Youngstown News, 1902-04-18

              THE YOUNGSTOWN NEWS. VOL. XXII. tfOUNGSTOWN, N. Y., FRIDAY. APRIL 18. 1902. NO. 11. THE REV. DR. TALMAGE DEAD Well-Known Preacher Expired at His Home in Washington, HE HAD A REMARKABLE CAREER His Success Attained by Forensic Skill and His Choice of Attractive Themes —Three of His Churches in Brooklyn Destroyed by I — Divided Fame / With Beecher as a Pulpit Or&tor. I Washington, D. o.—The Rev. T. De /Witt Talmage, the noted divine, died iat his home in this city. It had been "evident for some days that there was no hope of recovery, and the attending physicians so informed the family. jfThe patient gradually grew weaker tuntil life passed away so quietly thai teven the members of the family, all of whom were watching at the bedside, hardly knew that he had gone. The immediate cause of death was inflammation of the brain. The last words uttered by Dr. Tallage were on the day preceding the marriage of his daughter, when he said, "Of course I know you, Maud." ■Since then he has been unconscious. i Few American clergymen ever en iJoyed as wide popularity as the Rev, DDr. T. De Witt Talmage. He owed this popularity in part to his forensic skil] land in part to his understanding of the [themes wheih possessed the greatest interest of his audiences. Dr. Talmage was born on January 7, 1832, in Bound Brook, N. J. His (father, David T. Talmage, a farmer, and the future clergyman was the youngest of twelve children. He received his early education in a grammar school in New Brunswick, N. J., entering the University of the City of New York when he was nineteen years old. He was graduated in May, 1853. ! He studied law for three years, but lat his parents' desire he entered the imiuistry and began his studies at the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Brunswick, N. J. He was ordained by the Reformed iDutch Classis of Bergen and soon received a call from Belleville, N. J. He twent there with his bride. i From Belleville the young minister (was called to the Reformed Church- of ISyracuse, N. Y. He went to the Second Reformed Church of Philadelphia in 1862. and in 1869 received a pall from the Central Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn, which had dwindled to the veree of dissolution. He accepted the call. i His success in Brooklyn was immediate. He found a congregation of (thirty-five members. It increased so Rapidly that a new church was needed I and the First Tabernacle was begun In IS7O, a year after his arrival. j Fire was discovered in the Tabernacle early Sunday morning, December 22, 1872, and all attempts to save |t. were fruitless. Plans were made at once for a new structure of brick and stone, with room for 6000 persons. It was built, and on January 22. 1874. It was dedicated. j Fire destroyed the new Tabernacle early on the morning of Sunday, October 13, 18S9. Dr. Talmage at once appealed for $100,000 for a third Tabernacle. He sailed with his family for Palestine In the same month and on his return, while the new church was being built, preached in f:he Academies of Music in Brooklyn and in New York City. ! The third Tabernacle was burned on Sunday, May 13. 1894. after Dr. Taljnage had preached his farewell sermon. He had celebrated his silver [jubilee in the church a few days before and was about to resign. I After a trip to Honolulu, he did reiign on November 9, 1894, and then reached at various places until he ccepted a call to the pastorate of the Mrst Presbyterian Church in Washingon, on September 26, 1895. He went broad in 1900 and travelled extensive- Jy in Europe. Dr. Talmage was married three (times. The bride who went with him (to his first charge was Miss Mary [Avery, of Brooklyn. They were martied in 1860. She was drowned in the Schuylkill River when he was pastor Sof his third church, which was in Philadelphia.! Miss Susan C. Whittemore, of (Brooklyn, was married to the young (preacher in 1862. The shock of the [burning of the third Tabernacle In 1894 [injured her nerves and she died in August, 1895, in a sanitarium. ' Mrs. Charles Collier, of Allegheny, fPa., became Dr. Talmage's wife on January 22, 1898, after an engagement <>f three weeks. Dr. Talmage leaves several children. THE EEV. DB. TALMAGE. MAJOR WALLERACQUITTED The Court Stood Eleven to Two For That Verdict. Officer Had Been Tried on a Charge ol Killing Filipinos in the Island of Samar Without Trial. Manila.—Major Littleton W. T. Waller of the Marine Corps, has been acquitted. He was tried by the courtmartial on the charge of killing natives of the Island of Samar without trial. The court stood 11 to 2 for Major Waller's acquittal. The court-martial to try Major Waller was ordered on March 6. , The charge was that he executed natives of the Island of Samar without trial under circumstances described as being peculiarly atrocious. Friends of Major Waller and Lieutenant John H. A. Day, whose court-martial was ordered at the same time, attributed the alleged actions of these officers to temporary mental aberration, due to the severe privations they had suffered in the Island of Samar. In Washington it was intimated that the court-martial of Major Waller was due to the jealousy of brother officers, as Waller had a record for gallantry, was sure of pro- j motion, and was in line for the com- j mand of the Marine Corps. Major Waller, in his testimony, given * at Manila on March 31, described the ! hardships which the marines had to I endure on account of the treachery of the natives. He said that the only order in which he perhaps exceeded Ills authority, was that which he issued to the marines calling upon them to avenge their brothers of the Ninth Infantry, who had been slaughtered in the Chinese expedition. Every other act, he declared, was inspired by General Smith, who, he said, had given orders to kill every native person over ten years of age. Major Waller's first sea duty was on the frigate Lancaster, which was pres. ent at the bombardment of Alexandria. There he won distinction with a party of marines by removing 20,000 rounds of cartrides from a burning store. He became a Captain in 1890, and during the war with Spain was stationed on the battleship Indiana. When Cervera's fleet came out of Santiago harbor, Waller's battery'fired 1744 shots in sixty-five minutes. He was promoted to the rank of Major in 1899, was sent to Taku in June, 1900, and took part in the fighting at Tlen-Tsin. He returned to Manila and on Octobei 22, 1901, went to Samar with 330 marines. TWO MURDERS IN DETROIT. A. Girl aud a Bookkeeper Found Slain Ik the Streets. Detroit, Mlcli.—Two atrocious murders have been committed here within a few hours of each other. Just before midnight M. Jennett, 22 years old., daughter of a cabinetmaker, was found on Thirteenth street with terrible Wounds on her head and her throat cut Harry Jewell, who lives near, said he saw a man apparently beat ing something on the sidewalk, and when he left Jewell discovered the girl's body. The police arrested Professor Joseph M. Miller, a musician and married, who had long been attentive to the girl. He had been her music teacher. Miller confessed that he killed Mis 9 Jennett with a small hatchet which was found in his kitchen. A warrant was issued for him in the police court, and he was arraigned there. He waived an examination and was committed to jail without bail. The second murder was that of George W. Haywood, paymaster of the Malleable Iron Works. He was found in the street near his home with a gaping wound in his head. W. F. Jones, who boarded with Haywood, was arrested. A revolver that had belonged to him was found a short distance from Haywood's body, and Dr. Baker believes the wound could have been made by a pistol fired at very close range. Jones and his landlady had frequent quarrels, and the suspected man i 9 said to have been infatuated with Mrs. Haywood. The woman says to the best of her belief Jones was in the house all night. TO SUCCEED MR. EVANS. Euj;6iiB F. Ware, of Kansas, Chosen Fa Pension Commissioner. Washington, D. C.—President Roosevelt astonished politicians in general and Kansas in particular by appointing Eugene P. Ware, better known by his self-chosen name of "Ironquill" of Kansas, to succeed Pension Commissioner Evans. It is usual to appoint a Union soldier Pension Commissioner, but it is seldom that the position has gone to a man with such a fighting record as Mr. Ware's. If he cared for the title he would be known as Captain Ware, for he served all through the Civil War. Mr. Ware was born at Hartford, Conn., in 1841. He enlisted in the Civil War in Company E, First lowa Volunteer Infantry, serving afterward in Company L, Fourth lowa Volunteer Infantry, and Company F, Seventh lowa Cavalry, finally becoming Captain of the last-named organization. He also saw service in the Indian wars, and in these campaigns wad badly wounded. After leaving the army he moved to Fort Scott, Kan,, and in 1871 was admitted to the bar, was a member of the State Senate, and twifce a delegate to the Republican National Convention. Later he moved to Topeka. He is a member of a wellknown law firm of Toledo. Kan. MOTHER KILLED HER SON Mrs. A. Edward Tower Then Committed Suicide at Pouehkeepsie, ACT ATTRIBUTED TO INSANITY Woman "Was Wife of a Millionaire aiwi Prominent In Society—Her Mind Had Been Unbalanced For Years—Hnsband Absent at the Time of tlie Shootinjj— She Idolized Her Boy. Poughkeepsie, N. Y.—lnsane for years, though only her husband and her physician among all who knew her suspected it, the wife of a A. Edward Tower, the multi-millionaire ironmaster, went wholly mad, shot her son and then killed herself. According to Coroner Selfridge's explanation, Mrs. Tower went to her son Albert's room and emptied a fivechamber revolver into his body. He was found dead on the floor just inside the door of his room. Mrs. Tower then apparently sat down on a bed in an adjoining room, and with another revolver shot herself. Mr. Tower was not at home at the time. Servants heard the shots and forced an entrance into the room where Mrs. Tower was. Mr. Tower, Dr. Tuthill and Coroner Selfridgewere immediately summoned, but when they arrived both Mrs. Tower and her son were dead., Mr. Tower owns the Poughkeepsie Iron Works, and he frequently goes there at night. He was there in the evening while Mrs. Tower and her son were at home, the boy playing ping-pong with a friend. Apparently the mother was composed and cheerful, as she discussed the future prospects of the boy. After the guest left at 9.30 she telephoned several times to her husband to come home. Once she told him that Albert, who had gone to bed, was restless. She retired at 11. Less than an hour afterward the servants were aroused by ten or twelve pistol shots in the family apartments on the second floor. The only outcry was, "Oh! Albert! Oh! Albert!" from Mrs. Tower. The butler forced the door of one of the rooms as soon as the shooting subsided and found the woman and her son dead. There were four bullet holes in his chest, and one bullet went through his mouth, crashing out through the top of his head. Mrs. Tower was about thirty-eight years old. She was the eldest daughter of P. Piatt Carpenter, of Helena, Mont, who ran for Lieutenant-Governor on the Folger ticket in this State. Mr. Carpenter was County Judge of Dutchess County and was prominent in Republican State politics twenty years ago. Mr. Tower is the eldest of two sons of the late Albert Tower, who made a fortune In the manufacture of pig iron in this city. He and his brother, Joseph Tower, who lives at Tuxedo, were the only heirs to the estate. The Towers were well known at Newport, where they spent the summers on their yacht. GENERAL WADE HAMPTON DEAD. Leader in tlie Civil War, Senator and Governor of His State. Columbia, S. C.— General Wade Hampton died from valvular disease of the heart. The General had just passed his eighty-fourth birthday. Governor McSweeney issued a proclamation requesting general mourn- ing. Bells were tolled in all the towns when the news was received and many schools were closed. General Wade Hampton was born in Charleston, S. C., March 28, 1818. He was a Civil War veteran, former United States Senator and former Governor of South Carolina. He was for almost half a century a prominent and picturesque figure in the public life of tbe South. He went through the Civil ai without serious injury, but some years ago, when he was Governor of South Carolina, he was thrown while riding a mule in the mountains and one of his legs was so crushed it had to be amputated.GENEBAL -WADE HAMPTON. Pension to Mrs. McKinley Favored. The bill granting Mrs. McKinley a pension of $5000 a year was favorably reported from the Committee on Invalid Pensions of the House of Representatives Wash lug ton.  WINTER WHEAT AND RYE Average Condition as Reportsd fry the Agricultural Department. A Wheat Crop of 416,000,000 Bushell Indicated—Condition on April X Plaeed at 78.7. Washington, D. C.—The April report of the Statistician of the Department of Agriculture shows the average condition of winter wheat on April 1 tc havQ been 78.7, against 91.7 on April 1, 1901; 82.1 at the corresponding date in 1900, and 82.4 the mean of the April averages of the last ten years. The averages of the principal States are as follows: Pennsylvania, 82; Ohio. 77; Michigan, S3; Indiana, 81; Illinois, 90; Tennessee, 60; Texas, 72; Kansas, 73; Missouri, 91; Nebraska and California. each 93, and Oklahoma, 67. The average condition of winter rye on April 1 was 85.4, against 93.1 on April 1, 1901; 84.8 at the corresponding date in 1900, and SB.l, the mean of the April averages of the last ten years. The averages in the principal States are as follows: New York, 92; Pennsylvania, 85; Ohio, 82; Michigan, 91; Indiana, 90; Illinois, 94, and Kansas, S7. New York City.—The Government report indicates, according to the figures of Statistician Brown, of the New York Produce Exchange, a crop of 416,000,000 bushels of winter wheat. This estimate is on a basis of thirteen bushels an acre, and compares Avith the December estimate of 457,600,000 bushels, which was on a basis of 14.3 bushels an acre. The aci'eage in both cases was the same, 32,000,000 acres. The April, 1901. estimate on winter wheat was 457,258.000 bushels. The Government has made no official report on the last winter wheat harvest, as it has desired to check its figures byxthose of the census report. ARRIVAL OF MISS STONE. She Considers the Turkish Government Responsible For Her Abduction. New York City.—Plump, sunburned and smiling, Miss Ellen M. Stone, the American missionary who was for six months a captive in the mountains of Bulgaria, and who was ransomed by the payment of $65,000, fairly ran ilown the gangplank leading from the steamship Deutchland, and was wel- corned by dozens of friends who had. been several hours waiting for her. She had been met at quarantine her brother, Charles A. Stone, and Dr. Henry O. Dwight, and when she dis"- embarked she was quite ready to talk to newspaper men. She showed at once that she considered the Turkish Government responsible for her abduction. The ransomed missionary went to her mother's home tin Chelsea, Mass. She did not know whether or not she would ever return to Bulgaria, but said that she was ready to do so. • Albert Santos-Dumont also arrived on the Deutschland. He comes to discuss plans for an exhibition of aerial navigation with the managers of the St. Louis Exposition. He predicts that within ten years he will fly across the ocean in his own airship. MISS ELLEN M.STONE. NEGRO MILLIONAIRE'S ODD WILL. k Presbyterian, He Leaves a Fortune to Found Catholic Orphan Asylum. Philadelphia, Pa.—Colonel John Mc- Kee, the negro whose property is valued at $2,500,000, bequeathed nearly liis entire estate in trust to Archbishop Ryan for the founding of a college for white and negro orphan boys, similar to that of the Stephen Girard Institution in this city. Colonel Mclvee for fifty-eight years had been a member of the Presbyterian Church, and the fact that his daughter and six other heirs wrere cut off with but $300 a year and members of the Roman Catholic Church made executors of his will and trustees of the college has caused a profound sensation. The heirs will contest on the ground of undue influence. After the death of Mrs. A. A. P. Syphax, to whom $300 a year is given, and when that amount has been divided between her five sons, the college, so the will provides, is to be built on his vast estate, ten miles from this city. UNWELCOME HUG COSTS ONE CENT. Jury Fixes the Price of Surreptitious JLovemakiutt iu Kentucky. Louisville, Ky.— A jury decided that an unwelcome hug constitutes damages to the sum of one cent, and accordingly rendered judgment in that amount against Richard Laugan, who was sued by Mrs. Lizzie Cecil for forcing his affections upon her. Langan is the landlord of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil. He to the Cecil home and made himself agreeable. He placed his arm around Mrs. Cecil's waist. Langan swore that he merely brushed by her. MINOR EVENTS OF THE WEEK WASHISGTON ITEMS. President Koosevelt returned to Washington from his trip to< the Charleston Exposition. The postal receipts for March as compared with March, 1901, for the fifty largest postoffices in the -country show a net increase of ten per cent. Robert J. Wynne, a newspaper correspondent, was appointed First As sistant Postmaster-General. Governor Dole, of Hawaii, arrived in Washington for a conference with President Roosevelt. President Roosevelt has signed the bill repealing the war revenue taxes. The pen with which the bill was signed was presented to Representative Bartholdt, of Missouri. Suit against the Northern Securities Company was brought by the State of Washington before the United States Supreme Court. Both Houses adopted the conference report on the War Revenue Repeal bill, and that measure was sent to the President for signature. Secretary Hay sent a letter to the investigating committee relating his dealings with Captain Christmas. The House passed the Chinese Exclusion bill, and the bill to extend National bank charters twenty years. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. An order granting partial pardon to all those who are undergoing life off shorter sentence was published at Havana, Cuba. Cholera is spreading rapidly in the Philippines. The report of Governor Gardener, Df Tayabes Province, P. 1., declared outrages by American troops were naking the natives our perpetual memies. Judge Yillamor, accompanied by the A.ssistant Attorney-General, went to Tayabas, P. 1., where he will hold a special Court to try over 500 cases af treason and sedition. DOMESTIC. A reprieve granted by Governor Dockery was received just thirty-five tninutes too late to prevent the execution of Henry Flutcher, colored, at St. Louis, Mo. Antonio Maggio, the Anarchist who predicted President McKinley's asassination, was released from custody ifter si?; months' imprisonment at Santa Fe, N. M. Chief of Police Marstellar, just appointed at Elliins, W. Va., was shot knd killed by Wilfred Davis, whom he had arrested in a saloon. Davis was raptured by a posse and taken to jail it Philippi. Frank Meyers, Dudley Boyd and James Shaffer were instantly killed by a. boiler explosion in a saw mill at Peoria, lowa. For killing Deputy Marshal Frank Taylor, at Dukedom, Tenn., Tom Blanjhard, a farmer, was lynched. George E. Chamberlain, of Portland, svas nominated for Governor of Oregon by the Democratic State Convention.Eight hundred square miles of prairie land in Terry County, Texas., was swept by fire, hundreds of cattle being burned. The valuation of the late Philip D. Armour's personal property in New ¥ork City and Chicago was fixc*d at 514,751,109. Adjutant-General Jasper N. Reese, >f Illinois, died in Springfield. John L. McAtee, Associate Judge of the Eighth Circuit Court, in Oklahoma, resigned. Charges had been preferred igainst him. After killing his wife by shooting, Harry Preston, of Toledo, Ohio, shot ind killed himself. John Bates was arrested at Chicago for the murder of E. R. Hunter, a prominent stock man, who was killed In his office at the Stock Yards, April i.2, 1895. Liquor may be delivered C. O. D. in Kansas without violating the prohibition law, under a Supreme Court delision.Crossed wires set fire to the hospital ior the insane at Fergus Falls, Minn., placing hundreds of lives in danger, though , none were lost. A life imprisonment sentence was meted out to Daniel Kairo, at Duluth, , Minn., for cutting David Myllmaki to j ieatli with a knife. Ignace Paderewski asked Governor Odell, at Albany, N. Y., to pardon Anton Werner, a countryman, now serving a life sentence for murder. Kepoi'ts from the new Thunder Mountain gold field," in Idaho, declared the mines remarkably rich, some of the pre yielding $150 a pound. Alabama was suffering from a coke famine, because of flooded mines. A combination of gas and electric companies at Rochester, N. Y., was announced.FOREIGN. It was reported in London that ten battalioifs of militia would be sent to Ireland to enforce the Coercion act. Senor Robert, leader of the Catalonians, died suddenly at Barcelona, Spain, of heart disease. It was reported that Germany, Austria and Italy had agreed to continue the Triple Alliance. The Czar commuted the sentence of death imposed on Colonel Grimm for betraying Russian army secrets to life imprisonment at Schlusselberg, on an island in the Neva. The Danish Landsthing voted down by a majority of seven a motion to reject the treaty of sale of West Indian possessions to the United St&tgs. KING LEOPOLD MOBBED Socialists Give Him a Hostile Greeting at Brussels. Surround His Slotor Oar Demanding; Unt« versal SulSrajje—Spanish I>isturbera Expelled- From the Country. Brussels, Belgium.—The growing Socialist agitation received a s-trong impe tus by tlie action of the Government in expelling from Belgium, four Spanislr Republican Deputies \vho came to visit tlie country. They addressed a Socialist meeting and then received notice from the police to leave Belgium at once. Their departure from the railway station happened to coincide with the arrival of King Leopold from France. His Majesty was entering his motor car when a number of Socialists, accompanying the expelled Spaniards, pushed towards him, shouting: "Long live universal suffrage!" ''Long live the Republic!" The police cleared the course of the motor car, which speeded off. A section of the crowd cheered the King. His Majesty's return from Biarritz isconnected with the agitation for universal suffrage, which the Liberals, Radicals and Socialists are insistently demanding. The Government strongly resists and the working classes are becoming dangerously angry. The Ministers are resolved to refuse the demand for a change in the electoral law under street pressure, and are preparing to maintain their position by force. General Consebant d'Alkmade. Minister of War, has ordered a number of the reserves to join the colors. These include the militia and fourteen line regiments of the years 1898 and 1899, besides the carabinier and grenadier regiments. All divisions of the gendarmerie have also been ordered to hold themselves in readiness to march wherever they may be wanted. A noisy parade of Socialists in Brussels culminated in a riot in one of the suburbs. A mob attacked some convents and houses of Clerical Deputies, smashing the windows. They also extinguished the street lamps. The police were resisted and several revolvers were fired by the crowd. The police then nred their revolvers, but were outnumbered and forced to take refuge in a cafe. The crowd pursued them and wrecked the cafe. Afterward they spiashed the windows of aH . the shops that were open. It is reported that many persons were wounded in the fighting. There has been rioting at Liege and Ghent and the reports from those places represent the trouble as being serious. Many persons were injured and numerous arrests were made. The miners and ironworkers are keenly interested in the agitation. SON CONFESSES IN COURT. Admits an Embezzlement For Which Hl* Father Was Being: Arraigned. Omaha, Neb.—Tlie arraignment ol Charles Kaufman in court on the charge of embezzlement developed 8 dramatic Incident. Kaufman was arrested on a charge by the agent of an insurance company, accusing him with failing to turn over $2000 collected by him. When he was called upon tc plead to the indictment his son rose from his seat in the audience and said; "Your Honor, I want to plead guilty to that charge. Please have the com plaint made out against me, I am the guilty one." "You can't do it so abruptly," replied the Judge. "It Avill save a whole lot of worry," foung Kaufman insisted. "I am guilty and I don't propose to have all the burden loaded on the old man's shoul ders." The elder man is an old resident of the city, formerly a member of the City Council, and a prominent business man After tlie admission of his son, the old man sat stupefied. The prosecution against him will be dropped. LOST $2.000.000 SINCE 1882. H. V. Lncas Inherited Fortune From His Father and is Now Bankrupt. Chicago.—Henry V. Lucas was one ol the 161 bankrupts for whom the United States District Court wiped out i $40,000 in debts. The schedule filed by j the petitioner contained no assets, and showed that in 1882 Mr. Lucas fell heir to $2,000,000 as his portion of a nine-million-dollar estate left by his father. Twenty years ago Judge Lucas, the petitioner's father, was reckoifed the wealthiest man west of the Alle glianies. He was a money king in St Louis, where a street is named in his honor. Mr. Lucas's fortune slipped rapidly from his possession, and he came to Chicago to work for a living CHINESE REVOLT AGAINST TAX. Villages in Southern Mongolia Fortified to Kesist Troops. Tien-Tsin, China. — Three thousand Chinese troops and a number of Krupp guns have been dispatched to South- I ern Mongolia, where the people are in revolt against the severe indemnity taxation. Several villages have been strongly fortified, and their inhabitants are determined to fight. ' They say they are assured of the assistance of 30,000 disaffected persons. Ambition of Cecil Rhodes. According to William J. Stead Cecil Rhodes's ambition was to found a secret order to bring about the unity oi the Anglo-Saxon race and universal federation and peace. ' An Independent Re- $ } publican Paper. * J G. OLIVER PRICE, - Editor. J \ The Brightest and Best ? J County Paper. J f $1.00 Per Year in Advance, 7 | Advertising Bates on Application, |