HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1904-03-18, Page 10CA
FO
U SI NS
Smallpox, Pneumonia and Bron-
� • p
chitis A ong the Troops.
Hurryinix forward rk r rn the
Russian Warships.
St. r•etersburg cable -- G:ene
Soukhotine, who is on his away t
the fag.' east, telegraphs to War Mir
ister Sakbaroff from Tomsk, Si-
beria, as follows: "During my tang
journey I saw several divisions of
troops. Their transport was pro-
ceeding in perfect order. The men
were provided with warm clothing.
•At Cheliabinsk everything is under
the clone control of the military
oluief of the district, who Bees per -
tonally that the troops are sul p Oat
with warm garments." . •
(wUoweat love Days.
Suez cable says—The Russian ar-
mored cruiser Dmitri lloaekoi, which
applied for permseelon to remain
here for repairs, etas green allowed
five days in which to completes the
necessary work.
Disease Decimating the Troops.
New York dm/patch—Reports in a
cable to the World trent troops
along the route to Harbin, how a
disheartening conditi,)n of affairs.
Dieeaasa is among tit- tolwiiets. A
smalll.ox ep d.:mi•; ie ratios i.i East
Siberia, and liar a'prea•.t among the
regiiucat , s(veil uatlun b. hie un-
heard. of in the arniy. Pneumoniae,
and bronchitis are claiming ninny,
and already ti OU u1nan o: men have
barn rendered unfit for eerctee by
frost bite. Incense cold, more titan
usual, is axle. i.•i.crial is leapt e,iloria
and blinding- suow blizzards are fre-
quent. At I.l:u,sk temperatures as
low- as 23 degrees below zero are
registered. The progress of troop
trains is 'constantly impeded by
snow drifts. At every station sol-
dier.: partin-1y tr.a>ii are left behind
in motet cas:'•e without o.lvr molt -
cal attention than thet afforded by
the rough and ready
;service that
t
the wilIagere can sueply. The com-
missariat lens broken down badly
and tee men have often to go 24
hours at a stretch without toad or
driek The wor's't pert'o l of the jous-
ney ie a"_1oss Lsks B likil. • ,
Worried oy the Chinese.
New. York despatch—The French
Foreign Office aecarding to a Paris
desp,attII to the ,\World, is worried
over the movement of Clhinese troops
towards to Manchurian frouLier
The officials fear that Japan may
follow her dominion of Corea by,
coaxing or forcing China to be the
third party in the combination of
"Yellow. Peeples." The French el.in-
ister to Pekin has been instructed
to join the other foreign representa-
tives in strongly. urging on the Chin -
eat: Government the necessity; of
maintaining strict neu'rality.
sal ( it le reported that the ice breaker
o will be brought from Revel to rna.pe
a channel to the. arsenal there. The
battleship Alexander III. at Cron-
stadt, is ready, and the Russian
fleet, recently at Jibutil, Svolnaliland,
is returning so that when the spring
opens Russia will have an imposing
ravel array in the I3taltie. About
800 volunteer workmen have left
Imre to work at the dock yards of
Hort Arthur and Vladivostock.
Distasteful Rejoicing.
Eki tloiki Talks.
Chicago despatch—Eki II'ioki, first
pecretaryi of the Japanese Legation
at 'Washington, and Tosaburo Kad-
oiy'e, of the Yokohama lepecic Bank,
have arrived at Chicago, en route
from Yokohama, to Washington. S,ec-
xetary Illolci was one of the Japan-
ese commissioners who drew up the
treaty' between China and Japan at
Shanghai last fall, which like the
:American treaty evith (Thine, pro-
vided for the opening of the ports
of Mukden, Antung and Tatunkio. On
'many points the Japanese Govern-
ninent and the 'U. S. seem agreed,"
said the diplomat. "They; are un-
ited on the open door policy', and
the integrity Of China. Japan and
the United States would suffer most!
from the actiuisition of parts of
China by lisessia. The Russian policy
in Manchuria seems to be to ex-
clude all nations. The impression
among ney People is that the Gov-
ernment did riot tee to war soon
enough. They clamored for it long
before hostilities began. The peo-
vp'le vviil•do all in their power to sup-
port the government. Even the
rschool children are helping to pro-
vide funds for carrying, on the war."
Chinese Assisting the Japs.
' St. Peterebttrg, cable says—A'bco'rd-
ing to a deepiatch from fort Ar-
thur twenty Chineee have been ar-
•3'ested there for si,gn,a.11in.g to the
iJapa.nese ships from the shore with
flash lights and lanterns. A warn-
ing ha.s been issued that similar of-
fendere will hereafter be treated as
spies and shot. Although it is de-
nied that the present plans of the
admiralty contemplate the despatch
ofeither the Black Sea or Baltic
flet to the far east, both are being
prepared with the greatest haste to
meet any emergency that may arise.
Work on the warships is being push-
exl night and day. •Tho battleship
Orel, and the tranepiart Kalntehatka
are nearing completion at tile ad-
miralty dock yarde Here. In` 'the
dead of night the iwebound Novik
to like an arctic landscape lighten"
liar half a, mile by the flare of blaz-
ing stacks, i;heesilenee broken by the
din dt drum mlog hammers, The bat-
t11eebi.p Borodino must be taken to
Cn2luMtadt to receive her armor, and
St. Petersburg cable says — The
Novae Vrenlya to -day prints an
editoria.l on the "Anglo Saxon re-
joicing in England and America, at.
the reports of Japanese victories,"
in which it .says, "the whole world,
with now exceptions, realizes that
the Russian occupation of Alanehur-
la would benefit civilization."
Jap Troops Arriving;,
Pat.ris cable—Information react-
ing herr, from official sources shows
the Japanese concentration of troops
is going on extensively in the neigh-
borhood of Ping -Yang, Corea. Large
forges are debarking from transports
at near -by ports, from which it is
assumed that an exteusive land en-
gagameat Is imminent in northern
Corea.
leas fort ,9.rtltnr Fallen ?
'l4crndon cable — A minor war
circulated in the lobby of the Reuse
of Commons this afternoon that Port
Arthur had fallen. The origin of the
rumor could not be traced, and no
confirmation whatever was obtain-
a,ble. ! ,
CLE
MURDEDEEf
Crime in Northwest Territory
Mas Brought Horne
To Slayer After Inquiry in
Wyoming.
Cheyenne, 'c\'y, despiateh. — A
strange story oo1310s from the
Northwest Territory! of how a pack-
age of paper matches, bearing the
advertisement of a Cheyenne firm,
was the only clew that resulted in
the unravelling of a murder mys-
tery.
John Jones, a farmer in the North-
west Te'rr'itory, found last summer
the body of an unknown man hid-
den beneath a pile of brushwood.
The mounted police, upon investiga-
tion, found that death was due to
a bullet, evidently; fired with the
purpose of committing murder; for
robbery, for the pockets of the dead
mttn, who was young, had been
rifled, all their contents had been
taken except that in a vest pocket
was a card of paper matches, used
for advertising, by) 1. Icon's Sons,
Cheyenne, Wyo.
Very tittle importance was at-
tached to the matches at first, but
whoa ail etfe:Tin to estabush the
identity] of the murdered man cit*
that ea 1110 murderer, haired, one of
the mounted police, more astute than
his fellows, suiggestea an attempt to
trace the matenee. It was deeded 'to
send a man to Cie yenne to maize an
investigation tie uteri' source. The
man reached this city 01 dine time,
and 'Melted tile store of S. Bon's
Sons. Without telling the reason for
j his inquiries, he showed much curi-
osity; concerning the pamper matches
given away, by the farm,, and es-
pecially was curious in regard to
any strangers who might have re-
ceived packages during the preeed-
i;ng few weeks. Tho proprietors of
the estabiiehmcnt replied to this in-
quiries, and one of them remember-
ed 'geeing some of the matches to a
young man who had been employed
an Sherman hill by the Union Paci-
fic Pe it ro+aid.•
The detective decided that he wo,s
the most Ilicelyl person to be con-
nected nvllth the tragedy. By dili-
gent effort he learned that a ;young
man named Smith, visited Cheyenne
about the ti,m.e staked at the store,
and after hits return, was seen to
o these matches. Further enquiry;
'brought out that Bluetit was Inti-
mate with a lyodng man named
Jones, whose home was in the North-
west Territory, and that upon their
discharge the pair left with the an-
nountii; intention of visiting 'Jones'
home, , . •
las jMURflEH IS
he
DEEP '�»MEV,
of
an
y Killing of William Runyan
Here was a crew bridging the di
tease between *Wyoming and Nor
Wu� ned to st GanadantdLittle trouble e detective
w
found. in e•steblishing that two me
answering to the description
Joners and Smith reached the neare
railroad station to the scene of th
n, few days before the bod
wee discovered, and that they h
left for Jones' horns on foot late e
afternoon. ; i•
tt?urther inquiry showed that o•
evening a few days before the bod
was uncovered, as Jones' mother was
at her household duties, she wait
startled by the sound of a shot com-
ing from the direction of the road.
The neighborhood was a lonely one
and she knew that persons were sel-
dom abroad at that hour. While she
still speculated as to who fired the
shot, and for what purpose, the door
opened and In w :llked her son, whom
she supposed t o be thousands of
lnile•s'away. In the first joy of ;the
reunion she forgot ,the shot, but later
recalled the circumstances and asked
her son if he had not heard it.
Ofcourse," he replied, at the same
time drawing rt revolver from his
pocket; "I fired 1.1 to let you know
I was Coming." 1
Jones stayed at his home two days,
apparently enjoying leis visit, but on
the third day disappeared without
leaving word behind him. Why he had
gone his father and mother could
not
edthemconceive. , and his action griev-
A few days after ]lis son's myster-
ious departure his father was hor-
rified to discover tbe body.
NAVY A VITAL NECESSITY.
Moment Britain's Maritime Suprem-
acy Is Gone She May be luvaded.
London cable — In introducing,
the naval estimates in the House
of Commons to -day, Ernest G. Pret-
tyman, .secretary to the admiralty,
justified the increase in the esti-
mates on. the ground that the two
lowers standard must be main-
tained. The Russian battleship pro-
gramme and that of other naval
Lowers had been oonsidered. Rus-
sia and France together had built
or were 'building 61 battleship's,and
France and Germany were building,
or had built, 61 battleships, while
the Br'itstr total was 63 battleships.
In considering the cruiser 'pro-
gramme, the government wv„as not
governed by this standard, ,but by
tate immense preponderance of L'•rit-
1911. sea -borne commerce. While re-
gretting the increased oxl•enditure,
the admiralty regarded 11 as being
insuranoe,.
Seeretary Prettyman concluded
with
s3 the in•
t! n t-•
g a a1io13ey 0
f
I
(treat B,ritain was purely defensive.
Re•uent events in the Lar east show, -
ed the necessity for preparedness
to .strike the first blow; and blaso eb-
ta
ill incalculable 1'
a c advantage. the
greatest power for peace through-
out the world, he added, was the
Brit:esti navy, which was also the
most powerful instrument of war
in the .world.
In the course of his speech, Sec-
retary Prettyman, referring to the
great improvement iu .shooting in
the British navy, instanced the Brit-
ist, army cruiser Leviathan, which,
steaming at twelve knots, fired ten
rounds from Iter 0.2 inch guns in
two minutes, and het a 11. by 120
foot target ten times at a range
of 2.000 yards.
J. L. Roberts, Liberal, moved a
resolution (sailing on the govern-
ment in 'tete interests of iuterna-
tional i:eace to communicate with
the other great powers, and as-
certain avltether they ar'e will-
ing to diminish their shipbuldug
programmes and adjust the balance
of their relative naval strength on
a permanent basis.
Mr. Arnold -Forster, Secretary of
War, as a member of the defense
committee, said he was of the opin-
ion that the government had done
enough in the direction of propels -
els to the continental governments
for a reduction of armaments. The
government was prepared to carry
proposals from any foreign govern-
ment, but Great Britain's naval
.vtrength was a vital necessity.
There vests not a Single country of
Europe which could not abolish its
fleet to -morrow .so far as any
danger of an invasion by Great
Britain was concerned; but the
moment Great 13iritai•n's maritime
supremacy was gone, she might 'be
invaded any day.
Mr. Roberts' resolution was de-
feated by 174 to 122, majority 52.
DISTRIBUTE THE OUTPUT.
British Agents Advice to Canadian
Apple Exporters.
Ottawa, dospatch,—Mfr. Peter Ball,
Canadian Commercial Agent at 131r-
mthgll,a,m, advises Canadian apple
shippers not to pour the whole of
their fruit crop into Loddon, Liver-
pool, Manchester and Glasgow, tvitli-
in. a few weeks, for sale 10 auction
rooms, but to spread them over the
diffexent towae, placing them in the
hands of firms who could take regu-
lar supplies,better. The latter course would
"I could place," he states, "among
different towns in this district up to
10,000 barrels! a week, divided among
ae,spee,tabie men, if any of our apple
Shippers wiauldi care to get into com-
munication for regular supplies."
It wad Most 'unfortunate that Can-
adians /'hipped so many apples just
before Christmas, At the present
throe it is aimolst 'impossible to pur-
chase Canadian apples in the mare
ket. Spies, Russets and Baldwins,
which went for 122 ed and 14s a bar -
ret now command from 21s to 25s.
It is reported at Victoria, 13. C., that
H. M. S. 13onaventure, flagship of the
North Pacific squadron, en route from
Portsmouth, is ashore on the Soutar Am-
erican coast
Puzzles Police,
Prominent Druggist Meets
Death After Struggle.
William Bowles Arrested and
Charged With Crime.
South Blend, Ind., despatch.—A.t 10
o'clock Saturday night, Feb. 20, Wil-
liam Runyan, a prominent druggist
of this city, was shot and killed by
an unknown man, who is stia a,t
large, though tbe police are making
every effort to run him le.own.
Mr. Rernyan was alone in his store
and was probably preparing to close
up, ate he usually, leaves the place at
10 o'clock.
The a.lrpearance of the ,store indi-
caters 'gnat a terrible struggle took
place between the druggist and his
murderer. Bottles had been knocked
from the shelves and show, cases
smashed.
Ttae two men struggled toward the
door, and, falling against it, broke'
the Maas panel and felt out onto the
sidewalk. Joseph ,Sucrhatnek, a cigar -
maker, living near, came along the
street just at this moment and saw
the ewe. men rolling about on the
ww•,aik in a fierce struggle.
"Help me,. Joe i' cried Runyan. Sud-
denly the assailant drew, a, revolver,
placed it to the side of the other
and fired. Freeing himself, he rase to
his feet just as the witness of the
tragedy reached the sj»t. Mr. Run-
yan lay dead on the walk.
"Giet out of MY way or I 1: kill yogi'
he cried, levelling ,lis x'evoivee
Suceanek. He pulled the trigger, but
the weapon, failed to work. Suuilanek
struck at liim, missed his footii:g and
fell. \Vhen he rose the murderer was
rutting down the street.
Tee murderer is described as a
white man ab•ett 21 years ol•t and
well dressed. e/swse Robbery is 13eto
b
y rd
bet.
said a sister of the suspect as mho
sat in Chief i►lle'R'eeney's office. "Efe•
wouldn't do such a thing, and I
keow he will he able to telt Where -
he was when, the murder took I
Find Feeguson and Johnsonshe .
friends, and they ell hit
w
they were with hima.l1 onar " that
Billy is guilty I want .to sur irlm
punished, but, 0Th, he is not, a,nd I
'n't see w11y, they keep him locked.
up in ttaat awifnl plaeo."
The police have little faith In the
theory that a woman is connected
with the ease and that Runyan wan
killed ih order' to avoid the airing
of a scandal. In some quarters there
is a strong sentiment in favor of
accepting such an explanation for the
crime, but careful investigation
shows that while Runyan, may .have -
been indiscreet, it is not a,t all like-
ly that he ware involved in a. net-
work. of scandal.
Looking ibr Costello.
•
James Costello, who is eupposed to•
know something regarding the rates -
dee; is still missing, and the searcb.
for hiee will ootnt3nue until he is ,rug.
dawn. Not only are the local police
on his trail, but odficeirs 10 all the
surrounding cities, including Chi-
ccal+'goaook, are olu the lookout for theN ,
ed
elnts Ofathe murdered enar nareaheart-
broken, over his death and are anx-
at1'sl'yl awaiting the time when they:
'carr 00,1110 face to face with his mar -
darer. "I never, believed in capital,
punishment," sand bier. Runyan, in
talking of the murder, "but now A
could 'n^illengl3'.; see the slayer oil my,
;bey i;n a noose."
Taro pOl11c state that t11e Ru'rll lan
murder i,s 'the moist mi4stexiatts y. p,g
any kelling that has taken place he
this part b2 the' country; during the
last few. 'years. Wive many ploes1bili-
ties fora motive for the crime have
l sic n,•he department ,in a treeing
instances
the case iss milar to thele in �Kocue lane
murder, it is more puzzling, for the
mason that only one motive led up
to the shooting of Koonsmatn, while
in the Runyan Case there are sev-
eral with excellent grounds on
which' to base each theorhy.
In proving his alibi Bowles will
dptehned tueai
stLml Prank
liJeoCjro,nso
smns ftoo m]raucnox
been with him during tire night ar
the. minder. Johneen made a state-
ment regarding his connection with
the lelei uouth man, and of what he
say's ts true, Biclw1es did not kill
lliam• Runyan. Johnson claim's to
bWie a, hack ,driver and was, lcbk-
ing for a job when he ran Into the
newspaper men. lie stated tthat h,
met
Bo•n
wl
have beentthe motive for the crime.
Developments xu the murder case
have served only to make the ulys- d
tory more
deep
and complicated and
b
the e,ttaneets for fixing the crime on 1
the shoulders of any of the suspects
at at early date are biose remote. f
L001 nig Air motive.
The police now.cfeel that the motive
for the murder wee not robbery and t
aro inclined to accept the theory that b
Runyan was killed, ey an intoxicated I
man, who lead been in the habit of
purclrasing whiskey at the drug store
and who, on Runya.n's refusal to c.a
again supply him with the liquor, be-
taine provoked and started a fight.
The condition of the store, espeisially
behind the prescription case in the
rear of the room, supports this
theory.,
Had the motive of the murder been
robbery he would have entered the
store fully prepared to meet resist-
ance on the part of the proprietor
and Runyan wouldn't li,ave Iiad a
chance to show, fight without being
instantly shot. w
(William Bowies, the first man ter -
ft
ie
n Souter Miche Itireet saloon
'clock. A few m utes later at 8.15
ves-
ted the Leuscit saloon, and, after
rznking a round, went to the Martin
uffet on north Michigan street. The
nen we,re noisy and Bowles was
thrown out. At the Duck saloon, a
en- floors north of the Martin place,
T3•awiese who was in a state of intoxi-
c;a,tion, did not want to stay, and
he two men went to Iienl'y Cr-
etin's, on East 'Washington street,
ear some reason not explained they
returned to the Duck ,saloon, and
wvhile Johneon watched a game of
rds,Bowles got into a fight with
Duke Brown, the latter taking tho
Plymouth man to task for an insult.
Brown slammed Bowies tip against
the, •reallechoked him, and then pushed
the man awsi.y. Bowles fell over a
chair, and in /striking the bar injured
his twee. From this place the men
wont to the opposite side of the
street and visited Gus Ooehner's
saloon. It was here that Bowies was
arrested about 11 o'clock. Johnson's
tatenient of the above alleged facts
,as straightfor}vard, and no effort
teas made by ham tar keep anything
�crm comth to Ilght,
John Smith, the avowed newspaper
ma,n, neno was arrested in Elkhart on
suspicion of being- the murderer of
William Runyan, and who was subse-
quently released, left South, Bend for
Gositen. Ile appeared in that city in
an intoxicated condition, and intro-
duced himself with: 'I'm the man.
n urd rer. I'm a rlew,spaperfeesupposed to be the omarBend
nand
hungry i can't you stake me for
something to eat ?" Smitix Invaded,
tbe composing -room of a Goshen•
newspaper office, and, becoming very,
attentive to young ladyi employees,
barely escaped; the embax'rassmen t o.I
a, blackened eye,
rested in connection with the crime,
is known to ]rave boon a frequenter
of the supposed "speak easy" and
as he was partly under the influence
of liquor all day Saturday, according,
to his own story, and was seen in
front of the drug. ,store at 8.35
o'clock on the .night of the murder,
the cirsumstances against him are
very strong. Very damaging evidence
against the accused was developed
last night when. it was learned that
the cap lost by the murderer on
Bronson street, was remarkably sim-
ilar to a cap which was worn lby
Bowles on Sunday, Feb. 12, when he
left South Bend for Plymouth. Bowles
was on a Vandalia train and being
partly under the influence of liiluor
attracted the attention of the pas-
sengers with his antics. Two of these
passengers reside in South Bend, but
formerly lived at Plymouth, and
knowing the young man, gave him
considerable attention. He wore his
cap on the sexle of his, bead, and it
was noticed the braid was broken
on one side. ,
Cap is a Strong Clew.
The cap in the possession of the
police ie remarkably similar to the
cap worn by Bowles when on the
train and the braid on one side is
broken. A Local delivery man, who
is acquainted with Bowles, is eon-
fident that this same cap was worn
on Bowles' head on Saturday morn-
ing when he talked with him in a
downtown cafe.
1?e•spite the damaging evidence
wesich le piling up against Bowles lie
refuses to talk or even to explain
who Ferguson and ,fohnson, his al-
leged friends, are. Bowies' story re-
garding "Buck" Wilhelm and his
gift of the cap which he had on at
the time of his arrest, have .been
found to be true. The cape was, pur-
chased by Wilhelm four days before
the murder.
Boyles does not ehjoy a good repm-
tation at Plymouth, hie home town.
Fier several years he has been a
drinking man and 'all efforts of his
mother and sisters to reform him
have failed. Despite all the trouble
he has caused, his relatives, they are
row working hard to secure his re-
lease from oustedy, believing him to
be innocent of the awful crime.
"Billie lona guilty, I know; be i$n't"
MAY YET BE ALIVE.
What Mr. Herring Thinks oi'Explorer
Hubbard's Vete.
Winnipeg, MarcelL .—Artist Arthur
17 Iieml,rh;g, of Hamilton, w ilio
engaged in securing sketches of Can -
aria's wild life, does not believe that
Leonidas Hubbard, reported dead.
in Northern Labrador, has succumb-
ed to the dangers: and hardships of
the wilderness. Hubbard was the re-
p,r,es:ent ative of the Netw York Out-
ing. He entered the nortlh coun,tryi
last year, and as northing has .been
heard of him his friends gave him. up
for l st.
"I save just came from Missana-
bie," said Mir Meaning. ",While there)
I met a nulniber •of Indians who knave,
the half-breed, George Elizon, who
accompianied Hubbard. iia'loon's home
was nea,,rpllissanabie, and before he•
lett to join 'Hubbard be told his
friends that th,ayl need not expect
to hear from him, until next summer..
Men whet have been in the country
say; that they exipeot that Hubbard'
is making his way, overland to
lamest &1y'U and well ooane oat from
Moose Factory) or Repert's House i'n1
the spring." An official of the Haid -
son's BBay! lCompeany, who has had
Wide experience in th'e Nort1h, coun-
try!, admitted That it would bye•
quite possible for Elhbbaxad to !axe,
fallen in 'with Indians and tlo temps.
rtkoto wIty tbent4 t(1 it 111 1r