Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 12, 1905, Page 1

VOLUME 3. NUMBER 20. DEATH ON THE GALLOWS EDWARD GOTTSCHALK GIVEN EX- TREME PENALTY FOR MUR- DER AT ST. PAUL. CONFESSED TO KILLING ACCOMPLICE CONDEMNED MAN ACCUSED BY OFFICIALS OF A SECOND BRUTAL CRIME. St. Panl, May 12.—Edward Gott- schalk, aged thirty-four, who recently pleaded guilty to an indictment charg- Ing him with the murder of Joseph Hartmann, his alleged accomplice in the Ikilling of Christian ‘H. Schindel- decker. a local butcher, appeared be- fore Judge Lewis in the Ramsey coun- ty district court and was sentenced to be “hanged by the neck until dead.” Governor Johnson will fix the date of Gottschalk’s execution, which will probably take place some time in Sep- tember. Betore pronouncing sentence Judge Lewis referred to the crime as “brutal and unmitigating in circumstances” and said he could find no reason for withholding the extreme penalty of the law. He adverted to the repeal of the law under which the Younger brothers had Leen sent to the state prison, es- caping the death penalty, and said that wnnder the present statute the mere plea ol guilty can be of no avail. ; tence Coolly. Gottschalk met kis fate without a tremor and after scitence was pro- nounced wallked back to the jail through a crowd of eral thousand people, who lined the street from the courthouse to the county lockup, more than a block away. The crime h which Gottschalk was originally charged was the mur- der on Ieb. 18 of Christian H. Schin- deldecker, a butcher, the object being robbery. Later the body of his al- leged accomplice, Joseph Hartmann, aged twenty-two years, was found in the Mississippi river at a point wherc the two men had been seen fishing hree days after the murder of the butcher. Gottschalk at first tlenied killing Hartmann, but when arraigned for trial changed his plea to guilty, claiming the deed was done in self- defens He erts that Hartmann killed Schindeldecker, but the police claim to have evidence that Gottschalk was the leading spirit in the crime and that he put Hartmann out of the way because the latter showed signs of weakening. DRAWING TO A CLOSE, in the Koch Murder Trial Rests 13 Case. Defense Mankato, Minn., May 12.—The de- fense in the trial of Dr. George R. Koch of New Ubm, accused of the v 6l Dr. L. A, Gebhardt, has ssted and the state deuce in rebuttal. s introducing evi- Dr. Koch occupied the stand for the defense for four hour Firmly but with reticence the witness told of his actions on the night of the murder and ended by saying that never in all the time of his business rivalry with Dr. Gebhardt had he shown or felt any enmity toward the murdered man. While on the witness stand the ac- cused man made the same good im- pression he did at the previous trial. Cool and collected, he showed no feel- ing except when in cross-examination Mr. Childs, for the state, he smiled at some of the attorney’s unusual ques- tions. Arguments to the jury were hegun late in the afternoon. Advertise in the Daily Pioneer gan\e~Boston 2 Chi [+’s a good investment. 1 i result of the high current KICKS ON LABOR CLAUSE. 8aeks Release From Jail on Plea That Sentence Was lilegal. Duluth, May 12.—Joseph Sheehy, former pugilist and employment agent of Duluth, is having a hard struggle with the law to get out of jail. He was given a sentence in the municipal court of sixty days’ imprisonment in the county jail at hard labor without the alternative of a fine. Sheehy was released on bail pending an appeal to the state supreme court. Getting no relief there he was thrown into jail again and his attorneys brought ha- beas corpus proceedings, alleging that the municipal judge overstepped his authority in imposing a sentence at hard labor. Judge Dibell has dis- charged the writ and Sheehy is still in jail. His attorneys say they will ap- peal to the supreme court. ON ALLEGED STOLEN POLICY. Clerk of Equitable Life Arrested for Negotiating Loan. New York, May 12—Emil H. Neu- mir, a clerk employed by the Equitable Life Assurance society, and Thomas Lobley, Jr., who lives in this city, have been arrested charged with complicity with Samuel Lobley, who was taken into custody at Spragueville, Pa., a few days ago, charged with fraudulent- Iy obtaining a §27,000 loan on a policy which is alleged to have heen stolen from the society’s vaults. Bains and Trees Blown Down. Jeoria, 01, May 12.—A special from Streator, 111, to the Journal says that a tornado strick there shortly after 10 a. m., tearing down trees and barns and badly damaging the factory build- ing of the Streator Window Glass com- pany. No _one was m;ured LAKE MICHIGAN TIDAL WAVE, Much Damage Caused at Several Points in Wisconsin. Chicago, May 12.—Reports of a re- markable tidal wave along the west shore of Lake Michigan were received during the day. The wave seemed to be the highest at Kenosha and Racine, ‘Wis., where a wall of water swept in, cansing much damage and alarm along the docks. At Chicago the wave sim- ply raised the stage of water and caused a very heavy current down the drainage canal. Boats navigated the river with the greatest difficulty as a Besieged Emp|oyer Releascd Limoges, France, May 12—The pro- prietor of a shoe factory who had been Imprisoned in his plant here with his family, including four children, for several days by strikers, has been re- leased. A large force of gendarmes went to the rscue and arrested a num- ber of strikers. The family was es- corted outside the town. Double Tragedy in lllinois. Bloomington, 11, May 12.—Truman Mason, aged sixty-five, shot and mor- tally wounded Dr. V. Davis at Sin- wahhella, I'e Witt county. He walked a short distance, pressed the revolver to his own heart and fired, death ensu- ing almost instantly. The shooting grew out of an assault on Davis by Mason six (Lns ago. BRIEF BITS CF NEWS. Nrs. A!L\anuer Schafer and her son, Herbert, were struck and fatally in- jured by lightning at Lancaster, O. At Marinette, 0., the Wallace circus tent was struck by lightning. One person was killed and several injured. A tornado struck the town of Over- brook, Kan., twelve miles southeast of Topeka, passing through a thickly settled tarming community wrecked several houses and barns and un- roofed others. - BASEBALL SCORES. National League. At Philadelphia, 10; Pittsburg, 3. At Brooklyn, 0; Cincinnati, 5. At New York, 4; St. Louis, 3. At Boston, 4; Chicago, 3. 2o, 4. ~~ Second - re ¥ Saturday! Will Be the Last Day of Our Anniversary Sale. At Our 14th Anniversary Sale We are Offering 14 Bargains That Are Money Savers to Our Customers. O’Leary @ Bowser. llllllllllllllll ~ H E B | & | | | | A X X | | | | TOWN OF SNYDER, OKLA., PRAC- TICALLY DEMOLISHED BY SEVERE WIND STORM. NUMBER OF CASUALTIES APPALLING FULLY ONE HUNDRED PERSONS KILLED AND TWICE THAT NUMBER INJURED. HAVCS _WROUGHT NOST GOMPLETE BUSINESS PORTION WHOLLY DE- STROYED, BUT A FEW RES- IDENCES- ESCAPE. Guthrée, Okla.,, May 12.—Snyder, a thriving town of 2,000 situated in the heart of the rich Kiowa farming coun- try which was thrown open to white settlement in 1901, was practically wiped out of existence by a tornado that struck that place at 11:40 p. m. No clear estimate of the casualties is obtainable owing to the confusion in the stricken town. A conservative estimate places the dead at between seventy-five and one hundred persons and the seriously injured at 150. It is believed that a large number of the injured will die. In a number of cases entire families were killed and in almost every fam- ily in town some member was injured. Every house in the town except six Is sald to have been either badly ‘wrecked or demolished, many of them being blown away entirely. The havoc wrought is most complete. The busi- mness portion -is reported entirely de- stroyed. The tornado struck Snyder from the southwest, traveling north until within about 100 yards from the tracks of the Okiahoma City and Western railway. There it took a northeasterly course through the business portion of the town. North of the track not a build- ing was left standing. Evidence of Terrible Havoc. The first relief train, sent from Ho- bart, thirty-two miles north of Snyder, reached the stricken town just before daylight. The rescuers found the streets almost obliterated by piles of demolished houses. In all directions evidence of the terrible havoc of the storm was apparent. The dead and dying lay about the streets, in yards and mixed up with the wreckage, while those who had escaped ran hither and thither in excited attempts to bring order out of the terrible chaos and to render what meager aid they might. Every building left standing at Sny- der was converted into either a hos- pital or morgue. Sixty-seven bodies had been laid out in rows in the prin- cipal morgues up to noon and others ‘were being hrought in constantly. Seven members of the Fessender famlly were killed. ‘W. M. Hibbard, superintendent of schools, and his wife, together with two children and the parents of Hib- bard, were killed, only one member of the family, a boy, escaping. Three young children in the Crook family were killed; one, a baby, was snatched from its mother's arms and its brains smashed out against a brick wall. Over One Hundred Dead. A special from Hobart places the dead at Snyder at over 100 persons, seventy-five of whom were killed out- right. Not a building in the town es- caped damage and seven-eighths of the The injured number into the hundreds. The storm was of the regular twister variety and swooped down upon Sny- der without warning. It came up from the southwést. It cut a swath half a mile wide, demolishing everything in its path for a distance of ten miles southwest and three miles northeast of Snyder. The same tornado struck Quinlan, in Woodward county, on the Santa ke railway, destroying several houses, and at that point at least three persons, Mrs. O. W. Cox and her two sons, are known to have been killed. A message from J. S. Hennessey, agent of the St. Louis and San Fran- cisco railway at Chickasha, says that a message was received from the oper- ator at Snyder at 10:30 a. m. saying that there were seventy-five dead hod- fes and 332 injured; that the entire business portion of the town had been destroyed, but that the residence por- tion was not badly damaged. YOUNG MAN ELECTROCUTED. Attempts to Readjust Arc Light and Is Killed. = - St. Paul, May 12.—Albert C. Wol- terstorif, aged twenty-seven, was elec- trocuted at Seventh street and Bates avenue at 1 a. m. Wolterstorff was returning home from a social at the Calumet club in company, with two other young men. He observed that an arc light on the corner was not burning and attempt- ed to readjust it by shaking the wire by which it was suspended. The wire had evidently become charged,as Wol- terstorfil. was stricken the moment he touched it. He was taken to the Mar- garet street police station and a Lhysi- cian summoned, but died before the latter could reach him. — WIPED OUT BY TORNADO, business buildings are a total loss.| BEMIDJT, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1905. MET A TERRIBLE FATE VICTIMS OF RAILROAD DISAS- TER IMPRISONED IN BURN- ING WRECKAGE. AWFUL GW.ISIOII IN_ PENNSYLVANIA & . 8CORE OF PEOPLE KILLED AND FULLY ONE HUNDRED SUS- TAIN INJURIES. Harrisburg, Pa., May 12—Twenty persons are believed to have heen killed and approximately 100 injured by the wrecking of the Cleveland and Cincinnati express, westhound, on the Pennsylvania railroad, which dashed into a wrecked eastbound freight train, “| exploding a car filled with 50,000 pounds ‘of blasting powder. The wreck occitrred in the southern part of Harrishurg at 1:40 a. m. It was one of the most tewrible disasters ever experienced by the Pennsylvania rail- road. Twelve of the dead are at the morgue and other hodies are being brought to the deadhouse as quickly as they are located. - There are about seventy injured per- sons in the Harrisburg hospital, hotels and private residences, while others are under care of physicians in houses near thescene of the wreck. The primary; cause of the wreck was a shifting engine. It was going west slowly when the engineer of the eastbound freight train saw it coming on his track. He applied the airbrakes suddenly, which caused the middle of the freight train to buckle, shoving several af the cars onto the westbound passenger track. A moment later the express, one of the fastest night trains on the road, came along and dashed into the wrecked cars. The next in- stant the boiler of the passenger loco- motive exploded. The wreck took fire and those who escaped began the work of rescue. Six minutes after the ex- press struck the freight wreck., the railroad men say, the flames reached the car filled with powder. There was a flash and a deafening roar. The earth trembled as though some terrible sefsmie-dis(urbance had occurred. All who were not killed and injured by the explosion fled from the awful scene. The eutire wreckage became a masg of flames and small boxes of powder that had not exploded “let go” con- tinuously. While these explosions con- tinued men who had bravely gone to the rescue before the first explosion did not dare to approach the burning wreck, ~though they, could hear the agonized shrieks of the dying. Imprisoned Victims Cremated. Flames began their cruel feast of human bodies that were helplessly pinned in the wreckage. An alarm of fire was turned in and when the fire- men arrived it was impossible for them to go closer than 300 yards of the fire until the explosions ceased. Then the intense heat interfered with the work of rescue. Men of the boldest nerve were forced to retire with singed hair, blistered faces and burning cloth- ing when they attempted to respond to the piteous cries for help. Those who escaped by leaping and crawling through windows, in scant attire, from their sleeping car berths, hurried to the open fields, where they were gath- ered together and carried to the offices and workshops of the Paxtang Elec- tric Light company and other indus- trial plants, which were quickly trans- formed into temporary hospitals and later into morgues. Many of the injured were hurried to the Harrisburg hospital, where a large staff of physicians and nurses dressed their injuries. Soon the hospital was filled to overflowing and many of the injured were taken to hotels and pri- vate residences. Victims of the disaster were burned to a crisp. So completely incinerated were the bodies that only four of those recovered could be identified. The two who were immediately recognized | after their remains were found were Engineer Thomas of Parkersburg, Pa., and Mrs. Dougherty of Philadelphia, both of whose bodies were thrown clear of the debris instead of into it as was the case of several others. The scene of the wreck when day- light hroke was a gruesome one. Splin- tered and smoldering cars and twisted iron were piled high on the four tracks and an enormous amount of wreckage was lying on the marshland between the railroad embankment and the river. One thousand laborers were soon put o work and by 10 o'clock two freight tracks were open. The passenger tracks for several hundred feet were blown away by the explosion. Passenger trains are being sent over the new low grade freight line, along the west side of the Susque- hanna river. About a dozen hoatmen are dragging the river for bodies. The shock of the explosion was felt for miles around. Burglars in J. J. Astor's House. New York, May 12.—Rhinecliffe, the mmmer residence of John Jacob Astor ¥ Rhinebeck on the Hudson, was broken into by three yeggmen. They stole §1,200 worth of bric-a-brac and wantonly destroyed thousands of.dol- lars’ worth of tapestries and laces. ‘Two of the men were caught breaking into a freight car at Poughkeepsie and they told of the Astor robbery. James Larkin, their enmpmon, ‘was arrested in New !flh s DEFECTIVE PAGE DUPLICITY 1S. CHARGED. Japanese Paper Bitter in Denunciation of France. Tokio, May 12.—The Nichi Nichi, discussing French neutrality, says that Japan has a right to demand of Great Britain that she carry into practice the provisions of the Anglo-Japanese alliance. “French duplicity,” the Nichi Nichl says, “affords the occasion.” Continuing, the Nichi Nichi declares that the assistance given Vice Ad- miral Rojestvensky is a clear breach of neutrality and a violation of a defi- nite pledge given to Japan. The Nichi Nichi says further: “Japan is justified in asuming that France is deliberately assisting Rus- sia. France’s position as Russia’s ally is entitled to some sympathy. but after France gave a definite pledge nothing remains to exonerate France from the charge of duplicity. Japan never sus- pecled-<hat the French republic would be guilty of double dealing. The pres- tige of France as a champion of civili- zation demands that she correct her attitude and exonerate herself of the charge of baseness.” | In conclusion, the Nichi Nichi says: “Let France either publicly range herself on the side of Russia or manful- ly adhere to the principle of strict neu- trality.” Russian Warships Off Japan. Tokio, May 12.—It is reported that two Russian warships from Vladivos- tok were off Aomori, in the north of Hondo, the main island of Japan, Tues- day. CONTROL DESTINY OF UNIVERSE. Fleets of England and Arnerica Could Maintain Peace. New York, May 12.—Commenting upen the war in the Far East Lord Charles Beresford said during the day: “The war in the Far East has be- come a terrible thing to contemplate. This awful contest has shown the whole world what war is. *“The shocking annihilation of men and the vast cost of this war will prove the greatest agencies for peau‘ in the future. *If the United States and Great Br lt~ ain, the two greatest nations on the earth, get their fleets together they could undoubtedly maintain the peace of the world. The feeling between the two countries now is most amicable and it only tinies of the universe.” WHOLE MEXICO FEELS QUAKE. Shock Causes Damage in Many Citics and Towns. Mexico City, May 12.—The earth- quake of Monday night was felt over a wide area of country in Central and Southern Mexico. In the state of Palisco many houses were damaged and the dome of the church in one town collapsed. vere also in Chilpancingo, capital ot the state of Guterro, which a few” years | ago was nearly destroyed by an earth- | quake of exceptional violence. The shock was notable at Colima, where a | vertical movement was felt, accom- panied by subterranean roarings. The earthquake was felt to the borders of Guatemala. , daughter of Chief Lone Star, needs an agreement of | some kind to cement this feeling iuto a | coalition such as could control the des- | The shock was se-| NAN PATTERSON WINS RELEASE The Much Tried Actress Released Frolig : Custody Today On Her Own Recognizance. New York, May 12.—Nan Patterson,® who has three times been tried for the murder of Caesar Young, was today released from custody on her own reconizance on the motion of District Attorney Jerome who stated his belief that another trial would result in another disagreement. INDIAN “PRINCESS. Butte Theater Man Takes Vaudeville Actress as Bride. Newark, N. J., May © —Rev. H. H. Barbour, pastor of the North Baptist church, has received news that his son, Erfiest Barbour, recently figured as a principal in a marriage on a fast mov- ing Pullman train in Idaho, his bride being an Indian princess who has made some success on the vaudeville stage. The younger Barbour is ahout thirty years old. He was legally separated from a former wife and was manager of a theater in Bulte. The present | Mrs. Barbour is known in the theatri- i cal world as Chinquilla. She is a| a Chey- enne, and was educaled at the Carlisle Indian school. DISFIGURED BY HORSE. Brute Seizes Young Man's Face Be- tween His Jaws. Crestline, O., May '_.—Roy Morrow, ® young schoolteacher of Leesville, was terribly injurcd by having his en- tire face almost bitten oft by a mad horse. Morrow was feeding the horse and a colt came up to the manger fo eat. Morrow pushed the colt away and the horse became enraged at this and grabbed Morrow's face in his jaws. His screams frightened the horse and when the Dbeast released its hold the skin- bung from his face in shreds. Morrow may recover, but his face witi ve temhly d)shguud DENIED AN NJUN WEDS INJUNCTlON. Policyholder Airs Equitable Case in New York Supreme Court. New York, May - —Justice Mac-| Lean, in the New York state supreme ! court, has denied the application of Herbert G. Tull of Philadelphia, a pol- icyholder in the Equitable Life Assur- ance society, for an injunction re- straining that society and the New York state superintendent of insurance from proceeding further with respect to the proposed amended charter of the Equitable, which was sent to the | superintendent of insurance for his ap-' proval. The amended charter provides for the mutualization of the society. “TEN CENTS PER WEEK RESTRICTED TO PRODUCERS. Stock Growers’ Association Organized at Denver. Denver, May 12.—The American Btock Growers’ association, with mem- bership restricted to producers, was organized. here during the day. The objects as outlined are to secure for. shippers fair and equitable railroad rates and eflicient service; to regulate and enforce sanitary provisions; to prevent and abolish illegal combina- tions and trusts; to promote foreign trade; to give the national government general supervision and a control of the home markets. MORMONS WiILL “0ld Line” Company Organized by Leaders of the Church. Salt Lake City, May 12.—Articles of incorporation of the Beneficial Life Insurance company, organized by and under the direction of the leaders of the Mormon church, were filed here during the day. Joseph F. Smith is president, Governor John C. Cutler is first vice president and the other offi- cers are prominent in the church. The company, which will do an “old line” business, has a capital stock of $100,- 600, all paid in. INSURE LIFE. PRIVATE AIMS BREAK BANKS, Speculation by Officers Causes Most Failures. Boston, May -12.—Private specula- tion by officers and directors is respon- sible for the great majority of bank failures, accordifg to Controller of the Currency Willlam Barrett Ridgeley, who addressed the National Bank Cashiers’ association of Massachusetts at a dinner. The tendency toward speculation, resulting frequently in de- falcations, he said, had become much more common during the last eight or ten years. Posthumous Child Gets $150,000. New York, May 12.—Lesta Ford, posthumous child of Paul Leicester Ford, will receive two-thirds of the novelist’s personal estate, over $150,- 00, by a decree of Surrogate Fitzger- ald. [f the child had not been born Mrs. Ford would have-received the en- tire estate, the net amount of which is $227,501. Paul Leicester Ford was shot and killed by his brother Mal- colm three years ago. 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