Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 22, 1907, Page 8

i Herald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. NEWS OF THE WEEK IN EPITOME DIGEST OF THE NEWS WORTH TELLING CONDENSED FOR BUSY READERS, Washingtcn Notes. No session of the cabinet will be held for four months unless some eX- traordinary situation arises. Indian Inspector J. George Wright has been appointed commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes in the In- dian Territory, vice Tams Bixby, re- signed. The appointment of Wright takes effect July 1. The president has designated Assist- ant Attorney General Woodruff to act as secretary of the interior in the ab- sence of Secretary Garfield and First Assistant Secretary Ryan. Mr. Gar- field is on an official tour of the West and Mr. Ryan is ill. A proclamation has been signed by the president making an elimination of 125,600 acres of land in Carbon county, Montana, from the Fryor mountains national forest. The large tract will be thrown back into the pub- lie domain, because after careful ex- amination by the forest service it was found unfit for national forest pur- poses. pes. Bis People Talked About. Ernest S. Benson, general auditor of the isthmian canal affairs and of the Panama railroad and steamship line, has resigned. Dr. Charles E. Cadwallader, an ec- centric Philadelphian, died in London. He married his housekeeper ten years ago and was ostracised from society. George A. Walter, a nfember of the Lombard quartet that accompanied Lincoln in his first campaign and set the fashion for political campaign mu- sic for many years, died in Cleveland. Don C. Henderson, once private sec- retary of Horace Greeley, and for many years publisher of the defunct Allegan Journal at Allegan, Mich., has been committed to the insane asylum. Julius M. Norden, one of the best known of the older German newspa- per writers in Chicago, died in that city of heart disease. Norden is said to be the son of wealthy parents in Berlin. In an undertaking room at Detroit lies the unclaimed body of John Thom- as, the man who taught Thomas A. on the art of telegraphy. As far known his only relatives are a daughter and a divorced wife. Crimes and Criminals. Lee Tabor, a railroad man, resist- est, shot and killed Officer mi rancisco and shot Tom Hunt, »ther officer, at Bluefield, Va. Miss Lillia Davis, aged twenty-one years, believed to be a member of a prominent family at Princeton, Mo., committed suicide at the Wellington hotel in Kansas City by taking chloro- form and carbolic acid. Driven out of work because of his refusal to join a labor union, and pre- ferring death to disloyalty to his em- ployers, Thomas Stack, a telegrapher, committed suicide in Chicago by leap- ing from a window in the apartments of his sweetheart. Diamonds valued at $900 were stolen from a dresser in the home of Mrs. Crawford at Des Moines about three weeks ago. The police have kept the matter quiet in the hope of catching the thief, but so far their ef- forts have been unsuccessful. As a result of taking rat poison with suicidal intent, Marguerite Curtis, aged eleven, and her sister Helen, aged ten, are dead at Cleveland. Grief over their mother, who died a year ago, was assigned by the children as the basis of a pact to end their lives. The Western Transit company pleaded guilty before Judge Holt in the United States circuit court at New York to one count of an indictment against it alleging the granting of re- bates in shipments of coffee and su- gar to Western Points. A fine of $10,- 000 was imposed and immediately paid. After a quarrel with her lover, who had spent an evening with her, Early Sarvis, eighteen years old, living at Rose Hill, lowa, excused herself for a moment, left the room and, securing a revolver, returned and fired a bullet through her brain, dying instantly. Harry Stringfellow, the young man with whom the girl was in love, sought to prevent her desperate act, but was unsuccessful. Accidental Happenings. Fire in a big piano factory in New York caused a loss of $150,000. A dozen firemen were overcome by smoke. One man was fatally injured and two others seriously hurt by the drop- ping of a cage in the Pittsmont mine at Butte. v4 One man was instantly killed, four were badly injured and may die, and five others were cut and crushed at Mariners Harbor, R. I, when a scaf- ‘fold on which they were working gave way. A big bay horse belonging to a transfer company at St. Louis, lifted the cover of a coal chute with his hind hoofs and slid tail foremost through an opening 30x40 inches, a distance of forty feet to the subcellar of the post- office, where his appearance caused a panic among the employes. He tamely entered the elévator and was hoisted back to the surface. Fannie Mogus, two years eld, is dead at Anaconda, Mont., from the effects of drinking carbolic acid. Six Slav miners were frightfully burned, three fatally, as the result of an explosion in a boarding house at Johnstown, Pa. ( Two men were killed and one fatal- ly injured by an explosion in the fur- nace of the Fore River Shipbuilding company at Quincy Point, Mass. Mrs. William Monne, while resting her head on a wire clothes line at her home south ot Shoals, Ind, was struck by lightning and instantly killed. The Dempsey Timber company’s mill at Tacoma, Wash., just completed at a cost of $250,000 and in operation about three weeks, caught fire and is a total loss. A large touring automobile was struck by a passenger train at a cross- ing near Camden, N. J., and the four occupants of the car were thrown out and injured. Paul Kies, William Stolseben and Nicholas Forret were drowned in the Mississippi at Dubuque by the capsiz- ing of a skiff. Two other occupants were rescued. The mining town of Dooley, Wise county, Va., was visited by a disas- trous fire. A number of residences and business houses were burned, en- tailing a loss of $50,000. During a severe thunder storm Jo- seph Baughy, who lives just east of Nora Springs, Iowa, on Judge Burr’s farm, met with very heavy loss by the killing of cattle by lightning. Foreign. It is reported that the pretender to the throne of Morocco has again been victorious over the sultan’s army. There is no improvement at Lodz, Russia in the reign of terror and vio- lence which has prevailed since June 2. : In a motor car accident at Edgehull, near Banbury, in Oxford, Eng., a Mr. Johnson of California was killed and a Mr. Blake of Philadelphia was badly injured. Twenty-eight passengers, including twelve women and children, were drowned by the sinking of the French schooner La Jalouse. The schooner sank off Barbados. The government of Trinidad has taken energetic measures to stamp out the bubonic plague and has cabled to New York for large supplies of prophylactic serum. A destructive tornado swept over Karrachi India. Several steamers were driven ashore and hardly a build- ing remains unwrecked. The casual- ties have not been reported. A premature explosion of dynamite took place at Pedro Miguel, on the Jine of the Panama canal, and resulted in the instant death of seven men and the wounding of several others. M, Jaures, the Socialist leader, will shortly propose in the French cham- ber of deputies in the name of the So- cialist party that a state monopoly of aleohol and sugar be established from July 1. A stray torpedo struck and badly damaged the German coasting steam- er August White as she was passing the practice range at Kiel, Germany. The vessel, which was leaking badly, was docked for repairs. According to a special dispatch re ceived by the Mexican Herald from its Washington bureau, Secretary of State Elihu Root will visit Mexico in the near future. He will go to Mexico City and will confer with President Diaz. A steamer whose identity has not been conclusively established went ashore in the Strait of Bertheaume. The boiler blew up and it is feared that all hands were lost. The steam- er is believed to be the Yews, a fruit boat from Plymouth for Brest. While King Peter was out riding at Belgrade, Servia, his horse became frightened and the king was thrown from the saddle. He was badly shak- en, suffered from pains in the thigh and returned to the palace in an elec- tric car. His injuries are not serious. General. \ “The green bug” of Kansas is at work in Ohio, and already many fields of oats have been destroyed. Cromwell Dickson, fifteen years old, made a successful flight at Columbus, Ohio, with an airship of his own con- struction at the Colimbus Driving Park. An epidemic of smallpox is raging at the Washington state insane asy- lum. Strict quarantine is being en- forced and 1,128 patients have been vaccinated. The sixty-sixth annual session of the Evangelical Lutheran synod at Roland, Iowa, chose Red Wing, Minn., as the next meeting place and elect- ed Rey. C. J. Eastvold of Jewell} Iowa, president. Will J. Davis, manager of the Illi- nois theater in Chicago, and Miss El- Jen O’Hagen, his private secretary, were married at Elkhart, Ind. Only a few theatrical friends were present at the ceremony. A verdict of 25 cents, the price of his ticket, was returned by a jury at Newport by direction of Justice Sweetland in the case of Chief Yeo- man Fred J. Buenzie of the United States naval training station, who was excluded from a dancing pavilion last summer because he wore the uniform of the United States navy. Chicago’s “four hundred” was given a surprise when the announcement came from Paris that Miss Italia Blair, one of the richest and most beautiful members of the younger set, had cap- | tured a social lion in the person of a Spanish nobleman, STRONG EVIDENCE AGAINST. HAYWOOD STATE GETS IN LETTERS SHOW- ING PLAN TO DECEIVE MRS. ORCHARD. DEFENSE FIGHTS DESPERATELY TRIES TO SHOW THAT ORCHARD HAD VOWED HE WOULD KILL STEUNENBERG. Boise, Idaho, June 15. — The men who are battling to save the life of William D. Haywood and the good name of the Western Federation of Miners made their greatest assault upon Harry Orchard yesterday, when, parrying the review by cross-examina- tion of his life of crime down to his confession, they bitterly assailéd his guiding motives Six days they spent in stripping him before the jury of every shred of morality, and then, suddenly turning upon him in a final, fierce attack, they fought with every means known to the legal craft to con- vince the jury that Orchard was com- mitting a crime In Falsely Swearing away the lives of innocent men in the hope of saving his own. The carried their attack to the very language with which the witness answered their questions, and everywhere they al- leged by forceful implication that it was put into his mouth by men con- trolling him. Orchard broke down when the at- torneys recited to him the tale of Da- vid and Uriah that Detective McPar- land related to him when he came seeking a confession. He defended his motives by saying that he finally experienced conversion and had resolved to make all possible reparation by fully confessing all, Hammered by Richardson. He said that McParland said he was doing a great service for the state and that states were kind to men who served them. There’was no other promise. “You knew that if you confessed to the Steunenberg murder the state would put you out of the way?” ham- mered Attorney Richardson. “Yes, sir.” “But somewhere along the line the thought came to you that you could get out of it by laying it on to some- body else?” “No, sir; that was not the thought at all.” Was Afraid to Die. And here it was that Orchard gave a remarkable explanation of the mo- tives that impelled him to confess. “T thought,” he said, “of putting my- self out of the way, but I thought over my past life. I did not believe in a hereafter at all, but I was afraid to die, and I thought at times that I had been such an unnatural monster—my crimes had been so great—that I would not be forgiven—” “Who told you that?” “No one.” “Who wrote that out for you?” Inspiration From Bible. “No one; but after I had been sent a Bible and had read it some I came to the conclusion that I would be for given if I made confession of every- thing.” “So you thought you would make your peace with the future by having somebody else hung, did you?” “No, sir. I think any man can make his peace with the future if he wants to. I believe it was my duty to tell! the truth. I did not see any other way, regardless of the consequences to myself or anybody else. I owed it to society, I owed it to God and to my- self” Immediately Orchard left the stand the state put on three witnesses from San Francisco to corroborate the Bradley poisoning story. Adams Brought Into Court. Boise, Idaho, June 16.—The prosecu- tion in the Steunenberg murder trial yesterday, entering in earnest upon the substantiation and corroboration of Harry Orchard’s testimony, showed a continuous thread of evidence con- necting George Pettibone’s store in Denver with Orchard at San Francis- co engaged on the Bradley murder plot, partly developed another direct line by which it is hoped to show that Haywood engaged and paid Steve Adams for the same desperate work, and added special touches of confir- mation to Orchard’s general story. Officials of the postoffices at San Francisco and Denver produced origi- nal records showing that in August, 1904, a registered letter was sent un- der the name of “J. Wolf” from the address of Pettibone’s «tore in Denver to “J. Dempsey,” at the Golden West hotel in San Francisco. Orchard swore that he stayed at the Golden West hotel under an alias that was ‘either “Dempsey” or “Hogan;” that Pettibone used the aliases of “Wolf” and “Pat Bone,” and that under the name of “Wolf” Pettibone, in the month mentioned, sent him a register- ed letter containing $100 to pay his expenses whi-e engaged on the Brad- ley murder. Tell of Arrest at Ogden. Police officials of Ogden established the arrest there in June, 1903, of Steve Adams and A. T. Williams. When released through the influence of a detective they went straight to the office of the Western Union and sent a telegram to Haywood in Den- ver. The defense headed off an attempt to get the contents of the telegram before the jury, but the state indicat- ed that it would return to the charge later and further develop the incident when it has broadened its foundation. Adams Identified. The state got an order from the court directing the Western Union to produce its records showing that Hay- -wood sent money to Adams at Ogden. When the Ogden testimony was intro- duced Steve Adams was brought into court under guard to be identified. Besides its work on the Pettibone- Orchard and Haywood-Adams line, the state produced several witnesses who confirmed features of Orchard’s story as to the Bradley affair, the first de- scent into the Vindicator mine with the object Of Doing Violence, the final success ci the Vindicator plot, and the circumstances under which Detective Lyte Gregory was killed. Aside from its fight against the admission of all the evidence of- fered by the state on the general ground that it was in no way connect- ed with the accused, the defense con- tented itself with showing that all of the witnesses had been located and in- terviewed by Pinkerton detectives, and that they had been given ad- vances of expense money through Pinkerton agencies. Strong Evidence Against Haywood. Boise, Idaho, June 20.—The prosecu- tion in the Steunenberg murder trial offered one of its most important pieces of evidence against William D. Haywood yesterday, when, recalling Harry Orchard for re-direct examina- | tion, it introduced and secured the ad- mission of four letters tending to show | that Haywood during the fall of 1905, when Orchard swears he was engaged on various crimes for the federation leaders, had participated in a plan to deceive Mrs. Orchard, the second, of Cripple Creek, as to the whereabouts of her husband. Letters Falsely Dated. Over a variety of protests from the defense Orchard was allowed to testi- fy that early in the summer of 1905 Haywood told him that Mrs. Orchard was writing him for information as to Or¢hard’s whereabouts. Orchard swore that he proposed that he should write his wife a series of letters that were to be falsely dated and delivered to Mrs. Orchard by agents of the federa- tion. The letters written by Orchard were commonplace and contained practical- ly nothing bearing on the case or Or- chard’s testimony, except references to the arrangement which Orchard says he made with the federation of- ficials for the care of his wife while he was absent. To Show Conspiracy. The state developed its contention that, as tending to show a conspiracy and knowledge of the Steunenberg crime, Orchard was, without any re- quest from him, furnished with coun- sel within a few days after his arrest. The defense examined Orchard on this subject and latgely devoted itself @ showing that the Western Federa- tion of Miners always provided counsel for its members wherever and when- ever they got into trouble. To combat the theory that Orchard killed Steunenberg in revenge for his loss of a Valuable Interest in the Hercules mine, the state on re- direct examination obtained from Or- chard a declaration that he sold his in- terest in t.e Hercules in 1897, two years before the strike and troops came. There was a long contest over an unsuccessful effort by the state to show that the confession of Steve Adams had been voluntary. At the opening of the morning ses- sion the defense asked Orchard a se- | ries of impeaching questions. They | all dealt with conversations in which | it was alleged Orchard recited his pri- vate grudge against Frank Steunen- berg and vowed that he would kill him if he hanged for it. Orchard denies every query, both specifically and gen- erally. Bryce Is Called. Ed Bryce, once president of the Western Federation of Miners, and now one of the owners of the rich Hercules mine, came after Orchard and was still on the stand when the court rose for the day. He was called to identify the Miners’ Magazine as the official organ of the federation and to pave the way for the use as evi- dence of a great number of articles from the magazine. PRR OOOeOeeeeerrereeooww__—000C0C—C™_™" JUMP FIRES GUN. Boy Who Is Shot Loses Arm and May Not Survive. Black River Falls, Wis., June 16. — Joseph Woldrick, sixteen years old, Jost an arm and may lose his life as a result of the accidental discharge of a firearm. The boy was passing through the lumber yard at Millston, near here, and while jumping over a pile of boards the shotgun which he was carrying was discharged, the entire load passing through his arm. LOST IN SPECULATION, Banker Admits Misappropriation of $40,000, Seymour, Wis., June 16.—A defalca- tion to the extent of $40,000, caused by the allurements of the Chicago wheat pit, is. responsible for the ar- rest of Thomas C. Coghill, cashier of the First National bank of this city, who was taken into custody by a fed- eral officer and removed to Milwau- kee yesterday. Coghill has made a full breast of his misappropriation. DEFENSE RESTS IN KAUFMANN CASE MRS. KAUFMANN IS NOT CALLED UPON TO TESTIFY IN H=R OWN BEHALF. REOPENING 1S FOUGHT HARD PROSECUTION TRIES TO GET IN EVIDENCE 10 REINFORCE CASE. Flandreau, §S. D., June 15.—‘‘We de- ny everything; there is our defense, were the opening words of Judge Frank R. Aikens, counsel for Mrs. Emma Kaufmann of Sioux Falls, when the trial was resumed yesterday morn- ing The words were the opening of the argument preceding the introduc- tion of testimony for the defense, and were the first intimation given of the line which would be followed. Prosecuting Attorney Egan an- nounced that the only further testi- mony the state would introduce would be in the way of rebuttal, and Judge Aikens followed this with his opening. Family Physician Called. The first witness called for the de- fense was Dr. W. a. Germain of. Sioux Falls, Mrs, Kaufmann’s family physi- cian. He testified that he was called to the house on the morning of June 1 of last year to attend Agnes Polreis, and that he found her to be suffering from diabetes-milletus, and that her body had many spots on it which re- sembled bruises, and that her feet and hands were also marked. Also that some of her fingers had become dis- jointed through the action of the dis- ease. He said that he ordered her taken to the hospital, and that the girl opposed this and begged to re- main with Mrs. Kaufmann. His testi- mony was supported by Dr. Olney, also of Sioux Falls, who participated in the examination of the body at Parkston at the time it was exhumed. The doctors said that blood clots on the brain also were due to the disease and that there was no evidence of wounds from external causes. Rigidly Cross-examined. Attorney Egan put Dr. Germain through a rigid cross-examination and also had begun to cross-examine Dr. Olney whe court adjourned, close to 6 o'clock. The state claims to have shattered ail the testimony introduced by the defense, though Judge Aikens declared that his case has been all but won by the events of the day. The court room was crowded yester- day <fternoon, most of the spectators being women Only one demonstra- tion took place, and this was against the defendant. Judge Smith quickly silenced this, however, and announced that any further such action by the spectators would he followed by an order to keep the court room cleared during the remainder of the t Mrs. Kaufmann seemed as _ little moved as ever yesterday, though she very plainly listened with the closest attention to all the questions and an-' swers, both in direct and cross-exain- ination. Doctor Changes His Testimony. Flandreau, S. D., June 16. — The cross-examination of Dr. S. Olney, wit- ness for the defense in the trial of Mrs, Emma Kaufmann for murder, was concluded immediately before an adjournment was taken for the noon recess. Shows Discrepancies. The record, most of which was of- fered in evidence in the trial of this case, showed many discrepancies be- tween the testimony of Dr. Olney a year ago and the testimony given by him yesterday, particularly with re- gard to the causes of the death of Agnes Polreis. A year ago, when Dr. Olney was asked by Mrs. Kaufmann’s attorney if the wound found upon the head, body and limbs of the girl, as the result of the post-mortem showed, could have been self-inflicted, he re- plied: “I can’t catch onto the idea how they (the wounds) could be self-inflicted.” He stated in his testimony at the present trial that the wounds might have been self-inflicted. Dr. Olney held to the theory of the defense that the death of the girl re- sulted from diabetes. . Expert for Defense. When the court reconvened at 1:30 Dr. F. A. Spafford of Flandreau, a member of the state board of regents of education, was called to the stand by the defense to give expert medical testimony. Dr. Spafford supported the claim of the defense that the death of the girl resulted from diabetes mellitus to the extent of saying that it might have caused her death. The cross-examination of Dr. Spaf- ford was quite extended. Mr. Kaufmann on the Stand. Flandreau, S. D., June 18.—The fea- ture of the Kaufmann trial Saturday: was the appearance upon the witness stand of Moses Kaufmann, husband of the accused woman, who told a dra- matic story of the amicable relations existing between Mrs. Kaufmann and Agnes Polreis and of the incidents im- mediately preceding the removal of the girl to died. Mr. Kaufmann was subjected to a gruelling cross-examination, but he withstood the strain in a manner pleasing to the attorneys for the de fense, and did not contradict himself upon any material or important mat- ter. The first witness called after the noon recess was John Krust of Sioux Falls, who ‘testified in behalf of the defense. Previous to July 16 of last year he had been employed by the Sioux Falls Brewing and Malting com- pany, with which Mr. Kaufmann has been connected durin the last twenty years as an officer and stockholder. On the date stated Krust left the em- ploy of the company The most important j;art of his tes- timony related to Peter Erickson, the star witness for the prosecution and former hired man of the - .ufmanns. Erickson, he said, went to him at the brewery one day and asked him to see Mr. Kaufmann and induce him to give him (Erickson) $500 if he would by his testimony aid the cause of the defense in the case against Mrs. Kauf- mann, Asked about what Mr. Kaufman said when informed by h: of the al- leged proposition of Erickson, witness replied: “Mr. Kaufmann said to tell him he wouldn’t give him a cent; for him to tell everything he knew.” On cross-examination the witness stuck to his story. Defense Rests in Kaufmann Case. Flandreau, S. D., June 19.—Without placing the defendant on the stand, the defense rested yesterday in the tria: of Mrs. Emma Kaufmann of Sioux Falls on the charge 01 murder- ing Agnes fuireis, her young house servant. Witness and Lawyer Spar. Joe Kirby, an attorney of Sioux Falls was the first witness called to the stand by the defense when the trial was resumed yesterday morning. At the preliminary examination of Mrs. Kaufmann in June of last year Mr. Kirby aided State’s Attorney urr in prosecuting the case. His testi- mony related principally to a contra- diction of the statement made by Pe- ter Erickson to the effect that shortly before the preliminary examination Kirby told Erickson to omit from his testimony certain facts concerning the relations between Mrs. Kaufmann s Polreis. ss-examination by Attor- ney Egan decidedly spirited. Ask- ed a point blank question as to how much of Kaufmann’s money he had received Kirby replied: jot ~=one cent.” He said he told Erickson to tell all of the facts as they existed. Took Girl Driving. Joseph Schwarz, an architect, who planned the Kaufmann house, testi- fied to the location of radiators, pro- jections and other objects in the parts of the house where the girl’s duties took her. Judge Frank Aikens, attorney for Mrs. Kaufmann, took the stand and denied telling Peter Erickson that if he would use Mr, Kaufmann right “Mr. Kaufmann would u C. Bray, a Sioux Fa testified to having on seve » him right.” Is liveryman, 1 ocea- sions known of M Kaufmann taking Agnes Polreis driving with her, At the conclusion of the cross-examina- tion «. Bray the defense rested. Case Nearing End. Flandreau, S. D., June 20.—The sum- ming up arguments in the Kaufmann murder case had not been concluded last evening when court took an ad- journment until 9 o’clock Wednesday morning. George Rice of counsel for the defense, who followed State’s At- torney Orr of Minnehaha county and State’s Attorney Blewitt of Moody county, had not concluded when court adjourned for the day, and will com- plete his remarks this morning. It is understood he will be followed by Judge Frank R. Aikens for the defense and that George B. Egan will then make the closing argument for the state. There is a possibility that the case may reach the jury at 3 or 4 o’clock Wednesday afternoon. “Common Every-day Liar.” Throughout yesterday afternoon’s session hundreds of people crowded their way into the court room to listen to the arguments. The attorneys are going over the testimony very thor- oughly, and are bitterly attacking the testimony of the principal witnesses, especially the star witnesses on each side, Peter Erickson for the state and Dr. W. A. Germain for the defense. Extraordinary precautions are being taken with the jury. Under the in- structions of Judge Smith, they are not permitted to even discuss the case among themselves pending the turning over of the case to them for final ad- justment. eee uae OO OOEOOeOEOEOeOelull OOo O?™ mI 130 euqu0eeeeere® BODIES ARE FOUND. Grappling Party Locates Launch and Dead Sailors. _ Norfolk, Va., Jun> 16.—After many hours of weary dragging of the waters of Hampton Roads in a systematic search by the navy for the bodies of the eleven victims of the sinking of the battleship Minnesota’s launch on Monday night, a grappling party last night located the launch and bodies of the men in eight fathoms of water off the rip-raps. KILLED BY RUNAWAY. Driver Is Thrown From Seat and Is Kicked by Horse, Manchester, Iowa, June 15.—While driving down a steep hill the animals which Edward Powers was driving be came unmanageable because of the breaking of the tugs on the harness. They started down the steep grade at a terrific clip and 1 owers was thrown from the seat and kicked by one of the horses. He lived only a short time the hospital, where she’