Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 20, 1912, Page 8

4 “ans Sign] Truce. LLIES AGGEPT PLEA en Wilingness to Discuss | Terms of Peace, BPE Rubs hth hat ob + + + - +. London, Noy.. 20.—An eight ~% hours’ armistice has been + agreed to between the Bul- + garians and Turks at Tcha- + talja so that both armies may~ + bury their dead, according to + & hews agency dispatch from + Constantinople. + FEE EEE EEE Pt 44 London, Nov. 20—The nations of the Balkan confederacy, satiated with victory, have signified their willing: mess to treat for terms of peace at the request of the vanquished Turkish empire. The luster of their success only @lightly has been dimmed by their temporary failure to overcome the rallied Turkish army at the gates of Constantinople and enter tke Otto man capital. The stubborn defense encountered by the Bulgarians at the line of for- fifications at Tchatalja and the real- dation that enormous slaughter would %e. necessary to pierce them at the point of the bayonet, with every pros- pect that their ranks would be deci- mated by cholera before they had at-{_ dained success, doubtless proved de- eiding factors in inducing the con- yauerors to listen to the urgings of the great powers and refrain from~press- ang their victory to the Turkish cap- ‘Stal until they had presented terms of ‘surrender to the vanquished and had ‘met with a refusal of their accept- mace. » » vi =~ “Allies Thank the Powers. a Simultaneously. with the dispatch to: ‘the grand vizier of their agreement to appoint peace | plenipotentiaries the allied Balkan nations notified the Eu- fTopean powers of the step they had taken and thanked them for their of- fer of mediation. They added that miediation-was no flongzer necessary,-as the porte Rad ad- @ressed itself directly to the Balkan *tates, which would treat with. Tur- key without outside intervention. That the terms of the victors will be drastic is known, bat the European powers are doing their utmost to make them less harsh than Was at first mooted, without sattempting sto rob the Balkan confederacy of the fruits ef its aggressive campaign. - With the jealous eyes of Russia on ‘Constantinople, with the recrudescence | of the Austro-Servian difficulty on the other side of-what hitherto has been known as European Turkey and with Roumania inquiring what she may ex- pect out of the spoils, there seems to observers every inducement for the allied Balkan nations to keep their éemands- within moderate limits. FIGHTING IS MOST SEVERE Bulgarians Meeting Severe Bpaletanice Near Constantinople: London, Nov. 20.—With no two fumors from Constantinople -agreeing~ on a single point, one thing alone seemed certain—the Bulgarians are meeting ‘with resistance at Tchatalja, so much more serious than they counted on that expert predictions of the Turkish capital’s speedy fall were beginning to be generally revised. There were reports that the Bulga- ian left wing gained slight advantage in the neighborhood of Derkes in Mon- day's fighting, biit as against these té- rts Nazim Pasha notified the Turk-* government officially of continued Ottoman successes all along” the Teha-’ ) talja line. _The total suppression at Sofia of all “news from the front was widely inter- preted here as suggesting a serious Bulgarian reverse. Some military men were even in- elined to think the Bulgarian force bad progressed as far as it ever will get. Czar Ferdinand, they pointed put, has already used every resource- to the limit. The Turks, on the other hand, they argued, can secure reinforcements in- definitely from Asia, so there is no “reason, say these authorities, why the sultan’s troops might not hold ont. for years, if necessary. Of course the sultan has lost eve: thing he possessed in Europe outside (Constantinople and the twenty-five miles square patch of territory be- dween it and the Tchatalja lines, but @ith his capital still holding out, as @iplomats viewed the situation, he will we able to insist on cas mkeap sibeed ov ltjerate terms: In fact, it was Pease ‘that feats Begotiations were progressing at” the game time as fighting was going on. | |ON TRIAL AT CINCINNATI Thirty Officials and Ex-Officials of Cash Register Company. Cincinnati, Noy. 20.—The trial of John M. Patterson and twenty-nine other officials or ex-officials of the Na- tional Cash Register company of Day- ton, O., charged with violation of the criminal section of the Sherman anti- trust act, began in the United States court for the Southern district of Ohio, A special venire of thirty-six pros- pective jurors. were on hand, the men being chosen from every county in the district with the exception of Montgomery county, where the com- pany, by whom the accused.men have béen™ employed, had its»factory and main offices. Judge Howard Holister of this city is presiding and the cases are expect- ed to consume between six weeks and two mths. POLICE RAID IS , _ FATAL 10 THREE Mleged Crook, Girt Companion and Detective Killed. New York, Nov. 20—The body of Henry Yogel, described by the police @s an international crook, and beside it the body of his girl Lottie lay in the morgue, and John Allen, a city detective, was dead, while in uptown hospitals four men, two of them de- tectives, were hovering between life and death, unable to give a connected account of how they were shot in a ‘raid on Vogel’s rooms, where he was sought as a diamond thief. In the fusillade which followed the entrance of the detectives Vogel and the woman were killed instantly. Ac- counts yary as to whether-he shot his companion and committed sticide or whether they fell before the fire from the officers. Of the wounded hope was expressed for the recovery of two—Luigi Ger- ardi, a private detective, and William Butler, a waiter. For the other two, | both shot in the abdomen, there was little hope. They are Martin S. Fay; a city detective, and Louis Mond- scheim, proprietor of: the hotel where the battle occurred: 2 Alen died ten hours after the shoot- ing. Operations were performed on Fay, Butler and Mondscheim. J. 3. HILL AND OTHERS SPEAK Second Minnesota Conservation Con. gress at-Minneapolis. ° Minneapolis, Nov. 20.—James J. Hill, Archbishop, Jreland, Henry Wal- rlace,; Governor) Eberhart .and other notables joined at the, second state conseryation, congress in, Minneapolis in, emphasizing, the. importance of the :| “back..to. the land” movyement.; Some things..Mr., Hill said.were: .,, “The .bumper, crop ,of,.this year must not blind the farmer to the need for intensive farming. The lean years will come, again, and they will be , Jessons “We could add. billions, of, dollars to the wealth of the county each year’ and then leaye the soil in better con: dition than we-found‘it:- = “We must increase the product: ‘af our. land in preparation for the.in- creased demand that “nas already made itself felt.” “The pe accomplished are sum- med-up-in-the-term, ‘intelligent miod- ern agriculture.’” WILSON: FORGETS POLITICS “ ates dent:-Blect:' Wilson. declared that he is 7] ethouskt <a Sheguin. of Palbhon has the ion of being the oldest man in Minnesota, having a few days ago celebrated his 104th anniversary. He is_a-native of Vermont, having been born at Franklin in that state in 1808. In 1838 he married Miss Louise Big- ford of Canada and they came to M nesota, settling near Albert Lea in 1866. In 1873 they moved to a farm near Balaton and resided there uniil two years ago when they move, to Pipestone to spend ‘their remaining days. Mrs. Shequin is ninety-four years of age and both she and her husband are in the, best of health. The state supreme court has de nied that the act whereby a prisoner may be transferred from the refor: tory to the state prison is. uncons tional. The decision was rendered un- der habeas corpus proceedin =s brought by John S. Kelly of Stillwater to secure the release of his son. Young Kelly was convicted of forgery June 23,1910, and was given a reform- atory sentence.” He was removed. to prison on Feb. 23;.1912. O. H. Griggs, president of the Vir- ginia Electric Power and Water com- pany, has sent acceptance of the cit) offer to buy the plant for a considera tion of $493,600 and special allow- ances for recent improvements, whica will amount to an additional $50,000. A special election will be held to vote bonds to pay for the plant. The dea! to buy the light and water plant has been pending for months. The First National bank of St. Paul will be made a $5,000,000 institution as soon as James J. Hill takes charge of it, which will be within the next thirty days. The bank will have a capital of $3,000,000 and a surplus of $2,000,000. This means that after Mr. Hill has merged the First and Second National banks that he will add | $1,600,000 to the capital and $600,000 | to the surplus. The services of Leonard Fowler, a trained industrial engineer and adver- tising man, who has had much to do with the development movement in the West, have been engaged by the Southern Minnesota Better Develop- ment ‘league and an active campaign to forward the interests of Southern Minnesota is to be started. DEATHS OF THE WEEK. Henry Chester Waite, one of the oldest settlers of Minnesota and the last surviving member of the state | constitutional convention, is dead at St. Cloud. Mr. Waite was eighty-two years of age and had been a resident of St.-Cloud sixty years. He was the first attorney to locate in Stearns county. In the early days he was con- nected with the powerful business firm of Clarke, Waite & McClure, lum- bermen, bankers and freighters. He had been a state senator, representa- tive and register of the land office. The second in the family to die within the week, J. S. O'Donnell, one of the best known contractors in Min- neapolis, fel] dead on the eighth anni- versary of. his wedding, less than twenty-four hours after Mrs. O’Donne!l had returned'‘from Barnesville, where she' had attended —_ funeral of her ‘mother. ‘W:' Wadsworth, ‘one of the Yionoted pioneers of Freéborn' county; is dead at his home in Freeman township. In the year ‘1854 he took 'up a-¢laim in: Albert Lea ‘township and- built his log cabin there. At the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted in Company C,.. Fifth Minnesota volunteer _in- fantry. ‘ Mrs., Louisa Bierbauer, one of the best known of the early residents of Mankato, is dead. She was the widow of Captain William Bierbauer, who won his military title during the Indian war of 1862, when he com- manded a company. that men to the ‘relief of New Ulm. Christian von. Wald, a Minnesota ‘ploneer and former member, of the legislature from Goodhue ‘county, is dead/at his home’ in St. Paul. (Mr. von Wald ‘was elected, member | of the house-of représentatives for ‘the Twen- ty-ninth district in 1901 and 1903, serving two terms. CRIMES AND MISHAPS, : The desire of a farmer's dog to bite ja tire of an-automobile belonging’ to George R. Whitney of St. Cloud caused injury to four men and the destrue-’| Mr. Whitney’ tion of the machine. was driving the car. When the dog tried to grab a tire the machine struck the animal, turning turtle. The four Men were pinned beneath the car. Two of them were injured internally. “Wounded by a bullet from a’ detec- tive’s revolver, James Taneous' of Rugby, N. D., who escaped from the Minnesota state .reformatory at St. Cloud recently, was captured at Chi- cago. He had been _betrayed into the hands of the officers by Ira Davis, an ex. mvict, who was sheltering him. Chris Peterson, who resided with Ris mother on a farm near Blooming Prairie, met with a fatal accident while at work in the stable. One of the kicked him in the head and j = Sather Pease, a~ pioneer Lege «|S, a and a veteran Civil war, was pe gp 2 Sean the of it all is that he 5! been compélied to spend a cent, but any one who knows the old war horse he could not finish. It is not the cost with him;. it is resilts he wants, and he generally gets what he goes after. ——h—- > The scheme of loaning state money to farmers at a low rate of interest on approved security, which was a fea- ture of one of the amendments voted upon at the election, was among those which failed. and perhaps it is better for all concerned. As one state offi- Ment prevailed the crowd entrusted with the Joaning end of the game would have been able to perpetrate an organization which would have been invincible. Nothing could have prevailed against it. ba Sh od Governor Eberhart will have a num- ber of places to fill beginning the first of the year, the majority of them be- ing board positions, and already wouldbe’s are busy. secretary of the state board of health, now held by Dr. H. M. Minneapolis. A score of persons are | jafter his Scalp and it looks pretty much as if they would get it. | Bracken has been at the head of the state health department for a number | of years and he has ruled with a} strong hand. | salary. | him by members of the board, but he beat them to it. The claim is made | that while Dr. Bracken is efficient, yet at the same time he is extravagant. If you ever saw any of his traveling bills you would possibly agree. He sure charges when he travels for the state. No $3 a day hotels for him. ‘It is al- ways $5 or $6 a day. CP a Talking about traveling expenses, Minnesota is too big a state to be nig- tend beyond the confines of the cap- | ital or whose work carries them into | | other states, but at the same time | there are those who believe that there | is room for reform in the present prac- | | thee of charging for hote!s and other j expenses. I note in the report of} | Public Examiner Fritz, covering an yexamination of the state. bank su- | perintendent’s department, a_ total | item for the year 1911 for hotels and |lunches of $4,120.80. For 1912 the amount spent for this purpose was in jexcess of $5,000. Uncle Sam has a fixed per diem expense for those who travel for him and there is no reason | why the scheme could not be adopted jin the Case of Minnesota. go lee 7 4 an old story, but his defeat has in no | wise disheartened the leaders of the | unwashed. other day this year’s fight, if dny- thing, has strengthened the Demo- | cratic forces in the state, as it has | brought back. into the foid a number of districts which county option put out-of business two'-years ago. one hope of the-Democratic leaders was the return of the German vote; }and this they think they have accom- plished. would not be surprised if their efforts two years from were directed at putting over a Ger- man candidate for governor. As far as any single nationality is concerned the German vote is the largest in the state. tt & With a Democratic president at the helm every member of the unwashed who in any way aided in the eleva- mow engaged in a scramble for the spoils and Minnesota Democrats are not taking’ any back seat in the rush. Frank A. Day of Fairmont is talked of for the customs department, with headquarters. in St." Paul.’ Martin O’Brien of Crookston is mentioned for | the $4. 000 position now held by Mar- | cus Johnson, and ‘Edward Lynch, it fs sald, has ‘his eyes on’ United States’! marshal. As to Fred B. Lynch, ‘the Rational committeeman from’ Minne! ‘sota, ‘the story’ is’ that ‘a cabinet po- sition has been picked out for him: e hunch is, however, that Day et al. will’ have to wait awhile. The jobs’ they are after will not becomée vacant for two years at least. hk, St. Paul is in the throes of a police ‘scandal; with much of a nasty nature to follow, Last-week the chief of the detective department with four sub- ordinates were dismissed, the reason being that it. was for the good of the | department, but there is,.more than that, behind the discharges..A Burns detective... Mayor Keller explained, furnished him information, to. the ' ef fect that the five detectives were put- ting over...a.. close ,,corporation, in which the colonization, of .criminals was, the principal feature. Dhis ‘ ex- cares to delve into the controversy I. am. inclined to-think that he will find politics behind the whole thing. The dismissal of the five finishes the 8 all there is to:it: i i hart, which will take place the first of the year, is to be observed by his countrymen in'a manner befitting the occasion. ‘The Swedish-American Re- + publican club of Iilinois is preparing nies and may attend a-body. The organization’ bas asked for entertain- ment for a number of its:members hen the event takes place and it may be joined by other Swedish societies Minnesota. knows hé never started anything that | ‘cial put it, had this particular amend- | the | One position that | is sure to cause him worry is that of | Bracken of | Dr. | Two years ago the legis- | lature went after him and reduced his | Then a fight was started on; gardly with those whose activities ex- | That P. M. Ringdal, the Democratic } candidate for goverror, did riot win is! As one of them put it the | The} now! pleamerririv rae | CANNONADING LE LESS VIOLENT tion of the New Jersey governor is / planation sounds nice, but, if, any 6ne | old O'Connor police regime,:and that |. ‘The inauguration of Governor Beer: HERO | OF FIRE © Courageous. Action. BIG HOTEL DESTROYED Three Persons Killed and a Dozen In- jured, Three Probably Fatally, When Flames Wipe Out Six-Story Hosteiry | at Los Angeles, Cal. Los Angeles, Nov. 20.—Three are dead, three will die and a dozen oth- ers are seriously hurt as the result of |a fire that destroyed the St. George | hotel. That one of the worst holocausts jin the history of the city did not take place was due to the efforts and heroism of the house employes and | the first firemen. to arrive. Oscar Jones, the elevator boy, kept {his car running through smoke and fiames until he emptied most of the {sixth floor and it was not until the | fire put the machinery out of busi- | mess that he quit. Meanwhile firemen with scaling ladders and lifenets were outside emptying the windows which were | filled with frightened men and women in their night clothing. The dead are: Mrs. Charles Harrington, actress at a local theater, who, after throwing her eighteen-months-old baby into a | lifenet, jumped herself and missed, | striking the pavement. Mrs. Ella Moran, killed by jumping. | Firemen tried to catch her in the life- | net, but failed. Joseph Martin, jeweler, jumped to the ‘street. Several Fatally Injured. Of: the injured Mrs. HE. J. Block jumped from the side window on the sixth floor with her night dress afire. Her back was broken and she will un- | doubtedly die. Joseph Malone, engineer of the ho- tel, was caught on an upper floor while trying to rescue women guests and fatally burned. Ray Harrah and his wife, vaude- |-ville performers, were so badly hurt | that she will probably die and his con- | dition is very serious. \ It. is believed all the other injured | will recover, ; There was only one stairway. in the | | building and a small fire escape. fire started on the fifth floor near the which was | stairway, through. of the sixth floor, which was full, were | compelled to depend upon the ele- vator, ‘ When the elevator was finally put | out of commission the fire was so hot that those who were left in many } cases swung from the fire out of the windows. ,Some.were badly burned | pelted to, drop on the pavement be- | low, Line of Fortifications. Constantinople, Nov. 20.--The artil- Saves Many Lives by His) co The | Foal soon, burned | Because of that fact. the occupants|to England. and,, their strength fajling,. were com- | {Is verbal asti, was less violent Monday than on Sun- day,. according to a report of Nazim Pasha, the Turkish commander-in- chief. Firing, however, occurred along the whole line of fortifications. He someoee: pulsed the enemy’s infantry, eat ca to advance at some points.” Among the wounded who arrived in nstantinople was General Mahmoud Mukhtar, who was hit in the leg with a bullet. It was he who successfully attacked the Bulgarian left wing at Bunarhissar in the battle of Lule Bur- gas. FIVE CHARGES NECESSARY Yeggmen Stick to Job Until Bank Safe ts Blown. Bowling Green, O., Nov. 20.—With the fifth explosion yeggmen succeed- ed in blowing the safe in the Munn bank at Portage, this county, and es caped with $4,000 in money. Armed confederates stood guard outside the bank building and warned citizens at- tracted by the explosions to keep a safe distance under penalty of: being shot. MEXICO ciry Ks IS SHAKEN Some Damage Done “Bene! but No Loss of Life Reported. Mexico City, Nov. 20—A _ severe earthquake shock shook Mexico City. The tremor lasted about one minute. A number of small houses were top- pled over and the pavements cracked fm many places. In some sections of the city water and gas mains were broken. No deaths have been re- borted. ONE JOHNSON CHARGE FAILS State Unable to Prove Fighter Ab- ducted Lucile Cameron. Chicago, Nov. 20.—A charge of ab- duction against Jack Johnson, negre pugilist, was dismissed before Munic- ipal Judge Hepkins because of the ' prosecution’s inability to prove that Lucile Cameron, the white girl whose association with Johnson led to his arrest, had been abducted by him. Word Blindness. Verbal antipathies arecommon, Most of us hate the feel, so to speak, of cer- tain words— victuals,” for instance. ism prevalent, too, ‘we wonder? We never know the dif- ference between “subjective” and “ob- / jective,” and we have a high respect |for writers who use those words intel- }ligently: “Ingenuous” and “disingenu- jous” always: puzzle us. too.—Franklin ' Pp, Adams in Metropolitan. Sharp Tongued Bernhardt. | Sarah Bernhardt is quoted as having Paid her: respects to Isabella of Ba- ia, consort of Charles VI. of France, in this wise: “It is to her that we owe the invention of: the corset, but it was she, too, who sold the half of France There was no crime of which that woman was not capable.” Told Her Why. “I'd like to know why you bired a young woman for a.typewriter?’ de- manded Mrs. Hilow of her husband. “So I could have some one to dictate ; to,” replied the unhappy man.—New York Sun. The Way He Put It. ‘ He—I have a compliment for you, dear.) She-What, is it?) He—Mr. |Jones.says: you have the handsomest But Fighting Continues Along Whole | husband in town.—Life, Go on and make errors and fall and | lery fight along the: lines.of Tchatalja get up again, Only go on!—Brackett. OF RY SOF TOG TES sparmeiler reasonable ptices. - to take the initiative in: the: ceremo- |.‘ OLDER weather is: predicted... 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