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MERIDIAN TRIBUNE
CORTELYOU UNDER FIRE
HUNDREDS DIE IN FLAMES.
A FATAL AUTO TEST
DESPERATE JAIL BREAK.
The Tribune Printing Co., Publishers.
Published Every Friday Morning.
SENATOR CULBERSON WILLLING
TO MAKE GOOD.
Entered at the Postoffice at Meridian,
Texas, as Second-class Mall Matter.
SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 PER YEAR.
FAVORITISM IS THE CHARGE
LEVI A. DUNLAP, Editor and Pub.
Andrew Green, from New York, put
a bullet through the center of his fore-
thead in Miller’s saloon in Houston at
1:35 Friday afternoon.
His Friends Do Not Know Whether
to Defend or to Sacrifice
Him.
Burglars broke into three business
houses in Gainesville Friday night on
Commerce street and secured a nice
sum of money at each place.
.Tom Howeth, a barber of Wetumka,
Ok., was fatally hurt by being struck
with a poker. His skull was fractured
With the blunt end of the implement.
The newspapers of all political
shades are enthusiastic over the re-
port that King Alfonso next year may
make a trip to Mexico and other Lat-
in-American countries.
| An incipient fire damaged twenty
bales of cotton on the Peoples Com-
press at Brownwood Saturday. The
whole institution, owing to the high
winds, narrowly escaped.
Klubertanz of Rochester, N. Y., won
the international seventy-hour go-as-
you-please walking match which clos-
ed at Akron, 0., Saturday night, cover-
ing 319 miles and two laps.
The Memphis cotton oil mill was
completed and turned over by Con-
tractor Walsh a few days ago and was
put in operation and is now working
forty or fifty tons of seed daily.
Dennis Headley and Alex Thomas,
negroes, who were employed by S.
Bremson, in hauling logs from the
country near Minden, La., were as-
sassinated by unknown parties.
The first presidential bet made
known -so far is one for $5,000 that
Gov. Johnson, of Minnesota, is nomi-
nated will be elected. John S. Mc-
Donald, a Gotham sport, has laid the
wager.
The newspaper men of Dallas last
week gave a goodly banquet to Col-
Sterrett of the Dallas News, who re-
tires from that paper for a time. He
will enter the race for Congress from
the Dallas district.
While switching cars at a siding six
miles south of Taylor Saturday after-
noon, R. R. Smith, a brakeman of a
Missouri, Kansas and Texas freight
train, whose home is in Smithville,
sustained a crushed foot.
At 8:30 a. m. Sunday Wallace Schell
a Dallas capitalist, aged 52 rears, was
found dead with a bullet hole in his
right temple in his room. His death
occurred while Mrs. Schell was out
of the room preparing his breakfast.
It is believed' tht Attorney General
Davidson will yield to the solicitation
of his friends in Waxahachie and
formally open his campaign for the re-
nomination in that city. In fact, his
friends have received partial assur-
ance from Gen. Davidson that he will
deliver his opening address in Waxa-
hachie.
The one hundredth anniversary of
Lincoln’s birthday falls on Dec. 12,
1909, and preliminary plans, made by
the Lincoln Farm Association, for the
celebration of the event of Lincoln’s
birthday in Larue County, Ky., are
well under way. President Roosevelt
has been asked to deliver the oration
and he has consented.
A deal was closed in Dallas Satur-
day whereby the holdings of the Star
Crescent Iron Company of Rusk, Tex.,
passed into the hands of W. J. Hogue
of Dallas and his associates, who are
Eastern capitalists. The considera-
tion was $250,000.
Hon. Emanuel Roos, Representative
from Fayette County in the Thirtieth
Legislature, has forwarded his resig-
nation to the Governor, to take effect
at once. Mr. Roos will move to Eagle
Lake where he will practice law.
Jim Jones a white farmer charged
with killing Charles Smith, Everett
Reed and Mart Moore, three negro
cotton pickers, on his place near San-
ger Friday afternoon, was released on
bail in the sum of $9,000, $3,000 in
each case. i
Mrs. J. W. Shanks was severely
burned by the explosion of a lamp in
a room at the Girardian House, Gal-
veston, Sunday morning, and died at
8 a. m. at the Sealy Hospital. Her
nusband was also severely burned.
Trolley, train and telegraph service
was seriously interrupted by a bliz-
zard that swept a large portion of
Michigan. At Bay City eighteen in-
ches of snow was reported and all the
churches abandoned their Sunday ser-
vices.
Washington, Jan. 15. — Cumulative
evidence that Secretary Cortelyou was
guilty of gross favoritism in awarding
the recent issue of Panama bonds was
offered in the Senate yesterday even-
ing by Senator Culberson. Senator
Culberson announced his readiness to
prove, if given the opportunity, that
individual bids aggregating $27,900,000
were rejected, notwithstanding that
the lowest of these bids was higher
than the price at which $7,262,500 of
the bonds were sold to banks.
The law which the Secretary con-
strued as his authority for selling
the bonds specifically prescribed that
all citizens should be given an equal
opportunity to purchase, and Senator
Culberson pointed out the Secretary
in his circular inviting bids declared
that the bidders offering the highest
prices should receive the first allot-
ments.
The purpose of Senator Culberson
in offering this evidence was to per-
suade the Senate to pass a resolution
calling on Secretary Cortelyou for a
statement showing what part of bonds
sold to banks had been used for the
purpose of increasing their currency
circulation.
“It is suggested,” Senator Culberson
declared, “that the banks were award-
ed these bonds because they would is-
sue circulating notes with the bonds
as a basis. While I do not believe
that this is a sufficient answer to this
suggestion of favoritism, what the
Senate ought to know is whether that
it true.’ ’
Awful Holocaust in a Pennsylvania
Opera House.
Boyerstown, Pa., Jan. 14.—A catas-
trophe horrifying in its details and
sickening in its results last night
swept nearly one hundred souls of
this borough into eternity in almost
the twinkling of an eye and injured
nearly three score, many of them fa-
tally. A majority of the dead are
members of the leading families of the
town.
While the “Scottish Reformation”
was being produced in Rhoads’ Opera
House by Mrs. Monroe or Washington,
a tank used in a moving picture scene
exploded. Immediately there was a
wild rush for the exits of the build-
ing. Men of mature years endeavored
to still the panic, but their voices could
not be heard above the shrieks and
screams of the terrified women and
children, who composed the greater
part of the audience.
The scenes can not be portrayed fit-
ly by the most imaginative. The
blood-curdling cries for help of those
who were penned within the walls of
JOHN TRENTHAM MEETS DEATH
AT POST OF DUTY.
NECK IS BROKEN BY FALL
Machine Without Tire Skids Into
Street Car—Another Machine
Turns Over.
Houston, Tex, Tex., Jan. 13.—In the
automobile endurance test held here
yesterday under the auspices of the
Houston Automobile Club, one man
was killed and three others wounded.
Two cars were involved in the acci-
dents, one collided with a street car
and the other skidded into a ditch
while rounding a curve at terriffic
speed late in the afternoon, turning
completely over in the air and landing
at right angles to the road in an up-
rightposition..
The schedule set by the club pro-
vided for a speed of not more than
the blazing structure could be heard
above the roaring, seething flames, eighteen miles an hour, but no penal-
It seemed as though nearly the en-
tire audience made a mad rush for
the exits the moment the explosion oc-
curred.
In their attempts to quiet the crowd,
those persons who were on the stage
accidentally upset the coal oil lamps
used as footlights. The burning oil
scattered in all directions, and the
lamps which were used to light the
opera house exploded, throwing the
blazing oil over the terror-stricken peo-
ple who were fighting frantically to
gain the exits.
In the mad rush a section of the floor
gave way, precipitating scores of per-
sons to the basement. As the floor
collapsed, the shrieks of the helpless
persons who were carried down were
heard for blocks.
Had the women and the children
heeded the warnings of the cool heads
in the audience the terrible loss of
life might have been averted, but there
ties were charged for arriving at des-
tinations ahead of time.
The test became one of speed in-
stead of endurance between Cypress
and Houston, a distance of twenty-six
miles. The average speed made was
forty miles per hour. One car cover-
ed the distance in thirty-six minutes.
The casualties are:
Dead: John Trentham, sporting
editor of the Houston Post, neck
broken. Wounded: Ray Weiss, cut
on face and neck and badly bruised;
Brown Botts, seriously wounded in-
ternally; B. D. Kemp, badly bruised.
Altogether the test was to’ cover 112
miles; the longest control was the last
one from Houston to Cypress and re-
turn. This was also the best road.
Throughout the day the drivers had
been increasing their speed and on
the Cypress road the climax was
reached in express train velocity.
Sherman Jailer Disarmed and Beaten
Insensible.
Sherman, Tex., Jan. 11.—When Jail-
er Ed Hatfield went to feed the
prisoners yesterday Ed Gash, who was
brought here from Fort Worth on a
robbery charge, after having been
given fifteen years in Tarrant county
for highway robbery, grabbed the
jailer’s pistol and knocked him in the
head with it. The officer was then
forced into a cell and locked up and
Gash and three others escaped.
Henry Gato, one of the prisoners,
was in jail on the charge of murder-
ing Alvin Frizzell, the young man
whose dead body was found in Pilot
Grove creek in Collin county, and who
had been remanded to jail without
bail, both in Grayson and Collin coun-
ties. Harry Fairless and Bob Tram-
mell, both under sentences for horse-
theft, were the other two.
A possee headed by Sheriff Sam
Rich was immediately organized and
in three hours Gash, Fairless and
Trammell were taken. Sheriff Rich
took Gash and Trammell, the former
shooting at him twice, but missing his
mark. The prisoners were captured
in the vicinity of Cotton Tail moun-
tain, two miles south of Sherman.
Jailer Hatfield was not seriously
wounded, but was knocked senseless
for the time being.
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE
Rockdale’s citizens have voted to al-
low cattle to run out.
A compress to cost $50,000 is to be
built at San Angelo this year.
Michael Birmingham suicided at Dal-
las Sunday night by gas asphixiation.
Owing to a falling off of immigra-
tion the force of officials at Ellis Is-
land will be materially reduced.
It is stated by some that deposits in
New York savings banks are heavier
now than before the recent flurry.
IT’S BECKHAM’S SCALP.
Republicans Favor an Anil-Beckham
Man.
. etaoin estaoin etaoinuatyatyawaw
Frankfort, Ky., Jan. 15.—Despite the
result of yesterday’s balloting for Unit-
ed States Senator, in which Governor
Beckham failed to secure enough votes
to win, the ex-Governor’s friends seem
to be as confident as ever, and claim
that those who voted scatteringly yes-
terday will vote for him today, and
that he will be elected.
The forces opposing Beckham are
jubilant, and say that five or six more
of the Democrats will desert Beck-
ham today and thus further emphasize
the hopelessness of Beckham’s fight.
In the Senate the ballot resulted:
Beckham 18, Bradley 16, Charles K.
Wheeler 1, John B. Castleman 1, John
L. Didd 1, D. H. Smith 1..
In the House the ballot resulted:
Beckham 48, Bradley 48, James N.
Kepoe 1, David W. Baird 1. One Re-
publican' was absent, and Lilliard
(Democrat) of Danville did not vote.
•The Republicans practically con-
cede that neither Bradley nor any
other Republican can win, but that an
anti-Beckham Democrat will ultimate-
ly be elected.
To an outsider it has the appear-
ance of a deadlock, which may not be
broken for several weeks.
Joe Smith, the young man who was
run over at Encinal station Friday
night, died at the Mercy Hospital in
Laredo as a result of his injuries.
Wrote "Maryland, My Maryland.”
Augusta, Ga.: James Ryder Ran
dall, a citizen of Augusta, but a na
tive of Baltimore, died here Tuesday
afternoon after an illness of only a
few days. Col. Randall was perhaps
the most famous of all the war poets.
While going to church in inclement
weather he contracted a cold, which
developed into congestion of the lungs,
and Monday morning he was found
in his room unconscious. He never
rallied.
Increasing Forces.
Fort Worth: Tuesday 150 addition-
al men were given employment at the
Swift and Armour packeries, several
were employed Monday, and many
more will be given employment during
the remainder of the week. Reports
from the packeries are to the effect
that the prospects for good cattle re-
ceipts are very flattering, and as long
as this condition exists plenty of em-
ployment may be found for labor.
Shreveport Goes Dry.
Shreveport: Practically official re-
turns show that prohibition prevailed
in the Caddo parish election Tuesday
by a vote of 1269 to 1193. A total of
1731 votes were cast in Shreveport,
the anti-pros leading by a majority of
280, the country wards, without ex-
ception, going for prohibition. The
issue had been stubbornly fought, and
the outcome was awaited with inter-
est in many parts of the country.
OLD BOREAS GETS BUSY.
Governor Horace Boise of Iowa is
suffering from pneumonia in El Paso,
and while a very sick man, the doctors
say his condition is satisfactory.
The population of Chickasha, Ok., as
shown by C. R. Willing is 8,667, while
the directory will give only the names
of persons over 16 years of age.
It is believed that the first and
most important direct result of the
Farmers’ Union meeting at Memphis
will be a wide diversification of crops.
The annual convention of the South-
era Cotton Growers Association will
meet in Dallas February 19-20. It is
expected that 2500 delegates may be
present.
Strange to say, in the accident in
which the fatality occurred the car
was the usual panic and stampede,
which almost invariably accompanies was being driven slowly on account of
such a catastrophe. The flames spread
rapidly and communicated to other
parts of the theater. Men, women and
children rushed for the many exits,
and the weaker sex and children were
trampled and maimed in the mad rush
to gain the street.
a lost tire. In the car with Mr. Trent-
Taft Favors 110-Foot Canal.
Washington: Secretary Taft
has
written a letter to the President rec-
ommending an increase in the width
of the Panama Cana1 from 100 to 110
feet. The change will cost about
$5,000,000 additional, but meets the na-
val view as to the likelihood of larger
battleships in the future. This will
increase the cost of the locks from
$52,000,000, the commission’s mini-
mum, to $57,000,000, and the grand to-
tal cost to $200,000,000.
Resumption of Bucket Brigade.
Pittsburg, Pa.: Twenty-five thou-
sand skilled workmen in the Pittsburg
district, who have been idle for near-
ly three months, returned to work
Monday, or will have done so by the
end of the week. The Homestead
Steel Works of the Carnegie Steel
Company were started Monday on
almost full time. The Bessemer mills
did not start, but the 14, 84, 72 and
52-inch mills resumed. The third open
hearth department also resumed.
A large increase of the National
Guard of Hawaii is urged by the War
Department in a communication to
Territorial officials.
Shot Unto Death by Assassin.
Navasota: George W. L. Carr, law-
yer and prominent citizen of Navasota,
was shot about 7:30 o’clock Monday
evening as he was going into his
stable to turn out his horse. The
weapon used was evidently a large cal-
iber revolver. The bullet entered the
right side about the lower ribs and
came out of the back on the right
side, penetrating the bowels. Attend-
ing physicians hold out but little hope
of his recovery. The assassin es-
caped.
Wouldn’t That Jar You?
Fort Worth: Complaint has been
made to the police by. D. 0. Holden of
Riverside concerning the theft of $800,
supposed to have been taken from the
Holden residence between noon 'and
5 o’clock Sunday. The money was in
a glass fruit jar, on the top shelf in
the pantry. Of the amount, $40 be-
longed to Mr. Holden and the balance
was the property of Mr. Guthrie, who
has been making his home with the
Holden family.
Nearly 1,000 delegates, representing
nineteen States and Territories, and
cities, counties and agricultural col-
leges will be present at the Dry Farm-
ing convention at Salt Lake City on
January 22-25.
Mrs. J. M. Daniel, the oldest settler
of Paris, died Sunday night, after cel-
ebrating her golden weddind anniver-
sary. She was 111 years old only a
few days before. She was married at
7 o’clock fifty years ago befort she
died.
ham, who lost his life in pursuance of
his duties as reporter for his paper,
were Will Hogg, H. C. Mosehart, own-
er of the large, White steamer in
which the party was riding, E. A.
Grosser, representative of the White
Company as chaffeur, and a Mr. Sim-
mons,
An American touring car was involv-
ed in the second accident, which hap-
pened on a sharp curve at Eureka.
Occupants of the car were Ray Weiss,
Brown Botts, Eugene Bender and B.
D. Kemp, who was driving. Owing to
the high speed the car failed to nego-
tiate the curve and skidded into the
ditch and turned over a couple of
times. Mr. Sontag brought the car to
town under its own power.
Things are Tense in Ol’ Kentuck.
Frankfort, Ky., Jan 12.—If the
Democrats hold together, ex-Gov.
Beckman will be elected United States
Senator. Former Gov. W. 0. Bradley
has the Republican caucus nomination,
and his friends claim he will defeat
Becham. The Democrats have about
five majority on joint ballot, but a
strong fight has been made on Beck-
nam on account of the manner in
which he secured the nomination,
and several members refuse to sup-
port him.
Blustering Breeze Sweeps Over the
Entire South. •
Dallas, Jan. 11.—Reports received
by The News tell of high winds at
many places in Texas and in instances
it is declared the velocity during Fri-
day was greater than has been attain-
ed at designated points in many years.
Over the greater part of the section of
the State heard from, being practical-
ly the entire upper half of Texas, the
gale has been accompanied either by
rain, sleet or snow. Reports of heavy-
falls of either are few and where
there has been features additional to
the wind, rain is usually reported.
Indications at a late hour last night
were that uncertain weather would
continue several hours. The Associat-
ed Press sent out the following from
New Orleans:
‘From Texas to Florida storm warn-
ings were issued on the Gulf Coast
today. Special warnings were issued
for the Texas, Louisiana and Missis-
sippi coasts and stated that a storm
was moving eastward over Texas.
Thunderstorms, warm murky weather
and strong cold winds were all in turn
experienced today.”
Fourteen Hour Law Invalid.
Bastrop: Judge Ed R. Sinks of the
Twenty-first Judicial District, at Bas-
trop, held that the fourteen-hour law
passed by the Thirtieth Legislature,
attempting to regulate the working
hours of employes of railroads, was in
conflict with the Federal statute limit-
ing the working of employes to six-
teen hours in any twenty-four. Coun-
ty Attorney Jenkins excepted to the
judgment of the Court and gave notice
of appeal to the Third Court of Civil
Appeals.
Gored to Death by Cow.
Rockdale: Mrs. Pinkie Mitchell, for
a number of years past identified with
the restaurant business here, was gor-
ed to death by a cow late Thursday
afternoon and almost instantly killed.
Henry Coleman, a carpenter about
40 years old, working in Dallas, was
arrested a few days since on a charge
of having murdered James Curdry in
Alabama in 1901.
An erecting plant will be used in
cement work on the Gatum dam, to
cost $225,000, and a power plant to
cost $400,000, have been ordered from
the United States.
While switching in the local Texas
and Pacific yards at Texarkana, M. D.
Bowles, a switchman, slipped from the
footboard of the yard engine and was
run over and killed.
Monday night R. T. Robinson, an en-
gineer, had his left hand cut entirely
off while attempting to crawl under a
freight car at Baird, the train starting
while he was under it.
A bill to refund to the several States
the cotton tax realized by the Govern-
ment under the cotton tax laws of
1862 and 1864 was introduced Friday
by Mr. Thomas of Georgia.
Chief of Police Maddox of Fort
Worth has asked the grand jury to in-
vestigate the alleged conspiracy which
he declares has been plotted to dis-
grace and drive him from office.
The United States Geological Sur-
vey is to make a thorough inspection
of the Llano-Burnet mineral country
and to that end Dr. C. Willard Hays,
chief geologist, has gone to Burnet.
While hunting with two companions
one mile south of Palestine, a son of
Rev. G. A. Baty, pastor of the Colored
Methodist church, was instantly killed
by the accidental discharge of a gun.
"Caliph,” the great hippopotomus,
which for twenty-two years has been
in the Central Park Zoo, New York, is
dead. Caliph was the largest animal
of his breed in America, weighing,
something like four tons.
At a mass meeting of prohibition ad-
Ine cow was being driven by Mrs. vocates from every section of Missis-
-------------— Mitchell into the pen where its young
In a panic rush at a gathering of I calf was, and turning on Mrs. Mitchell
school children in Barnely, England,
16 were trampled to death and 45 were
seriously injured.
and struck her with her horn under
the breast bone. The deceased leaves
two grown children.
sippi held at Jackson, resolutions were
adopted condemning the C. 0. D.
liquor traffic and memoralizing the
State Legislature to pass a statutory
prohibition measure.
The Panis Has Petered.
New York, Jan. 13. — The rapid
clearing up of the banking situation
and the release of large supplies of
credits to the money markets were
the important features of last week’s
events in the financial world. The
weekly bank statement of the previ-
ous week gave the first decisive out-
line of the turn in the situation. The
statement Saturday, showing a $6.-
000,000, has brilliantly confirmed the
week’s improvements.
The effect has spread throughout
the money markets of the world, and
has sent supplies back into the loan
market with something like a rush.
It was obvious that funds that had
been held through a lingering spirit of
distrust of the bank’s position, or as
a precaution against extra demands,,
were returning freely to central re
serve points. The Bank of France
marked down its official discount rate
from 4 to 3% per cent, and rates of
discount receded in all foreign mar-
kets.
American Fleet Makes Good Headway.
Rio de Janeiro: The American fleet
of sixteen battleships entered the port
of Rio de Janeiro at 3 o’clock Sunday
afternoon, after a passage from Port
of Spain, Trinidad, more than 3,000
miles, unmarred by accidents, replete
with interesting incidents and ending
with a royal welcome from thousands
that had gathered to greet them. The
fleet weighed anchor at 4 o’clock in
the afternoon of December 29, at Port
of Spain.
Iron Furnaces.
Birmingham, Ala.: Announcement
is made that the surplus of pig iron
which has accumulated since October,
because of the collapse of the iron
market has been reduced in the past
few weeks from 90,000 tons to less
than 55,000 tons and the curtailed pro-
duction will shortly be called off, one
furnace in the Birmingham district be-
ing started up since Monday of last
week.
Schlatter Alive Again.
Boston, Mass.: Startling this city
by the announcement that he has been
dead, but is alive, a man appeared
here declaring himself to be none oth-
er than “Divine Healer" Schlatter,
who created something of a sensation
in Texas and that part of the State
of Oklahoma which was Indian Terri-
tory, asserting that he was possessed
of power to heal divers diseases, cast
out devils, etc.
Carpenter’s Fatal Fall.
Dallas: John G. Graffam, a carpen-
ter at the Dallas brewery Friday
mounted a brace, which he had put up
for the purpose of nailing a plank over
a crack in the engine room. The
brace gave way under him and he fell
twenty-five feet, lighting on a dead
electric dynamo. His skull was frac-
tured and four or five ribs broken. He
died within a few minutes.
At Des Moines Charle Hacken-
schmidt of Des Moines, who claims
the light heavy-weight wrestling cham-
pionship of the United States, Friday
night defeated Walter Evans of Knox-
ville, Tenn., in a fierce struggle.
It is estimated that 150,000 pounds
of pecans have been marketed by the
farmers of Oklahoma, this being only
walf of the crop in the new State The
low prices are said to be responsible
for the holding of a large part of the
crop.
Gov. Vardaman has sent his fare-
well message to the Mississippi Legis-
lature. It was the longest document
ever submitted to the lawmaking body
in that State, consisting of nearly 20,-
000 words.
While going through a fence while
out hunting Marvin Lynch was killed
by the accidental discharge of both
barrels of a shotgun near his home in
Kingsbury. He was sixteen years old,
the son of Gus Lynch, a prominent
merchant.
Missing from his home since the
day after Christmas, the body of E.
H. Ohring of Galveston, aged sixty-
seven years, was found Saturday morn-
ing beneath a wharf on the water
front.
There is little chance for strikes
this year among the building trades.
The employers have signed contracts
with a large number of the men, and
in cases where the agreements have
not been concluded arrangements are
under way.
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