Titusville Herald

              THE TITUSVILLE HERALD.
FORTY-FIRST YEAR.
TITUSVILLE, PA, JULY 28, 1903
VOLUME XLI. MO   40.
NARROWLY ESCAPED
THE FURY Of Ik
DETECTIVE    JOHN PEEL HAS    AN
EXCITING   EXPERIENCE.
WHOLESALE THIEVING OF BRASS
Unearthed  by tho  Officer,   Which   Involves Prominent Citizens of tho
Place,   Caused   Disturbance.
SCRANTON, Pa., July 26.—An attempt to lynch John Peel, a Delaware
and Lackawanna company detective,
was made last night at Fostoria by a
■ crowd of villagers who were infuriated
upon learning that he had gained evidence which would connect a score of
the families of the village with wholesale thievery of brass and other junk
from the company's property.
Peel was attacked as he was waiting
tat the 7 p. m. train by a mob which
assembled at the village hotel. A number of those in the mob were farm
hands on a Saturday night spree, ready
for any recklessness that might be suggested.
When the mob made its attack with
cries of "Lynch him!" the detective
drew his revolver and began pulling tho
trigger, but there was something wrong
with the mechanism of the hammer and
the cartridges were not exploded. Peel
gained the waiting room while the mob
was shrinking before his leveled revolver, and he looked himself in. Word
was telegraphed this city and a force of
twenty-five officers were hastily recruited to be sent'to the detective's rescue. In the meantime a passenger train
from the north arrived, and the crew,
acting under telegraph orders from this
city, quit the train and engaged in protecting the detective until the force
from Scranton could reach the scene.
• Rather than undergo half an hour of
standing off the frenzied mob, the train
crew, with a few of the passengers, de-.
elded upon rescuing Peel and getting
away.
A passageway was opened from the
waiting room to the train after a red
hot hand to hand combat and Peel was
taken out and rushed aboard one ot tne
cars. The crew quickly Jumped aboard
after, him, and guarding the steps, prevented the mob from following. The
engineer .got the train under way as
quickly as possible and left the mob
and the town behind.
f Wholesale arrests are likely, to fol
low as no less than fifteen of the mob
are known. The ringleader is said to
be one of the leading citizens of the
town, and it is alleged that because the
detective had gained evidence in connection with the thieving which would
have disgraced him and his son forever,
he gathered the mob, fired them"" with
liquor and led them in the murderous
attack.
GOVERNOR PENNYPACKER
VISITS CAMP  McKINLEY.
Sunday He Reviewed tho Second Brigade While Seated in a Barouche.
SOMERSET, Pa., July 26.—Governor
Pennypaeker arrived in Camp McKinley this morning and was greeted by
the entire brigade marching in review
before him as he sat in a barouche in
front of General Miller's headquarters.
The governor expressed himself as
highly pleased with the condition of the
troops.
Inspection will be commenced on
Wednesday by Colonel Sweeney, inspector general. He will Inspect the
brigade by regiments according to their
senority, taking first the Sixteenth and
following with the Eighteenth, fourteenth. Tenth and Fifth.
PANAMA IN A TURMOIL
OF POLITICAL EXCITEMENT.
Suppression of a Newspaper Causes
Serious   Trouble.
PANAMA, Colombia, July 26.—Not
since the days of the last revolution,
when an attack upon the city was
made by the Liberals, has there been
such a panic in Panama as occurred
last night. Shortly after 9 o'clock the
office of Ellapise, the organ ot the Liberal party of the Isthmus, was visited
by officers of the general staff of the
army, who destroyed yesterday's edition of the newspaper.
It is said that Consul Gudger attempted to send a cablegram to Arthur
M. Beaupre, the United States minister
at Bogata, but that the agent refused
to accept the message, claiming that
the lines were in trouble in spite of the
fact that it is known that Press messages were accepted this morning. It
is thought that perhaps orders to refuse messages to Bogata had been issued.
Philippine Command Transferred.
MANILA, July. 26.—General George
W. Davis has transferred the command
of the department ot the Philippines to
Major General James F. Wade, General
Davis having been retired for age.
RACE   DIFFICULTIES   IN   ILLINOIS.
Danville   Practically   Under   Martial
Law and Great Uneasiness
Prevails.
DANVILLE, Ills., July M.—Two
killed and twenty-two wounded, the
police station wrecked, the county jail
with few of its windows left unshat-
tered, the city In the hands of the state
troops and a feeling of uneasiness and
dread prevailing everywhere, Is the situation left by the race riots of last
night and early this morning.
The dead: jj
JOHN P. METCALF, negro, lynched
and burned.
HENRY GATTERMAN, killed by the
negro Me teal f.
Many of the injured are at the hospital.
Arrangements are being made for
the funeral of Henry Gatterman.
After daylight appeared, this morning
there were restless crowds .on the
♦streets and each surrounding town continued to swell the crowds.
FouT companies of militia arrived
this morning from Springfield in reply
to urgent requests sent to the state officials. The troops marched to the
market house, opposite the jail, and
there camped. The streets were cleared.
The 200 soldiers here, it is believed,
will prevent further outbreaks for the
present at least. 'The leading citizens
say the outbreak has been expected for
a long time as a bitter feeling has existed for several years between the negroes and a certain class of white
persona,
PREPARATION FOR M
IKE CONCLAVE,
SOME PROGRESS IN THAT DIRECTION MADE YESTERDAY.   I
OIL CITY TAKEN INTO
TITUSVILLE CAMP.
SESSION WILL  BE  VERY  8HORT.
WHO ARE THEY?
Mysterious Couple Dead in a Now
Yo/k Hotel.
NEW YORK, July 86—A well dressed
man, accompanied by a fine looking and
handsomely gowned woman about 28
years of age, registered at the Morton
house this morning as "C. Weiss and
wife, Syracuse, N. Y,"
Late in the afetrnoon the woman was
heard shrieking, three shots followed
instantly and when the room was entered she and the man were found
dead.
The woman had a bullet In her heart
and another in her left wrist. The man
was shot is the heart. A pistol lay by
the man's right hand and It is believed
by the police that he shot the woman
and then committed suicide.
There is no clue as to the motive1 tor
the shooting.
The woman was five feet tour inches
in height with black hair and blue eyes.
The matt was six feet tall with a sandy
moustache and reddlBh hair. In the
man's pockets were found two railroad
tickets from Syracuse and a letter addressed to 0. E. Weiss, the contents of
which the coroner refused to divulge.
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN
AND TROLLEY COLLIDE.
Throe Are Dead and a Score or More
Injured.
EAST ST, LOUIS, July 86.—An accommodation train on the Vandalia
road en route to St. Louis ran into a
well filled electric car on the East St.
Louis and Suburban street railway
near Lansdowne, three miles north of
here, today, killing three persons- and
injuring a score.   Dead:
JOHN ROY, Vandalia, engineer.
J. J. LENARTH.
DAVID H. BEATTIE.
Seriously Injured: Vincent Higglns,
fireman, will die; Charles Burkhardt,
motorman; W. R Miller, electric conductor.
The injuries of the others were not
severe. The crash of the collosion was
terrific and was heard a long distance.
A  FATAL GRADE
CROSSING ACCIDENT.
Man, Woman and Baby Killed Near
Wiikes-Barre Yesterday.
WILKES-BARRE, Pg„ July 26.—-Jo-
slah Butler, wife and infant child were
struck by the oastbound Black Diamond express on the Lehigh Valley
railroad late this afternoon, while driving across the tracks at Port Bowkley,
six miles from here, in a light one
horse rig, and all three are dead. The
occupants of the carriage were hurled
fully 100 feet, the woman's death bo-
ing instantaneous. The little babe was
tossed over the locomotive and was
found lying in the tender on top of a
pile of coal. It was still alive but
died a few moments later. Mr. Butler
was found alive in a field hear the
track, but died within an hour after
the accident.
THE REST CAN BE
DONE BY ASSASSINATION.
Specialist Declares an Hoir Apparent
to Be a Degenerate.
ST. PETERSBURG, July 26.—A
specialist interested in the treatment
of backward children, at the command
of the imperial government examined
and observed Prince George, the eldest
son of King Peter Karageorgevitch of
Servia, during the past week and has
reported to the emperor th.tt the boy
is a degenera><nfc
Cardinal    Svampa   Thinks That   Two
Days Will Suffice—Will of the
Late  Pope.
ROME, July 26.—Several thousands
of the faithful crowded St. Peter's today to pay tribute to the sarcophagus
containing the remains of the late pontiff, on which is the following simple
Inscription in gilded letters: "Leo
XIII Pont Max." Meanwhile requiem
masses continued in the Chapel of ta%
Sacrament, as well as many other Roman churches. The will of Leo was
read today. While nominally leaving
the estate of Carpineto to his nephew,
Ludavico Pecci, it really makes no
change, as the whole family property,
amounting approximately to 9120,000,
had already been divided among the
three nephews, Count Camillo having
already sold his share. The congregation again today made further progress with the arrangements for the
conclave. Cardinal Gibbons arrived
today, but did not attend the meeting.
A wall is being built around the apartments where the conclave will be held.
It Is already ten feet high. Some of
the Italian bookmakers here proposed
to conduct public betting on the
chances of the papal candidates, aud
in order to obtain permission to do so
offered to donate their gams to charitable institutions. The government,
however, promptly refused the request.
The ceremonial of the conclave as
established by Gregory XVI is to he
followed at the coming meetmg. The
cardinals have decided during the con
clave to eat in Common in order to
facilitate their work. A local paper
quotes the response of Cardinal Svampa to a question as to whether he believed the conclave would be of lengthy
duration, as follows:
"On the contrary, I think it will be
very short. I believe that two days
■Will suffice to reach an agreement."
Another paper quotes Mgr. Francica
Nava as to the possibility of the election of a pope who would reconcile the
Vatican and the quirinal, thus: "No
pope ever hated Italy. The government must reconcile itself to the pope.
Certainly Italy, on the occasion of the
death of Leo, showed herself well disposed for a reconciliation." -
THE PRESIDENT'S SABBATH.
Attended Church With His Family
and Listened to Eulogy of Pope.
OYSTER BAY, July 28.—The President, Mrs. Roosevelt and all of their
children except the youngest hoy, attended service this morning in Christ
church. The Rev. Dr. Washburn was
absent and his place was taken by the
Rev. J. Winthrop Hageman. During
the sermon Dr. Hageman spoke of "the
death of the pope which, he said, meant
a great deal to the Christian world for
it had brought the various denominations closer together than they had ever
been before and thus had marked a
step forward in the work for which
POpe Leo so long worked and which he
favored so strongly, the reunion of
Christians the world over. While the
world had suffered a severe .blow by the
death of the groat churchman, his very
death had worked for good.
After the services President Roosevelt shook hands with Dr. Hageman
and assured him he had been greatly
interested in the service and in the
sermon.
The remainder ot the day the President devoted to Ids family.
LIMITED    RAN INTO    A FREIGHT,
Causing tho Death of Four Persons
and  Injury to  Many.
ST. PAUL, Minn., July 26.—The Twin
City limited on the Chicago and Great
Western railroad ran into ' a freight
train at the Dodge (Sty siding, about
thirty miles from St. Paul. It is reported that four persons were killed.
Twenty-five or thirty persons were injured.
The dead:
CHARLES MERKERT, engineer of
the passenger train, Minneapolis.
H. COGER, fireman, who was riding
in the cab of the passenger engine but
not on duty.
 Helman, engineer of the freight
train.
FRED HORTON, of Dodge Center,
Minn,, passenger.
Seriously injured:
H. J. Hickry, fireman o fthe passenger train.
  Noble, colored, porter   of   the
buffet car.
Tho Team From tho Hub of Oildom
Couldn't Stand the Pace.
A picked team of Oil City base ball
players met Inglorious defeat at the
hands of- the crack Titusville nine Saturday afternoon. Hutchinson, who
went in to pitch for the visitors, was
fairly batted out of the box in the second inning, when Gerson's men landed
on him for six safe hits, These, with
the assistance of a -half dozen costly
errors by the Oil City team, gave the
home delegation ten runs, which with
three ia the first inning, made a lead
which the men from down the creek
could not overcome. At the end of the
second Hutchinson was relieved by
Berry, an old Iron and Oil League performer, and there was nothing much
doing in the way of runs after that.
Holt of OU City came to bat in the
first inning after Kern was out at first.
He reached first base on a safe hit
back of the shortstop. He stole second and scored on a nice two-bagger
by Morton. In the second inning Dee-
gan and Hutchinson singled. Then a
gentleman named Heffernan picked
out a long bat and selecting the first
ball pitched sent it over the left field
fence for. a home run. That ended the
scoring for Oil City. An account of
the manner in which Titusville piled
up sixteen runs oft fifteen hits would
be too tedious. Swanders pitched a
good game and was ably assisted by
his brother behind the bat. Marron's
catch of a low drive from Hutchinson
and a similar play by Barry when
Marron was at bat were easily the features.
Following is the score by innings:
Titusville^- R. H. E.
4 10 012000 x—16 15 3
Oil City—
1*3    000000    0— 478
Batteries: Swanders and Swanders;
Barry, Hutchinson and Deegan. Home
run, Heffernan. Two base hits, Morton, Farmer, Hibbert and Lewine.
Bases on balls, off Swanders 1; off
Barry 1. Struck out, by Swanders 9;
by Hutchinson 1; by Barry 1. Time of
game, 1:45.   Umpire, Mayor Hasson. %
THE CITY IS FILLED
TITUSVILLE OPERATORS
IN THE KANSA8 FIELD.
Kearsarge Arrives at Boston.
BOSTON, Mass., July 26.—Kearsarge
rounded Schooner-head, Bar Harbor, at
5:30 p. m. today.
Messrs.     Emerson     and     Stettheimer
Have Leased 1,200 Acres at
Neode3ha.
S. S. Stettheimer returned Saturday
from' Neodesha, Kan., where he went
several weeks ago to' make an inspection of the oil territory and prospects
In the new development near that place.
He is very favoiratrly impressed with
the outlook, and in the interests of the
firm of Emerson & Stettheimer, of
which he is a member, leased 1,200
acres of promising territory in line of
the producing belt.
Mr. Stettheimer speaks enthusiastically of the Kansas field and believes
it is to be regarded as the chief source
of a future supply of crude for illuminating purposes. The present trouble
is the inadequate pipe line facilities,
but the National Transit company is
bending every effort for the completion
of a line into the territory and it will
be completed sometime ths year. Many
of the wells now drilled have been shut
in awaiting facilities for transportation and operations are greatly curtailed for this reason,
Messrs. Emerson and Stettheimer will
commence work actively wnen the pipe
line is near enough completion to warrant it but until that time will not attempt to develop their holdings.
SATURDAY'S GOLF TOURNAMENT.
Mr. Semple Was First and a Large
Field of Players Made Good Scores.
The first handicap tournament in
the play for the president's cup took
place at the Hydetown golf links Saturday afternoon. It was the best attended and one of the most completely
enjoyable events of the year. There
were nineteen contestants and fourteen of them had a net score of 86 or
better, which indicated that the handicapping was done with almost a perfect knowledge of the players' abilities. Following the match the usual
Saturday evening supper was discussed by the dub members and their
friends.
The fifteen points in a match are divided by giving five to the one winning
first place; four to second, three to
titled, two to fourth and one to fifth.
The winners of Saturday were as follows:
Gross. H'd'p. Net.
Semple    87       12       75
McKelvy    82 5       77
Wheeler   80        2      78
Carter     86        6      80
S. Fertig :•... 83 2       81
Wreck on tho Big Four.
WELLINGTON, O., July 26.—While
rounding a sharp curve several miles
south of here early today, at a speed ot
sixty miles an hour, the flyer on the
Big Four road crashed into the rear
end of a freight train, which was just
tattling Into a siding. Luckily, but
three" persons were injured.
EVERYTHING  POINTS TO  AN  EXCELLENT  MEETING.
VERY   LARGE   LIST   OF  ENTRIES.
Major   Muscovite Will   Try for   the
Track  Record—Some Current
Track Talk.
CH1NAWARE.
Unusual Value for Dull Months.
This is the week of the annual meeting of the Lake Erie Driving circuit, to
be held at the McKinney Driving park,
and there will be something doing
every minute of every day until the
winner is announced in the 2:24 pace
Friday afternoon. There will be no
"best" day as compared with other
seasons. Every day will be replete with
excitement and a record breaking
crowd will be present.
Some other records may go also, for
Major Muscovite will try against the
time of little Bernice, whose record of
2:07% is the best for any horse on the
Titusville track. This time was made
in the meeting of two years ago and
although old Effie Powers tried to do
something along that line last season
she was not able to accomplish it. Major Muscovite is a good horse and
should show a very fast gait here.
Since the Lake Erie circuit has been
in existence and Titusville has been a
part of it, there has not been a list of
entries to compare with the one for
this season. 'AH are high class horses
and worth going some distance to see.
Seventeen carloads arrived via the
Pennsylvania railroad Sunday afternoon and were unloaded at the water
works switch, attracting quite a crowd.
[Although there are splendid facilities
for caring for the horses including a
large number of stables, the latter haVe
been found inadequate and for the first
time the managers of the association
have been compelled to find quarters
for* some horses in private barns about
the city. But there is no such thing
as getting too much of it and the management would not despair if the number were doubled.
The races will commence at 2 o'clock
Tuesday afternoon with the 2:40 pace.
A list of the entries will be found in
another part of the paper this,morning.
At $7.50—worth $12.
English Porcelain Dinner Sets of 100
pieces, complete for 12 persons, under-
glaze decoration*.
At $6.78—worth $8.80.
English Porcelain Decorated Dinner
Bet, of 100 piece*
At $4.00—worth $6.00.
A 60 piece Dinner Set, complete for 9
persons.
Two American PerceUin $25.00 Dinner
Sets, of lis pieces each, with soup tureens,.
all sizes of plates and tea and coffee cups.'
all half the regular price. The sets are
slightly crazed and will not be duplicated
—now JJ12.58.
NUSES CHINA STORE.
WE RENT CHINA AND GLASS.
20 West Spring Street.
03*Entrance through Jewelry Store.
Track Talk.
Frank O. Smith will start tho horses.
A little catarrh helps the pronunciation of "hawse."
Lowry Gray and old Effie Powers will
not be seen at Titusville .meeting.
Mr, Abrams has charge of fourteen
head for 3, A. McCormick, of Marietta.
Eddie Haywood, of Chicago, has a
string and is looking for some of the
pis.
The world renowned T. Benton
Dempsey is on the ground with blood in
his eye.
Hooker Dale is on the ground looking
after Nellie Walker, his fast little pacing mare.
W. E. Lake, of Baltimore, who was
in the game last year, has four fast ones
one the grounds.
P. J. Brennan, of Braddock, has Rippling, a fast trotter, and four other
horses in' his bunch.
Frank Heydriok, of Jamestown, 0.,
is hero and has some fine looking
horses, all seven of which are good
steppers.
Charles Jameson, of Tiffin, O., has
five good ones from his stables and will
figure in the division of the spoils during the week.
The Meadviile trainer, W. E. Boggs,
is here with Billy Jones, 2:16%, and
six green ones. He will make his first
start in Titusville.
I. W. Jones, of the Oakland farm,
Wellsville, O., is established in his
quarters and his men are caring for
nine fast trotters and pacers.-
National League.
CINCINNATI,  O.,  July 28.—Cincln-.
nati's inability to field slow kite in tho
seventh inning and Corcoran's error* '
gave Pittsburg the game today.    Ate
tendance, 9,500.   Score:
R. H.HB>
Cincinnati    2   7   %
Pittsburg  5   9   l
Batteries:    Peitz and Ewing; Smith
and Doheny.
At Chicago: R. H. Bt'
Chicago  ....9   8   4
St. Louis ■.!'.... 1   7   2
Batteries:      Wicker     and     Kling|
Rhoades and O'Neil.
■  A
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. Pc;|
Pittsburg   54 27 .667
Chicago   52 35 .59?
New York   47 82 .595
Cincinnati    43 41 .512
Brooklyn  39 89, ,60Q
Boston   33 46 .42||
St. Louis  32 52 .8815
Philadelphia   28 66 .81}
American- League.
At Chicago: R. H E.i
Chicago   0. 6,   Is
Detroit   l   5   2!
Batteries:   Owen   and    McFarland}?
Donovan and Buelow.
Second game: R. II. E, \
Chicago   4   7  '2k
Detroit    ..!..,'7>\<    -T.i J"«   2^
Batteries:   Flaherty   and   Slattery;
Kissinger and McGuire.
At St. Louis: R. fiL 1^
St. Louis !  5 11   1
Cleveland   !  3 10   2
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. Pc.
Boston   62 29 .642
Philadelphia     48 34 .585
Cleveland   43 37 .538
Detroit     39 38 .506
New York 37 38 493
Chicago   j  36 43 .456
St. Louis '  88 48 .48*^
Washington   27 58 .338
Eastern League.
Providence 2, Jersey City 3.
Worcester 0, Newark 1.
Denounced Sunday Excursions. ,
SCRANTON, Pa., July 26—Bishop,
Hoi ban today vigorously denounced
Sunday excursions and commanded all
Catholic organizations to desist from
conducting them in the future. Thy
denunciation has caused much concern,
to a number of Catholic organizations..
which have arranged for Sunday excursions this summer. j.
 1  i
State League Convention.
PHILADELPHIA, July 88.—Officer*
of the State League of Republican
Clubs met here today and decided to
hold the state convention of the league)
at Wiikes-Barre on Sept. 22, 23 and 24>'
Event of the season, Titusville races.
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