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MATTOON VIM ER FORTY-THIRD YEAR MATTOON, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1914 -TEN PAGES TODAY PRICE TWO CENTS ALLENVILLE MAN DIES AS RESULT OF R. R. ACCIDENT TRESPASSER ON ILLINOIS CENTRAL TRACKS KILLED BY FREIGHT ENGINE LIVED FIVE DAYS Injuries Were not Thought Serious Until Few Hours Before Death Came When Injured Man Suffered a Relapse Was Pioneer Citizen of Allenville-Born in East Nelson Township Allenville, Sept. T. Farlow, a well known resident of Moultrie county passed away on Thursday afternoon at his home one mile west of here.

Death was due to injuries sustained last Saturday when he was struck by an Illinois Central freight train. The injuries were not considered fatal and on Wednesday he was able to be around the house. Thursday about noon his condition became worse and physicians were unable to save his life. It is thought that internal injuries of greater fatality than supposed were sustained, Mr. Farlow had been in the village last Saturday on business and left for his home about 12:30 o'clock.

The usual route pursued by all residents living west of the village is down the Illinois Central tracks. Mr. Farlow was within a quarter of a mile of home when the train struck him. He stated that he failed to hear any warning, which the trainmen state they sounded. He was thrown several feet and it is said that the fact that the engineer applied his emergency brakes, saved him from being ground to pieces or killed by the train.

The engineer stopped his train as quickly as possible and with the other members of the crew carried Mr. Farlow to his home. The engineer stated that he sounded his warning and Farlow stepped as though he intended to leave the tracks. Not until within ten feet of Farlow did the engineer see that Farlow had failed. to hear his warning at which time he applied the emergency brakes.

The train was brought to a stop after it had gone about. twenty feet. A local physician was summoned and Farlow was given medical attention. An 'examination showed that the wounds were only of a minor nature. On Wednesday Mr.

Farlow was able to leave his bed and walk around 'the premises and on Thursday morning he was much improved. Thursday noon he relapsed and was unconscious. He passed away within one hour after the relapse. The decedent was born in East Nelson township, at what was formerly Old Nelson, 64 years ago. He has lived in this township his entire life.

During his boyhood and early manhood he assisted his father in a store at Old Nelson. When the village of Allenville was platted Mr. Farlow became prominent in the affairs, having conducted an elevator for a number of years. He was cashier of the Citizens' bank and was local manager for several grain companies. For a number of years he was township assessor.

For the past few years he has been engaged in the carpenter work, being one of the best in the county on the finishing work. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Sarah Farlow, two sons, Clyde at home and Fred Farlow in the north part of the state. The funeral services will be held nt Sullivan, Sunday afternoon with burial in the Sullivan cemetery. The Odd Fellows, of which the deceased was a member will have charge of the funeral.

I B. STRIKES BUGGY The I. B. Craig automobile Thursday noon backed into a horse and buggy driven by Mrs. Kennepp, near the corner of Nineteenth street and Broadway.

The horse was knocked to the ground and a wheel of the buggy smashed. The two women who occupied the buggy were badly scared but escaped uninjured. The driver was between tw) vehicles and was trying to back out and did not see the Kennepp rig until after he struck it. He quickly applied his emergency brakes and avoided a. bad smashup.

Mrs. Kennepp was not going to permit the driver to proceed with his car until he paid her right on the spot for the damages. After a few minutes a patrolman advised her to let the driver go and for her to see Mr. Craig. MOVE TO WISCONSIN.

Allenville, Sept. T. French held a public sale, Thursday at his farm southwest of here and will move to Wisconsin about the first of October. Mr. French has purchased a farm In Wisconsin.

MAN ARRESTED FOR GETTING "SOUSED." George Bradford, of Lerna, was arrested late Thursday afternoon by Chief Scheef on a charge of drunkenness. Bradford had imbibed too freely in the flowing bowl after which he exhibited a vulgar display of hostilities upon colored janitor whom he accused of fliming him out of his bnak roll, via the crap game route. Bradford made himself so unpleasant in the vicinity of Fourteenth street and Broadway that a call was sent to the police department to come ani capture the ally. Bradford still claims he lost the money in a crap game, while the colored man maintains that it is a false statement. STRICKLAND FUNERAL TO BE HELD AT M.

E. CHURCH TODAY The body of Mrs. Ellen Strikland, who passed away Wednesday in 1 Fort Worth, Texas, will arrive in the city, today at noon, and. funeral services will be held at the Methodist Episcopal church this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Rev.

George F. Oliver will will have charge of the services. Burial will be made in the Dodge Grove cemetery. I. C.

CONDUCTOR'S WIDOW TELLS OF LOVE TRAGEDY WIFE OF MURDERED MAN TELLS HER STORY FOR THE FIRST TIME Chicago, Sept. the story of endless persecution of Mrs. Nellie Higgs, of Chicago by Walter Willis, an Illinois Central conductor, which ended in his murder on a railroad train out of Chicago, has repeatedly been told, the other side, the story of the suffering of Willis' wife was told for the first time in the court room here today by Mrs. Willis. The eyes that looked out of the white face when the trial was begun were the eyes of a woman who had gazed into the very heart of pain.

"For years before the end came that woman annoyed me. I met her in the lodge to which we both belonged. She came to my home. She rode, on my husband's train; she met him at Twelfth street. She followed him and waited at street corners for him to walk with him.

She telephoned to him at our home, and some times when she called and I answered she asked me to call him to the telephone. "When she knew that was resented she got others to call him SO up, that she could talk to him. She tried to induce my son to go to her house, and offered him money if he would with her. Then she invaded my home and told me my husband want. ed a younger woman than I and that she would get a divorce from her husband and marry Mr.

Willis it would set him free." "Do. you wish to see her terribly punished?" she was asked. "Not that," she replied hurriedly. "She is lower than the lowest. I do not want to think about her.

It is a shame that so many respectable people should have to be mixed up in such an The jury was completed yesterday. Many men had been disqualified because they declared they could not look at a woman charged with the crime that is laid to the door of Mrs. Higgs regard in the same light as they would a man. Nellie Higgs says her husband is "standing by" her in her dire exttremity. "He does not come to see n.e because he does not want to see me behind bars, and for the same reason my boy is not coming, but my hushand has written saying he will stand by me to the end." PARIS BOY DISAPPEARS Paris, Sept.

parents and friends of Homer Brooks, a member of the post office mail carriers' force, are much done up over his absence from the city and the fear is expressed that he has met with foul play. The mother and father of the young man have been suffering much worry since he left the city on Sept. 10, after securing three days' off from Postmaster Thomas Hoyer. He left the city on that day with the promise to return the following Saturday, Sept. 13, but since that time nothing has been heard from him.

He went from Paris to Chicago to visit some friends and that is all that his relatives know of his absence. The young man has hosts of friends here, who would like to see his absence cleared up, While there have been some rumors in circulation during the past two weeks that the young man was blamed for some wrong-doing in connection with the affairs of Co. this can not be substantiated and if there should be such a thing, it would not be of any consequence and could not be responsible for his staying away. S. N.

Nichols and daughter Mrs. Charles Hendren were guests of relatives and friends in Neoga Thursday. NEW TITLE AND TRUST COMPANY IS INCORPORATED ORGANIZATION FORMED TO MAKE AND FURNISH ABSTRACTS OF TITLE. OFFICERS CHOSEN Meeting of Stockholders Held Wednes. day Evening to Formally Launch New -Will Extend Its Scope Into Trust Company Work-Bert B.

Cole and M. P. House to Be in Charge of Offices and Work of New Company. The Mattoon Title Trust which has for the past few weeks been in process of formation, was formally or ganized at a meeting of the stockhold ers held Thursday evening in the offices of the Mattoon Merchants' association. The new company will open its offices for business about October 1.

Several locations are under consideration as a home for the company and a choice will likely be made by the directors today. As the name implies the concern is chartered for the purpose of transacting business in connection with the holding and transfer of property, buying and selling mortgages and conduct. ing a general insurance business. The following extract from the charter of the company more fully explains its scope: "To examine or search real estate titles and furnish opinions or abstracts thereof; to act as agent for borrowers and lenders in negotiating loans on real -estate or other securities; to carrv on general insurance agency business: to act as agent for owners and others in the care, management, leasing and control of real-estate and other property." Furnishing abstracts of title to real estate will be one of the principal lines taken up by the company. For this work a competent abstractor will be engaged, insuring for the clients of the new concern the best possible service obtainable.

The main offices of the company in Mattoon will be in charge of M. P. House and Bert B. Cole will for the present look after the interests of the organization in Charleston. Upon the expiration of Mr.

Cole's present term as circuit clerk, he will be associated with Mr. House in the local office. Personnel of Organization. Officers and directors elected Thursday evening as follows: President -F. M.

Schulhoff. I Vice- president- N. McKamy. Secretary--M. P.

House. Directors--Edward C. Craig, Fred A. Kinzel. F.

N. Henley, F. M. Schulhoff, W. N.

McKamy, Bert B. Cole, M. P. House. The list of stockholders comprises the following well known business and professional men of Mattoon.

L. L. Lehman, president The National Bank of Mattoon. M. Schulhoff, of Bower Schulhoff, wholesale and retail dry goods.

F. A. Kinzel, of Craig Kinzel, attorneys. W. T.

Osborne, cashier The Central Illinois Trust Savings hank. Edward C. Craig, of J. W. E.

C. Craig, attorneys, G. H. Cokendolpher of Cokendolpher dry goods. F.

T. Moloney, president The State National bank. W. N. McKamy, of Andrews Bros.

Lumber Co. W. H. Ownhy, vice president The National Bank of Mattoon. H.

F. Kendall, president JournalGazette Co. a F. attorneys. N.

Henley of Henley Douglas, Bert B. Cole, circuit clerk of Coles county. Senator John R. Hamilton. M.

P. House, former business manager of The Commercial -Star. S. R. Evans, secretary Mattoon Building Loan Association.

Wm. Moran, attorney. Claud L. James, city engineer. S.

R. Miller, broomcorn broker. T. M. Lynch, retired.

Dr. Voigt, physician. J. F. Hanrahan, secretary Mattoon Merchants' Association.

C. W. Kincaid, real estate. C. H.

Douglas, of Henley Douglas, attorneys. Robert Howard, master-in-chancery for Coles county. A. C. Smith, life insurance.

R. A. Gabbert, president Gabbert Lumber Co. J. Stump, insurance and real tate.

Frank Kern, manufacturer. D. J. O'Connor, merchant. J.

W. Harris, coal and feed. H. W. Clark, president H.

W. Clark Co. Ed F. Ritter, druggist. E.

T. Guthrie, insurance. E. B. Tucker, secretary Journal-Gazette Co.

W. C. Lumpkin, president Coles County Telegraph Telephone Co. T. M.

Lytle, clerk of the Mattoon city court. WILSON AIDS MAN STRUCK BY GOLF BALL Washington, Sept. President Wilson and his naval aid, Dr. Grayson, were playing golf at a local country club, a player near by, George H. Chadwell, was knocked un.

conscious by a ball driven by a fellow club member. Dr. Grayson attended the injured man and the President took him home in the White House car. PARIS ORGANIZES NEW LIGHT COMPANY It is reported that a number of business men of Paris, will soon organize a company for the purpose of furnishing electricity, gas and heat for that city. The men interested in the project are all citizens of Paris and have the dough to start the wheels a moving.

DISMISSES BOOTLEGGING CASE. City Attorney Powell, on Thursday morning, dismissed the case against. William Brown, who is charged with selling liquor in anti-saloon territory. The state case was dismissed with leave to re-instate in the next term. Both cases were continued on count of the material and only witness being out of the city.

The deputy sheriff and the police officers have been unable to locate him. MUCH BRUSH BEING MARKETED Thursday was a busy day with the broomcorn leaders in the city as was evidenced at the S. R. Miller warehouse where long lines of wagons loaded with brush were waiting for one another to unload. The prices of broom corn is good, the price averaging from $80 to $120 per ton and the quality in most cases is excellent and the yield has been large.

In some cases two acres and a half yielded a ton but in most instances the yield averaged one ton to three acres, which is considered good by central. Illinois farmers. The principal fault complained of in broomcorn this year is the length of the brush, which is greater than is desirable owing to the rapid growth made since the rains started in August and the -splendid growing season since. Of course the complaint of crooked brush is heard but it is the exception and not the rule this year. Among the farmers abont Mattoon who have marketed their brush are Rudolph Cordes, five tons; James Cul-1 lom, twenty five tons: Rudolph S.

Hortenstine twenty tons: S. J. Ellington, eighteen tons; Charles Fleshner, seven tons. and Charles Anderson eight tons. RECOVERS HIS I STOLEN Shelbyville, Sept.

E. Fitzwater of Findlay has recovered his seven- passenger Cadillac, which was stolen last Thursday from in front of the Illinois Central depot at Champaign, where the family also maintains a home. The machine had been driven to the station by a son R. S. Fitzwater, who left it for a few tes and returned to find it missing.

Word was sent out over the state and the machine finally was found at Cairo in possession of a couple of Champaign boys, members of prominent families there. The youths had taken the automobile for a trip to Mississippi and were apprehended at Cairo by of ficers who recognized the car from the description furnished them from Champaign. Mr. and Mrs. C.

E. Fitzwater went to Cairo to get the car, and are returning with it. Mr. Fitzwater de clared his unwillingness to prosecute out of the consideration for the families of the young men who took it. ON LEGAL BUSINESS.

Attorney Donald B. Craig is in Marion on legal business for a few days. Mr. Craig is looking after a clients interest in a land case. PHILOSOPHICAL PHELIX THIS WEATHERS SO ENERVATING CANT EVEN PUT '09 A SCRAP! The Weather--Fair Friday and Saturday.

HEAVY ARTILLERY PLAYS BIG PART I GREAT BATTLE OPPOSING FORCES CONTINUE TO HAMMER AWAY AFTER FORTNIGHT OF FIGHTING PUNISH RUSSIANS Czar's Troops Lose Heavily When They Charge Across Open Plain in Face of Austrian Batteries But Win in End -Austrians Deny Reported Russian Victories. (Associated Press.) London, Sept. artillery continues to play it leading part in the battle of the Aisne, which has now been in progress nearly a fortnight. With the greatest stubbornness the opposing forces continue to hammer away at each other from their well intrenched and strongly fortified positions but up to the present without reaching, any Austrian decision. general staff issued a denial of the reports of Russian tories and the defeat of Gen.

Dankl's army. The Austrian forces, the report says: "Have been concentrated in a new position for several days but have waited in vain for any serious Russian attack." From other sources however, it is reported that the Russians have surrounded Przemysl and have got between that fortress and Cracow. It may be some days before another big battle takes place here as one Austrian army is behind the forts of Przemysl and the other is making its way to the remaining fortress of Cracow, while the Russians are taking the smaller towns in Galicia under their wing. The Servian and Montenegrin ar-' mies composed largely of veterans of the Balkan battlefields are before Sarayevo, capital of Bosnia flushed with victory and preparing to take this latest acquisition of the dual monarchy the possession of which by Austria has been such a thorn in the side of the southern slavs. Austrians Without Food.

London, Sept. a. "The fiercest tighting previous to the capture of Jaroslau by the Russians," says the Reuters Petrograd correspondent seems to have been at Sandovaya and Vishnya. It lasted a week. The Austrians occupied the hills commanding several miles of open country and they swept the advancing Russians with guns and quick firers.

The Russians pushed foreward however and on the in fifth day. were able to bring their guns into action. The enemy's artillery was speedily overpowered and then came bayonet fighting in which the Russians were victorious. "In the enemy's trenches were dead and wounded who had been lying there for days. Prisoners taken said they had been four days without foot, their only sustenance being wild pears and raw potatoes." Austrians Deny Losses.

Vienna, (via Amsterdam to London) -An official announcement issued at noon today says: "Except for some important cannonading there have been no engagements in the last few days in the Russian theatre of war. Our troops decontinuous bad weather are in spite excellent condition. In Servia our troops are struggling most stubbornly and very important positions are already in our possession." Eats Raw Snails. Mount Pelier (via Bordeaux)- German prisoner who escaped at the beginning of the month was recaptured today by a sergeant to whom he declared he had lived in the open air for twenty days subsisting on raisns and raw snails. Russians Before Cracow.

London, Sept. Petrograd disforwarded to London by the patch Rome correspondent of the Central News agency says 'that the Russian advance guard already have arrived before the Austrian fortress of Cracow. Austrian Boats Sink. Paris, Sept. correspondent of an Italian newspaper telegraphs from Trieste that two Austrian torpedo boats and one torpedo boat destroyer was sunk by floating mines last Friday.

REMOVED TO HOSPITAL Mrs. Marvin Henderson, 905 South Fourteenth 'street was removed to the hospital, Thursday for treatment. Mrs. Henderson has been ill for some time with typhoid fever. Mrs.

Jacob Bower is in Kewanee, a guest of Mrs. Harriett Steifl who is ill. CALLED BY DEATH OF RELATIVE Mr. and Mrs. Clint Campbell residing at 612 DeWitt avenue were called to Mode, Thursday by the death of a sister-in-law Mrs.

Ed Campbell who passed away as result of tuberculosis. The funeral will be held this morning at 11 o'clock at Mode, SUFFRAGE SPEAKERS FOR SEVEN STATES Chicago, Sept. Joseph Conger Kaneko has been chosen by the Congressional committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Assocation to take charge of the com mittee's speakers' bureau. She will route speakers through the seven states where equal suffrage will be an issue in the Fall elections. Miss Helen Todd will pasS through Chicago within the nest few days en route west to campaign for the bureau.

Other speakers will he Jane Addams, Dr. Anna Howard Shaw. Antoinette Funk, Deshr Breckenridge and Sophonisba Breckinridge. REGISTRATION OF VOTERS IN OCTOBER A general registration of all voters will take place this fall the dates for re -registering being October 3, and 13. All voters must register at that time in order to be eligible for the fall election no matter whether their names have been on the books regularly in the past.

This is due to the law which requires re -registration every two years. STATE HAS LOST BLOODY CLOTHES OF SLAIN GIRL Geneva, Sept. has be-' come of bloodstained garments the police of Aurora assert they removed from Anthony Petras the night of February 16, last after Theresa Hollander's body had been found in St. Nicholas' graveyard and Petras accused of the crime? What has become of a certain affidavit the state planned to use against the young Austrian's character? State's Attorney Tyers and Frank Joslyn, his special assistant, have instructed Sheriff "Chick" McBriarty to make a thorough search for them. In the meantime Petras and his attorneys exult.

The state thus far has encountered numerous misfortunes. When the dead girl's shoes, which were missing in the first trial, were brought into court yesterday, they proved mismatched, one of them being identified as belonging to her mother. "Tressie's" sweater was also introduced, minus all incriminating evidence. It had been washed free of bloodstains, but the neighbor woman, Mrs. John Homer, testified that she had cleaned the garment because the sight of it unnerved Mrs.

Mary Hollander, the mother of the dead girl Mrs. Hollander testified that the sweater had several blood spotches down the back. The unfortunate girl's cloak, however, showed no traces of blood. Only one wound was found on the body, a deep crush back of the right ear. Late yesterday afternoon the state called Frank Michels, Chief of Police of Aurora to the stand.

When called upon to examhie a package of exhibits which were introduced in the former trial, Michels held aloft each garment and identified it. Mutely he told the story of: a brutal tragedy. Michels stopped suddenly, paled slightly and decinred: "The bloody garments we took off Petras in the Aurora jail are missing." Consternation reigned in the courtroom, and several of the jurymen half rose and stared at Michels with open mouths. The prosecution asked for a recess, which Judge Carnes granted. The state finally announced that it could not find the exhibits and Judge Carnes adjourned court until this morning, when Attorney Tyers announced that he could not complete the examination of the witness until it had been determined whether the exhibits had been irrevocably lost.

SENTENEY FUNERAL IS HELD IN INDIANAPOLIS The funeral of S. A. Senteney was held in Indianapolis, Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. At first the arrangements were to bring the body to this city for burial but owing to the condition of the widow the body was interred at Indianapolis. Mrs.

Senteney is prostrated from grief. CHARLESTON WILL INSTALL PUMPS AT WATER TOWER Charleston, Sept. Western Pump and Engineering company has been awarded the contract for supplying the centrifugal pump and motor which will be placed at the base of the water tower. The McGowan centrifugal pump and motor was decided upon by the water board and including the installation will vost $375. The pump will be installed and placed in every day service about November.

Several bids were presented Wednesday by responsible companies, but as the Western Pump and Engineering company was the lowest bidder, the contract was awarded to that concern. The pump which is to be placed at the base of the water tower will make it possible for the big tank to be kept filled at all times. GERMAN ASSAULTS ON FRENCH LINES WITHOUT RESULTS MASSES OF GERMANS THROWN AGAINST ALLIES BUT ARE REPULSED MANY MEN LOST Nine Hundred French and Gorman Soldiers are Buried in One Trench When lull Occurrs in lies Drive Germans Back at Terrible Cost--Germans Make big Sacrifice. BULLETIN Paris, Sept. p.

---The brief official communication issued tonight announces that on the left wing the battle continues to develop; that a lull has occurred in the fighting in the center and that on the right wing the German attacks have been checked. BULLETIN London, Sept. fighting is proceeding at different points to the south of Antwerp says a dispatch from Amsterdam. At one place the name of which was deleted by the Belgian consor a German force of 2,000 men was routed many being killed, wounded or taken prisoners. Never before have the Belgians taken so many prisoners in a single battle.

At the battle front, Sept. Paris.) -The German offensive was extremely vigorous today at the western end, of the long line stretching along the rivers Oise, Aisne and Woe- vre. The allied troops whose gaps have been filled with freshly arrived reinforcements not only repeatedly thrust back the masses of Germans thrown against them but eventually carriel out a successful counter attack which resulted in the gaining of consider. able ground and the definite capture of Perronne about which town the fiercest engagement occurred. At one place the victims of the deadly machine guns were counted in hundreds, especially where the advance was across an open wheat field that recently had been harvested.

Some of a French regiment which was making a dash toward the German position when it was struck by the sweeping fire were found dead in the kneeling posture they had taken behind the sheaves of wheat and from where they had emptied their maga zines intending to stop a final rush and bayonet charge. After the fight nine hundred dead were buried in a. single trench six Feet deep, the Germans being placed at one end and the French at the other. At the eastern wing the Germans are throwing enormous masses of men against the French troops protecting the line of protecting forts above Verdun. Up.

to the present their efforts although costing immense sacrifices have been in vain and the French line remains intact. GROUND BROKEN THURSDAY FOR NEW WAREHOUSE The first ground was broken day for the new ware use of McCusker Alberts on the site of the Gab bart lumber yard on the Ilinois. Central R. R. and Charleston ave nue.

The foundation will be laid imme. diately and the superstructure will be built as rapidly as possible with A view to finishing the building before Christmas. 4 1AL ROMINGER SELLS GROCERY STORE E. F. Rominger, who has conducted a grovery store at 2801 Cottage nue for the past two years has disposed of his stock of goods to Robert H.

Wright of Chicago, who took possession, Thursday mrning. Mr. and Mrs. Rominger have moved to their former home at 2300 Marion avenue, where they will make their home. Mr.

Rominger has not decided what line he will enter, but will first enjoy a few weeks rest. PUT OFF TRAIN THREE TIMES, THEN KILLED Hammond. Sept. 24)-Allison Dodson of Louisville, fell under the wheels of No. 3 Monon train as it was pulling out of the depot at Monon and was killed.

He had been riding on the "blind baggage," although he had plenty of money. He boarded the train in Chicago at the Polk street depot, was put off at Englewood, got. on again and was put off at Hammond, got on again. ant off at Monon and got gain..