Li >up City Northwestern V PLUME XXVI _LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY , APRIL 22, 1909 NUMBER 24 < tant Events Here and There > Vttt m Ruins. is - San. Francisco.—Six bodies rewr ered and eight or ten others burled in the ruins: six injured, one fatally, and property loss of $125,000, are the results of a fire Friday that destroyed the St. George hotel, a lodging house for laborers at Howard and Eighth streets, and eighr other small build ings. The bodies taken to the morgue were so charred that identification was impossible. The hotel was a three-story frame building and burned so rapidly that none of the ISO guests had time to dress, and many escaped by jumping to the roof of an adjoining workshop. Scores clambered down the ladders of the firemen and the fire escapes, and at least four jumped to safety into the net held by the fire fighters. When the fire was discovered short ly after three o’clock. Night Clerk Ar thur Gronhk, three or four other em ployes, and Policeman W. F. Kruger ran through the house arousing the sleeping tenants. In the smoke-filled halls they direct ed the half-crazed men to the exits. Great confusion and panic prevailed, so that it was with great difficulty that men were able to find their way through the labyrinth of halls which threaded the 400 small rooms. Firemen and police worked he roically,and but for their efforts the loss of life would have been much greater. Two hundred people were in the ho tel when the fire broke out One hun dred and thirty of these wrere regular boarders, and the rest transients. Of the regular boarders 30 were unac counted for, but many of them es caped in the confusion, and neglected to report their safety. Rochester, N. Y.—The act of a fire bug which Tuesday rendered 1,000 per sons homeless, when flames swept the city, has caused terror here. The militia is parading the streets guarding the few articles of furniture saved by the victims. Swept along In the face of a 25 mile gale, the fire destroyed several sections of the city and did damage estimated at $1,000,000. It is believed the fire is of incendiary origin and the police are investigating. Prison for Soul Mater. Chicago.—Marion Grey of the Searchlight dub of Elgin. 111., must serve one year in a prison cell for her work in mating souls of rich but lone some men and handsome but lovesick widows. Judge Landis' sentence in the case was Tuesday affirmed by the United States circuit court of appeals. No error was found in the records and the attorney for the girl matrimonial agent. Elijah N. Zoline,-who took her case after a reported squabble between Miss Grey and her trial counsel, was informed in the decision that "if any error was committed it was Invited error.” Egg Prohibition Preacher. Chillicothe, O —I^ev. C. W. Eldredge of Cincinnati, while delivering a speech in favor of “drvs" dt Adelphi. a small town near here, was given a shower of rotten eggs by a crowd of "wet" by standers. Mistaken for Burglar; Killed. Emporia. Kan.—Griffith Hugheys, aged IS years, died Friday as the re sult of having been shqf by his younger brother, Owen, who mistook him for a burglar and fired upon him in the dark. i 1111 SOUNDS ROOSEVELT PRAISE. Senator Cummins Places Ex-President Ahead of Washington and Lauds Aldrich and Cannon. Washington.—Senator Albert B. j Cummins, the strenuous former gover nor of Iowa, who succeeded Senator Allison in the upper house of congress, jarred the Men's club of Mount Pleas ~ant' Congregational church with the statement that Roosevelt was greater than Washington. While his hearers were trying to ad just themselves to that point of view. Senator Cummins ran in the statement that Daniel Webster was a dub com pared with Senator Aldrich,.and that Henry Clay was not in Speaker Can non’s class. , •'Theodore Roosevelt," said the sen ' ator in his talk to the church club. “I I consider a stronger man than George Washington, the Father of His Coun try.’ Perhaps this sounds like treason, but it is not meant for that. Theodore Roosevelt, it is well known, faced prob lems day after day which Gen. Wash ington could never have met with suc cess, but from which he would have had to recoil helpless. GOTCH AN EASY WINNER. World’s Wrestling Champion Defeats Turk in Two Straight Falls Without Trouble. Chicago. — Frank Gotch of Iowa, (he world's heavyweight wrestling champion, Wednesday night in Dexter Park pavilion easily defeated YusifT Mahmout, the latest inii>ortation of "terrible Turks.” Gotch won the match in straight falls. It took the champion only eight minutes to pin the shoulders of Mahmout to the mat in the first fall. The Turk stayed one minute longer when they faced each other the next time and went down after nine min utes of struggling. Gotch showed his superiority at every angle of the game and the great crowd was sur prised as well as disappointed at the poor showing of Yussif. Gotch won both falls with a crotch and half nelson and made no effort to get his famous toe hold on the Turk. Celebrated Defaulter Free. Ossining, X. Y. — A celebrated defalcation case was recalled by the release from Sing Sing prison oj Cornelius J. Alvord, formerly note teller of the First National bank of Newr \ ork city. Alvord was sentenced to a total ot 13 years' imprisonment on January 16. 1901, for making false entries in the books of the first Na tional bank to cover up defalcations said to have aggregated $620,000, ex tending over a period of several years. Nelson to Fight McFarland. Chicago. — Battling Nelson and Packey McFarland Friday signed an agreement to light for the .'light weight championship of the world before James Coffroth's club at Colma, Cal.. July 5. The winner gets 75 and the ldser"23 per cent, of the receipts. They are to weigh 133 pounds at eight o'clock In. the morning and the battle is to take place at 2:30 in the after noon. Women Clean Capital Streets. Washington—Carrying out their pledge for a cleaner Washington, "white wings" in the persons of so ciety’ matrons and others were out in full force bright and early Thursday supervising the clearing the streets of the city of all floating paper and de bris not gathered up by the rubbish carts. The scheme which was in augurated by the women of the Twen tieth Century club, was that the city should be free of all floating debris. The appearance of the streets Friday indicates the movement w as a success. SLAVING OF TWO MOSLEMS AVENGED BY 6.000 ENRAGED TURKS. AMERICANS ARE IN DANGER Massacre Occurs at Mersina Where the Christians Have Missions— Mutinous Marines Lynch Vic.e-Ad- \ miral in Constantinople. Constantinople.—Reports fros/ Mer sina. a seaport of Asia Minor on the Mediterranean. Thursday, told of a massacre of Armenians by Turks, in which it is feared many were kilted. Enraged at the murder of two Mos lems by an Armenian and the fact that the assassin was not appre hended, the Mohammedan population of Mersina. which counts a total of 10.000 inhabitants, took the law into its own hands and attacked the Ar menian quarters. The Christian communities of Mer sina are ifj)phaling to the consuls here for help. Two -American missions are repre sented at Mersina. The trouble at Mersina is in no way connected with the political up heaval at Constantinople of the last two days. It involves a recrudescence of the Armenian question, which is religious and racial, and has nothing to do with the internal policies of Turkey. Mersina is 36 miles bv rail south east of the city of Adana. It counts 6.000 Mohammedans and some 3,500 Christians. It has a station of the synod of the Reformed Presby.erian Church in North America and an out station of the American Hoard of Com missioners for Foreign Missions. The record of 1907 shows that Rev. C. A Dodds. Rev. R. J. Dodds and Miss Evadna M. Sterrett were stationed at Mersina. The third day of the revolutionary movement in this city was marked by some disorders, the most serious of which was a demonstration by ma rines, who objected to the new min ister of marine. Vice-Admiral Adjie min Pasha. The marines gathered in force Thursday and seized and con vey ed to the palace Arff Bey. tom mander cf the battleship Assar-i-Tew fik, a member of the Committee on Union and Progress, who ordere-d the guns of his ship trained on the Yildiz Kiosk when the rising was at its height, with the intention of support ing the committee. Arrived at the Yildiz Kiosk the men lynched Arif Bey, notwithstanding the efforts of the palace guard to save him. Although public confidence is by no means restored by the formation of the new cabinet, an excellent impres sion has been produced by the appoint ment of Nazim Pasha as commander of the First Army corps, and this has been strengthened by the nomination of Memduh Pasha, another able Adrianople officer, to command the First division at Constantinople. Ed hem Pasha, the new minister of war, and Nazim Pasha made the round of the barracks in the city and exhorted the soldiers to obey their officers. They were well received and cheered. Constantinople. — Information re ceived here Friday from Adana, in Asi atic Turkey, declares that two Ameri can missionaries have been killed in the anti-Armenian outbreak at that place. Ambassador Leishman instructed the American vice-consul at Mersina, John Debbas, to proceed immediately for Adana and report on the situation. France has sent two warships to the scene. TWO BLOWN TO ATOMS. Explosion of a Nitroglycerin Factory at Gordon, III., Is Felt Twenty Five Miles Away. Sullivan, Ind.—With a detonation which was heard for 25 miles, the shock of which was felt in an area of 50 miles, the nitroglycerin factory at Gordon. 111., across the Wabash river from this place, was destroyed by a terrific explosion late Thursday after noon. Charles tleweis and Moses Lantz were blown to atoms. Owing to the fact that Gordon has no long distance telephone communication and that its connection with the farm lines was destroyed by the explosion, the fii*st rumors of ihe loss of life were exag gerated, one report putting the num ber of killed at 20. The fact, how ever, is that only two men were al lowed to work in the factory at one time. Old Battleship Made Over. New York. ■— After being out of commission for more than two years, the old battleship Massachusetts sailed out of the Brooklyn navy yard Thurs day with a full complement cf offi cers and men. The vessel was built by the Cramps In 1893 and has been largely made over so that she is al most as good as the battleships of much later types. Church War Reaches Court. Nashville, Tenn.—The federal courts have again been called upon to say who is entitled to possession, tie use and the enjoyment of property claimed respectively by Cumberland Presby terians and Presbyterians of the U. S. A., yvho went into the latter church from the Cumberland. Milling Company Elankrupt. Chillicothe, O.—An involuntary peti tion in bankruptcy was filed by the Marfield Milling Company of this city Friday. ■■—^ CHARGE CUDAHYS WITH FRAUD PACKING COMPANY INDICTED ON 659 COUNTS AT TOPEKA. Federal Grand Jury Charges Use oY Coloring and Evasion of Law—De nied by Company Official. Topeka, Kail.—The Cudahy Packing Company of Kansas City. Kan., is charged in indictments returned by the federal grand jury Friday with de frauding the government out of $125. 000 by violating the law relating to oleomargarine. There are 695 counts, for each of which the penalty is $1,000. The revenue law provides that each pound of uncolored oleomargarine must bear a revenue stainp of a quarter of a cent, but that on each pound to which coloring matter has been added to give it the appearance of butter, a ten-cent revenue stamp must be at tached. It is charged in ihe indictments that the Cudahy Company has sold the col ored product under !he quarter of a cent tax and consequently has do frandod the government out of large sums. Inspectors have been working on the case several months and have se cured samples sold in towns and cities from New York to Seattle and from Duluth to Jacksonville. Every sample now in the hands of the government experts bears the identification mark of the inspector who purchased it, as well as the analy sis which shows that it contains color ing matter. it is claimed by the government of ficials that the Cudahy Company has succeeded in monopolizing the oleo margarine market by selling the col ored product and paying the tax on the basis of uncolored, there being a dif ference of 9}i cents a pound. By this means, it is claimed, they were en abled to undersell other manufacturer* and control the market. V While this criminal action, which provides for a minimum fine of $696. 000, will be prosecuted. District Attor ney Bene says it does not end the matter. He will bring a civil action against the company to have the plant and machinery used in the manufac ture of oleomargarine confiscated. Washington.—Internal revenue offi cials said government agents have examined a very large number of samples-of'--oJelfwnsirgHrtnp to many parts of the country sold by the Cuda hy company, and that while it would not be expedient to estimate the amount of taxes involved in the al leged frauds, it is known that the offi cials believe it will be in excess of $125,000, and possibly a much larger sum. OHIO RIVER STEAMER SINKS. Fifty Panic-Stricken Passengers Saved by Crew When the Virginia Goes Down. Pittsburg, Pa.—Following a remark able series of accidents and a tem pestuous voyage, the steamer Virginia, from Cincinnati, O., to Pittsburg, was finally wrecked in the Ohio river at Wellsville, O., Tuesday night. The boat, the largest plying the up per Ohio, went down close to shore after striking a rock and tearing a hole three feet long in the hull. The passengers, numbering 50, in a highly nervous condition as a result of minor accidents earlier in the evening, be came panic-stricken when the vessel met with the last accident, and it was with difficulty a crew of 75 men restrained them. Although handcapped by darkness, a high wind and drenching rain, the crew managed to place the passengers safely in boats and put them ashore. From here they were taken, scantily clad, to a fire engine house in Wells ville, O.. and later reached the warmth of a hotel in a patrol wagon. When some distance from 6hore the steamer struck an obstruction with terrific force. The boat jarred might ily and the passengers were thrown from their berths. HUB ILUNUIS BANK OF $1,900 Woodlawn Institution, However, Is Insured Against Desperadoes— Bandits at Wellsvilie, Mo. Mount Vernon, III.—The bank at Woodlawn. a small town seven miles west of here on the Louisville & Nashville railroad, was robbed Thurs day. Five masked men dynamited the safe, wrecking it and the interior of the building, and escaped with $1,900 4n currency. The bank was insured against robbery. Wellsville, Mo.—Four masked rob bers blew open the safe of the post office here and escaped with a small quantity of stamps and one registered letter. The explosion aroused the town, but citizens were held back at the points of revolvers. Secretary Wilson Is Upheld. Washington. — Attorney General Wickersham has rendered an opin Ion that the refer.ee board appoint ed by Secretary Wilson of the depart ment of agriculture to investigate foods and food products, was a legally constituted body. Adlai Stevenson Better. Chicago.—Former Vice-Presiden' Ad lai E. Stevenson, who has been a pa tient for the last week at the Presby terian hospital, has so far recovered that he expects to return to his home in Bloomington, 111., the first part ot next week. Gen. Stevenson came to Chicago last week and had a minor operation performed. Fatally Burned by Blast. Buffalo, N. Y.—Michael McGarvey was fatally burned in a fire in a room ing house on Hurcn street Friday.