The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 8, 1922, Page 1

. jury panel was not in accord- | . jury can only be drawn at the For | Bismarck and Fair tonight and Saturday; much change in temperature. _$—$—$—$—$—_—_$—— | vicinity: not ESTABLISHED 1873 - 15 MI ORDER DRAWN BY ATTORNEYS [S DEFECTIVE Decision Arrived at by Judge After Much Considera- tion | NO: JURY THIS MONTH} Status of Criminal Cases of State Are Left “Up in The Air” ——— i Holding that the order pre- | sented by the attorney-gener- al’s office for the drawing of | the Burleigh county grand) jury was defective, after great study and deliberation, stating that “court. has no| other wish than to carry out the mandates of the»people” but pointing out that persons cught not to suffer the stigma of indictment by a jury ille- ally drawn and which indict- ments could be held invalid, Judge James A. Coffey at] noon today discharged the! grand jury panel. All of the questions pre- sented by States Attorney F. E. McCurdy and former Gov- ernor John Burke for the! state and the arguments of J. M. Hanley and J. F. Sulli- van for defendants, were carefully weighed, together wtih numerous citations and) decisions, before Judge Coffey | arrived at, he said, a very) clear decision that the grand ance with law. The defect in the order was that it provided for the draw- ing of a grand jury of men; under the old form of statute. | Both attorneys for the state; and the defense agreed that: that statute had since been | amended by implication and, that men and women both’ should have been included. Judge Coffey pointed out that | the drawing of a grand jury: in North Dakota is done ac-; cording to statutes, and that! jt was necessary that the statutes be followed in so do-' ing if the grand jury were to; be legal. H No Jury This Term i The. decision came after) arguments on three separate! days and much study ‘by at-! torneys and the court in the! meantime. | As under the law a grand; beginning of a term of court, | and since Judge Coffey is re- quired under the law to hold terms of court in four other cities in his district in succes- | sion, it is a question as to; whether or when another grand jury may be called. The situation also left the, matter of several pending; cases in which informations | have been filed up in the air. These include several liquor, cases, an embezzlement case, a homicide case and an arson case. States Attorney Mc- Curdy asked Judge Coffey | whether the state should pro- ceed to file informations un- der the circumstances, but Judge Coffey replied that was a matter for the states at- torney and for the attorney- general’s office which first presented the matters to him to dispose of after ‘careful study; that it was not the duty of the court to advise them what to do. Had a grand jury not been called the cases would have been for trial at this term of court. Attack on Petitions The matter of the attack upon the petitions on which the grand jury was called did not come up in court, since} the question of the petitions as the basis for a new jury was not reached. Attorneys Hanley and Sullivan, however, who yesterday afternoon said (Continued on Page 6) ittionsly allowed Russiaand the en- E BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1922 a "RUBE TURNS ~~ WOILAN HELD ~ CITY SLICKER ae (By the Associated Press) i Alleged Mrs. May Blem Ford Fort Madison,' lowa, Dec. Dressed in out of date fashion Offered Gunman $20,000 3 For “Job” | | young woman stepped into a clo store here a few days ago and asked | permission to use the telephone. Ap- | parently ignorant of how to operate ; one, she turned the crank of a pencil sharpener on a desk and then with- | out raising the receiver, tried sa talk. Store attaches laughed. They! pp were convinced she was a “rube”| PRA EUP She then bought a dress, giving at ck for fifty dollars, Yesterday! : fre cheek came back marked “no:Police Clami to Have Strong funds.” | | Detroit, Mich., Dec. 8.—Mrs. May } ;Blenn Ford, solicited the services ; jof a gunman to kill her wealthy gave him\a photograph of her hus- | Iments of four detectives whose in- to commit murder today. ‘husband, Ney J. Ford, offered the | band to make sure the mght man ; ivestigation resulted in Mrs, Ford’s ; Denying the charge Mrs. Ford de- | ‘SAYS WIFE; Case Against Detroit | Persons Ask Guarantees Against Sur- prise Attacks on Land » | DARDANELLES gunman $20,000" for the “job’ and | ‘was slain, according to sworn state- detention on a charge of attempting | Or Sea [clared she was the victim of a, “frameup” that grew out of her! ee |domestic difficulties. These diffi- Rijculties include a suit for divorce, LLIES CONSIDER OFFER | coees ie august, in which she charges cruelty. | Mrs. Ford was arrested last night alleged plot was first revealed by | Mrs. Ford. The first meeting, according to ithe detectives, ‘took place in an apartment, especially . rented for that purpose. ‘Three detectives claim to have overheard the conver- sation in which the woman is said | to have gone over the details with Entente . Solidly United |when, it is alleged, she was about : ‘ iti to meet Edward Kunath, a detective Against Russian Position {jjcutenant, for a second conference on her reported plans for the slay- On Near East ing of her husband. Kunath, it was | f said, posed as “a Kansas City gun- | "Lausanne, Dee: 8—Turkey .pre-|man”, Wednesday night when es | sented to the Near East conference today counter suggestions concern- ing control of the straits of the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus. The Turks ask: 2 Guarantees against surprise ate tacks from land or sea threatening the security gf the straits of Con- A f the sea of Mar- stantinople one Kunath. imitati ¢ naval forces bound | Several plans for the killing were for the Black Seo, so that they will | presented by Mrs. Ford, the officers | not constitute a danger to the zone jdeclared. One, they said, was that extending between the two straits |he be shot at his farm home west of to the Black Sea; (Turkey expresses Detroit and the others were that he | the view that these forces might be be shot or slugged while working composed of light war ships, em- about the barns, the body to be ployed for the protection of inter-/burned in a hay stack. Before de | national commerce.) struction of the body, Ford’s gold | Interdiction on the maintenance teeth were to be removed to fore- | of war ships in the Black Sea, and SG ee the plot | i y assage for merchantmen j °°" yy 8 said. de of Mace and War. i The $20,000 was to be paid, the The Turkish position on the ques- [detectives declared, as soon as Mrs. | tion of the straits was presented by 'Ford should have come into posses- | Ismet Pasha, who gave a historical |S!) of her husband's’ estate. | sketch of the problem of the straits, ||. 0° conference with the detec- declaring Turkey never had acted | 246% | vas arranged, | \police, said, contrary to international treaties jo") they heard Mrs. . Fora was concerning that waterway. j locking for a gunman.” | The officers added that Ford’ had After et erence eahilé ag.|been warned several days ago | dress the conference took a recess |4lninst continued residence at his | until afternoon to give the allies , | time to study the Turkish sugges- | | tions. i Some of the express their opinion that the points | raised by the Turks should not | make a final accord difficult. The Near East conference today + jGrain Co. Hampden Farmers Eleva- awaited with interest divulgence of | Turkey’s plans for control of the | straits. Ismet Pasha, who has cau- ! tente to tell their plans in detail, ; has sparred for time for many days | | without a frank statement of (By the Associated Press.) | Turkey's views. Patterson, N. J., Dec .8.—Respond- | jcommission, OF MISSISSIPPI ~ TAKES STAND (By the Associated Press) Oxford, Miss. Dec, 8—Testimony for the défense in the $100,000 dam- age suit filed by Francis Birkhead, stenographer, against Gov- ernor Lee M. Russell of Mississippi, continued before Judge E. R. Holmes in federal district court here today. When court opened there: wei prospects that the-cross examination of Governor Russell who was in the hair when court Adjourned yester- y, would he reopened. Governo# Russell was callgd as the first witness by the defense after opposing counsel had rested their ease. GRAIN GRADING : LAW HELD UP BY INJUNCTION Suit Started by 75 Plaintiffs To Test Validity of Initi- ated Law HEARING DATE Is SET! Federal Judge Miller | Will Hear Arguments in Fed-. eral Court Dec. 16 Enforcement of the grading act initiated into law by the election of November 7th was ‘held up by issuance of an injunction on ‘petition of approximately 75 plain- tiffs, mostly farmers elevators, by Federal Judge Andrew Miller. Members of the state railroad the Attorney-General and Governor were directed to ap- pars in federal court in St. Paul on December 16 to show cause, if any, why an injunction’ should not issue out of federal court. The plaintiffs alleged that the grain grading act was unconstitu- tional, and with the Embden case in which the former grdin grading act was held unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court. The plaintiffs alleged they would suffer irreparable injury through enforce- ment of the law. They maintained that grain was fy commodity moving tin interstate commerce and subject only to federal regulation, The restraining order the railroad from “in anyway com- plying with the requirements of the law.” Attorneys bringing the case were David F. Simpson of Minneapolis, of the firm of Lancaster, of Grand Forks. of Embden; Farmers Elevator C0. Co. of Wimbeldon; Berwick Farm- car's Grain Co.; Grandin om tor Co.; Walhalla Cooperative Ele- vator Co,; Glenfield Cooperative As- sociation; Benedict Cooperative jvator and Mercantile Co.; I. L. Berg | Elevator Co.; Kensal Farmers Ele- vator Co.; Gwinner Farmers Graii _The law provides for the inspee tion of. grain by the state depart. nd state grain} prevents | ee PO ea En Simpson, H KILL 'Junell and Dorsey, and H. A. Libby | European, delegates | WOMAN |_ Plaintiffs inelude: Farmers Grain | c ers | Ismet Pasha; learned that the | ing to an anon 7 i anonymous telephone | United States practically stands! early today Patterson police found with the entente powers and the little entente in opposing the Rus- sian plan which contemplated ab- solute control of the straits by | Turkey, barring the waterway tothe | warships of all nations except | Turkey. i the body of Miss Evelyn Mabel Rain-|Ment, grading on the basis of U. S. bow, a concert singer, on the floor |#tades, gave the superviser power | in the basement of her husband’s to fix margins of profit and in other home. She had been shot twice|Ways regulate the weighing, grad- through the heart. Nearby lay Harry |ing and inspection .of grain, and Harter, a widower who boarded at licencing of elevators of the state. t jbe free amd capable of defense inan | The visit of Premier Mussolini { ded. ; 1 harenfestsrdey: gave notice that the wounded. He had been shot in the! sterday : t | right templ entente is solidly united against the | Harter vat Svea tha Tenens | Russian position and gave Ismet as ‘ rs . much information as toEurope's at-;* @vine condition, 1 titude toward the Dardanelles pues- note evidently written after he titude tow arg one te obtaime {had shot and killed Miss Rainbow,| Look For Agreement us | was found near Harter’s body. It) read: “Good bye, give my watch and | Many Turkish leaders, doubting ||. : : the premanency of the Bolshevik |TIN& to David, my son. I am asking | regime in Russia, have counselled | his forgiveness for the deed which I) | have done. I am taking the one witn jme who broke my heart, and drove me to this.” It was signed H. Harter. : Miss Rainbow had conducted a music studio at her-home since re- turning from a concert tour in Eur- | ope nine months ago. against too close cooperation with the Soviet delegation at the expense of cordial relations with the naval powers. ‘ The entente plan went far to- wards giving Turkey absolute sove- reignty over the straits, but it was generally expected the Turks would demand a greater latitude in or- der that Constantinople might be (By the Assocjated Press.) Washington, Deg 8—Tax provi-| i sions of the| administration shipping | | bill were considered today by the senate commerce committee and ex-) CONSIDER oe PROVISIONS emergency. The tenacity with which Foreign Minister Tchitcherin has held | to his demand that Turkey be given absolute control of the straits made | plain the complicated features under it seem probable that Russia would ; which shipping companies would be! approve no other program and that | allowed to make certain exemptions; Russia and Turkey might, therefore | from tax payments. | break on the Dardanelles issue.The | The committee continued to make| Turks do not want to be forced tq! slow progress with the measure and) build a navy and are eager to obtain | predictions were general that the le-| the aid of the European powers in! gislation would not be presented to) reconstructing their country. ‘the senate before next week. i | perts taxation were called in to ex-| * Scie 2, Sr pePeN MING RIOT JURY IS SECURED (By the Associate? Press.) Marion, Ill, Dec. 8—Completion of the jury to try five men charged with murder in connection with the Her- rin mine riots last June was possi- ble as Williamson county circuit court convened today to resume ex- amination of talesmen, Eight of the 12 jurors have been chosen, and three progpective jurors are being held tentatively by the defense, which is in the lead in the questioning of veniremen. COTTON GINNED. Washington, Dec, 8.—Cotton ginned prior to December 1 amounted tu 9,818,144 runing bales, including 157,- 729 round bales counted as_ half bales; 22,610 bales of American Egyptian, and 4,945 bales of sea island, the census bureau announced today, ° MANY SUBJECTS DBALT WITH IN MESSAGE President Would Abolish Labor Board, Co-ordinate Railroads WAR EFFECT NOT OVER America Aiding in Removing Clouds of War, Declares President Washington, Dec. 8.—President Harding, in his annual message de- liveted today to congress in person. deals with nearly a score of sub- jects, chief among them prohibition, farm eredits, the transportat.on problem, child labor and immigra- tion, The executive announces his pur- pose to invite the governors of the states and territories to an early conference with the federal. execu- tive authority with a view to adopt- ing definite policies of national and state c@peration in administering the prohibition laws. He says the day is unlikely to come when the prohibition amendment will be re- pealed and that the nation should adapt its course accordingly. President Harding told congress that if the statutory provisions for prohibition enforcement are contra- ry to deliberate public opinion, \|which he does not believe, the ri- gorous and literal enforcement will concentrate public attention on any requisite modification, Saves Humiliation “Such a course” he adds, ‘“Con- forms with the law and saves the humiliation of the government and the humiliation of our people before the world and challenges the des- tructive forces engaged in wide- spread violation, official corruption and individual demoralization.” With regard to the transportation problem, Mr. Harding proposes that the railroad labor board be abolish- ed with the substitution of a labor division in the Interstate Commerce Commission with power to require | (Continued on Page Three) IRISH STATE EXECUTES FOUR "INSURGENTS ; Prominent Republicans Killed As Example to All Con- spirators jand Liam Mellowes, together with j two other Irish rebels were executed in Mount Joy prison this morning, | it was, officially announced, ;named Richard Barrett, and Joseph |McKelvey, all prominent Republi- cans. Roderick (Rory) O'Connor and ; Liam Mellowes were leaders of the and of Irish insurgents that held he Four Courts building in Dublin in its stand against, the Free State troops last June. Each was taken | Prisoner when the building tured after a three-day siege. | Irish Republicans, say a dispatch jto the Evening Standard from Dub- lin, have issued a manifesto des- cribing Timothy Healy, the Gover- norjGeneral as a life long enemy of the nation. The manifesto adds: “The fight will go &s long as there is a man in Ireland. It is war to the death.” Any official_army representative state that the four men were exe- cuted as a reprisal for the assassi- nation of Sean Hales, the deputy shot yesterday, and’ as a solemn warning to those associated them “in the conspiracy of assas nation against the representatives of the Irish people.” The prisoners were tried by a military court martial during the night, found guilty and sentenced to death. The death sentence was carried out at 9:20 o'clock this morning. The priests were present. The prisoners, blindfolded, were march- ed to the place of execution. O’Con- nor had to be-assisted to the scaf- fold. London, Dec. 8—The Dublin cor- respondent of the Evening Standard reports that a party of men today entered the Mereers hospital and shot a free state soldier lying in executions of Rory O'Connor and Liam Mellowes, Dublin, Dec. 8. -Rory O'Connor | The two other men executed were cap-| with | (Leased Wire of Associated Press) LLION FIRE AT ASTORIA JUDGE COFFEY HOLDS GRAND JURY ILLEGAL ‘DRY’ ENFORCEMENT, RELIEF FOR FARMERS URGED BY HARDING GOV. RUSSELL R ae Politics Has Played a MajorgPart in the Life of The U. S. Attorney General | In boyhood, a country youth help | ing to support a widowed mother. In manhood, closest friend and counseler of America’s executive and a keen student of .politics, Such is the story of, Attorney, Gen- | eral Harry M. Daugherty. | In Daugherty’s career, politics | ‘have played a prime part. But he | has held only one elective office, as | Hlegislator from an Ohio county in! | 1889, } In 1888 he unsuce ‘the Republican Congressional nomi-! {nation from his Ohio district. In! ]1899 the Hanna group defeated his| {boom for governor. Myron 'T. Her- | ‘rick defeated him in 1906 for the| | | fully sought | | Senatorial nomination in Ohio. & ; Despite his defeats, Daugherty "considered the best posted man in |the Harding cabinet on American | | polities, | i Daugherty was born in Washing- | ‘ton Court House, 0., Jan. 26, 1860. | ‘His father died when he was four| lyears old. The boy worked as an! jerrand boy, as a gardener and “a! ‘grocery clerk while attending school ‘and saved money to put himself | ‘through the University of Michigan. | { In 1881, Daugherty took up law/ land entered polities in Washington | Court House. He attended the legis-| i lature from hers and — became |skilled in district Jeadership. Exonerated 6f Charges. | The legislative session Daugherty j~ j attended was followed by charges of ibribery in connection with the vote} for John Sherman, candidate for: | U.°S, senator. Daugherty's name ‘MORRIS 00. TO ARMOURS HARRY M. DAUGHERTY | That year Daugherty moved to Co-| jlumbus, where he practiced law and | took a prominent part in state poli- ‘ties, He was a Republican state cen-1 tral committee chairman in 1898. ' {Im 1902 he formed the law firm of Take Exception to - State- Daugherty, Todd & Rarey, with which he became associated when he ments of J. Ogden became attorney general. The firm’s Armour clients included some of the biggest corporations in America. | But. politics largely . occupied Daugherty’s attention. Hq was on the Taft steering committee at the ogee canes Chieago, Dec. 8—An . unexpected turn in the discussed merger of the 1908 Republican national /' conven-{°"® (fee Packing firms, Morris ana tion, | \@ompany and Armour and Company, An act for which his political op-| became known today when a signed ponents berate him is his participa-|statement, isued by the former firm tion in getting commutation of the | was made public. It was over the sentence of Charles W. Morse, con | i enatures of Nelson Morris, chair- vieted of ‘false entries in the books| er rte hoard of directors, and G i i of the eae die rica iEdward Morris, president of the - 4 mpany. . Twenty years ago Warren G.|° PS ; Harding came to the Ohio Legisla-| , 7%¢ statement said that J. Ogden ture from. Marion, Daugherty mev| Armour of Armour and Company, in Ri ud “ele Felgpamnty stayin |e EEN, hd Sate Daugherty lost no opportunity te ie. oe ne Eevee advance Harding politically. ment on, the proposed merger has Ta 1904 he helped ‘elect Harding |POt taken officials of Morris and |Company into his confidence. At lieutenant governor of Ohio. He also| : 3 promoted* Harding's senatorial cam-| east Part of Morris.and Company's i aes officials knowledge of his actions, as | paign. indicated by the statement, was ob- In 1920, Daugherty managed Hard-| indicated : ings presidential campaign, The| *#ined from. newspaner reports, Ohio state records show that more! pany than $18,000 of the $20,000 spent for| Ment. read: 418,000 of the. $20, t for) “We note by Thursday morning's Harding’s nomination was contribut- |) oay; that Mr, Armour has advised | jed by his old friend and adviser.) president Harding we are anxious to | Harry M, Daugherty. - panel Seleetion of Daugherty for fe out of ie pacsng puenes cabinet followed. “while Ye realized that Mr. Ar- mour is very anxious to acquire our business and organization up to the present time we have not put any price on sameand he hasynot made us an offer. , “Even' if Mr. Armotr should pur- chase our business it would not mean that we would. long remain out of the packing business.” It was said in some quarters following the issuance of the state- ment, that indicated, although the! ‘Daugherty’s wife has long been an invalid, a fact, it is believed, that ‘has caused Daugherty repeatedly to i refuse offices which would necessi- | tate their moving from their home in| Columbus. i ‘FIFTH SPEECH - TOENDTIGER’S it } !the Morris und Company holdings i \ | Comp: the former firm would Washington, Dec. 8.—Georges | Not forsake the packing business for ‘Clemenceau, war time premier of | 4ny length of time. rh s, the [Pramas will conclude his visit to} observers pointed out, might eul- i Washington today with the fifth |minate in a packers war. {“formal” address of his American ae eee | tour. | He already has spoken twice here | i—at the War College before offi- cers who commanded troops over- ‘seas, and before the Southern Soc:e- | ‘ty, but he regards the address to be | !delivered this afternoon before the; \International Lyceum and Chautau-; El Paso, Tex., Dec, 8—The twelfth | qua Association as the most import-| observation squadron at Fort Blis lant of his Washington appearances. | with six airplanes and nine pilots, i Invitations to attend have beenjin readiness to search for Colonel iextended to government officials | Marshall and Licutenant Webber, re- land leaders of congress, as well aS! ported lost on their way to Tucon to members of the diplomatic corps. | from San Diego. | Clemenecau planned to spend most) The squadron is waiting radio or- lof the day in seclusion, marshal- [ing his facts and making last min-| yom gighth corps area headquarte jute preperations for presenting | 14 san Antonio, expected, the officer |them. After the address he planned |° 7.780 jto return to the home of Henry Bales ene Botte White, his Washington host, for a ar = Iprief rest before going to his pri-j ADVANCES: DATE ‘vate car for the trip to Philadelphia, ; Chicago, Dec. 8.—President Ban ‘his next stop. i ‘aii Rennenet oe !day advanced the date of the Ameri- ‘PARLIAMENT jean League club owners annual meet- i fing in Chicago to, Tuesday, Decem- ber 12, to enable the club owne i ENDS DEC. 15, | the joint meeting of the major | London, Dec. 8—The prorogation leagues called by Commissioner Lan- of the British parliament will occur ; for December 14 in New York Air Squadron | To Go in Search Of Lost Aviator one of the beds in reprisal for the December 15. Prime Minister Bonar ' City, according to a long distance! with Santiago Alba, foreign minist- | Law, told the house of commons to- | telephone emssage from Mr. Johnson | day. ‘in Excelsior Springs, Mo., today. ders to go to hunt the missing plane! Johnson of the American League, to-! to; LAST EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS ¢ WIPES OUT MAIN SECTION: LIVES LOST Business District of Oregon City Laid in Ruins by * Conflagration 16 BLOCKS BURNED Various Reports Issued as to Number of Dead and Missing Astoria, Ore, Dec. 8—The busi- ness district of Astoria was laid in ruins by a fire which broke out shortly after 2 a. m., and despite ef- forts of the local fire department and reinforcements from Portland, swept 16 blocks, causing a loss es- timated at between $10,000,000 and $15,000,000. ‘At 8 o'clock the fire had swept blocks. The over twenty-sevdn ‘flames had eaterl under the pave- ment on Commercial Street, burn. ing the piling on which the city had been built, and firemen were unable to cope with this developement. Patients were removed from St. Mary’s Hospital, all the windows of jWhich were shattered by explosions of dynamite or gasoline tanks, The Astoria Astorian, occupying a new building on Commercial Street, dis- tance from the devastated area, be- gan moving out at 8 o’clock. The Astorian’s building is of concrete but sparks were threatening the i roof. One life was lost in the fire, ac- cording to reports available at 8 o'clock, Morris Staples, automobile dealer, and president of the Astoria Bank of Commerce, dropped dead. Two other business men who were missing and believed dead later were accounted for. One man was reported dead and another missing, According. to reports form the fire swept area early today, Morris Staples, president of the Bank of Commerce, had dropped dead. An- other report said Brennan Van Du- |sen, a business man, was missing. W. H. Fellman, furniture dealer, who had been reported dead earlier ‘in the morning, later was found to be safe. The entire district from the river, five blocks sought to’ Exchange street and east and west between | Fourteenth and Tenth Streets, had ; been wiped out at 7:30 o'clock, and | the flames had extended beyond Ex. jshange Street at that hour, Most of |the city’s business houses are in | that ‘district. The men reported to have lost their lives were Morris Staples, \president of the Bank of Commerce jand W. H. Felton, owner of the largest furniture store in town. The buildings destroyed included the leading hotel, the. principal stores and all the banks. The fire at 10 o'clock had swept the entire district between Astor Street, at the river front, south to Exchange Street, and north and south between Eighth and Sixteenth Streets, Between Eleventh and Twelfth, it had pentrated as far as Franklin Street, at 10:15 o’clock the fire crossed Sixteenth Street at Commercial Street. (QUARREL ENDS IN MURDER | International Falls, Minn., Dee. 8. ;—One man was shot and killed, an- | other was probably mortally wound- fed, and a man who gave his name as James Conroy is held at the coun- | ty jail here, as the result of shooting affray at Ranier, four miles | east of here, at 7 o'clock this morn- ling, ! Pat Finnegan, a lumber jack, was jthe man killed, while Jim Lessard, |an employe in his brother's soft ! drink establishment where the shoot- ing took place, lies in a critical con- | dition at a hospital here. He was | wounded twice in the lungs. ' Conroy, who arrived in Ranier about midnight last, night on a train| coming from Duluth, entered the| Lqssard soft drink parlor about 7 o'clock this morning, flourishing al gun. Finnegan, Lessard and two others were in the place at the tim | “What are you doing with that] j gun?” Finnegan asked Conroy. “Probably you want some of it,” Conroy replied. | Finnegan according to the wit- iness in the establishment, grabbed| ! for Conroy's gun and an altercation jand the subsequent shooting ensued, ‘New Spanish i Ministry Formed | i} (By the Associated Press.) | Madrid, Dec. 8—-A new Spanish | ministry was formed today by the| ;Marquis De Alhucemas as premicr,| ler, and Count Romanones minister jot justice.