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BY C. E, KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, MINNESOTA. NEWS OF THE WEEK IN EPITOME (mportant Events at Home and op Foreign Shores Briefly Told. People Talked About. President Eliot of Harvard has an- nounced his resignation, to take ef- fect May 19, 1909. Prince Louis d’Orleans-Braganza and Princess Maria-Pia of Bourbon- Sicily were married in Paris. The death is announced in Paris of oine Auguste Ernest Herbert, the neh portrait painter. He was born in 1817. Joseph Robinson, a lumber jobber of Ontonagon, Mich., has taken a con- tract to furnish 20.000 railroad ties to the Milwaukee road. Prof. Otis T. Mason, head curator of the department of anthropology of the National museum in Washington, d the oldest scientist of that insti- is dead as a result of paralysis, s seventy years of age. eant Kendall’s painting, “Nar- has been awarded the twenty- t annual Norman W. Harris prize the annual exhibition of American oil paintings held at the Art Institute n Ch Mr. Kendall is a well known New York artist. Mr. Harris, who each year gives $500 to the win- of the contest, is a Chicago bank- A Elaborate preparations are being by Chieago society to entertain countess of Warwick, the most prominent British suffragette, who is ected to visit that city within a She is coming, primarily, to industrial conditions here, but xt have much time to do so, if she attends all the functions prepared in her honor. Queen Alexandra is almost stone deaf. Although during the London season she had been treated for deaf- ness by a skillful specialist and her I x had greatly improved, she lost all the benefit thus acquired by going to Balmoral, where the keen light and air e her neuralgia and made her ring much worse. Being very sen- ve about it, the queen will keep on aking treatment, Accidental Happenings. William Groves igs dead and Mrs. Carrie M. Bulling is badly injured as the result of a street car striking a in which they were riding at St. , Mo. en were badly hurt, one of lly, in an automobile acci- vark, N. J., when a touring ashed into an iron trolley pole. t Bolton, Tex., started by Hal- n roysterers totally destroyed Bolton compress and 100,000 bales otton. The loss will exceed $250,- h the draw of the Superior ave- viaduct open at Cleveland, a ear, tossing the passengers : with at force and injuring five seriou and four score or more painfully. a former resident and the and Mrs. Frank Bray of Jes City, Iowa, accidentally shot iself while hunting in the moun- lifornia, 100 miles from Be- mother took the first train » West. Mrs. Harry L. Wynn, wife of a de- ent manager of the Illinois Steel ny at Chicago, killed her four- ar-old daughter by cutting her at with a razor and then commit- uicide with the same weapon. se for the crime is known. Sins and Sinners. William, Olson was found dead in his room at a private boarding house Mason City, Iowa. The gas jet was turned about one-fourth on. Will Kriel, a farmer north of Web- ster City, Iowa, attempted suicide with 2 2-ealiber revolver. He shot the ball into his forehead, but it did not enter the skull and he will recover. In a political quarrel at Foraker, Okla., Frank S. Seward, a prominent merchant and local Democratic com- mitteeman, shot and killed John H. Milam, a well known farmer of Paw- hucka, Okla. Mrs. A, Rothenburg, wife of the min- ister of the Franklin Circle Disciple church at Cleveland, ended her life by jumping from. the Abby street bridge to the railroad tracks, eighty feet below. The cause of the suicide is not known. body of Lee Marshall, a travel- ing esman of Mayfield, Ky., was found in an empty coal car attached to an Illinois Central train near Mem- phis. Death had resulted from two bullet wounds, and when found by the train crew the body was still warm. No weapon was found which would in- dicate suicide. c. A. Ralston, night watchman at Weeping Water, Neb., was shot and instantly killed by two men whom he was trying to arrest. The men es- caped. Posses were formed and pur- suit begun. United States secret service officials at Chicago arrested Joseph Hvat and W. H. Doyle, charged with counter- feiting, and after searching rooms oc- cupied by the men found an equip- ment for counterfeiting dollars and half dollars. It is said a search for the men had been conducted for fif- teen years, T herald--Review. |TAFT IS ELECTED BY LARGE MAJORITY Voters Choose William H. Taft of Ohio and James S. Sherman of New York for Highest Offices in Gift of Nation. Republicans Will Have a Safe Working Ma- jority in the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives—Hughes Re-elected. ' William Howard Taft will have 321 votes in the electoral college, which will choose the next president of the United States. The official count in Maryland shows that the electoral vote from that state will be divided, Bryan getting six of the electors and Taft two. On the popular vote—the vote cast for the elector receiving the highest number—Taft carries the state by 561 votes. Complete returns from Missouri give Taft a plurality in excess of 2,000. Hadley, the Republican candidate for governor, has a plurality of over 17,- 000, the highest vote ever cast for a state officer in Missouri. Missouri’s electoral votes, with the two from Maryland, brings Taft’s to- tal up to 321. Bryan’s electoral vote is 162. Bryan carried his home state, Ne- braska, by a plurality of about 2,000. Minnesota and North Dakota elected Democratic governors, but the balance of the tickets went to the Repub- licans. In Minnesota Gov. Johnson re- ceived a plurality of about 30,000, while the state gave Taft a plurality of close to 100,000. The vote on the state officers other than governor was well up with Taft’s vote. In North Dakota Gov. Burke was elected by about 5,000 plurality. Taft carried the state by more than 20,000. In South Dakota the national, state and congressional tickets were carried by the Republicans by safe pluralities. Wisconsin gave Taft a plurality of about $5,000, and Gov. Davidson and other Republican candidates ran about as well. Indiana and West Virginia, as well as Montana, turned out to be safely Republican. Colorado went for Bryan. The states carried by Mr. Bryan are as follows: Alabama, 11; Arkan- sas, 5; Colorado, 5; Florida, 5; Geor- gia, 13; Kentucky, 13; Louisiana, 9; Mississippi, 10; Nevada, 3; Nebraska, 8; North Carolina, 12; Oklahoma, 7; South Carolina, .9; Tennessee, 12; Texas, 18, and Virginia, 12. Total, 156. The latest returns indicate that in the national house of representatives the Republicans will have 219 mem- bers and the Democrats 172. The senate retains’ its Republican complexion, although there will be a material change in the personnel of the upper body of the national legisla- ture. Judge Taft's plurality in the state of New York, according to corrected returns, is 203,495, more than 28,000 in excess of President Roosevelt’s plu- rality of four years ago. Gov. Charles E. Hughes was re-elected in New York by 71,150. jaa ea ILLINOIS. The Republican national and state tickets have gained a complete vic- tory in Illinois although the pluralities will probably fall short of those ob- tained by the party in the Roosevelt campaign of 1904. Taft has carried the state by approximately 170,000 votes, although it will be sometime votes. Charles S. Deneen, the Repub- lican candidate for governor, ran for behind the national ticket, but has been elected by a plurality of about 100,000 over Adlai E. Stevenson, his Demo- cratic opponent. The legislature which is to elect a successor to Senator Albert J. Hop- kins will be strongly Republican, and it is certain that Mr. Hopkins will be succeeded either by himself or by an- other member of the party. Pea IOWA. More complete returns indicate that Taft’s plurality in Iowa will pass the 70,000 mark. The estimate is based on practically complete returns from two-thirds of the counties of the state, and it will probably be sustained by complete returns later. This plural- ity of 70,000 is 6,000 more than was given to McKinley in 1896, and is more than a normal Republican plu- rality. OHIO A plurality of about 50,000 for Judge Taft, the Republican candidate for president, was the election day ex- pression of the voters of Ohio, who, however, at the same time chose the head of the opposition state ticket by a plurality of probably 20,000. .The slow count delays knowledge of the decision as to the legislature, and poth parties claim to have the major- ity in that body. KANSAS. Late returns are reducing the esti- mated plurality of Taft and of, Stubbs for governor. Stubbs’ plurality is placed at 20,000 to 25,000 and Taft's about 3,000 more. The Republicans have a majority in the legislature. NEW JERSEY. Taft's plurality in New Jersey will be between 65,000 and 75,000. The Republicans elect seven of the ten congressmen. : Both houses of the legislature will be strongly Republican, NEBRASKA. Returns, while far from compete, are sufficiently definite to confirm and emphasize the first repart that the Democrats have made a sweeping vic- tory in Nebraska. Bryan will have a plurality of not less than 2,000, and Shallenberger, Dem., for governor, and the balance of the l)emocratic ticket will have about 7,000. At least four or probably five of Ne- braska’s six congressmen are Demo- cratic, only one Republican, Hinshaw, being assured of escaping defeat. The greatest surprise of all is the over- whelming majority the Democrats will have in the legislature. MICHIGAN, With Detroit and Wayne county es- timated, and with five other counties out of the total of eighty-three miss- ing, the Detroit News estimates that Gov. Warner, Rep., is reelected by a plurality of 10,233 over his Democrat- ic opponent, Lawton T. Hemans. The Free Press, with Wayne, Glad- win, Benzie and Leelanau counties missing, gives Warner a lead of 1,846. Interest in the governorship contest centers around the result in Wayne county, where only fifty precincts out of a hundred and fifty-five have been completed. A radical change in Indiana’s rep- resentation in the national house of representatives was the most striking feature of the election. The la’est un- official returns complete give the Democratit party eleven members and the Republicans two. This is a gain of seven members for the Democrats. Taft carried the state for president by about 8,000. The entire Democratic state ticket is probably elected by a plurality around 15,000. The state legislature is probably Democratic, which means that a Dem- ocratic successor to Senator James A. Hemenway will be chosen. MONTANA. With nearly two-sevenths of the vote yet to ke reported, which will come from normally Republican counties, the vote on president stands: Taft 27,295, Bryan 26,248. Taft’s piu- raility will be swelled to 3,000 or more in the twenty-six remaining precincts is conceded by the Democratic state chairman. The vote on governor re- mains exceedingly close, Norris (Dem.), leading Donlan by about 1,800 votes. The legislature also is exceedingly close. —_—_ KENTUCKY. ° Bryan’s plurality in Kentucky of 13,- 000, nine and possibly ten Democratic congressmen elected—Republican loss of two seats—this is the story of the election in Kentucky. There is a bare possibility that Taft will secure one of Kentucky’s ballots in the electoral college. UTAH. Utah is Republican again this year by a heavy majority, that of the na- tional being much greater than for the state candidates. The legislature will undoubtedly be Republican, insuring the re-election of Senator Reed Smoot. ASAE ae COLORADO. Estimated pluralities by counties based upon incomplete returns show that Bryan and the entire Democratic state ticket carries Colorado with plu- ralities in the neighborhood of 5,000. The Democrats probably will control the legislature. 2 IDAHO. Taft has carried the state by more than 20,000, anditis indicated that H. Brady, Republican for governor, and the entire Republican ticket has been elected by a majority of 7,000. ——2—— HON. WILLIAM H. TAFT. MISSOURI. Returns compiled by the St. Louis Republic give Taft the electoral vote of Missouri by a plurality of 2,182 over Bryan. These returns are complete from all but three counties, and include estimates based on partial returns from the missing counties. The Globe- Democrat places the Taft plurality in excess of 3,527. The plurality of Hadley, Republican, for governor, is now placed at 17,651, and complete returns from the three missing counties will probably show that he has polled the highest vote ever cast in the state for any office. The legislature is Democratic on joint ballot by four votes. NEW HAMPSHIRE. About two-fifths of the vote of New Hampshire has been counted and re- turned, and indications are Taft has carried the state by about 20,000 plu- rality. Henry B. Quinby, Republican candidate for governor, will probably have 4,000 plurality. The legislature will be strongly Re- publican in both houses and the two Republican congressmen were re- elected. — PENNSYLVANIA, With twelve counties still to hear from, indications are Taft has carried Pennsylvania by a plurality of nearly 400,000. A heavy vote was polled throughout the state. The Republicans hold their own in the congressional districts. There is practically no change in the Republican representa- tion. The entire ticket is elected by a large plurality. MISSISSIPPI The returns indicate Bryan carried Mississippi by a majority of over 50,- 000. All etght Democrati< nominees for congress were elected. OKLAHOMA. Complete returns from forty coun- ties in the central and northern sec- tions of the state give Bryan a plu- rality of 13,000. The counties yet to be heard from have large Democratic votes. These will probably raise Bry- an’s plurality to 18,000 The legislature is strongly D>mo- cratic. Republicans gain two con- gressmen. RHODE ISLAND. With about two-thirds of the 161 precents heard from, the figures indi- cated a plurality of 16,000 for Taft in the state. This is about the plurality given Roosevelt in 1904. The Republican state ticket, headed by Aram J. Pothier, candidate for gov- ernor, has undoubtedly been successful. The legislature will be Republican. ba ee WYOMING. Complete returns have not been re- ceived from any part the state. In- complete returns show large Demo- erati¢é gains, both state chairmen claiming the state by a small major- ity. MASSACHUSETTS. William H. Taft and Eben S. Draper, Republican candidate for govern carried Massachusetts, the former by 120,000 and the latter by 60,000. The Massachusetts congressional delega- tion remains unchanged, eleven Re- publicans and three Democrats. The Republicans also elected their ticket and the usual majority of members of both branches of the legislature. LOUISIANA. Bryan swept Louisiana, returns indi- cating a majority of 40,000. All seven Democratic nominees for congress were electet HOLD UP FAMILY: GET $10,000 1007 Two Burglars Cover Five Mem- bers of Family, While Third Ransacks the House. MANIS BOUND HAND AND FOOT Burglars Make Escape After Cutting Wires—Sentimental About Wed- ding Rings. New York, Nov. 9. — With the piercing ray of a burglar’s dark lan- tern shining in their eyes and two revolvers held by masked men cover- ing them, the five members of the family of Charles E. Taynter, a wealthy granite dealer, lay in bed in the Taynter home at Borough Park, Brooklyn, for more than an hour yes- terday morning, while a third masked burglar packed up $10,000 worth of jewelry and silverware. ‘Then the burglars bound Mr. Taynter hand and foot and escaped with their booty. The three men when they gaified entrance to the house went immedi- ately to a bed recom on the second floor occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Tayn- ter. One of the burglars struck Mr. Taynter A Crushing Blow on the head with a blackjack as he lay asleep. The blow stunned the sleeper, and a few minutes later when Mr. Taynter recovered his senses he found three revolvers leveled at him. Mr. and Mrs. Taynter were made to sit up in bed and two of the bur- glars held them covered while a third ; began a search of the room. The noise awakened Alice Taynter, the fifteen-year-old daughter, and she came into the room. The burglars or- dered her into bed with her parents. A moment later Charles Taynter, aged eight years, and Harold, twelve, came into the rcom. They were made to sit on the side of the hed. Burglar Is Sentimental. The burglar who was ransacking the room found a jewel case with two wedding rings in it and was about to take them when Mr. Taynter asked him not to. One of the burglars standing guard over the family said: “Don’t take those wedding rings. I am a married man and have some sen- timent about wedding rings,” he said. The rings were left, but two toy panks were broken and rifled of $17. When the room had been completely searched the third robber went down stairs and packed up the silverware. Soaps Off $500 Ring. He later returned to the bedroom and commanded Mr. Taynter to give up a $500 diamond ring he wore. The ring would not come off, so one of the burglars grimly drew a jacknife and was going to cut Mr. Taynter’s finger off. Mr. Taynter asked permission to go to the toilet and soap the ring off with soap and water. “We will do that ourselves,” said the man who appeared to be the lead- er of the trio, and he did forthwith. Then the three men produced a rope and bound Mr. Taynter’s hands and feet. It was an hour before Mr. Tayn- ter could notify the police, as the tele- phone wires were cut. MEETS PATHETIC DEATH. Expires in Jail After Trying to Kid- nap Son. Pittsburg, Nov. 9. — William Ev- ans, forty-five years old, formerly a resident of this city, died suddenly at Monongahela, Pa., fifteen minutes aft- er attempting to kidnap his six-Year- old son. Evans early Saturday met his wife and child at a railroad station, While endeavoring to take possession of the boy he was arrested and died in jail from heart failure fifteen minutes later. Gets Life Sentence. Laporte, Ind., Nov. 9. — Albert Roubick, who testified that he mur- dered Emil Kvasnick, the Chicago jeweler, because of infatuation for his victim’s wife, whom he expected to marry, was given a sentence of life imprisonment. ERAS Sie eS Auto Hits Buggy; Woman Is Dead. Falls City, Neb., Nov. 9. — Mrs. Au- gust Mueller was killed and her hus- band probably fatally injured when a buggy in which they were riding was run into by an automobile. Fatally Injured While Blasting. Norway, Mich., Nov. 9. — L. H. :As- slin, a well-to-do-farmer of this city, -who was injured by plasting stumps a week ago, died Saturday at the Co- lumbia hospital. Ten Killed in Wreck. Montauban, France, Nov. 9. — An express train was derailed yesterday near Grisoles. Ten persons were kill- ed and many injured. Season's First Snow Storm. Barnesville, Minn., Nov. 9. — The first snow of the season fell here last night. iA heavier fall is expected this morning. Election Fight Fatal. Anniston, Ala., Nov. 9. — In a fight at Edwardsville last night James Vaughan, a college student, shot and instantly killed Jackson Barker and wounded Elbert Jones and Bart Mc- Cormick. The fight is said to have grown out of a difficulty on election day. FIVE KILLED BY EXPLOSION Boiler Blows Up at Superior and Labor- ers Are Caught Without Warning. Superior, Wis.. Nov. 9. — Five men were killed, three instantly, and six hurt, one seriously, in an explosion at the site of the Wisconsin Central roundhouse and shops which is being built in this city. The crew working on the round- house had eaten dinner and were sit- ting near the boiler of a stationary engine, used in digging a well nearby. Without any warning the boiler blew up and three were instantly killed and two more died « few minutes later. The victims of the explosion were all foreigners employed by Schmidt Bros. & Hill of this city, who are building the Central shops and roundhouse. The injured were rushed to the hospital here and will probably re- cover. HUNTS MAN TO SLAY. Joseph Davisch Vows to Kill His Recreant Rival. Duluth, Noy. 9. — Joseph Davisch, an Austrian, who says he is engaged to marry Ella Mahbki, a Finnish girl accused of killing an infant, has sworn to kill Gust Wuto, a Finn, who is accused by the girl. Wuto has gone to Finland, according to the girl’s in- formation, but Daviseh hopes to find him in Northern Michigan. Davisch learned of the pitiful trag- edy in which the girl was involved here and in blind fury against the man who was responsible for her trou- bles he armed himself and come to Duluth from the range, where he has been employed, to hunt for the faith- less lover. BOYS FIND HANGING BODY. Ghastly Discovery Made Near Cem- etery at Litchfield, Minn. Litchfield, Minn., Nov. 9.—Swaying with every gust of wind that blew, the decaying body of a strange man was found Saturday hanging by the neck to a tree in a little grove near the cemetery, about a mile south of town. The discovery was made by some boys who were roaming through the neighborhood. The body is believed to be that of a man who was here a month ago selling flatirons. No one seems to know his name. The county officers have been notified and will investigate. CRAZY WOMAN MAKES SPEECH. Wanders From Home and Is Found Preaching Sermon. Marshalltown, Iowa, Nov. 9. — While ment«lly deranged, Miss Nora Valentine, aged thirty-two years, a well known young woman of Eldora, slipped from her home unnoticed and wandered to a feed barn, where a number of men were loafing. She mounted a chair and began preach- ing to the small congregation. Later her friends found her, and yesterday she was arraigned before the county commissioners of insanity and ordered confined to the state hos- pital for the insane. MEETS A TERRIBLE DEATH. Andrew Akerman of Duluth Is Beaten and Torn to Death in Elevator. Duluth, Minn., Nov. 9. — Andrew Akerman, aged forty-five years, of Duluth, met a terrible death late yes- terday afternoon at Elevator B of the Consolidated system. His coat was caught in the shafting which moves a large conveyor belt and he was beat- en and torn to death before the ma- chinery could be stopped. Akerman is survived by his widow and five children. PORTER FOILS TRAIN ROBBERY. Conductor Tackles Dangerous Intrud- ers in Car. Columbus, Nov. 9. — An attempt to rob Big Four Train No. 18, from Cincinnati, was foiled by the prompt discovery of the presence of two rob bers on the dining car by a porter. As a result one man, Garry G. Em- mett, is beleved to be dying, and a man who says his name is Patrick Mahem and that his home isin Cleve- land, is held by the police as a sus- pect. Hotel Guest Blows Out the Gas. Sioux Falls, S. D., Nov. 9. — Jonas Sells of Wolverton, Minn., during a brief visit to Sioux Falls, blew out the gas in a hotel room. Sells was found lying across the tbreshold of his room partially unconscious. He was re- vived. Mr. Sells, with his daughter and son-in-law, was en route to Beresford, N. D. Tries to Kill Himself in Prison. New York, Nov. 9. — An unsuccess- ful attempt to commit suicide by, poi- son was made late yesterday in his cell in the Tombs prison by Enrique de Lara, a seventeen-year-old lad who stands charged with the killing of Fa- ther Asencio in Central Park on Sept. 14 last. How De Lara obtained the poison is not known. Is Frightfully Injured. Emmetsburg, Iowa, Nov. 9. — Jack- son Stafford was killed by the acci- dental discharge of a gun while he was hunting. The charge struck him in the face, tearing away a large part of the chin, the entire nose and one eye. Escaped Convict Caught. Kalamazoo, Mich. Nov. 9. — Charles Kelly, who escaped two years ago from the penitentiary at Colum- bus, Ohio, was arrested here last hight.