Mattoon Morning Star from Mattoon, Illinois • Page 1

ORNING STAR, VOL 8, NO. 306 MATTOON, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 16, 1905 EIGHT PAGES Price BYICARRIER PER WEEK lOfl BY CARRIER PER YEAR 15.00 YIMAIL PER YEAR OO MATTQOK SCHAFF'S BROTHER PROMOTED. PRIESTS EXCHANGE CHARGES, LERXA MAN' DEAD. CHIFF PIGG'S DEATHS ARE HARLAN IS C. B.

Schaft, formerly trainmaster Shelbyvllle. 111.. Feb. 15. The Allison Smith, formerly a resident of the C.

P. St. L. has received Rev. F.

Loughney, for two years of Lafayette township, died Tuesday the- appointment of superintendent, HOCK SEES WIFE'S FACE at his home near Lernn. Funeral pastor of the Church of the immaculate Conception In this city, left with headquarters in Springfield. Tne services were held yesterday. CLEVER WORK VERYSUDDEN NOMINATED Shelbyvllle today to take the pastor office of trainmaster has been abol-Ished. The new: appointee is a broth.

AL SMITH IS DEAD. ate of St. Alexius Catholic church In Beardstown. He is succeeded here er of C. E.

Schaff, general manager of the Big Four. by the Rev. 5. Grisenhaus, until re cently pastor of the church to which The funeral services of Al Smith, a well known farmer of Bethel, near Toledo, took place Wednesday at WILL SOON OPERATE. Father Loughney goes.

Heart Disease Kills Charles! Bethel church. Mr. Smith died Tues As Republican Candidate For Announcement is made that tne John Mangis' Capture Due to Charleston Man day. A wife and four children sur Bigamist Evinces No Emotion In Trying Ordeal Mattoon Stove Range works will Sldmore And Mrs. Rodman THEIR MITE vive.

Mayor Of Chicago resume operations on Feb. 27. GALA TIME HARD WORK Being -Added to the Memorial Hos pital linu. HEROIC MEASURE NEEDED CORONER'S SAD MISSION FULL TICKET IS SELECTED WOMAN LAV IN COFFIN High School Pupils Sleigh Ride and Recently the promoters or the Rigorous Weather Hampers Big Arc Entertained. proposed Memorial Methodist Hos Four In Watering Engines.

pital sent out circular letters to The members Of the 10 A class of teachers and others in the state, re Nearly Ah of County. Tax Already Former Resident of Windsor Town questing contributions to the hospi the Mattoon high school enjoyed a bob sled ride last night. But Prisoner Holds Photographs of The rigorous weather hampered tai fund. They were not asked to the Big Four officials In obtaining Anticipated and Empty Treasury Ahead McGurty Wedding Anniversary. All Candidates Accepted by Convention by Acclamation No Concessions to Loriraer Wing of Hie Party.

ship and Latter Lived at Find-lay Both Expire About i Same Tune. After the ride, they went to the Scene and Never Quivers-Confesses to Marrying Eleven Women. water for their engines Wednesday send any certain amount, only what ever they could spare. home of Miss Stella Osborne on Wa night. The responses to these requests It was necessay to run their own plant at full capacity and have the bash avenue, where they were entertained at cards and music.

At a late hour refreshments were served, and the young people dispersed. (Special to Star.) (Special to Star.) have been quite generous and Rev. Mr. Wamsley yesterday received a letter from a school teacher, en Clear Water Company apply extra Charleston. III.

Feb. 15. John (Special to Star.) 111., Feb. 15. The repub Windsor, 111., Feb.

15 Two deaths (Seclnl to Star.) Chicago. 111., Feb. 15. Without. pressure to supply the engines with The members of the party were Mangls, now In jail at Bloomlngton by heart disease, at the same time liquid to fill their tenders.

closing $5, 'which she wished added to the building list. lican city convention- was held in for a brutal assault on an aged wo and under coincident circumstances Misses Marian Lehman, Blanche Richmond, Eva Klnzel, Florence and her daughter at Leroy with 'summoned Coroner Horn of She! Most of the engines took In their main supply at Shelbyvllle and Ash-more to relieve the situation at this the First Regiment Armory this afternoon and the following ticket James, Mary Reaves, Gertrude Beals, Intent to commit robbery, was ap byvtlle to the east part of Shelby nominated: Edna Kritzer, Mary Bruner, Lillian prehended at Greenup through Chief county today. point -as much as BILLS AIMED For Mayor John Maynard Har Riddle, Bess Culley, Stella Osborne, of Police Figg and lie will receive xne persons who expired were lan, 21st ward. Jessie Cartwright; Messrs. George $50 reward.

Railroading in such temperature as Is prevailing at present is one that tests the patience and skill of sign of emotion, Johann Hoch at the coroner's Inquest today gazed on photographs of Mrs. Marie Welker In her coffn The pictures, Which were taken after the remains had been exhumed at the coroner's orders, showed the woman Hoch is accused of murdering lying with calm, white face, closed eyes, and crossed hands upon the satin lining of the casket. Looking at the pictures wax the next thing to looking upon the For Treasurer Moses E. Greene- Charles Sldmore of Windsor township and Mrs. Libbie Rodman of Cobb, Albert Otto Schilling, Mangls was a resident of this city several months last summer, lie baum, 6th ward.

Joe Grey, Harry Moore, Paul At- the officials. Fttndlay. For City Attorney John F. Smul- cott, Fred Binns and Walter Cart- came here as a salesman for a gro AT JUDGES Kept House Themselves. ski, 28th, ward.

wright eery house, selling goods direct to Sldmore and his father, Perry For City Clerk Francis P. Brady, The party was chaperoned by the farmers and spent several weeks STILL SERIOUS Sldmore, reside six miles northwest 1st ward. Misses Slocum and Taylor, high In canvassing the vicinity. Later he of Windsor. They came to this town school teachers.

Candidate Harlan made a speech -was employed as clerk at the Com merclal hotel. corpse Itself. snip irom Charleston eight years ago and of late have been keeping Is Condition of Ed and Noah Will- While here Mangds and Miss Eva Not a Quiver. Hoch took the photographs in his TETCH IT ALONG AND I'LL SIT ON THAT, TOOr house without any women to assist Jo Make Them WoHt Eight Teeters, an employe of the Charles, Isms, Who Were Frown. Ed and Noah Williams, the Lafay ton hotel, were married.

The wo hands without the quiver of a nerve to Identify them. This morning while the father HOUf DftVS yyaa in me uncnen preparing oreax- Yes," he said quietly, "that was man is now at the home of her par ents In Cumberland county. A description of the man with fast, he heard, a groan in the bed ette township farmers who were so badly frozen Tuesday, are still In a my wife." i room. Running into the adjoining It was a dramatic scene, and the serious condition. apartment, ha founn hi nn Aaajt First reports only told how terri history of the crime for which; he was wanted was received by Chiet Pigg and he went to work, and was ldicago jurists hard hit bly Ed Williams was frozen, but it crowd which filled the inquest cham ber was hushed in expectation that Hoch would break down under the strain of the ordeal.

ed the inquest and a verdict of death Is learned that Noah's condition Is nearly as deplorable. soon able to notify Bloomlngton of, fleers that Mangls was- at Greenup, by natural causes was returned. He took up the photographs and The doctors are doing everything A few hours later a message cams that the man was under arrest at Expires In Same Way. laid them down again as coolly as After conducting the Sldmore In If the dead woman had been a stran Representative Llndley Wants State possible save their frostbitten limbs, but it will be several days before they can say what will be the final outcome. quest the Coroner went to Flndlay ger to 11 TTI and conducted one over the body of to Give Free High School Schol-arshlps to Eighth Grade Graduates.

Hoch Admits) Eleven Wives. Hoch's life and adventures, as that place through the information furnished' from this city. In the crime Mangis Js said1 to have had two- confederates. One of these Is now under arrest, the other hanged himself in a barn near Fairmount Mrs. Libbie Rodman.

Mrs. Rodman, 70, and her moth far as he has divulged them to the. er, Mrs. Luclnda Armstrong.HO, live MISS STEELE together A Mrs. Rpdmaii expired very police, were read1 from hla confession by Inspector George Bhippy, who was the most important witness (Special to Star.) Springfield, Feb.

15. A spur for suddenly about the same hour Sid, recently. Take Long Outing. more did and' with as little warning. of the morning.

The senior class- of. the Normal school took a bob sled ride to Lerna Stephen Rodman, a prominent Will Be In Charge of Back's Millin Hoch's story fills in several hla- Chicago judges, to make them work eight hours a day and practically keep a record in a time book of tne way they earn their salaries is a bill Findlay farmer, was a son of the ery Department tuses which have been the subject of last night and' dined with George deceased. mere conjecture. He admits eleven Geo. N.

Buck is making alterations Batch and family. After supper they returned to this city. The outing wives, five of whom are dead. introduced In the house by Representative Pierson of Chicago. in his main storeroom to Inaugurate He tells of a voyage from San ANNIVERSARY a millinery department.

It makes -all judges of courts or meant a trip of about eighteen miles. Heroic Measures Needed. Francisco to Europe, of which nothing has been- made public. A portion of the floor space near record! jreport to the legislature The county tax to be collected the south end is being partitioned oil Inspector Shippy Introduced a this year will approximate 1 52,000 and in a few weeks the department every two years how many naif days they -have had court and how many cases they have decided. They photograph of Hoch which had been according to figures taken from tne Of Pythian Order's Founding To Be will be thrown open to the public sent for Identification to Mayence, Celebrated Monday Night.

Miss BInnle Steele of Charleston Prussia, and a letter from the au etc. will be in charge of the millinery can't draw their salaries until they have reported, and fdr refusing to report may be removed from ottice. books In the office of County Clerk Rardin. Of this amount has already been spent in anticipation warrants. The bills allowed at the December meeting of the board of department.

Mattoon Pythians will celebrate the anniversary of the founding of thorities of that city which said mat Hoch was born in a village near Bin" gen on the Rhine, Nov. 10, 1862, and had a wife and four children the order in Castle hall Monday ev Free Scholarship. Cicero J. Llndley Introduced a supervisors amounted to about $10, ening, Feb. 20.

MARKET REPORT still living in the old country. measure to make the state give free 000 with the outstanding a Historical paper is to be pre high school scholarships to eighth after being officially no-titled of his nomination. I TROUBLE OVER sented giving valuable information of the order and there will be other jury certificates will absorb the en. tire tax collection for the year. This leaves the bills to be allow grade graduates, aiming to enable children who are bright but poor to QUEER CASE features.

(Special to Star.) Grain, Provisions, Etc. Chicago, Feb. 15. enjoy the advantages of secondary ed at the March term and the June The whole is to be concluded with education. a banquet and tocial session.

FLOUR Dull but steady. Spring Settle Marshall Baptist Fuctlons Differences. The republican steering committee special brands, S6.20H6.80; Minnesota, hard term of the supervisors unprovided emphasizes the fact that the time is apidly approaching when winter patent, jute. Minnesota. is anxious to have the civil service After Six Years Mattoon Man to Re hard spring straight, export bags, $4.8019 sume Right Name.

TOO MUCH PIGG Marshall, 111., Feb. 15. The litl ciear, export Dags, 3.7U(s3.SK). and primary election bills reported out of committee early next week gation between the warring tactions William T. White has filed a pe and put on their passage.

It is prac WHEAT Higher. CORN Higher. May, 4646c. OATS Dull. May, 3031c.

of -the First Baptist church of Mar iically certain that this will be done. tition in the county court to be allowed to resume his right name, Al shall has been amicably settled out Former Mrs. St. John Wants N'iuiio uuuisu meaay. creameries, ner Chicago Lawyers Push Bill.

pouna, zi32c; dairy, lWjjaic. Points In Platform. Some of the salient points In the republican platform, enunciated in Mr. Harlan's speech, follow; Early solution of traction problem urged. Plans should provide for eventual municipal ownership" and operation.

No traction -ordinance should be put on final passage until submited to a referendum. Mayor and city should formulate plan. Honest enforcement of laws urged Civil-service advocated. Public schools must be kept out of politics. Subway owned by city favored.

Water, power of sanitary district should be devoted to public, uses. Just compensation for grants de bert J. -Martin. and Property Restored. The charter committee of tne EGGS Higher.

Fresh eggs; at mark. He lived at Selma, until 1896 house will give a hearing Tuesday to new cases included, 2430c per dozen; prime under his proper cognomen and then In the city court Wednesday, heroic measures in handling the ancial interests of the county will be a Their Tenth The tenth anniversary of Dr. and Mrs. O. J.

McGurty was happily observed at their home yesterday, several friends being Invited to partake with them of a dinner. Annua B. R. T. Ball.

The annual ball of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Tuesday night, was one of the swell affairs of the season and was a most enjoyable occasion. nrsts, jbc; extras, 34c. "POTATOES-Steady. Car lots, on track, per 3035a through her attorney, James Ash- a delegation of unicago lawyers wno have drawn up a substitute for the municipal courts bill now being con came to Mattoon and called himself White. As such he married and gave worth, Mrs.

Jennie Pigg filed suit tor ruuLXKi-'irm. Turkeys. Der the name of White to his wife and divorce from W. C. Pigg, alleging It will be practically the 14c; chickens, fowls.

Der 16.00(3 babe. desertion. same as the present bill, but will lack -the common pleas feature. His mother located him recently The plaintiff says she Is the owner w. New York, Feb.

15. FLOUR Firm but dull. Minnesota of a house and lot, known as Lot 6, Representative Sheen of Peoria of court. The party awarded the church and acknowledged by the council as being rightfully entitled to the property after repeated efforts to get control began proceedings in the circuit court. After the papers had been served the leaders got together and drew up an agreement of settlement which asked the resignation of the pastor, the Rev.

W. B. Lile of Olney, who has been retained during the controversy; that those claiming to hold office resign; that all church property be. turned over and that all legal proceedings be stopped. The conditions were approved by both factions.

and came here on a visit. In order to inherit her property, she advised him to become Martin again, whlcu Block 15, Noyes' addition, and she today introduced a. bill to. make all patents. $6.906.30: winter straights.

16.25 The program began with the asks the court to restore the proper 6-40. manded. candidates for office return itemized expense accounts of their expendi ty to her and give her back her WHEAT Firm. May. Sl.17Uffil.17U: Julv.

he will do. Martin, alias White. 1-? in John Hamilton's employ. J1.06U1.06U. former name, Jennie St.

John. Lorimer Croiva Gets Axe. Harlan is a Deneen candidate and tures and making It criminal to The P'ggs were married March 20, bribe candidates or RYE Nominal. CORN Dull and featureless. OATS Nominal.

1902, and she avers her husband the men who manipulated affairs made no concessions to the Lorimer Twenty witnesses went before the ENOCH ARDEN left her Jan. 6, 1903. faction, although they kicked long house election's committee this afternoon to testify that Rock Island and hard. IS RIVALED Live Stock. Chicago, Feb.

IS. CATTLE Choice to fancy steers. 15.75(3 VI Greenbaum is a prominent banker. LOSS OF WIFE 46; fair to choice shipping steers. S5.150 voters were guided by an opinion given by former Attorney-General Hamlin in voting for McCaskrln, the Independent, whose seat is being con tested for by Cooke, a railroad medium beef steers.

S4.26iS5.00: Inferior MISSED TRAIN NOT GAMBLING Andrew Morgan, Wlio Figured in and plain steers, good to fancy cows and heifers, fair to good Deranges Atwood Man and He Kills -cows and heifers, S3.80iSS.95; fair to choice Strange Experience, is Dead. Virginia, 111., Feb. 15. ihed.iaih Himself. grand march led' by Mr.

and Mrs: George Daniels and continued until an early hour this morning. The attendance was large, Including several out-of-town guests. Will Soon Be W. Harding this morning received- a letter from his son, Harry Harding, who has been with the U. S.

navy at Manila, saying mat ne would sail for his home on February 5 and would reach San Francisco in- about thirty days. His term of enlistment does not expire until the last of April and he will remain in San Francisco until that time. The young sailor has been away front home about four years and has seen service, In many parts, of the world'. In the letter to his parents Mr. Harding says he had the pleasure of meeting Sam Ficklln, a Charleston hoy; who is now on the battleship Brooklyn at Manila, and that the McCaskrln May be Ousted.

feeders, fair to good stackers, $12517S; good cutting and fair beef cows, common to good canning cows, bulls, poor to choice, calves, common to fancy, $3.0007.10. Judge Craig Says Drawing Lots Is Ballots which Mr. Hamlin declar (Special to Star.) of Andrew Morgan, of Cass coui ti. ends a romance rivaling Tennyson ed should be counted three votes for Atwood. IIU, Feb.

16. William Not Dlegal. Paris, Feb. 15. The contract HOGS Good to choice heavy ihipplnar.

Enoch Arden." Morgan and McCaskrln, Attorney General Stead has ruled the count, hut one and a Kiser, 30 years old, a carpenter and house builder, blew out his brains Pickle. In their young manh ju, issued by the Commercial club of with a shotgun last night. The half votes, and the result has been ere warm friends, und it was only 15.0005.10; fair to choice butcher weights, S5.0a6-10; medium to fair heavy packing, plain to good heavy mixed, $4,800. 5.05; assorted light hipping, good to choice, fair to choice. Paris to bind purchasers of lots in charge set fire to his clothing and that unless Mr.

Stead's ruling Is natural that when the civil war the car factory addition are not the building would have burned, but overturned McCaskrln will be Dr. Smith Falls to Arrive and Make Address. Because Dr. Benjamin L. Smith, national secretary of the American Home Missionary Board, missed train connections at Indianapolis, he was unable to address tha audience at the Christian church last night.

Rev. Mr. Kelley, the pastor, spoke and the meeting was a good This evening Rev. Will F. Shaw of Charleston will deliver an address on "The Work of the Church Extension Board." 170.

gambling Judge Craig of for the arrival of neighbors. broke out they should go to the war together. They became separated and Pickle failing to return home at Mattoon so decreed In the circuit Kaiser's wife died a year ago and Omaha, Feb. 15. CATTLE Market strong.

Native steers. court yesterday. The settlement of this much mooted question Is of gen- he has lived alone since. Brooding over her loss is believed to have de tlje end of war. It was believed that he had been killed.

AT M0BERLY aral interest. cows and heifers, can-ners, stockers and feeders, $2.40 416; calves. S3.00S6.75; bulls and stags. ranged him temporarily. Pickle's widow after mourning hint life latter is well and enjoying the of a sailor.

The question came up on a de $2.2603.75. murrer of the defendants in the suits for dead, finally accepted the suit. of her husband's friend married to him. Plokle, however, did HOGS Market $4. Passes brought by the Commercial club "BLESSED LIFE" Kpf J.

F. Chuse Away. mixed, light, pigs, bulk of sales, lagalnst Mrs. Leonora Hannah and VERY CLOSE ot fall in battle, and returned SHEEP Market stronger. Western M.

W. Tho demurrers were bosed on the allegation that the yearlings, home last year, only to find the woman he had left had become the Mrs. Mary Robertson nee Nichol ewes. lambs, $6.7537.90. Subject of Bible Reading at Congre- son, formerly of Litchfield, died at COAL FAMINE Blizzard Weather Exhausts Supply On Hand At Trilla.

wife of another. Unwilling to mar contracts represented a gamming or lottery scheme and were, therefore. gatlonal Church. her home In Molierly, at the Margin Local Fitzpatrlck Wins By Small of Three Points. her haniPiness, he left without making himself known.

age of 43 years Tho funeral services were held at Moborly on 'The Blessed' Life" was the sub Butter, per lb Eggs, per loz not binding. It was contended by attorneys for the defense that the sale of lots was a game of chance. ject of Rev. J. S.

Kendall's bible Chickens, per lb ,.22 to 260 ..35 to S7C .9 to 10c .14 to 10 to 90 reading in the Congregational church Deceasod was formerly Miss Mary In rendering his decision, Judge Turkeys, per lb yesterday afternoon, and the means- Geese and ducks, per lb of its attainment were described as Craig said that so far as the contracts themselves were concerned, one lot in car factory addition Mrs. Morgan, however, had learned of the visit and filed suit for divorce, alleging desertion. She was granted a decree and was at once remarried to Morgan. Morgan, who was 72 years old, was a wealthy farmer. Downing Post, G.

A. TV. attended the obsequies he-re on. Sunday. 'Cleansing, Consecration and Claim, Cabbage, per lb to 2c Potatoes, per bu 50 to fiOc Nicholson of Litchfield and besides her husbaiMl.

leaves two sisters, Mrs. J. F. McCord of Litchfield and Mrs. J.

F. Chus' of Mattoon, and one brother. John F. Nicholson, bf Dr. G.

S. Horn was up from Trilla Wednesday and- stated that the blizzard had produced a coal famine In the Village. The demand on the dealers exceeded anticipation and before they could get more coal in. a number ot persons were compelled to send teams to Mattoon to relieve their immediate wants Ing." The match: between Fitzpatrlck and Hardwick at the Morris billiard parlors last night was very closely contested, FltzpatrlckV score being 100 while his opponent, Hardwick, made $3 points. The game tonight will be between Montague and Meyers.

Parsnips, per bu ....50 to 60o In the evening Mr. Kendall preach ed a strong and searching sermon on Litchfield. Mrs. Chuse received word Onions, per bu $1.00 to' $1.20 Carrots, per bu 0o was as valuable as another and therefore the could be en-forcd The court held that tne contracts had nothing to do with the subsequent drawing of chance. 'Behold, I Stand at the Door and too late to attend tne funeral ser Lettuce, per lb 18 to' 20c Knock." Morning Star, 10c per week..