Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 3, 1912, Page 4

- CS CAE SRNR ETRE NS I i A A OATH OF OFFICE) OF ROOSEVELT | ees ot especies! First President of New Re | Taft and La Follette Request- public of China. NANKING DECKED IN FLAGS Many Notable Revolutionaries Atteno | Ceremony and Hear the Inaugura. Address—Promises to Resign Hit Provisional Office When the Man chus Abdicate and Peace Is Re stored. Nauking, Jan. 3—Dr. Sun Yat Sen kas taken the oath of office as pro visional president of the Chinese re public and has been formally invested with the powers of chief executive. The ceremony was simple but digni fied and was attended by all the prom ment men of the revolutionary party. The first official act of Dr. Sun ‘was to change the Chinese calendar. He made New Year’s day the first day @f his presidency, thus marking the eommencement of a new era and mak fag the beginning of the Chinese yea: henceforth on the same day as in most ether countries of the world. Accompanied by a numerous suite amd protected by a strong bodyguard Br. Sun Yat Sen left Shanghai in a special train for Nanking. The trip ‘was made without incident except for the enthusiasm of the greeting accord- ed to the new president at all the principal stations. Dr. Sun reached the new Chinese | capital at 5:30 p. m., and was greeted with loud cheers. Many prominent men among the revolutionaries met him at the station and accompanied him to the government house, the reute to which was lined by 10,000) soldiers Whole Town Decorated. The whole town was decked in flags, | the warships and merchant vessels | along the river dressed ship and a/| presidential salute was fired from the guns of al! the forts in the vicinity. Government house was reached at | 7 o’clock. Dr. Sun, who was dressed fm a khaki uniform, on his arrival held a reception which was attended by | governors general and other high of: Sieials. In the audience chamber, an im-|{ mense apartment in government house @elegutes representing .cighteen prov- | fmces of China proper took up their) pesitions around a raised platform. | When Dr. Sun entered all bowed their | beeads. The president elect proceeded | t the central platform and there he twok the oath of office. | Afterwards he delivered an address f= which he promised to disenthrone fhe Manchus, to re-establish peace, to ymemote trade and to devote his en-| tHe energy to the Chinese nation and mid the Chinese people to realize their appirations. When the Manchus had ly abdicated and peace was re- wed to the nation he would, he said, | yesign his provisional! office. President Sun’s proposed cabinet @omprises Li Huen Yeng, Huang Sing mad Dr. Wu Ting Fang, all of whom gre in the front rank of the reform ; movement. i REGIMENT JOINS REBELS Believed Other Imperialist Troops Will Do Likewise. Tientsin, Jan. 3—A regiment of im- peria] troops stationed at Lanchow, eapital of the province of Kwangsu, | fave joined the republicans and ru-/ mors are heard that practically the | emtire imperial army in that section | wi! follow their example. | This is taken as a sign that the @eintegration of the Manchu dynasty $s inevitable. The army in Kwangsu, one of the warthern provinces that has aiways | een most loyal to Peking, will be in! @ position to cooperate effectively with the republicans in the south gould they decide to move upon Peking. Chinese Emperor Fleeing. St. Petersburg, Jan. 3.—The dow- ‘@ger empress and the seven-year-old emaperor of China are fleeing toward @hikke, on the Mongolian frontier, ac- @erding to dispatches from Peking. Beth are in disguise. It is believed that they intend to place them- | selves under Russian protection. FwWO THOUSAND ON STRIKE Employes of Fifty New York Laun- dries Go Out. New York, Jan. 3—Some 2,000 or meore laundry workers went on strike fer increased wages and a nine-hour working day and the employers say fat before they will give in New York ‘will have to wash its own clothes or wey new linen. Employes in fifty team and hand laundries are affected. Superior Physician Arrested. Superior, Wis., Jan. 3—Dr. J. G. Barnesdale, 2 prominent Superior phy- @feian, and Mrs. George Young, a mid- wife, were arrested here charged with wesponsibility for the death of Miss Lassie Carlin at the Young home on Mov. 27. Mrs. Young was arraigned and efter pleading not guilty was held fm jail in default of $1,000 bail. !em a subscriber to it now—I do not |im the manufactures and transactions | TURKEY IS GIVEN WARNING ed to Withdraw. OSBORNE FATHERS PLAN Michigan Governor Would Have Active Candidates for Republican Nomina- tion Step Aside and Permit the Se- lection of the Colonel or Former Senator Beveridge—Bitterly Attacks Record of Wisconsin Senator. Lansing, Mich, Jan. 3.—Governor Chase S. Osborne, in a statement here, Proposes that President Taft and Sen- ator La Follette both withdraw as Presidential candidates in favor of Theodore Roosevelt or ex-Senator Al- bert J. Beveridge. The governor had prepared a speech to this effect to be delivered in intro- ducing Senator La Follette here, but im view of the senator missing his train he authorized the use of the @peech as a statement of his views. Governor Osborne criticised Senator La Follette as having taken up “those things which might be termed popular that contained the least danger to himself,” and frankly said that he did Bot believe that the senator could be either nominated or elected if nomi- mated. As between La Follette and Mr. Taft he said he was for Taft. Governor Osborne further said: | “The Senator La Follette style of campaign tends to arouse the pas- sions of the people and makes for a | condition of public intolerance which | is always worse than personal or in- | dividual intolerance, because it has so | much more might as a force. Must Have Big Business. “In Senator La Follette’s speeches emda writings—and in this connection let me say that I have taken and en- joyed ‘La Follette’s Weekly, and I think he distinguishes between hon- est men in big business and dishonest men. “We have got to have big business fm this country, if we are to compete of the world. But big business should Bot be permitted to oppress the peo- ple. “I have noticed also that while Sen ator La Follette did great work in rid- ding Wisconsin of corrupt. railroad domination he has never said anything egainmst brewery domination in that state. Really, as between the two, I should prefer railroad domination. However, it was good politics to fight the railroads in Wisconsin, but it would not have gotten Senator La Fol- lette anywhere probably if he had fought the brewery owned saloons. “What I wish to make clear about this statement is that the senator has taken up those things which might be termed ‘popular and that con- tained the least danger to himself. Now this may be entirely unfair, but I have thought it and do think it still.” Powers Will Intervene Unless Internal Disorders Cease. Constantinople, Jan. 3.—Disorders fm Macedonia and Albania have be come so serious that British Ambas- sador Lowther conveyed a veiled SiR GERARD A. LOWTHER. threat tothe grand vizier that the pow- ers would interfere in Turkey’s inter- national affairs unless the outbreaks are suppressed. Macedonians have been harassing Turkish troops on the frontier and it is believed they are only waiting for the government to become hard pressed in Tripoli before instituting a general rebellion. Feudist Murders Physician. Charleston, W. Va., Jan. 3.—Dr. Ed- win O. Thornhill, aged thirty-five, well known physician and business man of the southern section of West Virginia, was shot and killed by Willis Hatfield, son of the feudist, Devil Anse Hatfield, 4m a drug store at Mullens. The physi- clan was attending an injured person when the shooting occurred and hadi Fefused to issue a prescription to Hat- | field for a pint of whisky. Miiuiesota Readers. MIKE DAVIS BEHIND BARS Notorious Yegg implicated in Several! Minnesota Cases an Inmate of Michigan Penitentiary. Mike Davis, the notorious yegg who escaped the raid of private detec- tives and state deputies when an attempt was made June 7 last to rob and bum the postoffice and general store at Puposky, was cap- tured Dec. 13 at Durand, Mich., follow- ing the robbery three days previously of a postoffice and general store at Games, Mich. He was convicted along with a pal named Howard, and is now serving an indetermimate sen- tence of seven and a half to fifteen years in the Michigan branch state prison at Marquette. Information to this effect has been made public by the St. Paul office of the Pinkerton National Detective agency. It was in connection with alleged complicity in the Puposky affair. that Mayor D. T. Dumas of Cass Lake was arrested and convicted later at a trial in Bemidji, information against him having been filed by C. E. Keller, state fire marshal, who alleged | be was one of a ring in Northern Min- nesota which had been engaged in the burglarizing of stores, etc, and the burning of property to obtain the in- surance. MRS. EBERHART UNDER KNIFE Wife of Minnesota Governor Stricken With Appendicitis. Mrs. Adolph O. Bberhart, wife of the governor, was operated on for appen- dicitis at the Swedish hospital: in Min- j neapolis by Dr. N. H. Scheldrup. While visiting friends in Minneap- | olis, Mrs. Eberhart began to suffer acute pains. This being her second attack Governor Eberhart had her taken at once to the hospital Dr. Scheldrup sai@:.\“Mrg, Eber- hart’s condition is highly sati®factory. The operation seems to have been suc cessful, as she is resting easily., She has a strong constitution and her pulse at present is strong.” “Everything is as satisfactory as could be expected under the circum- stances and we leok for her complete recovery. She will probably be con- fined to the hospital for two weeks or more,” said the hospita) physician: RAILROAD HELD TO BLAME. Responsible for Recent Disastrous Wreck at Odessa. The corener’s jury at Ortonville which imvestigated the Odessa wreck | holds the St. Paul road responsible fer the death of the ten persons on ac- | count. of a. defective semaphore at | Odessa and in not enforcing its rules for the protection of passengers. It also placed the responsibility on | W. J. Noonan, the train dispatcher, for violating the rules in allowing the sec- ond section of No. 18 to enter the same block with the first section. W. L. Keiser, the operator at Apple. ton, is censured for giving information that the first section was clese te Ap- pieton. The jury places the responsibility on Roy Law, the flagman, for negli- | gence in protecting the rear ef the first section. TO INDICT ROAD FOR WRECK Special Grand Jury May Be Called at Ortonville. As a result of the findings of the coroner’s jury which investigated the wreck of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul passenger train Columbian at Odessa. last month County Attorney A. B. Kaercher of Big Stone. county is of the opinion that information can be introduced before the grand jury which will result in the indictment of the railroad on a charge of man- slaughter in the second degree. The regular session of the grand jury will not be held until next June, but there is a possibility of a special session of the grand jury being called in the near future to take action on this case. COURT UPHOLDS PLAINTIFF Order Filed Denying New Hearing in Telephone War Case. Judge Kelly of the Ramsey coun- ty district court at St. Pail filed an order in “the telephone war” of May, 1910, when Mrs. Marjorie A. Souther was injured while offering passive resistance to the placing of poles on the boulevard in front of her home. verdict of $700 from the Northwest- ern Telephone Exchange company. The telephone company moved for a judgment in its favor or for a new tial. Judge Kelly denied the motions of the telephone company in the latest order filed. Tots Save Sister's Life. Miss Emma Peterson of Duluth was Svercome with coal gas and was re- vived only after physicians had worked over her for more than an hour. Her sisters, two little children, were aroused by the escaping fumes aad gave the alarm to their mother. Mrs. Souther recovered a | FILE MILL CITY BRIDGE CASE Appeai of Road From Judgment of the State Supreme Court. — The record in the appeal of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul rail- road from the judgment of the su- preme court of Minnesota in the rail- road’s case against the city of Min- neapolis growing out of the const: uc- tion of a bridge over the canal be- tween Lake of the Isles and Lake Calhoun, has been docketed in the supreme court of the United States. The case started in the Fourth ju- | dicial district for Hennepin county on an agreed statement of the facts and was appealed to the supreme court of the state, where the city won by a divided court, and is now before the federal supreme court on a writ of error to the highest court of Minne- sota. Judge Simpson wrote the opin- jon of the court, but a dissenting opinion was written by Judge Start. The question is whether the city or the railroad shall bear the full ex- pense of constructing the bridge across the canal to carry the railroad tracks which now rest on an embank- ment, the city requiring a certain type of architecture in the bridge, more expensive than the type usually constructed by the railroads. WOMAN DIES OF SLASHES Victim of Vicious Assault by Alleged | Insane Negro. Mrs. Andrew Jackson, colored, whom George Parker, also colored, cut with @ razor at her home in St. Paul sev- eral days ago, died at the city hos pital. Parker, who is believed to be insane, is under arrest. Parker’s attack on the woman was | ferocious. He dragged her from her Teom on the second floor of the house through a window onto a porch and sought to throw her to the ground. | Unabk to loosen her hold on the porch | railing Parker drew a razor and fear- i fully slashed the woman about the | peace. chest and abdomen. | RABE | | MATTHEW TAYLOR STRICKEN | Builder of First Ice Palace In St. Paul ts Dead. | Matthew Taylor, a preminent con- | tractor and pioneer of St. Paul, died | | suddenty at his residence there in his | | seventy-first year. | Besides his widow he leaves two | sons, Matthew C. and John S., both of | whom were connected with him in the contracting business, and a mar- ried daughter, Mrs. Agnes Forbes | Stanley of Rushford, Minn. Mr. Taylor was in charge of the con- | struction of the ice palace in St. Paul | in 1886 for the first of the ice carni- | vals which attracted attention all over | | the country: | Hl | { | i | |IMPERILS LIFE FOR OTHERS | { Domestic Arouses Inmates of Burning House at Hibbing | The two-story frame dweMing at | Hibbing occupied by R. W. Hitchcock, | |editor of the Hibbing Tribune, and | Robert Stratton, caught fire at 2 | o’elock im the morning and might have been destroyed along with « less of | life, but for the heroic action of Miss ‘Ness, a domestic, who risked her life | to arouse the other inmates, She was | |awakened by the smoke which filled | the upper portion of the house and hastily went from room to room | jthrough ihe suffocating atmosphere arousing every one. She was pearly | Overcome. | [DECIDES AGAINST LAYMEN | { | Attorney General Refuses to Prosecute St. Paul Mayor. George T. Simpson closed his offi- |efal carreer as attorney general of | this state by sending a letter, to | Frank J. Clemans, head of the Metho- | dist laymen of St. Paul, in which he : turned down their request to have the |attorney general’s department start | | proceedings to oust the mayor and | police commissioners of St. Paul tor | | their alieged failure to enforce certain | provisions of the state liquor laws. Mr. | | Simpson, in substance, holds that the |laymen had not presented sufficient | evidence upon which to make a case. | | as | / ARRESTED ON ARSON CHARGE | Minnesota Fire Marshal Accuses Two | St. Paul People. \ With the arrest at St. Paul of | Mrs. Caroline Neumann and Roman | Meier, her son, the state fire mar- | shal’s office drew first blood in the campaign to wipe out incendiaries, who have been particularly active in St. Paul this winter. The fire for which these two are held responsible occurred Sunday, Dec. 17. The blaze did but a few hundred dollars’ damage, owing to the prompt arrival of the fire department. DECLINES TO ENTER FIELD | Lindbergh Not a Candidate for Gov- | ernor of Minnesota. “I am not a candidate for governor —I prefer to remain in congress; big things are going on in Washington Bow and it is my wish to continue my labors there.” | This statement was made by Repre- | sentative Lindbergh of Minnesota by way of comment on reports from the state that he had under consideration the advisanility of entering the lists as a candiaate for the nomination in epposition to Governor Eberhart.