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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (July 17, 1902)
New NVuHhiiitr Machine. The washing machine shown in tin Illustration seems to have the faculty > f cleaning the clothes without sub jecting them to the harsh treatment jjsual in an apparatus of this charac ter , as the pounders aro so attached to ihe operating shaft as to yield readily fcrhen any large mass of clothing is fciicountercel , instead of forcing their way through the pile and , perhaps , tearing the garments. The plungers which carry the pounder heads are tonnected with the actuating shaft by Curved springs , instead of being joined tigidly , and are thus disposed to yield under pressure when the obstruction i WASHING too great for them to force into tlij Buds. The inner surface of the tub is jovered with corrugated metal , so s'nap. f-d that the plunder h itls come iu' contact with the frout edge tirsi anO Scrub the clothes clown the Iiiclint.1 ! turfacc un'il the bottom is reached. ! | will thus be seen that the rotation < ! Ihe actuating shaft by ihe crank wheel -will subject the wash to practically tlu same motion that it would receive i * scrubbed by hand over a board. Th ? machine Is conveniently shaped ff > \ handliujr the washing and Its weiirht J ; aot much greater tlmji that of the or flinary tubs used on washday. Th $ Inventor is II. A. Robliison of Porl Huron , Mich. Chocolate Cream Peppermint Wafers , Use the r idy-made peppermint wa fers , not cr. stallized , to be found ii ] almost JIPV candy store. Melt down a cake of "Medallion" full vanilla , sweet chocolate. As soon as the choco late becomes soft but not thin , dip oj roll the.plain peppermint wafers in it , I tme at a time , with a t'.irco-tined steel fork ; drop them in regular rows across j a sheet of buttered manila paper 01' ' wax paper and set them in a cool room to dry and harden. The othei' I wafers of the cream sort , wiutergreen. ; maple , coffee and the like , may bf treated in like manner. i Stewed Rhubarb. Wash the rhubarb , peel it and cut j into pieces one inch long. Rhubarb j should always be cooked in a double j boiler. Put in two tablespooufuls of cold water and one quart of cut rhu barb. Lot this cook until the rhubarb Is soft , and sweeten to taste. Some j : persons do not like the full flavor of | the rhubarb , and add two cupfuls of Tvater to render it less sharp. When this is done more sugar should ba added. ! Tomatoes Stuffed with Meat. Plunge ten tomatoes into boiling wa ter for an Instant , peel off the skin an < J ! let tiiein get cold. Cut the tops off an < 3' scoop out the inside , which put into j i the chopping bowl with a cup of col < | meat and. one-half a cup of bread crumbs. Chop all together , add sail and pepper , and lill the tomatoesvitlj' this mixture. Put a small piece ol butter on the top and put them intq the oven to get hot. Serve on slices oj toast Browned Potatoes. Boll and mash a quart of potatoes , aioisten with boiled milk. Beat sep \ arately the white and yolk of an egg ; . add the yolk to the potato , and a little fealt Whisk the white to a froth and add , just before putting in the oven. j Put the mixture in a large soup plate , © lid bake fifteen minutes ; serve as sooo | as taken from the oven. Lemon Pnddiiijj. - To three pints boiling milk add one , tablespoon cornstarch dissolved in cold milk , the juice and grated rind of two lemons , three tablespoons sugar and a lump of butter. Stir contsautly ti'J thick , remove from fire , add four well- beaten eggs. Turn into molds. Serve Ice cold with cream and sugar. Notes for Housewives. . Ripe tomatoes will remove ink and bther stains from white cloth ; alsq from the hands. For burns , equal parts of white ot 4gg and olive oil will prevent blister ? If applied at once. Children will relish the morning cereal that contains dates , figs or eveu prunes as a relief from its sameness. To clarify sugar break It into a cop per pan and to each pound allow two gills of water. Place on the stove and gradually allow It to boil. Carefully remove the scum as it rises , now throw In an additional half pint of water and allow It to boil again. Skim very' i thoroughly and strain through muslin. J ] Silk pocket handkerchiefs should boi j washed by themselves. Put ihern to' ' soak in cold water for an hour or two , j I afterward washing them , soaping them , QS they are washed. Wu..h a second ! time , If necessary. Then rinse in cold loft water containing a handful of salt , ! tnd rinse again in water containing a . Uttle bluJnjz. { A GREAT DISASTER WORKMAN TRAPPED IN A PENN SYLVANIA COAL MINE. NUMBER OP DEAD UNKRDWN EXPLOSION OF GAS BRINGS GRIEF .TO JOHNSTOWN. RESCUERS ARE DRIVEN BACK Those Who Excape Too Much Excited to T 11 How it Happened Explosion TV recked Masonry. Johnstown , Pa. , July 11. Nearly two hundred men , it is thought were killer ! or injured Thursday in an explosion in the Cambria Steel company's rolling mill coal mine under West Mont hill at noon. How many are dead it will take several days to determine. It was nearly an hour after the explosion before any general knowledge of what had hap pened got abroad. Men who came from the mines , escaping with their lives , told the news and it spread like wildfire all over the city. Mothers , wives , daughters , sons and relatives were frantic with grief. No one was permitted to enter the mine from which noxious gases were escaping. It was nearly four o'clock when all hope of sending rescue ' par ties-from the West Mont opening was abandoned. Eichard Bennett ! and John Meyers , who escaped from the mines , wentback two miles to see what assistance could be render ! ed but the dam drove them back ! and they fell prostrate when they reached the outside. It was clear that rescue work could not proceed from the West Mont opening and hasty preparations were made to' rescue the imprisoned men at the Mill creek entrance. Soon alter the news of the explo sion reached the Cambria officials Mining Engineer Marshall G. Moore and one of his assistants , Al G. Pros- ser , made an attempt to enter the mine. They were followed by mine Superintendent George T. Robinson , but the gases compelled them to return to the surface. Mine Foreman Harry Rodgers , his assistant William Blanch and Fire Bosses J'lhn Iletallick and John Thomas were overcom0 by the gases and it is feared they perished in an heroic effort to rescue the miners. A sou of Harry Rodgers then tried to reach his father , but he was quickly overcome by the deadly gases and was carried out unconscious. William Stibich spent several hours at the Mill Creek opening. He said that he believed as many as 450 men were still in the mine. In his opin ion , from all he could glean , not to exceed 150 men had come out. About a score of American miners who were at work in the Klondike district noticed the presence of the fire damp in their apartments soon after the explosion occured and started atonce for tbe main en trance. They were almost overcome with gas. One of the men said it ir known what caused the explosion. He said that a few days ago the ollicials issued an order to the em ployes in the mine not to play with the gas but that tbe nest day a young Hungarian was seen pushing his naked lamp along the roof of the mine in search of it. Canvas screens are being used to wall all the side entrances and rooms , so as to force a direct current of pure air ahead of the rescuers. Engineer A. G. Prosser who with Mr. Moore entered the mine at the main opening , came to the surface at Mill creek and immediately set about securing men and material to aid in the rescue. Several miners who were working near the scene of the explosion reached the surface and say that they saw the bodies of at least fifty men. The men who came out were for eigners and were so excited that they could not tell a connected story. The mine has been open for about fifty years , and is producing three thousand ton per day. The mining officials of the Cambria com pany stated the explosion was one of Ore damp. Outside of the "Klon dike" the mines are safe and unin jured. Within the fatal mine walls of masonry three feet through were torn down , the roofs of the mine were demolished and not a donr remains standing. Miners who left the minft by way of the Mill Creek entrance brought horrible stories of crawling over the dead bodies of their comrades. Salt Creek Claims Victim. Waverly , Neb. , July 10. ( Special. ) Clarence Auchmuly , son of Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Auchmuly of this place , was bathing witb a number of com- rades in the valley flooded by salt creek. He waded out until well in the current which carried his feet from under him. He could not swim and went down five times. Aid was se cured by two comrades , but owing to the swift current and being compelled to swim against it they were tired out fwben they reached him. DAY OF FESCUE AT MINE THRILLING EXPERIENCE AT THE JOHNSTOWN MINE. Johnstown , Pa. . July 12 Frida ) nas IJCKII a day of rescues at the fated Eolling Mill mine of the Cam bria Steel company. Thrilling ex periences attended the efforts of the forty daring fellows who went down into the mine with the faint hope they might be in time to restore to life some of the entombed men. They saved the lives of fourteen men by bringing them again into the sunlight. Many dead bodies were found but they were Jeft in the theatre of death until every living persoa had been rescued. That doue , the dead were brought up and exposed to the morbid gaze of the people on the way to the morgue. Eighty-seven dead bodies were recovered from the mine between daylight and night fall. Occasionally word would come to the surface by some mysterious means that another heap of remains had been exposed to the vision of the searchers , three miles inside the mine. Dangerous headings in the KlondikesecMon yet remain unex plored. Many more dead may be found there. It is thought that 150 is a low es timate of the casualty list. Johns town spend the day horror-stricken. From dawn to dusk flying ambJ- lances coursed the streets bearing grewsome burdens from mine to morgue ; frnm moigue to homes. Great throngs surged about the pit mouth , the improvised morgue at the armory and about the homes of the dead. Bulletin boards were eagerly scanned for news fiom the scene of the disaster. Exaggerated. rumors of all kinds prevailed. It is difficult to picture with any dergee approaching its full worth the work of rescue and the attending scenes and incidents of the day at the center of interest ; . Along in t'ie ' early part of the afternoon cheering word came fro tn the innermost recesses of thexrnine that life yeb lingered in some of the bodies. The rescuers made first for No. 4 left heading which they had been unable to reach the nighc be " fore. Desolite even for the scene of a mine interior was the heading that stretched out before them. Suddenly in an open space they were startled by the mad laughter of a blackened form that rushed at them out of the darkness. The man giasped tirmly a pick lundle and tried in his frenzy to beat down his rescuers. He was overpowered and dragged bai-k to the main heading to the cars. Thirteen other living men were found in this chamber. At 3 p. m. the traiu of mine rari came to the pic mouth where wait ing ambulances stood. Ei ht men were lifted over the sides of the curs and half carried , they wended their way to the ambulances. They were all Poles. As the men were driven hurriedly to the Cambria hospital , the train of coal cars with the physi- cans le-entered the mine. In an other half hour they came out again , this time with six living but ; almost dead miners. One man had lockjaw. At that time three more head' ings , believed to be filled with tha dead , were unsearchcd. Thirty- nine bodies were lying within reacl'i in the main heading. These were brough out at 4:35 p. m. Their bodies were piled high in the coal cars and covered with canvas. These 'remains were in a terrible state , showing that there had been slow death in each case. One oj the men had his mouth and nose tied about by a towel. The rest of 'his face was turned beyond recog- niton. The boides of all were twist ed in horrible shapes , most of the arms being crooked so as to shield the face. The only one who could be iudentified at the pit mouth was Fire Boss Joseph Tomlinson. One of the volunteer rescuers who came out with this load of dead ji stated that fire was raging in parte of the mine that would take some time to quell. Most of those who were brought out alive this after noon had saved themselves by crawl ing into a chamber and turning a .valve on the compressed air pipe line which runs along the entry. One man was found dead with his hands clutched so tightly about a monkey wrench that it could not be re moved. 'l It was at 5:55 : a. m. when the first train l load of victims was brought to the mouth o * the main entry. Forty-nine carsere used. In bringing out forty-six dt-ud b odies Fire Destroyed a Vi Appleton , Wis. , July J : ! , The vil lage of Bear Creek , thirty miles north , west of this city , was destroyed by fire today. A dozen stores , thepostoffice , . Chicago & Northwestern depot and a lumber mill had been destroyed by : noon , and the fire was still raging. The , tire begn at 4 o'clock this afternoon. in a millinery store. The loss may reach $100,030. The residents fought' the fire with buckets. FiRE AND FLOOD BEATRICE LOSSES REACH QUAR TER OF A MILLION. SAVED BY HEROIC EFFORTS FOB A TIME IT SEEIMKD THE CITY WAS DOOMED WITHOUT FIRE PROTECTION eader Found in the CrisisVIio Formed Bucket IJrlgMrte l-'luod That Surrounds City I Beatrice , Neb. , July 11 Fire and Hoods formed a combination of ele ments which has severely tested the physical and mental sirength of the people of Beatrice Che past twenty- four hours , and that there have been seen in that time many historical people would excite no wonder if a full view of the situation could be presented. Losses aggregating fully one quarter of a million dollars Lave been sustained by the people of Be atrice , ana that the fire which started early Thursday morning did not lay waste the entire business section was purely providential For over forty hours the city had been completely shut olT from the outside wot Id as far as railroad com munication goes. The Blue river is a minature lake for miles , and though no rain has fallen in this section for forty-eight hours the floods steadily continued to rase yesterday and last night un til the water at 10 o'clock this morning had reached seventeen inches higher than it was ever before seen here. All night gangs of men were busy taking people out in boats , and as the city was in total darkness some of the scenes depicted were thrilling to a degree. A regular systematic boat patrol was established and as the river was rising everywhere with swift cur rent , it is wonderful that no lives were lost. Sensational stories of railroad dam age repeatedly came in but the truth was bad enough. Up to noon yes terday railroad traffic through here was uninterrupted , the various roads u5ng the lines here as an avenue for trains from other divisions here there was trouble but since then everything has been tied up This evening an extra work train on the Rock Island , which was en deavoring to back in to Beatrice fromvtbe east , lost four cars of meat and provisions near the Bear creek crossing. The track slid out from under the cars which fell over in the water. They remained coupled , and the train is being held there. The butchers of Beatrice depend largely on the packing houses and the meat supply is nearly exhausted. Tonight the water is rapidly fall ing and as it does a scene devasta tion is revealed vhich is appaling. The damage to property owners in and around Beatrice will reach fully une hundred thousand dollars , while the city and county loose heavily in washed out and Damaged bridges. "Railroad men say the damage to tracks is almost beyond belief. Some idea of the extent of the water can be gained when it is known that the river was n.'arl > one mile wide on Court street. Where this im mense volume of water came from is puzzling. > The nervous tension experienced by Beatrice people because of the flood was quickly heightened when at 2 o'clock this morning a signal of fire was given. With the waterwoiks shut down evr.ry one stood aghast at the situa tion. The h're which was of un doubted incendiary origin , began in nearly the heart of the business sec tion. It was not believed by anyone within view of the flames that any power around could stay the blaze , and the stoutest hearted quailed as appeal after appeal was. made for assistance. Help was at hand in Lincoln , the authorites soon found out , but there was no possible way of transportation. The situation * was one which the people of Beatrice hope never to have to face again. From the Green block , where the fire started , which went down with ' in thirty minutes , it quickly eat its way into the big department store of the Klein Merchantile company. The heat became intense and soon all the windows in the three story Masonic temple building across the street on the west side were ablaze. Killed Two Medicine Men. Davenport , la. , July 11. Mate Dan Green of the steamer Dubuque , today shot and killed Christopher Leonidas and his son , ! on haired medicine men from Central City. Col. Green says the men boarded bis boat at Rock Island , 111. , heavily armed , and attempted to take pos session when in frout uf Davenport. The coroners jupy az uitted Green on the ground of self-defense and he was released. NOW IN FULL BLAST N. E.A-AT MINNEAPOLIS PUTS IN A BUSY DAY TALK ABOUT NEW OFFICERS ELIOT OF HAKVAICD Sl'OKEN OF k'OJt , PRESIDENT. EDUCATION OF THF INDIANS J. A. Foilny Los Ange leg is Another Can didate evcrul Cities Want tbe Next Association Meeting. Minneapolis , Minn. , July 9. Fifteen thousand delegates to the national educational association's convention have already arrived in tbe flour citj. The meeting Monday and Tuesday were confined to the national council , the Indian depart ment and the general sessions. Wednesday the detail work began. The speakers of th e convention are men of reputation , including poli ticians , inventors , publishers , church men and educators. This afternoon was given over entirely fo the gener al session at the exposition building. Wallace G. Nye of Minneapolis in troduced W. C. Martiudale of De- , troit , Mich. , as chairman of the meeting. Governor S. R. Van Sant welcomed the assocation to the state of which he is the offl'-ial head. J. W. Olsen , state superintendent of public instruction delivered an ad dress of welcome in behalf of the ed ucational department of the state. Acting Mayor D. P. Jones welcomed the delegates to Minneapolis and ex tended the freedom of the city. ' Superintendent of the Minneapolis public schools , Charles M. Jordan , spoke of the systom of public educa tion which is offered by the state and city. Dr. Cyrus Northrop , president of the university of Min nesota also spoke wordsof welcome. ; Superintendent James A. Foshap of the city schools of Los Angeles , Gal. , ; Dr. Theo. B. Noss , principal 'of the state normal school of Cali fornia , and President Joseph Swain ( of Indiana university responded to the welcoming addresses for their respective sections of the country. . President Beardshear has been : taken to the hospital , suffering from an attack of nervous prostration , and was unable to deliver his ad dress. ) Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler , pres ident of Columbia university spoke on "Some Pressing Problems. " His speech sounded the keynote of the' purpose and the aims of the conven- , tion. of the profession of teaching in general , and was really the address that marked the regular opening jf [ the convention proper. Dr. E. A. Alderman , president of Tulane uni- 1 ' versity , New Orleans , also spoke at length. ' Shoots Mother and Sister- Boston , Mass. , July 8 Herbert Hi 11 today shou and killed his sister , Alice , at her home in Roxbury and then turned the revolver on his mother who 1 had come into the room to protect the .daughter , inflicting probably fatal in- 'juries. Hill escaped. Hill ran wildly through the streets of Dorchester towards Franklin park today and disappeared among the ' trees , and a few moments later those who had seen the fleeing man learned t that he was Herbert Hill , of Roxbury , and that he had just shot and killed I his married sis er and had wounded his mother so seriously that she prob ably would die Then the police came ! along-the man's trail and entered the ' park in the hope of capturing the mur- derer. It is said that Hill , who is twenty-one years of age , is demented. The police feared that the young man , would hide himself and commit suicide. The murdered woman. Mrs. Alice Riley , was instantly killed. The ! mother , Mrs. Armelia Hill , has a bad ( wound ai the back of the head inflictj j ed apparently , with the butt of a re-1 volver. Her condition is considered Critical. Lieutenant Kills Himself. ' Washington , July 9. The war de- , partmentis advised that Lieutenant ! Charles R. Barnett , quartermaster's department , committed suicide July 5 by jumping from a fire escape on the fourth story of a sanitarium at Battle Creek , Mich. Two Vessels Much Overdue. San Francisco , July 9. Two more coal laden vessels have been added to the overdue list. The British ship Cumberland is now out forty-eight days from Newcastle , Australia , for Taltal and 25 per cent is being paid on It by tne underwriters. On th < - Brit ish bark Earlscourt , now out seventy- ' three days from Newcastlei for Valpa raiso , 15 per cent is bei no : paid. The j rate on the French bark Breun has rrl- yanced to 30 per cent. It Is out 183 days. < NEBRASKA MOTES- Tne potato crop promises to KMT very heavy one. Citizens of Omaha have subevrlMk $75,000 for an orphans' home. ( Walter C. Ray , for three year * pa * . Usher of the Burchard Times , has MM- that paper to L 1. Noble , of Llaoobi * Ladies of the Pr-sbyterian at Nebraska City have purchased sUb * pipe organ. A quartermaster's storehouse , . ing $75,000 , will be built bj Uae department at Omaha. It is claimed that Mrs. Albert Vaught , living near Geneva , gare hfrcM to a twenty-six pound baby recenlljs The mother died soon afterward. Al Wilonwasaccidentially drowue * in a pool of water eighteen miles from. Red Cloud. He was a wealthy fanner and about 40 years of age A charter was issued to the Lancet Building and Loan Company of Laur l Cedar county. The company is capi talized for $100,000. A twenty-year franchise to operate- a telephone line in Beatrice has beet granted by the city council to tb Montague Investment company ot Kansas City. of Conductor Horen A 1-year-old boy was nearly drowned in Indian creek a * Beatrice. He was rescued witb diffi culty by a farmer. Linden Tree , General Colby's faraoi * stallion , died at Beatrice. The horse was nearly 30 years old and was pre sented to General Grant by the sultan of Turkey. The trail of the tramp who brofce into the Chenowiih house near Te- cumseh , and attacked a 15-year-old girl has been lost by the bloodhounds. Rain effaced all traces. While cutting rye Andrew Sorensoa of Axtell , ran the mower over the body of his 4-year-old son and severed the child's arm at the wrist. The arm was amputated and the child will recover. J. Datal , aged 70 , left his home atr North Bend one morning and later hla clothes were found near the bank ot the river. It.is thought hecomrniUed suicide by drowning in the Plattc , a * he had been despondent for sometimes MikeMahoney , a farmer living south , of Falls City , was shot by his hired man. They quarreled and Mabonej reached for a rock. As he did so th hired man shot him in the side of tht ncse. The ball came out through tbe mouth. The condition of the 10 year-old so * of Mont Evans , of Decater , has beconm serious and fatal resu ts of his accident are feared He was thrown from his- mount in the mule race at the Fourth of July celebration and badly trampled. The molders in the King drill worfca at Nebraska City , have struck because the company would not furnish them with the helpers they desire. The company offered to confer with the tea strikers and it is probable a compro * 1mise will be reached. During a severe electrical storm lightning struck the barn of Henry Borman , near Portal , killing his most valuable ho.se and shattering the barn. Some members of his family were in the barn at the time , but es caped without injury. The death of H. C. Russell , post master at S'chyler , leaving vacant tns position , his bondsmen have appointed Mrs. Russell to occupy the posiUoa until the expiration of the term , Julj 1903 , or until some one of the now many aspirants seeking tne place ceed in securing it. For the fourth time within tbe month the Pappio is above its banks and the town of Pappillion is flooded. The recent heavy rains caused the river to reach the highest point it has. been at for several years. Water to the depth of three feet flowed through the street and the people of the sooth side of the stream could scarcely get across to the other side. William K'ine , of Alliance , Is suffer- ing from a fractured skull which ma ? cause his death. The injury was caused by George Erb , a 16-year-old boy. Erb had some trouble with Klin * and told his father about it. The two went to confer with Kline and a quar-- rel ensued , the latter attacking tna elder Erb. The son seized a tamping * iron and struck Kline a heavy blow on the head. Deputy Oil Inspector , H. Glasgow , , has been asked to resign bis office by State Inspector Hayes , who will ap point E. A. Church of Lincoln , as hii successor. Glasgow will resist the ac tion. It is charged that the deputy inspects the oil of the small town mer- 'caaalsou .Vie traiu , the merchant bringing a bottle of oil to bis coach to * enai'e him to pass their entire without leaving his car.
