Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 7, 1908, Page 3

‘BIG BLAZE” AT ALBERT ~ LEA Nearly One Hundred Thousand Dollar Loss Is Caused by Early Morning Fire. Albert Lea, Minn., March 4. — An- other big fire occurred yesterday morning, with the heaviest loss in the history of fires in this city. It start- ed in the rear of the Lembke Dry Goods company. The building was gutted and all contents ruined. The origin of the fire is not known, as there was not a stove or furnace in the building. The losses are A. C. Wedge and M. M. Jones, building, $22,000; insurance 18,000; Lembke Dry Goods company, dry goods and crockery, $35,000; O. C. Hayden & Co., clothing and shoes, $20,000, in- surance $.1,000; Miss Olson, milli- aery, $1,000; Northwestern Telephone f Exchange company, headquarters for local and toll business, office furni- ture, ete., $10,000, well insured; M. F. Smith, real estate, $1,000; M. M. Jones, insurance, $1,000; N. E. Peter- son, law library and furniture, $2,000; Dr. W. S. Wood, fixtures, $500; Dr. W. A. Bessen, library and fixtures, includ- ing instruments, $2,500; Dr. W. L. Devaney, dentist, furniture, instru- ments and stock, etc., $2,500. Most of the losses were covered by insur- ance and the Lembke Dry Goods com- pany had a good amount, but the loss will be heavy. EXPLOSION FATAL TO FIVE. Blown to Atoms. Spokane, Wash., March 4. — Two men were instantly killed by an ex- plosion near Marcus, Wash., yester- day. Two more are believed to be } dead, another is fatally injured, while several are suffering from bruises. ‘A: big landslide had occurred two miles south of Marcus. A wrecking crew were putting in a blast to clear the track and a stick of dynamite had been placed in one of the holes. An Italian began to tap it with a drill. Not a piece of him had been found at last reports. SAYS SPOUSE IS SHAMMING. ‘Woman Secures Re-examination Into Husband’s Mental Condition. { La Crosse, Wis., March 4.—Claim- ing that her husband feigned insanity to escape punishment for deserting her Mrs. William Grossbach demands a re-examination. The request has been granted by the court. Grossbach left his wife and family and when arrest- ed acted so strangely that an exami- nation into his mental condition was ordered. He was found insane and was about to be committed to the asy- lum when his wife appeared before the court, declaring that she was sat- isfied that her husband was sham- ming. SAVES LIFE WITH HAMMER. South Dakota Farmer Badly Hurt in Fight With Bull. Yankton, S. D., March 4.—Fighting for his life with a hammer against a vicious bill, George Moon, a_ well known farmer, drove off the brute, but is in a terrible condition. Sev- eral ribs are broken; also his collar- bone. He received internal injuries and his body is fearfully bruised where the animal crushed his victim against the barn wali, where the struggle took place. The bull then at- tacked a fine cow and soon killed it. It is thought Moon will recover. SCRATCH BRINGS DEATH. ( V} lowa Farmer Dies in Chicago of Blood Poisoning. Eldora, Iowa, March 4.—Daniel Me- gan, a prominent Hardin county farm- er and stockman, died of blood poison- ing in Chicago yesterday. A week ago he sat up with a brother-in-law who was dying with dropsy, and the patient scratched his hand and the poisoning resulted. P. 0. CRACKSMEN GET AWAY. Inspector Finds No Trace of Glendale Burglars. La Crosse, Wis., March 4. — Post- office Inspector E. E. Fraser, after a week’s search for the men who robbed the Glendale and Bay City (Wis.) | postoffices, has returned empty-hand- | ed. No trace of the dynamiters was | found. The robbers got less than | $100 at both places. | | Built Fire in Car; Arrested. Fergus, Falls, Minn., March 4. Chief Burton arrested two young men, who gave their names as F. B. Elley and W. L. Massey, in response to a message from Grand Forks to the ef- fect that they broken the seal of a Great Northern freight car and set | the car afire. Indian Chief Is Killed. Helena, Mont., March 4.—Big Louie, a chief of the ‘Kalispell Indians. was shot and killed in a drunken quarrel on the Flathead reservation by an- other Indian, supposed to be Alexan- j ander Poud, who was also shot and killed in turn by a friend of the chief. Slips on Ice and Dies. Fort Dodge, Iowa, March 4.—Thom- i as Jorsted slipped on an icy platform, 'e ? falling twelve feet and lighting on the ; top of his head. Death was instante neous. Italian Drills Into Dynamite and: Is} CHANGES IN GAME LAWS. State Wardens Make Many Recom- mendations. St. Paul, March 5.—Federal control of fish in the Great Lakes and migra- tory birds, the passage by the state legislature of a law requiring every man in the state to secure a license before carrying a gun, the establish- ment of more fish hatcheries, addition- al appropriations for artificial propa- gation of the food and game fishes of the state and the encouragement of artificial propagation of the Hungarian pheasant and the ring-neck, also the restacking of the depleted covers where the native birds of the state are disappearing—these are a few of the things the game wardens of Minnesota would like to see accomplished. At yesterday’s meeting at the old capitol, attended by thirty-seven wardens from all parts of the state, resolutions em- podying these wishes were adopted. The meeting is the first of its kind ever held in the state and was so suc- cessful that it will be made an annual affair. FARMERS WANT BIG MONEY. Demand $9,000 for Right to Set Poles on Property. Winona, Minn., March 5. — The La Crosse Water Power company, which built the big dam at Hatfield, Wis., and is constructing a power house there for the purpose of ‘supplying La Crosse and Winona with light and power, has run up against a snag which will compel it to go to the courts. It has secured the right of way to set poles from Hatfield to Wi- nona and to La Crosse at the rate of about $2 a pole, with the exception of a section comprising six farms, the owners of which are asking $9,000 for the privilege. Every effort has been made to reach a settlement, but the farmers hold firm, and the company has decided to begin condemnation proceedings. With this delay power will not be supplied to this city from the dam until July at the earliest. TRIES ROPE AND RAZOR. Brewer Terrorizes Neighborhood, It Is Charged, in Effort to Kill Self. La Crosse, Wis., March: 5. — After terrorizing his*neighborhood by three unsuccessful attempts to end his life, it is alleged, Carl Glimeister, a brew- er, is locked up here awaiting an ex- amination into his mental condition. Glimeister, who claims to have had" a dispute with his wife, went to a nearby saloon, according to the charges, and accumulated a jag. Re- turning, he secured a rope and at- tempted to hang himself in the pres- ence of his family. The rope was taken away from him. Later he went to the woodshed and succeeded in hanging himself to a rafter. He was cut down by neighbors and revived. Later in the evening he tried to cut his throat with a razor, but was re- strained until the arrival of the po- lice, COPPER MINES ARE OPEN. About 5,500 Men Will Be at Work Soon. Butte, Mont., March 5.—Work was started in the mines of the Amalga- mated, North Butte and Coalition com- panies yesterday. In the Amalgamat- ed mines, which suspended Dec. 9 last, about 30 per cent of the normal force was put to work yesterday. On Saturday last these mines employed 540 men. In a few days, when the normal force is restored they will give employment to 5,500 men. The North Butte company took on 250 last night. The Red Metals company, by the end of the week, will have added 700 men to its payroll. GOES TO SHUT DOOR; SHOT. Duluth Man May Die of Wound by Unknown Assailant. Duluth, March 5.—Charles Johnson, a water tender at the plant of the Ze- nith Furnace company, was shot by some unknown person late last night with murderous intent and probably fatal results, He walked to the rear of the engine room about 11:30 to shut a door which was standing wide open, and while there peered out into the darkness. A man leaped toward him and fired a revolver at him, the bul- Jet lodging in the groin. Johnson is in a hospital. He says he cannot im- agine who wished to kill him. BIGGER LIVE STOCK RRIZES. Wisconsin Board of Agriculture Has Annual Meeting. Madison, Wis., March 5.—The state board of agriculture re-elected George McKerrow of Pewaukee president and John M. True of Baraboo secretary. The board decided to offer larger. pre- miums for exhibits, particularly in the live stock department at the state fair in September. Grain Company Incorporated. Madison, Wis., March 5.—The Heit & Schuedler company, grain and com- mission merchants of Superior, yes- terday filed articles of incorporation in the office of the secretary of state. The capital stock is $25,000 and the Football Injury Causes Death. Philadelphia, March 5.—William Al- temus, twenty-one, of Cheltenham, a suburb, died in a hospital yesterday afternoon from a_ broken neck re- ceived last Thanksgiving day while playing “ootball. of State News of the Week Briefly Told. The city charter voted on at Benson carried by a vote of 164 to 59. A man named Ole Satter was killed oy a train a few miles south of Moose Lake. Mike Schoneman, a farmer living i Delton township, about fifteen miles north of Windom, committed suicide. Peter Larson Isenberg, a well-to-do farmer living about five miles south of Atwater, committed suicide by shooting himself with a shotgun. Louis Torgeson was taken to the Lyle hoopital with two fingers miss- ing asd his hand badly maimed as a result of playing with an old musket. Thomas Wilkinson, a lineman in the employ of the city of Marshall, fell from a twenty-foot pole and died from the effects of the injuries sus- tained. The new Auburn co-operative creamery was burned. One separator and churn and 1,500 pounds of butter were saved. Loss, $5,000; partly in- sured. A lone robber entered the saloon of Batroot Bros. at St. Paul, held up the proprietor and eight patrons of the saloon, secured $51 and made his es- cape in an automobile. A Great Northern passenger train was derailed at Nushka. The sleeper fell over on its side. Two passengers were*slightly injured. The cause of the accident is not known. , |) The three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs, Joseph Durand of Stephen was frightfully scalded by pulling a tea- kettle of boiling water over and died after terrible suffering. The child was playing on a chair by the kitchen stove, and, falling, grasped the tea- kettle. : 3: 8 Fire on the Robert Heaney farm, two miles southwest of Goodhue, burned the residence, barns, hay, grain and sixteen horses and twenty- three cattle, nothing being saved but the piano and a few effects. Loss, $12,000; insurance, $1,600. Incendiar- ism is suspected. Marvin Boucher, a Little Falls youth arrested on a charge of robbing an aged farmer by the name of Blair of $152.on Jan. 17, appeared before Justice Gaudet, and on agreement to return the amount of money taken from Blair and pay all costs, he was discharged from custody. F. E. Cawley of Minneapolis, while in Little Falls last week spoke of a plan he is formulating to give that city electric car connections with the new Soo railroad. Mr. Crawley’s plan is to build his line between Little Falls and a point south of Gregory, a distance of about seven miles, Judges L. L. Baxter and M. D: Tay- lor of the Seventh judicial district have filed with the secretary of state a schedule of the opening dates of the terms of court in the counties compris- ing that district, as follows: Benton County—First Monday after Jan. 1 each year and the first Monday in June. Clay County—Third Monday in May and second Monday in October. Douglas County—Fourth Monday in February and first Tuesday in Septem- ber. Mille Lacs County—First Monday in April and third Monday in November. Todd County — Fourth Monday in April and third Monday in October. Wadena County—Third Monday in March and second Monday in Septem- ber. Drainage operations in Northern Minnesota will be started considerably earlier this year than ever before, ac- cording to big contractors who have many projects under way in that sec- tion of the state. The reason for this is that the winter has been so mild that the frost is not nearly so deep this year as it generally is ahd that it will have opened up by May 15. One of the biggest projects for drainage in the state is the deepening of the Roseau river, which will be fin- ished this summer as far as it can be done on the American side. The big floating dredge which was used for the last two yearsin deepening the up- per portion of the river will be used again and another dredge just as big also will be put in operation. These two dredges will be the two largest in the stdte. Dredges will also be used on several of the judicial ditches and county ditches in Polk, Norman, Red Lake, Roseau, Marshall, Beltrami, Clear- water and Kittson counties. Mistaking carbolic acid for medi- cine, Mrs, Mary Brooks of Minneapo- lis, aged fifty-six, took one-third of the contents of a pint bottle of the poison and died at the city hospital a short time afterward. A sensational runaway occurred in Duluth last week, and as a_ result Frank Trainor, the driver of the team, and his ten-year-old son Henry are in a hospital, the latter mortally hurt. The team was frightened by flying paper. j The Windom Commercial club has been organized with a membership of more than sixty, ~ : j pees On account of a number of cases of scarlet fever the school at Randall has been closed and public gatherings have been forbidden to be held until further notice. Olavus Eiskum, who shot himself at his home near Vining, as the result of despondeney, died from the effect of his injuries. The bullet fractured his skull, Fire at Perham destroyed Peter Miller’s jewelry store and Frank Glinski’s saloon. The loss is estimat- ed at about $5,000; partially covered by insurance. During the year of 1907 the record of Montgomery show that there were eighteen deaths and thirty-nine births, making an increase of nearly 2 per cent on the entire population for the year. Burglars entered the retail hard- ware store of Nelson & Johnson at Spring Grove, broke open the cash drawer, securing a considerable amount of cash and a quantity of val- uable merchandise. Another state bank, with d capital of $10,000 has been organized to operate at the village of London, Freeborn county, and this is the twelfth state bank in the county, while there are four national banks. Alex Cameron was killed by the caving in of a sand pit from which the sand was being hauled by teams at the edge of the city of Duluth. The sand was frozen on top, and when un- dermined the heavy crust collapsed suddenly, burying and crushing Cam- eron. The election of a mayor, treasurer -|and three aldermen at Breckinridge was the occasion for a warm fight be- tween the “lid” and “wide open” ele- ments. The result ef the election means that the license will not be put back to $500 and may be raised to $1,500. i Some of the Mankato hunters who have cottages at Swan lake have or- dered a number of Hungarian part- ridges. It is not known that this splendid game bird has been intro- duced into any part of Minnesota as yet, but it has been imported into sey- eral'states with the best of results. The rural letter carriers of McLeod county held a meeting in the Hiberni- an hall at Glencoe and organized with eighteen charter members. Prospects are good for ten more in the near future. State President Crippen of Langdon explained the benefits de- rived from association to the carriers, the department and the rural patrons. Practically all arrangements have been made by the Omaha road for compliance with the federal law gov- erning working hours of operatives, which goes into effect March 4, ac- cording to the statement made by General Superintendent Strickland. There will be no decrease in wages whatsoever in connection with the change. A horse valued at $250 belonging to Louis Fort, who lives just south of Winona, was gored to death by a bull owned by William Fort. Louis Fort and several men were attracted by the noise and ran to the horse’s assist- ance, but the bull chased them up a tree, where they were compelled to re- main until a dog came along and drove the bull away. Thomas Warren, a veteran of Com- pany C, Ninth Minnesota volunteer in- fantry, in the Civil war, met with a terrible death at White Barth. After he had retired for the night the house in which he lived caught fire, and be- fore he could be awakened and the neighbors render assistance the house was burned down and the old soldier was incinerated. J. P. Nelsen & Co, have been award- ed the contract for the model building of the Mankato Normal school. The plans have been or will be amended so as to let contract come inside the appropriation of $65,000. The con- tractors already have been hauling sand which will be used in the struc- ture. The building will be 86x215 feet and three stories high, including base- ment. The work must be completed by Jan. 1, 1909. Mankato stone and brick will be used. The state dairy and food department is waging a campaign against short- weight butter packages. A special in- spector has been detailed for a week in collecting evidence against the creameries, and enough has now been secured to. start twenty prosecutions. Numerous complaints about short short weight in butter have been re- ceived by the department for some time and an effort will now be made to stamp out the practice. Fourteen horses afflicted. with glan- ders were slaughtered on the outskirts of Moorhead under the supervision of Dr. McDoald of St. Paul, field man for the Minnesota live stock sanitary board, assisted by Dr. Dunham of Far- go. The village council of Springfield has decided to place the question of the extension of the present water system and sewerage before the people at the coming election. An engineer already has been sent for to make an estimate as to the probable cost. ongress. Wednesday. Washington, Feb. 27.—There were two speeches in criticism of the Ald- rich currency bill in the senate yes- terday. Senator Culberson of Texas criticised the measure and spoke in favor of amendments he deemed nec- essary to make it of service. Senator Nelson of Minnesota also pronounced the measure as of no importance in its present form. The currency bill was, en motion of Mr. Aldrich, made the un- finished business of the senate. The bill to revise the criminal laws of the United States was passed. The climax of general debate in the army appropriation bill in the house of representatives came yesterday when Mr. Dalzell of Pennsylvania, recog- nized as one of the foremost protec- tionists of the country, delivered an exhaustive speech in defense of the Republican party and its policies. Other addresses were made by Mr. Sherwood of Ohio in support of his bill to pension soldiers of the Civil war at $1 a day, and -by Mr. Boutell of Illi- mois, who referred to the fact that the gold in the United States for the first time had reached $1,000,000,000. Thursday. Washington, Feb. 28.—The all-pow- erful committee on ways and means of the house of representatives yes- terday was put to rout and by an over- whelming vote ordered out of the capi- tol to the new house office building, a block away. Various members of the committee, led by Messrs. Payne and Dalzell, strenuously objected to the removal, but they had only a weak fol- lowing and their protests availed them nothing. The committee’s present rooms are desired in order that the speaker may have more commodious quarters. The army appropriation bill was dis- cussed at length and the provision for pay: of non-commissioned) officers and privates was finally stricken out. In the senate Mr. McCreary of Ken- tucky spoke on the currency bill, and after further consideration of the In- dian bill the senate adjourned. Friday. Washington, Feb. 29. — By the nar row margin of one vote the house of representatives yesterday, after an all-day discussion, rejected by 59 to 60 an amendment by Foster of Illinois to the army bill appropriating $1,000,- 000 for joint maneuvers of the militia organizations and the regular troops. Without a dissenting vote the house earlier in the day, by special rule, re- stored the provisions to increase the pay of non-commissioned officers and men and to prohibit the private em- ployment of army musicians for pay, both of which yesterday won out on points of order. The consideration of the Indian ap- propriation bill and a speech bySenator Reed Smoot of Utah on the currency bill consumed nearly the entire time in the senate yesterday. The Indian bill was passed, : Monday. Washington, March 3. — Senator William Alden Smith of Michigan yes- terday spoke against the railroad fea- ture of the Aldrich currency bill pending before the senate. Most of the day was devoted to the passage of bills on the calendar which are not of general importance. A variety of subjects were consid- ered by the house yesterday. A reso- lution was passed authorizing the im- migration committee to investigate charges of peonage in certain states. Four hundred pension bills and a few other private bills were passed, and the balance of the time was con- sumed in considering the postoffice appropriation bill. Tuesday. Washington, March 4. — The star- tling charge that the railroads of the country carrying mails had robbed the people out of $70,000,000 was made in the house of representatives by Mr. Loyd of Missouri yesterday. He declared that the new system of weighing mails was an admission of the postmaster general that the weigh- ing in the past twenty-seven years had been fraudulent. He called for an investigation of the postoffice depart- ment, and Mr. Wanger of Pennsylva- nia, chairman of the committee to control the expenses of that depart- ment, promised that an inquiry would be conducted. Speeches on the pending currency bill were made in the senate yester- day by Senators McCumber of North Dakota and Newlands of Nevada. Each of these senators contended for mofification of the emergency curren- cy bill and each declared in favor of legislation adding confidence on the part of the depositors in the banks as a prominent feature of any plan for preventing panics. The senate also passed a resolution offered by Senator Tillman calling on the attorney general for all informa- tion concerning court proceedings in the Indian Territory affecting the Choctaw and Chicasaw tribes. Mine Blacksmith Frozen. Marquette, Mich., March 5.—While walking to the city from the Michi- gan gold mine, where he was employ- ed as a blacksmith, Yhoas Skwes, sixty years old, of Ishpeming, froze to death. His body was found yester- day. Crushed to Death. litkin, Minn., March 5. — John W. Lueck, an employe of the Rabbit Lake Iron mines, just west of here, was caught in a _ cave-in yesterday and crushed beneath tons of earth. HE REALIZED $38 PER ACRE. HIS OATS $37 PER ACRE IN SOUTH- ERN' ALBERTA, WESTERN CANADA. Coaldale, Alta, Can., Nov. 19, 1907. Sir: I beg to say that this year we had 349 acres of grain, consisting of 197 acres of spring wheat and 152 acres of oats. The average yield of wheat was 38 bushels per acre and oats 74 bushels. We were offered q $1.00 per bushel for wheat and 50 q cents for oats, making the acre val- : ues for the two crops $38.00 and $37.00 respectively. We also had 50 tons of hay worth $13.00 per ton, and 500 bushels of po- tatoes, worth 60 cents per bushel, the latter off 2% acres of ground. ; | Our best yields this year were 107 «eres of wheat, making 41 bushels per acre at $1. 00 per bushel, would be $41.00 per acre; 47 acres of oats, yield- ing 95 bushels per acre were sold for 50 cents per bushel. Proceeds, $47.00 per acre. _ I might add that 50 acres of our oats were “stubbled in.” During the spring of 1906, we hired about 300 acres broken by steam. We put in and harvested 55 acres of grain last year, did the remainder of our i breaking, worked up the ground and | seeded this year’s entire crop, put in i seven acres of alfalfa and five acres of garden potatoes, trees, etc., all with one four-horse team. During har- vest we hired other teams, but, aside from this, and part of the breaking, the one team did the work of raising practically 19,000 bushels of grain, worth $12,000. Yours truly, W. H. PAWSON, JR. WINTER WHEAT 25 TO 30 BUSH- ELS TO THE ACRE IN SOUTH- | ERN ALBERTA. t Warner, Alta, Canada, Jan. 9, 1908. Dear Sir: This is the first year of farming in this settlement. Mr. A. L. Warner raised twenty-five hundred and fifteen bushels of fine winter i wheat on one hundred acres of break- ing and Tenny- brothers had sixty acres that went thirty bushels per acre. The winter wheat that is in this year looks fi ne. Spring wheat here went thirty bush- els per acre, oats fifty to eighty, bar- ley fifty, and flax ten to fifteen on sod. | The settlers here are all well } pleased with the country. The stock r have not required any feed except the grass up to this date and are all fat. Yours truly, F. S. LEFFINGWELL. | (Information as to how to reach these districts, rates, etc, can be secured from any agent of the Canadi- an government, whose advertisement appears elsewhere.—Hd.) A Compromise. Old-Fashioned Father (sternly)—Can your prospective wife make up a good + batch of bread? Truthful Son (diplomatically)—Well, she can handle the dough all right. Ae In a Pinch, Use ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE. A powder. It cures painful, smart- ing, nervous feet and ingrowing nails. It’s the greatest comfort discovery of - the age. Makes new shoes easy. A certain cure for sweating feet. Sold by all Druggists, 25c. Accept no sub- stitute. Trial package, FREE. Ad- dress A. S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Affinity. It is clear they were made for each other; What else can a kind fate intend? For, just to the penny, his salary Is the limit of what she can spend. Every Lover of Good Music should take advantage of the offer the Jerome H. Remick Co. of New York make in the advertising columns of this paper to send for 25 cents the words and music ae of the er Cree of the Merry idow Opera, all the rage at present i London, Paris and New York. siete as “1 Don’t Remember.” “The Bourbons learned nothing and forgot nothing.” “Well,” responded the smooth Wall street operator, “you can’t expect a king to be much of a business man.” Sudden Changes of the Weather often cause Bronchial and Lung trou- bles. “Brown's Bronchial Troches” al- lay throat irritation and coughs. Wise is the man who knows what not to say, and remembers not to say it. Digestive Difficulties? Headache? - low complexion? The remedy is Garfield Tea, the Herb Laxative. Write for sam- ples. Garfield Tea Co., Brooklyn, N. Y¥. How a woman with a mean husband regrets that she didn’t, as a girl, show greater appreciation of her father. WE PAY TOP PRICES FOR CREAM. Cash every day. Write for prices and tags. MILLER & HOLMES, St. Paul, Minn. The people who hear disagreeable things about their friends usually alohg by “talking” a little. SPOT CASH FOR YOUR CREAM. Top market prices always. MILTON DAIRY CO., St. Paul Probably nothing makes a girl so angry as the failure of some other girl to notice her new engagement ring. * raps ern te oo 1 DATS is eure an: Stole daghor money retustica. sere e What has become of the old-fashion- ed man who said: “You don’t know beans when the bag is open?” case jes in