News-Journal from Mansfield, Ohio • 1

about If News Mr. ask can GOOD EVENING With a county fair, delegates to national prison congress and two candidates for governor here- all in one week-it's been strenuous. SIX PEOPLE WERE KILLED And Six Seriously Injured in An- other Traction Line Wreck in Indiana IN A HEAD-O COLLISION Limited Passenger and a Freight Car Come Together on a Curve Near Tipton- All the Passengers in the Smoking Car of the Limited Killed--Condition of the Injured Unknown. Tipton, Sept. head on collision on the Indianopalis and Peru division of the Indiana Union Traction company's lines between a passenger and a freight car resulted in the death of six persons and serious injury to six more.

The dead: Dr. W. T. Holthomer, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Walter Holthomer, Brooklyn, N. Y. Ferd Railsback, Hymeria, Ind. Jonce Baker, motorman of limited car, Logansport, Ind. Lewis Bree, Kokomo, Ind.

B. F. Welsh, Marshal, Mich. The cars came together on a curve and all the passengers in the smoking compartment of the limited were killed. The motorman and conductor on the freight car jumped and were not injured.

The injured were brought to Tipton and physicians were summoned to attend them. Seriously injured are: Vincent Zantogfle, Sharpsville, Ind. Joe Hawkins, Indianapolis. Mrs. Mariette Hutchins, Alexandria, Ind.

J. E. Ballinge, Sharpsville, Ind. Mrs. T.

A. Moore, Elwood, Ind. Charles Grave, Indianapolis. A. E.

Curtis and wife, Indianapolis. Just how serious a condition the injured are in cannot now be stated. The cars crashed together at the Ressler crossing, two miles north of Tipton, under conditions almost identical with the tagic wreck near Bluffton on Wednesday. A clump of trees hid the approaching cars and they came together at a curve. The freight car plowed through the front of the limited demolishing the smoker.

The southbound freight car over-ran the stopping place. The motorman had orders to wait at the first stop north of the crossing, it is said, but passed that point, thinking he could make another switch, and ran into the north-bound limited which was in charge of Joe Baker, of Logansport, motoman, and Ed Harrison, conductor, also of Logansport. FORTY -FIRST VICTIM Of Wednesday's Traction Wreck at Kingsland, Dies Today. Fort Wayne, Sept. Clyde Brown of Warren, died in a hospital here today of injuries received in the traction wreck at Kingsland, Wednesday.

The deaths now total 41. Three others are not expected to survive. General Manager C. D. Emmens has been placed in possession of the only order given the extra car crew Wednesday.

The order was found in the clothing of Motorman B. F. Corkwell by a woman who gave him aid before he was brought to the hospital here. The traction officials believe the recovery of the original order fully establishes their contention that Corkwell and Wilson were to blame for the disaster. PETITION IS FILED Columbus Citizens Prefer Charges Against Mayor Marshall.

Columbus, 0., Sept. to the Governor George Long, while admitting that charges against Mayor Marshall of Columbus had been filled in his office, refused to discuss the charges. It is known, however, that the charges have reference to Marshall's conduct during the two streetcar strikes, it having been openly charg ed that he was in sympathy with the strikers and that his failure to prop erly enforce the law was largely responsible for the reign of lawlessness that kept people off the cars for several weeks. It is also said that many affidavits accompany the charges, several being from policemen who struck when ordered to ride the cars as protection to the strikebreakers. It is said that the affidavits assert that the mayor at first told the offlecers that they would not be asked to ride the care.

Streetcar employes swear that he advised them to join the streetcar union as the best way for them to protect selves against the company. THE THE Year, No. CHAVEZ BADLY HURT Peruvian Aviator Will Be Confined to Hospital Some Time. Domodossola, Italy, Sept. George Chavez, the Peruvian aviator who thrilled the world yesterday by a flight over the Alps at an altitude of a mile and a half and then lost control of his monoplane when he had descended to within thirty feet of the surface, passed a fairly good night.

The physicians stated that except for a disturbing lethargy the condition of the patient was satisfactory. The broken legs, fractured thigh and many bruises, the price in addition to the mental shock which the twenty-three-yearold boy paid for the glory of being the first to fly from Switzerland to Italy will keep him in the hospital for some time but the medical men hope for an ultimate recovery. He is being showered with messages of mingled congratulation and condolence but is in no state to appreciate these or to discuss his exploit and the why of its unhappy ending. MURDER THEORY HELD Muncie Police Connect Woman With Banker's Death. Muncie, Sept.

-The police are investigating the reports that a woman was connected with the mysterious murder of Norman Black, organizer and vice president of the People's Trust company and prominent business man. Black was slain while driving. Black went to a local livery stable and asked for a horse and buggy, saying he desired to make a business trip to the southern part of the city. Fifty minutes later attendants saW the horse walk into the stable and Black seated erect in the seat, blood streaming down his face and his body securely wrapped in the blanket of the buggy. Black died an hour later in a hospital.

He never regained consciousness. He had been shot in the forehead and the ball had passed through his brain. Switzer is Nominated. Jackson, Sept. seven hours of continuous balloting the congressional committee of the Tenth district nominated Switzer of Gallia county as the successor of Adna R.

Johnson, resigned. It is rumored here that there will be an independent candidate in the field in the person of Sherman Eagle, leader of the anti-Switzer faction in Gallia county. HOME PAPER OF 170. MANSFIELD, OHIO, TRAIN DASHES INTO TORRENT Sixteen Killed and Eleven Injured in Wreck on Rock Island in Kansas. OTHERS MAY BE WASHED AWAY Dry Bed of River Swollen by Heavy Rains Washes Away Bridge and Rock Island Train Is Engulfed.

Engine, Tender and Baggage Car Completely Submerged--Smoker Stops on Brink and Is Telescoped by Pullman. Clayton, Sept. totalling 16, with others probably killed and their bodies washed away, and 11 injured is the record of wreck which occurred two miles east of this place, when a fast train ran through an open bridge into 20 feet of raging water. Nine of the dead have been identified, while seven are as yet unknown. Others may have been washed away by the torrent.

The stream is at ordinary times simply a dry arroya with no water, with its bed 30 feet below the level of the railroad bridge. A tremendous rain fell and the ordinarily dry bed Was soon filled to the brim with a wild torrent. The bridge itself was quickly broken up and carried away. The locomotive, tender and bag. gage car disappeared entirely under the water and the engineer, fireman, baggageman and conductor wore all instantly killed.

The smoker, which stopped on the brink of the stream, WAS telescoped by the chair car, and many of the passengers killed outright. Others were thrown into the stream and were drowned. With the exception of the last Pullman the entire train left the track and the cars and coaches were piled up in one big heap of debris or rolled into ditch. The uninjured passengers made their way to the brink of the stream and rendered what aid they could, working by the light of the few terns which could be found. THE TRAGIC ENDING OF TWO LIVES WHICH CLEVELAND OFFICIALS WILL INVESTIGATE Cleveland, Sept.

by three revolver shots early today, Lawrence Distel, 1610 East 84th street, ran from his room at the rear of the house to his wife's room at the front and found Paul O. Mueller, a friend of the family, dead on the floor, with Mrs. Distel dying at his feet. Mrs. Distel died a few minutes loter.

The police think Mrs. Distel shot Mueller and then herself. Two of the bullets took effect in Mueller's body, A revolver lay on the floor beside them. Distel is held by the po- SENATOR ELKINS IS REPORTED VERY ILL Wheeling, W. Stephen B.

Elkins is reported to be seriously ill at his West Virginia home near here, and it is said that the primary SENATOR STEPHEN B. ELKINS! cause of his trouble is the publicity which has been given the oft denied engagement of his daughter, Miss Katherine, to the Duke of the Abruzzi. During the last few months, it is said. the senator has lost nearly seventy pounds in weight, and his condition is considered alarming. MANSFIELD AND RICHLAND COUNTY, OHIO MANSFIELD NEWS SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1910.

Price 5 Cents. NATIONAL IRRIGATION CONGRESS HOLDS EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL SESSION MINERAL PALACE ARTHUR HOOKER, SECRETARY policies have been formulated as the result of its influence. Members of cabinets and congress -and high departmental officials have been among its leaders, and the annual R.INSINGER have brought together the largest bodies of men of strong personality, power of initiative, high, character and acknowledged ability for the consideration of questions of vital importance to the whole country. The work of the congress is helpful, the purpose being the people of the entire country as well as those in this lead of magnifient distances and possibilities and bring them together. The slogan of the congress best explains its purposes- "To save the forests, store the floods, reclaim the deserts and make homes on the land." The officers of the congress are: B.

A. Fowler of Arizona, president; Arahur Hooker of Colorado, secretary, and R. Insinger of Washington, chairman of the board of governors. A JOY RIDE AT NEW ORLEANS PROBABLY CAUSES LOSS OF SIX LIVES New Orleans, Sept. persons are believed to have been drowned when a large touring car, returning from West End, a lake resort to New Orleans this morning ran off the road, crashed through a fence and fell into a canal.

One of the bodies has been recovered and identified as that of John Freeman, of New York city. He was a traveling salesman for a New York perfumery manufacturing company and had been stopping at a local hotel for several days. The car left West End shortly before daylight and is believed to have had six or seven occupants. Waiters at a West End restaurant said the car was driven by Thomas Bottler, an automobile dealer, former proprietor of the Oak hotel in New Orleans. He had two women and three or four men as his guests.

A workman passing along the shell road which connects New Orleans Subway Agent Robbed. New York, Sept. masked men ran down the stairs of the uptown station of the subway at Worth street this morning, savagely attacked Edward Gallagher, the ticket agent, and away with $200, leaving the agent unconscious on the floor of the station. Odd Fellows Pick Indianapolis. Atlanta, Sept.

was selected as the next convention city by the sovereign grand lodge, Independent Order of Odd. Fellows, defeating for the honor Los Angeles, Baltimore, Chicago and Sydney, Australia, which had made bide for the convention. talk about lard and peaches in the same advertisement. I would take one article at a time and talk about it for all it was worth. I would advertise staple goods for Monday because people generally buy such supplies at the beginning of the week.

Another day I would talk about tea, then coffee, then butter. And I would have a great deal to say about vegetables and fruit and other canned goods--Saturdays I would offer thing extra way of suggestions for Sunday luncheon and dinner. I would advertise regularly in the News and I would use the kind of copy that would appeal to the people and make them want my groceries. I could not write that sort of copy I would the News to supply itThe supply it, you know. Well, Grocer? Phones 167, either phone, for News Want Ads.

Call us up and we will send a messenger for your ad. CANTON OPENS WIDE ITS GATES Admits Large Crowd to Democratic Opening With Several State Candidates Talking Politics. GOVERNOR IS AMONG SPEAKERS B.A. FOWLER, PRESIDENT PUEBLO. COLORADO! Pueblo, Colo -It is a peculiarly appropriate and equally significant fact that the eighteenth national irrigation congress is held in the city named for the tribe of Indians that first practiced the ancient art of irrigation in this country--the Pueblo tribe.

These Ininhabited portions of New Mexico and as well as southern Colorado. Their decendants were still cultivating the land and practicing irrigation when the Spanish came to these parts centuries ago. Traces of the work of this tribe are still to be found in the great southwest, and the marvel of the modern engineering is the precision with which. they COnstructed their ditches and their works. The national irrigation congress has been a factor for good since its Incep.

tion at Salt Lake City in 1892, and it is not too much to say that national OFFICIALS TOO BUSY Gregg Buys Pools but Finds No One to Arrest Bookmakers. Columbus, Sept. E. Gregg of Cleveland, secretary of the International Reform bureau, didn't have any luck at all when he made the rounds of the authorities trying to find one who would stop pool-selling and other gambling at the Grand Circuit races that are on here. he went to Prosecutor Webber, but was told by that official that he was too busy with the grand jury, Sheriff Sartain told Gregg he was too busy serving subpenas for Webber.

The governor was out of town. Mayor Marshall wouldn't say just what he said to the reformer. It 1s intimated that he kicked on being made the goat by the other authorities. The race track is outside the city. Later Sheriff Sartain referred Gregg to the constable of Marion township, in which the track is located.

Gregg says that he attended the races and bought nine tickets from bookmakers to get evidence of gambling. Coroners Had Busy Year. Columbus, 0., Sept. Ohio coropers conducted 2,957 inquests during the year ending June 30. The divisions, according to causes of death, were as follows, according to the fig.

ures compiled by State Statistician Cain: Homicides, males, 107; temales, 37; suicides, males, 318; females, 104; accidental deaths, males, females, 142; causes unknown, males, 733; females, 383. Divided as to race there were 2,206 inquests into the deaths of white males and 623 into the deaths of white females; 85 into the deaths of negro males and 43 negro females. Native borns aggregated foreign borns, 537; nationality unknown, 159. The total number of deaths superinduced by excessive drinking of- liquor was 91. A gentleman into my office, took off his hat, sat down and delivered himself some.

thing after this manner: "You say you would like to own a bakery--sometimes I wish I owned one--but I don't--I own a grocery store." "What would do do if you owned a grocery store?" I answered that I would do pretty much the same with a grocery store as with a bakery--appeal to the palates and pocketbooks of the people by telling them the good things in my store and the fair prices I charged for them. I would not, as some grocers do, Tells What He Has Accomplished in First Administration and What He Expects to Do if Continued in Office-Atlee and Timothy Hogan Point With Pride to Democratic Achievements and Make Promises of Future Performances. Canton, 0., Sept. 24. The Democrats of Ohio opened their state campaign in this city--the home of Atlee Pomerene, the candidate for ant governor--today.

Members of the party from all parts of the state were here in great numbers and the affair throughout was a veritable love feast. Enthusiasm was manifested throughout the proceedings and the hearts of the candidates were made glad by the reports brought from different parts of the state. Chairman Nichols called the large crowd that packed the auditorium to order. He made a brief address and then introduced Governor Harmon, who was greeted with tremendous applause. complete text of the governor's speech will be found on the twelfth page of this Atlee Pomerene, candidate for lieutenant governor, spoke for an hour on business methods in public life.

The principal points brought out in his speech were a denial that the Democratic platform charges the Republican party with shielding and defending grafters, but that it did say that the Republican officeholders shielded and defended grafters; that Ohio might be willing to trust Harding alone, but not Harding in companionship with Cox; that the people of Ohio can not afford now to make a change; that privilege does not grant favors to the public, but extracts them from the public. Timothy Hogan of Wellston, candidate for attorney general, defined progressive Republican as one who loves Democratic principles and wants to adopt them. He appealed for votes in the following language: "The need of a legal adviser in full sympathy with the administration is most apparent, and I trust that the re-election of Governor Harmon will also insure the election of all his associates on the state ticket." Among other things Mr. Hogan said: "What can we expect of Ohio, where Republican insurgency is rampant, with a stand-pat platform and hitched-tight candidate for governor and a hitched-tighter candidate for United States senator? "Our opponents insist that graft is not a party question. This does not come well from those who offered their protection to the grafters two years ago and who would be silent now were they not driven from der cover by Governor Harmon." Excursions were run on all railroads entering the city and the crowd began pouring in at 7 o'clock.

The largest delegation was from Cleveland, with Columbus a close second. Governor Harmon arrived early from Mansfield, and spent the time before the opening of the speaking program in hearing reports from friends from all parts of the state. lice until the case can be untangled. He told the officers that because of ill health he had been sleeping in a tent in the back yard, but had- been driven into the house by a heavy rain last night. Mrs.

Distel was the mother of two children. Mueller was married and had two children. Distel, who was taken into cusLody pending an investigation was released from Central police station this afternoon as the police were convinced by his story that he knew nothing of the double tragedy until he discovered the bodies. MEXICAN STATE FLOODED Poozle Roost on Housetops Until Help Arrives. Victoria, Mexico, Sept.

rains for more than a week have caused floods all over the state of Tamaulipas. Dispatches received by the state and government authorities tell of great property losses and terrible suffering. From the town of Camargo, at the junction of the San Juan river with the Rio Grande, a tale of suffering and heroism has reached this city. The town was completely inundated and every house was under water. Men waded about and removed the women and children to places of safety on the hills, from the roofs of their homes, where they had taken refuge.

The town is completely cut off from communication with the outside world, and for hours the people remained on the roofs of the houses in the pouring rain. All live stock in the district was drowned and the crops ruined and, according to reports, the people only escaped death from drowning to suffer the more horrible one of starving. Wins All His Races. Columbus, Sept. Boy, winner of paces here at the Grand Circuit meeting on Monday and Tuesday, featured the program by the 2:07 pace in straight heats.

these were better than taking, 2:05, and the race stands as the fastest one of the week. Taft Goes Home. Cincinnati, 0., Sept. Taft left here this afternoon and expects to reach Washington tomorrow morning, with West End, and which runs parallel with what is known as the New Basin canal, said the car was running at such a high rate of speed that he could not see how many occupants it contained. few seconds later he saw the car swerve and plunge Into the canal.

He ran towards the spot and made out the figure of one man who sank while attempting to swim ashore. Apparatus belonging to a wrecking company was taken to the canal this morning. The car will be hoisted to the surface and divers sent down in an effort to recover the other bodies. Up to 11 o'clock this morning three bodies had been recovered, those of Freeman, Bottler and an unidentifiled woman apparently about 25 years of age. The bodies were taken to the morgue but Freeman's was immediately claimed by friends and probably will be sent at once to New York.

ELLIS LIKES LAW Says He Will Not Accept Seat on Commerce Bench. Cincinnati, Sept. El lis, former assistant attorney general, who resigned to become chairman of the Ohio Republican executive committee, said he would not accept a judgeship if tendered by Taft. This sets at rest the reports that Ellis would be appointed to the commerce court. "No quiet harbors or green pastures for me," Ellis said.

"I preter to practice law." HARDING AMONG MINERS Promises to Work for Arbitration Law if Elected. Corning, 0., Sept. 24. Accepting the issue of compulsory arbitration growing out of the Columbus streetcar strike, Warren G. Harding declared for an arbitration law between public service corporations and employes, and added: "If elected I will use my Influence and power as governor to secure the enactment of such a law." George Peck, civil war veteran, has turned up at his home in Pawtucket, R.

after an absence of 48 years, during which time he was mourned as dead by his family. William King, Pennsylvania englneer, died of injuries received in wreck near Delaware, 0. Pen Fugitive Recaptured. Columbus, Sept. Jacob Bolles, the "trusty" prisoner who escaped from the penitentiary a week ago, was captured at his former home, Ironton, 0.

WEATHER INDICATIONS. (WONDER WOT IT'S GOIN' TO Do Washington, Sept. Ohio: Partly cloudy and colder tonight, with showers in north portion, Sunday fair with colder in eastern and central portions, brisk southwest to west winds. Sun rises 5:48, sets 5:56..