Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 23, 1907, Page 3

Herald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA, NEWS OF THE WEEK IN EPITOME — IMPORTANT EVENTS AT HOME AND ON FOREIGN SHORES BRIEFLY TOLD. Washington. Max Duffen of Munich, Germany, walked on his hands down all the steps of the Washington monument and won a wager of $500. He fainted upon reaching the bottom and was then ordered off the grounds by the watchman. Secretary Root announced that Da vid Jayne Hill, American minister to The Netherlands, and a former assist- ant secretary of state, will be named as ambassador to Berlin to succeed Mr. Tower, who is about to retire on account of ill health. Chief Wilkie of the secret service reports the discovery of a new coun- terfeit $10 national bank note. The counterfeit is on the Wells-Fargo Ne yada National Bank of San Francisco, and is a poor photographic reproduc tion, printed-on heavy bond paper, with no silk fiber. There is a great deal of anxiety in Washington regarding the condition of the health of Elihu Root, secretary of state. It was denied at the White House that he had any present inten- tion of resigning, and yet, in spite of this fact, those who are acquainted with the situation, are aware that Root is ready to lay down the burden of public life almost any day. People Talked About. Santos Dumont has just completed the construction of a new aeroplane. The new machine is shaped like a but terfly. Juliette Estelle Prescott Mathis, sixty-eight years old, a writer of songs and verses, died at the home of her son at Los Angeles. Rear Admiral Asa Walker has been retired on, account of having reached the statutory age limit. He took part in the battle of Manila bay. Mrs. Alexander Kafka, the mother of seventeen children, danced five hours at the celebration of her golden wedding anniversary at St. Louis. Abraham Evans, grandfather of the duchess of Manchester, is dead at Bellefontaine, Ohio. He was eighty years of age. The duchess of Man- chester was formerly Miss Zimmer man of Cincinnati, Count Cassini, former Russian am- bassador to the United States, ia slated for retirement from the post of ambassador at Madrid and will be succeeded by M. de Giers, now Rus- sian minister at Brussels. Gen. W. E. W. Ross, former vice commander of the national organiza tion of the G. A. R., died at his home in Baltimore at the age of seventy. Gen. Ross served with distinction in the Civil war, losing a leg before Pe tersburg in 1864. Crimes and Criminals. George Aunspach, during a quarre) ’m a saloon at Boone, Iowa, shot and fatally wounded W. Oviatt and Chas, Ortner. Leo Manhart, a wealthy cigar man- ufacturer of Kansas City, shot and killed himself at the Centropolis hotel on account of domestic difficulties. He was sixty years old. Charles Caldwell of Byesville was killed and several others seriously in- jured as the result of a fight at a dance at Trail Run, a mining camp near Cambridge, Ohio. Daniel C. McKnight, cashier of the Poster State bank, was. arrested at Foster, Ky., charged with embezzling $10,000. It is said that McKnight lost the money in speculation, As the result of a quarrel over an election bet, William Hopkins and Frank Foley fought a duel at Fernalda, Ky. Hopkins was instantly killed and Foley is fatally wounded. Leroy Ware, former cashier of the Farmers and Drovers’ Bank of Sey- mour, Iowa, which closed its doors re- cently, is now in jail awaiting trial on the charge of fraudulent banking. Mike White, C. A. Green and Frank Williams, charged with leading the mob that lynched a negro murderer at Osage Junction two months ago, were indicted for first degree murder by a federal jury at Pawnee, O. T. Infuriated because his offer of mar- riage had been repulsed, Shreve Yaeg- er, a drunken lather, murdered Mrs. Lena Dobmeir and then almost sev- ered his own head with a razor at Buf- falo, N. Y. From Other Shores. An ascending cage ina mine at Rambaud, near St. Etienne, France, was struck by a descending car and seven occupants of the latter were thrown out, fell to the bottom of the shaft and were killed. An earthquake caused a serious landslide close to the village of the Valcombre, Spain, the population of which fied. There will be no trouble between Uruguay ahd Argentina over the seiz- ure of a tug in Uruguayan waters by Argentine officials. The Uruguayan cabinet has decided to protest against the act and’ to reaffirm Uruguayan right to jurisdiction, but not to demand satisfaction of Argentina. This settle. ment ofthe dispute is unsatisfactory to the minister of foreign affairs, Sen- or Acevideo, who declares he will re- sign. suffering a temporary lull. According to the London Shipping Gazette there is a probability that the Salvation Army will soon own several transatlantic steamers. The steamers will be used in connection with the army’s scheme for promoting Cana- dian immigration, A German company is now tele phoning wirelessly from Nauen to places in Germany fifty to sixty miles distant: One of the officers of the company sajd that conversations had been conducted with extreme clear- ness and precision. A railroad connecting the two cen- tral passenger stations in Christiania has -been 6pened. By this arrange- ment lines entering the city from vari- ous parts of Norway and Sweden are enabled to transfer their cars directly from one line to any other. Iquique, Chile, has been visited by a fire, the biggest since 1882, which has entailed losses amounting to over $1, 000,000. Seven and a half blocks were burned over. The property destroyed was mostly dwellings and no less than 2,000 people are homeless. BIGGEST SWINDLE EVER ATTEMPTED C. E. MARSHALL PULLS FORTUNE OUT OF FAKE MAIL ORDER BUSINESS. OFFERED JEWELRY VERY CHEAP | THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE FROM COAST TO COAST TAKEN IN BY ADVERTISING, Chicago, Nov. 20.—Charles E. Man shall, who for two weeks conducted a mailorder business at 324 Washington boulevard, offering “$50,000 worth of bankrupt jewelry” at something like a cent on the dojlar, was not there yesterday afternoon when Col. James E. Stuart, chief inspector of the post- Office, called to see him. Several thou- sand people all over the country who had sent money to Marshall, attracted by his advertisement, “Buy your Christmas gifts now,” would be dis- appointed, the coloned thought. He found several hundred copies of newspapers containing Marshall’s ad- vertisement, several hundred letters Two are|from publishers amd nearly 200 bills for advertising. Collected About $20,000. Before Marshall took alarm and fled it is believed he must have gathered in between $15,000 and $20,000 fropa persons who had an idea they could buy diamond rings at $5 each. » Col. Stuart had gone down to his office in the federal building to do a little work before dinner when he re- ceived a complaint about Marshall. This complaint was to the effect that “one of the biggest, boldest and most successful coups of its kind ever perpetrated in Chicago and perhaps in the United States has come to light with the disappearance of Charles E. Marshall, jewelry, jobber.” Thousands of Victims. “Although in operation only a short time,” the complaint went on, “the army of victims extends from coast to coast, and I believe when all the vic- tims have been heard from the total will reach from $25,000 to $50,000. “In addition to this huge sum must be added the thousands of dollars of credit that Marshall managed to se- cure from hundreds of papers through- out the country for advertising space in their publications.” Accidental Happenings. A man identified as Jacob Dealman of Newark, Iowa, in ,attempting to board a Milwaukee train at Wesleyan, fell under the train and was killed. While trying to board a street car in Canadian Soo Offie Thomas was in- stantly killed. He fell under the rear trucks and his head and arm were crushed. The north-bound train crashed into the rear of another train waiting at the Bronx Park station, New York, and injured twenty persons. in a serious condition. Fire that threatened the entire busi- ness district of Parsons, Kan., destroy- ed $200,000 worth of property. The fire originated in a barn where small boys were smoking cigarettes. Harry P. Grapl, a prominent club man and contractor, fell eleven stories, while working near the top floor of the Fleming building at Des Moines, Iowa, and was instantly killed. Fire which started from a defective flue in the garret destroyed the main building of Monmouth college at Mon- mouth, Ill. One fireman lost his life while fighting the flames. Loss, $40, 000. Seventeen guests of the Santa Fe hotel at Cleburn, Tex., were injured when they were compelled to leap from the second-story windows to save themselves from rapidly spreading flames. A North-Western freight train crashed squarely into an_ electric car in a crossing accident near Ames, Iowa, seriously injuring ten and bare. ly escaping many fatalities among the passengers on the electric car. Ole Olson a fireman of the coal dock at Gladstone, Mich., fell from one of the clam shells a distance of twenty- }; five feet, landing on a pile of coal. He broke two ribs and received internal injuries which will probably prove fatal. Mrs. John Brodeson of Mason City, Iowa, was fatally burned, the result of using gasoline in cleaning. The flesh was burned from her limbs, arms and face. Her fourteen-year-old boy tore the clothing from her, preventing the house from burning. OURT RULES AGAINST WALSH. Books of Banks and Other Enterprises Competent Evidence. Chicago, Nov. 20.—Judge Anderson, {n the trial of John R. Walsh yester- day, ruled that the books of the Chi- cago National bank and of the other Walsh enterprises constituted compe- tent evidence, and that counsel for Walsh had no constitutional right to exclude them. Following up this vic- tory the prosecution through the tes- timony of National Bank Examiner E. P. Moxey proceeded to trace six in- stances of alleged irregularities in ac- counts which, it is contended, indicate misapplication of the funds of the Chicago National by its former presi- dent. That Mr. Moxey was permitted to testify as an expert in accounts was due to another ruling by the court, who declared his testimony ad- missible after the defendant’s attor- neys had made every effort to have it excluded, From book to book through- out the afternoon the bank examiner traced transactions and pointed out connecting links through a maze of figures and at the close of the session Domestic. After many years of experimental] work the machine with which Alexan. der Graham Bell hopes to solve the problem of aerial navigation has been successfully launched. The Dominion government has ar. ranged to keep navigation on Lake Superior open until Dec. 10. Every ef. fort is being made to have as much of the wheat crop as possible moved be. fore navigation closes, Col. Hodges, the purchasing agent of the isthmian canal commission has received authority from the com. mission headquarters at Panama tc contract for the delivery of twelve steel barges from the Newport News Shipbuilding and Derrick company for the sum of $282,000. Prof. BrandeffMatthews of Colum. bia university has won another victory in his efforts’towards reform in spell- ing. The trustees and the University press have voted to adopt a standard of spelling which will bring into offi- cial use at Columbia at least 230 o1 the 300 reformed spellings proposed by him as chairman of the reformed spelling board. The total assessed valuation of all taxable property in Montana this year is $251,325,719, according to figures compileq by the state board of equal- ization. The total assessed valuation of all real property is $116,167,719, of personal property $91,242,993 and of railroad property $43,816,035. This is an increase over the assessed valua- tion last year of $17,000,000. Supt. Shelton of the Ute Indian agency at Ship Rock, N. M., positively denies the report sent out from Duran- go, Colo., that another battle took place Tuesday between the disaffected Utes and the United States troops now in the field at Ship Rock to subdue the redskins. The report had it that six Indians were killed by the soldiers. Vv. T. Hamilton was given a verdict of $20,000 against W. W. McNeil, the millionaire of Oskaloosa, Iowa, who was sued for alienating the affections of Mrs. Hamilton: Mrs. Hamilton mar ried MeNiel shortly after she had ob tained a divorce from Hamilton and the latter promptly sued. McNeil is many years older than his pretty wife, All schools and public places of ed him would keep him occupied for days, since each of the 160 counts in the indictment must be traced through a half dozen or more books. MRS. BRADLEY’S DEFENSE. Foundation Is Laid for Plea of Insan- ity. Washington, Nov. 20. — Foundation was laid yesterday for the plea of the defense in the trial of Mrs. Annie M. Bradley, charged with the murder of Former United States Senator Ar- thur Brown of Utalf. That plea, here- tofore made evident, will be insanity, or, more accurately perhaps, mental irresponsibility of the prisoner at the time of the tragedy. The evidence ad. duced yesterday tended to throw light upon Mrs. Bradley’s condition at the time of the tragedy. : 272,829 CHINESE HERE. Bulletin Shows 6,793,531 Orientals Live in Foreign Countries. Shanghai, China, Nov. 20.—An offi- cial bulletin gives the figures of the Chinese who live abroad. It does not include students. There is a total of 6,793,531 subjects of China in foreign countries, and 272,829 are in America, PRISONER STARVING SELF, Alaskan Murderer Will Be Sent to the Federal Insane Hospital. Tacoma, Wash., Nov. 20.—JoJe Car- bon, a prisoner held in the county jail by the federal authorities, will be sent to the United States insane hospital at Washington. Carbon has eaten nothing for five days, but insists upon ucation and amusement at Paulina|trying to eat his blankets and mat- Towa, have been ordered closed by the| tress. Carbon was sentenced to ten town council on account of the prev@| years at McNéil’s Island by Judge lence of smallpox. The streets are} Wickersham of Alaska for attem: deserted and all kinds of business is ater. ‘ Sous =m ammemp ae aeweana sre FF. £2 Fra f= it appeared that the task set before. FINANCIAL FLURRY. va TAANS IN WAR FORBIDS TALK OF THIRD TERM BANKING CIRCLES IN NEW YORK ARE GRATIFIED—STOP GOLD IMPORTS, TO BITTER END BLACK HAND TAKES UP CHAL« LENGE OF NEW WHITE HAND Washington, Nov. 20.—The financial relief measures launched by the treas- ury department have been freely com- mended in telegrams received from all SOCIETY. parts of the country. All are unani- mous in their approval of the course — adopted in issuing the Panama bonds y and the certificates of indebtedness. Callers at the White House yester- HAVE ONE vicriM ALREAD day were numerous and each added an opinion on the optimistic side of the situation. Stops Run on Bank. The president was informed from Buftalo that his letter expressing con- fidence in the fiscal soundness of the country had been printed in several languages in Buffalo and distributed among depositors who were making a run on a bank there, with the effect of checking the run. Before the busi- ness day of the treasury had ended many applications arrived for the new certificates of indebtedness. The fiscal uses to which these certificates may be put will make the demand for them very general, according to the opinion of experts in the department. Financial Flurry Over. The president was heartily second- ed by every comment yesterday in his statement of the soundness of the country’s finances and that the vanish- ing point of the financial flu@@ has ar- rived. As indicative of the state of mind in congress it may be stated that Receives Third Letter. in a gathering of six Republican sen- Shortly before the death of Scar- ators, Messrs. Foraker, Lodge, War-| dina, Max Friend, a wealthy wholesale ren, Scott, Bulkeley and Warner, all| liquor dealer, received a third warning of them expressed the decided opinion] from the Black Hand that unless he that some financial legislation is nec-| paid $250 within twenty-four hours essary and will be enacted during the| he would be killed and his home dyna- approaching session of congress. mited. Gratification in New York. Word that a scciety had been form- New York, Nov. 20. — Gratification|ed to drive the blackmailers out of was the prevailing tone in banking| town brought out the fact that an epi- circles yesterday as the result of the| demic of threatening letters is on. government plan of relief to the mar.| Nearly twenty cases were reported ket by the issue of $50,000,000 in Pan-| during the day to the promoters of ama bonds and $100,000,000 in one-| the White Hand society. year treasury certi@cates. The murder of Scardina was taken The general opinion in banking cir-| to be the result of a saloon brawl by cles was that both measures would|the police until investigation was tend to draw idle money from private made, Then the reticence of witness- hoards and thereby to break the pre- | €S showed that something was behind mium on currency and restore normal | the stabbing. conditions in the money market. RETO ao So strong was this feeling that it NEW YORK BANK WILL REOPEN. was understood that gold engage ments would practically cease. Inter- national bankers declared that the gold already engaged is as much as New York can justly take from Eu- rope under the strained conditions which prevail there, and that to take more’ will only compel its return at a later date. The amount already taken or engaged, which approaches $70,- 000,000, is much more than the most sanguine predicted at the beginning of the movement about three weeks ago. SON OF CHICAGO SALOONKEEPER MURDERED BY BLACK- MAILERS, Chicago, Nov. 21.—The Black Hand yesterday gave its answer to the dec- lJaration of war from the Maro Panica, or White Hand—formed to extermi- nate the Italian blackmailers who have been terrorizing their country- men in Chicago. While a committee of influential Italians was preparing to raise a fund of $50,000 with which to fight and stamp out the blackmailers, Mariano Scardina, a young Italian who left Buffalo a few days ago on account of trouble with a secret society there,was stabbed to death in his father’s sa- loon. Twelfth Ward Institution Announces That It Will Resume. New York, Nov. 2.—As evidence of the marked improvement in the finan- cial situation in this city came the announcement yesterday that the Twelfth Ward bank, one of the insti- tutions which suspended payment dur- ing the early days of the crisis, will reopen for business to-day. News of the promised reopening of the institu- tion spread quickly throughout the Harlem district, where the bank is lo- cated, and within an hour a good- sized crowd had gathered in the vicin- ity of the building. Several of them requested permission to make deposits at once, but they were informed that it would be necessary for them to await the formal reopening of the in- stitution to-day. No Deposit Required. The local subtreasury yesterday re- ceived its first official advices from Washington regarding the govern- ment’s issue of $100,000,000 of treas- ury certificates. Subscriptions for nominal amounts were taken, but nothing was known of the $25,000,000 DR, CHADWICK GOES FREE. Indictment Against Husband of Witch of Finance Nolied. Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 20.—The in- dictment returned in ‘the criminal court here against Dr. Leroy Chad- wick several years ago, in which he was charged with aiding and abetting his wife, Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick, in forging the name of Andrew Carnegie to a note for $5,000,000, was nolled yesterday by Judge Estep upon the re- quest of the county prosecutor. Mrs. Chadwick shortly before her death employed a Cleveland attorney to| syndicate said to have been formed have the indictment nolled if possi- | to take up a portion of the issue. ble. No deposit is required with sub- scriptions to the treasury certificates, and banks and brokerage houses in the financial district announced their willingness to forward bids without NO PRINCESS, NO SALARY. Enrico Toselli’s Dignity Costs Him Concert Contract. exacting any commission. Florence, Noy. 20. — Enrico Toselli,| Proposals for the new Panama ca- the Italian pianist who last Septem-|nal bonds will have to be forwarded ber was married to Countess Montign-| direct to Washington, as the various oso, divorced wife of King Frederick | subtreasuries are not authorized to August of Saxony, recently received | accept them. an offer to give a series of concerts in Warsaw, Russian Poland. He ac- cepted, but when the condition was made that Signora Toselli should be present at his recitals, Signor Toselli replied that his dignity would not al- low him to have his wife appear in, public. The manager then broke the contract. BOND ISSUE IS VERY POPULAR. Treasury Officials Believe Both Loans Will Be Over-Subscribed. Washington, Nov. 21—The commu. nications which came to the treasury. department yesterday approving the financial policy adopted and the sub-: Panama bonds and one-year certifi- cates were the subject of discussion! Secretary Accompanied by Troops at! at the meeting of the cabinet and af-' Vladivostok. forded general gratification. While: Vladivostok, Nov. 20. — Secretary details regarding subscriptions are not! Taft, who arrived here from Manila’ yet being made public, it seems to be Sunday on the cruiser Rainbow, came the feeling at the treasury that both ashore twice yesterday, drove through loans will be oversubscribed, as was the city and did shopping. He was the case with the popular loan ‘of accompanied by an escort of Russian $100,000,000 issued by the Cleveland troops. Last night he dined with Gen.| administration in 1896. The decline Pflugg, the commander of the forces |in the stock market yesterday is re- garded as only a symptom of hesita- Young Skater Drowned. tion until the effect of the failure or Albert Lea, Minn., Nov. 20. — The! success of the measures are proved first drowning of the season in Foun-| by the opening of the bids. Several tain Lake has just occurred. The ten-' important questions are being raised year-old son of Nels Turtness of this in communications addressed to the city, skated too near the open water. | treasury, but the treasury officials are The ice gave way and he could not be! exercising an unusual amount of cate rescued in time. in defining their position. 2 TAFT DOES SOME SHOPPING. Killed by Their Own Bombs. REDS TO EARN THEIR FOOD. Lisbon, Nov. 20.—Three anarchists were engaged in this city in the dan- gerous occupation of making bombs Rapid City, S. D. when the material with which they Washington, Nov. 21. — Telegrams were working exploded. Two of the’ | from Special Agent Downs’ of the Ute men were killed outright and the third | Indians and Supervisor of Indian Em- man was arrested tetore he could get | ployment Bagnett, received at, the In- away. dian office here, state that fifty-seven sie SEES Rae able-bodied Indians, with their fami- Plotters Are Arrested, “ ies, consisting of a total of about 130, Guayaquil, Ecuador, Nov. 20.—The have left the Ute camp for Rapid City, police of this city yesterday arrested §. D., to go to work. The total num- several persons suspected of plotting’ ber of Indians at the camp is about against the government. Fifty-seven Male Utes Accept Work at scriptions which were received for the! ROOSEVELT WARNS. FEDERAL OF- FICIALS TO QUIT “THIRD- TERM” TALK. Washington, Roosevelt has taken steps to head off the “third- term” boom. Federal off- cials ate being warned to quit talking “third term” and to discourage it wherever they can. In connection with this move the administration has decided that no federal officer shall go as a delegate to the next Republican national convention. This information comes from an ab- solutely reliable source and will cause much surprise among the politicians. Those who are opposed to:the, “third term” -will be surprised, because they have been inclined recently to be- lieve that the president was laying plans to run again. To his friends the: surprise will be over the method which the president has adopted to sheck his boom. They expected him to make another public declaration. The president realizes that the most persistent third-term boomers are federal officeholders or politicians who are seeking favor at the White House. To a Western senator a few days ago the president said: “I am not being fooled by this clamor,” but he went no further. JURY WEEPS AT WOMAN’S STORY Mrs. Bradley Recounts Relations With Brown. Washington, Nov. 21. — “I am so tired,” said Mrs. Annie M. Bradley, the defendant in the trial now in prog- ress in the cfiminal court in this city, 1 few minutes before 3 o’clock yester- jay, after she spent about four hours om the witness stand relating the de- tails of her acquaintanceship and inti- macy with Former United States Sen- ator Brown, with whose murder she stands accused, and Judge Stafford immediately gave orders for the ad- journment of the court. She had not reached the events di- rectly connected with the tragedy in which Brown was killed when court adjourned yesterday. The court room was crowded during the entire day, and many of the spec- tators were women. Tears were fre- quently shed, not only by the general audience but once or twice by mem- bers of the jury. $2,000,000 1S TRACED. Bank Examiner Moxey Testifies in Walsh Trial. Chicago, Nov. 21. — Approximately $2,000,000, which it is charged by the federal prosecutors had been transfer- red by John R, Walsh from the vaults of the Chicago National bank to the 2offers of his several enterprises, has been traced by means of entries in the 900ks of the institution when National Bank Examiner E. P. Moxey stepped down from the witness stand at the adjournment for the day of the Walsh trial. Mr. Moxey occupied the stand throughout the morning and afternoon sessions of court and all told identified eighteen entries, which is is claimed by the prosecution are proof positive of misapplication of funds, as charged. The aggregate of the amounts testi- fied yesterday was $1,000,000. A sim- ilar amount was traced in like manner Monday. FINES GREEK PADRONES. import Boys to Work in Shoe Shining Parlors and Fruit Stores. Chicago, Nov. 21. — Three Greeks, found guilty of having imported boys from their native country to be farm- ed out to proprietors of shoe shining establishments and fruit stores, were fined by Federal Judge Bethea vester- day. The fines were accompanied by threat of penitentiary sentences should the offenses be repeated. The fines, which ranged from $25 to $500, were based on the making of false affi- davits in securing entrance of the boys to the United States. PROHIBITION BILL PASSED. Unprecedented Scenes in Alabama Senate Chamber. Montgomery, Ala., Nov. 21. — Un- precedented scenes were enacted in the senate chamber of the historical capitol of Alabama yesterday when the statutory prohibition bill was passed. Women and children thronged the corridors and galleries and even usurped the sanctity of the floor itself, pushing the senators from their seats and giving vent to their enthusiasm by shouts and cheers that echoed and re-echoed through the building. BANK ROBBED OF $140,000. President and Cashier Are Indicted on Three Charges. Macon, Ga., Nov. 21.—J. W. Caba- niss, president, and C. M. Orr, cashier of the defunct Exchange bank, were indicted by the grand jury on charges of embezzlement, felony and misde- meanor. President Cabaniss is charg- ed with embezzling $50,000 and Or $90,000. | Dozen Villages Shocked. Reggio di Calabria, Italy, Nov. 21.— About one dozen villages were dam- aged by the earthquakes which was felt in the province of Reggio di Ca- labria Monday. Several houses col- lapsed, but fortunately no lives were lost. Passenger Trains Crash, Terre Haute, Ind., Nov. 21. — Two fast trains on the Vandalia line met head-on at Vevay Park, Ill, and Jo. seph McCleaner, an engineer, was in stantly killed. Nov. 21.— President, —