Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 16, 1907, Page 2

herald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. NEWS OF WEEK SUMMARIZED IMPORTANT EVENTS AT HOME AND ON FOREIGN SHORES BRIEFLY TOLD. Washingten Notes. Anvpropriations aggregating $209,- 180,561 are carried in the postoffice bill. The postoffice appropriations for the current year were $191,670,562. A bill was introduced in the house making Sept. 23 “Paul Jones day” in the navy, and providing that all Amer- ican naval vessels in United States ports shall dress ship on that day. Senator Hansbrough introduced the bill recently favorably acted upon by the house committee on ways and means which permits small distilleries to manufacture denatured alcohol. The omnibus lighthouse Dill, carry- ing an appropriation ‘of $1,598,500 for the lighthouse establishment and an additional sum of $195,000 for addi- tional lighthouse keepers’ dwellings, has been passed by the house. Crimes and Criminals. E. W. Emmons is under arrest. in Chicago, charged with swindling a number of people through the sales of mining stock. A fine of $3,000 has been imposed upon the Camden Iron Works compa: ny of Camden, N. J., which was recent ly convicted of accepting rebates on a shipment to Winnipeg. Charles McGill, late manager of the defunct Ontario bank at Toronto, has pleaded guilty to making false re turns and has been sentenced to five in the penitentiary. Advised by his father, William Weis- ller, aged nineteen, pleaded guilty at St. Louis to second degree murder and was sentenced to ninety-nine years in the penitentiary. year The grand jury which has been con- ducting an investigation into the liquor question at Elkader, Iowa, has re- turned forty-nine indictments against saloonkeepers in Clayton county for willfully maintaining nuisances and conducting liquor traffic in open viola- tion of the law. rank Frink shot and killed Miss e Newton, daughter of a promi- nent citizen of Ponca, Neb., at her home, and then sent a bullet into his own body. He is not expected to re- cover. Miss Newton was to have been married the following day to Edward Be nnell, Frink was a_ rejected hte} Personal. iel Osiris, the philanthropist who in 1890 presented Malmaison to the French nation, is dead at Paris. G. J. Grammer, vice president of the New York Central, died in Chicago aft- r an illness lasting several weeks. Mrs. Drusilla Morrell, whose hus- band fought in the War of 1812, is dead in Brooklyn at the age of 102. N. Diment, the well known race horse owner and millionaire lumber- man, died at Barrie, Ont., after a short illness. Patrick Crane, the oldest railroad man in Maryland, died in Cumberland. He never used eyeglasses and could see to thread the finest needle up to three months ago. Former Governor Preston H. Leslie died at Helena, Mont., aged eighty- eight. He had the distinction of hav- ing been governor of Kentucky and of the territory of Montana. Brig. Gen. S. B. Holabird, retired, one of the oldest and best known army officers in the country and former quartermaster general, died in Wash- ington after a brief illness. Rev. Seymour A. Baker, one of the founders of the Republican party, pro- slavery agitator, Presbyterian minis- ter and editor of note, died in his home in Kansas City of pneumonia. Prof. William C. Pickett, one of the best known medical authorities in the United States on nervous diseases and a member of the faculty of the Medico- Chirurgical college of Philadelphia, is dead. John J. H. Kelly, late of the Fifth infantry and a veteran of the Sitting Bull and Chief Joseph Indian wars, died at the breakfast table at Spring- field. Il. He won a medal of honor for conspicuous bravery in action. Accidental Happenings. Fire destroyed ten store buildings at Mound Valley, Kan., causing a loss of $50,000. « The Imperial porcelain works at Trenton, N. J., burned. The loss is es- timated at $100,000. An engine exploded at Lexington, Ky., killing a switchman and fatally injuring two trainmen. Antoine Felix Garbe, United States consular agent at Bena, Algeria, was killed by falling from a bridge. The woodworking plant of the Wilts Veneer company at Plymouth, N. C., was destroyed by fire. Loss, $250,000. A dozen wholesalers and commission merchants were burned out in New York. The total loss was about $150,- 000. A six-story building in Chicago, oc- cupied by several manufacturing con- cerns, practically was detroyed by fire last night. The damage was estimat- ed at $150,000. Two men were seriously injured at the grading camp of the Chicago, Mil waukee & St. Paul road near Butte by a blast which was set off in a misse¢ hole. < < Four men were killed in a wreck at Colby station, Ky. The wreck was caused by the explosion of Engine 296 which was the second engine on é double-header freight. Fire destroyed a business block, at Nashua, Iowa. It originated in a cigar store from cause unknown. Loss esti mated at $8,000 on buildings; stock loss estimated at $5,000. John Mason, who, it is alleged, re ceived a knock-out blow in a friendly boxing bout in the parish house of St Bartholomew’s Episcopal church it New York on Jan. 23, is dead. Mrs. A. Haskell, who is said to have been a wealthy widow of Michigar City, Ind., was burned to death in < fire which partially destroyed a two story frame building in Chicago. Mrs. Stillman, wife of Dr. Frank Stillman of Columbus, Ohio, was fatal ly injured and her husband severely hurt in a collision between an automo bile in which they were riding and < street car. Mrs. Richard Vaughn, wife of a sa loonkeeper at Pelham, N. Y., and H M. Mitchell, a stable man, during < fire in Mr. Vaughn’s stable there los} their lives.. The Vaughn family occu pied rooms over the stable. From Other Shores. An active campaign against bul fights has begun in the City of Mexi co. The strike of sailors in all the Ital ian ports has resulted disastrously t the men. A Morocco syndicate has been form ed at Berlin to further German trade interests in that country. It is reported at Vienna from Salz burg that Archduke Ludwig Victor, the only living brother of Emperor Francis Joseph, is seriously ill. Norman McDougall, a well knowr real estate dealtr of Winnipeg, and his little daughter lost their lives in,a fire at their home. The fire was caused b a lamp exploding. Emperor William has empowerec Herr von Mueller, former Prussiar minister of commerce, to attend the inauguration of the Carnegie institute at Pittsburg April 11. The reballoting in the reichstag elec tions in Germany emphasized the gov ernment victory of Jan, 25. There were further heavy losses in Socialis seats, while the Clericals more thar held their own. Owing to the fierce storms anc heavy snowfalls the famished rang« cattle in Alberta have been drifting ir large numbers to -the railway track: and every train that passes Kills < number of them. One of the royal carriages in whict King Leopold was riding at Brussels had a collision with an electric car His majesty was thrown violently t the floor of the vehicle. He sustainec no injury, but the shock was severe. Commissioner Perry of the Roya Northwést Mounted Police in Sas katchewan has issued orders for pa trolmen to set out for Saskatoon tc take relief to the settlers in the Eagle lake district who are in dire wan) since provisions ran out. The patro will take three big sleds with provis ions and will investigate the freezing to death of men in that district. General. Mrs. Russell Sage has given $1,000, 000 to the Rensselaer Polytechnic in stitute of New York. More than 1,000 pounds of oleomar garine has been seized at St. Louis b} internal revenue officers. The Arizona legislature has passe a bill repealing the statute permitting the licensing of gambling in Arizona. Ernest F. Krause, one of the wealthiest men of Cleveland, died sud denly, following a stroke of apoplexy. P. W. F. Herwig, the New Orleans millionaire who died a few days ago left more than $1,000,000 to his friend Martin H. Sullivan, a wealthy lumber man of Pensacola. Title to mines in the Fessenden dis trict of Nevada, said to be worth many millions of dollars, has been won b3 Joseph de Lamar, through a decisior rendered by Superior Judge Seawell. The logging camps of the Big Black foot Milling company in Montana have been compelled to shut down on ac count of the deep snow. There is more than four feet of snow on the level in the woods. William E. Cook of Independence Towa, has been signally honored by Pope Pius, who has consented to give the painter sittings for a portrait. Mr Cook will be the first American tc paint a picture of his holiness. The second annual mosquito cam paign, the object of which is to pre vent an outbreak of yellow fever ir New Orleans, has begun and will con tinue until next November. Two hun dred men are employed in spraying cisterns. A freight train was held up at For aker, Okla., and a party of determinec men unloaded all the coal into vehi cles. The residents of Foraker hac been without coal for weeks. Tommy Ryan knocked out Dave Bar. ry in the fifth round of a schedule¢ twenty-round fight before the Witting ton Athletic club at Hot Springs, Ark Barry was outclassed at all stages. Sweden has decided to send the new armored cruiser Fylgia to represent her at the naval review to be held at Hampton Roads on the occasion of the opening of the Jamestown exposition MRS. EVELYN THAW TELLS HER STORY TO SAVE HER HUSBAND SHE LAYS BARE INNERMOST SE- CRETS OF HER SOUL, BLACK TREACHERY OF WHITE TELLS STORY OF HOW DEAD MAN PLANNED TO WRECK HER YOUNG LIFE. New York, Feb. 8—The defense of Harry K. Thaw under the direction of Attorney Delphin M. Delmas of Cali- fornia began to assume definite shape yesterday, and when an adjournment was taken testimony had been placed before the jury to the effect that Stan- ford White had been heard to make a threat to kill the defendant—coupling the threat with the display of a re- volver; that Thaw’s actions following the killing of White on the roof of Madison Square Garden was consider- ed by several eye-witnesses To Have Been “Irrational;” that an uncle of the defendant was in- of that girlhood at sixteen years of age. Ruined by White. It was the story of her meeting with Stanford White, the story of the sumptuous studio apartment, to which she had been enticed by the carefully planned strategem of her betrayer— the story of a glass of champagne, of black, whirling sensations gnd of mir- rored bedroom walls. In short, she told all the story of how her ruin was accomplished. “Don’t scream; it is all over; it is all right.” “And this was Stanford White?” The question came from Delphin M. Delmas, now conducting the defense of Harry Thaw. “Yes, sir.” Harry Thaw Weeps. The stillness of the great crowd was its tribute to the effect of the girl’s story. Into the narrative there entered nothing of the woman of the world. Thaw, with his head buried in his hands, a handkerchief covering the eyes, bent over the table as he sobbed. Mrs. Thaw was still on the stand, her direct examination uncompleted when the day was done. Letters Introduced. Once during the afternoon she was excused for an hour while Lawyer Frederick Longfellow was sworn to fix the date of certain letters written to him by Harry Thaw subsequent to the reyelations Miss Nesbit had made to him in Paris. The letters which eventually were offered in evidence after much object- ing by Mr. Jerome are regarded as cor- Deis Ses uss EVELYN NESBIT THAW, WIFE OF HARRY KENDALL THAW. Star Witness in the Proceedings of the Stanford White Murder Trial in New, York. i ) sane; that Evelyn Nesbit Thaw passed a note to her husband during dinner at the Cafe Martin on the evening of the tragedy; that District Attorney Je- rome has this note, and refused, on the demand of the defense, to intro- duce it in evidence. ‘ Threatened Thaw’s Life. The threat against Thaw’s life was made two years and a half before the tragedy occurred. District Attorney Jerome objected to the introduction of the evidence, declaring the defense was not understood by him to be one of self-defense. Mr. Delmas replied that the defense intended to take advantage of every legal defense allowed in the State ot New York, be it insanity, self-defense or any other legitimate justification of the taking of human life. Thursday’s Proceedings. New York, Feb. 9. — Evelyn Nesbit Thaw told her story yesterday. To save the life of her husband, charged with murder, she bared to the world the innermost secrets of her soul. It was the same story she told Harry Thaw in Paris in 1903, when he had asked her to become his wife—the con- fession of one who fell. There was an insurmountable barrier to her ever becoming the bride of the man she loved. In the big witness chair she appear- ed but a slip of a girl, and she told the pitiful story of her eventful young life in a frank, girlish way. Sad Story of Her Life. As the young wife unfolded the nar- rative of her girlhood and told the ear- ly struggles of herself and her mother to keep body and soul together; of how she finally was able to earn a livelihood by posing for photographers and artists, she won the murmured sympathy ofthe throng which filled every available space in the big court room. Then came the relation of the wreck roborative of; Mrs. Thaw’s testimony, They also were offered as tending to show the state of mind of the de fendant just after he had heard from her own lips the story of the girl he loved and her relations with the man it is claimed he killed as a result of insanity inherited in part and induced by a Stress of circumstances. Friday’s Proceedings. New York, Feb. 10. — Evelyn Nesbit Thaw again yesterday was the central figure at her husband’s trial. Picking up the threads of her life’s story where she had dropped them the evening before, she brought the narra- tive down to her wedding in Pittsburg on April 4, 1905, and their return to New York following a honeymoon trip in the West. She declared she had heard White call to her on the street once after this, and that on another occasion he had followed her in a cab, White Tried to Kiss Her. Mrs. Thaw declared yesterday that Stanford White, during the year which followed her experience in the room of the mirrored walls, repeatedly sought. to have her visit him alone, and on one occasion had attempted to kiss her. “I told Harry,” she said, “that Mr. White had begged me, had pleaded and: cried and scolded and done everything: he could to make me come to see him: alone. I refused and told Mr. White ; I did not care to trust him.” After her return from Europe and during the months she would not see’ Harry Thaw, “because of the dreadful’ | things Mr. White and his friends told about him,” she declared Thaw ac- cused her of improper relations with the architect. “IT told him it was a lie and that I had not.” she testified. The defense had Mrs. Thaw tell of another incident which has been cited in her life—her acquaintance with “Jack” Barrymore, the actor. ann mruaaeeeeeeseesm=—=™—'’ l™Oo9OOO Barrymore Proposed Twice. “I thought him very nice,” she said, “and one day at Mr. White’s studio he said, ‘Evelyn, will you marry me?’ I said, ‘I don’t know.’ He asked me a second time, and again I said, ‘I don’t know.’ Mr. White told me I would be very foolish to marry Mr. Barrymore, and my mother said so, too, and we all quarreled and the upshot of the whole thing was that Mr. White said I ought to be sent away to school, and I was sent to New Jersey.” Seven Miners Entombed. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Feb. 10. — Seven miners are entombed in No. 19 colliery of the Lehigh &, Wilkesbarre Coal company at Wanamje, and there is little hope of rescuing them. Fire broke out on the fourth lift and is burning fiercely. Explosion Kills Nine Men, Lorient, France, Feb. 10.—As a re- sult of an explosion on board Torpedo Boat No. 339 of the French navy yes- } terday nine men are dead and two | men are injured. ;ford White. Dr. THAW DIDN'T KNOW ACT WAS WRONG OPINION OF EXPERT ALIENIST AS TO HARRY’S MENTAL CONDI- TION. THAW’S MIND WAS UNSOUND EXPERT SAYS HE WAS INSANE WHEN HE KILLED STANFORD WHITE. * New York, Feb. 13. — Answering a hypothetical question covering every detail of the testimony up to this time in the Thaw trial, including Mrs. Nes- bit Thaw’s narration of her life history to the defendant, Dr. Charles G. Wag- ner, superintendent of the state hospi- tal for the insane at Binghamton, N. Y., declared on the witness stand late yesterday that in his opinion Harry K. Thaw did not know that the act was wrong when he shot and killed Stan- Wagner’ stepped aside for later cross-examination by District Attorney Jerome, and as the court adjourned for the day it was an- nonuced that the defense would pro- ceed with the testimony cf other alienists this morning. Note Is Introduced. When young Mrs. Thaw was called to the stand Mr. Delmas renewed his demand of Wednesday last, that the note which was passed by Mrs. Thaw to her husband at the Cafe Martin the night of the tragedy should be pro- duced. Mr. Jerome upon the occasion of the first demand had remained si- lent. Yesterday he was on his feet at once, saying he would send for the slip of paper. It was brought from his office, was identified by Mrs. Thaw and then read by Mr. Delmas, as follows: “The b—— was here a minute ago, but went out again.” “BY” Stands for Blackguard. Mrs. Thaw testified that “the b——” meant “the blackguard,” as Thaw al- ways referred to Stanford White, whom she had seen on the balcony of the cafe. The other essential point Mrs. Thaw was allowed to bring out in her testimony was the statement that the defendant never carried a pistol e cept in New York city. She was ask ed many other questions, embodying various stories she had discussed with Thaw, including the alleged fate of 4 girl known to them as “The Pie Girl,” at the hands of Stanford White, but Mr, Jerome blocked every question with a maintained objection. Clash Between Lawyers. New York, Feb. 14.—District Attor- ney Jerome and Delphin Delmas came together late yesterday in the first se- rious clash between counsel in the Thaw trial, and the California attor- ney, who is directing the defense, took exceptions to certain statements ot the prosecuting officer and had insert- ed in the record of the case a protest against “the misconduct of the learned district attorney.” Mr. Jerome hotly accused the de- fendant’s counsel of trying to instill into the minds of the jury the implied suggestion that the operation perform- ed upon Evelyn Nesbit in 1903, before Thaw took her to Europe, was “of a criminal nature,” when, “as a matter of fact,” he said, “it was for appendi- citis.” Delmas Takes Exceptions. Mr. Delmas called the attention of Justice Fitzgerald to this, saying that the district attorney was stating facts not in evidence, and that ‘“‘a very serl- ous exception must be taken to his re- marks.” Dr. Britton D. Evans, superintend- ent of the state hospital for the insane at Morris Plains, N. J., was the wit- ness, and he testified earlier in the day that he was of the opinion that Harry Thaw was insane at the time of the tragedy. He had been called upon to answer a long hypothetical question, in which reference had been made to “a serious if not capital operation” upon Miss Nesbit when the storm between counsel broke. Thaw’s Mind Was Unsound, Justice Fitzgerald did not rule out any of the district attorney’s remarks before the jury, and Mr. Delmas took care to have every exception he made “seriously noted.” Mr. Jerome won his point, and the words “serious if not capital,” as defining the operation, were withdrawn by Mr. Delmas. Dr. Evans was by far the most sat- isfactory expert witness to the defense so far produced. He detailed to the jury his observations and examinations of Harry Thaw during eight visits to the prisoner in the Tombs and declar- ed it to be his opinion that Thaw was suffering from “a brain storm or an ex- plosive or fulminating condition of mental unsoundness” at the time he shot and killed Stanford White. Dr. Evans gave many and elaborate rea sons for his opinion. Telegraphers May Strike. Chicago, Feb. 14.—The union teleg- raphers employed by the Western Union in Chicago will take a vote next Sunday on the question of going on a strike to enforce certain demands that have been made on the company. Four Lost in Flood. Columbus, Neb., Feb. 14. — The breaking of an ice gorge in the Loup ‘iver caused the water to rise over five feet in an hour. A family of four were drowned while attempting to es cape to higher ground. STEAMER SUNK BY COLLISION THE MOST APPALLING DISASTER THAT EVER OCCURRED IN NEW ENGLAND WATERS. Block Island, R. I., Feb. 14—A ma- rine disaster with an appalling loss of life and entailing suffering almost be- yond the limit of human endurance came to light yesterday when a life- boat of the Joy line steamer Larch- mont, bound from Providence to New York, drifted into Block Island harbor. In the boat were several bodies of men who had died from the effects of long hours of exposure to a death- dealing temperature Awful Tale of Disaster. In the boat also were eleven whose suffering was so intense that they seemed oblivious to the fact that death was in their midst and that they es- eaped only by virtue of their ability to withstand the rigor of zero weather in an open boat at sea. The boat brought a tale of disaster that has rarely been equaled in New England waters, and it is believed that when the final count is made it will be found that not less than 159 lives were lost. Following closely in the wake of the solitary lifeboat came bodies, cast upon the beach by angry waves. Burden of Grim Death. Then came lifeboats and rafts. Each of them have their burden of grim death as well as a load of suffering humanity, and each brought a tale otf horror, of suffering and of despair. The steamship officials estimate that about 150 passengers and a crew of fifty were on board the steamer when she left Providence Monday night. Forty-eight bodies reached these shores yesterday, and nineteen were alive when taken from the lifeboats. Taking the estimated figures of the steamship officials as a basis, there are still 138 persons to account for. Cause of Accident in Dispute. The cause of the accident has not been satisfactorily explained. It oc- curred just off Watch Hill, about 11 o’clock Monday night, when the three- masted schooner Mary Knowlton crashed into the steamer’s port side, amidships. Capt. George McVey ot the Larchmont declares that the Knowlton suddenly swerved from her course, luffed up into the wind and crashed into his vessel. Capt. Haley of the Knowlton asserts that the steamer did not give his ves- sel sufficient sea room and that the collision occurred before he could take his schooner out of the path of the oncoming steamer. Steamer Sinks Quickly. The steamer, with a huge hole torn in her side, was so seriously damaged that she sank to the bottom in less than half an hour. The Knowlton after she had backed away from the wreck began to fill rapidly, but her crew manned the pumps and kept her afloat until she reached a_ point of Quondchontaug, where they put out in the life boats and reached shore There were no fatalities on the schoon- er. Caught in Their Bunks. A majority of those on the Larch mont had retired for the night when the collision occurred. They rushed on deck into zero atmosphere, many of them clad only in their night clothes, and so quickly did the steamer sink that there was no time to return below for warmer clothing. Those who had no opportunity to clothe themselves succumbed long be- fore they reached shore, and even those who were fortunate enough to be fully dressed endured suffering and frost’ bites of a most serious nature. EDWARD OPENS PARLIAMENT. King Expresses Gratitude to Ameri- cans for Help at Kingston. London, Feb. 14.—The second ses- sion of the second parliament of the present reign was opened by King Ed- ward in person this afternoon, with all the imposing pomp and ceremony which has attended-the functions since his ascension. The pageant was medi- eval and brilliant, and in spite of the unpleasant and cold weather the line of parade to and from the house of lords was crowded. His majesty read the speech to the throne in the house of lords. He made guarded reference to the approaching conflict between the house of lords and the house of commons, expressed grat- itude to the American people and the American navy for sympathy and help in the Kingston disaster, touched upon legislation for Ireland, army reform and temperance, and declared that some changes in the governmental methods of India were under consider- ation. The points in the king’s speech which attracted the most attention were the references to the Kingston disaster and the house of lords. Abandon Nelson Dinner Plan. Washington, Feb. 14. — At Senator Nelson’s request the plan to have the Minnesota delegation give a dinner in honor of his re-election has been aban- doned. Senator Nelson’s wife and daughter have been ill a good part of the winter, and besides he is now rush- ed with business. DIES OF HYDROPHOBIA. Minneapolis Man Dead as Result ot Bite on Face, Minneapolis, Feb. 14—Martin Colby- sen, aged sixty-two, died at St. Mary’s hospital from a well defined case of hydrophobia. He was bitten in the face six weeks ago by his dog and the wound appear- ed to heal. A week ago, however, alarming symptoms developed and death yester- day followed the unmistakable convul- sions of rabies. —_