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VOL. XIV. NO 45
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LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY APRIL 1,1910.
WEB TWO SCORE
KILLED jN BECK
As Many More Are Hurt in Crash
Near Marshnlliown, lowa,
Some Mortally
THE TRAIN WAS TELESCOPED
Double Train Thrown in Heap In Nar
row Cut When Engines Hit Spread
ing Rail—Girl Who Won Prize for
Beauty Loses Life.
Marshalltown, lowa, Mar. 29.- For
ty-five persons were killed and forty
were injured, many of them fatally,
in a wreck four ar.d a half miles
north of Green Mountain, lowa, of a
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific pas
senger train.
Running at about thirty miles an
hour, in a cut north of Green Moun
tain the head locomotive struck a
spread rail, it is believed, and jumped
the track into an embankment of soft
clay. A second locomotive just behind
the Ilrst rolled over and the sudden
stop crushed the frailer cars together.
The wreck did not take lire.
Uninjured passengers began remov
ing the dead and injured. The dead
were taken to an adjoining pasture
and laid on the grass. A relief train
from Marshalltown carrying surgeons
and Coroner Jay arrived two hours
after the crash. The sight that met
the eyes of the surgeons was horrible.
The dead were crushed and mutilated
In uany cases beyond recognition.
Heads wore severed from bodies,
arms and legs wore cut off. A second
rescue train relieved the first, which
brought a load of injured to Marshall-
All of the dead, except John Man
bridge of Hartford, Out., were West
erners. The bodies of ten men, two
women and two gills have not been
identified.
More or the dead hailed from Wa
terloo, la., than from any other point.
Ro far as known they were George P.
Hunt, Mrs. Walter Davis, H. W. Eg
gers. Mae Hoffman, F. D. Lyman and
Anthony PHltipa. Others from lowa
were: L. W. P'irrlsh, Cedar Falls,
professor lowa State Teachers' Col
lege; Mrs. Lewis, Valley Junction; N.
C. Heaeock, West Liberty; Fred L.
Cotton, Washington; Thomas G. lletts,
Cedar Rapids, C. G. Eves find and F.
F. Fisher, West Branch; William
Fleck and Jennie Young, Vinton, and
Ingebret L. Tangen. Northwood.
Other identitied victims were: Earl
T. Main, banker, Wiliiastleld. 111.; H.
L. Pennington, Galesburg, III.; Miiuin
Vanish, Cedarville, Mo.; G. W. Blair,
Sedalia, Mo.; Lauren Allschweger, Og
den, Utah; Caesar C. O. Iloff, Minne
apolis, and Andrew J. White, colored,
St. Paul. One of the dead is supposed
to be A. P. Adams, Witmar. Minn.
Of the train crews, these met deathj
It. A. Robinson, engineer; A. Ross,
fireman; Jacob Nauhalz, conductor;
Ross Charter, brakeinan, and Archie
Price, colored, porter.
Miss Mae Hoffman, who was re
garded as the most beautiful woman
in Waterloo, was one of a party start
ing out on a pleasure trip. She was
horribly crushed. Several months ago
she took third prize in a national
beauty contest.
GRAFTERS GO TO CONFESSION.
Ten Men Appear in Court and Plead
Guilty.
Pittsburg, Mar. 28. The first day
of the general roundup of the grafters
and bribers of Pittsburg was a great
success.
Obeying the call of District Attor
ney William A. Blakely issued to all
grafting Counciliuen and bribe givers
to come forward and make full confes
sion In open court on pain ot being
railroaded to prison on information
got through tho confession of Council
man John Klein, ten men came to the
bar of justice. These ten Councilmen
and ex-Councllmen confessed before
Judge It. S. Fraser and Judge Josiah
Cohan that they had at some time in
the past sold their votes In City Coun
cils for money.
Forty other Councilmen and busi
ness men of Pittsburg are expected to
come to confession.
Ninety "White Slaves" Coming.
Antwerp, Belgium, March 22. —Tho
American Consulate hero is trying to
trace two New York white slave Im
porters who are believed to have ship
ped ninety women from Paris on out
going steamers. British and Continen
tal ports are watched, and the Ameri
can and Canadian authorities have
been notified.
Kansas City, Mar. 24. —Tho case
growing out of the attack made by J.
I'. Cudahy, the packer, upon Jere Lil
lls, the banker, was dismissed in the
Municipal Court here by Daniel How
till, assistant city attorney.
KIiHN SLAYS TWO MEN
mFAST FLYING TRAIN
J. H. Bethea, Angered at B. & O.
Porter, Shoots Him and Con
ductor—Killed by Police.
Wilmington, Del., Mar. 29. —Tho
Royal Hlue 1.1 ml ted on tho B. & O.
Railroad, which left Washington at
Si o'clock in the afternoon for New
York, was the scene of n. triple trag
edy under dramatic circumstances, un
paralelled in the history of modern
passenger traffic.
A frenzied man shot down and
killed the negro porter and conductor
of the train while it was running at a
rate of sixty miles an hour, just
south of this city, and held the re
mainder of the crew and passengers
at bay with an automatic pistol of
heavy calibre.
Trapped in the car which his shots
had emptied, except for the dying ne
gro porter, whose body was stretched
in a chair with his face pressed
against the window, the desperate
man, either mad or crazed with liquor,
was brought into the station here.
Using the car as an armed fortress
he fought an hour's battle with a
squad of twenty police, led by the
chief, the fire department, which
poured a heavy stream of water in the
car in an effort to drown him, and a
number of citizens, until his wounds
brought him close to death.
With the few remaining cartridges
out of a hundred which he carried in
his pockets in the magazine of his re
volver, he made a final rush to escape.
A charge from a shotgun in the
hands of the chief of police, fired at.
short range, halted him in the vesti
bule and a blow from the butt of a
police revolver sent him to his knees,
his pistol empty and his body torn
with wounds. He died in a few min
utes.
The supposed madman was J. It.
Bethea, of Dillon, S. ■ a prosperous
contractor and a member of an old
South Carolina family, lie was forty
years old.
The dead arc:
(). K WKI.I.MAN, forty, of Phila
delphia, conductor of the tiain.
J. H. BICTHKA, forty, of Dillon, 3.
S.
SAMUEL WII.I.IAMS, lirty, colored,
Pullman porter.
JOHN J. WILEY, forty, a Wilming
ton Park guard, shot in the groin and
h.'.id.
MAT I HOW If ALKY, a citizen, shot
in the leg.
Others were grazed by flying bul
lets.
The bodies of the conductor, porter
and double murderer were sent to the
morgue. The Pullman car was switch
ed off and the rest of the train pro
ceeded to Philadelphia and New York.
SAW MOTHER BURN.
Children Dnnced About Her, Thinking
It Fine Spectacle.
llagerstown, .\ld., Mar. 29.—Two of
her little children danced about her,
apparently thinking it a fine sight,
while Mrs. Howard Myers, twenty-six
years old, burned to death in the yard
of her homo at Smoketown, tills coun
ty.
Mrs. Myers was burning rubbish and
her three children played pear by. The
mother's dress caught fire and in a
moment she was ablaze from head to
foot. The oldest child, with some reali
zation of the situation, ran for help,
but Mrs. Myers was dead before the
first of the neighbors reached her.
CAUCUS PICKS SIX REGULARS.
No Insurgents on the New Houso
Rules Committee.
Washington. Mar 28. — Six regular
Republicans were selected to represent
the majority of the House on the
new Itules Committee that was cre
ated by the Norris resolution, passed
last week after one of the greatest,
fights ever waged in the lower branch
of Congress. They were Representa
tives Daizell of Pennsylvania, Smith
of lowa, Houteli of Illinois, Lawrence
of Massachusetts, F.isset of New York
and Smith of California.
The insurgents have no representa
tion on the committee, but they left
the caucus satis fied with the result.
TO RENEW TARIFF FIGHT.
The Next Step to De Taken by Insur
gent Senators.
Washington, Mar. 28. A re-opening
of the tariff debate in the Senate will
be the next step taken by the Republi
can insurgent Senators. This step
more than any other will aggravate
the serious situation now confronting
the Republican leaders in regard to
next fall's election. It will add new
life to an Issue that already is giving
Administration forces a good deal of
concern. .
INDICT NATIONAL PACKING CO.
Chicago, Mar. 28. lndictments
were returned tills afternoon against
the National Packing Company and
ten subsidiary concerns by the Federal
Grand Jury which has been investigat
ing for the last three months alleged
violations of the Sherman anti trust
law.
RUTH WHEELER
MURDER VICTIM
Body Bound with Wires, Wrap
pad in Burlap and Placed Out
side Window of Flat
REVOLTING NEW YORK CRIME
Albert W. Walter, Having Been Ar
rested on Charge of Abducing Child,
Rearraigncd and Accused of Murder
—Victim First Strangled.
New York, N. Y., Mar. 29.—Ruth
Amos Wheeler, 15 years old, blue
eyed and auburn-haired, started out
eagerly on Thursday morning from
the Merchants' and Bankers' Business
School, No. 605 Madison avenue, in
search of her first position as a stenog
rapher. She found death instead, lier
body wag discovered on a fire escape
outside flic fourth floor rooms of Al
bert Walter Wolter, eighteen years
old, in the rear of No. 22-i East Seven
ty (Ifth street. Site had been mur
dered, and the body, partly burned,
doubled up and bound with wires, was
wrapped In newspapers and packed in
a burlap bag. The package looked so
much like a bundle of waste paper
that it was tossed off the lire escape
to the yard. Then John it. Taggart of
No. 222 East Si venly-flfth street, who
tossed the bundle to the ground, be
came suspicious, opened it and dis
covered the body.
Investigation showed that the girl
was nc-i/.ed by her murderer, strangled
to death liy a rope knotted about her
throat and doubled up am! bound with
thin wire. The body was soaked with
kerosene, plated in a small grate in
Welter's apartment and burned. Then
it was wrapped in newspapers and
thrown on the fire escape, where it re
mained for almost two days. The
murderer, apparently In his efforts to
get the body Into the grate, bad brok
en the bones of his victim. Ills first
Intention .evidently was to dispose of
the body entirely by burning it.
The murderer burned part of the
girl's clothing and Iter hair in a stove
In another p.irt of tile building, and
Bought to dispo.-'.e of her hat and the
rest of her clothing with the body in
the grate. Parts of the arms and the
legs evidently were burned to ashes,
for the bones of fingers and the toes
were found In the ashes in the grate.
With them were the girl's hat pin,
one garter buckle and the steel ribs of
her corsets.
Further facts obtained by the police
indicate that the body was left in the
fireplace for several hours, and that
the murderer, to hide any hint of a
fire in the grate, had painted the grate
cover black. Presumably, while the
body still iay in the grate, under tho
cover, I'm rl Wheeler, the victim's sis
ter, entered the flat and was alone for
several minutes with Wolter, seeking
Information concerning her sister's
whereabouts, lie denied all knowl
edge of the missing girl, it is alleged,
locked the door on I'earl and kept her
from going away for several minutes,
until her threats of a policeman wait
ing below compelled him to open the
door.
Wolter is now locked up on the
charge of abducting the girl. He ad
mits having written tlie postal card
which lured the girl to iter death, and
says ho has been in the habit of ask
ing business colleges to send to him
their students.
$215,'000 FARO LOSS.
How Coleman Gambled Away SIBO,OOO
of Cambridge Bank's Money.
Cambridge, Mass., Mar. 2'J. In a
confession, first made public, George
W. Coleman, the young man charged
with embezzlement from the National
City Bank of Cambridge, admitted
that he took SIBO,OOO, and that practi
cally every cent of it was lost in try
ing to""break a 112 tro bank" In New
York. Coleman stated that he was in
troduced to the game by a Boston man
several years ago and lost $35,000 of
his own at that time. Two years later
he met the other Boston men who in
terested him in the same game, he
said, and between last May and Febru
ary he made at least fifty trips to
New York, taking with him each time
Bums varying from $2,000 to $5,000, all
of which ho lost. Those men, said
Coleman, knew where the money was
coming from, as he had told them ho
"was getting It wrong."
Tho alleged disclosures were made
at Coleman's home In Cambridge.
KILLED BY MONSTER KITE.
Tangled In Cord, Is Dragged Over Hill
and Tails 350 Feet.
San Francisco, Mar. 2!'. Kntangled
In the cord of a monster kite, which
he was flying, William Fletcher, sev
enteen years old, was drngg< d over a
Bt' ep declivity on Telegraph Hiil.
Hs fell 350 feet to his death.
Mr. Taft's two battleship plan la
favored in a bill reported by the
House Committee.
7SC PER YEAR
! TWELVE DEAD EOUND IN
1 CHICAGO EIRE RUINS
Men and Girls Trapped In Building
with but a Single Fire Escape
—Wires Balk Firemen.
Chicago, Mur 29.—With the bodies
I of twelve victims already taken from
the ruins of the Fish Furniture Com
pany's plant, at 1906-1908 Wabash
avenue, which was destroyed by fire,
further search for bodies was discon
tinued at 3.30 o'chock p. m., owing to
danger from tottering walls. While
earlier estimates placed the number
of victims, all of whom were trapped
on the fourth and fifth floors of the
building, as high as twenty, later atid
more thorough Investigation indicates
that there were but fourteen, with
only two to be accounted for. There
was only one lire escape.
One of the twelve bodies has not
been Identified .vet. Those who a/e
known to be de.'id are:
ANDERSON, ETHEL, IS years old;
stenographer.
BELL, MINER W., advertising man
ager.
BRUCKE, ROSIE, 17; stenographer.
BURDEN, MRS. HANNAH, forewom
an folding department.
DARLINGTON, HARRY, painter.
GREEN, WILLIAM, clerk.
LIGHTENS ITCIN, ETHEL, 18; stenog
rapher.
McGRATH, VERONICA, 17; stenog
rapher.
MITCHELL, HARRY M., auditor of
company, member of firm, brother
in-law of Simon Fish.
QUINN, GERTRUDE, 20; folder.
SULLIVAN. LILLIAN, 1G; folder.
The two still missing are:
ST. CLAIR, BERT, confidential clerk.
WARGO, MARY, £0; folder.
The identification of the victims
was accompanied by heartrending
scenes. Florence Sullivan identified
her sister, Lillian, by a shoe taken
from one of the bodies, which she rec
ognized as one that had been worn by
her sister. Florence, who is 18 years
old and a swit< hboard operator, was
, to have gone to work for the fiirnit re
| company at noon, taking the place of
another girl.
Alexander Bush, a street car con
i ductor, who identified Rose Brucke,
was to have married her on Easter
! Sunday. He recognized her through
, a number of trinkets, including an en
! gagement ring, which he had given
t to her.
Leo Stoeckeil, a clerk, apparently
, started the lire accidentally.
; FAMILY SAVE.D FROM BUTCHERY.
Beys Were on River Bank Prepared
for Der.th with Maniac Father.
Hartford, Conn., Mar. 29. —An in
, sane father was prevented from butch
, ering his four little children on the
. banks of the Connecticut River by the
' timely arrival of the police. When
, located back of the bushes his four
! boys were partly undressed and were
, lined in a row, the maniac father
standing over them with the uplifted
, axe. A boy of four was to have been
, I the first victim.
The poor child was standing be
ne:! tli the whining blade with a crucifix
in one hand, calmly awaiting its fate.
The others, under orders of the mad
man, had partly removed their cloth
ing and were terrified spectators. The
police dashed through the under
growth, threw the madman aside and
gave their immediate attention to the
children. The father was then taken
to the police station and locked In a
padded cell.
lie is a role, Valente Chongle. He
had been dispossessed by his landlord
and the occurrence made him desper
ate.
200,000 MEN PROTFST TO TAFT.
Ohio Federation of Labor Objects to
Smith *or Fedeivl Judge.
Cleveland, Ohio, March 28.- The
Ohio Federation of Labor, represent
ing 200,000 union nun throughout the
State, to-day sent a strong protest to
President Taft against the proposed
appointment of Ales aider L. Smith,
of Toledo, as Federal Judge for tHo
northern district of Ohio. The pro
test Is on the ground that Mr. Smith is
a corporation lawyer, and follows a
similar communication forwarded to
Washington yesterday by the organ
ized railroad men of the State.
MAJOR SLOCUM'S WIFE KILLED.
In An Automobile Accident with
Major-Gen. Bell.
Washington, Mar. 28. Mrs. Slocum,
wife of Major Herbert L. Slocum, of
the Seventh cavalry, IT. S. A., Inspec
tor General of the Department of the
Bast, stationed at Governor's Island,
was killed and Major General J.
Franklin Hell, Thief of Staff, U. S. A.,
was seriously injured when the auto
mobile in which they were riding was
struck by a trolley car and hurled for
five feet, landing bottom side up with
Mrs. Slocum under the wreckage.
Fall Kills Ball Player.
Monticello, N. Y„ Mar. 29.—Result
lng from a fall caused by stepping on
a piece of coal, Thomas White, oue
of the best ball players of Sullivan
County, is dead at his home In Liv
ingston Manor, near here. He was a
minor league player. _