Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 19, 1909, Page 2

F. P. SHELDON. P. J. SHELDON, President. Vice-President C.E. Aiken, Cashier. FIRST NATIONAL BANK TRANSACTS A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. Dr CHAS. M. STORCH Physician and Surgeon Office and Residence Cor. Kindred Ave. and Fourth St. GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. D® THOS. RUSSELL Physician and Surgeon Office and Residence Cor Leland Avenue and Sixth Street GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. “THWING & ROSSMAN Attorneys at Law Office over Metzgers’ Market opposite | Post Office GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. CH ESTER L. PRATT Attorney at Law COURT COMMISSIONER Office on Second Folor in Court House GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. } REMER & KING ABSTRACTS OF TITLE BReav Estate and Fire InsuRANCE Office Pokegama Hotel Block GRAND RAPIDS. MINN. REISHUS-REMER LAND CO. REAL ESTATE AND FARM LANDS Office Third Street next to First Nat. Bank GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. H ERALD-REVIEW Book and Job Printing ALL WORK GUARANTEED Leland Ave, Between 4th and 5th Streets GRAND Rapips, MINN. W E. MYERS CITY LIVERY Office and Barn between Fifth and Sixth St. on Kindred Ave. GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. FPRANK MYERS Dray and Express Line PHONE 218 Stand—Corner Leland Ave. and Third St. GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. A L. ROECKER Merchant Tailor Third St, Bet Leland and Kindred Avenue GRAND Raprps, MINN. D M. GUNN POKEGAMA HOTEL FIRST CLASS ACCOMMODATIONS Corner Leland Avenue and Third Street GrRanD Rapips, MINN. City LUMBER CO. LUMBER AND BUILDING MATERIAL Corner Houghton Avenue and Third Street GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. UNIQUE THEATRE MOVING PICTURES ALWAYS THE BEST MYERS & DOUGLAS Ponti Building Cor. Leland Ave. & 5th St. GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. J O. JOHNSON & CO. Meats and Provisions FEED anD Hay Corner Leland Avenue and Fourth Street GRAND Rapips, MINN. N#!Es & AITON Flour, Feed and Hay FarM SUPPLIES AND MACHINBRY Third St. Bet. Kindred and@ Houghton Ave Granp Rapips, Minn. BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY OF GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. A. C. Bossarp, L. M. Bouter, President ashi V. W. Knapp, Assistant Cashier First STATE BANK TRANSACTS A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS RESOURCES $100,000.00 GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. DR. COSTELLO DENTIST Office in First National Bank Building. GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. J OHN COSTELLO Costello’s Ice Cream BOTTELING WORKS, MINERAL WATERS Bet.3rd and 4th Streets on Hoffman Ave. GRAND Rapips, MINN. FRANK F. PRICE LAWYER COUNTY ATTORNEY Office in First National Bank Building GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. Cc C. McCARTHY LAWYER Office in Marr Building, Cor. Kindred Ave. and Third St. GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. H “4 E. GRAFFAM Lands and Insurance Leland Avenue opposite the Post Offce GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. W. Q. YOST Lands, City Property and Insurance Office Pokegama Hotel Block GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. GEORGE BOOTH . Cigar Manufacturer Boorn’s Bouquets Bet. 2nd and 8rd Sreets un Kindred Avenue GRAND Rapips, MINN. ‘THoMas KERR & CO. Livery and Feed Stable Office and Barn East of Pokegama Hotel GRAND RAPIDS. MINN. (CHALES W. FO REST CITY DRAY AND EXPRESS LINE PHONE 134-2 Stand—Corner Leland Ave. and Third St. GRAND Rapips, MINN. (CHARLES HAMMER Merchant Tailor Second St. Bet. Leland and Kindred Aves. GRAND Rapips, MINN. iba R. ROOT Great Northern Hotel Froe accommodations for Farmers Tea ms Corner Third Street and Houghton Avenue GRAND RApips, MINN. WILL NISBETT Practical Watchmaker and Engraver COMPLETE JEWELRY LINE Bet. 2nd and 8rd Street on Kindred Avenue GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. FLUGENE NEVEUX Tonsorial Parlors Leland Avenue Opposite Pokegama Hotel GRAND Raprps, MINN. E. R, BROWNE Heating & Plumbing OFFICE AND SHOP * On Leland Ave. between 4th and 5th Sts. GRAND Rapips, MINN. W. J-& H. D. POWERS HARDWARE Corner Kindred Ave, and Second Street GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. ST. PAUL MAN IS |TURPENTINE MEN GO To JaiL BRUTALLY SLAI Found on Flaming Gasoline- Soaked Bed With His Head Beaten to a Pulp. POLICE - SOLVE THE MYSTERY Refuse to Give Information Regarding the Case—Widow of Slain Man Badly Burned. St. Paul, May 15.—Louis Arbogast a wealthy butcher, \.as found yester- day morning on a flaming gasoline- soaked bed in his home, with his skull crushed and matted with @ath- ers and blood. In the cellar of the house detectives found a heavy ax, clotted and stained with fresh blood. In the hallway, just outside the door to the dead man’s bedroom, a five-gal- lon can of gasoline was standing. The police have been investigating the case all day and, while from their actions it is apparent that they have solved the mystery, they refuse to make any statement. It is almost certain that the crime was committed by some one who spent the night in the house. Discovered by Daughter. The murder was discovered early yesterday morning by Ida, the twenty- two-year-old daughter of the slain man, According to her story, she was awakened a little after 4 o’clock by the smell of smoke. Rushing into her father’s room she found him and his wife lying in bed, apparently uncon- scious, the bed wreathed in flames. She dragged her mother from the bed into the hallway, she says. Mrs. Arbogast, the wife, tells a dif- ferent story. She had arisen nearly a half an hour before, she declares, and was in the bath room, preparing her toilet, when she was startled by the screams of her daughter Ida. She ran into the hall and the girl told her that her father had been burned to death. Stories Conflict. The two stories were so contradic- tory that the police began an investi- gation. Mrs. Arbogast was badly burn- ed about the head, arms and body. She declares that she received her burns in trying to extinguish the flames, which were consuming the bed where her husband lay. Last night she was taken to the city hospital. Late yesterday afternoon Louise Ar- bogast, the oldest daughter of the murdered man, and Henry A. Spangen- burg, the man whom she is engaged to marry, were taken to the police sta- tion and were closeted with the chief of police and the county attorney for two hours. Police Are Reticent. It was stated last night that na ‘| member of the family was in custody or under surveillance, unless Mrs. Ar- :| bogast’s presence at the city hospital might be construed as being in cus- '!tody. That the police have solved the .Jmystery there is little doubt, but ap- ‘| parently they are not ready to make an announcement. The theory that it was the act of '!a robber was disposed of early in the day, when it was discovered that no valuables had been touched, and that all the doors and windows had been securely locked the night before. Work of Insane Person. Mrs. Arbogast is under treatment at the city hospital for the burns she re- ceived in the blazing bed. She is not under arrest, That the murder was the work of an insane person is the positive opin- ion of the police. That Mrs. Arbogast is not and never has been insane is an established fact. The authorities hold the opinion that Mrs. Arbogast is us- ing all her woman’s wit to cover up the real facts in the case, and that all attempts to obtain from her a true story of the crime have thus far fail- ed. From ail the facts thus far obtained the theory now firmly held to is that the mother is shielding some member of the family. Daughter a Nervous Wreck. Louise Arbogast, the oldest daugh- ter, is a nervous wreck. Her conduct since the murder has been weird and uncanny. She tells a new version of the horror every hour. With the di- rect statement of the police that the crime was the work of an insane per- son and that Mrs. Arbogast is not and never could have been insane, atten- tion is directed to the daughter Lou- ise, who is known to have been an in- mate of a sanitarium not longer ago than last Christmas. For years she had been a victim of nervous ail- ments which had taken her to all parts of the country in an attempt to cure, She has been home for four days from a trip to Eau Claire, where she had been for weeks for her health. ENTERS “NOT GUILTY” PLEA. Former Beltrami Official Charged With Second-degree Larceny. Bemidji, Minn., May 15. — O. J. Shinn, ex-treasurer of Beltrami’ coun- ty, who was recently arrested at Port- land and brought back to Bemidji to answer to the charge of grand lar- ceny in the second degree, was ar- raigned in the district court yesterday for the purpose of entering a plea to the indictment returned by the grand jury. Shinn pleaded not guilty. 4that the iron and Two Violators of Anti-trust Law Given Jail Sentenc-s—All Heavily Fined. Savannah, Ga., May 16.—Overruling the motion in arrest of judgment of- fered by the defense, Judge William B. Sheppard in the “turpentine trust” case yesterday sentenced five men found guilty of violating the Sherman anti-trust law, and in two cases jail sentences were imposed. Bond in the sum of $20,000 was giv- en for all the defendants jointly. They were released pending the determina- tion of their appeal. The costs they must pay if the conviction and sen- tences stand will, it is said, reach $17,000. The penalties imposed were: Five Are Hit Hard. Spencer P. Shotter, chairman of the board of directors of the American Na- val Stores company, was sentenced to serve three months in jail and to pay a fine of $5,000. J. F. Cooper Myers, vice president of the American company and presi- dent of the National Transportation and Termina! company, was sentenced to three months in jail and to pay a fine of $2,500. Edmund S, Nash, president of the company, was fined $3,000. George Mead Boardman, New York, treasurer of the American Naval Stores company, was fined $2,000. Carl Moller, Jacksonville, Fla., agent of the American company and general manager of the National Transportation and Terminal compa- ny in Jacksonville, was fined $5,000. Case Will Be Appealed. Mr. Shotter and Mr. Myers were sentenced to terms in the Chatham county jail hecause they had been be- fore the court two years ago, entering pleas of guilty. Mr. Moller’s sentence was made heavy because of his connection with the terminal yards in Jacksonville, where regrading and regauging were alleged to have taken place. The case will be appealed to the United States court of appeals as soon as the bill of exceptions can be prepared and certified to by the court. NELSON FLAYS STEEL TRUSE. Makes a Forceful Assault Upon the Gigantic *Steel Monopoly. Washington, May 15, — Declaring steel industry of Minnesota needs no protection, and that the supply of ore has passed into the hands of the steel trust, Senator Knute Nelson yesterday attacked that item of the tariff bill which proposes a duty of 25 cents per ton on iron ore and which passed the senate yesterday afternoon. “The greatest body of iron ore in the country is in Minnesota,” he said. “One-half of the ore produced in the United States in 1908 came from the Superior region. This ore needs no protection. It is practically owned by the steel trust, and is mined by that organization, operating under other names in different places. Control Is Absolute. “This organization, with its seven lines of railroad running from the mines to the lakes, absolutely controls the mining in that section. It does this by making rates so high that no independent miner can afford to ship his ore. “The same interest owns the rail- roads that own the steel trust mines, and the high freight rates do not hurt them, but when an independent miner opens a mine, he is either forced to sell or lease to the steel trust, because he cannot afford to ship his ore over their lines. “This is the way the steel trust has gained contro] of practically all of the beds in the state that have been dis- covered so far. There are in the East a number of steel manufacturing plants that have been trying to com- pete with the steel trust. I believe free ore would help them, and I am willing to place ore on the free list, though it is one of the great products of the state, because I believe it will assist the independent steel men in their fight, and I think other senators ought to be equally generous.” Vote Is 61 to 24. Just before adjournment the senate adopted by a vote of 61 to 24 the rec- ommendation of the commitiee on finance of a duty of 25 cents per ton on iron ore. The house had placed that article on the free list, while the present law levies a duty on it of 40 cents per ton. In taking this vote party lines were annihilated, as seven- teen Democrats yoted yea with the Republicans, and twelve Republicans voted no with the Democrats. MILWAUKEE STRIKE IS ON. Question of Jurisdiction Causes Beer City Labor Struggle. Milwaukee. May 16. — A general strike, involving all Milwaukee Fed- eration of Labor union men in the building trades in the breweries, was inaugurated yesterday as a result of action taken by the Federation of La- bor at a mass meeting held Thursday night. The trouble arose chiefly from the question of jurisdiction. .« Train Kills Court Clerk. Appleton, Wis. May 16. — Glen Morse, clerk of the circuit court, was instantly killed last night by being struck by a North-Western railway passenger train. Morse was en route to his home on a farm, two miles from town. “Real Daughter” Is Dead. Sioux City, Iowa, May 16.—A “real daughter” of the American Revolu- tion, Mrs. Emily §S. Nettleton, aged ninety-one, died yesterday at the home ef her son, Edgar E. Nettleton. 1 PORTERS SHEE Grand Rapids Village Lots $5 DOWN AND $5 PER MONTH. We have choice residence lots all over town and we are selling them on such easy terms that anybody can buy. $5 down and $5 per month is certainly easy, Come in and talk the matter over. We also have some choice business lots on our lists. They are for sale on easy terms. REISHUS-REMER LAND COMPANY, 0 SOS ONES SOSH EE CHES HSCT CEES EES FEET ERED ERES SHES e e & * 2 e e e 4 @ GEO. BOOTH Manufacturer of FINE CIGARS Grand Rapids, Minnesota. 97 Have achieved an excellent a BOooTH’s CIGARS reputation all over Northern Minnesota. They are made of the finest selected stock by experienced workmen in Mr. Booth’s own shops here, and under his personal supervision. This insures the utmost cleanliness and care in manufacture. For sale everywhere. Call for them. YI 8 ISIE SS SSS SSS R. S. REED & CO. Producers of and Dealers in CED A POLES, POSTS 3 ISISRE®@] || Seccccce AND TIES In Market at all Times for Cedar CRAND RAPIDS, - . a MINNESOTA ORS ESSIEN @ : : H. E. GRAFFAM REAL ESTATE AND | ITASCA COUNTY ABSTRACT OFFICE INSURANCE FIDELITY, ABSTRACTS JUDICIAL, REAL ESTATE EXCISE, FIRE INSURANCE CONTRACT, ee 1 and in fact all kinds of Bonds issued. CONVEYANCES DRAWN TAXES PAID FOR NON- RESIDENTS Notary Public KREMER & KING PROPRIETORS Office opposite Post Office. Over Finnigan’s GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. iad dada neon 5 EE A Eo Ae REE EE eA eA eA ae a ae ae RE IS YOUR HOME PROTECTED? With a Telepone in your home you can call the DOCTOR, POLICE OR FIRE DEPARTMENT. When in need of the services of either you can’t afford to wait. SHCOHSSHOSSSS SH RHE ROSE SHE HEED A Telephone Will Protect Your Home For Information concerning rates call Tel. No. 67. W. N. DALCOUR, Local Manager. OE EL Lk dd ith bdo d kL dehsbdedads dd ddedohedssbbdusbsdcsbdedudhssladedadeded PeKHPSKH HSS HHH HH A EA A A ME A ee ee a AE A ae a ae a ea a ea ae TES EEE OE * CEMENT BLOCKS All Kinds of Cement Building Material Fine Faces—Late Designs Bee tet ett General Cement Contractor JOHN LOFBERG THE LOFBERG CEMENT WORKS, GRAND RAPIDS Cement Sidewalks and Tile WalKs Contracted : —+—