Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 12, 1907, Page 3

Herald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. NEWS OF WEEK SUMMARIZED DIGEST OF THE NEWS WORTH TELLING CONDENSED FOR BUSY READERS, Washingten Notes. The new national pure food law re quiring accurate labeling of food products has gone into effect and the department of justice is preparing for a campaign in enforcement of the statute. By direction of the president Will- iam F. Duvall has been appointed to be major general in the army, vice Maj. Gen, William McCaskey, the pres- ent commander of the Department of the Dakotas. Attorney General Bonaparte had a long conference with Assistant Attor- ney General Purdy, at which the in- vestigation of the Standard Oil com- pany was discussed and a number of other pending matters reviewed. President Roosevelt has been pre- snted with a handsome jeweled Japa- e sword. The presentation was ar- ranged for by Ambassador Aoki and made by Taniemon Hitachiyama, the champion wrestler of Japan, who is on htseeing tour of the United States. A new record has been made in wire- less telegraphy by the navy. The wire- less telegraph station near Savannah, Ga., has picked up a message from the cruiser Pennsylvania while approach- ing San Francisco from Honolulu. The best previous record was made by the Washington navy yard station several months ago, when it received a message from the naval wireless station at Los Angeles, Cal. sé Crimes. Frank J. Constantine, recently con- victed of the murder of Louise Gen- try in Chicago, has been denied a new trial by Judge Kavanaugh, and in ac- cordance with the verdict of the jury was sentenced to life imprisonment. Seven more graft indictments in the capitol prosecutions were returned by the Dauphin county grand jury at Har- risburg, Pa. Every man named in the prosecutions has now been indicted and there are still twelve cases to be considered. Adelbert Schauer, a well-to-do manu- facturer of New York, who had just returned from a hunting trip in Maine, committed suicide, apparently because of the death of his pet setter dog, h he had accidentally shot during is hunting trip. ‘ With the gas turned on Mrs. Mar- garet F. Bukelow, Madison, Wis., who professed to be a cousin of Senator La Follette, was found dead in her room in Washington. As there was an ugly ise under one eye and other evi- of a possible struggle, the po- suspect foul play. Personal. Maj. Gen. Sir John Charles Ardlagh. ex-director of military intelligence at the British war office, died at Carnar- von, Wales. M. J. Brunchorst, the Norwegian minister at Havana, has been appoint- ed minister of public works in succes- sion to K, D. Lehmkuhl, who has re- signed. The Ohio friends of Lieut. Gen. Cor- bin, retired, are urging him to accept the Republican nomination for con- gressman from the Sixth congression- al district in that state. The report that Prince Francis of Teck will shortly be formally engaged to the beautiful Miss Margaretta Drexel of Philadelphia has spread over London during the past few days and is being generally discussed. Miss Mary G. Burdette, sixty-six years old, sister of Robert J. Burdette and for many years corresponding sec- retary of the Baptist Home Missionary society, died in Chicago at the Baptist training school. She suffered from cancer. Mme. Anna Gould’s possible en- gagement to Prince Helie de Sagan is being discussed by those in the inner circles of French-American society in Paris. Despite denials that they will marry, Prince de Sagan continues his attentions to the American woman. Capt. Mareus M. Drake, one of the best known men on the Great Lakes, died at Buffalo, N. Y. When Grover Cleveland was elected governor of New York, Capt. Drake was elected by the common council to fill out his un- expired term as mayor of Buffalo. Foreign. The storm center in the South of France has shifted eastward to Tou- lon. The grape crop there has been entirely destroyed. The epidemic of cholera which broke out in Russia early in August is spreading rapidly, and already twelve provinces are affected. The authorities at Marseilles admit that a death from the plague occurred on board the Italian steamer Armonia, whith is now in quarantine at that port, and another case of the disease had been taken to the quarantine hos- pital, but the health officials declare that all danger of infection is over. A girl of seventeen was one of the fiercest resisters in a gang of bandits recently overpowered near Jojarevats, Servia. She had fled from her home to join her sweetheart, who was one of the band, and declared she fought so stoutly in order to make sure of heing sept to prison with him. Herr Woolfling, formerly Archduke Leopold Salvatore of Austria, is en- gaged to marry Maria Ritter, the daughter of a humble Silesian. The entire section through which the Chinese Eastern railroad runs has been officially declared to be threatened with cholera. A conflagration destroyed four blocks in the business section of Port Limon, entailing a loss of $60,000 and resulting in the death of several per- sons. i A dispatch from Stockholm says that the Swedish Yacht club has for- warded a challenge to the New York Yacht club for a series of races for the America’s cup. The Russion government has decid- ed to dismantle the naval fortresses at Libau, Sveaborg, Usdvinsk, Kertch and Batoum, as they are not required under the reduced navy. There have been four deaths from the plague at Oran and twelve cases are in the hospital. All of those af- flicted are said to be recovering. The contagion was brought there by ships from India, Forty-two persons, including thirty Japanese soldiers were killed or in- jured by the derailment of a south- bound train from Seoul, Korea. The responsibility for the wreck has not been located. Torrential rains have flooded the valley of the Canaro, near Turin. Crops have been ruined, stock drowned, bridges swept away and railroad com- munication interrupted. The popula- tion is in great distress. A signed document by high officials and the commanders of the army has been presented to the shah of Persia to the effect that unless the sovereign accepts without réserve and will act according to the demands of a consti- tutional government they will resign in a body from the service. Accidental Happenrngs. Three men were killed and two were fatally injured by the collapse of a new building in Spickard, Mo. John Fry and John Neer were in- stantly killed by the falling of a boiler under which they were working in the Big Four shops. With a roar like that of a cannon a big meteor fell in the mountains back of Elizabethville, Pa., setting fire to the forest and frightening hundreds of people. Hugo Coltini, aged seven, was in- stantly killed at Houghton, Mich., by the accidental discharge of a single- barreled shotgun, which he as car- rying from one room to another. Mrs. John Gilbert, a member of a prominent family at Grinnell, Iowa, was run down and Killed at the Rock Island crossing. Death was instantan- eous, the body being badly mangled. Fire destroyed the office and salt and coal sheds of the Nye-Schneider company at Eagle grove, Iowa. The elevator and part of the lumber yard was saved. Loss is estimated at $8,000. While cruising on Lake Independ- ence, at Marquette, Mich., in a yacht carrying too big a sail John Paradis and William Givens were thrown into the water when a gust of wind upset the craft. Paridis was drowned. News reached El Paso, Tex., of an-/ in the Mexican Central) other slide quarries near Victoria, in which many laborers were buried alive. Sixteen dead and eleven fatally injured have been taken out. It is known wat many others are buried under the tons of earth and rock, with no hope of being rescued alive. General News Items. The supreme court of Illinois has decided the new primary election law unconstitutional. J. M. Barr, director general of the Jamestown Exposition company, who recently resigned that office, finally declines to withdraw his resignation. The Eighteenth United States in- fantry started from Fort Leaven- worth last week for the Philippines, where it will be stationed three years. Minneapolis men are interested in a $1,800,000 company which has applied for incorporation for the development of a gold mining proposition in the Cook City district in Montana. Mr. and Mrs. William Jennings Bry- an recently celebrated the twenty- third anniversary of their arrival in Lincoln, Neb., by giving a dinner to neighbors and friends known as the Farmers’ club. The dairymen of Marquette, Mich., have raised the price of milk from 8 cents to 10,cents a quart. The increas- ed price of grain and hay is given as the reason, but the formation of a trust is suspected. An oil painting of J. Pierpont Mor- gan, which was recently seized by the customs authorities of New York be- cause the financier refused to pay a $25 duty on it, has been sold at auc- tion for $35, the purchaser being T. J. Wallace, a saloonkeeper, who will hang it in his saloon beside a stuffed monkey which he bought at a sale in the appraiser’s stores. Negro voters were excluded from participating in the Louisville Demo- cratic primary election for governor in January. This action was taken by the Democratic state central commit- tee, which declared the measure to be “the purpose and intent of the primary election law passed a year ago.” Rev. John Royer of Switzerland county, Ind., was tried by a committee of nineteen Methodists on charges of kissing a member of his congregation against her will and /was suspended from the ministry for one year. The charges were preferred by the presid- ing elder of the circuit. MASKED MEN LOOT BANK OF $575,525 ROBBERS FILL SACK WITH MON- EY, KILL SHERIFF AND ES- CAPE. MAKE ESCAPE ON HANDCAR RUNNING PISTOL FIGHT MAIN. TAINED IN FLIGHT TO HAND- CAR. Seddon, Ala., Oct. 9.—Four masked robbers looted the First National bank of $575,525 Saturday night, murdered Sheriff Williams, who was endeavor- ing to stop them, and escaped with their booty. A little after 10 o’clock a man on his way home noticed a ray of light coming from the window of the bank. Curiosity prompted him to peer through the narrow crack between the curtain and the wall and he was horri- fied to see four masked mén in the back room gathered about an open vault, while the floor was covered with coin and piles of paper money. Filled Sack With Money. One man held in his hand a flour sack, and as the surprised onlooker stood watching them the robbers be- gan to gather up the money and thrust it into the sack. Waiting to see no more he shouted to some men who were passing on the other side of the street and ran to summon Sheriff Williams. Just as the sheriff arrived the rob- pers threw open the door and dashed out, one man carrying the bag of mon- ey and all holding revolvers in their hands. “Stop!” shouted the sheriff, and he called to the crowd to help in the capture. The reply of the robbers was a volley of pistol shots and Sheriff Williams fell dead, his body pierced by two balls. Before the frightened crowd could offer resistance, the men dashed down an alley, firing as they ran. Got Away on Handcar. By this time a score of men, most of them armed, were in pursuit. The robbers ran through the alley and northward to the yards of the South- ern railway, where a handcar was standing on the track, evidently pre- pared for their escape. Firing a last volley the bandits jumped on the hand- car and escaped. Mounted posses were soon formed and dispatched along either side of the railroad track, while news of the rob- bery was quickly flashed to the next station. Sunday morning the handcar was found thrown to one side of the track a few miles from town, but no trace of the robbers was found. VICTORY FOR UNITED STAES. Project for Obligatory Arbitration Is Approved at the Hague. The Hague, Oct. 9.—The approval at last evening’s session of the com- mittee on arbitration of the Anglo- American project for obligatory arbi- tration, referred to during the course of the debates as the permanent inter- national high court of justice, the court of arbitral justice, obligatory ar- bitration and universal arbitration, is regarded as a great victory, especially for the United States. The first propo- sition on this subject was presented to the conference on July 3° by the American delegation, and Joseph H. Choate, the first American represent- ative, has worked unceasingly and de- terminedly for its acceptance. Gets Big Majority. The project was approved with a majority greater than was hoped for. It is essentially American and its ba- sis, the enunciation of the idea of com- pulsory arbitration, was taken bodily from the American proposition. The vote yesterday, 31 ayes to 9 nays, the countries in opposition being Ger- many, Austria Hungary, Switzerland, Belgium, Rumania, Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria and Montenegro proved that as M. Hanault (France) said in the |discussion yesterday afternoon, “arbi- tration is not a strange beast that must b~ muzzled.” Stand With United States. Another great success for America was the unanimity with which all the countries of the American continent stood firmly with the United States, thus putting an end to the impression of lack of harmony between the gov- ernments of the Western hemisphere created by reports of recent dissen- sions, The compactness of Latin-America was more noticeable yesterday, inas- much as it is known that Germany exercised strong pressure to get sup- port from some South American coun- tries. Child Dies Mysteriously. Marquette, Mich., Oct. 9.—Ina Olson, aged four, died from fractures sustain- ed in a manner that is a complete mys- tery. She was picked up alongside the railroad track yesterday, but no trains had passed while she was there. Fargo Store Robbed. Fargo, N. D., Oct. 9. — The Yerxa store in this city was robbed of over $200. The work was done during the supper hour, when some members of the force were in the front of the building. PROBABLY SECRET REBATES DEADLY BOMBS INDEPENDENTS WERE GIVEN NO CHANCE TO BID FOR RAIL- ROAD BUSINESS. New York, Oct. 9.—Testimony that railroads purchased their lubricating oils from the Standard Oil company at prices that were higher than those of its competitors was heard yesterday in the federal suit for the dissolution of the so-called oil trust. Philip Har- rison, manager of the New York Lu- bricating Oil company, which was en- gaged in a long strife with the Stand- ard in the lubricating oil industry, was on the witness stand all day and testi- fied that though the products of his company had proved satisfactory to the railroads and were sold at prices under the Standard’s figures, the rail- roads declined to renew their con- tracts with the New York Lubricating Oil company. Suspected the Cause. Mr. Harrison said he was never told openly by the railroad officials why the contracts were not entered into again, but he had a well defined idea of the cause. The New York Lubricating Oil com- any entered into a contract in 1903 to supply the Louisville & Nashville rail- way for a period of two years, said Mr. Harrison, and six months before the contract expired President Milton Smith of the railroad informed the oil company that it need not endeavor to obtain a renewal of the contract. Mr. Harrison testified that he had inform- ed President Smith that if he was per- mitted to bid for the business he was prepared to reduce the price of engine oil from the current contract price. Higher Price to Trust. Notwithstanding the fact that Pres- ident Smith had praised the quality of the oil and that it was offered at a lower price than that asked by the Standard, Mr. Harrison said the Louisville & Nashville railway entered into a contract with the Galena Signal Oil company, a subsidiary of the oil combine. Mr. Kellogg, counsel for the govern- ment, showed the witness the con- tract entered into by the Louisville & Nashville and the Galena Oil company after the raflroad’s contract with the New York Lubricating company had expired, and Mr. Harrison said that the figures showed that the railroad company paid $30,000 a year more for its oil to the Standard than it would have paid under a contract with the New York company, STATE CAN’T PROMISE WORK. The Attorney General Rules That Louisiana Violated the Law. Washington Oct. 9. —Attorney Gen. eral Bonaparte has rendered an opin- ion in an important case involving the right of a state to solicit immigration from a foreign country. He holds that in the case submitted to him the state violated the immigration laws in the paying of passage money of the immi- grants, and that in this respect’ the state does not differ,in law from an individual. The case in point has been pending before the department of commerce and labor since Aug. 5. On that date Geronimo Garcia arrived at New Or- leans from Cuba, By the special board of inquiry at the former place he was denied admission to the United States. The investigation developed the facts that his passage money had been paid by Reginald Dykers, an agent of the Louisiana state of board of agricul- ture and immigration out of funds reg- ularly appropriated by the state legis- lature. He was assured that employment as a farm laborer would be given him, and he promised to return to the state the money advanced him to pay his passage from Havana to New Orleans. No employer was selected for him, but he was left free to work for whom he pleased. The case was brought by the state of Loufciana to test the immigration law. SCANDAL !S REVIVED. Hartje of Pittsburg Wants Divorce Case Opened. Pittsburg, Oct. 9.—Pittsburg is her- self again. With the second trial of Harry K. Thaw looming in the horizon in New York, Pittsburg was startled yesterday when the announcement was made that Tom Madine, the coach- man-corespondent in the Hartje di- vorce case, had made a confession supporting the millionaire paper manu- facturer, against his wife, Mrs. Mary Scott Hartje. This sensation was followed by the declaration of Mrs. Hartje’s attorneys that a still greater sensation will be made public within a short time by the woman’s counsel. A petition has been filed by Hartje with the justices of the superior court, sitting in Philadelphia, asking that the case be reopened in order that additional evidence alleged to be dam- againg to the defendant could be heard. Wipes Out Half a Town. Oxford, Neb., Oct. 9.—Fire here yes- terday destroyed more than half the store bulldings antl part of their con- tents of the principal business blocks of the town. The total loss is slightly in excess of $100,000. No Wisconsin State Tax. Madison, Wis., Oct. 9. — In spite of the large appropriations made by the last legislature the state board of as- sessments yesterday practically deter- mined not to levy a state tax this year. IN THEIR MAIL GOVERNOR OF COLORADO AND PROMINENT DENVERITES IN- TENDED VICTIMS. SAVED BY TIMELY WARNING POLICE ARREST MAN ON SUSPI- CION AND WREST CONFES- SION FROM HIM. Denver, Colo., Oct. 10. — Gov. Hen- ry A. Buchtel, David H. Moffat, presi- dent of the First National Bank of Denver, and Charles B. Kountze, pres- ident of the Colorado National bank, received through the mails yesterday infernal machines containing sufficient dynamite to have caused great de- struction of lives and property, had they been exploded. Fortunately, warning had been given to the recip- ients of the machines before they were received by Chief of Police Mi- chael Delaney, who has wrested a con- fession from Kemp Bigelow, by whom they were mailed. Others on th eList, Bigelow confessed also that he had sent infernal machines to Lawrence C. Phipps and Edward Chase, but these were not delivered yesterday. The machines received by Moffat and Kountze were turned over to the po- lice department. Gov. Buchtel was received by the gov- ernor’s private secretary, Alfred G. Montgomery, who removed the wrap- per, disclosing a box with a sliding cover. His suspicions were aroused and he reported the matter to Gov. Buchtel, who then informed him that he had been warned by the chief of police to be on the lookout for’ an in- fernal machine. Open Governor’s Box. Adjt. Gen. Kelley and officers of the police department were called in and the box was carefully opened by them in such a manner as to avoid explod- ing its contents. It was found to con- tain two sticks of dynamite. Bigelow gave no satisfactory explanation of his motive for sending the machines, and seemed to have no other purpose than to cause a sensation. On Sunday night Bigelow notified the police department that he had overheard two men talking about a plot to kill Edward Chase, Goy. Buch- tel and other prominent citizens, and that Chase’s residence was to be blown up that night. Confession Saves Lives. A search in the vicinity of the Chase residence resulted in the dis- covery of a package containing thirty one sticks of dynamite. Bigelow’s story was regarded with suspicion and he was placed under arrest Monday night. Yesterday he confessed: that he had put the dynamite near Mr. Chase’s house where it was found, and that he had sent several infernal ma- chines by mail. Had this confession not been obtained in time to give warning to those to whom the ma- chines had been sent, those who open- ed the boxes containing the dynamite would undoubtedly have been killed. CATCH COPE OF ORTH THIEF. Remarkable Confession the Cause of Great Sensation in Paris. Paris, Oct. 10. — A great sensation has been caused by the remarkable confession of Antoine Thomas of Clermont-Ferrand, who was arrested, with his mother and his brother, charged with comlicity in the heft of the famous cope of Orth, which be- longed to the state and was valued at $120,000, from the Church of Amba- zac, near Limoges. , Thomas, who gave himself up to clear his mother and brother, declares that after the passage of the church and state separation law and the tak- ing of the church inventories began, antiquaries of Paris, some of them millionaires, hired him and others to go through the country and bribe the parish priests to surrender the relics and substitute counterfeits which could later be turned over to the state. He says this plan of operations con- tinued for months, but as many of the most valuable church treasures could not be counterfeited, he finally went boldly into the business of wholesale burglary, Thomas estimated the amount of his robberies at $400,000. Thomas says he sold the cope of Orth to an antiquary of London for $10,000. He further declares that the antiquaries of Paris got rid of their “plunder” in England and America, and announces his intention to make a clean breast of it and expose his ac- complices, who have abandoned him. Another phase of the case is the discovery of letters at the Thomas res- idence indicating that they had been engaged in the performance of illegal operations upon society women. Drunken Man Kills Policeman. Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 10. — Police- man Anton Eschman was shot and killed last night by Peter Garrity. Garrity, it is said, was intoxicated and shot the policeman apparently with- out provocation. Garrity was arrest. ed. Iron Range Fatality. Eveleth, Minn., Oct. 10. — George Churchill, employed by the Duluth & Iron Range railway, was run over and Killed by a train at Adams Mine sta: tion. The one sent to} TRUST NOT REALLY DISSOLVED DIVIDENDS TRUST MADE PUBLIC FOR FIRST TIME, PROFITS AND OF New York, Oct. 10. — From. state- ments culled from ledgers and books found in the offices of the Standard Oil company Frank B. Kellogg, coun- sel for the United States government, succeeded in placing on yesterday's record of the federal proceedings against the oil combine the processes and stages through which the com- bine passed in its changes from the old Standard Oi] trust to the present Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. Proves Government Case. Out of the maze of figures develop- ed in a voluminous mass from the company’s books and from testimony given by Clarence G. Fay, assistant auditor of the Standard, called as a witness yesterday, the government’s counsel says he believes he has proved the federal allegation that the Stand- ard is an illegal corporation and that by devious advices has maintained its entity and that it is under the same ownership as when it was formed. Profits of Trust. For the first time the profits and dividends of the Standard Oil trust, from its inception in 1882 to 1891, were made public yesterday. The prof its of the Standard Oil trust, as stated by Mr. Fay, were as follows: 1882, $12,388,507; 1883, $11,231,790; 1884, $7,- 778,505; 1885, $8,382 1886, $15,- 350,787; 1887, $14,026,590; 1888, $12,- 757,727; 1889 $14,845,201; 1890, $19,- 131,470; 1891, $16,331,886. Dividends Paid. The dividends declared by the Standard Oil trust from 1882 to 1891 |were spread on the records as fol- lows: 1882, $3,695,253; 1883, $4,258 - 086; 1884, $4,288,842; 1885, $7,479,223; 1886, $7,226,452; 1887, $8,463,327; 1889, $10,620,830; 1890, $11,200,000; 1891, $11,643,826. Never Really Disclosed. Mr. Kellogg says he is of the opin. |ion that, notwithstanding that the gov- ernment was unable to discover the transfer books and stock ledgers of the liquidating trustees, the evidence ad- duced yesterday shows that the so- called oil trust only affected to dis- solve under the order of the Ohio courts in 1892 and that its direction is still held by those who had to do with |the formation of the Standard Oil trust. FAST TEAMS FIGHT TO A TIE. | First Game for the Baseball Champion- ship Called in the Twelfth Inning. Chicago, Oct. 10. — Detroit and Chi- cago, leaders of the American and Na- |tional leagues, respectively, played twelve strenuous innings to a tie here yesterday in the first game of the se- ries for the baseball championship of the world. The contest was replete with sensational situations, and when Umpire O'Day of the National league called the play off on account of dark- ness most of the 24,377 spectators sigh- ed with relief and went home well sat- isfied with the outcome. Overall and Donovan were the op- posing pitchers, but the former was taken out when Chicago had tied the score in the ninth inning. Ruelbach finished the game and for three inn- ings retired Detroit’s heavy hitters without the semblance of a hit. The | work of all the pitchers was first class, but Donavon had a shade on his rivals in that he struck out twelve of the op- posing batsmen. His second base on balls was costly, but with good sup- port he would have won his game. The contest was watched by an im- mense crowd. Close to 24,500 persons crowded into the park. The game was evenly contested. Both teams broke under fire, Chicago mixing two of its errors with two hits in the eighth inning, when Detroit scored all three of its runs, while the visitors returned the compliment in the next inning allowing Chicago te tie the score: Score by innings: R.H.E. Chicago 10010000200 0-8 10 3! Detroit »000000300003 92 —Overall, Reulbach and Kling’ nd Schmidt. Umpires—O'Day and Sheridan. OFFICIALS FIGHT FOR PUTTER. Minnesota and Other States Charge Roads Favor Chicago Creameries. Chicago, Oct. 10. — Dairy commis- sioners from a number of states in the Mississippi valley are to ask the rail- roads to make a new rate on butter shipping to Chicago, as the present tariff is said to be driving creameries in those states out of business and giv- ing the trade to the big centralizers in this city. At the present time the railroads charge about four times as much for butter shipped to this city as they do for cream and the creameries in the country cannot compete with Chicago. The dairy commissioners who are here are A, W. Moore, Wisconsin; W. A. Wright, Iowa; E. K. Slater, Minne- sota, and L. A. Wheaton, South Dako- ta. They say the creameries in their respective states are being forced out of business by railroad discrimina- tion. Hunter Shoots Himself. Menominee, Mich., Oct. 10. — While hunting in the woods near Talbot yes- terday morning, John Seemel acciden- tally shot himself through the head, the bullet entering his mouth and com- ing out the back of his head. He has no chance of recovering. Marshall Saloon Is Scorched. Marshall, Minn., Oct. 10. — Fire of unknown origin damaged the stock and building of the Klondike saloon to the extent of $1,000. f