Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 13, 1909, Page 2

Kerald--Review. BY C. E, KILEY. ON MURDER CHARGE} Identity of Corpse in Church Stove Established by Means of False Teeth. —_—— MOTIVE FOR CRIME A MYSTERY Insanity in Preacher’s Family May Ex- plain Some Horrible Features of Murder. * GRAND RAPIDS, - - MINNESOTA. NEWS OF WEEK SUMMARIZED Digest of the News Worth Telling Con: densed for the Busy Reader. Duquoin, Il. Jan. 12—A gas explosion, in which — ' men lost their lives occurred at early hour yesterday morning in Jo- seph Leiter’s famous colliery at Zei- ler. A spark from a trolley pole of an electric motor coming in cont with a pocket of gas is assigned the cause of the explosion. ‘ Eight bodies yet remain in the mine, but will be recovered before Monday, it is thought. Mr. Leiter personally conducted the first relief party that descended into the mine to recover the dead bodies. Youth Survives. The lone survivor of the explosion was an Italian youth, who escaped un- harmed. An expert who had been experi- menting with the gas in the mines at Zeigler left Wednesday, confident that he had placed the mine in safe condi- tion to be operated. The men entombed were engaged in clearing away the debris caused by the recent fires in the mine, and it was expected that operations would be re- sumed this week, after two months’ suspension. _ Rescuers Im Peril. On account of the poisonous gases that filled the mine the relief parties that went down were in great peril. Frequently they were forced back by the noxious vapors that had engulfed the men of the night shift. Finally one party returned with the bodies of three miners, all badly burned. The fatherless, husbandless crowd around the mine made a rush for the men, and as soon as they were identified a wail went up from those who had been near and dear to them. From that time on the work of tak- ing out the dead went rapidly on. Three of the bodies were so badly dis- figured that they have not been identi- fied. = FROM THE CAPITAL. The senate has ratified arbitration treaties with the Argentine Republic and Salvador. The proposal to establish a United States court of patent appeals is un- der consideration by the house com- mittee of the judiciary. An extradition treaty between the United States and France has been signed in Paris, Ambassador White acted for the United States. It has cost the government $15,000 already in the employment of private detective agencies to investigate the Brownsville affair ané the contracts are still in force. According to the announcement just made at Manila none bu unmar- ried men will be accepted by the gov- ernment in future to serve as officers in the constabulary force on the isk ands, and officers already in the serv- ice will not be allowed to marry without the consent of the govern- ment. Port Huron, Mich., Jan. 10. — By means of two false teeth {t was defi- nitely established yesterday afternoon that Gideon Browning of Adair village was the man who was but¢hered last Tuesday evening in the little Rattle Run Methodist church, in Columbus township. With part of the mystery thus cleared, the supervisors of St. Clair county immediately offered a reward of $500 for the arrest of Rev. John H. Carmichael of Adair, pastor of the little church, and the man who was at first suppostq to have been Killed. Teeth Are Identified. The teeth were found yesterday when the ashes from the stove were sifted. Dr. C. H. Browbeer of St. Clair, the dentist who made Browning a set of false teeth recently, exam- ined them and declared they were part of Browning’s set. His decision satisfied Prosecuting Attcrney Brown that it was Browning who had been killed. Efforts to discover some motive for the destruction of the carpenter by the minister have been fruitless, and rumors that Carmichael had been seen crossing the St. Clair river into Canada could not be corroborated yes- terday. Mrs. Carmichael and Miss Carmi- chael, wife and daughter of the minis- ter, were examined yesterday by the prosecuting attorney here, and he stated afterward that he was con- vinced that they knew nothing of the murder nor the man’s disappearance. Sister in Insane Asylum, A statement yesterday by Mrs. Car- michael that her husband’s sister is an inmate of an insane asylum may explain some of the horrible features of the crime, if the authorities’ sus- picions about Rev. Carmichael are borne out. Mrs. Carmichael also said that her husband was moody and rest- less the night before he disappeared and apparently brooded over some- thing. It was also learned yesterday that on Monday, the day before the mur- der, Rev. Carmichael came to the postoffice in Adair, apparently much agitated and perturbed, and received a letter which he took away without opening. It is thought that this letter may have had some connection with the strange intimacy between the minister and the carpenter, which had been noticed for a number of weeks before the crime in the church. Plans have been outlined by the bureau of construction of the navy for a great battleship of 25,000 tons, designed to carry eight fourteen-inch guns. The possibility of asking for an appropriation for a ship of a larger type than the Dreadnaught is attracting attention among members of congress. PERSONAL. Henry C. Watson, editor of Dun’s Review, died at his home in Engle- wood, N. J. Rey. J. A. Lambert, a Jesuit mis- sionary with the Davenport (Iowa) diocese, died in Chicago from pneu- monia. M. Chouillon, president of the French chamber of commerce at Montreal, has been made a member of the Legion of Honor. Auson R. Flower, aged sixty-six special partner in the firm of Flower & Co., bankers, of New York, died at his home in Watertown, N. Y. Chairman Martin A. Knapp has been sworn in for the third time as a member of the interstate commerce commission for a term of seven years. Mrs. Randolph H. H. Hersey, wife of an aged millionaire iron manufac- turer of Montreal, died at Riverside, Cal., of pneumonia. The body will be interred in Canada. Gen. John B. Cotton, formerly as- sistant attorney general of the United States and a prominent member of the Washington bar, died suddenly at his home in that city. Mgr. O’Connell, appointed auxiliary bishop of San Francisco, will be suc- ceeded as rector of the Cathoffc_uni- versity at Washington within a month by Bishop John Carroll of Helena, Mont. The resignation of Rev. C. F. Win- bigler, pastor of the First Baptist church in Washington, tendered be- cause of the advanced ideas of reli- gion and therapeutics, was accepted by the congregation after an animated discussion. DEATH DEGREE FOR LYNCHERS. Six Convicted Night Riders Hear Pen- alty Without a Tremor. Union City, Tenn., Jan. 12.—Without a tremor, six men of Reelfoot Lake heard judgment passed Saturday con- demning them to pay with their lives the penalty for the part they were convicted of having had in putting to death Capt. Quentin Ranken at Wal- nut Log, the deed of a band of so-call- ed night riders, of which the six men were declared to be the leaders. Whatever may have been their emo- tion, they faced the court to receive sentence with the same stoic expres- sions’as have been their marked char- acteristic during the sensational trial. } In passing sentence Judge Jones de- clared that he could see no mitigating circumstances, mentioned by the jury in the return of the verdict, and con- sidered that but a compromise to some members of the jury who hesitated to pass the sentence of death. Thus he felt that the responsibility had been placed on him, a duty which he would not shirk. The six nightriders sentenced to death and two others sentenced to twenty years in the state penitentiary have been placed in jail at Jackson and will be held in close confinement to await the action of the state su- preme court, which will meet in this city next April. Judges Pass Up Oil Case. Landis. and Bethea Decline to Sit in Retrial of Standard Oil Suit. Chicago, Jan. 8—The distinction of hearing the retrial of the Standard Oil case, in which Judge Landis’ fine of $29/240,000 went against the rocks in the United States appellate and supreme courts, went begging yester- day. United States District Attorney Sims went before Judge Landis and announced that he would like to begin the new hearing on Monday next. Judge Landis answered that in view of his convictions in the case— fundamentally that each car lot con- stituted a separate offense—he did not care to sit again in the cause. “But,” continued the court, “T’ll ask |’ Judge Bethea about it; maybe he will take it.” But Judge Bethea pleaded some slight connection with the matter even before it reached Judge Landis, ‘| and asked to be excused. “Well,” Judge Landis pursued, after his telephone conversation with his colleague, “Judge Anderson is coming up here to try a case for me soon; wait til he arrives and we'll see what can be done.” And there thg matter for the nonce was allowed to rest. BRIDE’S HEAD IS SHOT OFF. Couple on Charitable Errand to Rus- sian Meet Disaster. lliff, Colo., Jan. 12. — Fearing that he was about to be attacked and rob- bed, Karl Tscharch, a Russian, living near here, fired a load of shot point blank at Henry Tucker and his bride of two months, who had stopped at his cabin to inquire if he wanted work. Tucker himself was wounded slightly. Tscharch walked to a neighbor’s house and told what he had done, ex- ‘plaining that he had $600 concealed in the house and thought the Tuckers' ‘were robbers. He then disappeared. Mrs. Harriet Estes, who is said to have been the only surviving daugh- ter of the Revolution, died at Ithaca) N. Y., aged eighty-seven years. Mrs. Estes was born in Elbridge, N. Y., and was the daughter of James Dunham of the Fifth Connecticut regiment. CASUALTIES. Fire in the Selger block, at Oak land, Cal., damaged the building and contents to the extent of $100,000. A huge snowslide in Provo canyon, Utah, stopped traffic of the’ Denver & Rio Grande to Heber City for two days. Fire destroyed the large elevator of the Western Milling company at Cal- gary, Alberta. The loss is estimated at $75,000. The pinnace of the British cruiser Encounter was sunk in a collision with a collier at Sydney, N. S. W. Sixteen of the sailors were drowned. William Nix, aged seventy-two, an employe of the Illinois Central for thir- Commander Marsh Punished. Washington, Jan. 12—The navy de- partment has approved the court-mar- tial proceedings at Boston by which Commander Charles C. Marsh was con- ivictea of running the cruiser Yankee aground at Buzzard’s bay on Sept. 23. [He is the son-in-law of Admiral Rob- ley D. Evans. The court senténced him to lose forty numbers, but the department reduced it to twenty-five KILLING AT FORT BRADY. ty-five years, was ground to death] corporal John £. Gibson Fatally| On account of previous good service. while flagging a Waterloo (Iowa) Shoots a Private. oo ee crossing. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, Jan. 8. Aged Woman Asphyxiated. New York, Jan. 12.—Miss Julia Cole- ;man, eighty-one years of age, was found dead in her room in Brooklyn lyesterday from gas asphyxiation. She chad failed properly to turn off the gas ‘from her range. Miss Coleman was ‘born in Missouri and for a number of ‘years was literary secretary of the ‘Woman’s Christian Temperance union. The total annual mortality from ac- cidents in the United States among wage-earning men is between 30,000 and 35,000, of which at least one-third and perhaps one-half should be saved by rational and intelligent methods of factory inspection, legislation and con- trol. There were also approximately. 2,000,000 accidents that were not fa- tal. ‘A man identified as Patrick Henry Pendergast, a bachelor farmer, who lived near Berlin, Ottawa county, Mich., and an unidentified woman were asphyxiated in a room at one of the Grand Rapids (Mich.) hotels. Williafa Moeltentin, fifty-nine years old, of Chicago, who had been threat- ened with death unless he put $500 at a place named in a notice posted on his door, borrowed a rifle from a friend and after waiting in the dark shot and killed Garrett Schollens, the son of the friend who had loaned him the rifle. It was a case of mistaken identity, —Corporal John E. Gibson shot and instantly killed Private John McMan- us in the squad room of Company K, at Fort Brady, yesterday. Gibson was placed in the guard house, and offi- cers are conducting an investigation. So far they have been unable to learn the cause of the trouble. Bomb at a Revival Meeting. Beaver Crossing, Neb., Jan. 8—Dur- ing a revival meeting “at the Chris- tian church last night a bomb was set off in the vestibule which badly dam- aged the front of the structure and sent a big congregation into a small panic. Booth’s Sight Returns. London, Jan. 12. — Gen, Booth, the venerable head of the Salvation Army, fis gradually recovering his sight after jundergoing a painful operation for the ‘removal of a lenticular cataract of the right eye. Professor Kills Self. Treilton, N. J., Jan. 12.—Clark Tan- by, professor of Greek and Latin at ‘the Lawrenceville preparatory school, committed suicide late last night by shooting himself through the right temple. Store Is Robbed. Newport, Minn., Jan. 7—The M. D. Hilliard general store was entered by robbers early yesterday morning and $200 in merchandise was taken. There is no clue to the robbers, MEEECTIVE PAGE ny UGE UNFIT FOR —__ Root of Seattle Guilty Impropriety. ¥ Money Matters and Accepted Transportation. \ —_—- Seattle, Wash,, jan. —The state appointed _ of Judge Milo A. Root, who resigned as a judge ago, bar association to investigate the of the supreme court two, made its report Saturday. § was recently elected for of six years. only the term to which he was elec two years ago. If he fails to Monday, Jan. 11, the office will ber< clared vacant. The committee finds that Judge Root has been guilty of gross impro- priety, which unfits him for the sw preme bench. Findings Are Sensational. The report makes these conclusions and recommendations: That Judge Root had correspond- ence with M. J. Gordon, attorney for the Great Northern Railroad company, concerning money transactions. That Judge Root accepted from the Great Northern and other railroads free transportation. That Judge Root filed as the opin- ion of the supreme court an almost verbatim draft of an opinion dictated by M. J. Gordon, attorney for the Great Northern, in the case of Harris against the railroad company. - Some Points in Doubt. The committee is unable to obtain any facts to substantiate the rumors of the giving out of advance informa- tion concerning the decisions of the supreme court. The committee is unable to obtain any facts to substantiate rumors of bribery and corruption. The committee holds that the con- duct of Judge Root in receiving free transportation is highly censurable and requests the judges of the supe- rior court of Spokane county to calla grand jury to investigate fully the rumors of corruption. Decide Course in Future. Believing that its suggestion will be acted upon, the committee feels that it is only fair to withhold any other recommendations. .; Whether such inquisition be held or not, the supreme court and the state bar association will then confer to reach a basis for further action or proceeding. FIGHT 1S FATAL TO THREE. Row at Kentucky Dance Stirs Up Feud and Ends in Bloody Battle. Williamstown, Ky., Jan. 12. — One man was killed, two fatally wounded and six other men were seriously in- jured as the result of a fight that started at a dance Saturday night and continued through yesterday morning, which was terminated by Sheriff Car- ter and a posse arresting the alleged ringleaders in the killing, just as a mob was being formed to avenge the death of Ethel Ransom, who was beat- en to death after he had received sev- eral wounds. The dance was held at the home of Wesley Barns, and during the festivi- ties Ethel Ransom and William Thompson are said to have begun shooting after an altercation. Thomas Turner interfered and was shot and beaten. The men then came into town, and while George lLautern, who was wounded, was in Dr. O’Hara‘s Office, Ethel Ransom assisted in dressing his wounds. After leaving the office the Lautern crowd attacked the Ransoms. Ethel Ransom was the first to fall. Not satisfied, his enemies, as he cried for mercy, beat his brains out with blocks of cement. The Lauterns, finding that their op- ponents were gaining in numbers, took to flight. The sheriff and his posse surrounded the Lauterns’ home and they, on learning that they would be protected, surrendered. As the sheriff departed by one road for Covington with his prisoners a mob was being formed. The second fight, which was a battle, was not a sequel of the dance row, but was the outgrowth of a feud. Battleships at Naples. Naples, Jan. 12—The United-States battleships Connecticut, Kansas, Min- nesota and Vermont, under Rear Ad- miral Sperry, the commander of the Atlantic fleet, arrived here at dawn, anchoring between the Italian battle- ship Bendetto Brin and the cruiser San Giorgio. Board of Health Is Fined. Chippewa Falls, Wis., Jan. 12.—The members of the board of health of Ar land have been fined $25 for violating regulations prescibed by the state board of pealth. The complaint was made by A. F. Hanson. It appears that diphtheria broke out in Mr. Han- son’s family and after being let out of quarantine the board of health re- fused to fumigate, as requested by Mr. Hanson. again in the Hanson family, and Mr. ‘Hanson then decided to begin action against the board. _ Bar Committee Finds WANT GRAND JURY TO PROBE Dickered With Great: Northern Over His resignation affected Later diphtheria broke out TAX AMENDMENT Supreme Court Reverses St. Louis County Court—Makes a Tonnage Tax Possible. St. Paul, Jan. 10.-—The wide-open tax amendment was yesterday declar- ed to have been adopted as a part of the constitution of the state, when the supreme court handed down a de- cision reversing the district court of St. Louis county, which declared that the law had failed to receive the in- dorsement of the people at the gen- eral election of 1906, following a re- count of the vote in the state. The decision is one of the most im- portant ever rendered by the supreme court of the state, involving the mort- e registry tax law and the crea- tion of the state tax commission. In- cidentally it paves the way for a ton- ‘Rage tax on iron ore. The good roads amendment was ‘| submitted at the same election as the \ax amendment. The canvassing board “declareq both amendments ‘ The matter was taken be- fore the district court of St. Louis county. .The court declared the tax amendment lost and the good roads amendment ,adopted. The attorney general appealed to the supreme court, contending that the questions involved were poiitical and not judi- cial. The supreme eourt in its deci- sion declares that whether a consti- tution shall be amended ‘is a political question; whether it has béen legally amended is a judicial question. ACCUSED REALLY AGGRRIEVERD. Man Charged With Beating Family Could Arrest Accusers. Chippewa Falls, Wis., Jan. 10.—A novel situation developed here in the case of Adploh Vogel, who was arrest- ‘ed Dec. 30 on a charge of assault with intent to commit murder. None of the witnesses for the state would testify against Vogel, and it is learned tha Vogel, instead of being guilty of the charge, was the aggrieved party and had cause to have those who made the complaint arrested for assaulting him. The statement complainants made against Vogel to get the warrant was sensational. They declared Vogel had assaulted his wife and children and threatened to kill them, and stood off with a rifle twenty farmers who came to the rescue of the family. Vogel when arrested had bloody wounds on his head. FISHERMEN ORGANIZE UNION. Lake Pepin Organization Wants Bet- ter Treatment From Buyers. Pepin, Wis., Jan, 10. — The Lake Pepin Fishermen’s union was organ- ized last night. The fishermen organ- ized because they questioned the busi- ness methods of New York buyers. Their plan is to have a committee find out the market prices each week and to offer the “buyers all the fish at rea- sonabl prices, the buyers to take the entire output. If the buyers refuse to do this the fish will be shipped on commission. So far only about three cars a week have been shipped, as the buyers would not take the entire out- put, which would be ten cars. DEPUTY POSTMASTER HELD. Sault Ste. Marie Alleged Embezzier Asserted He Was Robbed. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., Jan. 10.— Deputy Postmaster Frank L. Higgins was arrested yesterday on a charge of embezzlement. The arrest is the out- growth of an alleged robbery of which Higgins reported himself the victim Dec. 14. It was stated at that time that three foreigners assaulted the deputy postmaster with a sandbag while he was alone in the postoffice making out his pay roll the previous evening, and his assailants escaped with $2,500 of postoffice funds, Brainerd Bank Fails. Brainerd, Minn., Jan. 10.—The Se- curity Bank of Brainerd has closed its doors. The bank, which had a capital stock of $25,000 and deposits of $35,850, opened for business in Au- gust, 1908. J. H. Guerin is president and A. B. Storck cashier. The clos- ing is voluntary, the officials wiring the public examiner to make an inves- tigation, Detailed Military Instruction. Brookings, S. D., Jan. 10. — Capt. Edward R. Chrisham of the Sixteenth United States infantry, has been de- tailed by the war department at Washington as professor of military tactics at Brookings college. Capt. Chrisham was in charge of the inspec- tion work of the South Dakota nation- al guard last winter. EXPLOSION MAY COST SIGHT. Stillwater, Jan. 10.—Joseph E. Car- roll, ticket agent at the union depot, was seriously scalded in the face and ‘eyes by steam, and he may lose his ‘sight. / o A lard can filled with water and tightly covered was on the kitchen Istove, to be used in thawing a frozen ‘water pipe. Mr. Carroll was lifting the lid with a knife when -n explosion occurred and the steam struck him in the eyes and face. He is unable to see and his condi- tion is considered grave. SUPREME BENCH News of Great Northwest DRUG AND ROB MANKATO MAN. Minneapolis Thugs “Get” Son of State Legislator. Minneapolis, Jan. 12—John A. Jor- genson, traveling agent for the Parke- Davis Drug conipany, and a son of State Representative Hans Jorgenson of Mankato, reported to the police of Minneapolis Saturday that he had ‘been drugged and robbed by three ‘men in a lodging house. He was rob- bed of $45, a diamond ring, a watch and stick pin. The jewelry is valued at $200. Detectives Mortenson and Wirten- sohn arrested Frank Pasko and Julius Dugan, both young men, in whose pos- session, the police say, some of Jor- genson’s belongings were found. The third man escaped. STAND-PATS IN IOWA BEATEN. Feely of Blackhawk Wins the Speak- ership. Des Moines, Jan. 12. — When the “Stand-pat” support of Representative W. L. Harding, progressive, of Sioux City, broke in the caucus Saturday ‘and went over to Guy A. Feely of Blackhawk county, thus assuring the latter the speakership of the house of representatives, the bitter factional war of Iowa Republicans came to an end. The “Stand-pats” on four ballots had tried desperately to nominate Harding. Mr. Feely will be elected this morn- ing. DAM DEFENDER GETS WRIT. Weisenbach, Associate of Dietz, Ap- peals to Supreme Court. Chippewa Falls, Wis., Jan. 12. — Valentine Weisenbach, associate of John Dietz, the Cameron dam defend- er, has been’ successful in his appeal ito the supreme court for a writ of er- ror, and the case will be heard before that court on Jan. 26. _ Weisenjach was tried in the circuit ‘court of Culppewa county four years lago on a charge of assault with intent to kill, was found guilty and sentenced to serve a term of twelve year the penitentiary. WOULD SELL POWER PLANT. Street Railway Company Makes Win- nipeg Proposition. Winnipeg, Jan. 12.—The Winnipeg city council having gone in for the polisy of owning municipal franchises the Winnipeg Electric Street Railway company, which owns a valuable water power plant near the one owned by the city railway, gas and electric light plants, made’a move Saturday to sell out to the city. A committee was ap- pointed by members of the board of trade to negotiate. The value is placed at $10,000,000. BAD FIRE IN ALBERTA TOWN. Store, Postoffice and Bank Destroyed at Taber. Winnipeg, Jan. 12—The Taber Trad- ing company’s store at Taber, Alberta, with a valuable stock, was destroyed by fire. A stone block which contain- ed the postoffice and the Eastern Townships bank was also destroyed. At one time the entire business sec- tion was threatened. Lethbridge was appealed to for aid. The loss is $100,- 000. Police Find Missing Heir. Chippewa Falls, Wis., J er a search of several Ignatz Kleps, the police authorities of Northern Wisconsin have finally locat- ed him on a farm near Bruce. Kleps’ -brother in New York has for several years been trying to find him, and re- cently asked the police of the Norti- west to assist. It is said that by rea- son of the death of a rich relative the missing man has inherited considera- ble property. Farmers Block Interurban. Webster City, Iowa, Jan. 12.—Scott township Saturday blocked the con- struction of the proposed Waterloo & Ames interurban line by refusing a right of way through the township. The vote was more than two to one, the reason being that the road would have cut the township diagonally and cross the farms. Lynx Killed Near Brandon. Brandon, Minn., Jan. 12.—Mr. Jul- seth, residing about two miles north ‘of this village, killed a lynx Saturday. ‘He was rabbit hunting near Little ‘Chippewa lake when his dog encoun- ‘tered the lynx. After nearly killing ithe dog, the lynx started leisurely away, but was stopped with a bullet. Explosion on Canal. Panama, Jan. 12.—A premature ex- ,plosion occurred yesterday at Cucara- jcha, on the line of the Panaca canal. ‘One man was killed instantly and eight men were badly hurt. Austria Calls Reserves. Berne, Switzerland, Jan. 12. — The Bund says it learns authoritatively hat all the reserves of Austria under officers residing in Switzerland have feceived orders to join their regi- ments on Jan. 25. Antitoxin Is Fatal. Chicago, Jan. 12. —- Eleven colored children, of whom one has died, are aid to have become violently sick gs tthe result of the administration of diphteria antitoxin by a city physi- cian.