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1 I -1- 1 Tvo Editions Dolly. TWELVE PAGESPART oKlE National press Service; Til DAILY JOURNAL-GAZETTE, Th Irtv-Elohth Yai No. 13. MATTOON, ILLINOIS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 15, 1912. Price 5 fsnts.

WIIITF STAR I IfJFR TITflMfbl EACH BUREAU IN AN ATTACK TAFT AND ROOSEVELT MANAGERS ASSAIL METHODS OF THE OTHER. OUR CANDIDATE COLLIDES WITH AN ICEBERG ATTACHED Hug Hole Rammed in Vessel Beneath Water Line Late Sun' day Night- Steamers Rush to Assistance and Passengers coroner's jury brings in an Open verdict in inquest over joseph gharrett. Are Taken Ott Life-Boat Now Making Her Way Un der Own Steam Toward Halifax. NO BLAME Nations! Ttlsgraph Service. FUNERAL WEDNESDAY EACH IN STATEMENT St.

Johns, New Foundland, April 15. With a huge hole in her side beneath the water line, due to a collision with an iceberg last'nigbtytM Titanic, one of the new liners of the White Star company, is limping toward Halifax today, being in a sinking" condition, She Is coming under her own steam, and it is probable that she will be able to make that port All the passengers were taken off by other vessels in lifeboats. The plates of the big boat are shattered and her bow is crumpled. A big hole is rammed beneath the wafer line, but the air-tight compartments and the powerful high pressure pumps prevented the entire hull from' filling and enabled her to keep afloat, despite -the fact that she listed dangerously. ft is reported that the captain and the crew refused to de- I filial 6tKTtME' smi apse, Hhi-mone' mustache, La- Evidence Showed No Flag on Cut of Cars, Where Mr.

Gharrett Was Working, According to Rules. No blame was fixed for the accident that caused the untimely death of Alderman Joseph Gharrett on Saturday afternoon by the coroner's jury that met at 7 o'clock in the evening, an open verdict being found after hearing testimony. The jurors simply wrote that Joseph Gharrett came to death from an accident in which he was thrown from the top of a caboose in the Big Four yards. Examination showed that the victim's neck was broken by the fall, for he alighted on his head and shoulders. One arm was fractured and severe bruises and cuts all over the body were found by the surgeons.

The evidence showed no blue flag was set out on the caboose track when the cut of cars' struck the caboose upon which Mr. Gharrett was at work. Its absence is unexplained. The engineer' of the switch engine testified that a coupling broke in the string of cars he was shunting toward the caboose and allowed a tew loose freight cars to cut loose and hit the caboose. This partially explains the accident.

Some of the testimony taken at the inquest which was conducted by Coroner McClelland was as follows: Engineer Testifies. Thomas Harrington, in charge of the engine which shunted the cars striking the fcahoose, stated that he backed in on the switch and was backing down the track when he received a alow signal. He slowed down, but the coupling broke leaving only one car attached to the engine, the remainder of the cut rolling on down the tratk striking the three ears of- which the eabcose was one. He stated that' there was no blue flag on the west end of the cut of cars. J.

H. Byard, a brakeman, and Sam Owens, fireman, substantiated the story of the absent flag. J. H. Axe, a brakeman In the caboose-from which Gharrett fell, saw him start to roll off the roof the train struck, but an attempt to throw himself away from the track failed.

He stated that Gharrett fell with bis back 'squarely across the track and the rear truck of the second car. ran over his chest and arms. C. B. Naharam, a brakeman, saw a blue flag on the east vnd of the caboose an hour after the accident happened, but not before.

Conductor W. E. Harris stated that he saw the yard foreman going toward the cut of cars with blue flags fully an hour after the accident happened, but that there were no signals up when the engine backed down on the cut of cars. James. E.

Luby, a car repairer, who was at work on the car with Mr. Gharrett at the time of the accident, testified that Gharrett had confe to him asking for aid in removing a running board on top of the caboose. According "To ftl testimony, there were two cars west of the caboose on which the two men were working, tyith several car lengths 'Intervening between them and the next cut of cars. He stated that no flag bad. been placed at either end of the cut of cars although the rules' of the road demand that a blue flag be placed at each end of the cut whenever anyone Is working about the cars.

In which case an engineer Is prohibited to touch the cut. Funtral Wednesday. The funeral services will be held from the residence, 1120 Lafayette avenue, at 2:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Rev. H.

L. Pyle, pastor of the First Congregational church, in which the decedent bad been an energetic member, will conduct the memorial service. Burial will be made in Dodge Grove cemetery. Mayor H5, T. Guthrie has called a special meeting of the city council at 7:30 o'cloek tonight.

Resolutions "touching the death of a member of the body wljl he adopted and plans will, be made for tbe participation in the death rites. It is expected that all departments of city service will be represented in the funeral cortege. CLIFFORD LIDSTER IS IN A DANVILLE HOSPITAL Clifford Lldster, formerly of this city, employed In Danville for some time, Is now In St. Elisabeth's hospital In that city. Buffering from illness.

Mr. Lldster was employed in the Chicago and Eastern Illinois shops until the general layoff about ten days ago. NOTICE TO April 16, is the last day to save, the discount on your March light Pay your bills on that day. and save the discount. Office open until 11 p.

m. CENTRAL ILLINOIS PUBLIC SBRV- ICS CO.v Managers McKlnley and Dixon for Taft and Roosevelt Have Opinions of Their Own and Express Them. Washington. April 15 Republican warfare 'last night took on a ruddter tinge with the issuance of statements from the rival headquarters. Representative McKlnley, director of the Tart campaign, attacked the methods of Colonel Roosevelt as "a campaign of willful and malicious misrepresentation, vtlllfication and assault on the President," and asserted the colonel's "claiming to wear the mantle of Abraham Lincoln Is evidence that the acme of demagogism in this country has been reached." Chairman Dixon of tbe Roosevelt bureau in a statement which held the action of Pennsylvania made the repudiation of the Taft candidacy complete, concluded thus: "The Taft managers have the effrontery to claim that a candidate who is already repudiated by more than 7 to 1 of Ins party Is entitled to rahominatlon." McKlnley Is Ressntful.

"Senator Joseph M. Dixon, the nationaf campaign manager of former President Roosevelt, has been permitted without rebuke from his candidate to Insult the President of the United States," Mr. McKinley'a statement read. "He has not only been permitted to charge the President with being 'a receiver of stolen goods' without protest, but former President Roosevelt has repeated the charge on the stump. Claims 200 "Including Pennsylvania, which, according to latest advices, has given President Taft at least it vdtes in the national convention, the President has today 364 delegates Instructed for or pledged needs nly more delegates to insure bis renominatlon.

He IS already assure of 383 more delegates, making his support in the Chicago con. vention H6 delegates, or more than 200 majority. "In this connection, it must not be forgotten that the President was nominated four years ago without the votes of the states of Illinois, Pennsylvania, Indiana, New York or Wis consln. In this contest he is already assured of an overwhelming majority of the delegates from Jndiana and New York and of a large number ot delegates In Pennsylvania, none of which voted for htm In 1901" Claims North for Colonel. "Up to the beginning of April," Chairman Dixon says, "the Taft msn-agers had been able to make the appearance of having a canslderable number of delegates through the well- known plan of holding snap, hard-picked conventions in the southern states-.

But with this month the scene of action shifted to the northern states, where the real strength of the Republican party lies. "Four of them, acting through prt- paries, send an aggregate of 170 dele- gates to the national convention, These four great states have rcpudiat-i ed Mr. Taft's candidacy by more than i 11 to 1 of their delejates to th 1 national 'convention. "North Dakota and Wisconsin give him not a single delegate. In Illinois Mr.

Taft obtained only two, those from the district controlled by the notorious Senator Lorimpr. whrmo machine furnished the chief element i of support to the Taft candidacy in jthe- Illinois primaries. In Pennsyl- vanla. another machine-ridden state, I the utmost endeavors of Senator Penrose and his bosses in behalf of Mr. Taft could give him only nine or ten i delegates.

Places Strength at 1S6. "In the ten other states In which (the Republfcan party is an important tactor that have chosen delegates to the Chicago convention the selection was eiiber by the old caucus and con-vejptdon system or by conventions the delegates to which were chosen at what Mr. Taft has contemptuously described bb "soap box primaries. "From, fourteen Republican states 392 delegates have been chosen. Ot these 186 are for Colonel Roosevelt, fifty-four for Mr.

Taft, thirty-six for Senator LaFollette. four for Senator Cummins, ninety-four are unlnstruct-ed and eighteen are contested. "Colonel Roosevelt has nearly four times as many instructed uncontested delegates from the Republican north as Mr. Taft has. yet the Taft managers have the effrontery to claim that a candidate who is already repudiated by more than 7 to 1 by his party is entitled to renominatlon." THROWS SNOWBALL, SHOT AND DIES OF WOUND 8pringfleld, 111,, April 15.

Elmer Gilbert, years old, who was shot during the Christmas holidays by An-gelo Lombardo. IT years, whom be hit with a snowball, died at his home last night, result of a wound through the groin, inflicted with a 22-caIlbsr rifle. Lombardo was never apprehended and is said Italy. sert the vessel, remaining and making very effort to save ber The belief I expressed here late this afternoon that all the passengers are isfe on other liners, which hastened to the assistance of the stricken boat. 8tandlng By to Assist.

New York, April IB Vice President Franklin ot the White 8tar line announced today that he had received a wlreleas message, from Captain Haddock of the Olympic, stating that the liners Parisian and Carpathla were standing by the side of the Titanic, ready for assistance, and that the Carpathla already had taken oft twenty boat loads of passengers. Massage From Psssenger. Boston, April 15. A wlreleas message received here today from Herbert H. Hllliard' of Brighton, a passenger on the Titanic, says, "Passengers all saved; trahsf erred to the Bal-tlo and Has (seen Taken In Tow.

Cape Race, April 18. A wireleaa from the Virginian today says that the Virginian-has taken the Titanic in her tow and Is bringing ber to port as rapidly as possible. Alt Passengers Are Safe. --JiersTotfeTAPflt--18 AH Passengers on board the Titanic were removed la safety to the steamship Virginian, according to advices received here today through' revenue cutter service. -'s In Wireless Communication.

Cape Race, April 15. It is reported that the staamahlp Olympic was in direct communication by wireless with the Titanic at 6:24 a. m. 'Expects to Reach Titanic Cape Race, April 15. later, the captain ot the Olympic stated by wireless that be expected to reach the Titanic by 3 o'clock this afternoon.

It Is reported that the stesmer Baltic wU reach the Titanic by 4 o'clock this afternoon. Titanic Badly Damaged. Slasconett, April IS. The steamer Olympic, In a message received at the Slasconett station today, stated that she had been In communication with the Titanic and had received a message to the effect that the was badly damaged by the CapUm Smith of She Titanic reporting to the, Olympic, before the failure df the wireless apparatus to work properly, said that he would transfer kit passengers to the first steamship that arrived on the scene. Reports Vessel- Sinking.

Cape Aprfl 15. A wireless message from the. Virginian states that Captain Smith of the Titanic reports tljat' his vessel Is sinking and that be will be unable to make port with Bay Vssset Cannot Sink. New Tprk, April lS.Offlcers of the White Star (Un Steamship com-- pany announced today that it would be impossible tor the Olympic to reach the aide of tnV Titanic before o'clock P. A.

Franklin, vice-president of the International Merchant Marine and one ot the owners of (be White Star Line, said Jtiat' the Titanic was virtually unslnkable, thai she "would float even with ber Caws: smashed. He said that the allure of the wireless apparatus to work properly was probably due to- atmospheric conditions. JA8PER RESIDENT is FOUND REAP IN HI8 BED Special to Joumal-Qazette. Newton, 111. April 15.

Martin -tSi-terbaok, aged S6 years, for several years a resident of this, county, was, on Friday morning, found dead In his bsd at the residence of bis daughter, Mrs. 'James Aldridge, eight miles southeast of this city. He had ber. la 111 bealtk for soipe time and deatn 'was evidently, caused by heart failure. Iieputy Coroner Matheny went down nd held an Inquest, with C.

J. Per-' aval, Charles Tralnor, EU Wakefield, lharles Masgrore, Leonard Aldridge jnd Charles M. Honey, as jurors. QOES FOR MRS. CLARK.

H. W. Clark, departed today for toeheater, Minn, to bring tack with Um Mrs. Clsrk, who Is recovering Uptdly in the Mayo hospital from an IperatloB for goiter." It Is believed tey will arrive la the city "Wodnea TkarSday, ANTITOXIN IS TO BE FURNISHED FREE 8tate Board of Health Arranges for Fresh 8upply From New Springfield, 111., April 15. Arrangements were completed today by Dr.

J. A. Egan, secretary of the state board of health, with the LederleAntl-toxin laboratory ot New York for a supply of anti-toxin for the state. 1 The antitoxin will be furnished free through the agents, over the state, but a physician must apply for it in person and sign a receipt. The supply obtained In this way la sufficient to last until the new appropriation for the purpose' becomes available next July.

Dr. E. C. Crawford was sent by the state board of health to East St. Louis today, to investigate a report of an outbreak of smallpoxamong the freight handlers ot the Vandalla rail' road.

Four of the freight handlers have a disease that has been diagnosed as smallpox, but they deny they bave It, and others have been posed. OFFER THEIR BABY FOR ft SALEFORS0MOF3M8O Chicago, April 15. There's a bsby girl for sale In The price, 15,000, is declared entirely reasonable by the "broker," who makes the of fer. This advertisement appeared yesterday morning: "FOR SALE A A BEAU- tiful girl, 3 months old; price. 15,000.

Apply to S. ROTH, 2526 South grocery store." Mr Roth explained that he Is act- tag- "for the parents, Mr. and Trs. Louis Sapieha of 2558 Emerald ave nue. Sapleha earns $15 a week.

There were-six in the family, the parents, three children and Mrs, Sapleha's motber-ln-law, when little Anna, the baby arrived. "Sapleha and bis wife feel they cannot support the. little one properly and hope that some person who can afford It will give her a good home, and at the same time, by paying $5,000, enable them to give the other children a start in life. RECALL OF JUDICIARY TO BE DISCUSSED BY BAR Chicago, April is! Repreaentatiyes of the bar associations of forty states will meet In Chicago April 2C and 27 at. the annual meeting of the Illinois State Bar association to discuss judicial recall and reform in court procedure: For The purpose of learning the exact sentiment of lawyers and jurists from all parts of the country on the judicial recall question, officials ot the Illinois organization sent out invitations to attend this meeting to leading members of state bar associations in each state In the4 union.

To date acceptances bave been received from members of forty state ALONE IN CLOUDS WITH WILD BALLOON Cossonay Switzerland, April 15. Tt)e Swiss Aero 'dubW balloon, St. Oothard, is somewhere) above the clouds with a man aboard, who is totally ignorant of handllng'the air craft. The balloon was returning from a flight with, a pilot three isers. During an attempt to 'be basket was blown against" a a wind gust and the pilot and ot the paasengers wer thrown out.

Thus lightened, the balioon shot up to a height of 15.000 feet and whirled away with-the third passenger, a man who had just mad his initial flight. ir we only had a presidential Follette's pompodaur, Taft's bulk BLOWN FROM POLE: SUFFERS INJURY Charles Msrymee, Who Married Mat-toon Girl, Meets With Accident In Denver, Colo. Special to Journal-Gazette. Charleston, 111., April 15. Charles Marymee, a former Charleston young man, was severely Injured on Saturday; afternoon when he was blown from a pole in' Denver, where he la employed.

The young man suffered a broken blp, a broken arm and serious bruises about the body generally. He Is now in a hospital, but it is said he will recover. Marymee was working at the top of a telephone pole, when a violent wind, storm came up, and before he realized bis danger, he was blown from the top of the pole to the ground. Marymee marriea a wauoon gin, Miss Ella Smith, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

I. F. Smith of that city. NATIONAL Bw A OFFICE IS BEING REMODELED The National Building and Loan as sociation has completed the rear rangement ot lta office in South Seventeenth street The counter has been remodeled, with glass panels, and now faces the north, leaving a larger. working space for the secre tary, S.

M. Owlngs, and his assistants; and more convenient area for cus tomers. The interior has been cleaned, new lineoleum placed on the floor and the whole place made more attractive. CALLS UP MOTHER; SWALLOWS POISON Dixon, 111., April her mother, Mrs. J.

D. Reynolds, over the telephone, Mrs. Marie Messer, wife of Frank Measer, a coffee and tea merchant, told ber she was swallowing three ounces of carbolic acid. She was dead before her mother or. hus band could reach her.

there is only pne thing tor to do and I am going to do it Give baby to Lucretla," was her dying message. A note found beside the, body, read: "You have just left me one way. 1'If have to do It." Mr, Messer or the authorities were unable to explain the note. 1 BUILDING HOME. 'X: City Mall Csrrler Dan Cover has begun the building of a $3,000 cot tage at 1812 Richmond avenue.

NOTICE TO GAS CONSUMERS. Tuesday, April 16, the last day to' cave the discount on your March gaeV' bills. Pay your bills on that day and save your discount. Office dpea until 9 o'clock p. m.

MATTOON OAS LIGHT COKE COXPAMY. Ml aspirant with Wilson's Jaw, Teddy's teeth and Clark's button, wouldn't It be a fat SIXTY-FIVE GO TO T. R. ROOSEVELT CARRIES PENNSYL VANIA PRIMARIES SATURDAY BY LARGE MAJORITY. PENROSE'S GRIP GONE Senator Loses Control of State- Convention for First Time In a Generation.

National Teiegrapn Service. Philadelphia, Apr. 15 Col. Theodore Roosevelt's sweeping victory In Pennsylvania at Sataurday's primary election kept growing, as the returns continued to cemw ln. Incomplete returns from every district give the former president sixty-five of the state's seventy-six delegates in the Republican national convention.

The Roosevelt supporters are claiming sixty-seven, and later returns may carry the figures to that total. Col. Roosevelt won fifty-three of tlia sixty-four district delegates and his followers elected enongh delegates to the state convention to give them control of that body. The state contention will name twelve delegates at large. 7 Wilson, Clark, 2.

Gov. Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey, who had no organised opposition, will have seventy-four of the seventy six delegates from Pennsylvania In the Democratic national convention. The-other-tWo Democratic delegates are for Clark. Politicians lookruponthe trfumph of Col. Roosevelt with astonishment.

The supporters of the former president were without a state organization or without an organisation In many of the thirty-two congressional districts. The regular Republican organization, headed by United States Senator Boies Penrose, which -has withstood kthe fury of many a political storm, re ceived a crushing defeat in the loss of the control of the state convention. It Is tho first time In the present generation that it has lost control of that body. NEW YORK STOCK MARKET. National Teiegrapn Service.

New York, April 15. Canadian Pacific gained one and a fourth points at the opening of the Wair street market this morning. All the. other railroads showed weakness generally. The curb was easier.

CHARLESTON RESIDENCE .18 DAMAGED BY FLAMES Special to Journal-Gazette. Charleston, 111., Apru The residence of Ira W. living In West Polk street, which beyond the reach of the fire plugs, caught on fire about seven o'clock on Sunday evening aad was considerably daxaaged. year for the cartoonists? MRS. McCLURE CALLED BY DEATH SATURDAY Funeral Services of Well Known Woman Will Be Held Tuesday Afternoon From the Residence.

At four o'clock Saturday afternoon, death relieved the sufferings of Mrs. Frances McCIure, who had been very ill at her home, 2308 Western avenue, for some time. Death was due to nerv ous ailments. The funeral services will be held on Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock from the residence. Rev.

Thomson of Nash ville. 111., officiating. The interment will be made in Dodge Grove cemetery. Mrs. McCIure was one of the best known of the older women of Mattoon.

She was the widow of Egbert Me Clure, who, at the time of his death. years ago, was one of the biggest land owners of the county. She had lived most of her married life in Mattoon and at the time of death was sixty-nine years old. There Burvive five sons Ralph Mc CIure, Charles McCIure and Frank Mc CIure of St. Louis, Howard McCIure of Wisconsin, and George H.

McCIure of Denver. All are here or are o.n their way to the city and will be In attendance at the funeral. IMPORTANT MEETING. Every member of the Chamber of Commerce is urged to be present at an adjourned" meeting in the council chamber at 7:30 o'clock Friday night, April 19. Important business.

4-19 S. R. EVANS, Sec. RAILROAD SHOPMEN WILL BE ORGANIZED Chicago, April 15. A territorial organization of the union railroau shopmen employed by all the railroads west and south Of Chicago and aggregating more than 100,000 v.ill be perfected, It Is announced, ot a meeting of the union representatives to be held in Kansas City today.

Five crafts, the boilermakers, blacksmiths, machinists, carmen and sheet metal workers, will form the new organization. "It is the aim of the organization to unite all the mechanical trades on all the railroads west and sout of Chicago, so that concerted action may be taken when disputes arise." J. Franklin, International president the botlermaker's union, said. Other union officials s11 the organization was neCesfcry Vt combat the Railroad Managers' association, ao that the unions can deal 1 lintly with the railroads when controversies arise. sssMsxwwsif; WEATHER.

Illinois Generally fair and SCS Sh cooler tonight and Tuesday. A Probably freat lit north portion Sfi tonight. Si KKKUffBKHKKWUI KM.