Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 11, 1908, Page 7

_t_ monds before them for examination. two men, claimed by the police to be Joseph A. Laboon and J, C. Moran of London, Eng., faileq to make their es- cape. They were stopped by a pur- suing crowd and arrested by officers. The stones, except two, were recoy- ered. They were valued at $3,000. The home of R. Ferdini, an Italian, was wrecked by an explosion of dyna- mite at Brownsville, Pa. The entire front of the house was blown out, but neither Frediani nor members of his family were injured. Recently Fredi- ani received letters from an alleged Black Hand ‘society threatening death if money was not paid the society, and the authorities believe the Black Hand is responsible for the outrage. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA, NEWS OF WEEK SUMMARIZED DIGEST OF THE NEWS WORTH TELLING CONDENSED FOR BUSY READERS, Washington Notes. It was announced at the war depart- ment that thirty-seven candidates for appointment as second lieutenants in the army had successfully passed the examination and will be commissioned In the order in which they passed. J. F. Houz, superintendent of the Indian school at Rapid City, S. D., is in Washington on official business with the Indian office. He says the Ute Indians who recently were round- ed up by federal troops and put to work at Rapid City are making fairly good hands. Most of them are em- ployed on railroad construction and the rest are chopping wood. They seem to be more skillful with the pick and shovel than with the ax. At the last cabinet meeting of the year 1907 the decision was reached by the president and Attorney General Bonaparte that the government. will use every means in its power to bring about in the courts disapproval of the decision rendered in. Colorado by Judge Lewis, that there is no law against citizens agreeing in advance to purchase coal or other public lands that may be acquired by others under- what is known as the dummy entry- man system. Casualty. Fire at Saginaw, Mich., destroyed several buildings, causing a loss of about $100,000. i A five-story building in Chicago was partially destroyed by fire, entailing a loss estimated at $100,000. o Fire destroyed the big cooper shop of the Standard Oil company in Cleve- land. The loss is estimated at $75,- 000. ‘The explosion of a lamp in the home of George Steger at Collinsville, Ill., set fire to the house and three chil- dren perished in the flames. The Colonial Arms, the largest sum- mer hotel on the North shore at Glou- cester, Mass., was burned with nearly all its furnishings,. The loss is $100,- 000. Three cars of a Southern Pacific passenger train left the track at Flor- iston, Cal. An unknown tramp was killed and the baggageman was _ in- jured. i Eugene Perrault, aged twenty-five, was drowned in Torch lake, near Houghton, Mich., by breaking through the ice while skating. He had been warned not to approach the spot where he broke through. Two men were killed and thirteen others were seriously injured by an explosion in Converter No. 3 of the Edgar Thompson plant, one of the United States Steel corporation’ at North Braddock, Pa, St. Anne’s orphans’ home, a Roman Catholic institution at Terre Haute, Ind., was totally destroyed by fire. One huncred orphans were in the building -and a panic ensued among them, but all of them escaped without injury. Loss, $30,000. An express train was derailed about seven miles north of Barrie, Ont. The whole train, with the exception of the locomotive, rolled down a forty-foot embankment. A stove in the second car set the train on fire and it burned. All the passengers, of - whom fifteen were injured, were taken out safely. Personal. ' Dr. William R, Hamilton, aged nine- ty-two, former mayor of Peoria, IIL, is dead. John Lamber, the well known artist and portrait painter, died at his coun- try home near Philadelphia, aged forty-six years, Mrs. John Dunn, aged eighty-nine, mother of Mrs. Leslie M. Shaw, wife of the former cabinet minister, is dead at Comanche, Iowa. Henry T. Coe, formerly an in- structor of mathematics in the Uni- versity of Michigan, died at his home in Omaha of diabetes. Dr. Coleman Sellers, a distinguished engineer and scientist, died at his home in Philadelphia. Dr. Sellers achieved fame as an inventor. Isaac Haring, ‘who served during the entire Civil war, escaping unhurt, is dead at Gladstone, Mich. He was eight feet tall—the tallest man in the coun- try. Orlando G. Smith, president of the Western Shoe Jobbers’ association, and vice president of the National Bhoe Jobbers’ association, is dead in Chicago. } Boardman Carnes, a well known minstrel and interlocutor, and assist. ant business manager of the Al G. Fields minstrels, died at Mount Pleas- ant, W. Va., of pnepmonia. John Chandler Bancroft Davis, for the last twenty-four years reporter for the United States supreme court and formerly United States minister to Germany, is dead in Washington. Henry Wulff, former treasurer of the State of Illinois and once a prominent Republican politician, is dead in Chi- cago. Mr. Wulff was recently releas- ed from the house of correction, where he served two years for violation of the postal laws. Domestic. Triplets, a boy and two girls, were born to Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Butter- haugh of El Paso, Tex. Mike, the largest elephant in Ameri- ca, died in the circus winter quarters at Bridgeport, Conn. The cause of his death is unknown. The annual meeting of the Geologi- cal Society of America was held at Albuquerque, N. M. About seventy- five delegates were present. John D. Rockefeller has just added $2,191,000 to his gifts to the University of Chicago, making the total of his benefactions over $23,000,000. Andrew Carnegie has donated $10, 000 for a public library at Fairbury, Neb., under the usual conditions, the donation of. a site and an appropria- tion of $10,000 a year for maintenance. The Hippodrome has been opened at Cleveland. The theater cost $2,000,- 000. It will seat 4,500 persons. Tha stage is 100 feet wide and 104 feet deep. Beneath the stage is a tank for aquatic sports. Three men of Albion, Iowa, all of Foreign. At Rio de Janeiro the senate on third reading approved the govern- ment bill requiring obligatory military service under conscription. Most Rev. Daniel Murphy, archbish- op of Hobart, is dead at Hobart, Tas- mania. He was the oldest Catholic} .4om are of middle age and all of prelate, being consecrated Oct. 11.) Wom are married and in business, 1se6. soon will enroll in the Iowa state agri- A new variety called “The Folies ‘ Bergere,” which has been opened in Berlin, is another attempt to mimic what is supposed to be the gay side of Paris life. Berlin now has a “Moulin Rouge,” a “Chat-Noir Cabaret” and “Folies Caprice.” An expedition is being organized at Belize, British Honduras,,for thé pur- pose of making an armed invasion of Guatemala, according to advices, and Gen. Lee Christmas, formerly of Mem- phis, Tenn., is recruiting a force at Puerto Barrios, an Atlantic port of Guatemala. Horace McKinley of West Salem, Wis., U. S. A. wanted in Oregon in connection with the land fraud troubles in that state, who escaped on Noy. 11 last from the Manchurian au- thorities at Mukden, where he was in- carcerated pending the arrival of an officer from America, has been recap tured at Harbin. cultural college at Ames for the regu: lar courses of study. A bill has been introduced in the Philippine assembly to make the speaker of the assembly vice governor of the islands. The office of vice gov- ernor has been vacant since the pro- motion of Gen. Smith to be governor general. Controller Metz of N2w York, in a review of the growth of the city in ten years since consolidation, says that the assessed valuation of real estate owned by the people had advanced from $2,532,416,819 in 1898 to $6,240,- 480,602 in 1907. Clad in .a_ thin bathing suit, Miss Helen Wilcox of Eltingville, Staten Island, took a. swim in the ocean near her home. She remained in the water five minutes, although the temperature registered 2 degrees below freezing. The bath was taken on a wager. Mrs. Russell Sage has given $25,000 to the city of New York to restore the governor’s room in the city hall to its original condition, as shown by plans in the possession of the historical so- ciety. The offer has been accepted, with the approval of Mayor McClellan. It is now almost certain that the “Raven” mantle, before which Edgar Allen Poe sat when he wrote his mas. terpiece, will go to Columbia univer. sity and find a place of honor in Ham- ilton Hall. William Hemstreet of Brooklyn, owner of the mantle, offered it to some institution which would properly preserve it. Judge Trieber, in the federal court at Little Rock, Ark., upheld the ¢on- stitutionality of the anti-futures bill passed by the last legislature at the Crimes. Estella Hartzell, child wife of Geo. B. Hartzell, killed herself at Pittsburg because she could no longer endure being left alone at night. The hus- band is employed at night. Charged by the police with coun terfeiting silver dimes and quarters, Perry C. Daniels, his son Irel Daniels, twenty years old, a young daughter and a young woman said to be engag: ed to marry Irel Daniels, were arrest ed at Lima, Ohio, as a result of a raid on the Daniels home. Apparently willing victims of a sui: cide pact, Sanders Pearlman, aged twenty-four, and his wife, Cecilia aged twenty, were found in their bed room at Baltimore, Md. The man was} dead and the woman nearly so. She has not regained consciousness. Th¢ room was filled with gas, the Southern states. for precedent trays of dia-| © FORMER, CHEMIST IN BUREAU OF PRINTING IS ONE OF THE ACCUSED. MADE $75,000 OUT OF DEAL INK MANUFACTURER ALSO IN. DICTED FOR CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD. Washington, Jan. 8.—Allegation of fraud and graft in supplying the bu- reau of engraving and printing with black dry color used in the manufac. ture of ink, resulted -yesterday in the indictment by the federal grand jury here of Edwin M. Vandyck, formerly a chemist and inkmaker employed in the bureau, and Victor Bloede, presi- dent of the Victor Bloede company, manufacturers of fine inks and colors. Vandyck and Bloede are charged in the indictments with conspiracy to de- fraud the government, the allegation being that they entered into an agree- ment by which Bloede was to pay Vandyck a percentage of the money. his company received from the gov- ernment for the black dry color fur- nished to the bureau of engraving and { printing. Gets $75,000 Out of It. Vandyck, it is alleged, in his posi- tion of chemist and inkmaker of the bureau, had to pass upon the samples of the color submitted by various manufacturers. It is charged that he fraudulently favored the Baltimore company, and that as a result of the conspiracy he was paid by Bloede in the course of several years between petween $70,000 and $75,000. The indictment purports to give de- tails of the transaction between Van- dyck and Bloede as to payments made the former. It. appears that Vandyck received his commission in the form of checks, which after be- ing indorsed he would return to the Bloede company and receive in lieu thereof New York drafts. Something Just as Good. Attorneys for both Vandyck and Bloede appeared before Justice Staf- ford yesterday and agreed to $10,000 bail. The attorneys asserted that the indictments were of a technical na- ture, and that the alleged fraud did not involve necessarily a loss to the government. They claimed that the bureau received the best colors ob- tainable at a price 10 cents less per pound than it had paid prior to the making of contracts with the Bloede company. LIABILITY LAW IS INVALID. Federal Statute Is Knocked Out by United States Supreme Court. Washington, Jan. 8.—That the con- gressional act known as the “employ- ers’ liability law” is not in accord- ance with the constitution of the Unit- er States, because it goes beyond the bounds permitted in the regulation of interstate commerce, was the con- clusion reached by the supreme court of the United States in deciding two damage cases coming to the court from the federal courts of Kentucky ahd Tennessee which were brought under the provision of the law. The decision was announced by Jus- tice White, the court standing 5 to 4 against the law. Even among the five who voted not to sustain the statute there were differences of opinion. Muck interest was manifested in the result of the court’s deliberations. Decisions of the lower court almost uniformly have been to the effect that the law relating to the liability of the railroads in interstate commer¢e vio- lates the provisions of the federal con- stitution. Problem Is Difficult. Whether any part of the law is left intact upon which new legislation can be made effective along the lines sought to be covered is a problem. The law passed by the last congress aimed to cover all interstate carriers, and provided that in actions to re- cover damages for personal injuries to employes, where such injuries have resulted in his death, the fact that the employe may have been guilty of contributory negligence should not bar recovery where the contributory negligence of the employer was great. ‘Jurisdiction Is the Rule. The majority opinion of the court does not dwell so much upon the pro- visions of the law in respect to the negligence of either employe or em- ployer, but turns almost wholly upon the question of overlapping jurisdic- tion in the attempt of congress to jreach interstate railroads, thereby covering cases which the court holds are for thé cognizance of the state courts. MILK AND BLOOD FLOW. Upset Pail Starts a Knife Fight at Des ‘Moines. Des Moines, Jan. 8.—Five members of the family of Adam Schaffer were injured, two perhaps fatally, as the result of the overturning of a milk Alec Shaffer drove a cow behind a cow being milkeq by The cow kicked. Then trouble started. Knives were wpe | Neighbors stopped the row and sum- pail last night. his~ brother Levi. moned physicians. - LECTED DURING THREE SES- SIONS OF COURT. New York, Jan. 8—At the close of three court sessions, which marked the first day of the second trial of Harry K, Thaw for the alleged mur- der of Stanford White, nine tentative jurors had been selected out of fifty- seven talesmen examined by District Attorney Jerome for the prosecution and Martin W. Littleton for the de- fense. All of the men in the jury box are subject to peremptory challenge, of which each side has thirty. In view of the difficulty experienced last year in discharging five jurors after they had taken the oath of service, it was agreed this time not to adminis- ter any oath until both sides finally are satisfied with the full panel. « Insanity Sole Defense. Legal insanity at the time of the tragedy is to be the sole defense. This was clear at the very outset of the proceedings yesterday, when Mr. Littleton formally served notice that the former plea of not guilty was amended by the specification that the defendant was insane when the homi- cide was committed. Three court sessions, including an evening session from 8 to 10 o'clock, are to be held daily until the jury is completed. The trial opened with little or no ceremony and there was distinct evi- dence of a slackening of public inter- est. Admittance to the court room was rigorously restricted, and all day long there were vacant benches in the curtailed quarters given over to spec- tators. The only women allowed to be present are the members of the de- fendant’s family and newspaper writ- ers. Artists, who were barred after the first few days of the first trial, jwere allowed to sketch to their heart’s content. Evelyn Is Center of Interest, Mrs. Evelyn Thaw was again the center of interest, even to the exclu- sion of the defendant himself. She was followed by throngs of curious persons as she entered and left the court house for the morning and aft- ernoon sessions. She-did not attend the night sitting. Every possible convenience is to be provided for the jurors. They are to be quartered in one of the fashionable hotels on upper Broadway and lunch- eon is to be served at an expensive down-town restaurant. The jury ex- amination did not develop such.a strong vein of unalterable opinion as was anticipated, and many of the talesmen were excused on other grounds than bias based upon the reading of extensive reports of the first trial. STANDARD OIL INTERVENES. Is Given Leave to Take Part in Great Northern Appeal From Fine. Washington, Jan. 8—On behalf of the Standard Oil company, Attorney F. D. McKenna of this city yesterday filed a petition in the supreme court of the United States for leave to in- tervene in the case of the Great Northern railway, involving the El- kins law ‘imposing fines for granting or accepting rebates, which was re- pealed by the Hepburn railroad rate law ot the last congress. The same question is involved in the case in which Judge Landis imposed a fine of over $29,000,000 on the oil company, and consequently the decision in the Great Northern case willhave a direct bearing on the Standard Oil compa- ‘ny’s case. The petition was granted anda brief will be filed in the case on be- half of the Standard. Attorney’ Gen- eral Bonaparte made no objection, but said the government did not concede that the two cases are parallel. | The Great Northern company was | indicted Nov. 8, 1906, for giving re- bates. Besides objecting to the suffi- leiency of the indictment on a techni- ical ground, the company contends ithat the original provisions of the El- ‘kins law, under which it was indicted, \were repealed by the Hepburn act. The contention of the government lis that the original provisions of the | Elkins law, so far as necessary for |the prosecution of offenses committed thereunder prior to the passage of the Hepburn act, were saved by section 13 of the Revised Statutes. GEORGE DIXON DEAD. Former . Pugilistic Star Victim ot Long Fight With Drink. New York, Jan. 8. — The greatest fighter of his time and the winner of several hundred fistic encounters, George Dixon, the negro pugilist, fa- miliarly called “Little Chocolate,” died yesterday in the alcoholic ward of Bellevue hospital, the victim of a long fight with drink. Idolized in his prime by thousands as a_pugilistic hero, George Dixon passed away prac- tically penniless and without friends. Dixon was thirty-seven years old, and for many years held the title of featherweight champion. lowa Tar Killed in Gotham. Webster City, Iowa, Jan. 8.—Daniel Wren of this city yesterday received a telegram from the navy department announcing the sudden ath of his son George, who was the navy. ‘The young man was killed in New York city by a train. Dana to Quit La Crosse. _ La Crosse, Wis., Jan. 8.—Because of poor support, it is announced that ‘Prof. Frank G. Dana, bandmaster of the Third Regiment band, W. N. G., will leaye La Crosse. " /NINE TENTATIVE’ JURORS SE-} AGAINST HEINZE \ INDICTED FOR OVERCERTIFICA- TION OF CHECKS AGGREGAT- - ING $400,000. IS RELEASED ON $50,000 BAIL COUNSEL SAYS THERE WAS ABUNDANT COLLATERAL TO COVER CHECKS. New York, Jan. 9.—Indicted by the federal grand jury for the overcertifi- cation of fifteen checks, representing in the aggregate over $400,000, and drawn by the firm of Otto Heinze & Co. on the Mercantile National bank, F. Augustus. Heinze, the copper mag- nate and former president of the Mer- eantile National bank, surrendered himself to United States Commission- er Shields yesterday and later was re- leased on $50,000 bail. Heinze will be formally arraigned to plead to the in- dictment before Judge Chatfield in the United States circuit court to-day. Heinze’s Counse! Explains. After an examination of Uie indict- ments, which contains thirty counts, Counsel Edward Lauterbach last night made the following statement: “The indictment is based upon cer- tification of fifteen checks, amounting to something over $400,000, drawn by Otto Heinze & Co., on the 14th day of October last. Before the certifica- tion was made, F. Augustus Heinze obtained the discount of a note for $500,000 secured by abundant stock exchange collateral worth at the mai- ket rates of that day more than $800,- «]000, and drew his check for $500,000 to the credit of Otto Heinze & Co., the amount of: which should have been passed to their credit, as I think it was. i : No Willful Intent. “There certainly was no willful in- tent within the statute to overcertify any check. On the contrary, there was far more than the amount of the checks standing to the credit of the account of the drawers when they were certified.” The indictment specifically charges that Heinze, while president of the Mercantile National bank, overcerti- fied fifteen checks. That is, that he guaranteed by the bank signature that the sums indicated in the checks were held by the institution to’ the credit of the drawer. To overcertify bank pa- per is under the federal statute an of- fense punishable by imprisonment for not less than five years and not more than ten years. What the Government Charges. One count is devoted to each of the checks involved. It is alleged that Heinze knew that Otto Heinze & Co. did not have to its credit the sums named in the various checks. The sixteenth count in the indictment charges that Heinze intentionally ap- plied the funds of the bank, without the knowledge of the directors, to the payments of the fifteen checks drawn by Otto Heinze & Co., and knowing that the company did not have on de- posit with the bank a sum to the amount named in the certified checks. For such an offense the federal stat- utes provide a penalty of not less than five years’ imprisonment or a fine of not more than $5,000, or both. CITY HONORS DEAD ATHLETE. Edward Hanlon Js Given a Public Funeral . Toronto, Ont., Jan. 9.—Edward Han- lon, former champion oarsman of the world, was buried yesterday after- noon, the city according him a public funeral. In the morning the remains lay in state in St. Andrew’s church. From 11:15 until 1:30 thousands thronged the church for a last glance at the dead athlete. The route of the procession to the necropolis was lined by thousands of citizens and many hundreds followed the hearse in carriages. There was an immense crowd at the cemetery, where the last simple serv- ices were performed. FOR RELIEF OF DUMA. Congressman Starts a Movement to Liberate Russian Prisoners. Washington, Jan. 9.—Representaeive Waldo of New York offered a resolu- tion asking the house commmittee on foreign affairs to inquire into the “ex- pediency of the United States to inter- cede with the government of Russia, either through a special minister or | the present minister accredited to that country, for the liberation of the members of the Russian duma now in prison or under duress within that country, with a tender to them of the United States as an asylum, and pro- viding if necessary for their immedi- ate removal here.” DEAD MEN ON PAY ROLL. Fraud and Graft Said to Have Been Found in St. Joseph, Mo. St. Joseph, Mo., Jan. 9.—The coun- ty grand jury here reported that it had uncovered gross frauds and graft in the city’s electric street lighting de- partment and returned indictments said to be against the heads of de- partments and other city employes. It was found that dead men had been carried on the pay rolls for several years. The names of the indicted men were not made public. PASSENGERS GO. DOWK AND EIGHTY SERIOUSLY IN- JURED. Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 9—Running at a speed of thirty miles an hour, the sec- ond section of an excursion train on the Southern railway from Cleveland, Ohio, known as the Collver special, and bound for Florida points, plunged through a trestle over Copper Mine creek, about fifty miles west of At- lanta, yesterday, and as a_ result three persons are dead and two fa- tally injured, and eighty passengers: were so seriously injured ag to re- quire medical attention. Two Fataily Hurt. It was nearly midnight when the Southern railway relief train reached Atlanta, bearing the body of Engineer James Edward and about fifty of the injured, among whom was.Mrs. Emil Hoover of Columbus, Ohio, who is in a dying condition, and Florence A. Studebaker of Cleveland, internally in- jured and probably fatally hurt. Road Foreman of Engines Schnapps and a negro fireman, Mose Baldwin were also on the train and died shortly aft- er reaching the city. Many of the injured ‘ were lifted from the car windows in Atlanta and conveyed to hospitals, while some of the hurt were able to take cabs to the local hotels. 200 Passengers Go Down. The wreck occured about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, five vestibuled Pullmans being precipitated twenty- five feet to the bed of the creek, which was nearly dry, one of the Pullmans being torn asunder. Two hundred passengers went down with the coaches. Copper Mine trestle is between Hi- ram ‘and Dallas, Ga., in a sparsely set tled country. ROBBERS HOLD UP TRAIN. Four Armed Men Attempt to Loot’ M. K. & T. Flyer at Kansas City. Kansas City, Jan. 9.—Four men at- tempted to rob the passengers on @ Missouri, Kansas & Texas passenger train standing in the union station here yesterday. They were frightened off without securing any money or valuables. The men escaped, leaving no clue. The train is what is known as the flyer, due to depart at 2:20 for the Southwest. Shortly before starting time the would-bé robbers, four white men, entered one of the forward day coaches, and walked up and down the aisle, awaiting a favorable opportunity to commerce their work. 4 Robbers Drew Revolvers. The station, aside from this one train, was practically deserted, and this fact is believed to have prompted the men to make so bold an attempt. Dr. M. H. Kennedy of Kansas City, a passenger in the coach, said: “The four men walked through the coach several times. It was crowded. Several German immigrants were in the rear of the coach, and they seem- ed to be the object of the attack. Be- fore any of us realized what they were tip to two of.the robbers showed re- volvers, and pointing them at the for- eigners commanded them to give up their valuables. a Lantern Blow Routs Them. “Just then H. W. Drew, the conduct- or, and David White, the negro porter, came into the car. Drew hit one of the robbers on the head with his lan- tern and smashed it to pieces. Then they ran. “The only things they got were two valises from the German immi- grants. Three of the robbers were short and one was tall. The tall one, who was the leader, was about sixty years old. All wore good clothes.” The quartet dodged through long lines of freight cars standing on the sidetracks and were soon lost to sight. TERRORIZE TWO VILLAGES. Night Riders Continue Their Raids in Kentucky. Paris, Ky., Jan. 9. — Night riders made their appearance in the Burley district late last night, visiting two towns, one in Fleming and the other in Bath county, and destroyed two warehouses and a big general store. The raiders did not fire any shots in either place and left as soon as the work had been accomplished. The men were all masked and heavily arm- ed and caused a reign of terror among the citizens of the little villages. AHEAD OF THEIR TIME. First Class of West Point Wil! Gradu- ate Next Month. Washington, Jan. 9.—The first class. at the military academy will gradu- ate Feb. 4, that date having been se- lected by the superintendent of the academy in accordance with instruc- tions received from Washington. The army is short of officers and the addi- tion to the list resulting from an early graduation will help materially in fill- ing some of the vacant assignments in existing regimental organizations. THREE THAW JURORS SWORN. New York, Jan. 9. — Three jurors sworn to serve on the trial panel for Harry K. Thaw represented last night the net results of the two days and 3ix sessions of the trial before Justice Dowling in the criminal branch of the supreme court. In addition there were in the jury box at the close of of the night sitting four tentative jurors who are subject still to peremp- tory challenges by either side. In all ninety-five proposed jurors — were called and questioned yesterday. cs on one ————# a ins