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MATTOON, ILLINOIS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 15, 1912. Price 5 Cents. WHITE STAR LINER TITANIC COLLIDES WITH AN ICEBERG Huge Hole is Rammed in Vessel Beneath Water Line Late Sun day Night- -Steamers Rush to Assistance and Passengers Are Taken Off in' Life-Boats-Now Making Her Way Under Own Steam Toward Halifax. St. Johns, New Foundland, her side beneath the water line, berg last night, the Titanic, one Star company, is limping toward ing condition.

She is coming probable that she will be able to All the passengers were boats. The plates of the big boat crumpled. A big hole is rammed air tight compartments and the prevented the entire hull from afloat, despite the fact that she It is reported that the captain sert the vessel, remaining and making every effort to save her belief expressed here late this afternoon that' all the passengers are safe on other liners, which hastened to the assistance of the stricken boat. Standing By to Assist. New York, April President Franklin of the White Star line announced today that he had received a wireless message.

from Captain Haddock of the Olympic, stating that the liners Parisian and Carpathia were standing by the side of the Titanic, ready for assistance, and that the Carpathia already had taken off twenty boat loads of passengers. Message From Passenger. Boston, April wireless message received here today from Herbert H. Hilliard of Brighton, a passenger on the Titanic, says, "Passengers all saved; transferred to the Baltic and Virginian." Has Been Taken in Tow. Cape Race, April wireless from the Virginian today says that the Virginian has taken the Titanic in her tow and is bringing her to port as rapidly as possible.

All Passengers Are Sate. New York. April passengers on board the Titanic were removed- in safety to the steamship Virginian, according to advices received here today through: revenue cutter service. In Wireless Communication. Cape Race, April is reported that the steamship Olympic was in direct communication by wireless with the Titanic -at 5:24 a.

m. 'Expects to Reach. Titanic. captain Cape of Race, the April Olympic stated by wire the less that he expected to reach the Titanic by. 3 o'clock this afternoon.

It is reported that the steamer Baltic will reach the Titanic by 4 o'clock this afternoon. Titanic Badly Damaged. Siasconett, April steamer, Olympic, in a message ceived at the Siasconett station today, stated that she had been in communication with the Titanic and had a message to the effect that the Titanic was badly damaged by the collision. Captain Smith of the Titanic re porting to the Olympic, before the failure of the wireless apparatus to work. properly, said that he would transfer his passengers to the first steamship that arrived on the scene.

Reports Sinking. Cape Race, April wireless message from thee. Virginian states that Captain Smith of the Titanic reports that his vessel 1s sinking and that he will be unable to make port with, her. Say Vessel Cannot Sink. New York, April Offcers of the White Star Line Steamship: company announced today that it would be impossible for the Olympic to reach the side of the -Titanic before 8 o'clock tonight.

P. A. Franklin, vice of the International Merchant Marine and one of the owners of the White Star Line, said that the Titanic was virtually unsinkable, that she would float even with her bows smashed, He said that the failure of the wireless apparatus to work. properly was probably due atmospheric conditions. AGED JASPER RESIDENT IS FOUND DEAD IN HIS BED Special to Journal.

Gazette. Newton, April Otterbaok, aged 85 years, for several years a resident of county, was, on Friday morning, found dead in his bed at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. James Aldridge, eight miles southeast of this city. He had beeT in 111 health for some time and deatn was evidently caused by heart failure. Deputy Coroner Matheny went down Ind held an inquest, with C.

J. Per. (val, Charles Trainor, Eli Wakefeld, Charles Musgrove, Leonard Aldridge Ind Charles M. Honey, as jurors. GOES FOR MRS.

CLARK. H. W. Clark. departed today for tochester, Minn.

to bring back with dm Mrs. Clark, who is recovering apidly in the Mayo hospital from an peration for goiter. It is believed hey will arrive in the city Wednes or Thursday. OUR CARTOONIST'S CANDIDATE CONT LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, ALLOW ME, PRESIDENT! If we only had a presidential aspirant with Wilson's jaw, Teddy's teeth anu specs, Harmons' mustache, LaFollette's pompodaur, Taft's bulk and Clark's button, wouldn't it be fat year for the cartoonists? BLOWN FROM POLE; SUFFERS INJURY Charles Marymee, Who Married Mattoon Girl, Meets With Accident In Denver, Colo. Special to Journal-Gazette.

Charleston, April a former Charleston young man, was severely injured on Saturday afternoon when he was blown from a pole in Denver, where he is employed. The young man suffered a broken hip, 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 his danger, he was blown from the top of the pole to the ground.

Marymee married a Mattoon girl, Miss Ella Smith, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. F. Smith of that city.

'NATIONAL B. L. OFFICE IS BEING REMODELED The National Building and Loan association has completed the rearrangement of its 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 secretary, S. M.

Owings, and his assistants; and more convenient area for customers. The interior has been cleaned, new fineoleum placed on the floor and the whole place made more attractive. CALLS UP MOTHER; SWALLOWS POISON were National Telegrapn Service. New York, April 15. -Canadian Pacific gained one and a fourth points at the opening of the Wall street market this morning.

All the other railGover has roads showed weakness generally. $3,000 cot- The curb was easier. CHARLESTON RESIDENCE IS DAMAGED BY FLAMES SIXTY -FIVE GO TO T. R. ROOSEVELT CARRIES PENNSYLVANIA PRIMARIES SATURDAY BY LARGE MAJORITY.

PENROSE'S GRIP GONE Senator Loses Control of State Con vention for First Time in a Generation. National Teiegrapn Service. Philadelphia, Apr. Theodore Roosevelt's sweeping victory in Pennsylvania at Saturday's primary election kept growing, as the returns continued to come in. Incomplete returns from every district give the former president sixty-five of the state's seventy 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 the sixty-four district delegates and his followers elected enongh delegates to the state convention to give them control of that body. The state convention will name twelve delegates at large. Wilson, Clark, 2.

Gov. Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey, who had no organized opposition, will have seventy-four of the seventy six delegates from Pennsylvania in the Democratic national convention. The other stwo Democratic delegates are for Clark. Politicians look upon the triumph of Col. Roosevelt with astonishment.

The supporters of the former president were without a state organization or without an organization in many of the thirty-two congressional districts. The regular Republican organization, headed by United States Senator Boles Penrose; which has withstood the fury of many a political storm, received a crushing defeat in the loss of the control of- the state convention. It is the first time in the present generation that it has lost control of that body. NEW YORK STOCK MARKET. Special to Journal- Gazette.

Charleston, Apru -The residence of Ira W. Snyder, living in West Polk street, which is beyond the reach of the fire plugs, caught on fire about seven o'clock on Sunday evenling and was considerably damaged. NO BLAME ATTACHED CORONER'S JURY BRINGS IN AN OPEN VERDICT IN INQUEST OVER JOSEPH GHARRETT. FUNERAL WEDNESDAY 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 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 few 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 caboose, stated that he backed in on the switch and was backing down the track when he re-: ceived a slow 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 track striking the three cars of which the eaboose 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 as the train struck, but an attempt to throw himself away from the track failed. He stated that Gharrett fell with his 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 end of the caboose an hour after the accident happened, but not before. Conductor W. E. Harris stated that he saw the yard foreman going ward 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 come to him asking for aid in removing a running board on top of the caboose. According "to "his testimony, there were two cars west of the caboose on which the two men were working, with several car lengths intervening between them and the next cut of cars. He stated that no flag had been placed at either end 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. Funeral 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, which the decedent had been an energetic member, will conduct the memorial service.

Burial will be made in Dodge Grove cemetery. Mayor E. T. Guthrie has called a special meeting of the city council at 7:30 o'clock tonight. Resolutions the death of a member of the body will he adopted and plans will, be made for the 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 Lidster, formerly of this city, employed in Danville for some time, is now in St. Elizabeth's hospital in that city, suffering from illness. Mr. Lidster was employed in the Chicago and Eastern Illinois shops until the general layoff about ten days ago.

NOTICE TO Tuesday, April 16, is the last day 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 SERV. ICE CO.

4-16 EACH BUREAU INAN ATTACK TAFT. AND ROOSEVELT AGERS ASSAIL METHODS OF THE OTHER. EACH IN STATEMENT Managers McKinley and Dixon for Taft and Roosevelt Have Opinions of Their Own and Express Them. April a huge hole in due to a collision with an iceof the new liners of the White Halifax today, being in a sinkunder her own steam, and it is make that port. taken off by other vessels in life- are shattered and her bow is beneath the water line, but the powerful high pressure.

pumps filling and enabled her to keep listed dangerously. and the crew refused to de- ANTITOXIN IS TO BE FURNISHED FREE State Board of Health Arranges 1 for Fresh Supply From Now York. Springfield, April ments were completed today by Dr. J. A.

Egan, secretary of the state board of health, with the Lederle Anti-toxin laboratory of New York for a supply of anti-toxin for the state. 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 obtained in this way is 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 smallpox- among the freight handlers of the Vandalia rail-? road. Four of the freight handlers have a disease that has been diagnosed as smallpox, but they deny they have it, and others have been exposed. OFFER THEIR BABY FOR SALE FOR SUM $5,000 Chicago, April a baby girl for sale in The price, $5,000, is declared entirely reasonable by the "broker," makes the offer.

This advertisement: appeared yesterday morning: "FOR SALE BARGAIN; A BEAUtiful girl, 3 months old; price, $5,000. Apply to S. ROTH, 2526 South grocery store." Mr. Roth explained that he is acting for the parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Louis Sapieha of 2558 Emerald avenue. Sapieha earns $15 a week. There were six in the family, the, parents, three children and Mrs, Sapieha's mother-in-law, when little Anna, the baby, arrived. "Sapieha and his wife feel they cannot 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 April 15-Representatives of the bar associations of forty states will meet in Chicago April 26 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 of Illinois organization sent out invitations to attend this meeting leading members of state bar a8- toe sociations in each state in the, union. To date acceptances have been received from members of forty state associations. ALONE IN CLOUDS WITH WILD BALLOON Cossonay, Switzerland, April The Swiss Aero club's balloon, St. Gothard, is somewhere above the clouds with a man aboard who is totally ignorant of handling the air craft.

The balloon was returning from a flight with a pilot and three 1gers. During an attempt. to he basket was blown against a by a wind gust and the pilot and tAb of the passengers were, thrown out. Thus lightened, the balloon shot up to a height of 15,000 feet and whirled away with the third pas senger, a man who had just made his initial dight. 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 McClure, who had been very ill at her home, 2308 Western avenue, for some time. Death was due to nervous ailments. The funeral services will be held on Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock from the residence, Rev.

Thomson of Nashville, officiating. The interment will be made in Dodge Grove cemetery. Mrs. McClure was one of the best known of the older women of Mattoon. She was the widow of Egbert McClure, 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 survive five sons--Ralph McClure, Charles McClure and Frank McClure of St. Louis, Howard McClure of Wisconsin, and George H. McClure of Denver. All are here or are on 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 EVANS, Sec. RAILROAD SHOPMEN WILL BE ORGANIZED Chicago, April territorial organization of the union railroad shopmen employed by all the railroads west and south of Chicago and aggregating more than 100,000 men will be perfected, it is announced, at a meeting of the union representatives to be held in a 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 south of Chicago, 8 so that concerted action may be taken when disputes arise." J. Franklin, international president al the botlermaker's union, said. Other union officials said the organization was necessary to combat the Railroad Managers' association, sO that the unions can deal jointly with the railroads when controversies arise. tonight. 5 95 95 0 95 45 95 95 95 45 95 96 95 96 95 95 95 45 WEATHER.

9 45 95 95 Illinois--Generally fair and 95 45 cooler Probably tonight frost in and north Tuesday. 95 5 portion Washington, April warfare last night took on a ruddier tinge with the issuance of statements from the rival headquarters. Representative McKinley, director of the Taft campaign, attacked the methods of Colonel Roosevelt as "a campaign of willful and malicious misrepresentation, vilification 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 the 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 Kis party is entitled to renomination." McKinley Is Resentful. "Senator Joseph M. Dixon, the national campaign manager of former President Roosevelt, has been permitted without rebuke from his candidate to insult the President of the United States," Mr.

McKinley's 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 Majority. "Including. Pennsylvania, which, according to datest advices, has given President Taft at least 21 votes in the national convention, the President has today 364 delegates Instructed for or pledged to his renomination.

He needs only 176 more delegates to insure his renomination. He is atready assured of 383 more delegates, making his support in the Chicago convention 746 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 consin. In this contest he is already assured of an overwhelming majority of the delegates from Indiana and New York and of a large number of delegates in Pennsylvania, none of which voted for him in 1908." Claims North for Colonel. "Up to the beginning of April," Chairman Dixon says, "the Taft managers had been able to make the appearance of having a considerable number of delegates through the wellknown plan of holding snap, hardpicked 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 pri-: maries, send an aggregate of 170 gates to the national convention. These four great states have repudiatled Mr. Taft's candidacy by more than 14 to. 1.

of their delegates to the 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 Lorimer, whose machine furnished the chief element of support to the Taft candidacy in the.

Illinois primaries. In Pennsylvania, another machine-ridden state, the utmost. endeavors of Senator Penrose and his bosses in behalf of Mr. Taft could give him only nine or ten delegates. Places Strength at 186.

"In the ten other states in which the Republican party is an important factor that have chosen delegates to the Chicago convention the selection was either by the old caucus and conveption system or by conventions the delegates to which were chosen at 4 what Mr. Taft has contemptuously described as 'soap primaries. "From fourteen Republican states 392 delegates have been chosen. of these 186 are for Colonel Roosevelt, filty-four for Mr. Taft, thirty-six for Senator LaFollette, four for Senator Cummins, ninety-four are uninstructed and eighteen are contested.

Dixon, April her mother, Mrs. J. D. Reynolds, over the telephone, Mrs. Marie Messer, wife of Frank Messer, a coffee and tea merchant, told her she was swallowing three ounces of carbolic acid.

She was dead before her mother or. husband could reach her. "Mamma, there is 'only one thing for me to do and I am going to do it. Give the baby to Lucretia," was her dying message. A note found beside the body, read: "You have just left me one way.

I'll have to do Mr. Messer or the authorities were unable to explain the note. BUILDING HOME. BUILDING HOME. City Mail Carrier Dan begun the building of a tage at 1812 Richmond avenue.

NOTICE TO GAS. CONSUMERS. Tuesday, April 16, is the last day to save the discount on your March gas bills. Pay your bills on that day and save your discount. Oface open until 9 o'clock p.

m. MATTOON GAS LIGHT COKE COMPANY. 416 "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 renomination." THROWS- -SNOWBALL, SHOT AND DIES OF WOUND Springfield, April Gilbert, 9. years old, who was shot during the Christmas holidays by Angelo Lombardo, 17 years, whom he hit with a snowball, died at his home last night, as a result of a wound through the groin, inflicted with a 22-caliber rifle.

Lombardo was never apprehended and is said to be in Italy..