The Marion Daily Mirror, 1907-03-15

Yesterday and Today pow.wow between the railroad pres. ldents and WesMein Roosevelt had a queting effect. A preliminary meeting of railway presidents, which was held here, this afternou, to formulate plans for tho conference with Roosevelt, Is an encouraging omen. One dangerous factor was the weak close In London, whero stocks were bitterly assailed, this morning. Here, Reading and Southern Pacific showed strength .ifter yesterday's slaughter. If the railroad presidents go to Roosevelt, as expected, they will bo told to be good and they will bo safe. another of Voliva's followers waa dying. J 11 the past week;, three of his lieutenants, who held tho same noiilions in the church under Dowic hsif'e suddenly died and when it was said tho fpurth was likely to dio before morning, sev several - eral several o,f the moiimers ran irom tho tnbci uncle, shouting that Zion was being cniscd hv God. Thih excited the test of tho 3000 uiomueis and be fen 0 tho cooler headed lcadeis could get among the people to counsel quietness,, fully f)00 left the house qf mourn mourning. - ing. mourning. Kaily in the day it was 'believed that the funeral might ho post postponed - poned postponed because of tho action of tho wcakmen who were constructing tho vault in Zion cemetery. When on on-tciing - tciing on-tciing the cemetery they brake tho gato and the management at onco demanded n warrant for tho urrest of Gladstone Dowie. Tho police look the case under advisement, nnd the case wns finally smoothed over. Tho funeral wot quiet and un unostentatious, - ostentatious, unostentatious, it being tho belief of the membois of, tho Zion City chinch that display in funerals is not advisable. Tho hearso was draped in white, and was drawn by two, white horses. A small part of the magnificent choir that for for-mcily - mcily for-mcily officiated in Zion City lab label - el label undo sang. Tho body of Dowio wn arrayed in the wondeiful whito lobo which ho has- worn sinco ho assumed tho title of First Apostle of tho Chris Christian - tian Christian Catholic churcli. Tho garment icquiied sit months of, constant labor for its construction and elab elaboration. - oration. elaboration. The funoral oration was delivered by Attorney V. V. Bar Barnes, - nes, Barnes, avhoi was for many years tho constant fiiend'of the deceased church leader. Tho fiinerat cor cortege - tege cortege was aUonded by hundreds and wlulo the body was lying in state n constant streaon of visitors call called. - ed. called. Many of these sought to bo cur cured - ed cured of diseases by toupV'Ui lha hem of Dowie'. iwbes. ' weie attacked by tho' 'strikers. 'strikers.-The - The 'strikers.-The jKilico wcro obliged to use theitf

CITY MAY SUPPLY CHILDREN WITH GLASSES New Yoik, Alarch 15. A school census just completed shows that there aio 083,427 children attend attending - ing attending schools in Gicater Now Yoik and that 0511,485 persons between 4 and 18 yeatv, the school ago, live here. Tho number rf foicigu horn children enrolled 15f,44Q is raoro than 18 per cent of tho ontiic legistratiou of tho sclidobi. Probably tho most startling thing in the report s tho state statement - ment statement that at) tho 58,048 children whoso eyes wcro tested 17D2S were suffering from dofcctie vision. Dr. Mnxwcll, 'head of tho school hoard, lccoinmcndod that tho city supply glasses to poor children who cannot afford ,to purchase them. STRIKE PAY DIRT Man Who Took Money From ' Chicago Sub-Treasury is Known to Authorities. Chicago, .Maich 15. All clew3 connected with tho :fl7J..()00 hub hub-ticoMiry - ticoMiry hub-ticoMiry robbery have been narrow narrowed - ed narrowed ilimn to tin einplojg ,of, the tiunsury idepnitment. .lJolli tpw time nt which tho money was tak en and Hie perplexing nnettion of motive nil! elenrpu up "to inontWj, faction of lho-,e woilciug on the case, 'according to Teller Oeorge V. Pitgcrald. Tho money, says Fitzgerald, win stolen wliilo ho was away nt luncheon. Todaythe whole story is likely to come' out. Fitueinlcl V declaration that tho cn-e is practically cleaied up caino after a night's woik ou theoiics which ho himself has built up. Fitz Fitzgerald - gerald Fitzgerald answered questions! freely. "How many clews are being in investigated'" - vestigated'" investigated'" ho was asked. "Only 0110" ho leplicd. "Tho others Iiavo all been eliminated." "How is it now thought that the money could Iiavo been taken?" "It was taken while I was at luncheon", said Fitzgerald. "The fact is, tho man did not intend to tnko such big bills. Ho did not know what ho was getting. The money wns taken from a pile of loose bills upon amy lck. Tho man who took thorn did not htuc time to hclect ho hnd to grab nnd get away. Jf 1 tell you any more j it will givo tho wholo caso away." i , Jumloion in PltUburg DltpUh.

i n? - Ki- PinsBlM tho total loss from the flood will reach twenty million. To this must b added $350,000 fire damage In ono flro a sixteen story building and five residences were burned. Late this afternoon, tho river was fulling rapidly. Cincinnati, O., March 15. Tho Ohio rose slowly during the night, and now stands at 54.1 feet, but tho forecaster says it will go to sixty, before tonight. The flood forced tho abandonment of tho Grand Central station. Many business houses on the river are flooded. Hundreds wore driven from homes nt Parkers- fburg. William Francis and family of four were drowned wlilb escap ing from their home. Six hundred hfnics arc flooded at Chllllcothe and the militia Is guarding the submerged district. A't' Mlamlsburg tho town hall is occupied by ref. ugecs. At Cambridge, four squares nre under watre. At Dcerwente, near there, a town of 200 was swept an ay and the Inhabitants arc encamped in the hills. The Ohio will rise 10 feet by Sat. urday night, says the forecaster. Parts of Portsmouth arc under six fet of water and many wcro driven out of their homes. Wheeling, W. Va., .March 13. Ten thousand families arc homeless In this vicinity and buslncts of all kinds is suspended here. Two.thlrds of Bridgeport Is under water. Martins Ferry and Bellalro nro half covered and tho loss Ii the three Ohio towns Is $200,000. Tho Ohio is Ptlll rising. FREIGHT ; DERAILED Two Erie.Train Men 'tKilled and Three Others In Injured - jured Injured in a Wreck Kent, Ohio, March 15. Roy Lo Logan - gan Logan of Kent, and Hrakouiau Deal of" Mcudvillo, wcio killed, mid En Engineer - gineer Engineer Sncarliuo and Firemen ltcyaie and Mushroso o Jlcadvillc, wcro injured in n wreck at Geneva, Pennsylvania. An Erie freight was der?iled by a broken truck. Ma8llIon, O., March 15. Tho body of James Uugan, who has been missing slnco Dsccmoor, has heon found In tho canal. Dugan was a Civil War veteran.

Pittsburg, March ls'.-Tho flood Jrt the rivers Is receding slowly, ono inch an hour. The crest was reached a, six o'clock this morning, with the highest record or a century. Thirty, six fee', six incheB arc the official figures, . Ten' squaro milts of the most thickly populated territory in Pitts Pittsburg - burg Pittsburg and Allegheny, are under water Doz. and thousands aro homoless. ens of stores and great office build. Ings are partially undsr water. Tho city was In darkness last night. Lo Local - cal Local trains on the Baltimore and Ohio, Wheeling and Lake Erie, Alio, gheny Valley, West Penn., and Cleveland and Pittsburg were aban. doped. It is 'estimated hat 175,000 persons in 'Allegheny county aro idle! los3es 10,000,000 and more than a score are

Now Yolk-, vMnrcii 15. From six eminent alienists, Jerome today obtained an opinion that Thaw kiey what ho wi doing when ho killed Whito, and ho know that tho act was 'wrong. Each of these alienists had based his opinion upon Dclma's hypothetical ques questions, - tions, questions, a well as that of Joromo, With his belief that proof of insanity is the only thing that can salvo Thow from conviction i'of murder in tho first degree, Joromo is fighting bitterly to hold tho advantage in expert testimony. Counsel ptoy tho defence realized tho predicawent in which they wcro pjacpd.aiid Chief Counsel Hmtridgo taking the place of Dclmas, began