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.Lz~ THE PEANUT The is a bean which ripens ~ underground, but what advflr in Fulton county wants to em: 6 the peanut? JUMP T0 THL RONT WITH JOHNSTOWN 6 + <+ # PROBABLE WEATHER A Generally fair tonight and “M day, moderate tampon-agree light 1G - moderate western winds, VOL XXII—No. 172. THE JOHNSTOWN DAILY REPUBLICAN MONDAY, pm 22, 1912. All IO1S G * Twenty Others More or ~Harahan; F. O. Less Seriously Injured.-Among the Dead Are Former President of the Road J. T. elcher, Second Vice President of the Rock Island Road; General Solicitor F. B. Pierce and Eldridge E. retary Luke E. 'right, Son of Former War Sec- Vright--Engine of Limited Plow- ed Through Melcher's Private Car--Victims Caught in Their Berths-- ccident Probably Due to Green Trainmen Not Remembering Orders. _ Centralia, Towa, Jan. 2%2.--J, T. Harahan, former (president the Hilinois Central railroad F*;. O. Me!- ~ her, second vice-president qf the Rock Island railroad. and two others were killed at 1 o'clock this morn- ing wher the Seminole Limited on the Tilinois Central railroad,) run- ning fity miles an hour, crashed Into the rear of passenger train No. 25, which was taking water at Km- - mundy, thirty miles north of ere. In addmon to Harahan and Mel- ' cits:- F. .B. Pierce, general sqffcitor of'the Rock Igland, and Eldriige E. . Wright, fion oMKformer Secretary of War Luke E xight of , Memphis, . Tenn., are numberetx among the dead. Twenty passengers were more r less uriously injured. fiarabhan, Melcher, Pie; Wright were asleep in the)\ - car, which was attached Lo of. train No. 25. The engine of the heavy imx’zed ploughed straight through Mr. Mel- cher's car and jammed into ia pull- man goach directly shead before it . came to a stop. The terrific impack. ~- -rpzeny an a for a time, but Mr. Harriman con- tinued bis warfare against him. In Mr. Haraban as head of the Iitinois Central but the fight When Mr. Fish sought, throught the Leourts to enjoin the Harriman inter- ests from - voting Illinois Central stock held by the Union‘Pacific the Railroad Securities company and the Mutual: Life Insurance company, Jude Ball in Chicago dissolved a temporary injunction granted | Mr. Fish war. Members of Family Notified. Chicago, Jan. 22--James T. Hara- han, Jr., who in the first report was said to have been killed in the Ill- St. Luke's hospital here. His arm was broken recently. Acting under orders of his physician, hospital au- thorities have not notified him of bis father's death. . w. J. Harfihan, another son, who 'is vice president of the Erie railroad, with offices in Nfiw York, was noti- - of the collision drove brake locked }mow is on his way to Chicago. train No. %5 two hundred fect down t € home here, 3356 Michigan avenue. the right of way. Cries of more than a score of ine jured arose above the hissing . of steam 'from the splintered ass of wreckage. Trainmen fought desper- ately to reach those who bad been jn Vice President Melcher's Jrhe engineer and firema of the ms o! Mr. Harahan and Mr. \ Ths boflles of Pierce and | were/foil'nd a few minutes later. Al bad been caught in their without chance of escape. For more than two hours passen- gers from both trains and residents of the liitle town - of fore help outside points. \The first relief train physicians, nurses and Ili tral officials departed from C shortly before 4 w'clock and made the run ito Kimundy in half an hour. Several of the injured who had been taken to the homes | of resi- dents of Kinmundy were! placed aboard the relief train and| brought to the Centralia hospital. \The bodies of Mr. Harahan, Mr. Melcher, Mr. Pierce and Mr. Wright were brought to Centralia (with the injured aboard the relief train. The cause of the wreck| has not been explained and trainmen seem reluctant to express an | opinion. Both trains, however, 'were late. Train No. 25 was due at Kinmundy at 11:52 o'clock last night but did not arrive until nearly 1 o'clock this morning. The limited, which does not stop at Kinmunily, scheduled to pass through lat 12:30 o'clock. . It was runnmg half an bour late. Efforts to discover the fiigman of the train No. 25 who was bent back to flag the lHmited were unavailing up to several hours after the wreck had occurred. arrived - from carrying Harahan Protege of Harriman. New York, Jan. 22.-James T. Harahan came to the presidency of the Illinois Central rant-0:3 in 1906 through the influence of E. H, Har- rman: who had, after a long fight succeeded in ousting Azuweflant Fish from the presidency. That sht had its beginning | late in 1903, according to the late E. H. Harriman, who testifying before the Interstate Commerce commission, al- leged that Mr. Fish had bben\using his position as president of the II- linois Central \to further (his own personal interests.\ Mr Fish suc- ceeded in retaining the office of the presidency of the Illinois berths Kinmundy - worked to care for the injured be-. was . Central | a Mrs. Harahan is at the family Her maiden name was Miss Mary | Mallory and herthome was in Mem- phis. - Mr. Harahan was married twice. . Nicol and Mrs. A. N. Dale, both of whom are widows, now are in Paris. Cablegrams telling of their father's ‘ death have been sent them. Engineer Robert Stuart and Mr. Vert, fireman, of the limited, were .the two trainmen injured. Both are from Champaign and were taken to theip homes. Stuart was cut and bruised and Vert's leg was broken. The bodies of the dead were taken through here this morning to Chicago. to scarcity of water along the road. lmaA special order makes it necessary for all trains to take water at Kin- mundy and, & freight train which took water before the express, hell the express longer than usual. Stuart and Vert were a freight crew lately put on a passenger run. It is believed they forgot about the The flagman on No 25 did not have time to flag the limited. Pierce a Mississippian. Chicago, Jan. 2%.-EB. B. Pierces was born in Mississippi forty years ago. He received his education in tice of law in Little Rock, Ark. For several years hoe was assistant to the general counsel for the Choctaw, Ok» lahoma & Gulf railroad, which in 1902 was taken over by the Rock Is- land system. Mr. the law department of the Rock Is- counsel in 1907. Two years ago he became general. solicitor, His home was in Winnetka, Ills. He is surviv- ed by a widow, one son and a daugh- ter. Statement of Officials. Chicago, Jan. 22%.-The following statement concerning the wreck was given out at the offices of the Ilinois Central Railroad company: Southbound. train No. 25, with re- gular equipment and an additional Rock Island pusiness car, stopped at Kinmundy station at 12:30 this morning to take water, gad was run into by southbound train No. %, bee tween 12:30 and 12:35 a. m., result- ing in the instant death of Mr. F. C. Melcher, vice-president of the C. B. 1. & P. Railroad; Judge B. P. Pierce, general solicitor of the C. R. I. & P. Railroad; Mr. J. T. Harahan, former president of the lHincis Contral Rail- ago ¢ a sence Memphis, 'FTepnm. «-~ 1906 Mr. Figh was superceded by | continued. . Fish and that ended the Harriman- | nois Central wreck, is confined in | fled of his fgther's death, and he |- SOUP HOUSES SO Ill BE OPENED Two daughters, Mrs. Mary | The cause of the wreck is ascribed - order for all trains to take water. | his native state and began the prac- | Pierce immediately entered among the girikers for., land system, being made commerce, road, and Major E. H. Wright, xf FIGIA TAL LUMIED ERASHS INTO - «PASSENGER TRAIN; FOUR LS DEAL Photograph of Fred Koenig of Tarrytown, N. Y., beating the Twentieth Century limited. Koenig, in a sizty horse power aytomobile, awaited the coming of the New York Central's fast flyer on the bosom of the frozen Hudson river. by several lengths. __ As the train approached. Koanig few along [ the river bank, and after racing a distance of two miles Bean the train + \ -< 4 FRED KOENIG OF TARRYTOWN BEATING TWENTIETH CENTURY STRIKERS MANTA PICKETS NEAR MILLS LESS NUMBER OF OPFpRaTIvESs APPEARED TODAE-THAN AT ANY TIME YET. Stations for matribution of Clothing Also -- Labor Leaders Declare Dynamite - Sticks +Found - Were \Planted\ by Detectives in the Employ of Owners-Saloons Again Open But All Is Quiet. Lawrence, Mass., Jan. 2%.-Al- though many of the textile mills in this city opened as usual today, there seemed to be fewer employes pass- ing through the gates than at any time singe the strike of more than 15,000 operatives was declared, the opinion of interested observers. According to the leaders of the strike, the number of additions which | the forces of the strikers received to- day indicates a shut down of all the mills within a few days. The strikers have arranged a mass meeting on Lawrence common for this afternoon, at which the opera- tives are prepared to endorse the ac- tion taken last night by the strike committee when it was voted to en- deavor to arrange a conference be- tween delegates representing the strikers and delegates representing the mills. This action was a sequel to the proposition laid down by the manufacturers a few days ago t* meet \their own employes.\ The strikers maintained pickets outside the mills today, but no trou- ble was reported during the early part of the day. The saloons, which have been closed most of the time during the strike, wore allowed to re- open today. the early opening of soup kitchens and cloth- ing disbursement stations for 'the benefit of the strikers and their families. The persons in whose house the 'dynamite was found by the police on Saturday were expecte to be ia court during the day, and it was thought considerable light on dynamite phase of the strike might be forthcoming. The labor leaders declare that the dynamite was \planted\ by private detectives 'n the employ of the mill owners in or- der to create' a sentiment hostile io the strikers. The military force of 750 men now on duty in The city as & provi- slonal regiment was miintained to- day, but it is understood that sev- eral companies will be dismissed to- night by Colonel Sweetzer if condi- tlons warrant. These companies prob» ably will be the three Lawrence com- panies. Two men were arrested during the right charged with offering intogicat- ing Liquer to soldiers on duty,: in Preparations were made - the | Ser- | PASSENGER TRAIN STEAMS ABRBSS SEAS Key West, Fla., Jab. 2%..-An un- usual achievement in railroad - con- struction was turned; over to the world today when a passenger train, | seemingly supported by frail mason- ry, Steamed across seas from Knights Key to Key West. The terminus is 45 miles from Florida's mainland. The train's trip marked the open- ing of the over-water extension of the Florida East Coast railway and was the signal for the beginning of a three days' celebration. One of the foremost figures among public men here for the ceremonies was Henry Flagler of New York, to whom is given credit for the completion of the engineering feat. It was Mr. Flagler, as president of the railroad, who overcame financial and, physical obstructions, forcing the construc— tion of a railway across the line of: coral keys between Florida mainland and Key West. For great distances between Keys the rails are support- | ed by stretches of steel and masonry. Warships from Portugal and Cub& and vessels of the fifth division of the American Atlantic fleet are here for the ceremonies. Assistant Secre- . tary of War Oliver represents Presi- dent Taft, and members of the house naval affairs committee arrived here this morning. 'They will go to Ha- vana on the cruiser - Washington Wednesday, to return Friday or Sat- urday. eral nights ago it was said that whis- key had been offered to the soldiers by a man and that another man cams along soon after and asked If the soldiers had taken any of it. When told they had not he said: \That's good, its doped.\ Two pint bottles were seized by the militiamen last night, when the men were arrested and the bottles | and their contents were sent to Bos- ton today for chemical analysis to determine whether they had been drugged. The men arrested are said to be mill employes who are out on strike. When the cases of the eighL per- sons who were acrested Saturday in tonnection with the finding of gev- eral lots of dynamite tame pu in the- local police court today, all pleaded not guilty. The cises then were con- tinued until next Friday at the re- quest of Assistant City Marshal Samuel C. \things are not yet satisfactory to the police,\ and asked for further 'time to allow the state police of- | ficers to continue their investigations. The belief that the »dynamite was \planted\ was still general today. \Judge Mahoney, who presided at the court, said \there is much to in- dicate . that some of the defendants are stool pigeons or dupes of some persons who are interested in main- taipinpg a reign of terror ig the oity.' Logan. He said that j - To tent Jne in rcGOUNT AcE UT Albany, Jan. 22.-Because of the | i constitutional prohibition that no | person shall hold the offiqe of Judge | or Justice of any court longer than until and including the last day of - December next after he shall be sev- enty years of age,\ the personnel of the present court of appeals will un- next two years when four of the seven regularly elected judges will automatically retire from the bench. They are Judges Irving G. Vann of Syracuse and Albert Haight of Buf- falo, who will reach the age limit orf December 31 next, and Chief Judge Edgar M. Cullen of Brooklyn and Judge John Clinton Gray of New York, who will retire on December 81, 1913. Judge Willard Bartlett of Brook» lyn, who was elected in 1907, retires under this prohibition on December 81, 1916, while Judge Frederick Col- lin of Elmira, who was elected last year, will be 70 years of age by De- cember 31, 1920. Judge William H. Werner of Rochester was elected in 1904 and his fourteen-year term of ber 31, 1918. He is one of the youngest members of the court. The other two judges, Emory A. Chase of Catskill and Frank H. His- cock of Syracuse, are serving under appointment 'by the governor, puf- suant to that section of the constitu- tion which gives him the power to make such‘t‘appointments when a ma- appeals certifies to him that the busi- ness of the court requires it, Judge Gray is the veteran judge in point of service, having 'been ap- pointed in 1888. In the fall of that year he was elected for a full term of 14 years and re-elected in 190%. Judge Vann has served since 1896, having been re-elected in November, 1910. Judge Haight was elected in 1894 and re-elected in 1908. Chief Judge Cullen was appointed in 1904 in place of Alton B. Parker, who re- sidential nomination. Judge Cullea was elected in tho fall of 1904. M'Kinley Memorial Stamps New York, Jan. \McKinley | Memprial Seals,'}\ to be pasted like red cross seals on the back of let- ters and packages will be put on 'sale throughout the country Oon January 29, the anniversary of the birth of William McKinley. By this means the William McKinley Meir- orial Hospital Lergue expects to raise eventually $7,000,000 for a McKinley Memorial Hospital in this city and for a national campaign against tuberculosis, The project was announced in De- cember, during the visit to this city of the western governors, a majority of 100. TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITAL SOHOOL Washington, Jan. 22%.--A school for tuberculosis children to be run in connection with a hospital, the first school of the sort in the United States, is to be opened in Datroit,_ fipfich gucordiug to information re- Pile same img. Qo & r <e + dergo a radichl change within the: office does not expire until Decein-> jority of the judges of the court of signed to accept the Democratic pre- .of whom are in the league's council q 'RuN AN“ SIEEl 1“ G“ f ty was made on two gpécial care, Tk | Cornwall and. the York, and ON TARIFF FREE LIST ESTIMATED MFORTS GF STEEL WILL BE INCREASED ovEn $20,000,000. Are Mant Bill Completed by Democratic Mem- | bers of Ways and Means Commit- toe 'Saturday. Submitted to Full Committee and Will Be Placed se- fpre Caucus Tuesday and Given to Congress on WednesJay. Washington, Jan: 22 —~Re¢1uc§io~ns of from thirty to fifty per cent. on : all items in the iron and steel tariff i and the placing on the tariff free list of iron ore, sewing machines, print- ing machinery, cash registers, nails and many other articles against which a tariff is now levied, is pro- | posed in the Democratic steel revi- sion tariff bill, made public today. Democratic Leader Underwood ex-» ' pected that the bill would reduce the . tariff on steel imports from 31.51 to 22.4% ad valorem, would reduce the | goyernment tariff rovenues from steel products by $823,507 from 1911 and by $4,000,000 from 1910. The imports of greel products would be increased by nearly $20,000,000. ° The bill was completed by 'the Democratic members of the ways and means committee on Saturday. Af- ter being submitted to the full com- mittee, the bill will be laid before the Democratic caucus tomorrow aft- ernoon. If approved by the caucus it will be formally introduced in the- House on Wednesday,. Sweeping reductions are made in all the important products of iron and steel, Among the artitles now dutiable under .the Payne-Aldrich bill, which would be placed on the free list are the following: - Iron, ore, existing duty 5.29 per cent.; hoop and band iron and steel, 16 per cent.; barbed wire and wire fencing, 7.77 per cent.; per cent.; horse shoes, 21 per cent.; tungsten ore, 10 ger cent.; zinic ore, 86.57 per cent.; cash registers, lino- type machines, machine tools, print-. ing presses, sewing machines typewriters, 30 per cent. The reductions made on finished steel apd iron products range in many Classes as great as fifty por cent. ~The figures given out by the committee on ways and means, to accompany the bill, show that this will make a corresponding reduction in - tariff - reténues from - these sources. _ ~ The rates of duty under the exist- ing Payne-Aldrich tariff law have been reduced to the equivalent ad valorem duty by the committee. Us- ing the ad valorem equivalent as A basis, the important reductions pro- posed by the Democratic bill aro as follows: B Pig iron from 105.66 to 8 per cent.; serap iron from 8.72 to 8 per cont.; and ' ferro manganese ore, 15 to 6.52 per cent.; chrome metals, 20.69 to 15 per cent.; bar irom ard Zeel, 18.80 to 10 per cent. ceived by thoe United State Bureau of Education. The children will be treated in the bospital and -taught at me ~ geigeral of 1 | marks the first call of. royalty t0 nails, 17.62 | ARRIVES M RELATIVES OF, ma 6mm! 6 GUESTS OF AMBASGADOB TO STP. \ol FEW: msfil’s “comm Popular Princess Wu\ Ruff i Alight from Tum ¥ at oneetoHnmaoer' | , Where They Will: Remain Und Thursday—Visit Bald to . Hare Political Signifimmm e New York, Jan. amt—Thu B of Connaught, uncle of King (@ of England, the Duchess -of - naught and- their daughter, P Patricia, and their sulfe, - here from Ottawa today foi visit of four days in New The vice regal party; at; the of Ambassador and Mrs. . Reid. - The visit of: thé go lada unit ii: country since the vim nearly I years ago of Prince Henry of -P 1 sia. The Duke of Coanaught Ambassador Reid havé let it b { known that the visit ié k purely»a sonal one and there u; nothing p clal or even seml-oflicm} about 't: X The journey of the vice regal 400% a made without incident. The @ ernor-general 4nd family were & | dially welconed at the Grand tral statxon by Ambasggdor End Reid, after which the party mote to the home of Mr. Reid on M, avenue. & C \ les : Arrive Ahead of: Schedule. A party 'of 'patriotic.: Can“ and K number of momma}: ir's spanden’tsAimied Wmeef’thev op 3 | gat party on their Arrival as Y train-bearing the roge} yiskort, rung ip: tem thinutes ' eal 'ier than the time for the much arrival, thereby perm and his party flu‘oyfiA rad}: plans to éscape, the ' viewers. ~ - Princess Pat\ First to- Luau» Princess Ratficia was the M alight from. 'the train and on either side 'by Colonel Lo military secretary to the duh, another gentleman of the L p with a lady-in-waiting.. they: ried unnoticed to an automn’bm ute or so later the Duoheu of. G naught with a member of he! and two railroad officials .> from the train and went to an mobile in front of the martian the meantime the Duke of _ 3 a naught steppedxtrom the other side' of the private car and- escorted by k“ Ambassador Reid walked unobserv«'3 ed to an obscure entrance leadi to Madison avenue where they an automobile for the amflkmadox’ house. G01 No Political Slgnmmce. L Hundreds of commuters, on- ir« | coming trains pasted the members .S 'of the vice regal party in the station - but did not know them. Colonel Lowther said that the 'visit of hm royal highness was without pontif- cal significance and was simply 80 3 cial in character and that the gov } erhor-general had no idea what wilt be done in the way of entertaining. The colonel remarked thgt the duke: had long ago promised Ambassador Reid that he would be his guest in New York as soon as his goveruc : ment engagements permitted. - He added that the return to Ottawa would be made rext Thursday aft-n ernoon. lns. aff First Social Function. | ..'. ..- The first of the social engagfi ~ ments for the Duke of ‘Connaughfz _ and bis party was a luncheon at noon today atthe home of Ambassa~ dor and Mrs. Whitelaw Reld, follow- ing which a Slght-seeing tour of the ' city in automobiles may be taken. Tonight there will be a dinner at. X va ' the Reid house, at which Cardinal Farley, Bishop and Mrs. David H.. 'Greer, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. . Choate, Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Lin- * coln, Major General and Mrs. Fred» ;~ erick D,; Grant and others are ins .- vited. A musicale follows the dig- ner. > mo s In the vice regal party beside the Duke, the Duchess and Printess - Patricia, whom the English affeos - tionately eall Princess \Pat MrS. Pelley, lady-in-waiting, Colonel Low- ther and Captain Beaupre, controlley -. of the vice regal household. | . The vice regal party breakfasted at the home of Ambassador Reid im- mediately upon their arrival, at an . nour whon Fifth avenue was still a deep in its beauty shah *- 00 C, 20
