Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 15, 1907, Page 3

Rerald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. NEWS OF THE WEEK IN EPITOME DIGEST OF THE NEWS WORTH TELLING CONDENSED FOR BUSY READERS, _— Washingten Notes. The president has appointed Gen. William MeMackin as collector of in- ternal revenue at Topeka, Ohio. The weather bureau in Washington announces that all records were broken by the low mean temperature throughout the country during the last two months. The general land office has sent out notices of the proposed opening of bids for the sale of two million feet of down timber in the Cass Lake In- dian reservation in Minnesota on July 17. President Roosevelt has been pre- sented with a handsomely engravea plate of solid gold taken from the mine near the home of the presidents mother in Georgia. The plate is val- ued at over $400. It is a Jamestown souvenir. The census bureau issued a prelimi- nary report showing that Wisconsin curing the calendar year 1906 pro- duced 2,311,305,000 feet of lumber. The report shows a decrease of 212,000,000 feet of lumber in that state since the previous year. The navy department has announced that the naval militia of Michigan would take a summer cruise from Aug. 11 to Aug. 16. The date for the cruise of the Minnesota militia has not yet been fixed, but it has been determined that a cruise shall be taken. People Talked About. Karl Blind, the German patriot, died in London of heart failure. He was born in 1826, Judge A. Q. Garretson of the su- preme court of New Jersey died ut Morristown of pneumonia. Judge William K. Townsend of the United States cireuit court died sud- denly in New Haven, Conn. Archibald MacArthur, president of the MacArthur Bros. company of Chi- cago and New York, died at Riverside, N.Y. Walter S. Cheesman, president of the Denver Union Water company, and one of the foremost capitalists and c ons of Denver, is dead. Capt. William Fendley Dement, the commander of Dement's battery, fa- mous in the Maryland line of the Con- federate army, died at his home near Pomfret, Maryland, in his eightieth year. . Crimes and Criminals. Despondent over ill health, Peter Dietrich, a prominent citizen of Elk- port, Iowa, shot himself. After shooting and fatally wounding is wife, from whom he was separated, than Hale, a farmer of Durant, I. T., fired a bullet into his brain. An unknown man, who the police y is a victim of the Black Hand so- siety, was found dead near the tracks of the Pennsylvania railroad at Phila- delphia. Two hundred men bombarded the residence of Rev. Vitus haibar, pastor of St, Vitus Catholic church, at Cleve- land, following the noonday service. Thirty arrests were made. Two attempts have been made by incendiaries recently to destroy the Summit House block, one of the finest structures in Creston, Iowa. The po- lice are mamking an investigation. The mangled body of an unknown man was found on the railway tracks at Meadowlands, Pa. His pockets were turned inside out. The authori- ties believe the man was robbed and murdered. F. V. Poehn, fifty years old, charged with stealing $48,.-. in bonds and $11,- 000 in cash from a sister at Indianapo- lis, was arrested at Wheeling, W. Va., and taken back to Indianapolis. All but $1,200 was found on him. Because they could not tell him the address of a young woman Patrick Reardon, aged twenty-three, shot Thomas Morton and M. M. Moorehead and then committed suicide at Pitts- burg. Moorhead and Morton are at a hospital in a critical condition. While Christina Thulin and Lorens Saestrom of Griswold, lowa, were re- turning home late at night they were set upon by three men, who beat them severely. The young woman was ren- dered unconscious and it is feared that she was seriously injured. The assault was entirely unprovoked. Accidental Happenings. Stricken with an epileptic fit while on the top of a windmill tower near Anamosa, Ralph Isham lost his bal- ance and fell to the ground, fifty feet below, breaking his neck and dying in- stantly. ij Four members of a fishing party at Wunder’s lake, near O’Neill, Neb., were drowned by a boat capsizing. . The big ice house of the Swift Pack- ing company, containing 8,000 tons of ice, burned at Omaha. Loss, $75,000. A severe wind and rain storm swept over the central portion of North Tex- as and much damage to property is re- ported. While in an alcoholic sleep behind a hedge fence at the Durfee mining camp at Oskaloosa, Iowa, Richard Harding was shot and killed by friends who mistook his snoring for the snorting of a wild animal. Two boys, Emery and Raymond L moine, were drowned at Ontonagon, Mich., while playing on a log boom. Miss Jennie Whitney, daughter of a pioneer of Hardin county, instantly was killed in a runaway near Eldora, Towa. Alexander Boyd of Cool Spring, Pa., accidentally shot and killed his daugh- ter Helen, eight years old, while cleaning a shotgun. Sucked into a mass of shelled corn at the top of an elevator, Roy Davis, fifteen years old, met death by suffo- cation at Waukee, Iowa. A passenger train was derailed near Dubuque, Iowa, and five persons were injured. Spreading rails are supposed to have caused the accident. Fire caused $50,000 damage to busi- ness buildings at Atlanta, Mo. The Atlanta hotel was burned, several guests having narrow escapes. Three lives were lost and thousands of dollars’ damage was done in a fire in Newark Turnverein hall at Newark, N. J. The financial loss was about $25,000. Conowingo bridge, a structure a mile in length over the Susquehanna river near Port Deposit, Md., was practical- ly destroyed by fire, probably of incen- diary origin. The loss is about $125,- 000. The bursting of an air motor at No. 14 colliery of the Pennsylvania Coal company at Wilkesbarre, Pa., killed two men, fatally injured two others and caused minor injuries to eight more. Fred Moory, vice president of the Franklin National bank and city coun- cilman, was drowned at Franklin, O. His wife was rescued. High water had washed out a bridge and they at- tempted to ford a stream. Foreign. Railroad men of Chile have struck for better wages and shorter hours. All trains are stopped. Dowager Queen Margaret of Italy has offered a cup as a prize for a suc- cessful balloon passage of the Alps. Sir Charles Mark Palmer, Liberal member of parliament for the Jarrow division of Durhem, England, is dead. Deportation to the hot climate of Quintara Rio was the punishment meted out to twenty-two ringleaders of the textile mill strike at Orizaba, Mexico. A proposal has been made in the French chamber of deputies to sus- pend temporarily the duties on wheat and flour, owing to the rise in the price of bread. Carl Rupert Nyblom, one of the eighteen members of the Royal Swed- ish academy and formerly a professor in the University of Upsala, died in Stockholm at the age of seventy-five years. The Russian minister of commerce has decided that foreign laborers shall not be allowed to work in the Russian portion of the Island of Saghalin with- out the consent of the governor gener- al of the island. According to a dispatch from Rome the pope adopted vegetarianism last January, hoping to defeat his perpet- aal enemy, the gout. He has not suf- fered since, and he attributes his con- dition entirely to his diet. Ini view of the possibility of trou- ble with the discontented wine grow- ers of the south of France and the re- fusal of the local treops to obey or- ders, the government is considering the advisability of transferring the Northern garrisons to the south and the Southern garrisons to the north of France, General. Pearl Wight of New Orleans has ac- cepted the post of commissioner of in- ternal revenue, to become effective cn Dec, 1. ' Directors of the American Smelting and Refining company have voted to increase the quarterly dividend on the common stock to 2 per cent. Several vidette torpedo boats of a new type will shortly be tried st Cherbourg, Fance. Tuey carry only two men and make sixtten knots. A general advance in the price of meats has been announced in Pitts- burg. Beef is most affected. The in- crease in price to the consumer is from 5 to 10 cents a pound. Johnson R. Morris was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment and fined $6,100 in the United States court in St. Louis for selling oleomargarine without paying the government tax. The New York senate concurred with the assembly in passing the so- called public utilities bill over the veto of Mayor McClellan of New York city. It goes now to Gov. Hughes for final approval. Considering the health of the pupils of the public school to be of great im- portance, the Boston school commit- tee has decided to appoint a corps of trained nurses, whose duty it shall be to safeguard the children. George T. Angell, the venerable founder of the Society for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Animals, has sent a check for $1000 to Miss Flavia Ros- soi, of Butler, Mo., for the best drama- tization of the story “Black Beauty.” Two young women students of the Northwestern university at Chicago have been dropped from the class in geology on the charge of “cribbing” during a recent test. An appeal was issued calling on the students to re- frain from dishonest methods. The Philadelphia & Reading Rail- way company filed a bill in equity in the common pleas court in Philadel- phia attacking the constitutionality of the 2-cent fare law enacted by the re- cent legislature. Other railroads in the state are expected to take similar action. ORCHARD'S STORY CREDIT TESTIMONY OF AS- SASSIN. FIENDISH PLOT REVEALED ORCHARD PLANNED TO BLOW UP BOARDING HOUSE WITH 150 INMATES. Boise, Idaho, June 8. — Harry Or- chard crowned his admissions of grave crimes yesterday when continuing his case against William D. Haywood he made an explicitly detailed confession of the murder of Frank Steunenberg by an infernal machine. This confes- sion opens the way for his own convie- tion and execution for the offense. He swore that the assassination of Steu- nenberg was first suggested by Hay- wood, was jointly plotted by Haywood, Moyer, Pettibone and himself, was financed by Haywood and was exe- cuted by himself after the failure of an attempt in which Jack Simpkins had participated. Victims Number Eighteen. Orchard increased the total of his own murdered victims to eighteen, de- tailed the circumstances under which he tried to murder Former Governor Peabody, Judge Goddard, Judge Gab- bert, Gen. Sherman Bell, Dave Moffat and Frank Herne. Incidentally he confessed to a plot to kidnap the child of one of his former associates. Then under cross-examination by the de fense Orchard confessed to the guilt of sordid social crimes, of deserting his young child and wife in Ontario, fleeing to British Columbia with Hat- tie Simpson, the wife of another man, and committing bigamy by marrying a third woman at Cripple Creek. Orchart Given Hard Grilling. Boise, Idaho, June 9. — Counsel for William D. Haywood continued their attack on the testimony of Harry Or- chard at both sessions of the trial yes- terday. To the extent that traffic with “the other side” in the war of labor and capital in Colorado was discredita- ble, they succeeded in discrediting the witness. Employed by Detective. Taking up the admission that Or- card made on direct examination that he has been treacherous to his com- rades in Cripple Creek by tipping off a train wrecking plot, thoy developed the fact that Orchard had entered the employ of D. C. Scott, who had charge of the railway detectives. He said that he had agreed to report to Scott, put that he was lying to him, never in- tending to make reports to him and never did make reports. The defense also tried to show that because he stood in with the other side Orchard was never molested by the militia in Cripple Creek during tne strike. More Crimes Admitted. Orchard admitted that Scott had told him that if the militia interfered with him he was to send for him, and that the militia never did interfere with him or search his house. More crimes, great and small, were admitted by Orchard yesterday. The Cripple Creek woman with whom he committed bigamy had three sons; Or- chard stole high grade ore from a messmate; he stole two cases of pow- der from the Vindicator mine; he stole powder to make one of the bombs thrown into the Vindicator coal pile and he told a lie. Orchard stood the test and strain well and held tenaciously to the story he related yesterday and the day be- fore. Say Orchard Had Motive. Boise, Idaho, June 11—Harry Or- chard made four admissions Saturday on the stand fo rthe prosecution in the trial of W. D. Haywood for the murder of Gov. Steunenberg of Idaho, in vhich the defense claims to have hrown light on his motive for killing Steunenberg and of his relations with the mine owners as opposed to the Western Federation of Miners. The defense intimates that Orchard was a spy of the mine owners, committing crimes to throw the federation into disrepute. Harry Orchard admitted that since his imprisonment he has been writing a story of his life. Admitted by Orchard. The defense claims it is from this embellished story, not from his simple recollection of facts, that he is testi- fying. Orchard admitted that he has se- cured money since his incarceration in prison. The defense intimates it has come from the mine owners, who were interested in his deeds. Orchard admittted he would have peen a rich mine owner if Gov. Steu- nenberg had not driven him from Ida- DEFENSE ATTEMPTS TO DIS- ho. In this the de . ense sees a motive for his act in killing the governor. Orchard added the crime of arson to his long list of admitted acts of out- lawry. Defense Is Satisfied. When court adjourned Harry Or- chard, the chief witness for the prose- cution, heaved a _ sigh of relief that seemed to come from the bottom of his soul. For four days he has been on the witness stand relating a story of crime unparalleled in the court his- tory of the country. The last two days he has been under the merciless cross- examination of attorneys for the de- fense, and though he has borne up wonderfully and his story in the main remained unshaken the ordeal was more than any human being could have withstood unmoved. The defense professes to be satis- fied. ¢ Counter Plot of Mine Owners, / Boise, June 12—Into the cross-exam- ination of Harry Orchard yesterday, the counsel for Haywood repeatedly threw the suggestion of a great coun- ter-conspiracy formulated and carried out by the enemies of the Western Federation of Miners, and indicated a determination to construct their main line of defense on that line. They carried Orchard by slow steps and through the minutest details from the dynamiting of the Independence station down to the attempt on the life of Fred Bradley and his family, and in addition to a series of Particular Attacks on the credibility of the witness and the general probability of his stories, and preparing the way for their own testimony in rebuttal they sought to show that Orchard has a mania for poasting of the commission of crimes non-existant except in his own mind, and that he is testifying under the control and suggestion of Detective McParland. : They began yesterday by making it clear that as far as Orchard knew of his own knowledge Haywood, Moyer and Pettibone had nothing to do with the inspiration, planning and execu- tion of the Vindicator explosion, and that Haywood and Moyer had nothing to do with the planning of the murder of Detective Gregqry. Into stronger relief than had been the direct exam- ination they threw the utter depravity of the witness. ; Denied by Orchard. Orchard denied that mine owners or railway men had any part in the Inde- pendence station outrage; denied that he had a mania for confessing uncom- mitted crimes and denied that he is under the influence of McParland. Two more crimes were brought home to Orchard yesterday. He con- fessed that he burned a cheese factory at Ontario to get $800 insurance and he confessed that he began his life of crime by selling cheese at short weight. Still Attacking Orchard’s Story. Boise, June 13.—The attack of the Haywood defense on the testimony of Harry Orchard goes on unremitting- ly, and the witness will probably be continued on the stand for two full days more. Yesterday began with the story ot the dynamiting of Fred Bradley in San Francisco, and the defense made a long and determined effort to expose several features of it to doubt and im- probability. Orchard Stole Sheep. Then the play went back to Denver for the winter of 1904-1905 and the spring that followed, and there was an extended effort to show that Orchard had practically no communication with the leaders of the federation: that he received no pay for the Brad- ley crime or anything else, and that with Steve Adams, in a period of ex- treme poverty extending over several months, he was reduced to the neces- sity of stealing a sheep from the Globeville stock yards that he might have food. Orchard, to a laughing court room, seriously confessed that he stole the sheep, but stoutly denied that it was from necessity. Money Came Regularly. He insisted that all through that winter and spring he continued to draw money from Petttibone through Adams, and explained that if he did not see the federation leaders ofteu it was because he was lying low to avoid capture for previous crimes. This Globeville inquiry developed a more shocking crime. At this Denver suburb there was a diabolical plot— Orchard swore it was inspired by Max Mahalich; the defense claimed that Or- chard was its author—to dynamite a boarding house where 150 non-union men lived. Stole 600 Pounds of Dynamite. In preparation for the murder en bloc, Orchard, Adams and a man named Joe Mahalich stole 600 pounds of dynamite. The crime was aban- doned, Orchard said, because Hay- wood intervened and forbade him to have anything to do with it. Orchard. who confessed that he hesitated at no crime and took a hundred desperate chances in those he committed, made an interesting contribution to the psychological study of his personality when he called himself a coward. He said he was too cowardly openly to kill Judge Gabbert and said that he regarded all his acts as cowardly. wan eee 2S )0 0 Oooo eee ees. KILLED IN CAR WRECK. Switching Brakeman Is _ Hurled Be- neath Wheels of Train, Watertown, S. D., June 8. — Bert Clements, aged twenty years, was instantly killed in the switching yards of the Minneapolis & St. Louis road. He was employed as a switching brakeman. The head car on which Clements was riding left the track and the lurch threw him between the two head cars, the second of which passed across the body, killing him instantly. PEABODY IS THREATENED. Former Governor 07 Colorado Gets Anonymous Letters. Kansas City, June 9.—James H. Pea- body, former governor of Colorado, who is here on business, said last night in an interview that since the Haywood trial in Boise began he had received several anonymous letters threatening his life. He said he had paid no attention to the letters, be- cause they evidently did not come from responsible sources. LOST OFF NORFOLK SIX MIDSHIPMEN, A BOATSWAIN AND FOUR SAILORS ARE DROWNED. MINNESOTA'S LAUNCH MISSING MOST SEVERE BLOW TO PERSON- NEL OF NAVY SINCE SPAN- ISH WAR. Norfolk, June 13. — Eleven of the navy, comprising six midshipmen and five seamen, who left Discovery land- ing at the exposition grounds shortly after midnight on a launch of the bat- tleship Minnesota, are missing, and it is believed that the launch with the eleven men on board has gone to the bottom of Hampton Roads, A box belonging to the fireman of the launch was found floating near here yesterday, and as the last seen of the launch was when it pulled out from the exposition pier officers of the fleet gave up hope over ever see- ing the men. Sunk in Collision. The six midshipmen, accompanied by Lieut. D. M. Randall, came ashore Monday night in the launch of the Minnesota, which has been lying in Hampton Roads, to attend a ball on the exposition grounds. It was after midnight when the party got away on the return trip. Officers of the fleet yesterday expressed the opinion that the launch collided with something unknown and that the boat, with its occupants, went down. Early last night the monitor Florida found a cape afloat in the roads, which has been identified as that worn by Midshipman Ulrich. Lieut. Randall did not take passage on the return trip of the Minnesota launch. Many Others Missing. While the launch carried a good sized party, no one has been found who can say exactly how many occu- pants the launch collected. Naval officers are using every effort to ascertain who was in the launch. A large number of men are reported missing from the various ships. Men have been detailed to search Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News and vi- cinity. The vessels of the fleet are keeping in constant intercommunica- tion by wireless telegraph. Run Down by Steamer. . It was stated authoritatively that the naval officials have absolute knowledge of a steamer which ran down the launch of the _ battleship Minnesota in Hampton Roads Monday night and that the arrest of the crew of the steamer is expected. HARRIMAN WILL BE PROSECUTED Connection with Alton and Other Deals to Be Inquired Into. Washington, June 13. — Develop- ments since the conference at the White House last Friday evening make it probable that the government will begin proceedings under the anti- trust act against E. H. Harriman and his associates for violations of the Jaw in connection with the so-called Chicago & Alton railroad deal, the Union Pacific and Southern Pacinc transactions, and perhaps in connec- tion with the Southern Pacific and the San Pedro agreement. Coal Roads Must Wait. The contemplated prosecution of the bituminous coal-carrying roads, however, will likely await the result of the action by the courts in the cases to be brought against the Harriman roads, because there are some impor- tant questions to be decided that are common to both cases. As the report of the interstate com- merce commission on the Harriman investigation has not been made, the action of the department of justice in} filing its bill or bills will necessarily be somewhat delayed. It is known that the question of the advisability of bringing any suit attacking the validi- ty of the Alton transaction is one on which the interstate commission is di- vided and as a result of this difference of opintion two reports from the com- mission are possible. Justifies Action, NAVAL Ta ENORMOUS FOND rrr NOTWITHSTANDING DENIALS ITS EXISTENCE IS PROVEN BY REPORTS. Washington, June 12. — Thousands of dollars are being raised by the Jap- | anese of the Pacifit coast to carry out the compact they have entered into with the Progressive party of Japan | for the overthrow of the Saionji minis- try, the annulment of the exclusion clause in the immigration bill and the guarantee of the naturalization rights of the Japanese subjects residing in this country. These additional facts in the international plot were vouched for in semi-official circles last night. The enormous fund that is being col- lected will be used to arouse a feeling in the Japanese empire antagonistic to the American government. Alliance Is Shown. Notwithstanding the sweeping de- nial of the existence of the alliance between the Japanese of the Pacific coast and the Progressives, the anti- administration party of Japan, given out by Charles Takahashi of Seattle, Wash., yesterday, the Associated Press yesterday secured the texts of certain reports that he forwarded to Yamaoka in Seattle and to the Jap- anese society of Seattle. In one of the reports, which it was authoritatively stated yesterday, was afterward read by Takahashi at a se- cret meeting of Japanese in Seattle on the evening of May 26, he quotes Am- bassador Aoki’s statements in regard | to the realtions between the United | States and Japan growing out of the recent disturbances in San Francisco, and the adoption by the congress of the United States of the immigration law excluding coolie labor from Conti- nental United States. Ambassador Feared War. In this report dissatisfaction is ex- pressed at the attitude of Aoki, who is quoted as saying: “Japan has ample grounds to oppose the immigration limitation law, but if we go to extremes I fear war. Regard- ing this Japanese limitation law, the Japanese government absolutely disa- | grees with the United States and will ask the naturalization rights for the Japanese people, which the United States will have to eventually grant. At present the re-election of a presi- dent is nearing, so we are hesitating jat this time to bring up these ques- tions, which are unpopular in Ameri- can politics.” Ordered to Stir ‘Em Up. Just before Yamaoka’s departure for Tokio on May 14 Mr. Takahashi sent him a telegram from Washington, as follows: “Depart for Japan instantly and arouse public opinion as we under- stood before. There is no hope with the Japanese embassy here.” REPORT SHOWS LESS WHEAT. Decrease in Acreage Compared With Last Year Is 7 Per Cent. Washington, June 12.—The agricul- tural department's crop report, issued yesterday, shows the spring wheat condition on June 1, 1907, 88.7, com- pared with 93.4 at the corresponding date last year. Acreage sown in the United States, 1907: Spring wheat, 16,464,000; decrease of 1,242,000, or 7 per cent, as com- pared with last year. Winter wheat, 77.4, compared with 82.7 on June 1, 1906. Total acreage of oats, 31,491,000 acres, an increase of 532,000 acres as compared with the area sown last | year; condition of oats on June 1 was 81.6 against 85.9 last year. Acreage of barley is less than that of last year by about+171,000, or 2.7 per cent. Condition of barley, 84.9, against 93.5 this time last year. Condition of rye, 88.1, against 89.1 this time last year. SCHMITZ WINS POINT. Ruling of Court Brings Prosecution to Sudden Close. San Francisco, June 12.—An impor- tant ruling by Judge Dunne in favor of the defense early yesterday after- noon brought to a sudden and prema- The president and Attorney General ture close the case of the prosecution Bonaparte have kept well informed on every phase of the disclosures that have been made at the hearings of the interstate commerce commission and have reached the same conelusion.' | ; troduction of evidence, against Mayor Eugene F. Schmitz for extortion. The defense, taken by sur- prise, was not ready to begin the in- so Mr. Camp- bell, after a conference with his asso- namely, that the evidence submitted | ciates and their client, made the open- justifies action to restore the origi- nal status. In the meantime, however, an action will almost certainly be begun to com- pel Mr. Harriman, to answer certain questions deemed important which he} declined to answer at the hearing of | the commission several months ago. | Kuroki Sails for Home. Seattle, Wash., June 13.—Gen Bar- on Kuroki, the Japanese imperial en- voy to the Jamestown exposition, and! party sailed for Japan yesterday. Barn and Horses Burn. Young America, June 13, — Herman The livery barn of William Goede. in| the village of Norwood, was burned to the ground. A lot of hay and feed, with three horses and all the buggies, were burned. Loss is several thou- sand dollars. Drowned While Fishing. ing address to the jury in behalf of the mayor, and adjournment was or- dered until to-day at 10 o’clock. The ruling by Judge Dunne that re- sulted in cutting short the state’s case was the sustaining of an objection to the introduction of a mass of testi- Agony tending to show that the mayor had made a common practice of play- | ing fast and loose with restaurant and saloon licenses and had ordered a number of them held up out of ulterior motives. WOMAN’S EYES BURNED OUT. St. Louis Plumber Is Accused of Trowing Vitriol. St. Louis, June 12. — Albert Nie singer, a plumber, was arrested yes- terday, charged with having thrown vitriol into the face of Mrs. Lena Wu- nach, who had refused to marry him. Both her eyes were burned out and Oshkosh, Wis., June 13.—Randolph | and her face disfigured. Fred Lauten- Dickman, aged twenty years, was schliegen, who was walking with her, drowned in the Fox river. He and a! was also burned on the face. Nie companion were fishing when their skiff capsized. singer denies throwing the acid.