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WOODMEN IN 1 FIGHT
jFJOT FOLLOWS AN ATTEMPT
TO MOVE RECORDS
One Man Fatully Hurt and Several
Injured Rock Islanders Repelled
by Citizens of Pulton History of
the Trouble in the Order
A Spirited Battle
In an attempt 1y people of Koclr Island
Fridsiy afternoon lo secure possession oC
the books and belongings at the head
quarters of the Modern Woodmen of
America in Fulton 111 a general riot eu
sued The Jist of injured is lSd Bare
head and arms injured AVill Bennet city
marshal head cut -wound believed to be
fatalelauMs Carrier head out P J
Casey badly injured on head W II
Flanagan head badly cut Chris Miller
bead cuti L D Plank cut about the
bead J cut alwut the bead
Start from Rock Island
JudgcGesi of Hock Island liad rendered
Jus decision dissolving the injunction
which retrained the officials of the Mod
ern Woodmen of America from removing
the books and other belongings of the
lusad otlice from Fulton 111 to Hock
Island A special train was -started from
Jtock Island over the Burlington road for
Fulton carrying about GOO men well
-sinned They reached Fulton about G
oclock Mid inarched up to the Woodman
building in military style The Fulton
people bad been apprised of ihe move by
telephone and were ready 1o defend the
books and papers of the bead olHce They
wwe assisted by a large force from Cliu
f oif and Lyons their neighboring cities
just across the Mississippi
General Fijjht Knsues
A general lire alann was sounded and
3iose laid to repel the invaders When the
train arrived the track was torn up on
both sides to prevent their escape A
Hock Island man cut the hose This was
ihe signal for hostilities Many shots were
lirod and clubs rocks and missiles of all
kinds used Quite a number of Hock
Islanders are nvore or less hurt none very
severely They secured a few books be
fore they were stopped but wore penned
in their train by armed deputies Head
Attorney Toluisou of the Modern Wood
men Engineer Mitchell of the special
train and a number of others are under
surest
Another Injunction Secured
T D Andrews iof Chicago attorney for
the city of Fulton went to Sterling on a
special train and secured an injunction
from T F Mefiieran master in chan
cery which was accompanied by a re
straining order It was served immedi
ately and the records will now remain un
til it can be tried in the courts
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HISTORY OF TROUBLE
Fisht Centered Around J C Root
Founder of the Order
iThe great light prolonged for so long
to remove the headquarters of the Modern
Woodmen of America from Fulton III
to othCT points has u very intimate bear
ing on Omaha sinethat city is now the
home of one 7 C Jtoot nvho established
that order and started the long fight by
making an effort lodiave the records of
the organization removed to Omaha
It was in 1ST that the Modern Wood-
Jiieji of America was organized under the
rVfff Illinois ILhe charter expressly
stipulated that the headquarters should
be located in the State of Illinois As
Fulton was the home of Hoot he selected
that place as the headquarters of the or
ganization
It was in lSDO eleven years later that
the idea of a change entered Hoots head
Omaha was n the boom and he selected
that place as the future home of his com
pany when he suddenly discovered that
the people of Fulton proposed to have a
word to say about the matter When Boot
attempted to remove the records from the
town he was interrupted by an
lion
The case was determined in favor of
Fulton Boot appealed and the Supreme
Court continued the decision This light
had provoked much bitterness in the or
ganization and there aniuiy who were
not satisfied to have Boot at the head of
the order whu h was essentially an Illi
nois institution and which lie was anx
ious to remove to some other State
Then a personal fight was started on
Boot to oust him as sovereign eommander
-or supreme bead of the Modern Woodmen
The matter went through all the State
courts and Boot was finally defeated
iJe at once went to Omaha and started
a rival older known as the Woodmen of
-the World In the past year be has had
some trouble with the Omaha contingent
of this order and some of the members
seceded and formed a new order claiming
that Boot had perpetuated himself as sov
ereign commander and was degenerating1
it into a one man affair
The light to Iceqp the headquarters at
1 -Fulton as not reopened until two years
ago when during the Milwaukee conven
tion tlie city of Bock Island 111 offered
to fsUKiiish the order a permanent building
at thax place if ilie Mdquarters were
brought there It was accepted and iiie
records oidered removed
Told in a Few Lines
While A rossing the river at St Louis
Frank jGullins and Joseph Kelly were
drowned by the capsizing of their skiff
George 3L Stuart property clerk in the
department of charities New York
City is short in his accounts G000 and
missing lit- lost on the races
John Gowlou alias Lewis jSelson the
eegro who wardered William Allen at
Brunswick Miw on July 13 by clubbing
bini with a gun barrel and who was cap
tured in Louisiana was hanged bj lynch
ers1
Michael Devine fatally shot Alexander
Gowry at Colon au Oskaloosa la sub
urb Devines wife was also slightly
wounded Devine charged Gowry wiiii
breaking up his home lie surrendered
to the slieriff
All gambling resorts at Joplin Mof
have been closed and Marshal Morgan
pays they smll not be opened during his
erni lie also proposes to strictly eaforce
tJit Sunday salooii law
If Japan and Spain ever decide to unite
for the purpose of thrashing Uncle Sam
the rest of creation will witness a per
formance which will beat Don Quixote
and The Mikado combined
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A nnst to which n hammock swum
broke and fell across the stomach of Les
lie Fults the S-year-old son of A J Fults
Fedalia Iojnflictiug niternal injuraes
from -which ho djed in a few minutes
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A NEW REPUBLIC
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South American States Have Formed
a Federation
Quietly and unostentatiously the
greater republic of Central America
has become an accomplished fact The
first step was taken a year or more
ago -when Salvador Honduras and
Nicaragua united in a confederation
for mutual defense Now Costa Bica
and Guatemala have joined and the
new republic is complete It would
have been still better had the confed
eration been established half a century
ago and thereby developed the re
sources of the five countries as they
should have been and also prevented
a score of miserable civil wars and
revolutions brought about bj ambi
tious and corrupt military adventur
ers They naturally should be under
one authority so far as their national
policy is concerned and now that this
has been accomplished there is little
doubt it will tend toward conditions ot
peace and order in domestic affairs
The new republic will possess con
sderable strength Its population will
be a little over three millions of which
Guatemala has nearly one half The
area will be 18582 square miles di
vided as follows Guatemala 63400
Costa Bica 23000 Salvador 722o
Honduras 43000 and Nicaragua 49
200 As compared with South Ameri
can State Chile has 2JKJ470 square
miles of area Peru 403747 and the
Argentine Bepublic 177S105 though
the population of the latter is only
sVbout 917000 larger than that of the
new republic Compared with Illi
nois its area is about three times as
large while its population is about a
million and a half less The Central
American population is largely made
up of native Indians and mixed races
but the Europeans and those of European-descent
are steadily increasing
The arrangement of the new federa
tion is both wise and sensible The in
dividual States retain complete auton
omy and absolute control of their do
mestic affairs Outside relations trea
ties commercial and industrial rela
tions with other nations are managed
ly a -sort of congress winch meets in
the various capitals at stated times
and wbicb is regularly elected Repre
sentation to foreign governments also
pioceeds from the authority of this
body In a word the relations of the
greater republic to the outside world
are practically managed as ours are
and the rights of the States to control
their own affairs remain untouched
Undoubtedly one of the Impelling mo
fives to this union was the fact or the
fear that Mexico hatl its covetous eyes
on those States adjoining her own
southern boundary which lias had the
effect to -expedite this fusion of the
five States The union -will give the
republic an army of about 175000
men regulars and militia which will
be sufficient for all ordinary purposes
of defense As to the commercial and
industrial resources of the new re
public they should be greatly devel
oped under the new management If
it have no other result than to put an
end to the interminable revolutions and
civil wars in that section it will be a
blessing
A Forgotten Author
The oldest American man of letters
Is Theodore S Fay now living abroad
at Berlin at the age of 90 He is most
ly forgotten and bis books are all out
of print Xet be was a man of some
note in the literature of his day Ilis
novels Norman Leslie and Hobo
ken -were in -ever circulating library
and were widely rend fifty years and
more ago He was a contemporary of
Irving Willis Bryant JInlleck Ferci
val and others of that period He bad
a position in the diplomatic ferviee
being given the place of Minister to
Switzerland by President Van Buren
wbo was very kind toward literary
men Irving wts appointed Minister
to Japan by him Huwlhorue had his
position in the Boston custom house
during bis administration Bancroft
-was made collector of the port of Bos
ton -and Tames K Spaulding who had
written at least one novel was a mem
ber of his Cabinet It was noted as a
curious fact at that time that the liter
ary men of the country were generally
Democrats Mr Fay has never resided
at home since he lost his foreign mis
sion The charms of European life
were too much for him -Boston Heir
Ijife Snould Be Longer
It was the naturalist Buffon who as
serted that human beings should live
to 140 years instead of merely 70 Buf
fon argued that all creatures of the
animal kind Jive at least six or seven
times as long as it requires them to ob
asln full development Thus the horse
is full grown at 3 years and lives to IS
atvl 20 The ox is fully developed at
4 years and tbe dog at 2 The former
lives to 24 and 23 and the latter to 12
and 14 There is ao doubt that in these
respects Buffon was right and if his
ilieory were borne out in the case of
numajsiind the period of life should o
at least 120 to 140 instead of 70
New Uses for Glass
Attention -was recently called to the
proposed use of glass brick in building
It is now said that tbe Government of
Switzerland has approved the use of
glass for making weights to be em
ployed with balance scales A peculiar
ly tough kind of glass is to be selected
for this purpose From England comes
the suggestion that glass would be a
better and more lasting material than
stone for making monuments which
are exposed to the wearing action of
the weather
Swallows Medals to Effect Cures
The Churchman reports that the
daughter of the principal notary of
Placinza Italy was found to have in
her stomach an accumulation of medals
of a Madonna locally celebrated for
powers of cure in cancer She had
swallowed a medal eacli day for a
week on advice of her confessor
HINTS ABOUT DIVING
HOW TO ACQUIRE ABILITY IN
THIS RECREATION
Rules to Be Followed When Rescninc
One Wbo Cannot Swim A Knowl
edge of TJiis Art Is Essential to
Iiife Saving
Savinc Persons from Drowning
The whole secret of making a dive at
the first attempt is to have plenty of
confidence Beginners as a rule are so
nervous tliat they start to make a dive
but change their mind before reaching
the water and turn it into an awkward
tumble It has often been found a
good plan for two persons to hold a
towel out in front of the diver to show
how high he must throw his legs
in order to make a clean dive
The low dive is about three feet from
the surface Witb the bands over the
head take a deep respiration and in
leaving the solid surface throw the feet
above the level of the head In enter
ing the water turn the hands upward
and you come to the surface The
prettiest high dive is made when you
spring far out the body almost in a
horizontal level and allow the head
and anus to decline toward the water
In making a very high dive the per
former changes the position of his
body by giving a peculiar quirk to his
legs which has the effect of shooting
him into the water head first
Headers are taken by running and
jumping off a springboard -The body
is straightened out as in a high dive
and there is but little splash on enter
ing the water Diving feet first and
the sitting jump with hands clasped
over knees are also sometimes prac
ticed Flippers are single or double
somersaults make backwards or for
wards from a board or solid surface
The plunge differs from the dive in
that the former is made head first from
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a firm take off the body being entire
ly free from spring You simply plunge
into the water and rise to the surface
by the guiding of the hands which are
held out in front as in a dive While
in the water the body is perfectly mo
tionless Good plungers can glide seventy-live
feet in this way with little
difficulty
Diving is absolutely essential in life
saving it being necessary frequently
to dive for a drowning person It is
also essential to know just how to ap
proach and grip a drowning person and
how to release oneself from their oft
times fatal clutch The following meth
od is nearly about that adopted by
the life saving service of England and
the United States Experience has
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proved it to bo most effective and it is
to be regretted that the directions are
not more generally known Briefly they
are as follows
If held by the wrists take a deep
breath and turn both arms simulta
neously against the drowning persons
thumbs outward and attempt to bring
your arms at right angles to your own
body This will discolate his thumbs
and compel him to let go If clutched
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around the neck bring the knees be
tween the two bodies placing them
against the lower part of your oppo
nents chest Then give a quick and
sudden push straightening out your
legs at the same time and throw the
whole weight of your body backward
This will press the air out of his chest
as well as push him off no matter how
tightly he may be holding
If clutched around the body and
arms lean well over your opponent and
throw one arm in an upward direction
at right angles to the body or draw
KESCUING
one arm up between your body and his
Then with thumb and forefinger catch
his nose and pinch the nostrils close at
the same time placing the palm of the
hand on his chin and push outwards
This will cause him to open his mouth
for breathing purposes and he -being
under will swallow water Choking
ensues and not only is the rescuer let
go but the other is left so helpless that
he is completely under control If
clutched high around the body and
arms lean well over and turn one arm
in an outward and upward direction
which move will free the arm You
then proceed as in the other case
About the easiest way of towing
person to shore is to grasp him by the
clothes or under the arm and swim on
your back with a fast side stroke If
you swim better with the broad stroke
turn over on your face and let the
drowning one lie on his back and put
his arms about your neck Or if you
are very strong hold him up with one
arm and swim with the other
Patient Endurance
Many think patient endurance is a
virtue that outweighs all others in val
ue There never was a greater error
Endurance is often so contemptible
as to rank with cowardice Evil is
the enemy of progress in manners and
morals The endurance which tolerates
evil is a defect worthy of the strongest
effort to overcome it
It takes courage time patience faith
to take a stand and make a fight
against evil whether the evil is threat
ening the nations prosperity or indi
vidual rights and comforts
AYe have in all communities laws
that exist for the protection of the law
abiding citizens his protection not only
of life and property but of comfort of
health of morals
The laws are for the whole commu
nity for all ages and each sex They
are constantly violated Why Because
endurance not in the guise of virtue
but in its common every day garb of
weakness indifference and laziness
permits these violations refusing to
see the moral degradation that ensues
Bighteous wrath that would express
itself openly would put down many
evils in their first stages which en
dured create and strengthen them
selves and allied evils compelling the
expenditure of men money and years
of time to overcome
A Timely Rebuke
A lady riding on a car on the New
York Central Railway was disturbed
in her reading by the conversation of
two gentlemen occupying the seat just
before her One of them seemed to be
a student of some college on his way
home for a vacation He used nnich
profane language greatly to the ladys
annoyance
She thought she would rebuke him
and on begging pardon for interrupt
ing asked the young student if he had
studied the languages
Yes madam I have -mastered tho
languages quite well
Do you read and speak Hebrew
Quite fluently
Will you be so kind as to do mt a
small favor
With great pleasure I am at your
service
Will you be so kind as to do your
swearing in Hebrew
The lady was not annoyed any more
by the ungentlemanly language of this
would be gentleman
No Inducement
Castleton How few girls go in bath
ing here this season
Dillback Yes The grand stand
back of the bathing beach has been
washed away Judge
When some young men fall in love
they show the first symptoms by in
vesting heavily in perfumery
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