Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, August 13, 1908, Image 7
if .Spectacular Elevator BInze Causes Loss of Over One Million Dollars. JDEPASTMENT IN HARD FIGHT. 5lugo Grain Storehouses Are De stroyed and Fire Boat Is Sunk. One of the fiercest and most spectac ular fires that has raged in Chicago in jyeair , which left a property loss of rl"iS.OOO in its wake and threatened a repetition of the conflagration of 1871. starlod Monday afternoon in the dock jrhthoiise of ihe Chicago , Burlington Quincy Railroad at 10th street and the rivor. Two grain elevators , hr.n- -drcds of thousands of bushels of grain , ii freight depol , fifty freight cars and a number of buildings and sheds were de stroyed. During the height of the blaze hnn- dreds of burning boards and shingles were carried on the breast of a strong southwest wind , and toe situation be came so critical at one time that Fire Marshal Horan prophesied a general conflagration throughout the city , if the fire crossed the river. Desperate work by the firemen kept the flames from spreading. So intense was the heat at one time sthat the firemen could not approach Temperature Rises tc 90.4 Degrees , Highest Since July 21 , 1901. A heat wave that killed , prostrated , sickened , crazed and Irritated struck Chicago Monday. The thermometer reached 9G.4 degrees. There was only one place in the United States warmer than Chicago , and that was Kansas City , Mo. The federal thermometer there registered 98 degrees as its high mark , but even with this rc'cord it is not certain that different wind and hu midity conditions may not have made the Missouri city much more endurable than Chicago. The odd part of it all was that tliare was a wind of from twenty to twenty-five miles an hour most of the day. Not since July 21 , .1901 , has Chicago had a higher ther mometer. On that date the mark show ed 103 degrees. ATITO BRAKES SNAP AND 5 DEB. Eugo Tonneau Plunges Down Em bankment , Killing Occupants. The second disastrous automobile ac cident within forty-eight hours , involv ing prominent San Francisco people , occurred Monday afternoon near Bur- llngame , the fashionable suburb of the city , when a huge tonncau occupied by five women and two children plunged down a steep embankment as the re sult of the snapping of the brakes and caused the death of five of the occu pants and Injury to two others. Coming down a steep grade near Crystal Lake , Miss Ethel McCormick , who was at the wheel , endeavored to check the speed of the car by applying the foot brake. It failed to hold the au tomobile , and she hastily threw on tha emergency brakes. They snapped. Then the young woman endeavored to steer the car against the high bank on the right. The front wheel , however , struck a large rock , and the next uic- IT WAS DULY'A DEEA2T. Indianapolis News. within half a block of the Ilames und the paint on the boat Chicago , which was nearest to the scene , was scorched In several places. The grain stored in the elevators was attacked by fire on every side and its destruction gave ad ditional alarm to members of the board of trade , who are exercised over a Threatened crop shortage. AVall Sinks Fire Tugr. The ? Utl lifeboat Illinois , the pride of the Chicago fire department , was .sent to the bottom of the river at 8:30 : a. m. Tuesday us the spectacular cul- Tniuation of the disastrous blaze of the < 3ay before. The fireboat was sunk by the collapse of the east wall of eleva tor F , near IGth street and the river , aud a number of firemen were slightly Injured and narrowly escaped death by -drowning when the crash came without anything to indicate that danger was near. Two engineers and four stokers , tn- r-jrether with Capt. Lyons , were on board -the boat and were rescued with diflicul- -ty. A pipeman. who was standing on -tho docks , was knocked senseless by a hnil of Hying debris and was severely cut on the head. The boat , valued at $200.000 received -the full force of the terrific crash and was crushed in by the falling wall. The engine room and the fire-fighting ma chinery were reduced to a tangled mass of steel and the craft sank immediate ly. Automatic Trnln.stop "Wanted. Sivrotary Borland of the Signal and "Train Control Board of the Interstate ' Commerce Commission says it will be -worth $1,000,000 to the person who invents - vents an automatic train stop to be re lied upon and which can be installed at a Teas-enable cost. After going over the plans of many inventors , the board has v > found none altogether acceptable , but it if'/ -was d"fided to give a trial to the Rowell- Potter system on the Burlington road over a period of several months. ? SO\T Ilevfiiie Rules Enjoined. Thomson in the Federal Circuit Court at Cincinnati , granted a temporary 3ijunrtion to stop the enforcement of the now internal revenue rules against the local distillers. He holds that the system of branding which has prevailed for many years has not been abrogated liy the new pure food law , and that the marking of certain products "spirits" and -.others "alcohol" is still lawful , though .contrary to the new rules of the depart- in cut the car plunged down the stsep embankment , thirty-five feet below. Mrs. McCormick was the wife of Thomas McCormick , president of the McCormick Iron Works of San Francis co , and Mrs. O'Brien's husband is the proprietor of the Keystone Manufac turing Works. Saturday afternoon Mrs. Frederick Marrott , the wife of a prominent San Francisco publisher , and James D. Gilbert were killed in a simi lar accident. At Ilutchiuson , Kan. , Judge George A. Vanderveer , candidate for the Re publican nomination for Judge of the Ninth Judicial District was killed wlien a Rock Island train struck the automo bile in which he was finishing his cam paign. The three-mile open professional bicy cle record was broken at Salt Lake City by F. A. McFarIand , whose time was 5:33. President Roosevelt has sent a con gratulatory message to the American rifle team on its victory at the Olympic shoot at Bisloy. Reports that James R. Keene will ship his stable to England this fall unless the turf situation improves are current in New York. At Latonia , Will Fizer still leads the winning owners with a comfortable mar gin , Pinkola being the nag that is re sponsible for it. Allison Jack , well known throughout tlie Southern States in recent years as an all-around athlete died , from injuries re ceived during the track meet at New Or leans , when he was struck on the head by a thrown hammer. V. Powers has no trouble holding his place at the head of the jockey list at Latonia , and his record shows a winning percentage of 24. Col. Milton Young of Kentucky has decided to sell his famous McGrathiana stud and to dispose of the 700 weanlings , yearlings , mares and stallions now on the place. President Bryce of the Columbus , Ohio , baseball club and one of the founders of the American Association , dropped dead of heart disease in front of 8,000 peopU at the Columbns ball park. HIGHEST CITY HAIL. York to Have a 34-Story Munic ipal Building Costing $7,000,000 The New York board of estimates and Mayor McClellan are now passing final ly on plans for the highest city hall in the world. This rw-story building , t cost $7,000.000 , will stand in the trian gle of Park Row , Center and Duans streets , and tower 559 feet S iuchei TH5 1,1" ! f JTH trrir nm/rrr / imirrr YOKK'SS PROPOSED CITY HALL. above the .sidewalk. It will be twice ag high as the Flatiron and just a few feet shorter than the Singer building. The Ne.v York hall will house prac tically all the city departments and leave 23 floors to be rented by the city as offices. It is expected ihey will bring in $500,000 in rentals annually. French renaissance is the type , with exterior columns. Steel and stone is to be the construction. A peculiar feature of tha building will be that all the rooms will be outside rooms and no interior light court will be needed. New York's municipal skyscraper will differ from the ordinary ones in that it will not depend upon its tower for its gre it height. The height to tha reef of the main structure is to be o-l'l feet. From the roof to the head of the figure on the tower is a distance ofid feet 8 inches. The figure will be 2\ \ feet high and the diameter of the clod ; face is to be 2f > feet. E-ICW TO BE3TOHE- A DHOWWLNG MAIL Hero is a simple and effective way to restore a drowninsr man : The man should be stood on his Load in order that all the water possible be got ten from his lungs. The old method of rolling him on a barrel is not a bad one for the same purpose. Then an effort should be made to in duce artificial respiration. To this cud put the person flat on his back and let some one catch hold of liis arms just be low the elbow. Then raise the arms above the head and bring them down. As they reach the body , press in on the ribs to force out the air gained by lift ing the arms. Keep this up at the rate of IS times a minute. Then try to get die heart to moving by giving a stimulant like liquor or a hypd- dermic injection. Sometimes a slight fluttering of the heart is sufficient to get back life. Get a physician as soon as possible. A delegation of French leather workers IB making a tour of American factories. Hebrew painters and paperliaugers of Boston , Mass. , are reforming their old union. San Francisco ( Cal. ) Building Trades Council has organized an athletic asso- ? iatiou. Carpenters of the City of Mexico have organized a labor union affiliated with the A. F. oC L. More union car men are wearing the union button in Chicago to-day than ever before in the history of the organization. White and negro longshoremen at Xew Orleans , La. , have signed a five-year con tract with the stevedores and steamship agents. A seceding organization from the Broth erhood of Kailroad Employes has taken the name of Brotherhood of Railroad Station Employes. The railway trackmen are planning for the establishment of a home for their aged and indigent members. It is pro posed to acquire a tract of oOO acres near Fort Scott , Kan. , as the location for the institution. St. Paul Typographical Union has de cided to make a label exhibit at the Min nesota State fair , and will ask the Minne apolis union to join with it. Last year the St. Paul men made a label display which was very creditable. In Xew York State a bill which takes from the health boards of the first-class cities the inspection of mercantile estab lishments and places it in the hands of the responsible labor department was passed at the extraordinary session of the Legislature and will go into effect on Oct. 1. The next convention of the Interna tional Brotherhood of Bookbinders will be held during the second week in June , 1910 , at Cedar Itapids. Iowa. Cleveland ( Englandi ironstone miners have decided to press for a 11 ! o'clock Saturday ; that is. that operations shall cease at the mines at 12 xo'clock on Saturdaj's instead of 1 o'clock , but no stoppage of work is likely to result if the masters refuse to make this alteration. There has been no general strike of the Cleveland ironstone miners for more than thirty years. Noted Statesman Succumbs to Ate tack of Heart Failure at His Home in Dubuque. FIGURE IN lOWAZPOUTICAL WAX. JPublic Career Covering More Than Three-Score Years Breaks All Records for Length. United States Senator William B. Allison dropped dead at Dubuque , Iowa , Tuesday of heart failure. The senior senator's decease comes on the eve of his re-election to another term in the upper house , where he had beec a leader for years. His death will per haps throw Iowa politics into a turmoil again. William Boj'd Allison was born in Perry , Ohio , March 2 , 1820. He passed his boyhood days on the farm , securing his preliminary education at the coun try schools , and graduating from the Western Reserve College in his native SEXATOR ALLISON. state. Senator Allison was admitted to the bar in 1S30 and engaged in prac tice at Ashland , Ohio , where he was married in 1S32 to Miss Anna Carter of Wooster , Ohio. He practiced law in Ohio until ISoT , when he moved to Dubuque , Iowa. Here he entered poli tics. Two years after moviug to the I Hawkeye State he was a delegate to j the Republican state convention , i Young Allison represented his con- | gressioual district at the Republican national convention at Chicago in I860. It was iu that year that he was ap pointed a member of the governor's staff and as such engaged in raising troops for the Civil War. He was elected to Congress in 1SG3 , represent ing his district in the lower house at Washington until 1871. He retired to the practice of law in 1871 , but tired of private life and in 1873 made a successful campaign for the United States senatorship from his adopted state. Senator Allison's term in the Senate would have expired the day after his eightieth year. For more than three score years he was actively engaged in public work. He broke all records for mere length oi service. On three occasions he de clined a cabinet portfolio , Presidents Garfield , Harrison and McKiuley each having tendered the place of secretary of the treasury to the distinguished lowan in 1881 , 1880 and 1807 respect ively. He was in public life when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated , and he was a delegate to tha famous convention at Chicago in 1S60 which put Lincoln in nom ination. Passing through the recon struction time and following Grant through all his troubled administra tion , the Iowa senator , almost at the beginning of his career in the senate , began to acquire a reputation as a financier. The local fame of Senator Allison as an expert on monetary matters was ex tended to international confines when in 1892 he was chairman of the Ameri can delegation of the international monetary conference at Brussels. It has been said that Senator Allison and Speaker Cannon know more of the act ual mecbamfem of the American gov ernment than- all the rest of Congress put together. Women After a Lawmaker. Representative Glenn , who recently in troduced into the Georgia Legislature a bill to invalidate a marriage contract bas ed upon false appearances of the woman due to the use of pads , stays , crimps , paints or other artificial devices , hag asked the protection of the State owing to the large number of threatening letters he has received from women in all parts of the country. Ho says he takes it that the allegations must have some truth or the women would not be so angry. Ctilebra Cut XOTF Half Done. The Washington office of the Panama Canal Commission hears that the bis cut for the canal at Culebra is about half completed , a total of near 47,000,000 cubic yards having been excavated. Of this , however , the American workers have dug only 18.445.420 yards. Chairman Goethals has reorganized the canal work BO as to divide the whole into three geographical sections , in each of which the chief has charge of all classes of work. HI 100 William II. of England , son of "Tho Conqueror , " died in England. Horn in Normandy in 105U. 1490 Bartholomew Columbus , brother o" Christopher Columbus , laid the foun dation of San Domingo. 1515 Argentina discovered by the Span iards , and settled by them iu 1553. 1503 The plague appeared in London. I GOO Hudson discovered Cape Cod. IG33 The great Dutch Admiral Yon Tromp killed in an 'engagement near Texel. IG9G Frontenac invaded the Onondaga country. 1701 A general treaty of peace was made with the Indians at Montreal. 1739 Allies defeated the French at bat tle of Mimlen - Crown Point taken from the French by Gen. Amherst. 1790 Date of issue of the first American patent. 1792 Death of Gen. Burgoyne , the Brit ish general who surrendered his army to Gen. Gates at Saratoga. - Gen. Mordecai Gist , Maryland patriot and friend of George Washington , died iu Charleston. Born in Baltimore , 1743. 1797 Sir Jeffrey Ainhorst , the British general to whom Montreal surren dered , died. Born Jan. 29 , 1717. 1S02 Bonaparte declared Consul of France for life. 1S13 Plattsburg , X. Y. , taken by ths British. JSlo Richard Henry Dana , Jr. , author of "Two Years Before the Mast. " born in Cambridge , Mass. Died in Rome Jan. 7 , 1SS2 , IS 19 Herman Melville , writer on South Sea life , born in New York City. Died there Sept. 2S , 1S91. 1821 William Floyd , one of the signers of the American Declaration of Inde pendence , died. 1323 Oliver P. Morton , the war Gov ernor of Indiana , born in Saulsbury , Ind. Died in Indianapolis , Nov. 1 , 1877. .Thomas F. Meagher , who commanded - . manded Idle Irish brigade in the American Civil War , born in Waterford - j ford , Ireland. Died near Fort Benton - ' ton , Mout. , July 1 , 1S07. 1S31 Construction of the new London bridge completed. ' 1S4G President Polk vetoed the river j and harbor bill on the ground thai it was unconstitutional. 1S51 Steamer Pampero left New Or leans carrying a filibustering expedi tion against Cuba. 1S5S Queen Victoria sanctioned Em press of India. 1SG2 The President ordered a draft ol 300,000 men to serve in the army nine months. . . .Victoria , B. C. , in corporated as a city _ .Gen. Halleck ordered Gen. McClellan to evacuate the peninsula of Virginia. 18G4 Pennsylvania adopted a constitu tional amendment allowing soldiers to vote. 1872 King Haakon VII. of Norway born. 1S75 Andrew Johnson , seventeenth President of the United States , died. Born Dec. 29 , 1SOS. 1S7G Senate acquitted Mr. Belknap , Secretary of War , on charge of sell ing official positions. 1SS5 Conviction of Louis Riel , leader oi the rebellion in the Canadian North west. 1899 Sir .Tamos David Edgar , speakei of the Dominion House of Commons , died. Born 3841 1899 Elihu Root succeeded Gen. Alger as Secretary of War of the United States. 1900 Dr. Charles Tanner suspended from the House of Commons. 1903 Charles M. Scnwab resigned the presidency of the United States Steel Corporation and was succeeded by William Ellis Corey. 3904 : Robert E. Pattison , ex-Governor of Pennsylvania , died. Born Dec. 8 , 1S50. 1905 The Japanese captured the Island of Sakhalin. 1907 The Morocco tribesmen attacked Casablanca - Vugustus Saint Gau- dens. sculptor , died. Born Jan. S , 1834. DonkJioliur.s Fifjlit Police. Ten Northwest mounted police made & raid on the Doukhobor compound neai Yorkton. Saskatchewan , to arrest twelve ringleaders of the baud of a hundred con fined there by the government. The en tire Doukhobor band fought fiercely for three hours with cordwood sticks and oth er weapon , but were hammered down. Six mrn : iid six women were sent to the Northern penitentiary. The summer school at the school foi the blind in Faribault. Minn. , has opened. There is an enrollment of fifteen men. The work during the summer is of an industrial nature , such as hammock mak ing , carpet weaving and broom making. This s\\'cs \ the men a self-supporting trade. F. E. Weverbauser , son of Frederick Weyei'hauspr of St. Paul , is now at the head of a big lumber merger being organ ized at St. Louis , with a capital of $300- 000,000 , by 100 dealers of the middle West. Stabbed in the Breast in His Pah ace and Saved from Death by Armor. . CAPTURE WOULD-BE SLAYEB , He Is n Minor Official .and Gel < f Pound on Him Indicates He Had 33een Bribed to Commit Act. Sultan Abdul Hamid of Turkey wa * ptabbed in the breast at Constantinople by a minor palace official. Only th coat of mail which the Sultan alwayfl wears saved his life. This deflected the blow of the would-be assassin's knife , and rendered it practically harmless. The Sultan's assailant was seized at once by the guards whici came at the ruler's call. The Sultan's outcry as he grappled with the man aroused hundreds of pal- nee attaches , and immediately the whole Yildiz Kiosk was in an uproajv Soldiers came clattering in at d form ed a strong guard around Abdul's pri vate apartments. The commotion was unusual , even for the palace , which has been the scene of so many tragedies arising rrom attempts and fancied at > tempts against the Sultan's life. The \vould-be assassin apparently had beea bribed to commit the act , as he had 9 ABDUL HA1IID II. , SULTAN OF TURKEY large sum of gold in his pockets and his baggage was packed ready for flight. Abdul Hamid is said to be the mosi liated monarch in Europe , not even ex cepting the Czar of Russia , and during his long reign he has lived in continu al dread of assassination. He is credr ited with the blotting out of many lives because of his constant fear of his own life. His victims have been principally members of his household ; who fob trivial offenses were made targets foi the bullets from his beautifully jewel ed revolver that he carries constantly on his person. Abdul has ruled oveB the people of the Turkish empire foi more than thirty-two years , having come to the throne in 1S7G after sue * cessfully deposing his brother Monrad V. Former attempts have been made oij the life of Abdul Hamid , the most sen sational being that of July 22 , 1905 , when unknown assassins threw 3 bomb at the red ruler as he was leav ing the mosque where the celebration of Salamik had taken place. Ho es caped serious injury on that occasion , although thirty or forty people wera killed. Again in October , 190G , when a report was spread that the Sultan was suffering from a serious illness , it was later learned that the real causa of his affliction was a bullet wound in flicted by one of his Turkish wives. SINGER'S FINGERS BITTEN OFF. Miss Emelie Gardner Has Encounter with Ferocious Beast in Dark. Her left arm frightfully lacerated and two fingers of her right hand che\r- ed off. Miss Emelie Gardner , an opera Binger , is in a critical condition at the Coney Island Hospital as a result of be ing attacked by a huge bull terrier. Miss Gardner has been spending tha summer in her cottage at Seagate , Co ney Island. Her housekeeper , Mrs. Bangman. is the owner of a big fernate dog , which she kept in the rear yard. Sunday , on account of the heat , Mrs. Bangman transferred the dog and her puppies to the pantry in the basement of the cottage. At night Miss Gardner , who was alone in the house , entered the pantry. The room was dark , and as she closed the door the dog sprang upon her. Miss Gardner threw up her arms , but tha teeth of the dog caught her left arm between the wrist and the elbow , crush ing flesh and bones. As she struck at the brute with her right hand it snap ped at the hand and severed the two first fingers. ALL AHOUITO THE GLOBE. Tie balloon "Hamburg , " of the Han > burg Aeronautical Society , met with an. accident while trying to effect a landing at Lubeck. The Mexican government now claims to have caught the two chief instigators of the recent revolt in the northern section of the country. Correspondence between the republics of Nicaragua and Guatemala has been , made public in showing that the most Btrained relations exist between the tw countries.