Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 20, 1912, Page 9

— ~ WILL BURY THEIR DEAD ans Sign Truce, ALLIES ACCEPT PLEA Signify Willingness to Discuss Terms of Peace. Pb be ee + London, Noy. hours’ armistice agre to between the Bul- farians and Turks at Tcha- @ so that both armies may bury their dead, according to & bews agency dispatch from Constantinople. An eight bas been tbe Nov. 20.—The nations ot n 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 slightly has been dimmed by their temporary failure to overcome the Fallied 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- dzation that enormous slaughter would Be 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- guerors to listen to the urgings of the teat powers and refrain from press- dng their victc to the Turkish cap- ftal until they had presented terms of ‘surrender to the quished and had met with a refusal of their accept- mace. * ee Allies Thank the Powers. Sag | Simultaneously. with the dispatch to the grand vizier of their agreement to appoint peace plenipotentiaries the allied Balkan nations notified the Eu- Topean powers of the step they had taken and thanked them for their of- fer of mediation. They added that mediation was no flonger necessary, as the porte had ad- airessed itself directly to the Halkan #tates, which would treat with Tur- key without outside intervention. That the terms of the victors will be drastic is known, birt the European powers are doing their utmost to make | them less harsh than was at first mooted, without attempting 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 demands within moderate limits. FIGHTING IS MOST SEVERE | Bulgarians Meeting Severe Resistance 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 s0 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- tian left wing gained slight advantage in the neighborhood of Derkos in Mon- day's fighting, but as against these re- ports Nazim Pasha notified the Turk- ish government officially of continued Ottoman successes all along the Tcha- talja line. a The total suppression at Sofia of all mews from the front was widely inter- preted here as suggesting a serious Bulgarian reverse. Some military men were even in- clined to think the Bulgarian force had progressed as far as it ever will get. Czar Ferdinand, they pointed out, 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 out for years, if necessary. Of course the sultan has lost every-_ thing he possessed in Europe outside Constantinople and the twenty-five files square patch of territory be- dween it and the Tchatalja lines, but aith his capital still holding out, as @iplomats viewed the situation, he will fe able to insist on comparatively \)iiavorable terms: | _In fact, it was regarded that peace “gegotiations Were progressing at “the game time as figh‘ing was going on. £o long as the result of the battle -bangs in the balance it was doubtful jf an agreement could be reached. Turks and Bulgari- ARTHUR CAPPER. Topeka Editor Who Won Out in Governors | | | | | | t ‘4 (ON TRIAL AT CINCINNATI | Thirty Officials and Ex-Officials of | Cash Register Company. | _ Cincinnati, Nov. 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 | beer employed, had its factory and | main offices. | Judge Howard Holister of this city is presiding and the cases are expect- i ed to consume-between six weeks and }-two months. POLICE RAID 1S FATAL TO THREE | i Alleged Grook, Girl Companion and Detective Killed. New York, Nov. 20.—The body of Henry Vogel, described by the police as 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. AWen died ten hours after the shoot- ing. Gperations were performed on Fay, Butler and Mondscheim. J. J. HILL AND OTHERS SPEAK Second Minnesota Conservation Con- gress at. Minneapolis, i Minneapolis, Nov. 20.—James J. Hill, Archbishop Ireland, Henry Wal- lace,. Governor; Eberhart and other notables joined at the. second state conseryation congress in. Minneapolis in, emphasizing the importance of the “back to. the land” moyement., 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 leaner than, ever, unless the, lessons of experience are accepted, “We could add billions of dollars to the wealth of the c each year and then leave the s tter con- dition than we-found- it: - “We must increase the product’ of our land in preparation for the. in- creased demand that “has already made itself felt. z “The practical steps by “which all this may be accomplished are sum- med up in-the-term, “intelligent mod- ern agriculture.” WILSON FORGETS POLITICS tte President Elect Enjoying His Vaca- tion in Bermuda. Hamilton, Bermuda, Nov. 20.—Presi- dent lect Wilson declared that he is beginning to forget polities. Mrs. Wilson and the other members of the family have been busily en- gaged iq unpacking. as GRAND RAPIDS. HERALD-REVIEW WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1912. [STATE NEWS BITS Minor Happenings of the Weex Throughout Minnesota, John. Sheguin. of Balaton has the Gistinction 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 moveg 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 nied that the act whereby a prisoner | may be transferred from the reforn tory to the state prison is uncon tional. The decision was rendered wn- der habeas corpus proceedir brought by John S. Kelly of Stillwat 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 ¢ pany, has sent acceptance of the city offer to buy the plant for a consider: tion of $493,600 and special allow- ances for recent improvements, whica will amount to an additional $50,00u, | 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. j 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 ne 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 Jeague and an active cam 1 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 jlast 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- j 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'Donnell | had returned from Barnesville, where she had attended ‘the funeral of her | mother. | W. Wadsworth, one of the honored pioneers of Freeborn county; is dead } at his home in Freeman township. In | the year 1854 he took up a claim 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 went to the relief of New Ulm. Christian von Wald, a Minnesota Pioneer 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 representatives 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 destruc- tion of the machine. Mr. Whitney 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-convict, who was sheltering him. Chris Peterson, who resided with his mother on a farm near Blooming Prairie, met with a fatal accident while at work in the stable. One of the horses kicked him in the head and it fs thought a.bone~ penetrated the brain. ene | O. R;- Pease, a- pioneer farmer of Olmsted county and a veteran of the Civil war, was probably fatally in- fared in a collision when a party of Autoists crashed into his buggy. ce | \for all concerned. | cial put it, had this particular amend | her of places to fill b | Salary. | beat them to it. | that while Dr. Bracken is efficient, yet t€xamination of | headquarters in | men to Zo among the voters and boost | the cause of good roads. The shame of it all is that he should have even been compelled to spend a cent, but any one who knows the old war horse knows he never started anything that he could not finish. It is not the cost with him; it is results he wants, and he generally gets what he goes after. +> + 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 As one state offi- the crowd entrusted loaning end of the game would have been able to perpetrate an orga: ation which would have been invincible. Nothing could have prevailed against it. Ment prevailed with the Governor Ebe: have a num- ning the first of the year, the majority of them be- ing board positions, and already the wouldbe’s are busy. One position that is sure to cause n worry is that of secretary of the state board of health, rt wi now held by Dr. H. M. Bracken of Minneapolis. A score of persons are after his scalp and it looks pretty much as if they would get it. Dr. ! | Bracken has been at the head of the nt for a number | state health departm of years and he has ruled with a Strong hand. Two years ago the legis- lature went after him and reduced his Then fight was started on him by members of the board, but he The claim is made at the same time he is extravagant. If You ever saw any of his traveling bill You would possibly agree. He charges when he travels for the state. No $3 a day hotels for him. It is al- | Ways $5 or $6 a day. toh + Talking about traveling expenses, Minnesota is too big a state to be nig- gardly with those whose activities ex- 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- tice of charging for hote!s and other expenses. I note in the report of Public Examiner Fritz, covering an 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 excess 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 | ;in the case of Minnesota. That P. M. Ringdal, the Democratic candidate for governor, did not win is ; an old story, but his defeat has in no wise disheartened the leaders of the unwashed. As one of them put it the other day this year's fight, if any- | 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. The one hope of the. Democratic leaders was the return of the German vote, and this they think they have accom- plished. I-would not be surprised if their efforts two years from now were directed at putting over a Ger- Man candidate for governor. As far | 88 apy single nationality is concerned the German vote is the largest in the state. rT be With a Democratic president at the helm every member of the unwashed who in any way aided in the eleva- tion of the New Jersey governor is now 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 St.Paul. Martin O’Brien of Crookston is mentioned for the $4.000 position now held by Mar- cus Johnson, and Edward Lynch, it is said, has his eyes on United States marshal. As to Fred B. Lynch, the national committeeman from~ Minne sota, the story is that a cabinet po- sition has been picked out for him. The hunch is, however, that Day et al will’ have to wait awhite. The jobs they are after will not become vacant for two years at least. bt. St. Paul is in the throes of a police scandal, with muchiof 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 overa. close corporation, in which the colonization. of .criminals | | was the principal, feature. This ex- planation sounds nice, but if any one 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 old O'Connor police regime, and that is all there is to it. * ob The inauguration of Governor Eber- hart, which will take place the first of the year, is to be observed by his countrymen in a manner befitting the oceasion. The Swedish-American Re- publican club of Illinois is preparing to take the initiative in the ceremo- nies and may attend in a body. The organization has asked for entertain- ment for a number of its members when the event takes place and it may be joined by other Swedish societies in Minnesota. ‘ THE COUNTY CHAIRMAN. r sure wo ee. — 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 ELEVATOR BOY AERO OF FIRE =.:::: “ iia aes e repulsed the enemy’s infantry, | who tried to advance at some poin | Among the wounded who arrived | Saves Many Lives by His Constantinople was General Mahmot ' 5 Mukhtar, who was hit in the leg wit Courageous Action. a@ bullet. It was he who successful) ‘BIG HOTEL DESTROYED | Bunarhissar in the battle of Lule Bur gas. FIVE CHARGES NECESSARY Yeggmen Stick to Job Until Bank Safe Is Blown. Bowling Green, O., Nov. 20.—Witk the fifth explosion yeggmen succeed ed in blowing the safe in the Munr bank at Portage, this county, and ¢s caped with $4,000 in money. Ar confederates stood guard outside the bank building and warned citizens a tracted by the explosions to keep ance under penalty of bein | Three Persons Killed and a Dozen In- jured, Three Probably Fatally, When Flames Wipe Out Six-Story Hosteiry at Les 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 | in the history of the city did not take] MEXICO CITY IS SHAKEN | place was due to the efforts and | ——. ‘heroism of the house employes and | Some Damage Done but No Loss cf the first firemen to arrive. | Life Reported. Oscar Jones, the elevator boy, kept; Mexico City, Nov. 20—A his car running through smoke and | earthquake shock shook Mexico City flames until he emptied most of the |The tremor lasted about one minute sixth floor and it was not until the|A number of small houses were top | fire put the machinery out of busi-! pled over and the pavements cracked ness that he quit. ;!m many places. In some sections of Meanwhile firemen with sealing | the city water and gas mains were jladders and lifenets were outside|roken. No deaths have been re emptying the windows which were | borted. filled with frightened men and women | in their night clothing. The dead are: ONE JOHNSON CHARGE FAILS Mrs. Charles Harrington, actress at | a local theater, who, after throwing | State Unable to Prove Fighter Ab- | her eighteen-months-old baby into a; ducted Lucile Cameron. lifenet, jumped herself and missed.} Chicago, Nov. 20.—A charge of ab. striking the pavement. . | duction against Jack Johnson, negre | Mrs. Ella Moran, killed by jumping. | pugilist, was dismissed before Munic- | Firemen tried to catch her in the life- | ipal Judge Hopkins because of + | net, but failed. Joseph Martin, jeweler, | the street. severe ‘ ; Prosecution’s inability to prove that Jumped to| Lucile Cameron, the white girl whose | association with Johnson led to his Several Fatally Injured. | arrest, had been abducted by him. Of the injured Mrs. H. J. Block | Werd Blindness. jumped from the side window on the} Verbal antipathies arecommon. Most | sixth floor with her night dress afire. , Of us hate the feel, so to speak, of cer | Her back was broken and she will un- tain words—“victuals,” for instance. | doubtedly -die. {Is verbal astigmatism prevalent, too, Joseph Malone, engineer of the ho- |we wonder? We never know the dif- tel, was caught on an upper floor |ference between “subjective” and “ob | while trying to rescue women guests | jective,” and we have a high respect and fatally burned. |for writers who use those words inte Ray Harrah and his wife, vaude-|ligently. “Ingenuous” and “disingen ville performers, were so badly hurt | ous” always puzzle us too.—Franklin | that she will probably die and his con-! P. Adams in Metropolitan. dition is very serious, | It is believed all the other injured | Sharp Tongued Bernhardt. will recover. | Sarah Bernhardt is quoted as having There was only one stairway in the | Paid ber respects to Isabella of Ba- building and a small fire escape. The | varia, consort of Charles VI. of France | fire started on the fifth floor near the jin this wise: “It is to her that we owe stairway, which was soon burned | the invention of the corset, but it was | through. 'she, too, who sold the half of | Because of that fact the occupants to England. There was no crime of | of the sixth floor, which was full, were | which that woman was not capable.” | compelled to depend upon the ele-| ; Vator, i When the elevator was finally put} out of commission the fire was so hot |young woman for a typewriter?” de- that those who were left in many |manded Mrs. Hilow of her husband. } cases swung from the fire out of the} “So I could have some one to dictate windows. Some were badly burned to.” replied the unhappy man—New , and, their strength failing, were com- | York Sun. } Pelled to, drop on the pavement be- Told Her Why. “I'd like te know why you hired a | low, { The Way He Put it, } | He—I have a compliment for you CANNONADING LESS VIOLENT | dear. She—What. is it? He—Mrs |Jones says you have the handsomest But Fighting Continues Along Whole i husband in town.—Life, Line of Fortifications. ——_ Constantinople, Nov. 20.—The artil- Go on and make errors and fall ané | lery fight along the lines of Tchatalja get up again. Only go on!—Brackett. | ; | Pe se weather is predicted. Are | you prepared? We are prepared to furnish. you with’ the best Foot- wear, Underwear, Clothing, Etc., at reasonable prices. . A visit to the Pio- neer store will convince you of this. JOHN BECKFELT THE PIONEER STORE 4)