Loup City Northwestern
VOLUME XXVIII
LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1910
NUMBER 12
SECRETARY MELLOR SAYS THIS
IS NEBRASKAS NEED.
MUST BE MORE PRODUCTION
Recommendation That at Every Poor
Farm in State Experimental
Schools Be Established.
At the recent meeting of the State
Board of Agriculture Secretary W. R.
Mellor made his annual report, in
which he reviewed all the work done
by the association, the state farm, the
farmers' clubs and all associated
bodies which have for their object the
increase in the production of the Ne
braska farm. At this time he said,
the land of Nebraska which is avail
able is practically all under cultiva
tion. and for that reason it has be
come a necessity for an increase in
the production per acre. A financial
report of the state fair shows a bal
ance of $20,000 on hand.
Mr. Mellor recommended . that at
every poor farm in the state there be
established an experimental farm and
that the various schools each have
at least five acres upon which experi
ments should be made for the bene
fit of the students. He argued that
the farmer who is too busy to attend
institutes or schools of agriculture
may learn from the boys and girls who
get their new ideas each day from the
school farm. Alojjg these lines Mr.
Mellor said:
“We confidently believe that the
yield of crop production will be nearer
perfection if each county poor farm
be made an experiment station, under
the control Of an experienced scien
tific agriculturist, for whose services
the county and state might share
equally in expense. These experts
could be obtained from among the
young men taking the long course in
our School of Agriculture and would
furnish a means of providing funds for
worthy young men to secure addition
al agricultural knowledge.
“It is a well known fact that people
living twenty miles away from an ob
ject lesson receive very little benefit,
from the fact that in the busy season
they have very little time or oppor
tunity to learn what is taking place
out of their limited range of vision.
Their time and attention must of ne
cessity be devoted to home labors,
therefore the nearer we can bring
proper methods in agriculture to them
the greater their profit.
"In addition to the county farm ex
periment station, the time will come
in Nebraska when each school dis
trict will have from one to five acres
of an experiment station, to be scien
tifically worked by the scholars as a
part of their schooling, for which
proper credits will be given. This
will create the ideal method, as the
father and mother who have charge
of the work on the farm throughout
the day will have daily instruction
from that gathered by the children
along timely, practical lines, ultimate
ly resulting in love of farm life, a
growth and retention of farmers for
the future, added fertility to the soil
and wealth to the state.
Farmers’ Wives Organize.
Organization among the farmers’
wives of Nebraska received fresh im
petus at the annual meeting of the
Nebraska Home Economics associa
tion held at the university farm at
Lincoln. Four officers, who have
served the organization during the
last year were re-elected.
The session wa devoted largely to
discussion of the problems of the
farmers' wives. Mrs. F. .1. Burnett of
Omaha leading. The noon luncheon
of the school children in the country
afforded an interesting topic. That
the children bring the ingredients and
under direction of the teacher prepare
soup and other simple nourishing food,
thus relieving the busy mother of
preparing a basket luncheon and at
the same time affording the opening
wedge for the teaching of domestic
science in the rural schools, was a
plan that met with general approval.
Miss Anna L. Barbee, county superin
tendent of Christian county. Illinois,
offered a course of twenty-five lessons
in domestic science that has been
proven successful in Illinois. This
course includes the simple but import
ant things from ventilation and sanita
tion to the preparation of simple foods
and also met the approval of the wo
men.
Big Broom Plant.
The Leed Broom and Duster com
pany, with factories ^ Boston, Daven
port and Lancaster, has purchased the
Lincoln Sash and Door company and
will convert the plant into one of the
largest broom factories in the country.
This company has the contract at the
state penitentiary.
Depot at University Place.
The order issued by the state rail
way commission to compel the Rock
Island railroad to construct a depot
at University Place has been upheld
by the supreme court.
Ruling is Asked.
i
State Auditor Barton has been
asked to rule on whether or not Wil
liam B. Hughes of Omaha, secretary
of the Nebraska State Bankers' asso
ciation, has been guilty of receiving
rebates for his association.
THE CORN QUESTION.
Bulletin of the Nebraska Experiment
Station.
The Nebraska Experiment station
has just issued Bulletin No. 12 on Ex
periments with Corn. This bulletin is
a report of the experimental work with
corn which has been carried on at the
station for several years. Copies may
be obtained free of cost by residents
of Nebraska on application to the
Agricultural Experiment Station, Lin
coln, Neb.
The results secured by two methods
of conducting an ear-to-a-row breeding
plat are reported. An average increase
of about eight bushels per acre has
been secured by selecting the best
yielding ears by means of the ear to
row test. Directions for conducting
an ear to row breeding plat are also
given.
The effect of different rates of plant
ing on the yield of grain and fodder
Is discussed, also the effect of thick
and thin planting on the value of ears
for seed. It has been found that seed
grown in plats where the planting was
uniformly thick has given better re
sults than seed from thinly planted
plats.
The physical characters of the corn
plant that are to be considered when
selecting seed are also discussed, and
conclusions are stated where experi
mental evidence will warrant.
The economic value of tillers is also
considered, the work being a continu
ation of that reported in Bulletin No.
91, and largely confirming results se
cured at that time.
A comparison of different methods
of distributing seed in planting has
been made for two years. Corn planted
at a uniform rate of three grains per
hill has been compared with corn dis
tributed in various ways, as would be
the case if a planter were dropping
unevenly. Very little difference in
yield has been secured from the dif
ferent methods of distributing seed.
Short Horn Breeder Premiums.
Governor Shallenberger, on his ar
rival from Denver, Colo., where he
attended a meeting of Short Horn
breders, brought the cheering informa
tion that the national association has
decided to give Nebraska and Iowa
state fairs $1,500 each for Short Horn
premiums the coming year.
Nebraska and Iowa had previously
been discriminated against in favor of
the state of Minnesota, which enjoyed
the prestige of having its state fair of
ficially known es the National Short
Horn show. That state also got tlje
big share of the money. Now the un
due advantage has been taken away,
and Nebraska and Iowa have an equal
chance to attract the big feeders. Ne
braska's premium allowance was
raised from $700 to $1,500 without the
state fair association being required
to contribute extra funds on account
of the extra allowance.
Hereafter no state will be allowed
to enjoy the privilege of running a
national Short Horn meeting in con
nection with its state fair. Each will
attract the cattlemen on its own mer
its. Under the previous arrangements
Minnesota enjoyed an undue advan
tage. and Nebraska and lotva had the
little end of the deal. How much is
thought of these states as the coming
regions for the development of the
Short Horn industry is demonstrated
by the fact that they get more money
for this year's state fairs than any
others.
Maupin Will Proscute.
Deputy Labor Commissioner Will M.
Maupin will appear to prosecute about
twenty-five prominent Lincolnites Jan
uary 25, for their failure to observe
the regulation touching the building
of fire escapes. It is likely that those
who show a disposition to comply with
the law will not find its majesty dif
ficult to appease. On the other hand,
a few have indicated that they will
fight, and there is no question that
they will have their hands full of
trouble, for it is determined to enforce
the lawr.
To Fight Hog Cholera.
At a meeting of the Nebraska Swine
Breeders' association, it was prac
tically decided to -petition the next
legislature to appropriate money for
fighting hog cholera. Swine fanciers
believe the state should have a plant
for manufacturing the serum used in
combating the disease.
State Fair Finances.
Secretary Mellor of the State Agri
cultural Board, in his annual report,
shows total receipts for 1909 to be
$58,140.78. Disbursements for same
period, $69,049.41. Balance on hand
Jan. 20, 1909, $31,406.01; receipts from
Jan. 20, 1909, to Jan. 18, 1910, $58,140.
78; expenditures, $69,049.41. In treas
ury Jan.. 1910. $20,497.28.
Superintendents Get Busy.
County superintendents of Nebraska
will not depend upon the legislative
committee of the State Teachers’ as
sociation hereafter to secure them
larger salaries. The superintendents
decided to select a committee o£. their
own for the reason the legislative com
mittee had failed to deliver the goods.
Surety Company Wins.
Judge Cornish decided that the
American Surety company was entitled
to do business in the state despite the
efforts of Attorney General Thompson
to oust it from Nebraska. In the case
of the state against the surety com
pany. in which the state asked for an
order from the court preventing the
company from doing business in Ne
braska, Judge Cornish ruled*that the
demurrer of the defendants should be
sustained. The judge upheld the in
surance legislation of the state, saying
Tie anti-trust law did not apply.
"Hey, Come Down Here, and Let's See How
Works.”
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WOMAN RECLUSE MURDERED
BODY OF MRS. M’INTOSH FOUND
TERRIBLY MUTILATED.
Robbery Is Believed to Have Been
Motive for Crime—Slayer Dis
embowels Victim.
Rockford. 111. — Winnebago coun
ty authorities are confronted by
a murder mystery that, promises to
parallel the unsolved Grippen case of
last spring In the finding of the body
of Mrs. Mary E. McIntosh in her home
at 1239 West State street Thursday.
The victim's head was crushed in.
her throat cut and great gashes in the
abdomen allowed the bowels to pro
trude, while one lung was cut out and
thrown on the floor. Evidence of any
struggle w'as absent, the terribly mu
tilated body being found just inside
the front door of the room in which
the deceased lived. The rest of the
house was closed off. and the other oc
cupants were not molested by the mur
derer.
A close survey of the house failed to
teveal weapon or Instrument of mur
der, which evidently was carried off.
Discovery of the crime -was made by
' Henry Branthauer, a milk man. Rob
| bery is supposed to have been the mo
i tive, as a ridge on the body would in
] dicate she wore a money belt, and
that in getting it off the murderer dis
: emboweled the victim. 1
Mrs. McIntosh lost part of her for
tune through a dishonest agent years
| ago. since which time she has been
most eccentric and lived as a recluse.
Clinton St. Clair and wife were later
i arrested as suspects and under police
pressure St. Clair confessed he killed
Mrs. McIntosh.
Chicago. — A murder rivaling the
atrocious Whitechapel outrages com
mitted in London a quarter of a cen
tury ago, was revealed Thursday with
the finding of the headless body of
Mrs. Jennie Cleghorn, 48 years old. a
woman of former wealth, in a cheaply
furnished room at 54 West Seven
! teenth street.
The body was grewsomely mutilat
ed. The head had been cut from the
woman's shoulders and carried away
by the murderer. The heart and other
organs had been cut out and then re
placed.
A hundred detectives searched
scores of houses within the radius of
a mile of the house for the missing
head. Fully half a hundred women
and men were taken to the Twenty
' second street police station and ques
tioned.
Eight persons wrere held. The first
one arrested was Tillie Taylor, an
| elderly negress who runs the house
■ where the Cleghorn woman was slain.
SLAYER HAS COLD HEART
Alleged Murderer of Girl Spurns Offer
of Forgiveness from Victim’s
Mother and Sister.
Wilkesbarre, Pa.—Mrs. Susan Lee.
a Dowieite, of Zion City, III., and her
daughter came here to forgive George
L. Marlon, the New York theatrical
man, who, it is alleged, murdered her
daughter here last August, but she was
spumed by Marion, who declined to
pay aDy attention to her.
Mrs. Lee as a Dowieite believes in
forgiving those who have wronged
her. When Marion was brought into
court she advanced, extended her
hand and murmured that she had come
to tell him she forgave him. Marion
ignored her and turned away and
then her daughter. Miss Grace Lee,
also extended her hand. “We forgive
you and have come to help you,” she
said. Marion turned away exclaiming
"I don't know who you are.”
Begin Action In Cherry Cases.
Joliet, 111. — Clark Johnson, as
sistant to Si^e Factory Inspector
Davies, said he had filed an informa
tion against the St. Paul mine in Eu
reau county for employing ten boys
under lfi years of age. Three of these
boys perished in the fire last fall at
the Cherry, ill., mine.
Not Much Trouble To Write
Sorre Proper Narr.es That at Least
Have the Distinguishing Merit
of Novelty.
In the Zuyder Zee there is a hay
called V, and Amsterdam has a-river
Y. while, strange to say, in quite an
other part of iho earth, in China, the
■janie brief name is given to a town,
elsewhere In the flowery kingdom.
in the province of Honan, there is a
city called U, and in France there is
a river and in Sweden a town rejoic
ing in the name of A.
Proper names of this brief nature
are not, however, monopolized by
places; instances are on record where
individuals have been similarly named.
Some years ago there was a shop kept
on the Rue de houvan. Iirussels, by
ALLEGE THEY LOOTED ROAD
Charged in Civil Bill That Three
Prominent Chicagoans Obtained
$850,000 Railroad Money.
Chicago.—Purchases cf millions
of dollars’ worth of real estate
by the Chicago & Western Indiana
railroad for a new depot and freight
yards may he held up pending the
investigation by State's Attorney Way
man Into real estate deals through
which Henjamin Thomas, former pres
ident of the road; John C. Fetzer and
Charles K. Kappes. real estate deal
ers, are aleged to have obtained $850,
000 of the railroad company's money
[ lor their own purses.
The three men, two of them repre
sentatives of the railroad, are accused
of obtaining titles to real estate
sought by the railroad and then of
turning the properties over to the road
at prices far above the actual pur
chase prices and putting the differ
ence in their pockets. Sometimes, ac
cording to the bill filed in the civil
suit Wednesday, the railroad was
charged twice what the property cost.
Whether the charges against the
three men will be taken before the
grand jury State's Attorney Wayman
would not say.
Denial of the charges was made by
Fetzer and Kappes. The former said
all his transactions with the road had
been made in good faith.
1.000 SIGN AT WILMINGTON
All Classes Are Pledg'-ng Themselves
to Abstain from Meat Until
Price Is Lowered.
Wilmington, Del. — It is estimated
that 1,000 Wilmingtonians already
have signed the petitions agree
ing to abstain from meat for 30 days,
or until the price is lowered to a rea
sonable figure. The petitions are being
signed by lawyers, physicians and
business men, as well as workingmen.
Local meat dealers are becoming
alarmed.
Omaha, Neb., Jan. 21.—Fifteen thou
sand men in Omaha refusing to eat
meat for one month is the number for
which the labor unions of (his city are
striving as members of the Anti-Meat
Hating club, which they have formed
as a protest against the high price of
meats and the exactions of the beef
trust.
ARREST TWO BANK OFFICERS
President and Secretary of Cleveland
Banking Company Are Charged
with Perjury.
Cleveland, O.—President IT. Grant
Walker and Secretary W. G. Dun
can of the South Cleveland Bank
ing Company were arrested on indict
ments for perjury. The men are out
on bail.
The bank of which they were active
officers failed recently because of
loans aggregating $1,144,000 made to
the Werner Publishing Company of
Akron, now in the hands of a receiver.
Tribesmen Slay 200.
Tangier, Morocco.—Two hundred of
the sultan of Morocco’s troops have
bene hilled In a terrific battle with
tribesmen, according to news received
from Fez. The tribesmen attacked the
government forces, defeating them
sharply. The attackers fled, pursued
by soldiers.
Big Firm Suspends.
New York.—Following the sus
pension of the firms of Lathrop,
Haskins & Co., and J. M. Fiske & Co.i
as a result of the sensational drop on
Wednesday of 63 points in the price
of the stock of the Columbus & Hock
ing Coal and Iron Company, President
R. H. Thomas of the New York stock
exchange shortly after the opening of
the exchange Thursday announced the
failure of the firm of Roberts, Hall &
Criss, brokers, with offices at 52 Broad
way. In a general way the failure of
Roberts, Hall & Criss represents
$3,000,000; that of I.athrop, Haskins &
Co., something like $1,000,000, and that
of J. M. Fisk & Co., $2,000,000, or
about $6,000,000.
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REPORT 46 KILLED
CANADIAN PACIFIC PASSENGERS
CRUSHED, EURNED, DROWNED
WHEN TRAIN IS DERAILED.
CARS PLUNGE INTO RIVER
One Coach and Diner Sink in River,
Flames Sweep Other Debris, Deal
ing Death—100 Are Reported In
jured.
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.—Canadian
Pacific train No. 7, west-bound, due
here at. 4:15 Friday evening, when
crossing the bridge at Spanish river,
near Espanola, 140 miles from here,
was thrown from the track, and 46
people killed and about 100 Injured. It
is supposed the derailment was due to
spreading rails.
The accident evidently occurred as
the last cars were going over the
bridge, and the first-class coach and
diner were precipitated to the river
below.
News from the scene of the wreck
Is hard to obtain, the railway com
pany, who control the only telegraph
wire, not allowing much Information
to trickle through. From the crew of
a freight train which arrived here,
however. It Is learned that the dead
are In the cars In the river, and also
in the second-class cars, which were
derailed after crossing the bridge, and
which afterwards caught fire, adding
to the horror of the accident. Eigh
teen are said to have been burned in
the second-class coaches.
It is supposed the engine was safely
across the danger point, and after the
accident took the news to Webwood,
a distance of three miles. A relief
train was at once dispatched from
Sudbury, which Is 42 miles east of the
scene, with physicians and nurses. A
majority of the injured were taken to
Sudbury as scon as possible.
There is a fall of 35 feet to the wa
ter at the place where the accident
occurred, and the ice is very thick, so
that the names of those imprisoned in
the cars will not be learned until the
diver arrives there. A special train
with submarine diving outfit left here
for the scene. The Pullman car did
not go off the track, remaining safely
on the other side of the bridge.
TO INVESTIGATE PACKERS
Grand Jury V/ill Inquire Into Charges
That National Packing Com
pany Is Combine.
Washington.—The government Is
preparing to summon the Chicago beef
trust to the bar of justice.
Criminal prosecution Is contemplat
ed and if the plans do not go astray
some of the men responsible for the
rapidly increased cost of living will be
landed behind the bars.
This information was obtained here
in connection with an announcement
that the attorney general has received
a full report of the investigation
which he recently ordered into the re
lations existing between the National
Packing Company of Chicago and
Swift & Co., Armour & Co. and Morris
& Co., the three concerns which joint- j
ly control the National Packing Com
pany.
Within a couple of weeks, or as soon |
as the details can be arranged, the at- |
torney general will institute a grand
jury proceeding in Chicago, the intent i
of which is to ascertain whether or i
not the National Packing Company is j
a combination in restraint of trade un
der the Sherman anti-trust law. Inas- j
much as the grand jury proceedings
are only resorted to where criminal j
proceedings are contemplated, the in
ference is plain, though Mr. Wicker
sham will make no statement that his
hope is to land somebody in jail.
That the beef trust is alarmed over
the outlook is also evident, because it
is known that agents of the trust
learned that a report on its operations
had been received here in advance of
the information being made public. It
was the fact that the trust had got
hold of this information that brought !
out the story of the contemplated pro
ceedings.
Tom Taggart Wounded.
Natchez, Miss.—Thomas Taggart of
Indianapolis, Ind., national Democratic
committeeman for that state and for
mer national Democratic chairman,
was accidentally shot while hunting
quail near here by his private secre
tary, Harry Norton. Birdshot from
Norton’s gun struck Mr. Taggart in
the face and his right shoulder. He
was brought here and was taken to
Indianapolis for medical treatment.
The wounds are not fatal.
Nelson Knocks Out Lang.
'Memphis, Tenn.—Battling Nelson
celebrated probably his last appear
ance in public prior to meeting Ad
Wolgast in California next month by
delivering a knockout to Eddie Lang,
the Chicago lightweight, Friday nigh|
in the Memphis Athletic club's new
arena.
Theresa O, and there is a Mine. O in
Paris, who is well-known as the pro
prietor of a popular cafe
An amusing incident is recounted in
connection with the impressment into
the military service of the son of one
of the members of the O family. The
young man could not write, and so
signed his name on the military pa
pers with a cross, it not occurring to
him or to any of the officials how
easily he couid have written his name
NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES. |
Items of Interest Taken From Hers
and There Over the State.
The late farmers’ institute at Fair
bury was the best held for years.
The doctors of Norfolk will hereaf
ter charge ministers the same rates
as others.
I The Custer county courthouse was
[destroyed by fire. How the conflagra
tion originated is a mystery.
Sheriff Churnside of Jefferson coun
ty returned from Ainsworth with Joe
A. Smith, who is wanted on the charge
of forgery.
R. A. Wallis, a nephew of C. O.
.Whedon, was found dead in bed at
Lincoln. Death is supposed to have
been due to heart disease.
Burglars entered the hardware store
of Babcock Brothers at Cambridge
and stole knives, razors and silver
ware. The thieves were overhauled
at McCook.
Lafe Baker, residing in the south
eastern portion of Nebraska City, was
held up by two masked men, but he
fought them off and escaped without
the loss of any of the fund which he
had on his person.
The funeral of Louico Hunter, who
was burned to death at Eycheta. Wyo.,
in an ineffectual attempt to save the
life of his infant son, was held at the
Methodist church Nickerson, his for
mer home.
The Dannebrog Co-Operative
Creamery association reports a pros
perous year for its business during
1909. It made and marketed $41,000
worth of butter.
The annual oratorical contest of
Hastings college was won by Will Re
ney. who recently obtained a Cecil
Rhodes scholarship in state competit
ive examination. Decision for second
place was in favor of Miss Lois
Owens.
The mortgage record for York
county for the year 1909 shows that
there were 109 farm mortgages
amounting to $5:14,963.11 filed. Farm
mortgages released 208, amounting to
$399,107.36. City property, 187 mort
gages, amounting to $198,625.17.
Many of the farmers about Danne
brog are wondering when they will
get their corn husked. Because of the I
early winter many are but just in the |
beginning of the husking. Some farm
ers have as much as fifty to one
hundred acres of corn still unhusked.
The board of count}’ commissioners
of Johnson county has made an es
timate that it will require $67,700 to
meet the expenses of the county the
coming year. Of this amount, $16,000
is to be spent to keep up the roads
and $18,500 to maintain the bridges.
The State Board of Agriculture
elected the following officers: O. P.
Hendershot of Hebron, president; I.
W. Haws of Minden, vice president;
Charles McLeod of Stanton, second
vice president; George F. Dickman of
Seward, treasurer; W. R. Mellor,
secretary.
Such a thing a3 cattle freezing or
starving to death in the region around
Verdon is almost unknown, yet ten
head in the Cornell herd in the pas
ture near that place have died from
starvation. The cattje were left to
pick for themselves, which was im
possible, owing to the deep show.
Contracts for the construction of
the new addition to the Hasting’s asy
lum were let by the Board of Public
Lands and Buildings. Ernest Rokher
of Lincoln secured the main contract
for $38,862. L. W. Pomerine of Lin
coln was given the contract for the
plumbing and heating for $8,695.
James C. Purdy and Mrs. Nancy J.
Lane, who, with two of the Lane chil
dren. arrived in McCook December 5
from Denver and have since been liv
ing there as man and wife, were
traced by William H. Lane, the in
jured husband, and both are now in
the Red Willow county jail awaiting
trial in the district court.
Mike Riley, who escaped from the
constable in McCook some time ago,
was recaptured in Benkelman and tak
en before Justice S. R. Smith of In
dianola on the charge of selling
whisky without ilicense. Judge Smith,
ifter due consideration of the law and
the evidence, bound him over to the
district court.
W. F. Bailey, secretary of the Kear
ney Commercial club, has received
information from L. W. Page, director
of the good roads department of the
agricultural bureau, that he will send
an engineer to that city to make sug
gestions as to what method is the
most adaptable in improving certain
roads.
Judge Graves ofUhe Eighth Judicial
district has made up the following
circuit calendar for the different coun
ties for 1910: Cuming, January 31,
September 12; Dakota, February 14,
September 26; Stanton, March 7, Oc
tober 10; Cedar, March 14. November
7; Dixon, March 28, November 28;
Thurston, April 11, October 17.
H. F. Hooper, superintendent of the
Blue Hill public schools, has secured
the controlling interest in the Logan
County Abstract and Loan company
of Guthrie, Okla. He will leave Blue
Hill immediately after the close of
the school year to take up the duties
of secretary-treasurer of the com
pany.
A state association of county fair
associations was organized at Lincoln
with the following officers: a. W. Her
vey of Omaha, president; L. H. Che
ney of Frontier county, vice president;
W. H. Smith of Seward, secretary and
treasurer.
A misfortune has come to Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur Patten, living near
Charleston, York county. Some months
ago Mrs. Patten lost her mind, but
was harmless, and was kept at Lome
under treatment. Through worry over
the condition of his wife Mr. Patten
became insane, and both of them were
brought before the board of insanity.
DEATH III A MEGA
OCCURS ON "SOO” BRANCH OF
CANADIAN PACIFIC.
FOUR GARS GO IN IRE RIVER
Some Passengers Drowned, Some
Burned, and Others Crushed by
Splintered Timbers.
North Bay, Ont.—Death in its most
terrible forms blotted out the lives
of at least a score and perhaps two
score people Friday, when four cars
of a Canadian Pacific passenger train
on the Soo branch leaped from the
track and, tearing down a steep em
bankment, plunged through the ice
into the Spanish river.
Some were drowned, others were
burned almost within hand reach of
rescue, while others were crushed by
timbers.
The number of dead and injured
was still uncertain at a late hour at
night, as telegraphic communication,
was not established to the scene of
the wreck. According to stories told
by injured passengers brought to Sud
bury, it W'as one of the worst catas
trophes in the history of Canadian
railroads.
The train wrecked was enroute
from Montreal to Sault Ste. Marie and
Minneapolis. An official statement
says the accident was probably due to
a broken rail.
The engine, baggage, express and
mail car and one second-class coach
remained on the rails, while one
second-class, one first-class, a diner
and sleeper went down the embank
ment. The first-class car and diner
went into the river. The sleeper and
second-class car stopped on the em
bankment, the second-class car catch
ing fire.
The wreck occurred about thirty
seven miles west of Sudbury, where
the tracks cut into the side of a steep
hill, which is shortened by the river.
The forward part of the train passed
over the break, whatever it was, in
safety. The day coach, which was
the fourth from the end of the train,
was the first to leave the rails.
The train was running at the rate
of about forty miles an hour and the
momentum carried the car down the
hill in a terrific plunge. About twenty
five passengers were in this car and It
is practically certain that none es
caped.
Two minutes after the first crash
only the roof of the day coach showed
above the floating ice in the river.
The second-class car smashed against
the end of a culvert and was crushed
like an egg shell. Some of the pas
sengers Were killed outright, but oth
ers, caught in the wreckage, which al
most immediately broke into flames,
were roasted to death before they
could be rescued.
The stanch construction of the din
ing car saved its occupants. It fol
lowed the day coach to the very brink
of the river, but everyone on board
escaped without serious injury. The
sleeper turned over on its side on the
embankment. There were several
members of the train crew in the
sleeper at the time and they escaped
with slight injuries.
North Bay, Ont.—Railroad men who
arrived here shortly after midnight
state that at least forty persons were
killed in the wreck.
Iowa Rates Reduced.
■Washington.—Railroad freight rates
between Mississippi river crossings
and Ottumwa, la., are declared by the
Interstate Commerce commission to
be unreasonable and excessive. In an
order issued by the commission Thurs
day in the case of the Ottumwa Com
mercial association against the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quicy railroad, the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific and
Wabash railroads, the rates on first
class freight were reduced from 61
cents to 56 cents a hundred pounds.
Blanket Ballot Bill.
Springfield, 111. — While Governor
Charles S. Deneen refused to commit
himself several of his friends said
that the governor would veto any pri
mary election bill that might pass
both houses of the legislature, carry
ing the blanket ballot provision.
Thanks General Bell.
Washington.—Tribute to General J.
Franklin Bell, chief of staff of the
army, was paid by the house commit
tee on military affairs when it passed
a vote of thanks for Gec€ial Bell’s
“Uniformly frank, manly and honest
treatment” accorded that body.
Kansas City Joins Meat War.
Kansas City.—Seven hundred re
cruits were added to the ranks of the
small army that has waged a war for
lower priced meat here by agreeing
to eschew it for a month. Every mem
ber of the carpenters’ union No. 4,
the largest labor organization here,
signed the pledge.
Tom Taggart Shot.
Natchez. Miss.—Thomas Taggart,
democratic national committeeman
for Indiana, was accidentally shot
while hunting with his private secre
tary. Harry Horton, near Fayette, in
Jefferson county, Friday. Forty-two
bird shot struck Mr. Taggart in the
face, right shoulder and chest, and
as a result, besides other injuries, it
la feared that the sight of one eye
will be destroyed. Horton tired when
a bevy of birds was flushed, the
charge striking hi3 companion, who
was in the heavy underbrush.
