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VOLUME XX. LOUP CITY, SHERMAN COUNTY. NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER (i. 1903. NUMBER 52.
DEATH IN WRECK
MRS. BOOTH-TUCKER, SALVA
TIONIST, KILLED.
CRUSHED ON THE SANTA FE
Tour of Inspection Comes to a Fatal
End—Dead Woman Was Returning
from Colorado When the Accident
Occurred.
KANSAS CITY—Mrs. Emma Booth
Tucker, consul in America of the Sal
vation Army, wife of Commander
Booth-Tucker and second daughter of
William Booth, founder of the army,
was killed in the wreck of the east
bound California train No. 2 on the
Santa Fe near Dean Lake, Mo., eighty
five miles east of Kansas City, at 10
o'clock Thursday night.
' Colonel T. C. Holland, in charge of
the Salvation Army at Amity, Colo.,
was fatally injured, but up to 3:30
o'clock in the morning was reported
still alive. Twenty others were more
or less seriously hurt. The dead and
injured were taken to Fort Madison,
Iowa.
Mrs. Booth-Tucker was rendered un
•consciou| and died within half an
hour after being injured. Her skull
was fractured and she was injured in
ternally. She was on her way from a
visit in Colorado to Chicago, where
she was to have met her husband. Al
though the wreck occurred at 9:30 at
night, it was not known until after
midnight that Mrs. Bootb-Tucker was
among the injured.
The first details of the wreck wore
obtained by the Associated Press in
the morning over the long distance tel
ephone from Marceline, through Dr.
D. B. Putnam, who had been at the
scene.
The wrecked train left Kansas City
Thursday evening. It ran into an
open switch just outside of Dean Lake.
Only the three last cars, two Pull
mans and a diner, were wrecked. The
Pullmans were partly demolished,
while the diner was badly damaged.
In the forward Pullman Mrs.
Booth-Tucker and Colonel Holland,
who were the sole occupants of that
car, has just gone to the forward end
jr for a consultation. Two of the Pull- j
1 mana struck a steel water tank with
ii such force as to mo\e it five feet
from lie foundation and when the
train crew reached the scene both
Mrs. Booth-Tucker and Colonel Hol
land were found unconscious. They,
with the other injured, were after
much delay taken to the depot plat
form, a few blocks distant, where ev
erything possible was done for them,
■j, 'Keither regained consciousness and
It wlYhi'i half an hour the noted Salva
I tion Army leader succumbed to her in
P juries. For a time it was believed
that the unconscious man at her side
was Commander Booth-Tucker and in
«. the confusion this report was spread.
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CHICAGO — Commander Bootli
i| Tucker, who arrived in Chicago Tliurs
K day, expecting to join his wife f.ere,
H was prostrated by the shock of Mrs.
I f ’Booth-Tucker’s death. At the Salva
f tion Army headquarters, where he ap
peared soon after his arrival, he de
;» dined to be interviewed and denied
’himself to all but his intimate friends,
k. Ensign Agnew, speaking for the com
mander, said that he had thus far
p made no plans for the immediate fu
K lure.
PRICE OF DECEMBER WHEAT.
I St. Louis Exchange Fixes a Basis of
Settlement.
ST. LOUIS—At a special session of
the board of directors of the Mer
B-chants’ exchange the marginal basis
||for December wheat was lixed at 87
*-cents.' The meeting was called in an
jjHtswer to a petition in which members
Hr.-of the exchange claimed that owing
fflpto certain manipulations the prices
on December wheat have assum
‘ M ed fictitious values.
The board was asked to grant re
I’f. President Ballard refused to
ake any state further than to say
s would announce to the exchange
e board's action. The assertion i3
ade by the commission men that De
-mber wheat is already practically
irnered in St. Louis.
Walsn Gets Ten Years.
MANILA—Lieutenant James W.
'alsh, constabulary supply officer,
ationed at Mashate, in the province
! Viscayas. military department of
uzon, convicted recently of embez
Rgjplement of $1,000 of government funds,
liar, been sentenced to tern years' im
prisonment.
PARTING OF WAYS.
What a Halifax Publication Has to
Offer.
HALIFAX, N. S.—The declaration
that present relations between Can
ada and Great Britain cannot exist
much longer was made Wednesday by
*ho Halifax Chronicle, the leading
newspaper supporter in the maritime
provinces of the liberal party. In an
unusually outspoken editorial on the
recent Alaska boundary award, the
Chronicle expresses what is claims to
be unanimous dissatisfaction of Ca
nadians at the action of the British
government in the matter. The paper
says:
“This Alaska episode has made it
clear that our existing relations can
not be continued much longer. We are
even now at the parting of the ways.
Our subordinate position lias been so
clearly and so humiliating revealed
that it must speedily become utterly
unendurable.”
The Chronicle adds that there are
now only two courses open for Can
ada, complete legislative independ
ence within the empire, acknowledg
ing the sovereignty of the king cf
England alone, or the status of an in
dependent nation. The paper says
there is much to commend the latter
step in particular because it would
free Canada from the* danger of ever
becoming embroiled with the United
States on account of its European con
nection, and at the same time would
secure for the dominion the benefit
of the protection of the Monroe doc
trine.
LONDON.—Chief Secretary for Ire
land Wyndham, speaking at Dover,
said that unless England was pre
pared to lose her prestige, she could
not afford to see Canada dominated
by American capital. “Under fis
cal reforms, as proposed by Mr.
Chamberlain,” said Mr. Wyndham,
“Canada could become the granary ol
Great Britain.” He strongly urged
the linking of Canada directly with
the mother country. This, he said,
must he done, whether it be accom
pished by Mr. Chamberlain’s method
or by some other.
LAYS DOWN NEW RULE.
Inspectors Must Be Permitted to E:e
amine Stock on Forest Reserves.
WASHINGTON. D. C.—Commis
sioner Richards of the general land
office, supplementing former instruc
tions issued by the Indian bureau,
has issued orders to forest officers
notifying them that all stock grazed
in the forest reserves must be sub
mitted to the bureau of animal in
dustry when called upon for inspec
tion. That in the event of failure of
owners to recognize inspectors of the
department of agriculture the same
is to be communicated at once to the
interior department, when prompt
and decisive action will be taken. In
event that privilege is being accord
ed owners of sheep of cattle by tha
forest officers and their owners object
to having their stock dipped or treat
ed Commissioner Richards notifies all
such offenders that the permit to
graze stock will he abrogated immedi
ately. This order supports the hands
of the agricultural department, and i3
intended to stamp out, as far as pos
sible, diseases incident to sheep and
cattle grazed on the open plains.
HUSBAND DELIVERS ADDRESS.
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Eulogy of Mrs. Booth-Tucker Pro
nounced by Commander.
CHICAGO—Surrounded by 3,000
Salvation mourners who had gather
ed at. Piincess rink Friday night to
pay tribute to the memory of Mrs.
Emma Booth-Tucker, who was kill
ed in a railroad wreck Wednesday
night. Commander Booth-Tucker, in
a sermon full of nathosr, toid of the
many good deeds performed by the
dead leader. While speaking the
husband, grief stricken and weeping,
stood at the bead of the casket.
When the eulogy was finished there
was not a. dry eye in the audience.
The memorial services were par
ticipated in by many prominent off*
cers of the army. At the conclusion
of the ceremonies the casket wa3 re
moved to the Pennsylvania depot ami
started to New York.
New Austrian Emigration Lew.
VIENNA.—The new emigration law
of Austria, which is now awaiting the
approval of the ministry of justice,
abolishes the existing provision under
which emigrants of all classes' lose
their Austrian citizenship. Under the
new law emigrants for economical rea
sons will continue to be regarded as
Austrian citizens and efforts will bo
made to keep in touch and assist them
in the country to which they emigrate.
DIED IN FLAMES
TWENTY-FIVE LIVES LOST IN A
TENEMENT HOUSE FIRE.
THOUGHT TO BE INCENDIARY
Hallowe’en Parties in Progress When
the Disaster Occurs—Escape from
Fire Escapes Cut Off by Jam to Get
to Them.
NEW YORK—Twenty-one men^
three women and a ten-month-old
babe were burned to death or suiTo
cated in a fire that started in the
House of All Nations, a tenement
house at 426 Eleventh avenue, which
the police and coroner believe to be
of incendiary origin. Some peculiar
features of the disaster, in addition
to the startling loss of life, are that
the fire was practically extinguished
in twenty minutes; that the police
could learn of hut one person being
injured, other than those who lost
their lives, and that the property loss
was onlv $7,000.
The deal are mostly Italians.
The only person injured, so far as
can be learned. Is Mary Jane Quinn,
who was burned about the face and
hands and severely bruised by leap
ing from a second floor fire escape to
the ground.
In several apartments of the tene
ment Hallowe'en parties were in prog
ress, and the guests at these added
greatly to the number of persons In
the house and made the crush and
jam to escape more than it ordinarily
would have been. Although plenti
fully provided with fire escapes, front
and rear, escape was cut off a few
minutes after the fire started by the
bodies of the dead becoming wedged
in the openings to tlie ladders. The
fire had been buring some minutes
before it was discovered. It had
started in the basement and, rushing
upward, bad attacked the stairway
leading to the apartments. In a short
space of time the flames had so en
veloped the stairway that egress from
the building by It. was impossible.
The house from the third floor to tlie
fiftl] floor was destroyed.
At the windows, front and roar,
bodies of men and women were jam
med, showing that a desperate strug
gle to get free had resulted in the
choking of these exits to the fire es
capes and liad been the cause of a
number of inmates being suffocated.
Life nets played a prominent part
in the work of rescue. The firemen
dropped men and women, dead and
alive, from one floor to another, and,
finally, the men standing on the lad
ders on the- first floor let thhm fall
Into the nets held by policemen and
flrement in the street.
CUBANS TO BOYCOTT STAMPS.
Levy of Tax on Commodities Results
in Suspension of Business.
SANTIAGO, CUBA.—At a meeting
of the Chamber of Commerce held
here resolutions of protest against the
stamp tax, which went into effect on
the first of November were adopted
and forwarded to President Palina.
The cigar factories and whole
sale liquor dealers of Santiago agreed
to close their establishments today.
The retailers followed suit with the
exception of one American, who said
he would pay the tax. Be tried to
buy stamps for hu stock on hand, but
found that none had arrived. He put
in an order for stamps and did busi
ness. There is talk of a strike move
ment against the new law. One
thousand cigarmakcrs and persons
employed in liquor houses already
have been discharged. They are
mostly without resources. Several
saloonkeepers will open their places
tomorrow on a technicality, unless
the stamps arrive in the meantime.
PROF. MOMMSEN IS NO MORE.
Celebrated German Historian Dies at
Charlottenberg.
BERLIN—Prof. Mommsen, the his
torian, died at Charlottenberg at 8:45
Saturday morning. He passed away
without regaining- consciousness. The
change from life to death was ob
served only by his physician, who
watched all night with his family.
United States Ambassador Tower
and other ambassadors here, as well
as a number of cabinet ministers, call
ed at the Mommsen residence Sunday
morning to inquire about the sick
man and were informed that he was
dead. Emperor William and various
of the lesser German sovereigns have
sent their condolences to the Momm
sen residence. Prof. Mommsen was
bora in 1817.
ENTERS PROTEST.
Attorney Barrett Surprised at Being
Disbarred.
WASHINGTON.—Harrison J. Bar
rett. whose dlsba’rment from practice
before ihe Post office department for
alleged wrongful acts, disclosed by
the general postal investigation, was
announced last week, has written a
letter to the postmaster general un
der date of Baltimore, October 27.
in which he expresses surprise in
view of the fact that ha has been
furnished no specification of charges
and has been given no hearing. The
letter says the writer invited a search
ing investigation of all his acts ami
was assured a hearing and an oppor
tunity to meet any accusations
against him. He says he furnished
the inspetors all information asked
of him, though much of its was irrel
evant, notwithstanding he was satis
fied they were seeking hiB indictment.
The letter adds:
“My right to practice my profes
sion is one of which I ought not and
cannot properly be divested without a
full and Impartial hearing according
to law. The government baa pre
ferred Ps charges against me in the
courts and I am ready and anxious
to meet them; indeed, I am glad of
the opportunity to put this matter in
its true light before a court and to
show that tho allegation that I en
tered into an unlawful conspiracy
with General Tyner, a man who has
lived nearly eighty years respected
and honored among men, and presid
ed over lhe department now in your
charge, is as absurd as it is false.”
Secretary Hitchcock, who lias been
ill with a cold, was at his desk Tues
day for the first time since the mid
dle of last. wek. His first act was to
order the suspension of Asa B.
Thompson, receiver of public moneys
at tho land office at La Grande, Ore.,
who was indicted yesterday on the
charge of bribery. “And there will
be others,” he said, ‘‘whenever sim
ilar circumstances are discovered in
connection with them." He declined
to say more concerning the reported
frauds in connection with the public
lands than that they are receiving
careful attention and have been since
January 8 last, when the secretary
said the investigation was begun. He
also said that proceedings have been
started against Miss Ware, who is a
commissioner of d^eds and is charged
with issuing certificates in 300 eases
of fraudulent land entries
WRECK KiU.3 MANV.
Fifty Others injured in Collision Be
tween Passenger and Freight.
INDIANAPOLIS—Fifteen persons
were killed out right and over fifty In
jured, some fatally, at 10:20 o’clock
Saturday morning by a collision be
tween a special passenger train on
the Big Four railroad and a freight
engine with a number of eoal cars.
The passenger train of twelve
coaches was carrying 954 persons,
nearly all of whom were students <<t
Purdue college and their friends, from
Lafayette to Indianapolis for the an
nual foot ball game between the Pur
due team .and the Indianapolis team
for the state championship, which was
to have been played in the afternoon.
In the first couch back of the engine
were the Purdue foot ball team, sub
stite playeVs and managers. Three
players, the assistant coach, trainer
and seven substitute players of the
university team were killed and ev
ery one of the fifty three other persons
in the car were either fatally of seri
ously injured.
Later—William Bailey of New Rich
mond, Ind., substitute player on the
Purdue university foot ball team, died
bom internal injuries received in the
Big Four wreck. This is the six
teenth death. ,
John Mitchell Resumes Trip.
SCRANTON, PA.—President John
Mitchell, despite his severe intestinal
affection, proposes to continue cn his
eastern trip previously arranged. Sun
day night he left for New York to
spend a week and on Sunday next he
will go to Boston to attend the meet
ing of the American Federation of
Labor executive council prior to the
assembling of the annual convention
of the Federation, Which will meet
in Boston November 5
Nineteen More Bodies Recovered.
HANNA, Wyo.—In all, nineteen
bodies were recovered from the Ill
fated mines here last week. All were
taken from the Twenty-second entry,
where, judging from the condition and
position of the bodies when found,
the explosion occurred with terrific
force. According to late counts, there
are twenty-five bodies still to be re
I covered.
ALASKAN AWARDS
THE BOUNDARY COMMISSIONERS
HAVE NOT MUCH TO SAY.
WILL NOT DISCUSS THE MAHER
Vancouver Recorded How He Reached
Point and Commission Made Deduc
tion—United States Gets Two Isl
ands by the Agreement.
NEW YORK.—On account of hla
official connection with the Alaskan
tribunal Senator Lodge of Massachu
setts declined to discuss the award of
the tribunal on hia arrival here by the
steamer Cedric.
Senator Lodge said the members of
the tribunal had been very hand
somely treated in Ijondon, but bh one
of the arbitrators lie could not even
venture to say that he was satisfied
with the award and declined to say
anything about the attitude of the
Canadian commissioners in refusing
to sign the award.
Joseph Pope, representative of the
Canadian government, and one of the
assistant secretaries of the tribunal,
who also was on Cedric, said that the
award was of course a disappointment
from the Canadian iiolnt of view, but
offered no further comment, appear
ing anxious, however, to ascertain h*w
the decision had been received in
Canada.
Former Senator Turner of Washing
ton, another American member of the
tribunal was not willing to discuss
how the agreement came to be
reached, but :t was admitted that the
decision giving two islands in the
Portland canal to the United States
was based on Vancouver's narrative
of his voyage of exploration. The
question hinged on whether he had
called the water to the south of the
Island the channel or whether he had
gone to the north of them. It was
foynd that he .recorded having gone
from the pntrance to a point of land
above the islands in a certain time.
To do this it was figured that he en
tered the broad channel, followed It
up, and turned in between the four
islands.
This led the commissioners to de
cide that the two islands lying near
the mouth of The canal and opposite
Port Simpson belonged to the United
States. Mr. Turner, while lie was not
willing to discuss In detail the sub
ject, admitted that this was true.
LONDON.—Chairman MacRae, at a
meeting of the stockholders of the
White Pass & Yukon railroad, alluded
to the Alaska boundary award. He
said that while he regretted the decis
ion which placed twenty miles of their
railroad under the Jurisdiction of the
American flag, it was in reality more
a matter of sentiment than business.
The reciprocal hounding arrange
ments between Canada and the United
i States would qonttnue. Both coun
I tries would suffer equally by a dis
turbance of the arrangements, and it
was more in harmony with the enlight
ened spirit of civilization to extend
than to curtail them.
Reoort on Deepening River.
ST. TjOUIS—The report of the joint
committee from the Merchants’ ex
change and the Business Men's league
appointed to secure data for a report
on the commercial features involved
in the deepening of the channel ol
the river from St. Ix>uis to Cairo, 111.,
was forwarded to Washington The
report consists mainly of answers to
questions furnished by the depart
ment of commerce and labor, aceom
penled by special maps.
Exoel Mormon Missionary.
VIENNA,—Frank Pingree, a Mor
mon missionary, has been arrested
at Temesvar, Hungary, while address
ing p, meeting held to establish a
Mormon settlement there. A decree
of expulsion from Hungary has been
Issued against him. *
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No Improvement at Laredo.
LAREDO. TEX.—There has been
no decided improvement in the yellow
fever situation during the last twenty
four hours. Tonight's bulletin: New
cases, 17; deaths, 2; total number ol
cases to date, f»20; total number ol
deaths to date, 59.
, Millionaire Hoac'and Dead.
ST. JOSEPH. Mo.—George T. Hoag
iand, pioneer and millionaire ^hilan
throplst, is dead at his hora« in thi3
city. Mr. Hoagland was 90 years old
and gave liberally to local charities
and to Methodist educational institu
tions.
TO CONSIDER RACE PROBLEM.
Conference to Be Held at Washington
in November.
WASHINGTON—Commencing Mon
day. November 9, and continuing for
three days, there will be held in this
city an interesting conference on the
race problem in the United States.
Many prominent leaders in the color
ed race have promised to attend the
conference, which is to he held un
der the auspices of the National So
ciological society, an organization for
the study of the condition of the col
ored people. The object of the con
ference is stated to be to ‘deliberate
on the most serious phases of the
race problem, and to formulate plans
for the relief of a strained situation
brought about by the presence of the
serious problem to discover some
common ground on which all of the
iriends of the cause may stand, and tc
adjust the different and divergent
views respecting the solution of the
problem into a definite and harmoni
ous proposition."
' The conference will also consider
the religious, educational, physical
and ethical aspects of the race Ques
tion and considerable time will be
spent In discussing the evil Influence
pf urban life on the colored people.
APPEALS TO CLARA BARTON.
Red Cross Aid Sought for Distressed
Macedonians.
WASHINGTON.—Macedonia’s plea
for aid in her distress was placed
before Miss Clara Barton, the head of
fhe American Association of the Red
Crosa. Constantine Stephanove, the
ppecial Macedonian delegate, told
Miss Barton of the urgency of the
situation, and begged her to take Im
mediate action to insure the forward
ing of Red Cross relief to Macedonia.
Miss Barton asked for detailed in
formation as to the character and
scope of Hie aid needed, and said:
“The Led Cross fesls that it would
be a humane and noble thing for the
American people to undertake to re
lieve the suffering in Macedonia.
Such a movement would be in keep
ing with American traditions in all
similar emergencies. The situation,
in view of the approach of winter,
would seem to require a systematic,
substantial and Immediate effort on
the part of the people generally. Dip
lomatically, the problem would be an
extremely delicate one^and would re
quire discretion and experience for
its successful solution."
RELIEF FOR THE MACEDONIANS.
Red Cro>3 Society to Extend Succor
to the Suffering.
WASHINGTON—Constantine Step
hanove, special Macedonian delegate
to the United Stales, who is in this
country in the interest of the oppres
sed people of Macedonia, had a long
talk with Aslstant Secretary Loomis.
Mr. Stephanove Is anxious to secure
relief for his people, and one purpose
of his visit, to this country is to
show their actual and pressing needs.
Mr. I^oomis took a lively interest In
the matter, but no direct appeal has
been made for action on the part of
this government.
Later Mr. Stephanove had a confer
ence with Miss Clara Barton, Mrs.
John A. Logan and other members of
the American National Red Cross so
ciety, at which the subject of steps
to he taken for the Immediate relief
of the Macedonians was considered,
and it was decided, through the so
ciety, to devise means, If possible, by
which succor might be extended to
the Macedonians who are suffering.
Boy Discovers Sun Spots.
DENVER, Colo—Herbert S. Howe,
the 15-year-old son of Prof. Herbert
A. Howe, instructor in astronomy at
Denver university, has discovered at
the upper edge of the sun's disc a
new group of sun spots as great in
magnitude and Importance, it Is stat
ed, as the group discovered by the
scientists of the Washington observ
atory two weeks ago. The boy made
bis observatiohs with a six-inch tele
scope in the observatory at University
park in this city.
More Indictments at Basin.
DENVER, Colo.—A special from
Basin City, Wyo., says: The grand
|ury concluded Its work on Wednes
day and was discharged. Eight addi
tional indictments were found in con
nection with the German and WaD
ters lynching, but as the arrests have
not been made the names are with
held. The bonds for Pat lock and Sa
bin have been placed at 910,000 each.
The men are still in jail.
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