Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 27, 1906, Page 3

THREE SHOT IN LOVE FEUD PRAIRIE DU CHIEN MAN WOUNDS SWEETHEART, HER ESCORT AND HIMSELF. Prairie du Chien, Wis., man ottie Bean, his sweetheart, three times, William Gailer, whom he con-, sidered a rival suitor, once, fired at the girl’s mother but missed her, and en pressed the weapon to his own reast and fired the sixth ball, which d through his body. The tragedy occurred at the Bean home, six miles east of this city, as the family, with which Larson and ler boarded, was preparing for fast. ler escorted the girl to a party previous evening, and Larson’s ousy is supposed to have caused et Larson, though still living, ‘obably die, but the girl and riler will recover. Bert Bean, father of the girl, who as doing chores in the barn, heard he shooting and rushed to the house w an ax and would have chopped arson’s head off had not the family nterfered. Jan, 25. — KILLS SELF WITH RIFLE. String on Trigger Enables Man to Fire Fatal Bullet. x Moorhead, Minn., Jan. 23. — Frank Jones, who worked on the farm of Bernhardson, near Comstock, as committed suicide by shooting. e took a rifle, tied a cord to the I r, and by running the string round the butt, secured leverage sufficient to enable him to pull the or. He then placed the muzzle he gun against his chest, dis- harged it and the ball plowed gh his heart, killing him instant- But little is known of the man’s intecedents, and no reason has been iudvanced for his suicide. hrov BARTENDER SHOT. Refused a Drink Is Charged With the Shooting. Glenwood, Minn., Jan. 23.—A man amed Johnson is in jail here held to vwait the result of the injuries of ns Holm, a bartender in a saloon ,t Lowry. Johnson, it is charged, on eing refused liquor by the bartender, irew a revolver and, walking up be- ind Holm, shot him through the 1eck, the bullet taking a downward course. The wounded man is in a critical condition and physicians are Man as yet unable to say whether he will ecover. HORSE KILLS MAN. Schlenner Is Kicked to Death in Livery Barn. Richmond, Minn., Jan. 23.—Kicked o death and his body and head uled and bruised by the hoofs of tened horses was the fate of »rge Schlenner, a well known resi- t of this village. Schlenner’s re- were discovered by Emil Hoff- of the firm of Hoffman & Moli- owners of the livery. Coroner dunn held a post-mortem and decided hat the victim met death from being 2d by a horse. FIREMAN !S KILLED. Sco Passenger Train Overtakes a Freight. Glenwood, Minn., Jan. 23. — Earl ney of Minneapolis was killed in a ock on the Winnipeg branch of the » line. The wreck occurred four niles north of here. The Winnipeg imited, which leaves St. Paul at 5 o'clock, caught up with and ran into he rear end of a freight. Earl Raney, nan on the passenger engine, was aught between the boiled and tender ink and received injuries from which died. THREE HAVE BAD FALL. Scaffold Breaks and Workmen Are Precipitated to Ground. Waterloo, Iowa, Jan. 23. — Three n were severely injured by the ng of a scaffold on which they at work at the new Elks’ build- Five men were on the scaffold, which is said to have been weakened ; a defective plank. The combined ht of the men caused the scaffold to give way and they were precipi- tated to the ground. Three of the men were badly hurt. Is Not Held for Murder. La Crosse, Wis., Jan. 23.—John Ma- teska, who shot and killed Felix War- | gin on Friday night while preparing to mask as'a cowboy, was discharged from custody. Mateska’s claim that he did not know the gun was loaded was accepted. Traveling Men Meet. Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 23.—Fifteen hundred delegates to the convention of the Iowa State Traveling Men’s as- sociation are here and a warmly con- tested campaign for the position of secretary-treasurer is nearing an end Good Roads in lowa. Eldora, Iowa, Jan. 23. — A good roads meeting has been called for Feb. 7 and 8 by Gov. Cummins, and every board of supervisors of every county of Iowa will be urged to at- tend. Larson, a fisherman, shot | SIX MEN ARE BLOWN 10 BITS BOILER EXPLOSION DEMOLISHES A SAWMILL NEAR HOL- COMBE, WIS. | Holcombe, Wis., Jan. 24. — An ex: | plosion of a boiler'in a sawmill seven miles southeast of here yesterday af- ternoon, resulted in the killing of six men and severe injury to three oth- ers. The explosion happened at about 2 o'clock at the mill owned by John Lagermaier. The men were killed outright. Besides the three men se- verely injured, others suffered minor injuries and many had narrow es- capes. The mill was demolished by the ter- rific explosion. Just what caused the boiler to explode is not known. The bodies were brought to Hol- combe. The corpses presented a ghastly spectacle. BLAST MAY BE FATAL TO TWO. First Serious Accident on the Auditor- um Site. St. Paul, Jan. 24. — Martin Carlson and C. A. Johnson, laborers employed on the auditorium site, were probably fatally injured yesterday afternoon by the explosion of a heavy blast in the extreme northeast corner of the grounds. Both men were hurled high into the air, falling to the ground amid a shower of splintered rock and timbers several rods from the scene of the explosion. The accident oc- curred when Carlson and Johnson, in drilling for a blast, struck an old charge that had been placed some time previously. The charge exploded with terrific force, throwing pieces of stone for blocks. A second later Carison and Jackson dropped to the ground a few feet apart. MYSTERY IN TRAGEDY. Eighteen-Year-Old Nekoosa Girl Is Found Dead in Snow. Grand Rapids, Wis., Jan. 24.—The body of Lulu Ostrom, the daughter of H. E. Ostrom of Nekoosa, was found in the snow about twelve miles south- east of this city. The cause of her death is wrapped in mystery. The girl was eighteen years old and was well known at Nekoosa. Her body was discovered, on the side of the road deep in the snow on the line be- tween Wood and Portage counties. There are no marks of violence on the body and the officers are at sea as to the cause of the young woman’s death. ———$_—___—__*— LOSES RIGHT TO SELL LIQUOR. Amery Council Revokes License of Saloon Firm. Amery, Wis., Jan. 24.—By action of the city council in special session yes- terday the license held by Hoffstatter & Bernier was revoked. It was al- leged that for some time past this sa- loon has been running in utter disre- gard of the law, and on complaint of Mayor H. J. Soper the above action was taken. City Attorney W. T. Ken- nedy presented the ease to the coun- cil. Complaints have been made against other saloons, and unless un- lawful practices are stopped forthwith other revocations will follow. BUSINESS WAS RUSHING. Sioux City Police Are Looking for Clairvoyant Pair. Sioux City, Iowa, Jan. 2 The po- lice are looking for “Dr.” Wilmer Smith and wife, who went nnder the name of Mrs. Moss, “clairvoyants” and “psychic palmists,’ who have been working in Sioux City for six weeks, and who are alleged to have inveigled money and jewelry from scores of people, mostly women and lovesick girls. It is said many of the victims were prominent women, but | the police withhold the names. DOCTORS CALL FOR CUTICLE. \ two Hundred Sauare Inches Needed to Save Badger Hero’s Life. Kenosha, Wis:, Jan. 24.—An unusual notice was sent out in the town of Pleasant Prairie this morning, when physicians of that village attending Fred Augusteen, recently burned while rescuing men from the Laflin- Rand powder works, ask that people of the town give up 200 square inches of skin to be grafted on his legs. It is stated that this is the only hope of saving the man’s life. Veteran Answers Last Call. Miles City, Mont., Jan. 24—Joseph | Dowling, the last surviving civil war veteran in this city, so far as known, died of paralysis. He came from Ireland and was sixty-seven years old Viola Allen Surely Married. Milwaukee, Jan. 24. — Mrs. A. P. Hall, 986 Hackett avenue, a sister of Viola Allen, the famous actress, has practically admitted that the reported marriage of her sister to Peter Dur- yea, the noted turfman, is true. Timber Cutter Pleads Guilty. Helena, Mont.. Jan. 24—Homer H. , Case pleaded guilty in the United States court yesterday to cutting tim- ber on public land and was fined $100. He said he was ignorant of the 1 Washington, Jan. 18—The recent forcible removal from the White House of Mrs. Minor Morris was made the subject of emphatic denunciation by Mr. Tillman in the senate yester- day. His remarks called out remon- strances from Messrs. Hale, Hopkins and Daniel and led to the very ab- rupt closing of the doors and the sud- den adjournment of the senate in the middle of the afternoon. . The speech abounded in Mr. Till- man’s peculiar expressions and was characterized by many severe and ex- ceptionally personal thrusts at the president. The reference to the treatment of Mrs. Morris constituted the latter half of a speech based upon the sen- ator’s resolution making inquiry of the president concerning the status of our relations with the republic of Santo Domingo, and was added to il- lustrate his theory that the present administration is tending toward im- perialism. With reference to the Morris inci- dent he declared that the president had been derelict in failing to punish his subordinates for their course, and quoted statements from persons said to be witnesses to show that the pro- ceeding had been inhuman. He in- formally presented, and said that he would to-day formally present, a res- olution for an investigation of the entire incident. House Passes Pension Bilis. In a_ session of two and a_ half hours the house took favorable ac- tiouw on 166 pension bills. Forty-two of the beneficiaries are blind and six- ty-eight are paralyzed. Washington, Jan. 19.—There was an echo of Wednesday's stormy session in the senate yesterday when Mr. Tillman presented his resolution di- recting a senatorial investigation of the removal of Mrs. Minor Morris from the White House. The resolu- tion provoked no debate and Mr. Till- man contented himself with a briet statement in which he said that he would not have introduced the resolu- tion but for the taunts of Mr. Hale. After paying a tribute to the frigate Constitution and ordering an investi- gation to ascertain the annual amount necessary to preserve the ship, the house devoted the day until 5:45 o'clock to the perfection and passage of a bill providing for the final dispo- sition of the affairs of the five civi- lized tribes in the Indian Territory. With one or two minor amendments the bill was passed substantially as it came from the committee. Washington, Jan. 20. — Reform in the matter of making deficiency ap- propriations agitated the house yes- terday and the entire time of the ses- sion was devoted to its discussion, with the exception of a short speech for free hides by Mr. Perkins of New York. The urgency deficiency appropria- tion bill was considered under the general debate order and -Mr. Lattauer of New York, in charge of the bill, set the pace by pointing out the failure of the legislation of last year to curb heads of departments in their de- mands for deficiency supplies. He ex- plained the more stringent measure recommended in the bill and said that several requests for money had been refused by the committee. Washington, Jan. 23. — Senators Platt and Depew were in their seats when the senate convened yesterday, the first appearance of either for some time. Both gentlemen were given warm welcomes and were heartily congratulated upon their ap- pearing in good health. At the conclusion of the morning business Mr. Clay addressed the sen- ate on his resolution relative to the governmental power to maximum fu- ture charges by railroads. Right to bridge St. Andrew’s bay. Florida, was granted the Birmingham, Columbus & St. Andrews Railroad company by the house on convening yesterday. The urgent deficiency bill was tak- en up, District of Columbia day being passed over until next Monday. CONSUL LAY IS WARNED. Hongkong, Jan. 24-—The crisis in Canton caused by opposition to the taxes for the completion of the rail- road to Hankow is not yet at an end. United States Consul Julius G. Lay has been warned from an anonymous source not to leaye the European con- cession in the city unless he is will- ing to run the risk of being murdered. Some of the people here are striving to implicate the viceroy of Kwang- tung province in the anti-foreign trouble and it is feared that assas- sination and riots will occur after the celebration of the Chinese New Year, Jan. 25. The American and other consuls are on the alert to cope with the danger. Two Killed by a Train. Selin’s Grove, Pa., Jan. 23—Murray Reider of this plaée and Mary Crum- well of Sunbury were killed last night by a train while attempting to cross the Pennsylvania railroad bridge over the Susquehanna river here. Four Injured in Fire. Ji Four persons MAKE ‘TAXES UNIFORM. State Board Will Confer With County Auditors Before Assessors Begin. The state board of equalization has been called for an informal meeting for Feb. 8 at the .new capitol in St. Paul. Gov. Johnson issued the call for the meeting and.also a call for the county auditors to meet with the board at that time. There is nothing in the statutes authorizing a formal meeting of the board at this time, nor any provision for pay for the mem- bers; therefore the governor had to make the meeting informal, and while the commissioners get nothing for their time, their expenses will be paid out of the governor’s fund. The meeting will be the first of its kind ever held since the board was created, the custom being for the board to have its first meeting when the reports of the county boards are in. The objecte of the meeting is stated to be that of conferring with the county auditors and agreeing upon a more uniform system of list- ing the property. The county audi- tors usually, have such a meeting with the assessors and agree upon values for certain kinds of articles, but the state board usually finds a wide di- vergence in values in different coun- ties. The committees also will be ap- pointed so that they may familiarize themselves with values of the arti- cles they will deal with. Other years the committees were appointed at the September meeting, and in the short time before them they found it diffi- cult to get at any information regard- ing proprietary values. This is espe- cially true when they have to fix the values of large establishments and of stocks of merchandise and manufac- turing plants. Gov. Johnson, Attorney General E. T. Young and the state auditor, who are ex-officio members of the board, have had it under consideration for some time to call the meeting, but the matter came up definitely when a committee of five from the Minnesota County Auditors’ association, which was in session in Minneapolis, called one the governor and state auditor and requested that such a meeting be called. TEACHERS’ STATE CERTIFICATES List of Those Who Passed Success- ful Examinations. Seven professional certificates were awarded to teachers by the depart- ment of public instruction. Each certificate is issued for a period of two years. Those receiving the cer- tificates are: A. F. Andrews, Star- buck; A. W. Benson, Carver; E. G. Docken, Minneapolis; Lewis Hughes, Tracy; Clara E. Morley, Clarkfield; Mabel M. Stone, Excelsior, and Luella Webb, St. Paul. Those who received renewals are: W. H. Alwine, five years, Bloomfield; J. B. Arp, ten years, Jackson; Frances Bishop, life, Northfield; Rose W. Ea- ton, five years, Blue Earth; C. R. Fra- zier, life, Winona; EB. I. Godward, five years, Plainview; Sarah P. Hall, ten years, Zumbrota; J. H. Hay, life, Thief River Falls; Susan C. Hoh- mann, five years, New Ulm; Laura A. McClay, one year, Montevideo; F.,.E. Maxson, ten years, Mantorville; Ed- win T. Reed, ten years, Moorhead; A. P. Ritchie, ten years, Bemidji; Lillian D. Wheeler, five years, Aitkin; E. A. Williams, five years, Monticello. Those who received certificates by examination are: William R. Ball, ten years, Pelican Rapids; Lulu Wal- lace, two years, Maple Plain; C. E. Wetherson, five years, New Richland; Florence Demutt, five years, Fair- mont. MAKES NINE OFFICES. Adjt. Gen. Wood Issues Order Provid- ing for Battalion Officers. Adjt. Gen. F. B. Wood has issued general order No. 1, 1906, amending section 1 Sof the military code and providing for the appointment of one battalion quartermaster and commis- sary for each battalion of infantry in the national guard. This is a joint po- sition and will create nine offices, as there are nine battalions. Gen. Wood expects there will be a scramble for the new positions. The position will carry the rank of second lieutenant. The change is in line with the gen- eral policy of the adjutant general to make the rules and organization of the national guard conform, so far as possible, to the organization of the regular army, several changes having been made before with this object in view. The equipment of the guards- men with new dress uniforms corre- sponding to the uniforms of the regu- lars is also in line with this policy. Casper Seibert Dead. Taylors Falls, Minn., Jan. 20.—Cas- ‘per Seibert, aged sixty-one years, is dead here. He served in the Michigan cavalry until 1865, and lived in St. Paul fifteen years. He is survived by a son and daughter. Prairie Fire in Nebraska. Kimball, Neb., Jan. 20.—A prairie DULUTH GETS NEXT MEETING. Municipal and Commercial League Ends Important Meeting. The officers of the Minnesota Mu- nicipal and Commercial league were re-elected at the closing session of the league at St. Paul. They are: L. A. Rosing of Cannon Falls, president; W. C. Webber of Rochester, secretary, and J. Esbjornson of Litchtield, treas- urer. It was decided to hold the next annual meeting at Duluth. The resolutions committee present- ed its report covering the leading questions discussed by the convention. The report was adopted. The league goes on record as favoring such legis- lation as will give the interstate com- merce commission ample power to fix railroad rates. It favors the recipro- cal demurrage bill which was propos- ed at the last legislature and indorses the proposed constitutional amend- ment giving the legislature wider lati- tude on tax legislation, and recom- mends further an act to increase the tax on public service and foreign cor- porations. Legislation which will bring the telephone companies under the jurisdiction of the state railway and warehouse commission is also rec- ommended. D. C. Armstrong, chairman of the league committee on parks and play- grounds, presented a written report at the afternoon session. Fred Nuss- baumer, superintendent of parks in St. Paul, pointed out the necessity for an established policy in park matters which will not change with each change of administration. He advtsed the concentration of power in the hands of one who should be responsi- ble for the results. Mr. Nussbaumer outlined some of the features of the plans in use in St. Paul. Health and sanitation were discuss- ed by Dr. D. D. Murray, health com- missioner of Duluth. He took un first the question of pure milk supply. He explained the system he has put into operation in Duluth whereby every cow furnishing milk for tested for tuberculosis. Dr. Murray is the pioneer in a new system for protecting cities against diphtheria. The Duluth druggists are required to notify the health office at once by telephone whenever anti-toxin is sold. The use of anti-toxin is taken as prima-facie evidence of diphtheria, and quarantine regulations are en- forced at once. Dr. Murray told also of the change of source of the city wa- ter supply and the effect shown in the absolute non-origin of typhoid in Du- luth. A $35,000 garbage crematory is one of the new improvements of the city which is bound to result in more healthful conditions. ‘ C. M. Loring, park ¢ -mmissioner of Minneapolis, presented an interesting stereopticon lecture on beautifying the streets and especially the cultiva- tion and care of trees. Mr. Loring pre- sented a hundred views, meanwhile giving a nature-lover’s description of the natural beauties of Minnesota and other parts of the United States and the effects which aid to nature may accomplish. C. N. Andrews of Mankato read the report of the committee on public service corporations. A general de- bate on the subject followed. The re- port recommended that telephone com- panies be placed under the control of the state railroad and warehouse com- mission. M. W. Pitner presented a plan for lighting plants for small towns. During the three days’ session of the league important addresses were made on subjects of vital interest. MORE TIMBER FRAUDS. State Board Orders That Four Sec- tions in Hubbard County Be Re- scaled. The state timber board had a meet- ing recently and ordered four sec- tions of state timber in Hubbard county rescaled. The surveyor gener- al and the cruisers employed by the board will join in making the scale. The timber was removed some years ago, but the board has heard from Park Rapids and received some in- formation regarding the four sections. Two of the sections were sold without being seaed on estimates of 1000,000 feet or less, and it is claimed 400,000 or 500,000 feet were cut from each of them. The third section was never sold, but it is reported that it has been cut clean and it is alleged the trespass was committed by a prominent lumber firm. The fourth of the sections, it is claimed, shows more stumpage than the surveyor general reported. The board turned over to the at- torney general for collection several small trespass matters that have been pending for some time. SNe Gen. Wheeler Seriously III. New York, Jan. 24—Brig. Gen. Jo seph Wheeler, U. S. A. retired, is seriously ill at the residence of his sister, Mrs. Sterling Smith, in Brook that his illnes: Duluth is} ! | | birth of my second boy. 'my three good meais a day. There is no Rochelle Saits, Alum, &imeor Ammonia in food made with Calumet Baking Powder Perfect in quality. Moderate in price. Literal. * Master—Francisco! Servant—Sir! “Go to the theater and bring me an orchestra seat.” “Impossible, sir.. They're ail nailed to the floor.”—From the Spanish. THE COUPON BELOW IS GOOD FOR $1.00 IF SENT AT ONCE. It Is Wrong for You to Neglect Your Duty to Yourself — Constipation, Bowel and Stomach Troubles Grow More Dangerous Daily. There is now a remedy called Mull’s Grape Tonic that cures these troubles absolutely. 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In the billiard room half a dozen ta- bles were in full blast, and through the hum of conversation the click ot the ivory bails came sharp and clear. “What becomes of the worn-out balls?” asked an idler. “Well,” replied the man at the desk, “when a ball is only a little off it is sent to the factory to be trued up. We get our balls trued up until they be- come too small for use. Then we sell them at so much per ounce. “After their sale they are carved into various small trinkets, but in the main they are made into dice. Of the forty or fifty balls rolling and clicking here to-night, it is safe to say that 90 per cent of them, a few years hence, will be working just as hard in the form of dice.””—Duluth News-Tribune. Dream Guided to Lost Watch. William Ward of Fern street, Free- land, lost a watch while hunting in the woods two weeks ago. 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