Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 14, 1911, Page 11

is REPORT SCORES — THE PRESIDENT Majority Views on Wool Bill Submitted to House, EXECUTIVE SLOW 10 ACT Committee Thinks He Should Have Made His Protests to Payne Bill When Measure Was Pending. Washington, June 7.—Sharply criti- cis: President Taft, the Republicans | Minnesota, was rearrested and his and the tariff board the report on the | bail raised from $2,500 to $10,000. Underwood wool bill was submitted; With information received from | to the house by the Democratic mem-| Deputy Public Examiner Frank N. bers of the ways and means commit- tee. Quoting President Taft’s addresses | ae re si sedi ABOUT THE STAT News of Especial interest to Minnesota Readers. BREN AGAIN UNDER ARREST | Shortage of Former Treasurer of the State University Said to | Be Growing. Charged with being short $6,000, be- sides the $13,800 “he says was taken from him by robbers, Joseph D. Bren, former cashier of the University of | Stacy that the shortage would reach $20,000, County Attorney James Rob- ertson decided to have Bren rearrest- after the passage of the Payne-Aldrich , ed and have his bail bond raised. He bill, in h he declared that “the immediately had detectives detailed woolen schedule is indefensible and I, to the case to avoid any possible propose to say so,” the report says: doubt of Bren’s presence in court. ‘Had the president made these pub-| About 9 a. m. the accused man was lie issions earlier, while the tariff 2Otified by telephone to appear be- of was under consideration by | fore Judge Andrew Holt. He lett his ess, his declarations would have real service to the people and ve enabled them to protest he betrayal of the public wel- vate greed. The president’s that time, and his approval he act of 1909, make it impossible nim to evade his full share of re- sponsibility for the failure of revision now admits.” eport deals at some » attitude of the administra- on the “steel trust” and other in- ries now being investigated and ilure of the tariff board to com- Mmunicate data on the woolen indus- Criticism of the Tariff Board. “The position of the tariff board ap- pears to be,” says the report, “that it, in conference with and under the sole control of the president, shall be the sole judge as to what part of the data it collects may be likely to be of serv- ice for purposes of legislation; and this situation must be considered with reference to the viewpoint of the president, concerning tariff legislation. “It is therefore not impossible that there may be some such delay in the communication to the congress of sta- tistical information collected by the tariff board concerning wool and wool- there has been in com- length | t communicating to congress | home immediately, followed by two “shadows.” At the me time his attorney, Nor- ton W. C . was telephoned and the two men appeared about the same time in Judge Holt’s courtroom. Coun- ty Attorney Robertson and the offi- cials also were on hand. In presenting his case to the court Mr. Robertson said Public Examiner Stacy had reported to him that the books showed a shortage of $20,000 on the support and breakage funds. | Asked Bond of $25,000. In view of this fact he believed the | bail of $2,500 was too small and asked | that it be increased to $25,000. Mr. | Stacy corroborated the county attor- ;mey’s statement, but added that the | examination of the books was merely | preliminary and further investigation | might change the situation. | On behalf of his client Attorney | Cross strenuously opposed an in- | creased bail. He scored the police | and newspapers. He said the police ; have been persecuting Bren and that {the newspapers have aroused untold | Prejudice, digging up matters in no | way connected with the case. Judge Holt, in increasing the bail, declared that he deemed. $2,500 bail | too low and the $25,000 asked for by ; the county attorney too high. He ; therefore placed it at $10,000 and or- dered Bren into the hands of the | Sheriff until the bail was forthcomirg. That Bren played the wheat market and lost heavily is the information | claimed by the county attorney’s of- fice. It is alleged that Bren conduct- ed his deals under the name of W. J. | Bryant in the wheat pit. It is claimed that Bren’s losses | amounted to $6,000 since March 29. Just how much more there might be |has not been divulged. en goods municating to congress or making! public the data by the bureau of cor- porations concerning investigations of | the steel and other industries.” i ihe report maintains that any fur-' ther delay in the revision of the wool | and woolen schedule would be objec- tionable to the public. In explaining | the determination of the committee | not to put raw wool on the free list, but to re e the present duty to 20 per cent ad valorem, the committee in- sists, as the Democratic caucus did, that the duty “is not to be construed as an abandonment of any Democratic policy MADERO WARMLY WELCOMED Insurrecto Leader Reaches the City of Mexico. Mexico City, June 8—Amid the wildest enthusiasm, Francisco Madero, Jr., acclaimed as the liberator of Mex- ico, entered the seat of the govern- ment which he and his friends have overthrown. - - The demonstration was the greatest the capital has known in a generation. | |BRIDGMAN TO QUIT HAMLINE | pa ES University President Resigns After Twenty-eight Years’ Service. Dr. George H. Bridgman, for twenty- eight years president of Hamline university at St. Paul and prom- inent in educational and church cir- ‘cles throughout the United States, tendered his resignation to the board | of trustees of the ingtitution, to take ‘effect in June, 1912. The board, unan- jimous in its opposition to the presi- ; Gent's resignation, accepted upon his | insistence. HO NB oe Dr. Bridgman has been contemplat- Business was practically suspended ing this move for two years, according and the streets through which the rev- 19 members of the board, and is carry- olutionary leader made his triumphal | ing out his intention, as expressed two way were gay with flags, bunting and | years ago to Vice President Wyman flowers, while from the throats of tens | and others of the board, to retire as of thousands came roars of acclaim. |goon as he had completed the raising The noisy welcome began when the | of the $200,000 endowment fund, bring- GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1911 ' CLAPP DEFENDS THE RECALL SIXTY-THREE DIE ed Against Upright Judges. Paterson, N. J., June 10.—Senator surgent leader, defended the recall } ‘for judges as well as for executive before the Progressive Republican ~ league here, | Mexican Tremor, Senator Says Power Is Not Design IN EARTHQUAKE Moses E. Clapp of Minnesota, the in- sade et oll cn leesciadve eles fn an agaveee SBVENYY-flve Others’ Injured in “Judges are only human,” he said. | “The recall is not designed to be used | against upright judges and I believe; | never) will, It will be a travesty of | sacrifice if all efforts for free govern- PROPERTY LOSS KOT LARGE ment simply transferred unres red and uncontrollable power from the} ‘ throne to the bench. Over Half the Victims Were Soldiers | “I know that many hesitate at the i idea of the recall, but it is as irresis-| Caushe retest ralling : Walls tible in free government as free gov- of Artillery’ Barracks. ; ernment is inevitable in the progress of humanity.” MOTHER SCHOLASTICA DEAD Superior of the Benedictine Sisters of Duluth. Duluth, June.12.—Rev. Mother Scho- lastica Kerst, superior of the Benedic- | tine Sisters of Duluth, died at the age of sixty-four years. She was born in Mueringen, ~Germany, in 1847, and came to the United States in 1852, coming direct to St. Paul with her Mexico City, June 8.—Sixty-three killed, seventy-five wounded, property ‘oss $100,000. | These are the net results of the earthquake which rent the capital and injected a note of tragedy into what was expected to be a day of rejoicing. When the work of searching the ruins is completed it is possible that the list of dead will be lengthened somewhat, as hiding here and there parents. At the age of fifteen she, throughout the’ city there doubtless joined. the Benedictine Sisters at/are many wounded who, with tradi- Shakopee and in 1878 went to St./tional fear of the authorities and gov- Benedict’s convent at St. Joseph. ‘ernment hospitals, are anxious to Mother Scholastica was i: ential | evade discovery. in the establishment of he in The property loss is but an esti- St. Cloud, Bismarck and Duluth, and mate and is based upon calculations at the requ of Bishop ¥ made by owners and contractors. Lit- 1892, when the Duluth dioce tle of the loss is covered by insurance. established, came here to found a! According to the meteorological ob- branch of the Benedictine society. servatory the greatest intensity was reached at the end of the first minute, but the instruments continued to re- cord the shocks for fourteen minutes More than half of the dead account- ed for were soldiers. They were caught beneath the falling walls of the artillery barracks in San Cosma, a locality near the Mexican’ Central station. Cheap Houses Collapse. T™ none of the advices received at | police headquarters is the mention of Washington, June 10.—Commenting the death of any person of promi- on the report that the National Re- nence. The victims were those whose publican Progressive league is in a homes were in cheaply built houses, bad way and threatened with disinte- Shacks in most cases, whose walls had gration Representative Davis of Min- little power of resistance. | nesota. a progressive leader, said: The fury of the shock was spent in “Some people seem to misunder-|the northwestern and western part of | stand the purpose of the league. It the city. The most damage done was was not formed to further the political | 4n that quarter known as Santa Maria, ambitions of any man. This was gen- ®!though cracks in the pavement and erally understood at the outset. | walls toppled over serve to maix its “Some people have the idea that| Course as far to the south as Colonia , the league was organized to push 'the Roma, a district inhabited largely by presidential candidacy of Senator La| Americans. . : Follette and incidentally to oppose) The water mains of the city were the renomination of President Taft. Practically uninjured and the light and This is a mistake. The league was | POWer company suffered little incon- organized to further progressive ideas Venience in operations. H and progressive principles and to do| TWo of the capital's old churches everything possible along legitimate | ®™4 the national palace are buildings lines to put these ideas and these prin- | Which show the effects of the shock. ciples into the form of law. Long cracks appeared in all of them “That is the mission in life of the and in the palace a keystone in one of | league. It has nothing to do with poli-| the arches was loosened and thrown tics so far as the personal fortunes of | #!most entirely out of its place. Three any man are concerned.” schools sustained considerable dam- | age, but in none was there loss of life. Minnesotan Denies It Is Back- ing Any Candidate, BOLT KILLS MINNESOTANS Man and Son, Sitting in Buggy, Are Lightning Victims. John Berg and his seven-year-old son were struck by lightning and instantly killed while sitting in their buggy in front of the Paul Dago- berg home, twelve miles northwest of Warren. The horse was knocked down, but was not killed. The whole Dagoberg family were badly shocked. A bad wind storm that did much dam- , BBE prevailed northeast of Warren. ‘DEATH LIST IS INCREASING One Hundred and Fifty Perished in Mexican Earthquake. Mexico City, June 9—Croaking and tossing its way from coast to coast |through Mexico, the earthquake brought death to at least 150 persons, |according to authentic counts. The /area of the earth shock’s destruction is rectangular, with its northern ,boundary less than fifty miles from {the capital and a southern line cut- , ting across the lower part of Guerrero Hottest Day This Summer. State. : The number of casualties, as com- St. Paul, June 10.—The hottest day | piieq by the police in Mexico City, is yet this summer was experienced in | gixty-three. Forty-nine corpses have | | St. Paul. the thermometer registering peen taken out of the ruins of Ocot- a maximum of 93. One man, Henry Jen, Jalisco. It never will be known “Smith, lost his life with the heat as pow many perished in villages in re- an indirect cause, being taken with mote parts of the quake zone. great crowd at the railway station first caught sight of the bearded face and stocky figure as Madero émerged from his private car and stepped quickly into a waiting carriage. Shouts of “Viva Madero!” swelled into & great “PxOiis as the ery was taken up along the streets leading from the railway station throughout the city. Bowing and smiling right and left, Madero was driven from the station to . the national palace and then to the home of his father. SMALL VOTE CAST IN IOWA Republican Candidate for Congress Wins in Ninth District. Council Bluffs, Ia., June 7.—Judge W. R. Green, progressive Republican, defeated. Senator W. F. Cleveland, Democrat‘and friend of the Canadian pact, at the special election for con- gressman in the Ninth district, by a plurality estimated at 1,192, or nearly 700 less than the majority of Walter 1. Smith, standpatter, a year ago. Hardly 50 per cent of the voters went to the polls. To Attack Cotton Tariff. Washington, June 6.—Revision of the cotton tariff will be undertaken at this session of congress, according to Representative Rainey of Mlinois, chairman of the subcommittee of the Ways and means committee investi- gating the cotton schedules. Experts already are at work and a Dill will be drafted in the near future, ing the total endowment of the uni- versity up to nearly a million dollars. The last of the fund was subscribed jlast week, | jst-- 'ST. PAUL SALOON HELD UP | Two Masked Men Rob Register, Bar. tender and Four Patrons, Frank Nordstrom’s saloon, in the heart of the East Side busihess district of St. Paul, was held up and robbed by two masked men. They secured $135 in cash from the |Tegister and $18 from Al Blagsvelt, /the bartender. Smaller amounts were taken from four other men. Standing the bartender and the four other men along the wall one man held them at bay while the other went through their pockets and emp- tied the cash register. Then they disappeared. THIRTY-FOUR HORSES BURNED {Only Twenty Animals Saved From $25,000 Barn Fire. Thirty-four horses were burned to death in a fire which destroyed the barn of O. A. Narverud at Minne apolis. Firemen and stable em- ployes succeeded in rescuing twenty jhorses from the flames, but the re- mainder were burned. The origin of the fire is not known. In addition to the horses big vans were destroyed. Mr. Narverud estimates his loss at $25,000. cramps while swimming in Welsh | ' lake, and a street car conductor, whose | name the company refused to give, | swooned on an interurban car as a! result of the heat. The police and hospitals report no other cases of pros- cao ott aoe oemnenn Train Kill® Auto Driver. | Dan Smiley of St. Paul, thirty | years old, a driver for the Twin| City auto livery, was instantly killed | when Northern Pacific passenger train No. 124 struck the automobile | he was driving across the tracks on | the White Bear road about a mile | from the lake. Smiley’s body was) thrown several feet. The motor car | was wrecked. i i Poison on Lemon Kills Baby. | | The two-year-old daughter of Austin | Cravath, residing on a farm in Elmira township, Olmsted county, sprinkled | strychnine on a portion of a lemon and sucked the juice. When found a few minutes latér she was writhing in agony and died within half an hour, before physicians from Chatfield could brrive. Former State Senator Dead. F. B. Daugherty of Duluth, a for- mer member of the state senate, who for the past ten years has been gen- eral manager of the Great Lakes Dredge and Tug Owners” Protective || association, died at Pine City. He was born in Wisconsin in 1850 and came o the head of Lake Superior in 1877. Tonala, in Jalisco state, was wiped out, to all outward appearances, but the score of deaths there cannot be accurately obtained, Not many persons were killed in the city of Colima, but a considerable amount of damage was done. The ca- thedral is so badly damaged that a slight shock might cause its collapse and the tower of another church was | toppled on the roof. The volcano Colima has displayed greater activity during the last forty- eight hours, but the chief meteorolog- ical. observatory at the capital is ay- thority for the statement that th's had nothing to do with the earthquake. TRUST IS NOT IN CONTROL Judge Gary Says Steel Business is Abcout Equally Divided. Washington, June 9—Judge Elbert H. Gary undertook before the house steel trust investigating committee to ee ee ee French dry cleaning of Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s garments. | Ties, Slippers, Gloves, Corsets, will stand at the Myers livery barn on Saturdays of \AY arrange appointments. but to keep in touch with his and with customers in different cities, good taste in dress—that express and develop the wearer's indi- viduality—are made to personal Measure by whose workmanship and prices will make you glad you heard of them. We recommend that you make an early selection from their beautiful Spring line as now on display at our store. Notice To The Public! Danheart, the American Trotter, Serial No. 3117, | each week until the 15th of July. The balance of the ® i season will stand at the McCormick farm 3 1-2 miles i south of Grand Rapids, Minn. , * dis- mat- \7HEN a traveling salesman has arranged a vv play of his goods, the telephone makes it a ter of only a moment to invite prospective customers to his sample room The traveling salesman uses the telephone not only to house This is made possible by the Bell Long Distance service MESABA TELEPHONE C0 0. VY. Hemsworth, Manager Office No. 67 Residence No. 108 oe, LOTHES that conform to the standards of art and Ed. EF. Price & Co. MERCHANT TAILORS CHICAGO Button Novelty Dip Front, No. 717 Hats, Caps, N Feathers, Furs, Baby Robes, Pourtiers Draperies and Rugs. Dennis & Herschbach en OO SOLOSESOS Grand Rapids thr. oo such easy ters that anybedy can buy. per . a20 AND $5 PER MONTH. We have choice residence jote al] cver town and we are selling $5 down and 9% Come io and talk the matter over, lous op our lists. They are montb is certainly easy, We aisy bave some choice bus!uess for sale op easy terms REISHUS-REMER LAND COMPANY, 2 4SSB BESS HD: POPES CONE COSESESS FETE OS OF HHSESOEE show that the United States Steel cor- poration, of which he is the head, does not now control as large a per- centage of the steel business of the United States as it did on the day of its formation. 2 He insisted ‘that as against a 60 per cent control of the domestic business in 1907 the corporaticn at the present time is ale to direct only 50 per cent of the domestic output. Of export business, however, Mr. Gary said the steel corporation controlled about 90 per cent SUBSCRIBE FOR THE GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW —_——