work in the best possible manner.

TRIAL OF LAWYER GIBSON IS NEARING AN END National Telegraph Service. Newburg, N. May The trial of Burton A. Gibson, the New York lawyer charged with the murder of Countess Szabo, 'is nearing its end, the summing up of the evidence being made this morning. STATE WARDS LURED BY WHITE SLAVERS Chicago, May -Chicago white slave agents, men and women, are seeking new recruits in the girls paroled from the state home for girls at Geneva, according to Sheriff ty of Kane county.

"So active have these slavers become, said the sheriff yesterday, "that the officials at the home have asked the county's aid in combating them. "These agents think they have found new feld in which they may carry on their work with a minimum chance for discovery. They follow up some girl who has been sent to Geneva and paroled, and from her learn the names of other girls who are earning their living under the guardianship of the Then they set out to get quainted with the girls. as quickly ther are bound out QUALIFY FOR AUTOCLASSIC NINE DARE DEVILS PREPARED TO MAKE BIG RACE AT INDIANAP. OLIS DECORATION DAY.

BEST TIME IN TRIALS Caleb Bragg Makes the Best Time in the Indianapolis Trials With 1:42:86 for the Lap. Indianapolis. May 28 -Officials a the coming 500-mile race displayed signs of life today for the first time since practice started two weeks ago and ordered the drivers outron the course for the qualification trials. Nine of the thirty entries in the Memorial day contest warmed up their engines and then proceeded to do better than the called for two minutes. Bob Evans in his Mason-Special was the first driver to answer Starter Root's call.

Evans did not fear the jinx which is supposed to follow the first qualifier and started away on his warming up sprint. He flashed over the wire, which operates the timing device, with the throttle wide open and breezed down the home stretch the same way, the timers marking down 1:49.75 for the two and one- half mile track. Evans time was equal to eighty-two miles per hour. Timer la Kept Busy. Johnny -Jenkins was the second to go after the mark which would allow him to compete Friday and stopped his motor after having turned a lap at the rate of seventy six miles an hour.

Don Herr. Charles, Merz: and Gil. Anderson of the Stutz squad easily qualified and caused the timer some of his hardest labor. Herr averaged eighty-three miles per hour, Anderson eighty-two and one half miles, while Merz traveled at the rate of eighty-four and one half miles per hour. The fastest lap of the qualifying round was made by Caleb Bragg, driving his Mercer.

Bragg hit the turns wide open and was clocked by the electrical device in 1:42.86, which means that he was traveling at a rate of eighty -seven and one half, miles an hour. Zucarrelli in his Peugeot went around Hi The Peugeot was not "open wide" and is capable of going the route in better time. Endicott In his Ny. berg came home in 1:57.88, while Pilette and his Mercedes Knight finished in 1:59.17, just inside the limit of seventy-five Endicott. la Injured.

The small crowd which witnessed the, trials during the afternoon was given a thrill when Harry Endicott blew a tire while coming down the home stretch. A valve hit Endicott on the right arm, partly paralyzing it. He was hardly able to hold the light machine on the course. After a few minutes with the rubbers he was able to resume work. Theodore Pilette, the little Belgian, who is piloting E.

C. Patterson's entry, is causing many of the drivers and followers some deep thinking, Pilette has not attempted to do anything remarkable with his car during the workouts and has created the Impression that his mount is not fast enough for the contest. Ater sneaking under the required qualifying mark, he returned to the garage and did not appear again until all hut A few had left the course. During his second appearance he opened the roccie ant turned many laps at the rate of eighty five miles an hour. Isotta Care Arrive.

The long looked for arrived Pure clan today Grant. and. Trucco bored for several hours over the cars and toward sundown had them out for practice. They are of a peculiar size and look to (be exceptionally fast. It is doubtful whether or not they will be ready for, the grueling battle.

It was reported at the track today that Champion Joe Dawson would defend his title in a car of unknown ability. The Deltah, which caused a sensation yesterday, was closely inspected by Joe and the report went the rounds that he would be the pilot. Tonight Joe denied the report, saying that he was merely preparing the newcomer for the struggle. Today the remaining cars will be required to attempt to qualify, while on Thursday the start will be practiced. MISSIONARIES DEPRECATE ANY LAW DISCRIMINATION National- Telegraph Service.

New York, May -The attitude of American missionaries in Japan to ward California in connection with the anti-alien land law legislation recently enacted, is contained in a resolution which was received here today. The resolution, in part says: "We deprecate any discrimination against the Japanese, lest it mar the friendship between Japan and the United States, and which would work an injury to both 45 55 WEATHER. 55 55 Illinois Generally fair, with 5 the exception of probable local 5 thunder storms in the north per: 05 tion tonight and Thursday. WINDSOR SCHOOL BOARD SELECTS OTHER TEACHERS THE SUFFRAGET WHIRL DROUNT BLOOMIN' DAWNCE HI ME HIT MAKES LITAN It la said the British do not like the new American dances which have lately been introduced -Into England. They have a now dance of their own.

WOMAN ACCIDENTALLY WOUNDED BY HER SON Mrs. Mattie 'Scarberry Receives Bullet in Leg From Twenty-Two Callber Revolver. Mrs. Mattie. Scarberry, living at First street and Richmond avenue, was shot in the fleshy part of her thigh, and her.

son. Abner Scarberry, was shot through the hand, shortly after six o'clock on Tuesday evening, when the latter accidentally discharged a twenty-two caliber revolver with which he had been working for several minutes. Mrs. Scarberry was to Memorial hospital, where her. attending physician extracted the bullet.

Mrs. Scarberry's wound is of such a nature that she will have remain in the hospital for several days, but, the attending physician states her con. dition is by no means serious. The son who was hurt was about his work as usual today. He has been employed for several days about Peterson park.

The shooting of Mrs. Scarberry was reported to the police shortly after itoccurred, but so far as can be learned, there was nothing connected with the affair that would warrant them making any arrests of their own accord. Scarberry, shortly after the shooting, is said to have made the remark that the" gun would not have been loaded. it bad- not come to the house. "That fellow" is said to have been Claude Morrow, who is alleged to have become netsy while paying a call at the Scarberty home.

Scarberry is said to have been foreing a watch the barrel or the rest volver when the cartridge was accidentally exploded. Prior to the acci-, dent, Motrow is said to have made 'several unsuccessful attempts to dis the charge a revolver. or OLD RESIDENT OF SHELBY COUNTY BURIED Windsor, May -Silas Bland, who was buried in the Quigley tery Monday, after services at Fletcher chapelohad lived in Okaw township about thirty five years, coming to this county from Ohio, where he was born in Licking county in 1840. He had tollowed agricultural pursuits most of his life. His death was occasioned by the infirmities of age.

He is survived by his wife and four children. The latter are: Mrs. Trua Rose- of Windsor township, Miss Dora Bland, is a trained nurse, Miss Lizzie Bland and Cleveland Bland, who reside at home. WINDSOR MINISTER HAS RECOVERED FROM AILMENT Windsor, 111, May 28. Rev.

C. S. McCollom, virtually recovered from the condition which has kept him confined to Wesley hospital in Chicago tof several months, has returned to his home in Windsor and is ready to resume the pastoral duties that were interrupted by his trip to the hospital. Mr. McCollom's trouble was the reffects of an injury to his knee several years ago, and his condition grow so distressing that for a time it was feared he would have te undergo amputation.

The treatment he has racetved: obvi that Ill, May 28. -In addition to M. M. Rodenberger, who has been engaged as principal of schobls for the ensuing year, the Windsor school board has entered into contract with the following teachers: Miss Estella Grissom of Toledo, to be assistant principal, teaching the eighth grade and first year high school work; salary, $60 a month: Miss Ada MoVay, sixth and seventh grades; salary, $55. Miss Nettle Row, second and third grades; salary, $50, Miss Blanche McVay of Sorento, a student at the Charleston normal, fourth and fifth grades; salary, $50.

Miss Alta Farmer of Findlay pri mary grade; salary. $50. Miss Ada McVay and Miss Row were members of the faculty the past year. FORNOFF ELECTED JUDGE A OR RAMA: BI Pana, 111., May -At the special election yesterday for judge of the Pana city court, J. H.

Fornoff, Republi can, defeated E. A. Humphreys, Democrat, by a majority of 317. BUSINESS MENTO HAVE TEAM IN CITY LEAGUE Boosters' Club to Take the Place of the Knights of Columbus, Who Withdrew, The directors of the City baseball league, at a called meeting on Tuesday night, accepted a proposition of local business men to put a ball club into the league to succeed the Knights of Columbus, who had withdrawn. The new club is to be known as the Mattoon Roosters, and it will be ready to make its debut next Sunday, the date fixed for the opening of the league season.

The new club will be represented In the board of directors by S. M. Katz and Edward Hayes. Hayes will be one. of the players and serve as the manager of the club.

Most of those who have been seen heretofore in the untform of the Knights of Columbus club will probably be seen in the Boosters club. Bright new uniforms are to be purchased, with orders for an immedlate delivery. The league directors had an opportunity of picking la. Charleston club to. succeed the Knights of Columbus, and it is said would have been able to have procured a club of Big Four baseball men, but they preferred the arrange ment that was made on Tuesday night.

There will be another called meeting of the board of directors on next Friday night, at which time the playing schedule will be adopted and rules governing the games throughout the season will be agreed, upon. Other final arrangements for the 'opening of the league season will be agreed upon at -this meeting. NEWSPAPER MAN ON STAND FOR COLONEL National Telegraph Service. Marquette, May John Callan Laughlin, Washington correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, was the first witness called in the Roosevelt libel suit when court convened for the day at ten minutes after nine o'clock this morning. said that he bad known Roosevelt for twenty years, that he had been intimately associated with him, during his entire political career.

that he was a member of the Roosemale fess in party that went to South Africa, and that during all those years he had never seen the colonel drunk. He said that he had seen the tolonel take but one drink of champagne or light wine at a banquet. On cross examination 'Laughlin said that he had served as commis. sioner to Tokio when the Japanese Russian treaty was pending, and that be also went to Tokio when Roosevelt, as president, sent battleships into the Pacific. Obviously Japan would not start a war with American battleships in Pacific waters, "and we settled the immigration question right then." This last sentence evidently refer red to the anti-allen land law we legislation in California, and it was uttered with emphasis oh the part of the witness.

REPUBLICANS OF HOUSE WILL HOLD CAUCUS TONIGHT Springfield, Ill, May 28. Republican house members plan to hold a caucus tonight to act upon the proposition for amending the initiative and refer endum resolution made by, Governor Dunne. The Republicans will have before them the proposal of accepting the Pervier and Shaver amendments made in letter sent by Representative Karch, the Dunne door leader, to the caucus chairman of each party. There is no indication that the Republicans will act favorably upon the propose tion. The Progressives will hold caucus today to consider the Karch letter.

No Democratic, caucus will ba held. Governor Dunne has no idea of urging reconsideration of the Initiative and ref erendum-in the house until some time next week LABOR MEN CENSURED HOUSE, THIS MORNING, ADOPTE MINORITY REPORT, WHICH CONDEMNS FEDERATION NO LABOR LEGISLATION Two Women Among Those Who pear Before House Tuesday to Answer to Corruption Charges MASONS OF WINDSOR LET BUILDING CONTRACT Special to Journal-Gazette. Windsor, May 28. -The Windsor Masonic lodge has let the contract for the erection of a temple, the bullding to occupy the corner at Virginia ave nue and Pine street. The plans for the building Incinde structural materof brick and stone, two stories basement, fifty.

by eighty feet. There will be three business rooms on the ground floor, one corner room twentyfive by fifty, one room fifty by eighty, and the other, on the Pine street side, twenty five by thirty. The lodge room Lon the second door will be. thirty. by forty-six, and there will be a reception room, dining room, kitchen and other apartments, with two suites of offices of two rooms each.

The contract for the building was awarded to a Sullivan firm. SUFFRAGE BILL IS VETOED BY GOVERNOR Madison, May Governor McGovern vetoed the bill ordering a referendum in 1914 on the question of extending the ballot to Wisconsin women. The governor objects to the bill on the ground that, suffrage, having been defeated by a majority of 000. in Wisconsin last November, another referendum on the subject 80 would be unwise and would re sult only in a more emphatic rejection. "Wisconsin stands for popular says the message, "but if the referendum is a good thing, manifestly the results of a popular vote should be proberts respected.

Such respect will not be shown if almost as soon as the outcome of last year's vote upon this subject has been announced exactly the same, proposal be immediately re submitted without a single new factor or argument to support it. Such action by the legislature can have but one tendency--that of speedily bringing the principle of the referendum into disrepute." The action was a surprise and an attempt will be made to put the bill through over the governor's veto. FORMER SENATOR OF NEW YORK SENTENCED National Telegraph Service. New York, May Former State Senator Stephen J. Still well, convicted last Saturday of bribery charges, was sentenced today to serve no less than four years nor more than eight years in Sing Sing prison.

Stillwell was found guilty of solicitins a bribe of $8,500 from Hi. Kendall, president of the New York Bank Note company, in connection with leg islation at Albany. BRITISH SOLDIERS HURT BY BURSTING OF A SHELL National Telegraph Service. London, May 28. -Nine British sol diers were injured today on board the battleship Collessus the bursting of a shell, CHARLESTON WANTS AN ELKS BASEBALL LEAGUE Cities to Be Taken in, According to Plans, Are Mattoon, Charleston, Shelby vitte and Parts: Special to Journal Gazette.

Charleston, May of the members of the local Elks' lodge, or more especially those who are known fans, are desirous of forming an Elks' baseball league, to comprise the cities of Mattoon, Charles ton, Paris and Shelbyville. Definite plans for the formation of such a league will be taken at a meeting to be held in this city on next Monday night. There has been nothing but mere talk thus far, but the fans in the lodge are hopeful of bring ing about a successful culmination of their plans. If the Mattoon Elles, -who now are a member of the Mattoon City Baseball league, do not see fit to join, then it is the intention to lay the plans before the lodge of some other nearby town. CURED OF PHTHISIS BY SERUM FROM RABBITS Washington, May 28.

That John, W. Kern of Indiana, Democratic leader of the senate. had been cured by a new serum in 1906 became known when Senator Overman. introduced a ion calling for a publie health service investigation of a tuberculosis preventive discovered by Drs. Karl and Sylva Von Ruck of Asheville, N.

C. "After several physicians, had diagnosed my case as Senator Kern explained, "I went to a sanitarium at Asheville, N. conducted by Drs. Karl and Sylva Von Ruck, and remained four and a half months. was absolutely cured.

I know many others who were there with me and who have since completely recovered. Some cases were far advanced. "Dr. Von Ruck uses a vaccine made from tuberculosis germs taken from rabbits and guinea pigs. He has large laboratory in which are employed several distinguished bacteriologists.

They injected the serum into one of my arms once or. twice a day. When I left I brought some of It with me and injected it myself." PRESSURE IS EXERTED AT OPENING OF MARKET National Telegraph Service. New York. May, was exerted at the opening af the Wall street market this morning.

Declines ranging from fractions to two points were sustained. St. Louis and San Francisco common lost one and five eighths, while, second preferred lost two points. The curb was irregular. CHICAGO MARKETS.

National Telegraph Service. Chicago, May 28. -May wheat open. ed today at corn at and oats Hogs, 35,000, five to ten cents lower. Cattle.

18,000, ten to cents lower. Sheep. $5,000, National Telegraph Service: Springfield, May 28. -At 12:30 o'clock this morning the minority port of the sub-committee to conduct the labor inquiry was adopted by the house of representatives by a vote of 45 to 44. The minority report cem sures officials of the Chicago Federa tion of Lahor for the cirenlation of hearsay evidence on which was based the federation's resolution attacking members for the defeat of the initia tive and referendum resolution.

When the roll call was completed the vote was a tie. Speaker McKinien recorded. himself "present and not ing." Representative Boyer, Regabr lican, arrived in the ball during the call of the absentees and cast the des ciding vote in favor of the minority report, signed by Messrs. and Abbott, the two Republican member of the special committee. It is predicted that the adoption of the report censuring the labor leaders means the defeat of all labor legialation at this session of the general as sembly, Fifteen Leaders, Fifteen labor lenders, among them Mrs.

Raymond Robins and Miss garet Haley, all of the Chicago tion of Labor, Tuesday and last niche appeared before the bar of the Illinols house of representatives and fled answer of justification to charges corruption against legislators for feat of the initiative and referendum resolution two weeks ago. Examination of the labor leaders fore the full membership of the he began Tuesday afternoon and continued until a late hour last night before packed galleries. Oscar F. Nelson. the federation, precipitated night over the question of Just when he refused to anewer until he had been permitted to the plea of justification Jointly pared by the respondenti Previously this plea had been in the hands of being read to the house.

Leader Former Speaker Shurtleft the fight against the Socialists were fighting to have the proceedibe dismissed. He read portions of federation's resolution charging inuendo, that "Boas occupied the seat of honor behind the speaker and manipulated the initiative and referendum was der consideration; that "Boss han" was controlled by the Coal company, and that "other Lora mer lieutenants" had offered tricks and dishonest jokers from the the house. He said he could not And one line in the purported sought to be fled by the defendants bearing upon any of these statements Socialist Speaks. Representative Stedman, Socialist leader, raised the question of Jurisdic tion, maintaining the house has constitutional authority to conduce the investigation now in progress. punish for contempt.

not committed the presence of the house. Finally the house took til the committee. should. report. it returned, a division was the majority favoring dismissal cause of the nearness of sine die Journment, and the minority mending censure of the federation.

It was ordered that the report the labor leaders be read to the house document of twenty thousand words. VETERAN WINS AN OFFICE AND BRIDE Springfield, Ill, May 28. James H. Crowder of Bethany, elected as grand commander of the Grand Army of the Republic of the state of Illinota the state convention and held at Alton last week, was united in matrimony with Annie Williams of Springfield, rural route No. 6.

The ceremony was performed al the local court house, Judge J. B. Weaver of the county court couple have known each other many years, but met again at the vention at Alton and after old be married and came to this elty. Commander Crowder, althouch enty-one years old. well preserved man and pearance of Laving century mark.

younger than Waner for the office of the athte G. A. R. The ringe Gran and the.