Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 6, 1911, Page 5

? i] ‘ABOUT THE STATE! News of Especial Interest to Minnesota Readers, WILL AID RATE CASE APPEAL Committee of Railroad Commissioners From Seven States Decide to Assist Minnesota. Briefs in argument of the appeal of the Minnesota rate case decision are to be prepared by a committee of rail road commissioners chosen at the con- vention at Omaha of commissioners from seven states. These will be presented to the su- preme court when the appeal from Judge Sanborn’s decision is argued Officials of the state railroad com- missions attended from Oklahoma, Kansas, lowa, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Nebraska and New Jersey The decision to fight the case was unanimous. Z The members of the state railroad commissions and the state physica! Waluation engineers, in conference, adopted the report of a commit- tee on permanent organization and thereby completed the initial steps in the formation of a national body to in clude these two groups of officials. The new body will be largely taken from the Mississippi Valley states, al- though New Jersey is one of the mtates to be represented. The report states that the associa- tion is to be formed for the purpose of mutual benefit and exchange of infor- mation, more specifically to bring about uniform methods of physical valuation and of accounting. No po- Utical significance is hinted at. TRIBUTE TO HINCKLEY DEAD Governor and Other Officials at Seven- teenth Anniversary. . People of Northern Minnesota paid their tribute to the pioneers of the Minnesota forests when they gathered around the granite shaft in the little cemetery near Hinckley where lie the remains of more than half of those that perished in the fire which de- vastated that village and much of the adjoining territory seventeen years ago. The annual memorial exercises took added interest this year on account of the presence of the governor of the state and other high officials, who added their tribute to those who had given their lives while opening up a mew country. TAFT’S DATES IN MINNESOTA Will Make Opening Speech at Manka- to Oct. 24, President William H. Taft will be- gin his Minnesota speechmaking on his “swing around the circle,” at Man- kato, the home of Governor A. O. Eberhart, arriving there at 10:30 in the morning of Tuesday, Oct. 24 Thence he will go to Minneapolis, ar- riving at 7:30 in the evening. He will spend the night in Minneapolis, and the next day he will be in the hands of the St. Paul reception committee. leaving St. Paul at 11:15 Wednesdar evening. This information was received by Governor Eberhart in a telegram from Charles D. Hilles, President Taft's private secretary. CALLS TAFT DICTATORIAL Clapp Says President Doesn't Know How to Handle People. “The knowledge that he has no chance of re-election has made Presi- dent Taft ill tempered, dictatorial and bullheaded ” This is the opinion of Senator Moses E. Clapp of Minnesota, expressed in an interview before his departure from Long Beach, Cal., for Fresno. “Taft doesn't know how to handle the people,” Clapp continued, “and nobody knows that better than Taft himself. This knowledge has made him sour, peevish and fretful.” Two thousand persons heard Clapp defend the initiative, referendum, re- call and woman's suffrage. TWO DIE IN DULUTH BAY Sewer Workmen Try to Cilmb Out Over Each Other. Two workingmen who accidentally slipped into the bay at the foot of @ sewer at Duluth tried to climb out over each other in getting out of the place and in the struggle which followed both were drowned. They were George Gurich, aged thirty. years, and Steve Nevich, aged twenty-five. A small boy living in the neighborhood was the only eyewitness. Neither man could swim. One stood en the other’s shoulders and tried to get up the muddy bank He failed and then the other tried. Finally both gave up the struggle and sank. St. Paul Postal Bank Opene. The deposits of the first day of the ®. Paul postal savings bank were 96,448. From the time the bank opened until it closed there were dozens lined up constantly waiting for a ehance to make a deposit. The ac- eounts opened were 141 and 144 de- posits were made, three making two deposits each. HELD TO THE FEDERAL COURT Mayor Dumas Accused of Conspiracy to Rob Postoffice. A new angle was added to the affairs in which Dr. D. F. Dumas, mayor of Cass. Lake, has been the stellar light, by the entrance into the affair of the United States authorities, who through the district attorney's office at St. Paul had Dr. Dumas brought before H. A. Simons of Bemidji, United States commissioner for the district, to an- swer to the charge of conspiracy with Mike Davis and Martin Behan to rob the postoffice at Puposky. The doctor was accompanied by his attorney, Judge Spooner of Bemidji; his father, Frederick Dumas of Min- neapolis, and J. W. Johnson of Cass Lake. Dr. Dumas waived examina tion and Judge Simons fixed bail at $10,000 for his appearance at the term of the United States district court at Fergus Falls in November. Bail was furnished, with Frederick Dumas and J. W. Johnson as sureties. TRAGEDY AT SQUAW DANCE Indian Policeman on White Earth Staff Blows Out His Brains. Indian Policeman Hutchins of the White Earth agency staff blew off his head with a relver at a squaw dance held at Big Bend. Several Indians and halfbreeds are under arrest on a charge of selling liquor. Policeman Hutchins was sent to pre- serve order at the dance. Hutchins, instead of confiscating the liquors he found on the Indians, got drunk, it is said, and trouble started. Drunk and almost crazy with whisky Hutchins pulled out his gun and blew out his brains. After his death the dance pro- ceeded. Two other Indian policemen appeared on the scene and Policeman Star Bad Boy seized the whisky and obtained proof against the men who brought the whisky from Detroit. TO SEEK IMMIGRANTS FOR WESTERN STATES “Governors’ Special” Will Make Trip Through East. Governors of a number of West- ern and Northwestern states, of- ficers of the Panama-Pacific exposi- tion and members of congress, head- ed by former Governor James H. Brady of Idaho, will make a 4,000-mile tour through the Hast this fall as a part of a comprehensive plan to bring people who “must move” to the West and Northwestern part of their own country in preference to going into Canada or the Far South to seek homes and investments. The train will move from Omaha in October, going to Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Toledo, Pitts- burg, Philadelphia, New York city, up into New England and returning by Washington in order to bring back with it senators and representatives ef Western and Northwestern states. This tour will be made on a special train, which will not only carry half a dozen or more Western governors, but four or five exhibit cars to “show” the people of the Hast the products of Western and Northwestern states; re- sources of their soil, rivers, lakes, mines, forests and factories. It will be known as the “Western Governors’ Special.” The chief executives of the following states, several of whom are already booked to go, will be invited to accompany the party: Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dako-! ta and Minnesota. JEALOUSY CAUSES SHOOTING Coleraine Street Scene of Affray in Which One Is Wounded. Frank Lunierich and Peter Wenarich of Coleraine love and have courted the same girl and the jealousy which each has felt for the other culminated | ima a shooting affray. Lunierich is in| a hospital with one bullet wound in his neck and another in his back and | Wenarich is in jail. | The shooting occurréd on the main | street of Coleraine. The men met} and engaged in a wordy controversy. | Lunierich started to run, when | Wenarich brought him down withtwo- shots from a revolver. The man is dangerously wounded. Mangled in‘ Corn Shredder. i H. H. Young, proprietor of the Mead- ow Brook farm near Lake City, fell a victim to the deedly corn shredder. While pitching bundles of corn into the shredder he slipped and fell into the machine. ’His right leg was fractured and mangled and his right band and arm were injured. He may die. Farmer’s Skull le Crushed. Fred Schiefenbein, a farmer residing near Clear Lake, is dead as the result of an accident. A farmhand was assigt- ing him in loading some hay when the loader became out of order. It trav- eled along its track with great speed and left the rail, falling and striking Schiefenbein and crushing his skull. Two Men Drowned. In water nine feet deep the bodies of two young men drowned in White Bear lake were recovered. The victims were identified by relatives as Charles Coughlin of St. Paul an? Richard Varien of Hastings. | ference GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW \WEQINESDA' WILL DECIDE. FUTURE ACTION Illinois Central Shopmen in Conference. STILL HOPE FOR PEACE Despite the Refusal of President Markham to Meet Representatives of the New Federation Union Lead- ers Declare That an Amicable Ad- justment May Yet Be Reached. Chicago, Sept. 6.—Representatives of the nine international unions of the Illinois Central employes are in con ference here. The crafts participating in the meeting are the machinists, boilermakers, helpers, carmen, black- smiths and helpers, steamfitters, paint- ers, sheet metal workers, Federal Union of Miscellaneous Workers and the railway clerks. Secretary W. #. Kramer of the In- ternational Blacksmiths and Helpers’ union presided at the conference, which adjourned for luncheon without having decided upon any course of ac- tion. President McCreery of the Federa- tion of Illinois Central Railroad Em- Ployes received an important telegran from the officers of the international unions of the Harriman lines, in ses- sion in San Francisco. It was said to sanction a strike if the Chicago con- decided to order a walkout of shopmen on the Illinois Central. Declines to Discuss Message. He declined to discuss the contents of the telegram but admitted that it contained important information. The question of calling a strike or of making another effort to adjust th controversy was said to hinge on the conference. The apparent crisis was brought about by a communication sent to W. F. Kramer, secretary of the Black- smiths and Helpers’ union, by Presi- dent C. H. Markham of the road, re fusing to grant an audience to the federation representatives. President Markham also made it plain that ne would not recognize the federation. Despite the fact that the letter ap- parently left the union men the alter- natives of calling a strike or receding from their demands, both President J. F. McCreery of the federation and Secretary Kramer asserted that they still had hopes that an amicable ad- justment might be reached. NERVOUSNESS IN GERMANY People Alarmed Over Protracted Ne- gotiations With France. Berlin, Sept. 6—The nervousness over the protracted Franco-German negotiations with regard to Morocco seems to have increased with the re- sumption at the German foreign office of the conversations between the French ambassador M. Cambon, and HERR VON KIDERLEN-WAECHTER the. German foreign minister, Herr von Kiderlen-Waechter. Wild rumors are being cireulated in the German provincial towns. At Stettin, large sums of money have been withdrawn from the savings banks, owing to rumors that war was tmpending. The banks are enforcing the rule that notice of the intention of depositors to withdraw funds must be given in advance, andthe officiai= Dave published communications show. ing the baselessness of the reports. .. HAILSTONES KILL STOCK Greund Covered to Depth of Four Feet in Wyoming. Cheyenne, Wyo., Sept. 6—Horse cresk reports a storm which has left hall four feet deep over a wide area ef country. At the foot of Round Top mountain {t is reported to be twenty- : five feet deep. Crops are destroyed for a radius of twenty miles, and stock killed by the score, while the damage from wind is enormous among the farm homes 0° thet section. STATE BEGINS ITS REBUTTAL Attacks Testimony fiiven by Henry C. Beattie. SUSTAIN COUSIN’S STORY Several Persons Give Evidence Tend- Ing to Corroborate That of Paul Beattie, the Commonwealth’s Star Witness—Defendant’s Long Ordeal on the Stand Ended. Chesterfield, Va. Sept. 6.—After asking Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., indict- ed for wife murder, one question as | to how he could account for the trans- lation of the same shotgun from the hands of Paul Beattie, his cousin, on Saturday night, to the hands of the alleged highwayman on the following Tuesday night, the prosecution ended its crosg-examination of the prisoner. The accused denied that he knew his cousin Paui had a gun on the Satur- day night in question or that he was with him during that week. The commonwealth thereupon be- gan its attack upon the prisoner’s story. The rebuttal was practically | | an attempt to corroborate Paul Beat- tie as to his alleged meeting with Henry on Tnursday night to arrange for the delivery of a shotgun to his cousin on the Saturday following. Several witnesses testified that they saw the two cousins together on Thursday, and Mrs. E. J. Houchens, mother-in-law of Paul, stated that | Henry brought Paul home in a ma- chine that same evening. A second point taken up by the com- | Monwealth was an assault on E. H. Neblitt’s testimony that Paul had a shotgun on the bridge where he worked on Sunday following the night of the alleged transfer of the gun to Henry. Witnesses sustained Paul that he had no gun at the bridge that day and one man said he was there during the time of Neblitt’s visit and saw no gun. WRECK ON THE SOO ROAD Three Persons Killed and a Large Number Injured. Fremont, Wis., Sept. 6—Three per fons are dead and more than forty in- jured, some seriously, as a result of the derailment of train No. 17, a lim- ited passenger made up of steel equip- ment, on the Soo line. The train ran into an open switch one mile south of here. Striking the open switch the engine and mail cars jumped the track, crashed through the right of way fence and into a corn field 200 feet distant. The other cars were thrown in the ditch. | Engineer August Kuester, North Fond du Lac, Wis., was instantly killed. His body, with that of an un- identified man and the remains of another man, believed to have been a tramp, was later taken out. PREACHES SUFFRAGE AT FAIR Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont Speaks Daily to Visitors. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Sept. 6.—Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, president of the Political Equality league, is leading a suffrage campaign at the annual | Poughkeepsie fair and horse show which is open to the public here this | week. The suffragists have a big | booth on the fair grounds. Mrs. Belmont makes speeches daily to the farmers on the fair grounds. | Among the signs on the suffrage booth is this: “Women, have you all the rights you want? So has a pig.” | ROBBERS SHOOT WATCHMAN Loot Safe in Amusement Park Near Chicago. Chicago, Sept. 6.—Three highway- }men entered Ravinia park, twenty miles north of this city, bound the ! watchman, George Physter, to a tree with wire, blew open the safe and se cured $800. They fired a parting shot at the watchman, hitting him in the abdo- mea. Me was able to give the alarm, but @ Fort Sheridan hospital, where he was taken, it is said he is mortally in- fured. The robbers escaped. FATAL HOTEL FIRE IN ALASKA Nine Persons Believed to Have Per ished at Juneau. Juneau, Alaska, Sept. 6.—Nine per- fons are believed to have burned to Pdeath in a fire which destroyed the Juneau hotel and the McGrath build- ing. Four bodies. have been recovered from the ruins and five more are be- Meved to be buried in the debris. Aviator Escapes Death. @t. Paul, Sept. 6.—Frank Coffyn, one ef the Wright aviators giving exhibi- tons at the state fair grounds, fell with his aeroplane from a height of 100 feet to the ground in view of’ 6,000 people. 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