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The Herald, 1906-08-17, Page 2CHASES WIFE ON WHEEL AND KILLS HER Insane With Jealousy He Shoots Her Down and and Then Shoots imse1f. Erie, Pa.; Ang..13.-Insane with jeals. ous rage, Eduard J."Culna, 45 years old, .chased his fleeing 'wife up the street. on a bicycle this eyeing and shot her to death, then shot himself. He lies at a hospital in a serious condition. Culm drove his wife from her sister's home, where she lied taken refuge, went and got a revolver and followed the two :women, -who were running away in fear of their lives. Culm and his wife were married three months ago and have quarreled almost constantly since. Relatives who were -with the couple a great deal of the time say the man was jealous of her without any apparent reason. She was a widow when he married her, but had always been highly respected. Oulm was employed at Semmence Brothers' gun store in State street, and Ntrs, Semmence, wife of one of the members of the firm, was a sister of Mrs. Calm. On Saturday night the iouple quarreled at their home near Tenth and Raspberry streets, and finally Mrs. Culm went to the Semmence home and remainded all night, saying that she was afraid to stay in the house with her husband. On Sunday Culin went to the Semmence home and fixed matters up with his wife and together they re- turned home. They quarreled again, and the wife went to the Semmence home and remained over night. 'his morning Culm came back and tried to patch matters up again and seemed to be succeeding. Late this afternoon Mrs. Semmence wen out to the side- walk to talk to a friend who was pass- ing and left Culm and . his wife to- gether.. A few moments later loud words were heard in the room and Culm cameout in a rage, hurriedly jumped onto his .bicycle and rode awsy. Mrs. Culm followed him out of the house and ran to Mrs. Semmence cry ing, "Ed is going after a revolver to kill' nye. Hurry and let's get over to town." Mrs. Semmence was alarmed also and the two women started on foot over town. Culla rode directly borne and procured a revolver and then followed the two women. He rode up behind them and as he jumped from his wheel, he cried out: "Frances, if you won't live with me, you won't live with anyone. else?' As he spoke the words he shot ber twice through the breast, either bullet enough to have caused death almost instantly. Guilin looked for a moment at his wife as she lay at Mrs. Senimenee's feet, as if to assure himself that he had made a good job of it, and then deliberately turned the weapon upon himself and fired twice. Both shots took effect, The shots and the screams of Mrs. Semmence brought people into the street and the ambulance and physi- cians were summoned. County Detec- tive Watson and Deputy Coroner Han- ley were called, and began an investi- gation at once. Calm has been ill for three years and under a doctor's care, but was 'able to work. It is thought by many that his mind may have become deranged by, his trouble and the frequent quar- rels of late and that he did not realize what he was doing. Reports from the hospital are that he is just alive. RUIN FOLLOWS LOCUST PLAGUE. HAVOC BY LOCUSTS IN DISTRICTS OF HUNGARY CONTINUES. Fires and Steam Rollers -Various Means Used to Check Advance of Plague Have so Far Proven Ineffectual. Vienna, Aug. 13.—The devastation by myriads of locusts in the country in the neighborhod of Debreczin, Hungary, continues. They are sweeping through the land, eating every green thing they find in their path. The crops on 60,000 acres have already been consumed, so that the ground is still bare, and the auth- orities are helpless to stay the ad- vance of the insects, All sorts• of desperate means :are be- ing "tried. without avail, to keep back this invading host. Fires have been lighted, but the locusts swarm into the flames until they are extinguished, and the survivors continue their march. un- impeded. Twelve steam rollers are being used at one place. and roller brooms are sweeping up the dead bodies of the crushed insects. But no apparent pro- gress is made. The locusts cover the earth in many places to the depth of several inebes, and dcfy annihilation. To make matters worse, a. storm has carried clouds of them over the River Theiss, and they have devoured prac- tically all the earn which was standing 'in sheaves. What is left is worthless as animals refuse to touch it owing to its peculiar smell. The plague first appeared last year, wlien•a force of 600 :nen was organized to destroy the locusts. This year the position of affairs is much worse, and Manly farmers are threatened with ruin, ZION DEBT. SCHEME TO FOUND IT AND ISSUE BONDS. Chicago, Aug. 13.—The first detailed statement of the indebtedness of Zion Society was given to the investors at a meeting last night. The tables showed a total of nearly $5,000,000, which it is proposed by Overseer W. G. Voliva to pay by funding •the entire indebtedness for eighteen years,. and to issue bonds bearing 6 per cent interest. The proposi- tion was accepted by an almost unanim- ous vote of the 850 investors present, there being but two dissenting votes. It is the purpose to relieve the present financial difficulties by a mortgage on the 4,000 acres of undivided land of the city. Twenty-five per cent. of the gross earnings of the city will be set aside for a sinking fund to pay off the principal indebtedness, Oe.b FIFTY MORE BABES. Another Attempt to Cut Out Criminal Instincts WiSn a Knife. Philadelphia, Aug. 13.—The Society for " the Protection of,Ohildren From Cruelty here is now literally "laying rte axe to the root," .as far as. 'crime is concerned, by having all the ebilzlren who tonne into its care operated upon for the removal of every tendency to evil,J • Following the suceessful operafions evnich were recently ,performnecl, five new oeserations have just been ,performed and the doetors who did the work aa•id to - Islay that they were quite satisfied that they would be equally estecessfltd (knee, 1 At the same time fifty children com- mitted to the society's care were ex- amined and within the next few days wilil also be operated upon for the erad- ication. of criminal tendencies. One of the most fruitful causes of criminal predisposition, the -doctors-say,• springs from astigmatism of the eye. It is as if there were a close connection :between physical and moral obliquity. The removal of the defect from the eye, will, the doctors say, also correct the moral crookedness. Curvature of the spine in children -.is another seed bed of crime. This, too, is one of the ailments for which chil- dren, are immediately treated When they enter the portals of the children's society. THE LITHOGRAPHERS. BOTH SIDES DECLARE THEY CAN HOLD OUT A LONG TIME. New York, Aug. 13,—President Steich- er, of the Employing Lithographers' As- sociation, against the members of which some 200,000 men are on strike, issued the following statement yesterday: "We are prepared to continue the fight against this strike for six months and, if necessary, for a year. I am greatly pleased by the attitude of our members. They are unanimously in favor of arbi- tration and the open shop. The union having refused to arbitrate, there was no other course left for us but to declare the open shop:" General President Hamilton, of the Lithographers' International Protective Association of the United States and Canada, issued the following statement yesterday:, "We have funds enough for an eight months' fight and the amen are all stand- ing firm." IIURT IN RUNAWAY. FOUR YONKERS WOMEN ARE SERI- OUSLY INJURED. New York, Aug. 13.—Four Yonkers women were severely injured last night when a trap in which they weer driving was overturned in a runaway in River- dale avenue, near Spalding Lane, the Bronx, The injured, all of whom were rendered unconscious, are: Mrs. Ellen Ellen Waterman, bed sealp wound, eon- eussions and a broken collar bone; Mrs. Frances Rosenblam, left arm broken and right side and face and arms • badly la- cerated; Mrs. Jane Keplers, right wrist broken, back sprained and 'scalp lacer- ated; 111iss Frances Tuttle, right leg in- jured, right eye almost torn from the socket, back badly bruised and the sealp torn. She had been dragged between a stone wall and the trap. At the hospitals where they were taken it was said that the women•were all in a very serious eondition, especial" ly Miss Tuttle, The horse attached to the trap had been frightened by en automobile. LURED TO CANADA. Taken to Prince Albert, N. W. T., and Authorities Are Giving Warning, Chicago, Aug. 13. --Ten young girls from Chicago are on their way to Prince Albert, Canada, in the charge of an unscrupulous woman from the Twen- ty-seeond street district. They rbelieve that they are to be entertained by her at her summer hone. They suppose that she is a woman of refinement and re- epecta•bility.. Some have been promised employment at extravagant •wages•. Iii reality they are being taken to a C/anadlat town where the proportion of men to women is 1,000 to 1. The girls, most of whom are in their teens, have been recruited from WOMEN ROBBED various parts of the pity. Their rail- road fare ,amounting to $48, has been - _ paiti, wSQxner havbean with , wardrobes.ve even L1iey ]naveprovided been well 'supplied with spending money, Charles R. Svinnieg, 5844 La Salle street, whose family tis acquainted with one of the girls, said that she wan entirely unsophisticated and be- lieved . that the woman was a real friend, who desired too give her a brief season at a pleasure resort. Mr. i5vinnin'g laid the 'matter before the Englewood police, who promised to tape the .matter up, At the saine time he sent word to the Postmaster at Prince. Albert, notifying him of the facts, andasking him to warn the authorities: BRITISH RECORD. GOOD GUNNERY IN MEDITERRAN- EAN EXERCISES. Destroyer Bruiser Made Forty-six Hits Out of Sixty-four Rounds With Six - pounder --Six Out of Ten With Twelve -pounder, New York, Aug. 14.—A special cable to the Herald from London • says: Ire- markable scoring has been made in this year's firing exercises in the Mediter- ranean fleet. The destroyer :Bruiser from her six -pounder guns made forty- six hits out of sixty-four rounds and from her twelve -pounder guns six hits out of ten rounds. The average for the six ;pounder guns is 10.36 hits a gun, which constitutes a record for this class of gun. The Bruis- er's score are better than those made by the destroyer Dragon, which was re- cently complimented by Vice -Admiral Lorcl Charles Beresford on her perform- ance. The cruiser Barham, in the heavy gun layers' test, made forty-two hits out of fifty-eight rounds, tee best gun's scores being eleven rounds and eleven kite from a 4.7•dnch gun. The next best score was ten rounds and ten hits, THE WYLIE CASE. Boy Who Shot Girl Says He Didn't Know Gun Was Loaded. Guelph despatch: P. Wylie, the farm hand who shot little Mary A. Berdina Swackhammer, of Erin Township, is now in Guelph jail, having been brought from Acton to=day by High Constable Merriweather. .An inquest was opened to -day and adjourned till Wednesday. The funeral of the victim was held this afternoon, and was attended by practically the whole countryside. Wylie maintain= that the shooting was accidental, a'rel seems to realize the gravity of .the situation In which he is placed. He says 1I,was not aware that the gun was 1oad{id, but Frank -Swack hammer, brother of .he 'awl girl, states that;he told Wylie on Thursday that it was. Some of •the ,,eireumstances appear to favor the boy. He did not leave the scene of the shooting until the girl. was dead, and he told her father what he had done. On the way to Acton he told the driver•tvho took him over that he had shot the Swackhammer girl, and that he had a postcard from his father asking him to meet him at Acton. The case is perplexing the police. It is stated that malice .can scarcely be established. COOLING OFF. TWO KILLED BY FALLING FROM FIRE ESCAPES. New York, Aug. 13.—'I here was some relief this forenoon from the torrid wea- ther conditions which have prevailed here for three days. Further relief is expected by the wea- ther bureau by thunderstorms and lower temperatures to -night. Throughout last night every breathing spot in the city was crowded with sweltering humanity. The parks were packed and many per- sons on the east side slept on fire es- capes and even on the sidewalks. Men, women and children surrounded the pub- lic fountains during the night. Two per- sons who were sleeping on fire escapes fell into tbe street and were killed. A few prostrations from heat were re- ported early to -day. err SHIRT -WAIST MAN IN EVIDENCE. Not Even Big Hotels Bar Him Front Dining Room. Atlantic City, Asug. 13.--e-The hsirt waist roan is again on deck. Be invaded ho- tels, cafes, and swell (boarding-houses all hours to -day, and in face of the extreme heat, there was not a proprietor, as far as is known to -night, who' was cruel enough to say him nay. On the promen- ade, at noon, two out of every three men carried their coats slung across an arm or over one shoulder . Right into the diningrooms of some of the big hotels they went in the same feeblest; and, the head waiters annul : proprietors; after a conference, 'decided to make no protest. TRAIN KILLS TWO NEGROES. Suspicion of Murder ,crushed Away by Coroner, West Point, G4 ',Aug. 13.-11. Otis Truett and 'Clareece Pattillo, negroes, were run over and decapitated. near here -by a train on the Atlanta & Wet Point Railroad, early to -day. It was supposed the negroes had been murdered and their bodies eelaeed on the track to (hide the crime, bat the Coroner decided the train killed; the mels. !preparations being made for the latter. The Dominion will leave Isere at .6 sena TC on the llth, proceeding to Charlotte .1.o TERRIBLE SCENES AT SINKING OF EMIGRANT STEAMER, Crowded Boats Capsized—Captain Did Not Commit Suicide -Great Indigna- tion at His Cowardice After Wreck. Cartagena, Aug. 13, --The captain of the. Italian steamer Sirio, which sank off Hormiger's Island, causing • terrible loss of life, did not commit suicide, as reported. He is here, but refused to say anything about the disaster, except that the rock on which his vessel struck is not charted. Popular rage continued to be centred on bis alleged cowardice af- ter the steamer struck, which is ascribed to his over -confidence in. his knowledge of the coast. A saloon passenger, who is a godson of ex -Queen Margherita, of Italy, says he saw several women cling- ing to life -belts in the water thumped with their fists by men until they wire compelled to let go the belts and all were drowned. It is officially announced that 848 Italians, 40 Spaniards, 14 Arabs, 10 Austrians, 6 Orientials, 4 citizens of Argentina, 4 Brizalians, 2 Montene- grans and 119 of unknown nationality were saved. More than 200 of the dead have been brought Isere. It is stated that there were three Americans among the drowned. Their names are not known. They were go- ing to South America. The Sirio is considered to be a total loss. A number of bodies of tbe drowned were buried to -day. Ten passengers died after being brought ashore. The survivors are quartered in the theatres, hospitals, and clubs. Carlos Venteurine, a resident of Barcelona, who was a passenger with his family on the Sirio, succeeded in saving his three sons and nine other passengers. His daughter, who is 18 years old and an expert swimmer, saved two chil- dren, whose parents are unknowe . One family ,consisting of the father, mother, and six children, was drown- ed with the exception of the father, who lost his reason. A fleet of trawlers providentially hap- pened to be only about 100 yards away when Siro struck. Notwithstanding the great danger, the skippers of these boats came at once to the rescue, jeopardizing their own safety and that of their ves- sels. The survivors of the Sirio unite in praising the conduct of the captains of the trawlers, Joven Miguel and Vicente Ilicano. The former steamed close to the side of the sinking ship and took off 300 persons. The crew of the trawler attempted to. sheer off, fearing that their boat would be sunk, whereupon the captain drew Itis revolver, levelled it at his men and shouted: "As long as it is possible to take off another passenger we will not move." " - The deck of the Joen Miguel be- cause :leo crowded with the terror strick- en survivors of the Sirio that the skip- per was obliged in order to prevent his boat from.capsizinee to force them down into the hold at the point of a revolver. The Vicente Ilicano moved, 200 persons and an old fisherman sailing a dingey alone saved 12. The roll call taken on shore shows that 385 persons from the Sirio are missing, but it is believed that a. few were taken on board French and Ger- man steamers which continued their voyage after the Sirio sank, It is said that many of the first and second cabin passengers were drowned, their cabins being the first to go under winter. Many heartrending incidents were re lated. A group of six children clamber- ed into the shrouds of the Sirio, where their mothers were taken off by one of the trawlers. The Sirio sank before the children could be rescued. The mothers, frantic with despair, watched their children as they were engulfed. The children uttered piercing shouts as they Were drawn under the waves. It was with difficulty that the' women were restrained from jumping into the sea, A monk among the passengers was drowned while . kneeling ou the deck. The Austrian Consul at Rio de Janeiro jumped into the sea wearing a ]ife belt. He then noticed a woman and child near him on the pont of going down. He gave up his belt to them and tried to swim ashore. He was almost exhaust- ed when rescued by a fishing vessel.. The body of a child brought ashore had around its neck a picture of the Madonna, and a young Italian who was drowned had clasped in his hand a pic- ture of his financee. .Among the drown- ed is the Prior 'of the Benedictine Order with headquarters in London. DOMINION MERE. BRITISH BATTLESHIP WITH CANA- DIAN NAME AT HALIFAX. Captain Kingsmill, a Canadian, in Com- mand—Ship Will Be Illuminated and Will Be Thrown Open to the Public —Will Visit Other Ports. A Halifax, N. S., despatch: The British battleship Dominion, Captain Kingsnilll, arrived here at 9 o'clock this morning from Portsmouth after an uneventful run. The ship left Spithead at 4 a. ne. on July '29th and met with rough wea- ther the first few days. She comes eo this side of the Atlantic this time as the guest of Canada and her officers and men will be royally entertained. Dur- ing her stay of five days at Halifax a handsome silver loving cup will be pre., sented to her by the citizens. The ship 'will be thrown open to the town, where. she will arrive on the Intb� leaving there on the 14th for Bay Cleal emirs, N. R, wheer she will arrive on the 15th, sailing again on the. 16th for ,Que- bec and remaining there until September lst, 0-0 IP WOMEN WEEP AT MIRACLE, Cripple Throws Away His Crutches' at' Quebec Shrine. Quebee, Aug 13. -Over 5,000 pil- grims"from diffeernt parts of Canada and the United States visited the shrine at St. Anne de Beaupre on Sunday and Monday. On Saturday a party of some fifty Annerican tourists who went to 5t, Aline de Beaupre were eye witnesses of a mir- acle performed in the basilica. Tbey were in tbe middle aisle `of the church, when they saw a cripple walk use the church aisle aided by erntehes. Rae knelt before the altar in prayer, and in a few minutes was seen to get up, and walked away perfectly cured, leaving his crutches behind him - The person cured ]eft without giving his naive, but it appears from what could be learned that he had just fin- ished a nine days' novena, and went to: - the church to make his final supplica- tion, whicb ended in his cure. The Americans who saw the miracle performed were so astonished and af- fected that the women of the party cried from emotion. DROWNS TO ESCAPE HEAT. Stoker of Celtic Plunges Overboard and Refuses Life Belt, New York,) Aug. 13: Fireroom heat proved too much for Pohn Irving, a stoker of the Celtic, of the White Star line, which yes- terday completed her voyage from Liverpool to this port. He sustained it until the voyage was ne,erly done, but on Saturday afternoon he sought the surgeon of the vssel. Before he found him there was a cry of "Man overboard:" Promptly the Celtic was stopped and ife buoys aid belts were tossed overboard. These were thrown near enough for the man to reach, but he did not seek to gain them, being apparently determined .on self-destrue- tieForn. a full hour a lifeboat searched for the man, and when it returned empty handed passengers learned that the man was a stoker, with a wife and two children living in Birkenhead, England, and depending upon him for support. A subscription of eighteen pounds was raised for his, family. •.• SUICIDE AT PARENTS' GRAVE. Girl Drinks Whiskey fqr Nerve, Then Carbolic Acid in Cemetery, Baltmore, Aug. 13.—Miss L.Ily Poske, ?.S rears of age, committed suickoe this after- noon, while seated within a sh.rt distance of the grave of her father and soother is Loudon Park Cemetery. She had gone to the cemetery from the home of hes. Meter, Mrs. Frank Feldman, despite the ;otter's •protests that the heat was too intense. Her failure to return to dinner alarmed Mrs. Feldman, who hurried to the cemetery, reach- ing the place apparently just after Was Poske • had taken an unusually strong on. lution of carbolic acid, Another bottle, ]p ng near by, had contained whisky, and Mrs Feldman believed her sister took the stimu- lant first to give her sufficient courage to take the poison. Mrs. Feldman says her sister was a suf- ferer from heart trouble, and she believes) that despondency on •aeeount of her ill -health lied her to take the fatal dose. e DUEL IN STREET. One Man Shot Twice, the Other Thrice, Both Dead. Chadwick, Mos, Aug. 13.—Charles Free man, a merchant here and at Garrison, and Robert Keene, 18 years old, fought a duel to the death with revolvers here. The shooting grew out of a suit brought by Freeman against Keene, charging an: attack an his 15 -year-old daughter, When the men met on the street Sunday they immediately drew their revolvers and began firing. Freeman was shot twice, one bullet penetrating the forehead and another the left breast near the heart. Keene was shot three times, once near the heart. Both were dead when the spectators reached then:. t • HORSE PRONOUNCED INSANE. Animal Makes . Disturbances at Night' and Refuses to be Driven. Waterbury, Conn., Aug. 13.-A work horse on the town farm, Ben Tilma'm by name, has been pronounced incurably insane, having committed the equine indiscretionsof trying to stand on its Lead in vegetable gardens, bellaiving: open defiance to all proper night regula- tions, keeping persons awake, and tear- ing down its habitation. Veterinary surgeons pronounce the case on'e of ram equine aberration. "GOOD BY" TO 'WOULD-BE RESCUERS Drowning Man Watched Companions" Vain Effort to Save Him. Cheater, Pa., Aug, 18. --With a smile of ,grat- itude, and saying "Good-bye," Joseph Mellon, a young man of Kerlin street, who was, swimming with several Companions in the. Delaware River; near Chester Island, sanla from View after Edward Corson had mane herein efforts to save him. Mellon was at-. tacked with cramps and shouted fer assist-. ance, Corson, being nearest to him, grabbed'. him twice, andeach time narrowly escaped; being drowned himself, being pulled into a. boat exhausted, Mellon's body was not re- covered, He was unmarried and was elerk. public and illuminated at night, special et Thomas; Fennell's':Hotel.