Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 27, 1908, Page 10

NORTHWEST NEWS TERRIFIC STORM IN TEXAS. ‘Destruction to Crops the Greatest Re- ported in Years. Austin, Tex., May 26. — A terrific ‘wind and rain storm that at times de- ‘veloped into a tornado swept Texas from the Panhandle to the gulf early yesterday. The destruction to crops and vegetation, trees and shrubbery, ‘was the greatest reported in years. In numerous places houses were un- roofed and small villages and hamlets in many instances were inundated by the terrific rainfall, which in the space of four hours reached seven inches in many sections. Austin was in the path of the worst of the storm. “The agricultural sections of Central and Southern Texas have been im measurably damaged. EXPOSED ALL NIGHT. ‘Man Knocked From Train Not Found Until Morning. Brainerd, Minn., May 26.—Lying all night in the cold beside the Northern Pacific railroad tracks near Wheelock, with one leg crushed at the ankle, ‘was the fate of George Rickard, a la- borer with the Campbell Bros. shows, which passed through here Friday evening, going to the iron range from Staples. Rickard was brought to Brainerd, where his leg was amputated at the ankle. He will live. According to his story he was knocked from the circus train. TO HOLD $1 WHEAT RALLIES. Large Number of Farmers’ Meetings To Be Held in Red River Valley. Barnesville, Minn., May 26.—While American Society of Equity has ar- ranged for a number of dollar wheat rallies, to be held throughout this val- ley this summer. The first of these meetings will be held in this city on Monday, June 1. Others will be as follows: Glyndon, June 2; Hawley, June 3; Lake Park, June 4; Detroit, June 5 and Frazee June 6. C. O. Dray- ton of Illinois will conduct the meet- ings and has been authorized to hold seventy in the Red river valley. 22 INCHES OF SNOW FALLS. Thunder and Lightning Accompany Wind Storm. Miles City, Mont., May 26.—Snow fell here to the depth of twenty-two inches last week, according to officiat figures, and the storm was accompa- nied by thunder and lightning. Fruit tree branches were broken by the weight of the snow, and it is thought that lambs two or three days old or born during the storm have perished. NOT TO BUILD IN MILL CITY. Summit Stove Officials of La Crosse Deny They Purpose Change. La Crosse, Wis., May 26.—The story published in the Twin Cities that the Summit Stove works of La Crosse and their plants at Geneva, N. Y., and St. Louis, had been incorporated and would build a $150,000 manufacturing plant in Minneapolis, is denied by the officials of the company. y Market Day at Crookston. Crookston, Minn., May 26. — At a meeting of the Twenty-five Thousand club a committee was appointed to make arrangements for a market day to be held in Crookston the second Saturday of every month, commenc- ing in June. An auctioneer will be provided farmers and presidents of the city for that day. _ Tornado at Council Bluffs. Council Bluffs, lowa, May 26. — A tornado of small proportions swept over the western part of Council Bluffs yesterday afternoon, demolish- ing barns, fences and small out- buildings, uprooting trees and break- ing down telegraph, telephone and electric railway poles. No one was “‘njured. All His Toes Crushed. Barnesville, Minn., May 25.—While riding through Hawley township, be- tween two box cars on the Northern Pacific Frank Davis lost his balance and fell. The wheels crushed the toes on both feet. He was taken to Glyn: don and from there to Moorhead. Drowns While Fishing. Hudson, Wis., May 26.—Anton Gil bertson was drowned while fishing near the Little Mill in this city. He had brought his boat in the wake of the flume of the dam, when the force of the water upset it and precipitated him into the lake. Lad Ground Under Wheels. St. Paul, May 26. — In trying to board a fast freight train, James R. Sullivan, nineteen years of age, was ground to pieces at Highwood yester- day afternoon. Boy Bather Is Drowned. Dodge Center, Minn., May 26.—Wil- liam Loehrke, a son of August Loehrke, a farmer near Dodge Center, was drowned in Zumbro river near here. He and some of his school- mates were in bathing. Family Horse Kills Girl. Clinton, Iowa, May 26.—Miss Ollie May, the sighteen-year-old daughter of Thomas May, a Long Grove farmer, met with a terrible death. The girl was kicked to death by the family horse. WIRE LOSSES PILING UP. Recent Storm of Sieet Most Destruc- tive North.Dakota Has Known. Grand Forks, N. D., May 24. — The Great Northern has put forces of line- men on the line from Church’s Ferry west to make repairs made necessa- Ty by the disastrous sleet and wind storm of Wednesday. Scores of line- men were sent out from Grand Forks alone. The Northwestern Telephone com- pany has also sent a big force to re- store its lines and the Soo is trying to get the damage repaired. Old line- men.says the damage was the heavi- est they have ever known as the re- sult of sleet. ; SHEEPMAN SHOOTS MATE. Claims He Was First Attacked With an Ax, Miles City, Mont., May 24—Coroner Grey brought in yesterday the body of John Arrow, shot with a revolver by Fred Hitzelberger. Both are sheep herders for John Davidson, twenty miles southwest of Miles City. Hit- zelberger claims that Arrow threat- ened him and struck at him with an ax, and he fired in self-defense. After the shooting, it is claimed, Hitzelber- ger started for town, leaving Arrow crawling toward the wagon and beg- ging for assistance, but declined to help him, GUARDIAN FOR RICH WIDOW. Mrs, Carpenter Said by Sister to Be Under Control of Nurse. Milwaukee, May 24.—Charges that Mrs. Sarah A. Carpenter, a paralytic, wealthy widow of a Menominee lum- berman and former partner of Séna- tor I. L. Stephenson, is under the con- trol of Josephine W. Vincent, a train- ed nurse, and is not allowed proper medical treatment, are made in a pe- tition filed by her sister for the ap- pointment of a guardian for the aged woman. Judge Karel appointed the Fidelity Trust company as the tem- porary guardian. ALL IS STOLEN BUT SITE. Round Black Hole in Ground All That Is Left of Six O’Clock Mine. <Butte, Mont., May 24. — A round black hole in the ground, the mouth of the shaft, is all that is left of the Six O’Clock mine, for thieves have taken away bodily the engine house, carpenter shop, gallows frame and of- fice, and there is no trace of the sur- face improvements of what was, a year ago, a bustling mine. This con- dition of affairs was not discovered until the officers of the Butte Copper Exploration company visited the scene yesterday morning, FIGHT SUNDAY AMUSEMENT. Men of Sioux City Churches United in Brotherhood. Sioux City, Iowa, May 24. — Men’s clubs connected with Sioux City churches have organized an associa- tion to be known as the Federation of Christian Brotherhood. The new club, which starts off with a membership of more than 1,000, will at once inau- gurate a campaign for the Sunday closing of pool rooms and_ skating rinks. CHIROPRACTOR SENT UP. Eighty-five Days in Jail and $300 Fine Is Sentence Imposed. Marshalltown, Iowa, May 24.—F. M. Miller, a Jocal chiropractor, was fined $300 and costs of prosecution and sentenced to eighty-five days in jail. Soon after the fine was imposed Miller’s attorney served notice of ap- peal to the supreme court. River Claims Young Woman. St. Paul, May 24.—The body of a young woman, who is thought to have jumped or fallen from the govern- ment dam, was found floating in the Mississippi river yesterday afternoon. A woman was seen by some men to jump or fall from the St. Paul side of the dam Monday, and it is thought that it was her body that was discov- ered. Floods Do Great Damage. La Crosse, Wis., May 24.—A deluge of rain, which continued through the greater part of the day, caused a rap- id rise of all rivers and creeks in this vicinity, and floods resulted which did widespread damage to crops and washed out roads and bridges in many places, Woman Pioneer Dies. La Crosse, Wis., May 24. — Mrs. Reuel Weston, one of the pioneers of Wisconsin and a resident of La Crosse for forty-two years, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Emma Weston, in this city, of old age. She had passed her ninety-eighth birth day. Accident at Commencement. Granda, Minn., May 24.—While at- tending commencement exercises last evening Don Older, the twelve-year- old son of Elmer Older, fell down the hall stairs and broke his righ} arm at the wrist. Killea by Own Gun. Baraboo, Wis. May 24.—John Bar- ker, a prominent business man of North Freedom, was accidentally shot and killed by the discharge of a rifle which he was pulling through a barb wire fence. MURDERED MAN IN RIVER. Body Found at Minneapolis Bears Ev- idence of Foul Play. Minneapolis, May 24.—With a gap- ing bullet wound telling the tragic story of an unwilling death, the re- mains of a middle-aged man were pulled from the Mississippi river in Minneapolis late yesterday and taken to the county morgue, where it was found that it is probable that the man had a large sum of money and that it was greed for gold that caused the crime. The remains have not been identified and detectives have been put to work on the case. “FAST” YOUTH SENT UP. Forger, Aged Nineteen, Says Drink and Gaming Brought Downfall. Crookston, Minn., May 24. — Paul Kopang pleaded guilty to forging checks in this city on Dec. 23 last, and was sentenced by Judge Watts to the state reformatory at St. Cloud, Kopang claiming he was only nine- teen years old. The youth came into the court room smiling, but later broke down, stating that he had spent his money in the saloons and at the gambling table. WOMAN FRIGHTFULLY CUT. Mrs, Julius Ludke of Adrian May Die of Injuries. Adrian, Minn., May 23.—Mrs. Julius Ludke was working in the field yes- terday afternoon when the horses be- came frightened and ran away, throw- ing her under the discs of the ma- chinery. Five ribs and her hip were broken, her adbomen was torn partly open and there were several gashes cut in her breast. She is still alive, but it is feared that her wounds will be fatal. COAL TAR IN BRANDY. Offenders Who Sell Impure Liquor Are Fined $50 and Costs Each. Crookston, Minn., May 23. — State Food Inspector Heilberg arrived in the city last evening from Greenbush, Minn., where he arrested three mer- chants and saloonkeepers of that city for selling blackberry brandy which contained coloring matter composed of coal tar. The offending men were ar- raigned before Justice of Peace Dock and fined $50 and costs apiece. Is Found Dead in River. Chippewa Falls, Wis., May 23.—Ed- ward Lunney, who disappeared from his home here three weeks ago, was found dead in the Chippewa river yes- terday nine miles from this city. The body was badly mutilated and could only be identified by the clothing. It is believed Lunney walked into the river when temporarily demented. Accidentally Shot. De Smet, S. D., May 23.—The ten- year-old son of R. Nordland, a pros- perous farmer living eight miles north of here, was accidentally shot by his twelve-year-old brother with a .22 cali- ber rifle, the bullet entering the side of the nose, and is still in the boy’s head or neck. The boy is doing nice- ly. Floods Damage Crops. Mauston, Wis., May 24—The Lem- onweir river has been swelled by re- cent rains until it has burst its banks to the east and west of Mauston and is flooding the farms on both sides. Tot Drinks Soldering Fluid. Marshalltown, Iowa, May 24. — A mixture of muriatic acid and zinc, used as soldering fiuid, came near causing: the death of Edna Chinberg of near Liscomb, aged three years, Keystone Stores Burned. Rapid City, S. D., May 24.—Half the business section of Keystone, twenty- five miles southeast of here, was de- stroyed by fire late last night. It is estimated that the loss is $50,000. Silas B, Foot Dead. Red Wing, Minn., May 24.—S. B. Foot of the firm of Foot, Schulze & Co., St. Paul, died at his home here yesterday morning. He had been in failing health for some months. Owatonna Man Is Drowned. Owatonna, Minn., May 24.—Pascale Hale, a well known citizen of Owaton- na, was accidentally drowned while fishing in the Straight river at Clin- ton Falls yesterday. Hold Creamery Meetings. Crookston, Minn., May 24. — A big creamery meeting is being held at Argyle and other creamery meetings are billed at Alma, Stephen and Hal- tock. es Consumptive Dies on Train. Dickinson, N. D., May 22. — Harry Howard died on a passenger train west of Dickinson yesterday of con- sumption, aged thirty-five years. Large Crowds at Mission Meetings. Waverly, Minn., May 22.—Rev. Fa- ther Busch and Father Lange, the dio- cesan missionary fathers, who have been conducting the mission here for the past week in St. Mary’s Catholic church, were greeted with” large crowds. ~ Lay Capitol Corner-stone June 25. ' Pierre, S. D., May 22.—The capitol commission, at a meeting yesterday formally fixed Thursday, June 25, as the date for the laying of the corner- stone of the building. IN MINNESOTA. State News of the Week Briefly Told. A. E. Anderson, principal of the Moose Lake school, was drowned in the Kettle river near Sandstone. Arthur Anderson, the eleven-year- old son of August Anderson of Ken- nedy, was drowned while swimming in a pond near that place. Eddie Brouillette, ten years old, son of Mrs. Wilfred Chattel of Red Lake Falls, while fishing at Healey’s dam, fell into the river and was drowned. Mrs. O, Halvorson, a resident of Crookston for twenty-seven years, died in that city in the Bethesda hos- pital. She was seventy-two years old. While Frank O’Gara was bringing his train into Barnesville from Crooks- ton the wind was so. strong that it blew the top from one of the box cars. Edwin P. Dickinson, ’09, Osage, Iowa, won first place in the Carleton home oratorical contest at Northfield. The subject of his oration was “Cava- lier La Salle.” Anton Halvorson about sixty years of age, who drifted into Clearwater county last fall and worked in the wood camps, fell dead from a hem- orrhage of the lungs. Olivia Gottland, residing at Gon- vick, in Clearwater county, was ad- judged insane and committed to the hospital at Fergus Falls. The patient attempted to burn her house. C. A. Smith, millionaire lumberman of Minneapolis, has been appointed by Goy. Johnson to the board of regents of the state ~ university in place of Daniel R. Noyes of St. Paul, deceased. While shopping in a Nicollet avenue department store in Minneapolis, Mrs. Mamie Slocum was robbed of property valued at $2,000, including diamonds, bank notes, checks and a $1,000 mort- gage. : Peter Milkowski, sixty-four years old, while seated on the ridge pole of his house at Winona shingling the roof, succumbed to paralysis of the heart and fell to the ground. He was killed instantly. Fire of unknown origin, starting in the rear loft of the St. Paul Transfer barn at St, Paul, resulted in a loss of $7,000. The barn was completely de- stroyed and in the neighborhood of forty horses were burned. Thomas A. Bury, postmaster and for years an honored and highly respected citizen, killed himself at his home at Two Harbors. It was thought at first that he had committed suicide, but at the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned. Ole Funseth was brought into Crookston by Sheriff Richmond of Roseau county and appeared before Judge Watts, charged with forgery of a check on a party named Haggland in Roseau county. The check was forged on the State bank at Warroad. He was sentenced to the reformatory at St. Cloud. . A. L. Wright, eighty years old, who lives in Medford and who wanted to visit Faribault and Owatonna on the same day, found the train connections not to his liking, so he walked to Fari- bault, a distance of twelve miles, transacted his business, caught the train to Owatonna, finished his busi- ness there and got back to his home at 2:30 p. m. Clad in swaddling clothes, with a lady’s silk necktie drawn tightly around its neck, the body of an infant was found in Calvary cemetary in St. Paul. Death evidently was due to strangulation, and the body was placed in another’s grave in an at- tempt to hide all traces of the crime. It had been there for months from all appearances. Deputy Game Warden J. H. Jones of Fergus Falls swore out. warrants charging James Clark and Godfred Koch with dynamiting fish in the Leaf river, in the town of Bluffton. They exploded charges of dynamite under water, and standing some distance be- low gathered in the fish as they float- ed down stream. They pleaded guilty and paid fines of $25 and costs each. William Collins, aged seventy-two, committed suicide near Elk River by hanging himself to a tree. He came ‘trom Maine to St. Anthony fifty years ago, and later settled in Elk River. He was making his home with Mrs. Willard Frye, his daughter, on a farm near by. Mr. Collins bought a rope at a store in town and told several per- sons he was about to hang himself It was thought he was fooling. Henry Olsen, a deaf and dumb in- mate of the insane asylum at Fergus /Falls, was struck by an east-bound coast train on the Great Northern and instantly killed. Olson was out for a walk and strolled onto the tracks. Showered with blazing oil as the result of the explosion of a gasoline stove, Mrs. A. Hanson of St. Paul was badly burned about the face and body before the flames could be ex- tinguished. The burning oil set fire te the house, which was damaged to the extent of $200. Paul Paulson of Burns, Anoka coun- ty, a millwright, was drowned at the dam in Rum river, M. Mohr, a pioneer business man of Perham, is dead. He was eighty-one years old, and is survived by a widow and three children. Gust Glaeser, proprietor of a hotel in Holland, committed. suicide. He shot himself through the head. De- spondency is the only known cause. Vincent Wojciechowski of Little Falls, while working the mechanism of a 44-caliber repeating rifle, shot his brother Joe, who died a few hours af- terward. The village of Vergas, in the north- ern part of Otter Tail county, is hav- ing an epidemic of smallpox, and pub- lic meetings have been suspended for a week past. Miss Jennie Constance and Warren Heins, juniors at Hamline university, were run down by a Como-Harriet street car in St. Paul and both are probably fatally hurt. Andrew Steenerson, a pioneer set- tler in the North Red river valley and brother of Congressman Halvor Steen- erson, died at Climax after eight years of suffering with diabetes. In a game of ball at Fisher between the village baseball team of that place and a team of farmer boys, Ohmer Woodward, one of the Fisher team, broke his leg while base running. Eugene B. Dickinson died at his residence in Faribault after a long ill- ness of locomotor ataxia, aged fifty- six years. Mr. Dickinson has been the chief engineer of the school for the feeble-minded. Rey. Father Busch and Father Lange, the diocesan missionary fath- ers who have been conducting the mis- sion at Waverly for the past week in St. Mary’s Catholic church, were greeted with large crowds. Rey. Hans J. Wolner of Faribault has been appointed rector of the Epis- copal church at Barnesville and Breckinridge. Mr. Wolner goes to those places highly recommended. He will take charge about June 1. Spafford Williams, aged seventy- nine years, a resident of the town of Money Creek, in Houston county, and of Caledonia for fifty-three years, died at his hotel, the Williams house, in the village, after six months’ illness following a bad fall. Eleven car loads of horses have ar- rived in Crookston during the past week from the southern part of Min- nesota and Iowa. They have been shipped in by ditch contractors throughout the north country, and will be used where the nature of the work will not suit a dredging machine. Fire caused much damage to the box factory at Cass Lake. At one time it was feared that the entire factory would be destroyed, but after three hours of energetic work it was pre- vented from spreading, the only build- ing burned being the drying shed. The loss is about $4,000. The origin of the fire is not known. Leaving the supper table at his brother’s house in Minneapolis, Alfred Melander crawled into the cupola at the rear of the \house and with a “dolk,” a Swedish dagger, inflicted two ghastly wounds in his throat, one of which severed the jugular vein. Ill health and failure to get work is given as the cause of suicide. The house of Jacob Afholter, near Belle Plaine, was burned. Mr. and Mrs. Afholter were in bed when the fire started and knew nothing about the fire until their son, who had been to town, came home late. The boy rescued his parents from the upper story. The property was worth about $3,500; insurance, about $600. PERMITS FOR BURIALS. State Board Calls Attention to the Law. H. M. Bracken, secretary of the state board of health, is sending out letters to the clerks of townships and the health officers of villages and cities calling their attention to the law with reference to burials. The law prohibits those in charge of premises where bodies are buried from permitting interment unless a burial permit is presented issued by the proper officials. The law makes town clerks and village or city health officers local registrars and they are required to appoint a deputy registrar. The state board is authorized to ap- point sub-registrars and has appointed all licensed embalmers in the state as such. These registrars have power to issue burial and removal permits on condition that a true and complete death certificate is filed with them. The law also requires the appoint- ment of a sexton or person to look after these matters and keep record of burials. The executive committee of the Old Settlers’ Association of Norman Coun- ty met in Ada and elected the follow- ing officers: President, 0. S. Bentley of Twin'Valley; vice president, D. C. Lightbourn of Ada; secretary, A. H. Froshaug; treasurer, A. K. Strand of Lake Ida; historian, D. E, Fulton of Ada.’ It was decided to hold the first annual meeting of the association at Heiberg Park on June 27 and 28. Sen- ator Knute Nelson and Congressman H. Steenerson will deliver speeches, It is expected that 4,000 people will be in attendance each day. Monday. Washington, May 19.—The senate yesterday held a short legislative ses- sion nearly half of which was con- sumed by Senator Heyburn in a fiili- bustering speech against a conference report on a bill to increase home- steads on non-irrigable lands from 160 to 320 acres, which he declared would apply to the richest farm lands of Ida- ho. After proceeding for an hour the objectionable report was withdrawn. The conference report on the legis- lative, executive and judicial appro- priation bill was approved by the sen- ate. The passage by the house yester- day of the general deficiency appro- priation bill, carrying an approppria- 4 tion of $17,568,578, marked the com- pletion by that body of the last of the great supply measures of the govern- ment, Tuesday. Washington, May 20. — The house yesterday again showed its capacity for work and having adjournment this week in mind continued the cleaning up process. The conference report on the legislative appropriation bill was agreed to; conference reports on the agricultural and fortifications ap- propriation bills were received; the bill making an appropriation of $1,- 500,000 for representation by the Unit- ed States at the Tokio exposition in 1912 was passed, as were also two omnibus bills, embodying forty sepa- rate measures having to do with pub- lic lands and matters in the territo- ries. Senator Taylor of Tennessee deliv- ered a speech in the senate yesterday devoted chiefly to the tariff and cur- rency policies of the Republican par- ty. The senate agreed to the confer- ence report on the agricultural bill carrying a total appropriation of $11,- $72,106. i Wednesday. \ Washington, May 21.—That Repre- sentative Lilley of Connecticut acted in bad faith with the committee and in contempt of the house were the conclusions of the special committee which has been investigating Mr. Lil- ley’s charges that members of the house had been improperly influenced in connection with submarine torpedo boat legislation. The conclusions of the committee were sustained by the house by a vote of 157 to 82. Senator Rayner again yesterday made an appeal to the senate for a vote on a resolution “authorizing and requesting” the president to appoint a court of inquiry to investigate charges against Col. William F. Stew- art, coast artillery, stationed at Fort Grant, Ariz. Objection being made, the further consideration of the reso- lution was postponed. The omnibus public buildings bill was passed by the senate yesterday. It carries appropriations aggregating about $35,000,000. { Thursday. Washington, May 22.—The proceed: ings in the senate yesterday, as is usual towards the close of a session, covered a multitude of subjects, in- cluding the probably final announce- ment on the currency question. Announcing that the conferees of the senate and house on the currency bill would be unable to agree if con- gress is to adjourn at an early day, Senator Aldrich yesterday reported from the committee on finance a joint resolution creating a national mone- tary commission, to be composed of nine senators and nine representa- tives to investigate matters concern- ing the banking and currency system of the country, and the resolution was passed without debate. Mr. Aldrich stated that it was proposed to have this commission begin its work at an early day. The house spent another busy day yesterday. The conference report on the agricultural appropriation bill was agreed to; the senate amendments which increased by $12,000,000 the public building bill appropriation, were disagred to and a conference asked. ' Friday. ME Washington, May 23. — Practically all hope of a ship subsidy was aban- doned yesterday when the house, by a vote of 145 to 156 rejected the con- ference report on the postoffice appro- priation bill containing a provision therefor, and on which the principal fight was made. The bill was sent back to conferences, and there now is little prospect that the house con- ferees will yield to the senate. By a strict party vote of 150 to 125 a campaign contribution publicity bill with an amendment providing for a reduction of representation in the house in the Southern states was passed. The Democrats voted against the bill because of the amendment. The open session of the senate was concluded yesterday with an extend- ed debate on the power of congress to regulate interstate and foreign com- mere and a negative poll, 23 to 32 was taken on a motion to adopt the Foraker substitute for the interstate commerce commission resolution ex- tending the time when the penalty provision of the commodity clause of the Hepburn railroad rate law is to take effect. The Foraker substitute provided that the prohibition against railroads transporting across state lines coal or other articles produced by them shall apply. only te property acquired since the passage of the Hepburn rate bill, May 29, 1906. The committee resolutions applied to all products without limitation concern: ing the time of ownership.