The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, June 16, 1904, Page 8

A 8 NORE THAN B00 DEAD The Burning of the General * Slocum Caused More Than First Supposed, ~-NEARLY 500 BODIES FOUND. York, June 17.—Coroner O'Gorman has issued a statement that 498 bodies have been recovered as a result of the wreck of the Gener- a! Slocum. New New York, June 17 —By the burn- ing to the water's edge of the General Slocum, a three-deck excursion steamer, shortly before 10 o'clock this morning in the East river, atthe entrance to Lond island sound, more than 600 persons, the majority of of the fire, started after the vessel, joined by a yacht, while rowboats put out from the shore. Thenumber of these craft constantly “grew, and |not the lea natic incidents of the catastrophe the efforts of the people on these boats to rescue those who had jumped overboard | from the burning vessel | Men crowded to the rails of the ugs and caught up the drowning persons a8 they were borne by the There were many thrilling resenes hy this means. ver orrent THE PASTOR DRIVEN USANE, New York, June 17.—The ordeal through which the Rev. George C. F. co pastor of St. Mark’s church, Passed, bas proved too much for him jand he was removed from his home to Lincoln hospital today, a raving maniac, With the thought of his jfamily dead in the wreck and hun- dreds of his parishioners drowned or burned to death, the preacher passed a night of horror and his mind gave way under the strain. The minister has not yet been in- formed that the body of his wife has been recovered. When it was idcoti- tied last night the minister's physi- cian prevented those who would have whom were women and children are} told him the news from doing so. dead. All wereeither burned to death | The body was brought to the house. or drowned by jumpipg overboard or The minister, in addition to his veing thrown into the whirl pools by | Wife, lost his 12-yearold daughter, the lurching of the vessel and the| Gertrude, and mother in-law, Mrs. frantic rush of the panic-stricken pas-|Carl Hansen, and bis sister-in-law, scugers, It was one of the most appalling ‘Yetimore’s daughter, Mre. William E, Tetimore. Mrs. Qdith, is also disasters in the history of the city,|!ost. The minister's sister, Emma tragic in its immensity, dramatic in | Haas, was saved, its episodes and deeply pathetic in the tender age of most of itg victims. NEARLY 500 popreEs RECOVERED, Approximately 500 bodies have been recovered and are now being RUSSIAN FLEET ESCAPED, | The Blue and the Gray. St. Louis Republic. | “*By the ‘low of the inland river, Whence the fleets of iron have fed Where th 6 of the grave grass quiver, are the ranks of the Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the jodgment day. Under the one the Biue, Under the other the Gray.’” This poem, amid the echoes of can- non which has scarcely cooled and while battle smoke still hung like a pall over the fields and the nation, came softly to remind men that they were brethren always and foes but temporarily. It is perhaps putting it too strongly to say that a poem may dethrone a dynasty or remake a nation, but “The Blue and the Gray” was at least a powerful his- torical fact. Though criticized and even anathematized at first, it slow- ly made its conquering way through the land perforce of its exalted mo- tive and its human appeal, Event- ually it played the mejor part in es- tablishing annual ceremonial that of Decoration Day, which ts without a parallel in beauty of sentiment. Fol- lowing the suggestion of “The Blue and the Gray,” once a year flowers are laid on the graves of half a mil lion solders, while over hushed throngs echoes the simple exquisite sympathy of the poem’s lines, “The Bluo and the Gray” was writ- ten in 67, while the fire of hate still burned actively. The North was flushed with victory, the South with the shame of defeat; and both mourn- ed their countless dead. It happen- ed that a little company of grieving women in Mississippi, seeing in war, women do, only its tragedy and woe, mournfully decorated the graves of dead Yankees as well as those of thelr own Confederate kin. A news- paper told the story and it traveled iead— tagged at the morgue of Bellevue! A Storm Allowed the Vladivo-|*° New York, to Ithaca, where alaw- ‘hospital and Harlem. Divers were ‘still busy at a late hour taking bodies ‘from the hold of the vessel which they say is choked with the remains stock Fleet to Get away. St. Petersburg, June 17. —The Vla- yer, Francis Miles Finch, saw it. Said he. “When I read those lines in the Tribune it struck me that the South was holding out a friendly of human beings, while éhe bodies of | 4ivostok squadron has returned to] hand, and that it was our duty, not scores who leaped or were thrown iu- | V!adivostok. to the river have not been recovered, Tokio, June 17.—Although it wae only as conquerors, but as men and their fellow citizens of the nation, to It is the season of Sunday schoo! |*umored that a Japanese squadron | grasp it.” Thus he came to write excursions in New York bay and the|0Vertook and engaged the Viadivo-| the poem, ihe whole spirit of which is Lung Island sound, the latter one of the most picturesque bodies of water iu the country. Great preparations had been made fur the seventeenth annual excur- sion of the Sunday school of 8%, Vark’s German Lutherau cuucch, the vongregation of which is drawn frum the dense population of the lower Eastaud West sides, and the Geveral Slocum had been chartered to carry the excurslonists to Locust Grove, one of many resorts on Long Island sound. Itis variously estimated that there ~were between 1,500 and 2,500 per- sons on board the General Slocum ‘when it left the pier at Third street, Esstriver, though the Knickerbocker Steamship company, which owns the Slocum, officially states that the niumber of passengers was 8/33, that ceing ouly one-third of the vessel’s dren in arms, for whom fares are not usually charged on these trips, on \ board. he fir is said to have broken ont in a lunch room on the torward deck | through the overturning of a pot of grease, fhe wind was high aud all efi-nisito subdue the fire were futile, The race to North Brother island * sashorribly dramatic. It wasmade * while thet?ames, which had been fan- ned inte fury by the strong head wind ‘were consuming hundreds of © perasns, old and young. The scene stok eyuadron off Iki island, in the Straits of Korea, it is believed here that there prebably was no engage- ment, - The weather was again favor- uble to the Russian fleet. Thestorm, accompanied by a heavy rain which eptover the sea in the nelyhbor- hood of Tsu Island yoeterday, hid the movements of the Russian vessels, One Japanese scouting vessel is reported to have seen the Russian squadron and to have fol- lowed it. It probably lost the Rus- sian when night came on, The Jap- anese pursued enger for a fight. THE TRANSPORTS ARE LOST. Alldoubt as to the sinking of the|cate that Raisull has enlarged his transports Hitachi and Sado by the| original demands. He now insists Russians has been removed. Three| Upon absolute control of four Moor- hundred and ninety-seven survivors | ish provinces and demands that three of the Hitachi arrived at Moji and | nations, including the United States, 152 eurvivors of the Sado at Kok-|@uarantee the absolute performance capeaity. It thought, bowser] Details obtainable trom the| of the eultan’s Byres ava shad thare wits Lhundred chil.|SU"vivors of the Japanese transports mands are regar aroma auaoiute- ; peshbsadealper soak show that the Hitachi and the Sado | /¥ !mpossible of compliance, notwith- met the Russian warships near Iki|Standiag what effect the refusal may island at 10 o’cleck Wednesday | have on the fate of the captives. morning. Tho Russians fired on the Japanese ships and stopped them ister in Tangier telegraphed to-day and soon afterward they torpedoed} that one of the shesrifian chiefs, a and sank the helpless transports. Quotes Many Bible Verses. who is visiting his daughter, Mrs. J. Lee Wolfe, of No. 518 North Sarah street, is said to quote verbatim ‘sexe one of frightful panic, with Wo-| more biblical verses than any other|an injury from Bonner Spring, the St. Loris, June 18.—William R. | lease of lon Perdicaris and Mr. Var- Bridgeus, «f Northumberland, Pa., | ley. the equality that les in death, \ RAISULI WANTS STILL MORE The Nation’ May be Driven to Abandon the Captives. Washington, June 18. —There is a serious hitch in the negotiations for the lon Perdicaris and Mr. Varley, the American and the Englishman captured in Tangier by the bandit Raisull. The details are communi- cated to the state department by the consul general, Mr. Gummere, ind!- The de- Paris, June 15 —The French min- kineman cf Raisuli, has been designa- ted in the place of theson of Moham- med el Torres, the representative of the sultan, to negotiate for the re Mixed schools in Kansas. Topeka, June 18.— In response to men and children jumping overboard | man in the country. Mr. Bridgensis attorney general has held that there ara being lashed by the channel whirl-pools agaiuet the vessel’s sides. a telegrapher and since his conver-| ig nolaw under which sep: sion, thirteen years ago, he hasmade| or negro and white children can be ‘Women and children were crowded a special study of the Bible in his} maintained in cities of the second together on the hurrican deck which spare moments and as aresult he to-| and third class. The Rev. Elmer E. |GEORGE J. GOULD IS PRESIDENT’S GUEST Britton, Ok., June 17.—The 5-year- | —_—- | His Luncheons to Moneyed Men of Nation. CAMPAIGN FINANCFS TALKED |!osded. Washington, June 18.—George J. Gould took luncheon at the White house and after luncheon the presi- dent talked with him for an hour about the political situation and bis desire to secure the active support, and especially the campaign con- tributions of the financial interests of the country. Mr. Gould is the fifth big financier who has been entertained at the White House, with much secrecy, in recent weeks. The others were James Stillman, president of the National City Bank of New York; A.J. Cassatt president of the Pennsylvania rail- road; J. Pierpont Morgan and George W. Perkifs, one of Mr. Morgan’s partners. They came separately, and in every case the most strenuous efforts were made to keep the visit secret. Apparently the president feared it would injure him with the masses to have it known that trust magnates were being summoned to the White | House. Several other men of influence in the financial world will answer a} ] presidential summons before Mr. Roosevelt goes to Oyster Bay, and the president will do his best to con-|§ vince all of them that he is “safe,” that the number of truste he is op- posed to is really very small, and that they will be given every oppor- tunity to comply with the law before proceedings are instituted against | (@ them. Boodlers In Prison Garb Jefferson City, June 18.—Julius Leh- man and Emil Hartmann, the two St. Louis boodlors convicted by the supreme court yesterday were placed in the penitentiary at 2 o’cloek this afternoon to begin their sentences of seven and six years, respectively, for bribery in connection with the light- ing bill before the house of delegates. They reached here at 12:35 o’elock accompanied by Marshal Finks of the supreme court and after walking across the street opposite the station where the two prisoners took their leat beer together for a while at least, they were taken to the penitentiary where they were received by the off cers and “dreased in.” Lehmann ag@ Hartmann eame without handcufs or chain, and Marshal Finke commended them highly for their conduct on the jour- zey. Lehmann sald that if they had known of the action of the supreme eourt a day in advance of the rendi- tion of the opinion in their cases they would have come to the penitentiary voluntarily. Mail Carrier Assaulted asd Robbed at Pouch Sedalia, Mo., June 18.—Charles E. Couch, a mail carrier on rural route No, 4, was assaulted and robbed yes- terday afternoon near Fisber Lake as he was returning to Sedalia. Jobn Englehart of Pleasant Green, who wagon and drove off with it. The city police captured Englehart five ‘in jai. arate schools | No Democratic Chairman Select- ed. is Fifth of a Series of/his parents last night, pressed ‘thé assaulted the carrier, placed the} United States mail pouch in bis} miles east of the city and placed him | St. Louis, June 18.—The subcom- Frankfort, Ky., June 18.—The court cf appeals ovarruled a petition’ for rehearing in the case of Jim | Howard, sentenced to life for the mur- der of William Goebel. The case will | be appealed to the United States barrel against the stomach of Ray, 2- | Supreme Court. year-old brother, and pulled the trig- | PCE Ee mR | ger. Death resulted afew hourslater BB me hg re ie ae in a hospital, The father said that) 46. good to return Aug. 20. $2.70 he did not know the revolver was! for round trip. E. é Vanpervoort, Agt. B tment Co, 4 ates County Inves BUTLER, MO. Capital, =, =’ 850,000. Money to loah on real estate, at low rates. Abstracts of title to all lands and town lots in Bates county. Oholee securities always on hand and forsale, Abstracts of title furnished, titles examined and all kinds of real estate papers drawn, jon, J, B, Newsunny, J.C, Onan bk ee ” ‘Vice-President. Seo’y. & | Jno. 0. Hans, Abstractor, . 8. F. Wannoox, Notary. § N B We have just received a shipment of spring wagons, bike wagone, buggies and run abouts, also single and double harness. We still claim the BEST SPRING WAGON ON WHEELS It you are thinking of buying anything in this line call and examine our stock. While we have not as large a stock as some, we claim as good values as anyone and if you will give us a opportunity we will . take our chance on making the sale for we are sure the goods and price will suit you. Notice our prices on CULTIVATORS. Spring trip walking cultivators. Combined riding and walking. Hamock seat cultivators -+$21.00 Superior Stoves and Ranges Quick Meal Steel Ranges Moon’s Steel cooks and ranges. Gasoline stove season fs here and the Quick Meal is acknowledged by all to be the best. We have them. Grocery and Hardware Stocks always complete, Produce wanted. Yours Truly A child Slew His Brother. old son of J. C. Rudkin took a revoly- er from a drawer in the absence of FARM LOANS, | To be able to borrow money on real estate on long time, with the privilege of making payments before due, is an advan- tage which the frugal borrower appre- ciates. We loan money in this way and at a Jow rate of interest. DUVALL & PERCIVAL, BUTLER, MO. noes Om LAKE PARK STABLES, BUTLER, MISSOURI. GEN. BOAZ, BOAZ, |. son of the Mighty On- ward. : | | oe <m; Om ~, Satis’ — s f goon burned away and fell and it is day can quote at random some 2,000 Hollar, pastor of the Methodist inittee on arrangements of the Dem- elieved that most of those on this | verges if the chapter and number are church in Bonner Springs had been | cratic national committee adjourn- The Colts of these deck were burned. The after-rail gave way and the passenger who had crowded against it were pushed into the river. Moth- era and children became separated | ory, sand frautically sought each other,; Mr, Bridgens is an elder in the while in several cases fathers and | Presbyterian Church of his homecity mothers, gathering their children to- gether, jumped with them into the water. Little children holding each other | ing the Fair. by the hand jumped together and ‘were afterward found clasped ineach} Paris, Ill, June 16 other's arms. It is alleged that men| Burr, sole survivor in this fought with women to escape, result-| county, ing in the trampling under foot of| volunteers, which nas organised here given, ~ In his studies he selected those which especially appealed to him and committed them to mem- and is also prominently identified with Y. M. C. A. work. He will re- main in Sv. Louis for sometime visit- of company H, 4th Mexican June 4, 1846, held the nion of that organization appointed at a mase meeting of white | ed to-day to meet here on July 2. It residents to ask the govenor toallow | issaid that no matters ofimportance the town to establish a separate | were discussed, routine arrangements school for negro children. The past-|for the national Democratic conven- or’s letter was turned over to theat-|tion having occupied the attention torney general by the govenor. of the committeemen. The tempo- SR AIRE IR tary chairman of the convention has not yet been decided upon, and it} “great horses show for ~ : : themselves, - § Trial 2:13. "Simeon, the great Coach Horse, can also be found at these stables. =, “TAK USLE & Co,