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Ferald-Review. Declared Unconstitutional by Reason of Heavy Penalties It Imposes. YOUNG FOUND IN CONTEMPT Attorney General Loses on All Points; Decision Opposes Both State and Its Courts. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. NEWS OF WEEK SUMMARIZED Digest of the News Worth Telling Con- densed for the Busy Reader. Washington Notes. Reckless automobile driving in the canal zone is to be prohibited in ac- cordance with an order issued by the president. . Lieut. Commander G. W. Logan, secretary of the general board of the navy, who has been assigned to duty as navigator of the battleship Idahe, will be succeeded on the general board by Lieut. Commander J. L. Joyne, The isthmian canal commission has authorized the rejection of all bids for cable railways and duplex ways opened on Feb. 3 last, on the ground that they were too high and that other excavating apparatus may be more advantageously used. A senate joint resolution authoriz- ing the secretary of war to permit the entrance to West Point military academy as cadets of not more than seven native Filipinos, on graduation to be eligible to commission in the Philippine scouts, was agreed to by the house committee on military ‘af- fairs. ‘ Washington, March 25.—In refusing to grant to Attorney General Young of Minnesota a writ of habeas corpus releasing him from the penalty im- posed by the United States circuit court for the district of Minnesota on the charge of contempt of court in in- stituting a proceeding in a state court for the enforcement of the railroad rate law after the federal court had prohibited such a course and in affirm- ing the decision of Judge Pritchard of the United States circuit court for the Western district of North Caroli- na discharging from’ imprisonment James H: Wood, a ticket agent of the Southern Railway at Asheville, after he had been sentenced by the Ashe- ville police court to serve a term on the rockpile on the charge of collect- ing for a ticket on that road a greater price than was permitted by the state railroad law, the supreme court of the United States yesterday added an- other to the series of decisions which have rendered notable the present term of that court. Opposes State and Its Courts. In both cases the right of the states to fix rates for railroads trans: portation was the issue and both in- volved conflicts between the federal and the state courts. The decision in each case was opposed both to the states and the courts. The opinion of the court in both cases was an- nounced by Justice Peckham, and with the exception of Justice Harlan all the other,members of the court stood behind him in the announce- ment of the court’s finding. Justice Harlan read a dissenting opinion in the Young case, in which he took the view that the suit was prattically a proceeding against the state and therefore not permissible under the eleventh amendment to the constitu- tion. He therefore characterized the opinion as era making in the history of the court, said it had the effect of closing the courts of a state against the state ise f and predicted that the result would be disastrous. . Young Loseson Ail Points. The two cases were so similar that both practically were decided in one opinion. The particular pronounce- ment was made in the Minnesota case The decision was against Attorney General Young on all points. Sub- stantially, the court decided: That the circuit court of the United States had jurisdiction. That the proceedings against the at- torney general were against him as an individual, because he was at- tempting to enforce a law that was clearly unconstitutional by reason of the heavy fines imposed; and That the state law was unconstitu- tional in that it denied to all person the equal protection of the law. History of the Case. The Minnesota rate law was pass- ed at the last session of the legisla- ture. Certain stockholders of the Northern Pacific railway company se- cured an injunction in the federal court for the district of Minnesota re- straining the state officials from en- forcing the law. This injunction was violated by Attorney General Young, who secured a writ of mandamus in the Ramsey county district court commanding the Northern Pacific company to comply with the rate law. This proceeding precipitated a sharp conflict between the federal and state courts. Mr. Young was summoned before the federal court and fined $100 for contempt. He appealed to the United States supreme court, which yesterday decided the case against him, People Talked About. Brig. Gen. Jacob Cline, U. S, A., re- tired, died at Johns Hopkins hospital at Baltimore of kidney disease. Brig, Gen. Elisha I. Bailey, US. A., retired, died at the army general hos- pital at the Presidio at San Francisco. He had been attached to the medical department, Dr. John Bryant,a prominent physi- cian and philanthropist as well as a achtsman of international reputation, died in Boston as the result of an op- eration for an internal disorder. Rev. Dr. Charles Cuthbert Hall, president of the Union Theological seminary, is dead at his home‘in New York. He had been ill about two months and recently submitted to a surgical operation. John Good, formerly president of the National Cordage company, and recognized for years as one of the most prominent factors in the hemp industry in the country, is dead in Brooklyn from pneumonia. John Ware Whiston, one of the old- time actor managers, died at Buffalo, N. Y., at the age of eighty-one years. He one of the first variefy per- formers in America and by some was called the father of vaudeville. Col. John Walter Fairfax is dead at his home, Leesylvania, Prince Wil- liam county, Virginia, in his eightieth year. He was a well known veteran of the Civil war, having held the rank of colonel in the Confederate army. Philip S, Henry, multimillionaire of New York and brother-in-law of Jesse Lewisohn, is to wed his children’s governess. The bride-to-be is Miss Annie Hyatt Wolfe, an English girl, who has had the care of Mr. Henry’s two children since their mother met a tragic death in saving them from be- ing burned to death. Christian P. Smith, a millionaire farmer and land owner, living near Edwardsville, Ill., is dead at the age of seventy-five years. Starting with- cut a penny at twenty-one, he died the owner of between 5,000 and 6,000 acres of farming lands, valued at more than than $500.000, and the controlling in- terest in banks, besides other inter- ests, Casualty. Frank Hallman, employed on a farm near Park Ridge, Ill, was gored by a bull and died from his injuries. While walking down a stairway in “Bouty’s hotel at Spalding, Mich., Ed Nordinchild fell and broke his neck. Ralph C. Many, a Rhodes scholar from New Orleans, La., at Oxford, was washed off the rocks and drowned at Port Isaac, Cornwall. Alva Ripley of Lake City, Iowa, while feeding hogs, was so severely bitten by one of them that he bled to death before he could be carried into the house. Fire at Rockford, Ill., damaged the business block occupied by the Rock- ford & Interurban company and the W. Clark Printing company to the ex- tent of $75,000. Lighting his pipe in his cell in the village jail at Little Falls, N. Y., John Doherty of Middleville, who was lock- ed up the previous night, accidental- ly set fire to the mattress of his bed nd was burned to death. Mrs. Osa Allen of Peru, Ind., while escorting friends through the winter quarters of a circus, was grabbed by a lion and the flesh of her face and back seriously lacerated. The cloth- ing was torn from her back. Her brother pulled her away as the lion had her against the bars. Falling nearly sixty feet in the in- side of a caisson pier of the Chicago & North-Western railroad bridge, in course of construction at Clinton, Iowa, Bert Winter, one of the pneu- matic workers employed by the com- pany there, alighted in the soft mud in the bottom of the river and escaped further injury than a sprained ankle. Forest Park university, at St. Louis, the first woman’s college ever charter- ed in the United States, was gutted by fire. All the students escaped without injury. The damage is about $60,000, fully covered by insurance, MINERS KILLED. Caught Under Tons of Earth, Two Lives Are Crushed Out. Norway, Mich., March 25. — John Beard, an Englishman, and John Or- lie, an Austrian, both miners, were killed instantly at the Central Vulcan mine. ~ John Orlie hesitated on entering the drift and said that he thought it was not safe to work, but John Beard said it was all right, and they began to timber the drift. Just as they started their work the ground gave way above them, falling on them, kill- ing them instantly. John Beard is single and is survived by three broth- ers and an aged mother in England. John Orlie is married and leaves a wife and four children. . Three Ticketed for Reformatory. Tracy, Minn., March 25. — Three boys were arrested here on the charge of committing minor burglaries and carrying concealed weapons. One was found with a 38-caliber revolver on his person. They will undoubtedly be sentenced to the reformatory. Ten Drown Off Ferry. Ludeck, Germany, March 25.—Ten members of a pleasure party were drowned by the upsetting of a. motor ferryboat on Lake Ratzezurger. Four other passengers were saved. IMB FOR POLICE ~ MAINS. ASSASSIN Explodes Prematurely as Red Was About to Hurl It at Squad of Police. $500,000,0 «gency Currency to Be Issued on Deposit of Bonds. Washington, March 29. — The Aid rich currency bill was passed by the senate yesterday by a vote of 42 to 16. in the main a party vote. Previous to the taking of the vote on the Ald. rich bill, a vote was taken on the Bailey substitutes authorizing the government, instead of the national banks, to issue the emergency circu. lation for which the bill provides. The vote on the substitute stood 42 to 13. and was entirely partisan. The bill has been before the senate since Jan. 2. 10,000 UNEMPLOYED IN. RIOT Meeting in New York Is Broken Up; Socialists Charge Police With Inciting Riot. Prote BanKing System. An interesting feature of the pas. sage of the bill was a reiteration by Mr. Aldrich of his promise to bring in a bill for an investigation of the en- tire, banking system of the country, with a view to instituting reforms. As passed the bill provides for not more than $500,000,000 of emergency currency to be issued to national hanks upon the deposit by them of state, county and municipal bonds, te be approved by the secretary of the treasury. The currency is to be is- sued with a view to securing an equi- table distribution of the currency over the United States, and in accord. ance with the unimpaired capital and surplus of banks in each state. Banks are to pay for this emergency circula tion one-half of 1 per cent a month during the first four months it is in circulation and afterwards three fourths of 1 per cent a month. The bill provides that national banks shall pay not less than 1 per ‘cent on government funds deposited with them. Affects Bank Reserves. As amended yesterday the bill car. ries an important change in banking laws relating to bank reserves. This smendment provides that of the 15 per cent reserve required to be kept by banks not in reserve cities, four- fifths of this is to be kept in the vaults of the banks, and of that amount one-third can be in the form of securities of the ind required. At the instance of Mr. La Follette an amendment was adopted prohibit- ing any nationai bank from investing its funds in stocks or other securities of a corporation the officers or direct- ors of which are officers or directors of the bank, and providing a penalty of imprisonment of from one to five years. New York, March 31. — A red flag fluttered in Union square Saturday; a bomb fell; two men lay dying in the people’s playground, ang New York awoke to the fact that it harbored those prepared to give their lives in armed resistance of constituted au- thority. 9 The bomb was intended for police- men, who, with rough firmness, had broken up a meeting of 10,000 unem- ployed. It exploded prematurely in the hands of the assassin, horribly wounding him, killing his companion and slightly injuring four policemen. Hunter Intended to Speak. Robert Hunter, the noted sociolo- gist, last night declared that he was not only present at Saturday’s demon- stration, but that had opportunity of- fered he would have addressed the crowd in defiance of police prohibition and so brought a test in the courts of the right of free speech! Mr. Hunter’s position in.the whole matter was set forth in a statement over his signa- ture given to the Associated Press. The writer deplores the “outrage” of the bomb and refers to its author as a fanatic, who has injured the cause of the unemployed. Police Were Brutal. Mr. Hunter says until he arrived at the square he was ignorant of the fact that speechmaking had been forbid- den. He learned this of the police and then he determined to speak in order that the right of peacful assem- bly and free speech might be tested in the courts. He adds that he had no chance to be heard, for presently the police “charged the crowd with in- credible brutality.". Mr. Hunter de- scribes his own escape from under a horse’s hoofs, tells how he was drag- ged by officers from the steps of a building from which he had hoped to speak, and how what was intended as a peaceful assembly in furtherance of aid for the unemployed was broken up with a scene that he thought “could not be duplicated outside of Russia.” Fanatic May Survive, Selig Silverstein, the youth in whose hands the bomb exploded as he was about to hurl it at Capt. Miles O’Reilly and his squad of twenty men, was still alive last night. Though the explosion tore off his right hand, temporarily blinded him and caused frightful bodily injuries, he may sur- vive. Seven men arrested after the bomb explosion were arraigned in court yes- terday and held for further exdmina- tion. They are charged with taking part in a riot. The general committee of the local socialist party claim that the meeting was made up of law-abiding persons and accuse the police of inciting the people to riot. Many statements were issued by individuals, all deploring the act of violence and all taking the police to account. STRIKERS SEIZE DYNAMITE. Governor of Alaska Calls for Troops and Taft Complies. Washington, March 29.—ight hun- dred striking miners, most of them foreigners, possessed of ten cases of dynamite and a desire to destroy property and perhaps life at’ the Treadwell mines in Alaska, was the situation presented to Secretary Taft yesterday by telegraph from the act- ing governor of that territory, who re- quested the aid of federal troops. The secretary acceded to the request with- out delay. The order which went forward, di- rected Gen. Bush, commanding the department of the Columbia, at Van- couver Barracks, to place a sufficient force at the disposal of the United States marshal at Treadwell to as- sist him in the enforcement of the law and to enforce and execute the orders of the United States courts. Gen. Bush responded that he had dis- patched one company of infantry to Treadwell. The distance is about 100 miles and the troops should reach their destination in a day or two. MESSENGER BRUTALLY SLAIN. WAIT POPE’S WORD. Safes in Express Car Ransacked and $1,000 Taken. Newton, Kan., March 31.—0. A. Bai- ley of Kansas City, an express mes- senger of the Wells-Fargo Express company, was killed by an unknown person on Santa Fe Train No. 115 be- tween Florence and Newton early yes- terday morning. The murder was a very brutal one, with robbery as the object. Both safes, the local and the through safe, were ransacked, and at least $1,000 in money and some jewel- ry were taken. Whether this is the full amount the robber secured is not known. The dead body of Messenger Bailey was found at 4 o'clock yesterday morning when the train reached Newton. It was stretched on the floor of the car, the head beaten to a pulp, and lying in a pool of blood. The back of the skull was crushed and the end of the car in which it was lying was spattered with blood. There was no evidence of any struggle, the indi- cations pointing to the committing of the murder while the messenger was asleep, before he could offer resist- ance. 4 The officers were notified as soon as the murder and robbery were dis- covered, and within an hour posses were scouring the country. A reward of $1,000 has been offered by the Wells-Fargo Express company for the apprehension of the guilty parties. Anna Gould and Prince Helie W Be Married. New York, March 29.—Information has been obtained from an eminently authoritative source that Mme. Anna Gould and the Prince de Sagan will soon be-married, statements to the contrary notwithstanding. While no formal engagement exists between Mme. Gould and the prince, it has been a well understood fact that they were to marry, and this was known to the Gould family prior to the sailing from France of Mme. Anna. The prince is to receive $2,000,000 of the Gould fortune and an annual allowance of $50,000. It is said the sanction of the pope has been sought and the wedding awaits this. RIDGELY GIVEN BANK JOB. Resigns Controliership to Go to Kan- sas City. Washington, March 29.—William B. Ridgely, controller of the currency, has handed his resignation to Presi- dent Roosevelt and will become presi- dent of the National Bank of Com- merce of Kansas City. He will be succeeded as controller by Lawrence ©. Murray, assistant secretary of commerce and labor and former dep- uty controller of the currency. Ship Blows Up; Thirteen Lives Lost. Mandal, Norway, March 31. — Yhe Norwegian bark Inglewood, recently from New York for Stockholm, caught fire yesterday. She was loaded with naphtha and subsequently blew up, sinking in forty feet of water. Thir- teen of the crew were drowned. Throws Doubles Again. Duluth, March 29.—Mrs. Bensamin Delorimer, wife of the cashier for the Oliver Iron Mining company at Hib- bing, has just presented her husband with a pair of twins, making the third pair of twins for her in succession. Boys’ Play Ends Fatally. Janesville, Wis., March 29.—Thir. teen-year-old John Farrell died yes. terday from leekjaw, the result of a bullet wound inflicted accidentally by twelve year-old Archie Cunningham while the boys were playing. Appropriation for Stevens’ Family. Tokio, March 31.—The Korean cab- inet has decided to donate 50,000 yen to the family of Durham W. Stevens, who was assassinted in San Francisco by a Korean zealot. 4 pag, Masts Eighteen Fire Fighters Caught by Firsi Blast—Lives of Rescue Party Snuffed Out. Cheyenne, Wyo., March 31.—¥Fifty- eight men lost their lives in two ex- plosions in Coal Mine No. 1, owned by the Union Pacific Coal company, at Hanna, Saturday afternoon. The ex- plosions were caused by gases and coal dust, and. each was followed by fire. The first occurred at 3 o’clock, when eighteen mine workers, includ- ing a superintendent and three bosses, were killed. The second explosion occurred at 10:30 o’clock Saturday night, snuffing out the lives of forty members of a rescue party, including State Mine In- spector D. M. Elie. Wild Excitement. The wildest excitement prevails at Hanna and at the mine, where hun- dreds are congregated, including widows, children and other relatives of the victims. When the explosion occurred additional appeals were tele- graphed to all surrounding towns for assistance. The bodies of five of the eighteen men who lost their lives in the first explosion have been recovered. Fire started in the colliery last Sun- day, since which time attempts at reg- ular intervals have been made to ex- tinguish it. Saturday it was deemed unsafe to send the miners down into the workings and they were notified not to report for duty. Went In to Fight Fire. Supt. Briggs, with a team of picked men, the best and most experienced hands in the camp, went into the mine to fight the fire, but at 2 o'clock the flames had gotten beyond their control and at 3 o’clock connected with the walled-off gas, and a terrific explosion followed. The victims are all below the tenth level, and it is likely. that the flames have consumed the corpses, Before further attempt at reaching the dead can be made the fire in the tenth level, which was the direct cause of the two explosions, must be extin- guished. Work to this end consumed the entire day, efforts being directed especially to closing the west slope, which it is hoped will eventually smother the raging flames. EMPEROR WILL WELCOME HILL. Withdraws All Expressions of Disap- proval Regarding New Ambassador. Eerlin, March 31. — Emperor Wil- liam, having been fully advised as to the attitude of President Roosevelt and the feeling of the American pub- lic in regard to the alleged refusal of his majesty to receive Dr. D. J. Hill as ambassador to Germany in succes sion to Charlemagne Tower, has re- called all the expressions of disap- proval he recently sent to President Roosevelt and would be pleased to ‘re- ceive Dr. Hill as ambassador. The emperor has caused this view to be communicated to President Roosevelt. Official Declaration. The German foreign office has sent to the Associated Press the following official declaration on the subject: “The notices which have appeared hitherto in the foreign press in regard to the Hill affair have originated in the erroneous impression that it was intended in Berlin to recall the ap- proval given here last autumn to Mr. Hill’s appointment. This has never been thought of. It is true that doubts subsequently arose as_ to whether Mr. Hill would feel himself comfortable in the post of American ambassador to Berlin, but these doubts have been removed, so that nothing stands in the way of Mr. Hill’s nomination to the Berlin embassy, and he will be welcome in Ber- lin now, as he would have been before, or as any other unobjectionable repre- sentative would be who should be named by President Roosevelt. “It is to be stated emphatically that throughout the whole incident the am- passador, Mr. Tower, has not swerved for one instant from the straight line of absolute loyalty and honorable con- duct both toward his own government and the imperial German govern- ment.” It is certain that if Dr. Hill comes to Berlin as the American ambassador he will be most cordially welcomed and given every attention by the em- peror and the German government. It is thought in Berlin that the emper- or’s original purpose was merely to show friendly solicitude concerning the American representation. MOTHER AND CHILD BURN. Woman With Clothes Ablaze Seizes Baby and Runs From House. Waterloo, Iowa, March 31. — Mrs. Henry Maynee died at Green of burns. A lamp exploded, the flames commu- nicating to her dress. Unaware that her clothing was afire, she grasped her babe and rushed out. She was terribly seared, but still was clutching the child in a faint-when the flames were smothered by the hired man. The baby was burned on the limbs, put will live. The mother survived twenty-four hours of fearful agony. Loot Parsonage; Get $350 Cash. Baltimore, March 31.—The body ot of St. Louis Catholic church was ran- sacked and leoted by burglars who got away with $350 in cash and a num- per of valuables, including a watch and some trinkets. Insane Man Escapes. Fort Dodge, Iowa, March 31.—Abra ham Owen, an insane man, has made his escape from the viligant. care of relatives and is now at large in the county, and it is thought he is headed for Fort Dodge. z om mae f is i SUE PRT 5 WED OUT PRESIDENT Pus -TTUPTO CONGRESS Special Message Calls Attention to Measures Which De- mand Attention. TAKES THE PART OF LABOR New Employers’ Liability Act; Modifi- cation of Injunction Power; Tariff Revision. Washington, March 27. — A special message from the president was read in both houses of congress yesterday, The president calls attention to ce tain measures upon which he thinks g action sheuld be taken by congress before the close of the present ses- sion. As regards most if not all of the matters, bills have been intro- duced into one or the other of the two houses, and the president thinks it is not too much to hope that action will be taken one way or the other on these bills at the present session. The president says that he has repeatedly suggested action on most of these measures, The message was closely followed in the house. The declaration that the time had come for a revision of the tariff was applauded by the Demo- erats. The Republicans confined their applause to the message as a whole. Briefly stated the measures upon which action is urged are: Prohibition of child labor through- out the nation, An immediate re-enactment of an employers’ liability law conforming to the recent decision of the United States supreme court. A law giving compensation to gov- ernment employes for injury or death. incurred in its service. Action in regard to injunctions in labor disputes. Amend the interstate commerce law so as to give the railroads the right to make traffic agreements subject to the approval of the interstate com- merce commission. Encouragement of trade agreements between employer and employe. Nothing should be done to legalize either a blacklist or boycott that would be illegal at common law. Prompt action on financial legisla- tion and postal savings bank. The time has come when we should prepare for a revision of the tariff. Provision should be made at this ses sion for collecting full material which will enable the congress elected next fall to act immediately after it comes into existence. Our forests need protection and one method of protecting them would be to put upon the free list wood pulp, with a corresponding reduction upon paper made from wood pulp. The president expresses the opinion, that this change in the tariff could be made with advantage forthwith. STOLE $1,105,000 FROM BANK. Pittsburg Bank Scandal Reaches As- tounding Proportions. Pittsburg, March 29. — With the peculations from the Farmers’ Depos- it National bank officially declared to be $1,105,000 filed against and new informations the self-confessed em- bezzlers, it is insistently rumored that within the next twenty-four hours informations will be filed against business men in other cities as well as against citizens of Pitts- burg not yet mentioned in connection with the aflair. Government officials are astounded at the amount of the thefts and de- clare that never before has a national bank been victimized to such an ex- tent in such a manner. The accused teller and auditor have confessed to the most open and barefaced falsity in their conduct of the bank’s affairs, and more than half the amount teken is declared to have been appropriated within the last eight months. A sensation was caused here yes- terday when Bank Examiner W. L. Folds made a third information against Henry Reiber, paying teller, and John Young, auditor, of the Farm- ers’ Deposit National bank, charging them with misapplying funds of the bank amounting to $1,105,000. The previous amounts named were $85,- 000 and $300,000. Reiber and Young are in the coun- ty jail, where they were placed fol- lowing their arrest last Monday night. They are held in $250,000 bail. POSSE CHASES FEUDISTS. Two Italians Fatally Wounded as Re- sult of Imported Vendetta. South Bend, Ind., March 29.—As a result of a feud which haq its incep- tion at Mirano, Italy, Anthony Com- porti and Selementa Montelani were shot and probably fatally wounded here last night. Their would-be mur- derers have been traced to a wood five miles northeast of Niles, Mich. Armed officers are in pursuit. ~ Barracks Burned. Panama, March 29.—A dispatch re- ceived here yesterday from San Sal- vador reports that a fire has occurred in- the soldiers’ barracks of Zapote and in the polytechnic school, but that all the arms and ammunition * were saved. Widow Is Robbed of $2,000. Moorhead, Minn., March 29. Charged with robbing an aged widow of $2,000, John Olson was arrested here yesterday and will be taken back to Harvey, N. D., to be tried. neo