{ title: 'Lockport journal. volume (Lockport, N.Y.) 1907-1915, December 30, 1908, Page 1, Image 1', download_links: [ { link: 'http://www.loc.gov/rss/ndnp/ndnp.xml', label: 'application/rss+xml', meta: 'News about NYS Historic Newspapers - RSS Feed', }, { link: '/lccn/sn94057928/1908-12-30/ed-1/seq-1/png/', label: 'image/png', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/sn94057928/1908-12-30/ed-1/seq-1.pdf', label: 'application/pdf', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/sn94057928/1908-12-30/ed-1/seq-1/ocr.xml', label: 'application/xml', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/sn94057928/1908-12-30/ed-1/seq-1/ocr.txt', label: 'text/plain', meta: '', }, ] }
Image provided by: New York State Library
erties: FINDING A BUYER Par & pleo® of real estate, is «& task that involve little else tham appropriate advertising. coun roman 1 i THE WEATHER - For Western New York-Rain or snow and colder tonight. Thurs- J day threatening and much colder with snow. . The Only N cooer samoa vais G Rt INUES 1 vae i EVENTH YEAR - 2. em sens nene smc o memre since occa County _ Receiving the Dispatches Associated - Press Cure tamer rat wna me ma one actin mn OF FATALIMIES ) INCREASE ewspaper __in Niagara LOCKPORT, N. Y, \WEDNESDAY; DECEMBER 30,1908. of the , ONE CENT More than Probable that Earthquakes in Italy and Sicily Will Overshadow Any Catastrophe - of Any Place or Any Age Those Nearest the Scene Estimate Dead Will Total at Least 150,000-=Thousands - Expiring by Inches in the Ruins-=Gommunication douly Geases and Fear is that the Seismic Disturbance Plans for Relief on a Stupendous Scale all Italy Go to Devastated Territory~-Belief that Massina is Among the Dead BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. Bome - Doc. 86 - calamity grows with eveey fresh dig« patch from the south. Its stlif Impogelble to reach n ac« curate cathmate of thoe dead but tho total ts placed anywhere between 100;« 060 snd £60,000, In some quarters It is declared that the fing numbers will reach £00,000. Cottutless thousaada of wounded arc dying today in the rubns. It Is utterly imiposatble to succor them all. Catania. Doc. | the . king and queen arrived at- Moessinu today thoy at once Joined din tha work of PoC. Queon $relong vescued with hoes own himds & little hay - threo yours old, hiceding from many cuts and herself earvied him to the hospital Atendants, Washinstan, Dee. S0--\The Hato Do- partmont has recetved conflemation of tho death of Consul Cheney and his wife. The bodies have not yet been #a« cavercd, Now Oficans, Too. Rev. \ Travid Sessams, Protestant Mpiscopal flstop oof Lonslangk, is bolfeved by moenibers of Ms dlocese to lave been at Messina at the «inte of the carthe dake Albing, oem 80-=QGovernos Hughes | today issaed t proctimation cftlHug &t« tention to the calamity which hag evis« ttt sgoathcrn Italy and Slelly and rote ommending that contributions he made through the New York branckh of the Amotle. : Latlonal Rod «'rogs Society. Tty Associated Prose. Tort, Deo. dh.-Cable communom- tom with the Acollan Inlands Is dutot« rupted and It Is thought the islands have also beet devastated. The fargesy in the group is Tigart vitlt a population af £8,000, Tome, Dec, Promfor has rc- colvoid «& telegram from Boputy Police saying: \Messing completely destroyed and raged to the ground. \The victims may be numbered. by tens of thousands. The conflagration still raging is completely destroying kite ofty. Salvage implements, frc» rien and soldiers must be sont in« stantly \The excoeda the wildest Imagination,\ Nows reaching Gatanzare from out« ying districts In Calagria dndleate 36 towns and villagos wiped out with tho number of dead in that distrlek alone oexeceding 80,000. Etcombodt ts active and navigation dangerous, ‘ Trom the Intest esttmates It is fearod the total deathg In Selly and Caln« wil reaety move tham £00,000, The damage to property will be cral milllons. Ae Uy Agsoclated Progs. Catanzaro. Doce. $6.--Baghara Is ve- of 50,000, but everything goes to con- firm the report that the clty has heen practleally obliterated. \Bho town of Seinfnara with a popu« tatto of 4,000, in Calabria, has been virtually _ destroyed. | One - hundred boilies havo been already recovered. Pizzo, thirty miles west, reports the death list In the villages surrounding it nutibers 2,825. At Santa Bufemia the dead number 1,600, ' RELIEF TRAIN UNABLE TO PROGEED Cannot Got Nearer than Ton Miles of the Devastated -Maedsina - Tiy Associatod Press. . Palermo,: Dboo 30..-A sclcf train, despatched toward Messing In the hope of alding the earthquake sufferers, was forced to rotwen hore, being unable to go further than within twenty kilo- motors (about teir miles) of the strick» en celty, on account (of {Memotished] track#. . The cuglneor sald that all houses nlong the route showed effects of the carthquale® PROMPT WORK TOWARD GATHERING FUNDS King of ttaly and All Leaders of the Nation Working Together By Associated Press. frome, Doc, 80.--Taking prompt ac- tion In the name of Italy's earthquake sufferers, a great national committee has been formed to collect funds for their salstance, 'The committee Is Headed by the Dulo of Aosta, and in« cludes the presidents of the senate and the chamber of deputies, the mayor of Rome, awd all prominent men in the leading towns,. 'The subscription list has been open- c@ with $40,000 contributed by King Victor: Emmianuel | Ail banks, clubs, clvic and commercial associations and thoe newspapers have opened subscrip- tlon lists, 'he Lord Mayor of London has tel- ographed that subsoriptfons have also eon opened in the British colonies, QUAKE DESTROYED TORPEDO BOATS A gov | In Hapbor of Messina When the Earth Began to Pulsate i By Associated Pross. { T parte completely wiped out. 'he rc-) correspondent says that several tor- sort pays that al! Its inh@bitants &ro) peito boats were destroyed in the hi- neat + Hagtiwt contain 10,000 people,. te In ao few days time Hme will he gcattercit over the heay of rites which (bor at Messtan by the tidal wave in- |ctdont to the earthquake disaster. 'arls, Dec. $0..-The Matin's Naples with Aeolian Islands Sud- Has Reached There. Over the World=Rulers of United States Consul at FIREMEN PARADE _ |-- BEFORE SOIENTISTS 1 y Associated Press, Saatiago, | Chile, - Dec. 30.-There was n grand display by the fire brig- ade of the city in honor of the dele- gates to the Pan-American Scientific Congress last night. Twenty thousand porsons crowded the thoroughfares to watch the drills of the firemen, after which there was a torchlight parade written bands of music and a magnifi- cont display of fireworks. WRIGHT IN \WRONG\ 10 -__ WITH THE COURT 1 | Name on Blotter too Many Times for Leniency This morning made the third time James J. Wright has been in court and that section of the police record. book, where the \W's\ are to be found has seen nothing but Wright since the 17th instant. On that date he was arrested by ! Sergeant Rapp, on the 28th by Patrol- Iman Mormit and last night by Patrol- man Nugent. the charge of begging was preferred. On the first occasion he sorved ten days in jail, on the second Ihe reccived a suspended sentence and this morning he was given 30 days by Justice Ernest in the \Pen.\ It will be remembered that he is the iman who entertained Main Street by- standors with his exdeptional flow of hobo humor and vulgarity. IIe poses as an ex-basoball player, an ex-prize fighter, a pile driver, an engineer and in fact he has so many talents that before he can make up his mind which one he wishes to follow, the terrible booze raises such havoc that he can- not contain himself until a selection is made and consequently gets arrested. FIND OF LARGE SUM 5 IN AN OLD TRUNK i Coroner of Cincinnati Makes Discovery of Money and Bonds 1 { By Associated Press |. Cincinnati, O., Dec. 30.-Currency, i bonds and bank securities worth more than $44,000 have been discovered in an old trunls which was opened by the Tcm-onm- in an attempt to discover a clue to relatives of John Fred Vaux, aged 73 years, who dropped dead today i In a rooming house where he lived. \- In the trunk was also found a letter from Harriet C. Spinele, 1,012 South St. Bernard Street, Philadelphia. The \ writer apparently is a cousin of the dead man. She has been notified of yhis death by telegraph. i (Giving further details the dispatet says thut between Messina and Ca- l alot mark the «Ho of g ones poptoU® many of the pretty villages where; GH'GAGO To HAVE town. «orm * Hy Asgseclated Press, Patmeto, Dec. was a alight: C latd the scene of his tender- Idyls are terribly ravaged, meaning itéalculable loss to the world's poesy, Tlie Matin estimates the total num» chool of carthqualke hero last evening ber of earthquake victims at 75,000, cnusing a terrible panic. Tome, Doc. Su-F. Moerpont Morgan has sont $10,000 for the relfeft of the sufferers In Sicliy and Italy, fiy Aasoclaged Progs, Rome, Dee, uve also heen devartated. The Largest tsland Io the group isa Tapart, which has a population of 12s hot. Tty: Asnoclated Tross, SOLDIERS AND POLICE | CAUGHT IN QUAKE dh. - uble compmunmier-> Hod with the Istands is Inter»; rupted amd It ts thought those fstands' : By Associated Press, Home, Dec. 30.-Fhe latest concerning | the - efethquake | disaster nows MARATHON RAGE By. Associated Press. i- Chicago. Dec. $0.-albert L. Corey, winner of the last Ilinois Athletic 'Club Marathon race, and Dorando iPietri, an Italian runner. have been ; matched for the Olympic Marathon dis- 'tance of 26 miles and $85 yards, the 'match to take place in Chicago Jan. 22d on a dirt track, Dorando has an- nounced that he will come here ten from Ttoeggin says that several hundred! days before the race to complete his goldiors and metbers of the police! training. In entering ihto this match cd. perfshed while many others are Injur- CGirey sacrifices his standing as an At Palmk three hundred bodies amateut, 'have been taken from the rains; while Catangara, Doc $0_-No divect 11“W“;¥vmm’ hundred more are buricd nt has boon received. from Regglo, & olty *\ egfarh. Its puirty will male its famous. Vita | Spring Water, , BOY AND SLEIGH HT FRONT OF FIREBOX Remarkable Escape of a Pennsylvania Youth By Associated Press Honesdale, | Pa. Deca - 30.-While coasting down Terrace Street at a rate of little less than a mile a minute, ten- year-old Frank Sherman shot between the big drive wheels of a moving Del- aware and Hudson yard engine this afternoon and escaped death. Young Sherman clung to his sled and had gone about half under the iron horse when, to the amazement of sev- eral horrified spectators he and the sled were thrown out from under the maving engine. Tpon | investigation it was revealed that the sled struck a section of the lower gear and the force with which he was traveling sent him back, UNIQUE TO TRIBUTE TO PASTOR'S WIFE Her Grave Glows with a Soft Light Every Evening. By Associated Press. St. Louis, Dec. 30.-A - Christmas tree, ornamented as for children's fes- tival, stands on the grave of Mrs. Martha Adeline Rolling in Concordia Cemetery. M Over the tree and covering the entire buriat plot is a canopy of holly and evergreen, supported by frame work like that of a tent. On the tree are thirty-three elec- tric lights-grean, red, amber and white, the number equalling the years of Mrs. Rolling's life. The headstone bears twelve lamps, corresponding to the number of years of her married life.. On the grave in green and red letters formed from natural plants are th initials \M. A. R.\ Every evening at five o'clock the burial place of the young wife and mother becomes a softly lighted bower \of beauty. < The remarkable decoration of the grave is the tribute of Dr. F. W. Roll. ing to the memory of his wife who on the fast Christmas of her life helped her husband decorate a tree for their ilitle boy, then eight years old. SETTLEMENT IN THE STORY WILL CONTEST Widow to Accept $100,000 and Litiga- tion Will End By Associated Press White Plains, N. Y., Dec. 30.-Action brought by executors of the will of Marion Story, who committed suicide it his home, Brook Farm, near Port- hester, against Elizabeth S. Grey, to establish certain bequests in the will, has been settled 'by agreement with Mrs. Story. - Story left a large mansion at Rye, wurounded by hundreds of acres, all valued at $450,000. The widow agrees that if all litigation is stopped and the probate of the will continued, she will recept $200,000 as her share of the be- quest. Justice Keogh has signed an »rder, acordingly, allowing the with- drawal of the suits.. THE TALE OF A: FISH AND A GAT Fishy Perhaps, But Has Many Merits in Spots By Associated Press Winstead, Conn., Dec. 30.-Hiram Blackmar, & tinsmith of this town, has a miniature aquarium in which is a large Japanese goldfish, which he has owned for six years and which has be- come so tame that it rises to the sur- face of the water when any of the fam- ily call his name-\Dick.\ About a week ago Mr. Blackmar noticed his pet kitten sitting on the edge of the aquarium gazing steadily into the water. In a few minutes he was astonished to see Dick, the gold- fish, swim to the surface with a bit of milkweed in his mouth,. The kitten reached down and with her tiny paw took the milk weed and ate it. . This performance was repeated a number of times, and now the kitten goes to the aquarium every morning for its breakfast. HUSTON TO APPOINT ANNA M. HARMONY Will Be Deputy County Treasurer Af- ter Tomorrow County Treasurer-elect Louis E. Huston announced today that he will appoint Miss Anna M. Harmony as Deputy County Treasurer at a salary of $1,200 a year. port for the past 29 years and at pres- ent lives in the Third Ward. She has served as clerk to the County Treas- urer since November, 1894, when she received the appointment under John C. Lamemrts, She has since served under J, Milton Woodward, F. P. Weaver, § Curt Lewis and Arthur C, Hastings, © H electric current is turned on and the: Miss Harmony has resided in Lock- MOUNTAIN STONE ROAD Board of Supervisors Adopt a Resolu- tion Relative Thereto « A resolution was today presented to the Board of Supervisors and adopted relating to the improvement of the Mountain Stone Road, beginning at the end of West Avenue and extending westward to the town line which di- vides the towns of Lockport and Cam- bria and covers a distance of two and one-half miles. b. According to the State Engineer's es- timate the work will cost $45,000, of which the state will pay $22,950, the county $153,750 and the Town of Lock- port, $6,800. This estimate relates en- tirely to the first section of the road- way, the second section is expectem to be 'taken up next week, according to Supervisor Gould of Cambria. This is one of the few road estimates to have had the attention of the State Department this Fall owing to the deluge of similar requests, which de- manded ths attention of State Engi- neer Skene prior to the expiration of his term of office. KUNZE THE NEW SUPERINTENDENT Succeeds Peacock by Appc'ihtment of Superintendent of Public Works Rochester, Dec.: 30.-Frederick C, Stevens, State Supérintendent of Pub- lie Works, has announced the appoint- ment of Henry A. Kunze, of the Nine- teenth ward, to be Division Superin- tendent to succeed Oscar Peacock, who resigned this position last week. Mr. Kunze will be in charge of the West- ern Division of the Erie Canal and will assume his duties on January ist. Mr. Kunze has been foreman of con- struction on the Western Division for more than twelve years. The salary of the Division Superin- tendent is $2,000. The division ex- tends form Wayne County to Lock- port, and all the traffic, repairs and maintenance of the canal on the sixty- mile level will be under his control. Superintendent Kunze said last night that he had received notification of his appointment from Superintendent Ste- vyens and would assume office on New Year's Day. He further said that all the employes on the divigion would be retained, for the present, at least. Put advertising FIRST, for a while, in \your task for making a (greater store. Then you'll wonder why., 14 ever failed to do so. f i WATER THROUGH THE BIG FLUME Work Completed by Com tractor Jacobsen STEVENS GAVE CONSENT Manufacturers on North Side of Ca- nal: Convinced Superintendent of Public Works that it Was Absolute» ly Necessary to the Maintenance of Their Establishments The water is flowing through the fume and the wheels of industry are running again. This artificial water- way, ithe construction of which be- came necessary through the barge ca- nal work, taps the canal at a point a little mwbove the head of the locks and the water finds its course to the Eighteen iMe Creek. The water was turned into the flume yesterday morning and again the men employed by the following concerns are working: The Western Block Com- pany, Empite Manufacturing Company, Grabam Leather Board Company and the Excelsior Company. The work of construction was in the hands .of Contractor Jacobsen, who bas the carrying out of pontion of barge canal contract No. 66. \The necessity of this provis- ion made in the interests of the factries in the Lowertown was brought under the notice of Superin- tendent of Public Works Stevens by the Manufacturers' Association, and aften examination of the conditions had been made by one of the engineers of the department as to the possibili- ties of the work being carried out, Su- perintendent Stevens immediately gave l'fis permission for it to he proceeded with, The contract was then placed with Contractor Jacobsen whose knowledge of such work has enabled him to have the work completed in satisfactory time. Get One Pinapple, Horehound Rock and Rye, dt. bot. T5¢; Gin, Honey and Orange, bot. 90c. All other imported and do- mestic whiskeys and cordials at reas- onable prices. With every T5 c pur- chase a German importet whetstone will be given free this week only, C. WILKINSON, 36 Main Street. a p TO BE BETTERED at Cortland and ' Greenwich P. Barle, and a brother of Ferdinand HOLIDAY PLANS OF SUPERVISORS LIKELY TO BUY LAND FOR 'ADDITION _ & TO THE COURT HOUSE If the wishes of Supervisor Merrill of the First Ward of North 'Tona- wanfda, are complied with, as adopted unanimously by resolution at the morning sesion of the Board of Super- | visors today, Niagara County will have additions to the congested Court House and especially the Supervisors' rooms. According to his resolution, Chair- man Ransom appointed a committee! consisting of Supervisors Merrill, J. A.! Kelly and Daly for the purpose of ; learning the price of the Wicker prop- | erty, which is adjacent to the County | property on the north, and reporting to the Board with a view to making thei t purchase, When Supervisor Merrill, who is the oldest member on the Board, was in- terviewed today, he did not hesitate to state that the present «conditions warrant the buying of more property in order to satisfy the needs of the various county offices. { \I should like to see the entire plot bought,\ - said Supervisor | Merrill, \which extends from Hawley Street to the west line of the present property and through from . Niagara Street to Park Avenue, covering a half block by itself, sooner or later that will have to be done.\ SAND HOGS ENGAGE || IN A FIERCE FIGHT Police Go Into Depths of the Earth to Stop It. By Associated Press a New York, Dec. 80.-There was a fight iu-the Hudson river tunnels at a point sixty five feet under ground, streets, last night, in which twenty to thirty Italians and the mixed, nationalities composing the \sand hogs\ and tunnel workers participated. © Three. were cut and three arrested. Patrolman Fitscher and Gallagher rushed to the entrance of the exca- vation, and together they were under- ground. Af the bottom of the stairs they found the foreman separating the fighters. One man, Jose Antonio, with a badly cut head, with two others, was arrested, and subsequently taken to the night court, where they were held in $300 each for a hearing this after- noon in the Tombs Court. EARLE'S BROTHER His Marriage Will be in the Accepted - Way & - By Associated Press New York, Dec. 80.-Unconverted to bruised and the matrimonial ideas of his brother |. Pinney, Guyon Locke Crocheron Earle has decided to he maried in the old- fashioned way, and yesterday he ob- tained a license in the city hall. He said his intended bride was Miss Genevieve Lillian Mullen, daughter of Hugh Mullen, who is in business at 11 West 19th Street. , Earle is a son of General Ferdinand Pinfiey Earle, who gained notoristy by putting his wife away to marry Julia Kuttner, whom he called his \real soul mate,\ his \affimity.\ THE Y. M. 6, A. Lecture \New York and Paris\-Comic Carnival New Year's Night Reports are coming in from the dif- ferent cities where the \New Yorkand|. aris\ lecture has been given, that it is the finest entertainment of its kind ever seentDhe photographs Jneceived show in a small way the experiences through which these mem went. Only a limited number can be acommodated in the gymnasium so those who want seats should come early; 'The price has been made as low as possible. - All} the associatiin desires is to cover ex- pensées. The mechanical drawing class is growing. - Applications have been com- ing in from. men. who are interested in studying this work at night. Posters are being printed which will be placed in the different factories and shops where men work who might be inter- ested in such a course. The class will meet on Monday and Wednesday even- ings and will start as soon as ten stu- dents enroll. James White will be the instructor and the course will be planned so that it willl be of the most practical use to men who want to use thein knowl- cdge at once. Men who are at all in- terested may call and tall things over any time at the Association with the secretary. The program for New Year's night will be in the gymnasium, It will be free and open to the public. Regular gymnasiuny work will be demonstrated and speciat pyramid work by the lead- ers with comic features will Help to make the program interesting. A placard may help indentify your place to the ad-answerer who is look- ing for it, Don't expect any greater service from it. ' Good Goods, Workmanship, Style - \JCK and nothing else. B * VAN COPELAND, Tailor, Over $ Main St,, Lockport, N. T. FATS, DRINK AND FLEES ; 18 GAPTURED Well-Dressed Pauper \Works\ a Res- taurant; Is Captured +- By Asscciated Press. New York, Dec. 30.-A well-dressed young man .entered the Cafe de France, 18 West Thirty-eighth Street, early yesterday afternoon, sat down at m table and ordered: One cocktail, one pint of wine, one- half dozen oysters ostende, one portion of green turtle soup, one portion fish fin de siecle, quail, salad, cake, demi- tasse coffee. Total, $5.85. 'Then, without worrying about pay: ment, he took French leave of the Cafe de France. The waiter who had serv- ed him, two other waiters and the pro- prietor, joined in the chase, raising a hue and ery as they sped after the well-dressed and well-fed young man, west om 38th Street to Broadway. There they overtook him and he was takem back to the cafe. He said the was from Montreal, pennifess and was willing to worls for the meal. So he was set to sweeping the kitchen as a starter Holiday Bargains In all kinds of Imported and Domestic .- Wines and Liquors. QUINN'S FAMILY LIQUOR STORE, 9 Pine St.. Bell phone 2441. + TRACHEOTOMY - IN AMBULANCE Remarkable Operation by New York Surgeon ~ KICKED BY A HORSE Patient Begins to Choke Because of Crushed Larynx and Only by Deft and Rapid Work is His Life Saved While Swaying Vehicle is Rushed Through the Streets ' By Associated Press. New York, Dec. 30-With a man choking to eath in the ambulance Dr, A. J. Steele of Bellevue Hospital yesterday performed the delicate op- eration of tracheotomy in the swaying vehicle and saved his patient.s The injured man, Charles Walker, employed in the postoffice stable on Filteenth Street, was kicked in the neck by a vicious horse. 'The blow crushed the farynx and thyroid cartilage. The man lay un- conscious in the stable but when ploc- ed in the ambulance began to choke. His face turned black and Dr. Steele décided there was no hope of relief ex- cept by an instant operation. He made an incision in the throat and windpipe, Every moment was pre- cious and he could mot think of halt- ing the ambulance. 'The incision made, he quickly slip- ped a rubber tube into the windpipe and Walker breathed freely again. He was conscious when the hospital was reached. The house surgeons were astonished hy the cleverness of the young ambu- lanee surgeon's work and congratula- ted Pim. a Walker will live, Fine Woolens For Suitings, Overcoatings, Rain Coats and Trouserings. Van Copeland, Tailor, over 8 Main Street, Lockport, N.Y. Look! Look! Look! For New Years candy, nuts,‘fmits, cigars, etc., see Henry Retzlaff, 9 Buf- falo Street, Big Bridge Newsroom. \It's purity has made it famous.\ Great Bear 'Water at Shearston's, a
