Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 14, 1911, Page 9

4 } ’ ~ per cent IN EARTHQUAKE Seventy-five “Others Injured in Mexican Tremor. Over Half the Victims Were Soldiers Caught Beneath Falling Walis of Artillery Barracks. Mexico City, June 8.—Sixty-three Killed, seventy-five wounded, property Joss $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 throughout the city there doubtless are many wounded who, with tradi- tional fear of the authorities and gov- ernment hospitals, are anxious to evade discovery. The property loss is but an esti- mate and is based upon calculations made by owners and contractors. Lit- tle of the loss is covered by insurance. According to the meteorological ob- 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. It was of a vacillatory char- acter, but almost free from trepida- tory motion. 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. SIXTY- THREE DIE. — DEFENDS THE RECALL Says Power Is Not Designed. Against indent Judges. Paterson, N. J., June 10.—Senator Moses E. Clapp of Minnesota, the in- | surgent leader, defended the recall for judges as well as for executive and legislative officials in an address before the Progressive Republican league here. “Judges are only human,” he said. “The recall is not designed to be used | against upright judges and I believe PROPERTY LOSS NOT LARGE never will. It will be a travesty of sacrifice if all efforts for free govern- ment simply transferred unrestrained and uncontrollable power from the throne to the bench. “I know that many hesitate at the idea of the recall, but it is as irresis- tible in free government as free gov- 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 Parents. At the age of fifteen she joined the Benedictine Sisters at Shakopee and in 1878 went to St. Benedict’s convent at St. Joseph. Mother Scholastica was influential in the establishment of hospitals in St. Cloud, Bismarck and Duluth, and ; at the request of Bishop McGolrick in In none of the advices received at | police headquarters is the mention of the death of any person of promi- nence. The victims were those whose homes were in cheaply built houses, shacks in most cases, whose walls had Mttle power of resistance. The fury of the shock was spent in the northwestern and western part of the city. The most damage done was in that quarter known as Santa Maria, although cracks in the pavement and walls toppled over serve to mar« its course as far to the south as Colonia Roma, a district inhabited largely by Americans. The water mains of the city were practically uninjured and the light and power company suffered little incon- venience in operations. Two of the capital’s old churches and the national palace are buildings which show the effects of the shock. Long cracks appeared in all of them and in the palace a keystone in one of | the arches was loosened and thrown almost entirely out of its place. Three schools sustained considerable dam- age, but in none was there loss of life. 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 state. The number of casualties, as com- piled by the police in Mexico City, is sixty-three. Forty-nine corpses have been taken out of the ruins of Ocot- lan, Jalisco. It never will be known how many perished in villages in re- mote parts of the quake zone. 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 this had nothing to do with the earthquake. TRUST IS NOT IN CONTROL Judge Gary Says Steel Business Is ; About Equally Divided. Washington, June 9.—Judge Elbert H. Gary undertook before the house steel trust investigating committee to 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. He insisted that as against a 60 per cent control of the domestic business 01 the corporation at the present time is able to direct only 50 per cent of the domestic output. Of export business, however, Mr. Gary said the steel corporation controlled about 90 1892, when the Duluth diocese was) established, came here to found a branch of the Benedictine society. DAVIS TALKS ABOUT REPUBLICAN LEAGUE Minnesotan Denies It Is Back- ing Any Candidate Washington, June 10.—Commenting on the report that the National Re- publican Progressive league is in a bad way and threatened with disinte- gration Representative Davis of Min- nesota. a progressive leader, said: “Some people seem to misunder- stand the purpose of the league. It was not formed to further the political ambitions of any man. This was gen- erally understood at the outset. “Some people have the idea that’ the league was organized to push the presidential candidacy of Senator La Follette and incidentally to oppose the renomination of President Taft. This is a mistake. The league was organized to further progressive ideas and progressive principles and to do everything possible along legitimate lines to put these ideas and these prin- ciples into the form of law. “That is the mission in life of the league. It has nothing to do with poli- tics so far as the personal fortunes of any man are concerned.” BOLT KILLS MINNESOTANS Man and Son, Sitting in Buggy, Are Lightning Victims. John Berg and his seven-year-old gon 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 down, but was not killed. The whole | Dagoberg family were badly shocked. | A bad wind storm that did much dam- | age prevailed northeast of Warren. Hottest Day This Summer. St. Paul, June 10.—The hottest day yet this summer was experienced in| St. Paul., the thermometer registering a maximum of 93. One man, Henry Smith, lost his life with the heat as an indirect cause, being taken with 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- tration. Train Kills Auto Driver. Dan Smiley of St. Paul, thirty | years old, a driver for the Twin .We_the head af Lake pialor ie 1877. sees wohl alli ie Siete SS wel We Sat 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. 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 later 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 hasbeen 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 knocked | ABOUT THE News of expel 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 Minnesota, was rearrested and his bail raised from $2,500 to $10,000. With information received from Deputy Public Examiner Frank N. Stacy that the shortage would reach $20,000, County Attorney James Rob- ertson decided to have Bren rearrest- ed and have his bail bond raised. He immediately had detectives detailed to the case to avoid any possible doubt of Bren’s presence in court. About 9 a. m. the accused man was notified by telephone to appear be- fore Judge Andrew Holt. He left his home immediately, followed by two “shadows.” At the same time his attorney, Nor- ton W. Cross, 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- ney’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 forthcoming. 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. BRIDGMAN TO QUIT HAMLINE 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 institution, to take | effect in June, 1912. The board, unan- jimous in its opposition to the presi- dent’s resignation, accepted upon his insistence. Dr. Bridgman has been contemplat- jing this move for two years, according jto members of the board, and is carry- j ing out his intention, as expressed two years ago to Vice President Wyman and others of the board, to retire as soon as he had completed the raising of the $200,000 endowment fund, bring- ing the total endowment of the uni- versity up to nearly a million dollars. last week. Two Masked Men Rob Register, Bar- tender and Four Patrons. Frank Nordstrom's saloon, heart of the Hast Side business district of St. Paul, was held up end robbed by two masked men. They secured $135 in cash from the register 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 apolis. Firemien and stable em- ployes succeeded in rescuing twenty horses from the flames, but the re- mainder were burned. The origin of the fire is not known. In. addition to the horses ten big | vans .were destroyed.. Mr. Naryerud | estimates his loss at $25,000, GRAND RAPIDS” RERALO-AEViEW The last of the fund was subscribed | ST. PAUL SALOON HELD UP. in ‘the barn of O. A. Narverud at Minne- | *' WEDNESDAY, JUNE! 14) 1911 REPORT SCORES THE PRESIDENT Majority Views on Wool Bill Submitted to House, EXECUTIVE SLOW TO ACT Committee Thinks He Should Have Made His Protests to Payne Bill When Measure Was Pending. Washington, June 7.—Sharply criti- cising President Taft, the Republicans and the tariff. board the report on the Underwood wool bill was submitted to the house by the Democratic mem- bers of the waya and means commit- tee. Quoting President Taft’s addresses after the passage of the Payne-Aldrich bill, in which he declared that “the woolen schedule is indefensible and I Propose to say so,” the report says: “Had the president made these pub- lic admissions earlier, while the tariff of 1909 was under consideration by congress, his declarations would have been of real service to the people and would have enabled them to protest against the betrayal of the public wel- fare to private greed. The president’s silence at that time, and his approval of the act of 1909, make it impossible sponsibility for the failure of revision which he now admits.” The report deals at some length with the attitude of the administra- tion in not communicating to congress data on the “steel trust” and other in- dustries now being investigated and the failure of the tariff board to com- municate data on the woolen indus- try. 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- en goods as there has been in com- municating to congress or making public the data by the bureau of cor- porations concerning investigations of the steel and other industries.” ‘che 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 reduce 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. Business was practically suspended and the streets through which the rev- olutionary leader made his triumphal way were gay with flags, bunting and flowers, while from the throats of tens of thousands came roars of acclaim. The noisy welcome began when the great crowd at the railway station first caught sight of the bearded face and stocky figure as Madero emerged from | his private car and stepped quickly | into a waiting carriage. Shouts of “Viva Madero!” swelled into a great chorus as the cry 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. Cléveland, 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 Illinois, | chairman of the subcommittee of the | ways and means committee investi- gating ‘the cotton schedules. Experts j already are at work and 4 bill Smee drafted in the near‘ future. for him to evade his full share of re-j WHEN IN NEED OF JOB PRINTING CALL ON OR GALL UP THE Herald-Review Bring in your idea and we'll do the rest and guarantee good neat work, Full count is always given and the very best stock is used, PRICES ALWAYS RIGHT at the Herald Review Fe eT ee a Be es ee ee el oe ott toe oe te ae ee Ake TR I Ta tt i i is i ie i al ela te te As Les ts a tt te ta ta ta tl