Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 16, 1909, Page 3

~ ee thropist, Author and Divine : Passes Away. COMPLETE WREC Big ching a ORPORAL KS <tace sae =| CORPORAL MLS HIS COMMANDER of the United States senate, Unitarian Seriously Injures a Sergeant and divine, philanthropist, author, jour- nalist and lover of peace, breathed his a Corporal and Then Turas Gun on Self.: PASSENGERS ARE ALL RESCUED last yesterday in his home in Rox- bury. At the bedside were his wife, his daughter, Miss Ellen D. Hale, and his son, Philip L. Hale, the artist. Two other sons, Arthur Hale of Washing- ton and Prof. Edward Everett Hale, Des Moines, June 15. — Corporal Lisle Crabtree yesterday fatally shot Capt. John C. Raymond, commanding Officer of Troop B, Second United States cavalry, at Fort Des Moines, Jr., of Union College, returned home then shot and seriously injured First last evening. On his return from Washington a Sergeant James H. Washburn and Corporal E. Such, who attempted to few weeks ago it was reported that Dr. Hale was not in good health, but he soon regained his activity and un- til Tuesday attended meetings and re- ceived friends. Wednesday night, however, he showed signs of distress, and, rapidly weakening, passed peace- fully away in the early hours of the disarm him, and then shot himself. Crabtree’s injuries are not neces- sarily fatal, the bullet striking a rib above the heart and crushing it. Is Reprimanded. Crabtree had been reprimanded by Capt. Raymond because of his failure to report when his leave of absence morning. Whols Sountry Mourns. It seemed yesterday as if the whole had expired yestetday. He had spent the night in Des Moines and was to have returned to hig barracks at 7 a. country joined in mourning the loss of Dr. Hale. Messages expressing sor- m. Crabtree was summoned by Capt. Raymond yesterday afternoon and row and esteem poured into the Hale household, one of the first being from questioned as to his conduct, where- upon the corporal hotly insisted he President and Mrs. Taft. As an author Dr. Hale’s fame rests on his short stories, such as “The Man Without a Country,” as an instigator of the general uplift, the work of the two great organizations, the Lend-a- Hand club and the King’s Daughters, will always add to his renown; as a minister ang pastor, his half century had leave of absence until 7 last night. Capt. Raymond accepted this explanation and the incident was con- sidered closed when Crabtree de- manded that he be transferred to an- other department of the army, which Capt. Raymond refused to consider, telling the corporal he could not do that as long’ as he, was not a good in the pulpit of the South Congrega- soldier. Taken Off in Safety by Prinzess Irene and the Batavia, Which Were Nearby. New York, June 13.—Through a pri vate cable message news reached New York that the Cunard liner Sla- vonia, bearing 110 cabin passengers and 300 passengers in the steerage, stranded off Flores island, in the Azores group. The vessel, which left this port of Naples on June 3, is al- most a complete wreck, but thanks to the timely aid rendered by North Ger- man Lloyd and Hamburg-American liners, which were near by, every pas- senger, according to the best reports here, was. taken off in safety, The list of cabin passengers on the Slavonia, as given out by the Cunard liner, contains no addresses, but the first-class passengers are practically all Americans, among them fifteen or twenty in a Coolas’ tourist party. Is Dangerous Place. Flores island, off which the Slavonia stranded, is the most westerly of the Azores group, with dangerous and precipitous cliffs. The foundering of the vessel there can be easily imag- ined, but by good fortune the Prinzess Trene and the Batavia, which left New York on June 5 and June 3, respect- ively, were close by and rendered It was Dr. Hale who, twenty years prompt assistance. before its consummation, predicted a The Slavonia is a twin screw steam- | world-wide peace tribunal; it was Dr. ship of 10,606 gross tonnage, is 510]|Hale who upheld Garrison and Phil- feet long, with a 50-foot beam, and is |lips in their anti-slavery work; it was 22 feet deep. Her commander is Capt.]Dr. Hale whose benevolent counsel A. G. Dunning. The vessel is compar-|brought comfort to the sick and atively new, having been-built at Sun- | wounded soldiers on the battlefields of derland, England, in 1903. the Civil war, as a member of the san- {tary commission, and it was Dr. Hale who gave to the world the famous stanza: “Look up and not down; Look forward and not back; Look out and not in; Lend a hand.” tional church and his preaching in many other churches were prolific of wise spiritual inspiration; while as a historian his writings have become authorities, Great Life Work. Begins Shooting. Immediately Crabtree pulled a re- volver from his pocket and began fir- ing. Sergeant Washburn jumped to his feet and grappled with the soldier, receiving a bullet in the head and one in the jaw which shattered the bone. Capt. Raymond had seized the man’s arm and was about to disarm him when a bullet struck him in the neck, lodging in the spine, and he dropped to the floor, paralyzed. A bullet struck Corporal Such in the left arm. Crabtree then fired a bullet into his own body. Capt. Raymond is the son of Brig. Gen. Charles A. Raymond, retired, for- merly one of the engineers in charge of rivers and harbors and stationed at New York. TRAIN ROBSERS NABBED. Caught in Act of Rifling Contents of Refrigerator Car. Rochester, N. Y., June 13.—When New York Central Train No. 21, the fast mail, reached this city at 2 o’clock this morning, five prisoners were turned over to the Rochester po- lice, charged with train robbery, A refrigerator car was broken into at ae ntebni some point east of Syracuse and the Se penis, June .d2---Atter gs aa entire contents of the car, including }™months’ service as a United States many express packages, had been rip- | meat inspector in East St. Louis pack- ped open and ransacked, ing houses, J. F. Harms has resigned ise otra gee Brrecutery and has written a letter to Secretary was notice a ie ar ss tampered with, and the Rochester po- of Agriculture Wilson demanding an lice were notified. A detail of officers Jinvestigation of the meat inspection was on hand when the train reached |system at the National stock yards, a oe aay — cena pret Harms, who has gone to his home in} Deadwood Man Is Overcome in Muddy jown the police jumped into e car, 4 Current—Boy Escapes. where they encountered five men and |*Temont, Ohio, asserts that he resign Deadwood, S. D., June 15.—On his forced them to surrender. The pris- ed because he could not tolerate the way to his Mead county homestead oners said they were from New York |conditions he saw, and that inspectors} with his. family, Charles Snyder, a and Brooklyn. in charge of the bureau of animal in-|teamster of Deadwood, lost his life dustry are too lenient with the pack-|224 his small son had a narrow es- cape. MEAT INSPECTION ONLY A FARCE Inspector Resigns and Demands In- vestigation of Packing Plant. TRIES TO SAVE SON; DROWNS. ADD BLACKMAIL TO CRIMES. ‘Saeee The family tried to ford Whitewood Federal Authorities Eager for Heavy] He Says no animus prompted his] creek, near Whitewood, but the Penalties in Black Hand Cases. letter. stream was too turbulent and the boy was washed away from the horses and carried far down stream. The father went to his rescue and was overcome in ~e muddy torrent. The boy escaped. Snyder leaves a big fam- ily here’and was an old resident. Columbus, June 13. — Charges of Brand Is Meaningless. blackmail may be brought by the} after asserting that “United States state against members of the Marion | inspected and passed,” as it appears Black Hand conspiracy, with a penal-| oy products of all the packing houses, ty of twenty years in the penitentiary, |i, meaningless because of the inade- against eighteen months provided by quacy of the inspection, Harms says the federal statutes. Federal authori- |, part: ties will not surrender their prisoners 2 : “The inspection at the National until after they have paid the penalty stock yards, Illinois, is costing the i it for violation of the postal laws, but people approximately $100,000 a year, they are ready to assist in the prose- i and it is not actually worth $1 to cution of state cases by furnishing Rheths tor wile “dha arofalias paaaed evidence, information or testimony. | om ‘the inspector in charge on to whol ee iis ta oak propel the inspectors actually doing the work An effort probably will be made to re- | 0" the floors that they are getting too move its limitations by making it anehe Soatiiahed aries sot proader and with a possible maximum | “’@n8e Te grading, mata loes_ thal alty of twenty years. mean? It means that the whole thing ane : is rotten and a farce. ae “Mr. Secretary, the packers are get- Beeler eae ting today from 70 to 80 per cent of u £ what ought to be condemned and de- Calhoun Prosecution Rejects Defense stroyed, Proposal. San Francisco, June 13.—The taking of testimony in the Calhoun case \ab- ruptly terminated yesterday, the de- fense announcing a desire to submit the case to the jury without argument. The prosecution, however, opposed this and arguments will be begun next Monday. When the court’s decision was an- nounced Mr, Heney stated that the people had no further testimony to offer and there was a prompt submis- sion of the case by Stanley Moore, one of the attorneys for the defendant. Mr. Heney reected a proposal to submit the case without argument, de- claring that the proposal made by the defense was intended as an effort ta influence the jury. Sea coi Detect DOUBLE TRAGEDY. THREE SURVEY MEN DROWNED. Members of Milwaukee Road Engi- neering Party Meet Death. Kalispell, Mont., June 15. — Three men were drowned in the raging North Fork river, three miles above the junction of that stream with Can- yon creek, according to a telephone message received here. They were C. A. Lacey, W. P. Powell and An- drew Parker. The men, who are members of a Milwaukee engineering party, are said to have been crossing the river with one of the engineers when their craft was demolished in the current. The engineer managed to reach the shore. ——$$_____. Fall Proves Fatal. St. Paul, June 15.—John Houlihan, a laborer, fell down the steps of the Aberdeen hotel yesterday morning and sustained a fracture of the skull. He was taken to the city hospital, where he died several hours later without regaining consciousness. ee Church Struck; One Killed. Green Bay, Wis., June 15.—Light- ning struck the steeple of Holy Cross Catholic church at Bay Settlement, north of here, yesterday, Killeq one man, and shocked and injured sixteen others, two of whom may not survive, while mass was being sung, ane Se rE S Drowned in Pickerel Lake. Duluth, Minn., June 15—F. C. Cole and Hans Bergam, both employed, at the Hawkins mine, near Nashwauk, and married, were drowned in Pick- erel lake yesterday. Their boat was overturned in some manner. Are Unfit for Use. “To illustrate: On April 1, 1909, Drs. Graham and Stingley retained and condemned eleven beef carcasses for emaciation. On April 2 Drs. Clan- cy and Meaders released six of said carcasses to the packers. The re- maining five were tanked and destroy- ed. “T have seen animals in a dying con- dition dragged into the killing beds and marked ‘U. S. inspected and pass- ed.’” Harms cited several specific in- stances of lax inspection methods, de- claring that meat condemned by sub- inspectors has been later released to the packers by higher officials in the service. Women Attack Thief. New York, June 12.—Caught as he was leaving the Church of St. Andrew, Duane street and City Hall place, with a golden chalice and paten under his coat, James Brady was nearly killed by a crowd of infuriated women. Peddler Shoots Fruit Dealer and Then Kills Himself. Des Moines, June 13.—After quar- reling over an account with Herbert Todd of the wholesale fruit firm of Toda & Kraft, Moses Rice, a Hebrew eddler, fired threeshots into Todd’s body at 8 o’clock yesterday morning.| Webb City, Mo., June 12.—Following An hour later Rice was found dead, | 4 quarrel with his wife, Rube Under. having taken an ounce of carbolic acid} Wood, thirty-five years of age, last with suicidal intent. Todd was taken | Might shot and killed his father-in-law, ’ 1, where he is not ex-|J. ¢- Small, sixty years old, at the ele bag ” nol ©*Viatter’s home here. Kills Father-in-law. Car Hits Buggy; Fatal to Two. Richmond, Ind., June 15.—Mrs, Die- trich Burnhagen of West Alexander, Ohio, was killed and her husband fa- tally injured last night when a buggy in which they were driving was struck by a traction car. IN MINNESOTA TO PUT ROAD ON iTS FEET. NEW ULM DEPOT PLUNDERED Employes Beaten Before They Rea‘‘zed That Robbers Were Not Per- petrating Joke. Chicago Great Western Will Be Out of Receivers’ Hands by Fall. St. Paul, June 12—That the reor- ganization of the Chicago Great West- ern will be pushed so that next fall should see the end of the receivership and the new company in full operation} New Ulm, Minn., June 13.—Held up. is the opinion of those in St. Paul who beaten and robbed by three masked are in close touch with the situation.| @mdits with drawn revolvers, and To participate in the plan of reorgani- | Not realizing that they were confront- zation stockholders must deposit their|ed by desperate robbers, Night Tele- stock, together with cash amounts graph Operator W. H. Wilder and where necessary, with J. P. Morgan ts & Co., the reorganization managers, at Conductor E. A. Hutchinson had an New York, within a certain period. A almost tragic experience early yester- report will then be submitted to the | day morning. federal circuit court in St. Paul before Just before 2 o’clock three masked the receivers will be declared dis-| men entered the depot, where the two charged of their duties, the new com-| employes were at work, covered the pany then at the judicial sale to pur-| latter with revolvers and demanded chase the property of the Chicago] that they dig up all the money they Great Western proper, including] possessed, as well as that of the com- stocks of the subsidiary companies.| pany. The officials thought the men Unless litigation should arise it is ex-] were joking and patd no attention to pected that the plan will be consum-| them at first. Finally, however, in mated in about three months. order to make the company employes understand that they meant business the bandits struck both victims over the head with the butts of their re- Will Double Track Great Western Be-| VOlvers and then went through their tween Oelwein and Chicago. pockets, St. Paul, June 13—Extensive im- After this they pried open the safe provements, it ig understood, are to Sore Sateete and; Reding: que of the station, made their escape. be made by the new management The police authorities and sheriff which will make the Chicago Great | were immediately notified and the sur- Western one of the best systems of | TUnding country was scoured by six ith tdine-tn te West officers, with the aid of automobiles J and switch engines, but no trace could One of the main improvements will] be found of the robbers, be to double track from Oelwein to Chicago, 240 miles. There are long passing tracks at intervals along this stretch, not more than seventy-five miles or so. Mr. Stickney had this . 4 tarprovement in mind for many years sures Election by National G. A. be and did what he could with the mon-| St. Paul, June 13.—The forty-third ey availab!e, but the work has been| annual reunion of the Minnesota G. A. carried on slowly. R. came to an end yesterday afternoon The improvements contemplated will after a day of important events, prin- cost between $15,000,000 and $18,000,- 000. cipal among which were the passage of a resolution condemning the pre- sentation of a silver service bearing the portrait of Jefferson Davis to the Temporaty Repairs on Railroads Are | battleship Mississippi, the unanimous About to Be Washed Out. indorsement of former Gov. Van Sant Deadwood, S. D., June 12.—Danger | for national commander at the next of another flood in the Black Hills is| tional encampment at Salt Lake becoming daily more imminent. The | City Aug. 9 and the election of officers downpour of rain was heavy and| 22d oe to the national encamp- steady yesterday, and it has been rain-| Ment. ing some eyery day for a week past. The officers elected are: Judge L. All streams are badly swollen, some| W- Collins, Btinnea pols; commander ; already out-of their banks, and re- Dr. O. S. Pine, St. Paul, senior vice pairs from the last flood of ten days COMmmAngSN: and J. A. Towne, Wash- ago, which cause a half million dollar ngton, junior vice commander. loss, have not been made. Both the ra a: Se Burlington and North-Western roads are in trouble. Their repair work from the last flood has in some cases | Federal Prisoners Are Brought Up for been temporary, and with continued Sentence. June rain it may give way. Pierre, S. D., June 13.—In the Unit- Prayers for cessation of rain have! eq States court yesterday the prison- been asked in; the churches for next ers who have been convicted or plead- Sunday. ed guilty were given sentence by Judge Munger, the imprisonment giv- en being at Fort Leavenworth. Carl George .was sentenced to one year for horse hustling; Coyote, one year for introducing liquor on an Indian reser- vation; Abraham Johnson, eighteen months for introducing liquor on an Indian reservation; Baptiste Dubray, one year for horse rustling; John Buckman and John Plenty Wounds, each one year for horse rustling. Sev- eral jail sentences and fines were im- posed on white men for selling liquor without government licenses. John Creaigo of Roberts was found guilty of mailing obscene literature. The show window of C. A. Sher- dahl’s jewelry store at Montevideo was broken with a stone and about $200 worth of jewelry taken. Jess Payne was brought to Bemidji from Beaudette and is being held in the county jail to await the action of the grand jury on the charge of bur- glary. The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Kidder of Fergus Falls took poi- son by mistake for medicine. The child is unconscious and recovery is doubtful. Over 2,000 acres of land were sold at Hallock by C. S. Brown, deputy state auditor, at prices ranging from $6 to $9 an acre. A good crowd was in attendance. The Oatka pavilion, on Park Point, owned by the Interstate Traction com- pany, was destroyed by fire. The loss was $10,000 and the insurance $4,000. Cause unknown. MILLIONS TO BETTER ROAD. Hattie Linderman, ten years old, was drowned at Park Rapids while fishing from some logs. She was in the water half an hour and could not be resuscitated. Archie ‘Wright, a young man of the town of Woodside, was killed by be- ing struck on the head by a piece of belting attached to a wood sawing ma- chine which he was operating. : Owners of dogs are doing all in their power to find the persons who have poisoned seven dogs in Barnes- ville in the past two days. Citizens made an appeal to County Attorney Johnson to investigate, VAN SANT FOR COMMANDER. Friends Say State Indorsement In Mike Anderson was killed by a cir- slough when attacked by an epileptic Meadow about 1:30 o'clock one morn- ing last week. Anderson was lying on the track, about a block from the depot, when the train struck him and killed him instantly. PRAY FOR RAIN TO STOP. Charles J, Olson, thirty-five years old, was killed, ang A. J. Swanson, thirty years old, was perhaps fatally injured while at work among the huge drive wheels in the basement of the Pillsbury “B” flour mill in Minneapo- lis. The men were caught-in the ma- chinery. The shoe store of A. W. Karp of Faribault was burglarized last week, an entrance being made through the back door. The safe was blown to pieces with dynamite and several hun- dred dollars stolen. The thieves made good their escape and no clue has yet been found. SIX SENT TO PRISON, A stranger who represented himself to be a United States marshal on his way to make an arrest, rented a horse and vehicle at A. J. Hasbrouck’s liv- ery at Grand Rapids to drive into the country, but the livery proprietor, be- coming suspicious, followed the man and caused his arrest. The man gave the name of Taylor. HUNDREDS GET DIPLOMAS. Largest Class in History of State Uni- versity Is Graduated. Minneapolis, June 12. — Seven hun- dred and fifty young men and women were given diplomas at the University of Minnesota yesterday. It was by far the largest class in the history of the institution. The delivery of the pieces of parch- ment occupied a large share of the time <‘ the exercises. Old-fashioned orations by the stu- dents were omitted and instead an ad- dress by Prof. Maria L. Sanford, who retires after twenty-nine years of serv- ice at the head of the department of rhetoric, was the feature of the day. She spoke upon the subject, “What Can the University Do for the State?” In a drunken brawl in the rear of the Grand Central hotel at Aitkin, a man by the name of Harry Clark was dangerously stabbed. William and Herman Tholen, two brothers resid- ing a short distance from town, are accused of the assault. Clark is now in the Aitkin hospital and the Tholens were bound over to court. MARES -S8ganse Gatch: The retail merchants of the six northwestern counties of Minnesota met in Thief River Falls and com- pleted an organization of their inter- ests begun last March. They adopted a set of rules and chose officers. The purpose of this organization is for the protection of their business and for securing better prices for farm produce in that section. Put to Rout by Wrestler When He Ap. pears in Des Moines Hotel. Des Moines, June 13.—Frank Gotch, champion wrestler, yesterday chased a masher from the Kirkwood hotel parlor, the latter escaping rapidly Annual Encampment of the G. A. R.! Gown a stairway. A young woman re- in St. Paul. porter waiting for Gotch in the par- St. Paul, June 12.—Fuily 800 Min-| tor for an interview was annoyed. nesota veterans of the Civil war gath-| when Gotch arrived and was. in- ered in the hall of representatives in| ¢ormed of the incident he started after the old capitol Jesterday for the open-| the masher, but the man dashed from ing session of the forty-third annual/ the puilding, ran down the street and encampment of the state department} qodging into an alley made good his of the Grand Army. After listening 2scape. to an opening address by Commander ie ae ea eh ed Marcus W. Bates of Duluth and one on “The Cost of the Flag,” by A. P. a ig idea a a Connolly of Duluth, and the address of welcome by Mayor D. W. Lawler, the veterans went into executive ses- sion, during which the reports of the officers for the year were read and passed upon. VETERANS IN SESSION. The members of the Bemidji fire de- partment have decided to send a run- ning team to Crookston to participate in the annual tournament of the North- ern Minnesota Firemen’s Tournament association, which will be held in the Queen City July 5, 6 and 7, and Albert Halvorson, secretary of the depart- ment, was elected as captain, with Ray Dennis as assistant captain. Defender and His Children Make First Trip in Four Years. Rice Lake, Wis., June 13.—John F. Dietz, his son Clarence and daughter Mira, the famous Cameron dam de- fenders on the Thornapple river, spent yesterday in Rice Lake on business and visited their old home, which they had not seen for four years, Clarence Dietz has a large scar on his forehead, which he received in the encounter with Sheriff Gylland and a posse three years ago. Clarence was shot in the head and one of the sher- iff’s posse received four bullet wounds, The Alderman law, limiting saloons to one for 500 inhabitants in towns where a'larger number does not al- ready exist, has been sustained in a decision handed down by Judge B. F. Wright of the Fifteenth judicial dis- trict in the case of Edward Langthig against County Auditor M. A. Spang of Itasca county. The case was argued entirely on the constitutionality of the law, and Judge Wright sustains the contention of the state’s attorneys. Herbert, aged nine years, son of An- dreas Ness, a rural mail carrier, was drowned in Rush creek, near Rush- Bodies of Drowned Lovers Recovered. Jamestown, N. D., June 13.—After a search Jasting for a week, during which time over fifty people have actively participated, and a professional diver from Duluth assisted, the bodies of Fritz Falck and his fiancee, Miss Lau- ra Limmensand, who were drowned in Spiritwood lake, have been recovered. Babe Dies of Poison. Winnebago City, June 12.—Algin, the twenty-one months old son of Paul Staples, who lives west of this village, |ford, by the upsetting of a canoe in found a bottle of carbolic acid in the|which he and three others were row- woodshed and drank a portion of it. |Ing. Death followed in three hours. Father Clement Dead. Honolulu, June 12. — Father Clem: ent, who came to Hawaii from France with Father Damien in 1863 to devote himself to work among the lepers in the Molokai colony, died yesterday. Father Damien died in the leper set- tlement some years ago. William Worden was fined $25 and costs, amounting in all to $37, in jus- tice court at Fergus Falls for illegal fishing. Ole Kalvik was fined $25. Convicted of Murder. Alexandria, Va., June 12. — Richard Pines, one of four negroes charged with the killing cf Walter F. Schultz,| There has been a good deal of netting a Chicago artist, near this city, March|going on in the vicinity lately, and 5, yesterday was convicted of: murder’ “gy wardens have determined to stop fe the first degree. Self-defense Plea Wins. Wahpeton, N. D., June 12.—J. B. Lotzer, who was on trial this week for shooting Herman Bellin on July 26 last, was acquitted of the charge. Lot- zer’s defense was self-defense,