The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 2, 1906, Page 4

> A NEGRO S AFUE GRIME After an Attempted Assault on a Child, He Kills Mother and Two Children. LYNCHERS BEATEN OFF BY OFFICERS y Safely Landed in Washington, Jail After Two Atter » by Infuriated Cithzvens to Take yrs of the Law— Prison .» July 30,—Coroner Constable John J Canon W. H. Sipe and Miller of Canonsburg, drove into tow? Monday with Elmer Dempster, a 19 year old negro who had been arrested for the m er of Mrs, Samuel Pearce and two children and the shooting of a third child Sunday evening. Demp- ster taken to the Washington county jail at Washington, Pa., leav- ing here on a trolley car at 8 o'clock While no bloodstains were found on the prisoner, suspicion first’ rested ou him Sunday night when it was learned that he was the last person © seen about the house before the tragedy Dempster was a helper on the Pearce was farm and after the departure of Same! Pearee with his sister, Miss Fanny Pearce, for the Canonsburg railroad station, Dempster is said to have been at the scene of the tragedy tooking the stock. He his bed at 2 o'clock Mon- 8 and put through a course of swe which lasted until day light when it is alleged he made a complete confession, The only things missing from the Pearce hore are $12 and a few cents the revolyer with which Mrs ree her two children were unrdered Robert Pearce, three years old, the only survivor of the awful tragedy who ¥ hot through the body, witli atter taken frou day m and be brou to the Canonsburg general aospital in an effort to save his life According to the story told in his tonfession young Dempster attempted an assanit on the four year old daughter after the departure of Mr Pearce but was frustrated by the} mother who went to a bureau to get a revolver to shoot him, The negro says he secured the gun first and afier &illing the mother and shooting the thildren, set fire to the house to hide the crime. Feeling against Dempster ls running high. Washington, Pa., July 30.—Dempster was safely lodged in jail here at 9 o'clock. The officers had an exciting trip from Canonsburg. Two attempts were made to take the negro from them. * Shortly after leaving Canonsburg a crowd of 20 men boarded the car and with shouts of ‘Lynch him, kill him,” dragged the prisoner and offi- cers from the car. A fierce struggle followed but the officers succeeded in keeping posses- sion of the negro and finally drove the mob off at the point of their re- volvers. When Washington was reached, “ early 300 people had gathered at the court house but the crowd was eluded by taking the prisoner through» the asément to the jail. A Complaint from East St. Louis. Washington, July 30.—A complaint ‘has been filed with the interstate com- ‘merce commission by J. R. Lucas, of fast St: Louis, Ill, against the Louts- ville & Nashville railroad company in ‘which an allegation is made that the » ‘railroad company is violating the in- rstate commerce law. J, Rs Lucas “4s engaged in the hay business at yomest. St. Louis. was TROUBLE COMING—CHINA WILL HAVE A CODE OF MODERN LAW AND PERMIT LAWYERS TO PRACTICE. CHICAGO RECORD HERALD earn Goer? | WORK OF WRECKERS. Brakeman Killed an ineer Seriously Inj k in Indian | | Ft. Smith, Ark., July 30.—The man- |gled remains of Will Skelton, the brakeman killed in the Frisco wreck, near Koshoma, I. T., Sunday, were brought in at one o'clock Monday morning for interment, The body was literally cut to pieces, Engineer Harlan, who jumped from his engine, striking his face on a pile of rocks, }and knocking one eye out, passed through on the same train on his way to the hospital at Springfield. En- jeineer Harlan stated that the wreck Was caused by a spike driven between the joints of two rails, He saw it before the engine struck. it, but not soon enough to avert the accident, When the wreck occurred a freight ! train was on the siding and the train | crew say the freight truin passed over | the wrecking spot, but 15 minutes be- | fore the arrival of the passenger, and | the track was clear, Frisco officials ‘here say that several previous at- ; tempts had been made to wreck the | passenger at the same place and with ‘or without reason, it is reported here that the wreck will be found to have , close connection with an alleged com- |ing. strike. Some of the passengers | were slightly injured. | SAW THE FIRST NAPOLEON. | Oldest Woman In Indiana Dead in La Porte i —Was Born in Poland in | 1794, ] wae La Porte, Ind, July 30—Mrs Ferdinand Resse, the oldest woman in Indiana and perhaps in the United States, died here Monday aged 112 years. According to documents in her possesion she was born in Volgravitz Poland in 179 and after marrying and burying two husbands in Poland vsame to America in 1870, settling at | Buffalo, N. Y., where she married Ferdinand Reese, Later Mr, and Mrs. Reese removed to La Porte, Her | husband died two years ago. In 1812, when Napoleon and an army of 700,000 invaded Russia she saw the French emperor. On her death bed she recalled vividly the circumstances of his visit to Volgravitz, which he devastated. She, among others, es- {caped by fleeing into the woods. She | attributed her long life to her simple nethod fo living. She had two meals | of corn bread and black coffee, daily The Corey Divorce Trial, Reno, Nev., July 30.—The air of mystery being thrown over the case of the attorneys is the chief matter of interest in the Corey divorce trial which was begun -in the second dis- crict court of Nevada at Reno Monday morning. Promptely at 10 o’clock, when the case was called, Mrs. Corey attended by her son, Allen Corey, and her sister-in-law, Miss Corey, appear- 2d in court. William E. Corey, pres- alent of the United States steel cor- poration, defendant in the action, is aot present. He is represented how- aver, by T.’L. Chadbourne of Pitts- ourg, and Sardis Summerfield of Reno formerly United States district attor- aey. Young Astor Rescues a Trooper. Windsor, Eng., July 30.—Second Lieut. John Jacob Astor, son of William Waldorf Astor, gallantly res- sued a trooper of his regiment, the First Life Guard, from drowning Mon- jay in the Thames. Lieut. Astor's sroop was engaged in’ swimming prac- ‘ice when a trooper's horse got into iifficulties and kicked his rider. The rooper sank in déep water and Young Astor dived in and brought him up. ‘nlileniiic i aimsasaas Panic in 4 Warsaw Chureh. Warsaw, July 30,.—While the church % Wilanow, a suburb of Warsaw. was filled with worshipers Monday an unknown person outside began fring rapidly with a revolver. A oanie followed, the church service was the ; j!owa REPUBLICANS MAY SPLIT |Upen the State Central Committee Ucpends the Coatrel Action of ef State Convention. Des Moines, July 30.—The re- publican state central committee met Monday morning to arrange the pre- liminaries for the state convention which will be held here Wednesday. The counties in the state are entited to 1,649 delegutes. About 200 seais are contested. The control of temporary organization of the conven- tion will depend upon the action of the state committee regarding these contests, Gov. Cummins, who fs a candidate for re-nomination; claims to have a majority of the delegates. The ad- herents of George D, Perkins, who is also a candidate for governor, main- tain that there were irregularities in quite a number of the county conven- tions, and have contested and pro- tested the delegations selected by the majority in such conventions. If the state central committee decides to take up the matter of contested seats, and to prepare a preliminary roll of delegates for the convention, to take part in the temporary organézation. It is asserted by friends of Mr. Per- kins that they will control the pre- liminary organization. The friends of Gov. Cummins, insisting that they have the majority, intend, it is said, to assert their rights and to take charge of the convention themselves. At the afternoon session Chairman Spencer called attention to the filling of a petition on behalf of George D Perkins questioning the right of cer tain delegates to sit in the state con- vention, notice of this, he said, was sent to Governor Cummins and a re ply had’ been received denying the | the; TA Augustns Hartje Testify in Celebrated Divorce Trial. | | "ANGRY PEOPLE CROWD THE STREETS Detail of City Police Sent to Scene to Pre serve Order—Told How Alleged Love Letters to Coachman Were Secured— Ramor That More Arrests Will Fol- low, | | Pittsburg, Pa. July 30.—There was a spirit of weariness pervading the ‘20urt room despite the recess of two days when the trial of Augustus Hartje’s application for a divorce from Mrs. Mary Scott Hartje was resumed Monday. This is the beginning of the sixth week of the case and the 19th day of actual trial. The pl.intif? offered testimony as to where he had obtained the famous ‘love letters written to Coachman Madine, the co-respondent. John B, Staubb, an operative for 9 private detective agency was asked ‘about the letters. The witness testi- fied that he had visited Madine’s }room twice and with John A. Ander son, another detective had broken open Madine’s trunk and removed the ‘letters. He identified the court exhi- ‘bits as the missives taken. {| During Staubb’s tstimony, Mrs. Hartje appeared uneasy and then angry, while her husbands manner was apparently one of cool indiffer- ence, Madine came into court while the ‘witness was Still on the stand and authority und jurisdiction of the com-|‘fter lstening intently to the testl- mittee in the premises, Mr. Bivington, for Mr, Perkins, en- tered appearance for representatives of 12 counties who desired to be heard on the merits of their contro- versy with delegations claiming tc have been chosen in the interest of Governor Cummins, Those 12 coun- ties are entitled to 287 delegates. As to one of them, Polk, with 72 dele- gates, a ‘protest’ was filed attacking the legality of thefr selection, It came out, in response to ‘ques: tions, that no notice other than that to Governor Cummins, had been sent the delegates whose right to seats In the convention is questioned, The committee decided by a vote of six to three to take up the con- tests, Pleasure Seekers Drowned, Anglesea, N. J., July 30.—Two yachts coming in from the fishing banks cap. sized on Hereford Inlet bar off here Sunday and so far as could be ascer- tained Sunday night eight persons lost their lives. There were 32 persons on one yacht, of whom seven were lost, and twelve on the other, all of whom but one were saved. That not more fell victims to the rough sea was due to the heroism of Captain Henry 5. Ludlow of the Hereford Inlet Hfe sta- tion, and a crew of five men. It was at first thought that from 14 to 28 persons had been lost, but after an investigation the coroner Sunday night stated that he believed only eight were lost. Train Wreckers in Belgium, Charleroi, Belgium, July 30.—An at- tempt was made Sunday night to wreck the northern express from Paris. A rail was removed, the engine and tender were ditched and the en- gineer and fireman were killed. The cars however, rmained on the tracks and the passengers were uninjured. It is reported that Russian agitators were responsible for. the attempt to wreck the express, owing to their expectation that grand Duke Vladimir was proceeding to St. Petersburg ou that train. The railway officials say the grand duke was not on the train. They have no trace of the man who committed the outrage. Congressman Campbell Replies. Topeka, Kan., July 30.—Congress- man P. P. Campbell has given out a letter in reply to the questions pro- pounded by the state republican civic league, of which J. A. Troutman is chairman. Mr, Campbell says in part: { am in favor of a primary election law and hope the next legislature will pass such a law. Railroad property should be taxed on the same basis’as all other property in the state. Pas- senger fares in the state should be reduced if the conditions will justify {f the conditions will not justify it should not be done. We must deal with every body and every interest on the square. Appeal to Dowileltes, Zion City, IN, July 30.—Joha Hately, receiver for the Zion City ‘der the fire of questions mony for a time hurriedly left. Staubb, on cross-examination, be- came badly tangled several times un- Detective Anderson then corroborated Staubb's story of the taking of the letters, When court adjourned a large crowd assembled in front of the courthouse and for a time Grant street was al most impassable. Threats were made of an attack on the detectives, Staubb and Anderson, who testified Monday and a detail of city police was sent to preserve order, It was rumored that some of the witnesses in the case were to be ar- rested before the close of the day When Staubb and Anderson left the courthouse they were followed by sev- eral men who were believed to be de- tectives. FRISCO'S FIRE LOSS New York Superintendent of Ineur- ance Figures the Net Loss to Companies at $132,823,067, Albany, N. Y., July 30.—State Super- intendent of Insurance Otto Kelsey Sunday night made public the results of his investigation as to the losses of life insurance companies in the San Francisco disaster. All joint stock fire and inland ma- rine insurance companies transacting business in the state were called on for a sworn statement as to their loss- es in California. The companies were asked for the gross amount of insur- ance involved in risks, destroyed or damaged, the deduction for estimated salvage, the total deduction and the net amount of loss as shown by the records June 30, 1906. The New York State companies, 47 in number show the gross amount of insurance in- volved as $41,110,069; the reinsurance to be recovered $10,834,795; the esti- mated salvage $7,137,183 and the ac- tual amount of loss $23,138,090. Returns from other joint stock fire and fire marine insurance companies, 84 in number show the gross amount of insurance $80,423,704; reinsurance to be recovered $22,130,167; estimated salvage $11,358,425; actual amount of loss $51,983,111. The foreign companies, 32 in number made these returns: Gross insurance involved $101,302,- 533; reinsurance to be recovered $32,- 281,808; estimated salvage $15,318,859 and actual loss $57,701,856. The total amount of insurance in- volved by all’ companies was $222,- 836,307; the reinsurance $65,246,771; salvage, $33,814,468 and actual loss $132,823,067. , The company with the largest net loss is the Hartford Fire, of Connecti- cut, according to the report. Its loss is $6,186,701. Wreck on New York Central. Fishkill ‘Landing, N. Y., July 30— Pacific Express train No. 337 of the New York Central and Hudson river railroad was wrecked shortly before midnight a short distatice above Chelsea, and 11 miles miles below Poughkeepsie by running into a slide which had been swept down | Washington Gossip. | The charge bas been made thas | cows, pianos, and other like objects, | | bave been sent through the maiis by ‘the use of government franks. A new postal regulation looking to the! abolishment of the evilis likely to! be the outcome of the abuse of a, peivilege which the government has | generously given to certain of its) officers. The pension office has just been examining the application for a pen- sion of the “youngest veteran” of the Civil War. There have been numbers of youngest veterans,” but if there is any veteran who is young- er than Lyston D. Howe, of Streat- or, IM., now Is the time to speak up. Mr. Howe enlisted June 5, 1861, and he was just te years, nine months, and eight days old at the time. Ts is seldom that one refuses a aunt of $50.000 which could be had for the asking, but thatis what Mrs. Mary Larabee has done. She is a missionary at Uromia, Persia. Her husband, Rev. Benjsmin W. Lara- bee, was killed by religious fanatics, and the United States Government demanded an indemnity of $50,000 of the Persian Government, which the latter was about to pay. Mrs Larabee, however, feared that when the people in her district heard of it, they would make life a burden for the missionarles, and render her ef- forts asa missionary fruitless. So she decided to ask the Department of State to withdraw its demand. The War Department has given orders to the authorities at Manila to keep the department informed daily of the spread and development of the Cholera in the Philippines’ The disease ie of the most virulent type. Men who are in the best of health and walking the streets one hour, arein the death agonies the next. The ignorant natives pay no attention to the warnings not to eat uncooked frait and vegetables, although they are almost panic stricken over the ravages of the dis- ease, Mies Ethel Roosevelt, daughter of the President, had a narrow escape from injury on her eixteenth birth- day. She was out horseback riding near Sagamore Hill, when suddenly an automobile, which had been hid- den by a clump of trees, dashed by. A part of the machine grazing the horee’s head caught the brible and {no an instant had ripped {t off the head of the frightened animal. Miss Roosevelt held tightly to the neck of the galloping horse, and succeeded in bringing it to @ walk. Miss Roose- velt does not know who the occu- pants of the suto were, The employment by the War De- partment of Mr. Winter, the crack English tailor, to revise and modify the uniforms in the army, has raised & protest from many who think that in a country of 80,000,000 people, a & tailor oughtto be found whocould do the work as well as any foreigner. Last year the Department of Agri- culture sent out 85,778,400 packets jot flower and vegetable seeds. The , amount of seed required to fill these packets would fill twenty-eight cars of 30,000 pounds each. The work of packeting the seeds is done by contract. The contractor is paid at & fiat rate forso many thousand packets. Most of the work is done by machines and about seventy-five men and women are employed. The business of the government had to walt the other day when the velt in the hay field with the hired man, working like mad to get the hay in before the rain, which. was ident pitched up, and the hired man man who conceived the bright scheme of making these pictures and selling them to thecolored people, has made 8 fortune at the business, Sran.ey. In Which a Woman Hangs a Man, Jack London’s Alaskan based on an actual incident. In the August McClure’s Jack Lon- don has a story thatin ite vigor and power must rank with his very best. He sets the scene in the country he likes most, Alaska, and with inel- dents of a most thrilling and bizarre kink, hammers out a remarkable narrative ofa man’s wilful murder of two mining companions, the pain- ful and crafty deathwatch of long weary weeks kept over him at riek of body and brain, by the remaining man and bis wile, and the final hang: ing of the culprit by the woman in the presence ofa group of Indians herded at the gun-point to be wit- nes ses of the event. It will be re- mem bered that Mr. London’s last story in McClure’s ‘\Love of Life,” was based upon an actual occur- rence; as Mr. London declared when 60 me facts of the story were brought {nto question. This new story is al- so 8 real human document, based upon an ineldent well known among Alaekane; the hanging of Michael Dennin by Mrs. kdith Neleon which took place at Latuya Bay in 1900. The story te powerfully illustrated by four full-page pictures in color p ainted by E, L. Blumenschein. story Another Barrington Delay. Washington, July 30.—The Su- preme court of the United States re- celved notice from the chief justice of the supreme court of Miseourl that that court had iesued an order ex- tending for sixty days from July 30 the time for the filing of the trans- cript of the record in the case of F, Seymour (Lord) Barrington, under sentence of death in that estate for murder. Probate Court Docket August 1906. Kxecutors and Administrators, Monday, Atigust 13th, 1st day. Estate, Administrator or Executor, Ferrell Lucinda Nannie A Gollady. Scott WL John C Hayes. Chapman Giles James P Chapman. Lowrey JR JH Bodkin. Holloway Frelin Roy Holloway. Seh wenck Justin Frances K Schwenck, Tuesday, August 14th, 2nd day. Dugan Andr-wJ Wilbur 8 Dugan, Nelson Christian Cora M Nelson. Henley WmTJ Margeret E Henley. Bates AnnH ER Bates, Wednesday, August 15th, 3rd day. Whipple MallieF NL Whipple, LaughlinJamesM W E Heyle, Feeback ElizaJ Ross H Conrad. Streker Herman Carlina Streker, Greenhalge John Henry Crawford. Thursday, August 16th, 4th day. Hamilton Bobert Jno D Moore, Cowley Edward Geo H Davis & DC Baker. Teeter ChasN Frank I Teeter. OliveRE Wm Olive, Brown Elizabeth Marry C Brown. StilwellJP W F Stilwell. Friday, August 17th, 5th day. Smith GeoL Mary E Smith. MeNanghton Elizabeth J E Williams. Warner Anna F Wm A Florence. DeLungWmA J W Oampbell. DeLungEmmsA JnoC Hayes, Powell ElizaJ WC Powell. Guardians’ and Curators’ Docket. Saturday, August 18th, 6th day. ArnoldJP JP Edwards, Sebapeler Ruben et al tharine Séhapele: Clark Mayetal B Fs mag Z HeseJamesPetal Chas W Hess, SimmonsWmP 8M Doyle. Doolittle Ava A Truman B Doolittle. Barber Daviel = Wm F Tygard; . Tuesday, August 21th, 8th day, Brown Wm Oetal JO Brown, ‘ Floyd Jno C Hayes, Frank CE Walters, : Christ