Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 29, 1908, Page 4

et -ed by fire Ww 10 HANG FOR MURDERS | srasseo , AND CAST OUT TO DIE. .Joe and Charlie Peltier Are Sentenced for Death of F. W. Seidel and His Niece. Bottineau, N. D., July 25.—Joe and ‘Charlie Peltier were yesterday sen- tenced to death for the murder of F. W. Siedel and his niece, Alexandra Seidel, at Somber postoffice on June 21. The trial lasted a full week, but the jury brought in its verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree after only ninety minutes’ delibera- tion. Only when the verdict was read did the defendants abandon the brazen indifference and even levity with which they had regarded the whole proceedings. As the jurors were polled Charlie Peltier broke down completely and sobbed aloud. Joe did not yield so absolutely to his feelings, but he turned pale and abruptly asked permission to address the court. He withdrew this request a moment later, however, and when asked if-he had anything to say be- fore sentence was pronounced re- mained silent. Immediately after the verdict was rendered Sheriff McKennon put four extra guards in and around the court house and jail. Sakashe Weshuk (Litle Rising Sun), an Indian also implicated in the crime, will be tried at once and a jury is now being selected. BOY’S PRANK FATAL. “Hypnotizes” Himself and Drowns in the Chippewa River. Eau Claire, Wis., July 25.—The abil- ity of Glenn Tribbey, aged twelve, and a member of the famous juvenile rob- ber and burglar gang which was broken up by the police here some weeks ago, to hypotize himself led to his drowning in the Chippewa river. He was in swimming with a number of boys and told one of them he was going to hypnotize himself. A few seconds after making the statement he sank under the water and did not reappear. His body has not yet been found. The boys who were with him say that Tribbey often hypnotized himself. BIG BARN DESTROYED. And Horse Cremated in Fire Started by an Incendiary. Crookston, Minn., July 25.—The big barn on the Peter Sullivan farm in Nesbit township was totally destroy- last night and one horse was cremated. Sullivan and _ his daughter were awakened at 11:30 by a team driving into the yard and the barking of a dog. The daughter got up a few minutes later and saw the barn in flames. Sullivan and the men rushed to the scene in their night clothes and rescued the horses, ex- cepting one. There is no question but what the fire was of incendiary origin. SHERIFF FOILS LYNCHERS. Seek Life of Man Who Killed Man and Wounded Woman. Port Edwards, Wis., July 25.—Dan- jel Lynch shot and_ killed Richard Nomenson, shot and seriously wound- ed Miss Anna Sorenson and then tried to kill himself. Jealousy over the at- tentions which Nomenson was paying to Miss Sorenson is said to have been the cause of the tragedy. When the news of the arrest of Lynch reached the surrounding towns a mob organized in an attempt to get him away from the sheriff, who, how- ever, threatened to shoot and drove away the lynchers. Tuberculosis Is Theme. Walker, Minn., July 25.—The Upper Mississippi Medical society met this week at the state sanatorium for con- sumptives at Walker, 127 doctors be- ing present. The report of Dr. W. J. Marclay was unanimously approved by the society, and the papers read by the doctor on the subject of gen- eral tuberculosis were the subect of discussion during the entire day. Kick Probably Fatal. Eau Claire, Wis., July 25.—Fifteen days ago Elmer Howe, aged four, was kicked in the head by a horse as he was walking behind it and sustained a slight scalp wound. ‘The wound healed up immediately and no more was thought of it till yesterday when the lad was taken violently ill with lockjaw and his life is despaired of. Wreck May Cost One Life. Grand Rapids, Mich., July 25. — North-bound passenger train No. 1 on the Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad struck a freight car standing on the main line at South Boardman and was wrecked. Half a dozen persons were injured, one possibly fatally. Lineman Electrocuted. Faribault, Minn., July 25.—Edward Kelm, twenty years old, was killed by a live electric light wire this noon while at work on a telephone pole. He was employed by the Northwest- ern Telephone company, Blind Pigger Fined, Creokston, Minn., July 25—John A. Mikkelson of the town of Winger, was convicted of running a blind pig in Judge McLean’s ceurt yesterday and fined $50 and costs, amounting to $100. He paid the fine. Colored Man Is Cut Up in a Row in St. Paul. St. Paul, July 26.—During a row in the house ‘at 148 East Ninth street, Joe Hanley, a colored waiter at the Minnesota club, was carried out and laid beside a woodpile in the rear of the place and left to die. He was found at 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon and taken to Bethesda hospital, where he died at 8:30 o’clock last evening. The police last night arrested Ida Dodson, colored, who lives at the house, and they are looking for Wil- liam Hanley, Joe’s brother, who, it is said, was one of those who laid the dying man beside the woodpile. Ida Dodson was arrested just before 1 o’clock this morning at her home and taken to the central station, where she is charged with murder. She admits that there was a row at her place, but she denies that she kill- ed Hanley, JAIL FOR GIRL’S ASSAILANT. Man Who Attacks Telephone Opera- tor at Garretson Gets Off Easy. Sioux Falls, S. D., July 26—George Miller, formerly of Le Mars, Iowa, who was arrested a few days ago on the charge of attacking Miss Louisa Stromme, a_ telephone girl who re- sides at Garretson, and who was brought to Sioux Falls partly for safety, as the result of his trial in a local court was fined $50 or twenty- five days in the county jail, being per- mitted to escape on the minor charge of assault and battery. In default of the payment of the fine he has been lodged in the county jail. CROWDS CHEER BRYAN. Democratic Candidate’s Trip to Chica- go Marked by Demonstrations. Creston, Iowa, July 26—The prog- ress of William J. Bryan from Lin- coln to Chicago last night was mark- ed by a number of demonstrations in his honor. Omaha, Neb.; Pacific Junction, Glenwood, Malvern, Hast- ings, Red Oak, Villisca, Corning and Creston, Iowa, turned out large crowds who cheered him. Mr. Bryan, so far as he could do so, during the limited time of the stops, shook hands with all in reach. SLEPT ON CAR TRACKS. Frank Patwell of Hazel Park Instant- ly Killed Near His Home. Stillwater, Minn., July 26. — Frank Patwell, aged twenty-five, was instant- ly killed ‘by an interurban car on the Stillwater line at 1 a. m. yesterday. The accident occurred at Hazel Park, where he had left a car to proceed to his home. It is supposed he laid down on the track and went to sleep. The top of his head was crushed. He was a brother-in-law of Frank Nelson of this city. STATE ROADS DESIGNATED. Rice County Board Plans to Improve Several Highways. Faribault, Minn., July 26. — The county commissioners have taken fa- vorable action in the matter of road improvement and have designated several important roads as_ state roads upon which improvements will be made. Within the next few years a large sum will be expended on these roads, Educator of Indians to Retire. Pierre, S. D., July 26.—C. J. Leven- good, who for a long time has been at the head of the government Indian school at this city and has placed that institution among the leaders of that class of schools in the state, has de- cided to withdraw from the Indian service and will make his home on his Stanley county farm. Bacley Harvest Starts. Zumbrota, Minn., July 26. —- The parley harvest has started here and wiith a continuance of perfect weath- er conditions a heavy crop will be the result. With the exception of corn, which is backward, the crops in this section have never looked better. Wheat is especially fine. Runaway Is Fatal. Eau Claire, July 26.—Louis Larson, a farmer from Levis, Wis., is dead here as the result of being run over by a wagon loaded with lumber. The horses attached to the wagon started to run away, and in trying to stop them Larson was thrown in front of the wheels. Stocked With Trout. Eau Claire, Wis., July 26. — About 15,000 fingerling trout, shipped here from Manchester, Iowa have just been planted in local streams by the Eau Claire Rod and Gun club. These trout can be caught two years after plant- ng. Find Body of Drowned Child. Marshalltown, Iowa, July 26. — The body of Jesse Abely, aged seven years, who was downed near Spencer, Iowa, Wednesday afternoon, was recovered at noon yesterday. The lad, who is the son of Henry Abely, was swim- ning when drowned. : Utes on Their Way. Rapid City, S. D., July 26.—The Ute {ndians who gave so much trouble at ‘Thunder Butte last winter started to- day overland with a cavalry escort for their reservation in Utah. HULL 18 NOMINATED. Official Count Gives.Congressman a Majority of 40. Des Moines, Iowa, July 28.—Satur- jay brought the. end of the long-con- tinued contest between Judge S. F. Prouty and Capt. A. T. Hull for the Republican nomination in the Seventh fowa congressional district. As a re- sult of the final official cont of bal- lots cast in the primaries June 2, and which were in contest in Dallas coun- ty until yesterday, Capt. Hull has se- zured the nomination by a majority of ynly 40 votes. PAY FOR LID TILTING. Two South Dakota Saloonkeepers Are Fined $75 Each. Watertown, S. D., July 28. — That the 11 o’clock lid is not to’ be pried off the Watertown saloons during Mayor Martin’s term in office was forcefully impressed upon the minds of two sa- loonkeepers in the municipal court by Judge Myers. The two offenders were caught in their saloons after the clos- ing hour and were arrested and haled to court, where each pleaded guilty and paid $75 in fines. SETH BULLOCK NOT INVITED. South Dakotan Says He Isn’t Going to Africa With ‘Rooosevelt. Deadwood, S. D., July 28. — United States Marshal Seth Bullock of Dead- wood authorized an absolute denial of the story sent from Colorado Springs saying that he had accepted an invi- tation to join President Roosevelt on his African trip. Capt. Bullock de- clared that he had not received such an invitation and that he would be unable to go had be heen invited. NICHOLAS KLOPP IS DEAD. Found Senseless on Walk and Death Is Laid to Fall. Faribault, Minn., July 28.—Nicholas Klopp, a business man of Faribault and an ex-alderman, was picked up from the cement sidewalk on Third street unconscious. It is not known how he was injured, but it is supposed he fell and struck his head. He was taken to the hospital, where he died shortly afterward. CROOKSTON AT THE FAIR. Booklets, Buttons, Banners and a Big Exhibit. Crookston, Minn., July 28.—Crooks- ton will impress itself on the Minne- sota state fair next month with un- usual energy. Booklets, buttons and banners will mark the visitors from this city and vicinity who attend the fair, and the Polk county exhibit will be a noise in itself. LIVE WIRE KILLS ENGINEER. Electrocuted While Showing Visitors Through Plant. Duluth, Minn., July 28. — Edward Peace, night engineer at the electric light plant at Bovey, Mesaba range, was electrocuted last evening while showing the workings of the machin- ery to a group of visitors. He acci- dentally touched some part of the ma- chinery and received a heavy voltage. TWO TINY GIRLS DROWNED. Wander Away to River While Mother Sleeps. Lake’ City, Iowa, July 28. — While Mrs. Ellis Heath was sleeping in her yard, suffering from a severe head- ache, her two little children, Helen, aged three years and three months, and Harriet, aged two years, were drowned in the North Coon river, southeast of this city. DEAD IN CHAIR TWO DAYS. Aged Prairie du Chien Man Found by Neighbors. Prairie du Chien, Wis., July 28.—Mi- chael Mulheim, seventy-four years old, was found dead reclining in a chair at his home, The excessive heat, togeth- er with apoplexy, are given as the causes. He was found by neighbors and is supposed to have been dead two days. Burglar in Hotel Rooms, Menomonie, Wis., July 28. — A bur. glar made the rounds of several rooms in the Hotel Royal, securing two gold watches, some other jewelry and cash, the value amounting in all to $200. No clue to the perpetrator of the theft has been found. Highway Robbery Charged. Walker, Minn., July 28.—John Hill, a Finlander, was bound over to the next term of the district court for al- leged highway robbery. The case came before Justice Cummings of Cass Lake and Hill was brought to the county jail. Train' Kills Badger Woman. Madison, Wis., July 28—In a grade crossing accident on the ‘St. Paul road, eight miles west of Madison, Mrs. Matthew Cullen of Middleton was instantly killed and her fousyear old daughter was fatally injured. Killed by Stackpole. Marshalltown, Iowa. July 28. — Charles Steward, a well-to-do farmer living near Maquoketa, was instantly killed by being knocked down and having his skull crushed by a hay: stack pole which fell upon him. 2 Seored Fae: Ten Seconds and OF MEDALS pm {In Minnesota Eight Thirds in Olympic Games Just Closed. London, July 28. — The ‘Olympic! games were brought to a conclusion Saturday afternoon, so- far as the sports held in the Stadium were con- cerned, when Queen Alexandra pre- sented the gold medals and trophies to the successful competitors, and the dowager duchess of Westminster, the duchess of Westminster, the duchess of Rutland and Lady Desborough handed the silver and bronze medals, the diplomas and the commemorative medals to those entitled to them. A big crowd attended the function and cheered the athletes as they came up to receive their prizes. The Ital- ian, Dorando, was honored with the greatest ovation, the sympathies of the spectators going out to the man who had missed the prize of the Mar- athon race when it was just within his grasp. Before the ceremony of prize-giving began America captured two events, the 100-meter hurdles and the 1,600- meter relay, the latter being the last event on the program. In the field and track events, in which the points are counted 5 for first, 3 for second and 1 for third, the standing is: America, 1141-2; United Kingdom, 661-3; Sweden, 121-2; Canada, 11; South Africa and Greece, 8 each; Norway, 5; Germany, 4; Italy, 3; Hun- France, 21-3; Australia and Finland, each 1. America’s score in the field and track events is made up of 15 firsts, 10 seconds and 8 thirds, in addition to a tie for the third place in the pole vault. The United Kingdom got 8 firsts, 6 seconds and 3 thirds; Sweden won 2 firsts, 2 seconds and a tie for third; South Africa won 1 first and 1 second; Canada won 1 first, 1 second and 3 thirds; Germany, 1 second dnd 1 third; Italy, Australia and Hungary, 1 third each, REJOICING OVER SULTAN’S ACT. Enthusiasm Over. Promulgation of Constitution Shown in Turkey. Constantinople, July 28.—Following the momentous act of the sultan of Turkey in proclaiming Saturday the restoration of the constitution of 1876, the Turkish newspapers are trying to awaken the enthusiasm of the people. They published long articles praising the sultan for the re-establishment of the constitution, which the writers declare finally assures the prosperity, liberty, justice and equality so long awaited. The impérial irade was officially read in all of the provincial centers, where it was received with signs of popular rejoicing such as were nota- dly lacking in the capital. Day of Rejoicing. Sunday was given up to patriotic demonstrations and speeches in the zeneral ‘rejoicing. All the steamers on the Bosphorous were gaily deco- rated with flags and 10,000 men marched in procession to the Yildez Kiosk and cheered the sultan continu- ously. The evening papers publish an ‘mperial rescript pointing out that owing to the previous condition of the country it was impossible to apply a constitution but that the time had arrived to grant this to the people. The hope was expressed in the re- script that the people would co-oper- ate with the parliament and the sul- tan. The rescript concludes with the imperial thanks for the popular mani- festations. During the demonstra- tions on Saturday the people compell- ed the ministers of state to swear fidelity to the constitution. What Constitution Grants. The principal points of the new con- stitution are: Personal liberty; no punishment without trial; religious toleration; a free press; equality of all Ottoman subjects; security of property; invio- ‘ability of domicile, and abolition of torture. The general assembly will consist of two chambers, the senators to be chosen by the sultan for distinguished service to the state; the deputies to be elected in the proportion of one for each 50,000 inhabitants. Following the sultan’s irade order- ing the dismissal ef spies, these ab- horred persons who formerly haunted all the public places, have now com- pletely vanished. CLOUDBURST HITS CROPS, Severe Storm Causes Much Damage in South Dakota. Arlington, S. D., July 28.—A cloud- burst struck this place yesterday aft- ernoon, over five inches of rain fall- ing within a few minutes. Grain was flattened to the ground and in many places washed from the fields. Im- mense damage will result to the crops, barley being in the midst of harvest. Every rivulet is a torrent and coun- try roads are rendered impassable. Several losses of stock are reported and many bridges are washed out. BLOWS HIMSELF TO BITS. Cartwright Places Head Over Mortar and Ignites Fuse. Berlin, July 28. — An extraordinary suicide is reported from Assling, near Munich. A Bohemian cartwright went to bed with two small mortars which he had previously loaded with pow- der, and then, igniting the fuses, blew himself to pieces. He had evidently placed his heag over the mouth of one of the mortars, as it was torn away from his body and shattered into a xg Ng State News of the -Week Briefly Told Fred Fischer, about twenty-six jyears of age, was drowned while bath- ‘ing in iad lake, bg Sullwater: Frank Carrier was drowned while bathing in a cut on the line of the Soo railroad extension at Mississippi and Acker streets, St. Paul. Arthur Frydelund, aged eighteen years, living in the town of Wolcott, was drowned in Straight river while in swimming with some companions, - Lightning struck and destroyed the Union church in the town of Charles, six miles north of Alexandria. The edifice was built nine years ago at a cost of $2,000, Swen Larson, seventy years old, was drowned in the Lost river near his home a few miles south of Plum- mer. The man was ig bathing when the accident occurred. . The residence of George Coulter, five miles east-of East Grand Forks, was destroyed by fire. The blaze started from the stove. The loss on the house and furniture is $3,000. The appearance of gnats in the vi- cinity of Faribault is causing the death of many young chickens. The insects crawl into the ears of the fowls and cause death in most in- stances. The woods are full of deer in the vicinity of Bruno this year. Many have been killed out of season, but the recent activity of the game wardens has stopped the slaughter to a great extent. The $5,000 trotting horse belonging to James Bachroch of Faribault fell dead on the race track while being ex- ercised. The animal appeared to be in his usual health when first taken out ang gave no sign of being sick. Heart failure was the cause of his death. The Twenty-five Thousand Club of Crookston has appointed a commit- tee to investigate the conditions of the post roads radiating from Crooks- ton. They will indicate in their report just what improvement can be proper- ly and efficiently made in other roads throughout that vicinity. Northern Pacific Passenger No. 105, entering the Minneapolis union depot, ran into Burlington Passenger No. 54, south-bound, while on the big stone arch bridge which spans the Missis- sippi at Sixth avenue south. No one was killed or seriously injured. Sie aSir aL sot ee At the annual meeting of School District No. 1 of Cass county, $43,500 was voted to carry on the business of the coming year. It was the intention to vote enough mon@y so as to be able to pay the teachers of the county bet- ter wages and thus enable the board to secure a higher grade of instruct- ors. St. Paul, on June 1, 1908, had a pop- ulation of 225,300, according to the in- troduction to the city directory for this year, which R. L. Polk & Co. soon will have ready for distribution. This estimate is based on an increase of 12,566 names in the 1908 directory over that of 1905, when the state cen- sus showed St. Paul to have a popula- tion of 197,025. The new directory contains 4,111 more names than the 1907 edition. 2288 Police Officer Matt Connelly was probably fatally injured at St. Cloud | by two thugs named James Rader and Richard Webber. Rader was arrest- ed, but Webber got away. A row ina saloon brought the officer to quell the disturbance, when the two men jump- |ed on him, beating in his head and breaking several ribs. Webber used | brass knuckles. Webber has been an | inmate of the reform school, but since his discharge has been a hack driver. Rader is a stonecutter. , L. A. Moody, a farmer of Star Lake township, Otter Tail county, shot him- self in a fit of despondency. He left home with a shotgun, saying he was going for a hunt, and when a few rods from the house found a tree with small stub branches which served to catch the trigger. He then placed the muzzle against his forehead and drew the gun toward him, blowing off the top of his head. The Western Elevator company of Winona took over the properties of the Northern Grain company of Mani- towoc, including fifty-five country el- evators and two terminal elevators, with storage capacity of 3,000,000 bushels. This gives the Western Ele- vator company elevators in over 200 towns in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and South Dakota, with direct connec- tion with Eastern Markets, Ludwig Glander, a . laborer aged six- ty-five years, was found dead in the pig pen at his home in Glencoe. He evidently had succumbed to heart failure when feeding the pigs after breakfast. One ear had been chewed by the animals. Two tramps, who gave their names as A. T. McNamara and Thomas Al- sop, were arrested at Red Wing. They had five pairs of new trousers in their possession. It is believed they were stolen at Hastings or Lake City or taken out of a merchandise car. DEFECTIVE PAGE Axel Johnson was instantly killed and Carl Arnedeck seriously hurt by an explosion of powder at the Burt mine, near Duluth. Edward Larson, ima ten-year-old son of Andrew Larson of Red Wing, was kicked to death by a horse while visiting at his uncle’s home in Vesa. The body of a man thought to be James Lindsay of Deer River, Minn., was found hanging in a stonecutter’s shed at the foot of Chestnut street at St. Paul. Glyndon School District No. 1, at a meeting, defeated a bonding project for the erection of a new school build- ing and decided to enlarge and im- prove the present building. Willie Follansbee of Glenwood died of poisoning. He was nine years old, and the only explanation offered is that in picking raspberries he -ate a poisonous berry growing in the woods. A large barn in the town of Otsego, Wright county, belonging to Price Bros. of Minneapolis, was struck by lightning and burned. The building was worth about $2,500; insurance, $1,500. E. L. Delaney of La _ Crosse, a workman on the government dredge boat Henry Bosse, was drowned in the Mississippi at Red Wing while bathing. He leaves a widow at Cam- bridge, Wis. James Duncan, secretary of the International Stonecutters’ associa- tion, is at St. Cloud, trying to effect a settlement between the preducers and the cutters. The shops have been open for some time. Leo Kluezyski, fifteen years old, was fatally injured while he was try- ing to board a freight train in the Great Northern yards in Minneapolis. Both legs were crushed and the boy died a few hours later at the city hospital. . D. Kloinsky, a car repairer, was seriously and possibly fatally injured at the Snelling avenue barns of the street car company in St. Paul, by be- ing crushed between two cars. His right leg was fractured and his right thigh rebate The barn on the t tat of Dr. W. J. Taylor, adjoining Pipestone, burned, including four valuable horses, har- nesses and feed, owned by William Ashenmacher, and a_ threshing ma- chine owned by Bishop Bros. The fire was probably started by tramps. The rain that the vicinity of Barnes- ville has been having the last week has given the grain a great uplift. For a while it was feared that there would be a decided decrease in the average if rain was not had within a few days, but it came in time to save the grain. The Shellhas brewery at Winona was damaged by fire to the extent of $1,000 on Thursday afternoon. The fire started in a storage room and the firemen had a hard time fighting it, owing to the breaking of the am- monia pipes used in the refrigerating system, While Passenger Train No. 8, the Winnipeg limited, was on its way east between Brainerd and Lawndale, a crazy man in charge of Sheriff Gonyea of Crookston, who was taking him to the asylum at Fergus Falls, jumped from the speeding train and made good his escap Mrs. Mary J. Moore, who resided in Lake Tunice township, on the northern border of Ottertail county, was drowned in Pearl lake. She had started for the home of a neighbor and is supposed to have stopped to examine some grape vines on the shore of the lake and to have fallen in. A huge mud turtle was found in the vicinity of Underwood with the char- acters, “1710 A. M. N.” cut in the shell on its back. The turtle was found by Oscar Wilson. There ‘is considerable speculation as to whether the num- bers were carved by some early ex- plorer, as turtles live for several hun- dred years, With approximately 30,000 men needed, the harvest only a few weeks distant and the railroads offering no special inducement in the way of cheap transportation, the farmers of Minnesota and North Dakota face what may develop to be a serious di- lemma—a bountiful harvest and in- sufficient help to garner it. An unknown assailant beat Mrs. Florence Hutchins, a nineteen-year. old widow, into unconsciousness and threw carbolic acid into her eyes and over her face in her room at Minne. apolis. The woman’s eyesight prob- ably will be saved, but her injuries are serious. Every effort was made to find some trace of the assailant, but no clue has been discovered tend- ing to disclose the indentity of the man or the motive for the crime. Liquid Fuel in Italy. Italian state railways have decide to adopt liquid fuel on some or the mountain lines with long tunnels. Tha special reduction of duty on mineral oils now accorded to Italian state rail- ways will make the cost of working by liquid fuel not prohibitive; anid this cost will be still further reduced when it is found convenient to import it by means of special tank steamers. During the fiscal year 1906-7 the cost of coal on Italian railways amounted to 17 cents per train mile, against France's 10 cents. . rn