Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 27, 1912, Page 3

= p | 4 * > | | BENCH VACANCY cect _ SOUGHT BY MANY lame Applicants for Su- preme Court Seat, BUNN AMONG THE CANDIDATES Present Member Defeated at Recent Election Is Being Urged for Reappointment. ‘hich the constitution does not perma tid the case of the judiciary. Commenting upon the rumor, Chief Justice Start, who will retire the first of the year, said the other day that he fully agreed with Justice Brown if he took the position credited to him. | “I flatly refused to serve on the board when I first entered office,” said Jus- tice Start, “and the law was changed go as to include the chief justice. Had I remained upon the bench I was fully determined the first of the year to refuse to serve and to give my rea- sons for doing so.” i Good roads enthusiasts can now re- | Joice, as the 1 mill tax amendment has | prevailed and that by a majority of better than 10,000. As a result of the | passage of the good roads amendment | there is a rush for places on the good }reads committee in both houses and (Special Correspondence.) | the several candidates for speaker are St. Paul, Nov. 26—The vacancy on |being swamped with applications. the supreme bench caused by the ele- |There will be road bills galore this vation of Justice Calvin L. Brown to session. R. C. Dunn of Princetan is the chief justiceship has the stage | Sure to be chairman of the house com- Zust now in state political circles and, | mittee. Jet me tell you, the scrambie is so strenuous that Governor Eberhart is | a Ddeginning to show the effects of the | strain. There are at least a dozen persons scattered over the state who | think they could fill the job and they are not a bit backward in pressing their claims. When the list of avail- ables was last compiled it included | Justice Bunn, who was distanced by Judge Hallam of St. Paul; H. L. | Schmitt of Mankato, Mayor H. P. | 71,181 against. Keller, St. Paul; Mr. Carlson, law pa mer of H. H. Dunn of Albert Lea Judge Quinn, Fairmont; Judge M Clenahan of Brainerd and Judge Dib-} bell of Duluth. The vacancy will take | place Jan. 6 next and as the days pass the list of candidates grows. Justice George L. Bunn, as you probably know, had to give way to Judge Hal- lam of St. Paul, his home town, in the recent election and this is where the g@hoe pinches as far as the other can- @idates are concerned. Mr. Bunn may de reappointed, though the voters saw fit to retire him to private life. He is The amendment which pre- vailed was his creation. So aa In effect a measure directed against the cities, it may surprise some to know that the seven-senators amend- ment received a heavy vote in the centers of population. Ramsey county gave it a big vote. The amendment limited the representation of any one county to seven senators. for the amendment was 126,457, with It is more than like- ly that the proposed amendment, de- | spite its defeat, will be again offered for consideration at the coming ses- |sion of the legislature. The country end is strong for it. | tse, ote Henry Rines of Mora, editor of the Kanabec County Times and for three sessions aligned with the progressive element in the lower house, was en- dorsed for speaker at the next session of the legislature by thirty-two pro- gressive Republican legislators who participated in a caucus in the West hotel, Minneapolis, one day last week. the one Democrat on the bench and | At the same time W. I. Nolan of Min- ‘was given his present job by Governor Eberhart. Should he be reappointed @o fill the vacancy on the bench it would mean two members of the court with a St. Paul residence and this in & measure stands against Judge Bunn, but despite this handicap I honestly believe that he is the best bet at this writing. His backing is of the kind | ‘that no man with a political future an overlook. Last week a delegation from Mankato waited on Governor Bberhart in the interest of H. L. Bchmitt, but the answer,was not very assuring. Neither Mankato nor Blue arth eccunty were very enthusiastic for Governor Eberhart either in the imary' or at the general election. le lost the two. St. Louis county, -which is the home of Judge Dibbell, iso went against the governor and latter's backers are now arguing that only the Eberhart strongholds whould be recognized. H. H. Dunn of Albert Lea, former speaker of the | committee. neapolis, N. J. Holmberg of Renville county, J. T. Johnson of Fergus Falls, Thomas Frankson of Spring Valley and S. T. Oftothun of Glenwood, all of whom had been mentioned in connec- tion with the speakership, were elimi- nated from the fight. They participat- ed in the conference, pledged their support to Mr. Rines and were appoint- | ed to a campaign committee that is to ‘direct the Rines fight for the coveted position at the head of the house or- ganization. te © Gordon Bright of Minneapolis, who was Hennepin county manager for L. C. Spooner in the Republican guber- matorial primary fight, is out for the office of sérgeant-at-arms of the house. He was a clerk in the last house. Os- car Arneson of Chisholm wants his old job of chief clerk back, but he will have to fight Claude McKenzie, for- merly clerk to the house judiciary It is expected that anoth- house, is working in the interest of | er week will see a half dozen or more iis law partner, Judge Carlson. ++ + ‘Though the governorship is the wiaighest office in the gift of the peo- » Ble, and many have sought it even in the days when the salary was much ‘Jess than it is now, the position is one ‘got calculated tocure insomnia. There are many sleepless nights attached to the job. Within the next thirty days Gorernor Wberhart will have to fill @ifty or more minor places and candi- dates are as thick as bees. In addi- tion to the place on the supreme ‘bench he will have to name a suc- ®essor to Judge Hallam of the Ramsey @ounty district court and then there is the vacancy on the municipal bench in Minneapolis caused by the eleva- + tion of Judge Leary to the district « €ourt. Three members will have to be named on the state board of health sand all three are being contested. One f the board members up for reap- pointment is Dr. H. M. Bracken, the secretary, and I am told a lively fight ts being made on him. In order is the 4ax°commission, the board of control and 2 dozen other boards. Even the reappointment of Kelsey Chase, the present state bank examiner, is being protested. That prefix “Governor” sounds good and it looks good, but it sure has its troubles. Ask Governor Bberhart. t+ + “The last legislature set aside $8,000 for the reclamation of ten forty-acre tracts of state land, the idea being to +@how what could be done with some .@f the despised school land scattered .over the northern part of the state. “The other day State Auditor Iverson #old one of the reclaimed tracts locat- candidates for the several house po- sitions. ++ + Tho next house will have on its hands at least one election contest. It will come from St. Paul and F. F. Brown, a Democrat, wil be the con- testant. Brown went against E. J. Fuchs, a Republican, and lost. He now insists that the canvassing board made a@ wrong return in his case. Election contests used to be a good source of revenue for those involved, as the leg- islature invariably paid the bill, but it will not happen this time. The last session put the lid on the practice. Oe ae Has James A. Manahan, congress- man elect and the latest Democratic convert to Republicanism, got his eye on the governorship two years hence or is he laying wires for United States Senator Clapp’s job? “Friends” gave Mr. Manahan a dinner in Minneapolis last week and the affair was the occa- sion for quite a gathering of promi- nent politieal lights. Jim’s future was not touched upon, but it was hinted at on the quiet. The job of congressman ; at large will in all probability go out of business in two years and Manahan is not the boy to forget to lay up some- thing for a rainy day. tt + It is pretty certain that a bill rees- tablishing capital punishment in Min- nesota will be offered at the coming session of the legislature. Quite a few ministers have come forward and advocated it. Former Representative McKenzie was responsible for the wip- ing out of the old law and the fact so incensed his constituents that they re- | fused to endorse him for re-election at ed in Beltrami county, but the best he ! ¢h, primaries. A number who voted could get for it was $27.50 per acre, which was the cost price per acre for @lesring the same. sm adjoining county which was put mp at auction failed to get a bidder. ‘The forty in Beltrami county, it is «said, was bid in by the party employed | to reclaim it. He was paid for his -work and the difference between what. whe received and the price paid was ‘what the state realized on the sale. | ‘The purchaser was Jacob C. Anderson, Another appropriation for the recla- mation of additional tracts will be asked of the next legislature, but it movement will have trouble in Ianding it. 4s more than likely that those behind | for the McKenzie bill also fell by the ‘wayside both in the primaries and at Another tract in | the election. Fe The creation of a state department of agriculture is being suggested. There is also a scheme en foot to amalgamate the highway commission, |the state land department and the state drainage board. Governor Eber- hart, it is expected, will recommend the latter in his message to the legis- lature. : if Be stringent cpus practices law of any The vote | Though Minnesota has the most | the police decided, and chose death. . JURY FAILS TO REACH VERDICT Case of Attorney Gibson Ends in Mistrial. =~ pes (OUT FOURTEEN HOURS Lawyer Accused of Murdering Woman | Client Now Faces a Number of Other Indictments County Charging Embezzlement. Goshen, N. Y., Nov. 27.—After de- Mberating for more than fourteen hours the jury in the case of Burton W. Gibson, charged with the murder of his client, Mrs. Rosa Menschik Szabo, reported to Justice Tompkins that they could not agree on a verdict. They were ordered discharged. Jacob J. Singer of Gibson’s counsel announced shortly after the jury had been discharged that the district at- torney had offered not to place Gibson on trial again on the charge of mur- dering Mrs. Szabo provided Gibson would plead guilty to one of the sev- eral charges against him in New York county. A detective armed with a warrant based on an indictment found in New York, was prepared to arrest Gibson in the event of his acquittal on the | The warrant charges | murder charge. the larceny of $17,000 from Hugh Trainor, a former client of Gibson, in 1910. Other charges are pending in New York county against Gibson. READY TO “SERVE HIS TERM Immigrant Boy. Sentenced to Five Years in Public School. Pittsburg, Nov. 27——Sentenced to five years in the public schools, Nic- olas Killel Haddad, aged eleven, an immigrant boy from Syria, who ar- rived in Pittsburg a few days ago, went to the home of his brother in New Kensington, Pa., to begin “serv- ing his term.” The boy was permitted to pass the immigration authorities on Ellis island on condition that a bond of $1,000 be posted to guarantee that he be kept at his studies in a public school until he was sixteen years old. Notice of this action was form®fly conveyed to Secretary George W. Ger- wig of the Pittsburg board of public education by William Williams, com- missioner of immigration at New York, and when the boy arrived here, in company with his brother Michael, who fied from his native land to es- cape Turkish persecttion, he was sent to another brother, John, who is a tin- worker at New Kensington. GUNMEN TO DIE IN JANUARY Rosenthal Murderers to Be Executed First Week of New Year. New York, Nov. 27.—Gyp the Blood, Whitey Lewis, Lefty Louie and Dago Frank, the gunmen convicted of the murder of Herman Rosenthal, were sentenced by Justice Goff to die in the electric chair at Sing Sing during the week of Jan. 6. Each of the prisoners was sentenced separately and in each case Charles G. F. Wahle, their counsel, moved that the verdict be set aside and the judg- ment be arrested. Each motion Jus- tice Goff successively denied. One of the grounds for Mr. Wahle’s motion was’that the verdict was the result of “passion, prejudice and other influences.” INDICTED MEN TO SEE DEBS Warren and Shepherd to Confer With Him Saturday. Girard, Kan., Nov. 27—Fred War- ren and J. I. Shepherd, indicted with Bugene V. Debs, recent Socialist can- didate for president, on charges of ob- structing justice, will go to Terre Haute Saturday to confer with Debs regarding their forthcoming trial. Warren and Shepherd are making the trip to Terre Haute because word has been received that Debs’ health will not permit him to come to Kan- sas. 10,000 MILL MEN ARE IDLE Carnegie Stee! Plants at Pittsburg and Homestead Crippled. Pittsburg, Nov. 27.—Of the 6,000 men employed at the Edgar Thompson plant of the Carnegie Steel company at Braddock 5,000 are idle as a result of the strike of the engineers and firemen, while across the Mononga- hela river at Homestead 5,000 men are idle for the same cause. Declare Woman Was Insane, Chicago, Nov. 27.—The police are convinced that Miss Maud Van Dusen, stenographer, who dived 250 feet from the twentieth story of the McCormick building to her death, was insane. She was suffering under the hallucination that she was not safe from dishonor, Dismissed by University. Ping ‘University, Cal, Nov. 27.—_ in New York | GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER, 27, 19 ! JOHN T. BRUSH. Owner of the New York Giants Dies Suddenly on Private Car. @ 1910. by American Press Association. JOHN T. BRUSH IS DEAD Baseball Magnate Expires While En Route to the West. Louisiana, Mo., Nov. 27.—John T. Brush, president of the New York Na- tional league team, died in his private car between here and St. Louis. He was on his way for his health. Mr. Brush, who had suffered for years from locomotor ataxia, was hur- tied from New York Sunday night un- Neon Ie BANDITS GET BIG SUM IN GAMBLING HOUSE Seventeen Men Robbed of Ten Thousand Dollars. Winnipeg, Nov. 27—Two masked men held up a gambling house on Ninth avenue, Calgary, Alta., and after lining seventeen men up against the wall at the point of their revolvers Telieved them of between $10,000 and $12,000 in jewels and money. The police were not notified of the holdup for several hours because the gamblers feared prosecution. The robbery occurred within a stone's throw of the Canadian Pacific depot. ODDITIES IN THE NEWS After seeing a moying picture in which the murder of a man by his wife was shown, Mrs. McCaffe of Ma- con, Ga., confessed she killed her hus- band in Ireland ten years ago. ++ + By a vote of 28 to 16, New York patronesses of the junior cotillions de- cided there shall be no turkey trotting at their dances this winter. The trot is considered out of date. ++ + Blitzen, a New Brunswick bear, has been trained to mind the baby while his master, Rev. Chauncey J. Hawkins of Boston, and his wife attend to so cial and household duties. GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, Nov. 26—Wheat—To arrive and on track—No. 1 hard, 835%c; No. 1 Northern, 825c; No. 2 Northern, 8056c; Dec., 815%c; May, 8744@87%c. Flax—On track and to arrive, $1.36; Nov., $1.35; Dec., $1.31. South St. Pau! Live Stock. South St. Paul, Nov. 36.—Cattle— Steers, $5.25@8.25; cows and heifers, $3.25@6.75; calves, $4.00@9.00; feed- ers, $3.50@6.75. Hogs—$7.00@7.60. Sheep—Lambs, $3.25@6.75; wethers, $3.25@4.25; ewes, $2.00@3.50. Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, Nov. 26—Wheat — Dec., 8556@85%c; May, 914c; July, 88%c. Corn—Dec., 4754@47%c; May, 48@ 481%4c. Oats—Dec., 31%@31%c; May, 32%4c. Pork—Jan., $19.40; May, $18.62. Butter—Creameries, 29@34%c; dai- ries, 26@31c. Eggs—22@27c. Poul- try—Turkeys, 15@21c; chickens, 10c; springs, 12c. Chicago Live Stock. Chicago, Nov. 26.—Cattle—Beeves, $5.35@10.70; Texas steers, $4.30@5.70; Western steers, $5.40@9.10; stockers and feeders, $4.25@7.60; cows and heifers, $2:70@7.45; calves, $6.50@10.- 25. Hogs—Light, $7.45@1%.85; mixed, $7.40@7.90; heavy, $7.35@7.90; rough, ; $7.35@7.55; pigs, $5.50@7.60. Sheep— Native, $3.40@4.30; yearlings, $4.60@ 6.80; lambs, $5.40@7.25. _ Minneapolis Grain. Minneapolis, Nov. 26—Wheat—Dec., 8116c; May, 87%4c. Cash close on track: No. 1 hard, 84%¢; No. 1 Northern, 8214@S84c; to arrive, 8214@83c; No. 2 ‘Northern, bea No. a eoribet 7 to the Pacific coast | NEGOTIATIONS Turks and Bulgarians Fix k Lines of Demarcation. ‘BRITAIN WILL KEEP OUT Notified Interested Parties That She Has No interest in Servia’s De- mand for a Port on the Adriatic. Turkey's Reported Terms for an | Armistice Made Public. [PEE Pett eee eee eee Sofia, Bulgaria, Nov. 27.— The lines of demarcation be- tween the Bulgarian and Turk- ish forces will be established shortly by commissioners ap- pointed by the peace plenipo- Negotiations will esumed. PREEEEEEEE PEPE EEE EEE EEE ET ES London, Nov. 27.—While Russia is | believed to be continuing her military movements on the frontier and Aus- tria-Hungary believed to be rapidly mobilizing an immense army equipped definite to indicate that an interna- tional war in Europe is imminent. The increased tension, the depress- ing undercurrent of which is every- |-where felt, however, tends greatly to decrease the ability of diplomacy to resist an ultimate rupture. Great Britain, it is reliably stated, has given Servia, as well as France and Russia, to understand that she has no interest in Servia's demand for @ port on the Adriatic sea. Britain also has declared she has no intention aiding any other power to do so. The progress of the negotiations be- tween the representatives of Turkey and the Balkan allies at Tchatalja is unknown, as every detail of the con- ference is kept strictly secret. In diplomatic circles here, however, it is stated that Turkey has presented the following as an acceptable basis for an agreement: “First—No war indemnity. of the territory bounded by the Marit- za river, the fortress of Adrianople to be included. “Third—The maintenance of the sovereignty of the sultan of Turkey in Albania.” HAD BEEN REPORTED SLAIN Missing Austrian Consul at Prisrend Reappears at Uskup. Vienna, Nov. 27.—Herr Prochaska, Austro-Hungarian consul at Prisrend, has arrived at Uskup from that city. The news reached the Austro-Hunga- tian foreign office in an official tele- gram and disposes of the rumor that the consul had been assassinated. | No direct news had been received from Herr Proshaska for a month and he had been killed and caused great tria-Hungary and Servia. EIGHT DEAD; FOUR MISSING Death List in Explosion at Wauke- gan, ll. Waukegan, Ill., Nov. 27.—The num- ber of dead, injured and missing as a result of the explosion in the plant of the Corn Products Refining company here was found to be materially smaller that at first believed after officials had a chance to make a careful canvass of the situation. Hight persons are known to be | dead, four are missing and there are twenty-four injured in a_ hospital, nearly all of whom are in a precarious condition. Oniy one of the dead re- mains unidentified. Firemen and police are still working in the ruins in search of more bodies and it is feared that the death list may be increased. COUNTESS OF FLANDERS DEAD Mother of King Albert of Belgium Passes Away. Brussels, Nov. 27.—The Countess |of Flanders, mother of King Albert | of Belgium, is dead. She had been suffering for some days from pneu- | monia. She was sixty-eight years old. King Albert and Queen Elizabeth | Pemained at her bedside till the last. No Holiday in Bomb Trial. Indianapolis, Nov. 27—Thanksgiv- ing day will be no holiday for the dy- | namite conspiracy trial. Judge Ander- |son announced that court would be ‘held on Thursday, mainly out of con- ‘ sideration for the jury, which finds its virtual imprisonment galling and wants the case brought to the earliest possible close. b Girl Kills Self; Negro Arrested. Joplin, Mo., Nov, 27.—J. Brownlee, a negro lawyer, is held in jail here under a special guard, following the suicide of Pauline Nugent, a seven- | PRA a ak + 4: + for hard field service, there is nothing | of supporting Servia’s claim, nor of ; “Second—The retention by Turkey | his silence gave rise to rumors that | tension in the relations between Aus- | OLAF A. TVEITMOE. Defendant in Dynamite Trial is Reprimanded for Smiling. Photo by American Press Association. BAN ON SMILING AT DYNAMITE TRIAL Judge Orders Tveitmoe to Look More Solemn. Indianapolis, Nov. 27.—Olaf A. Tveitmoe, one of the San Francisco | defendants in the dynamite conspir- acy trial, was ordered by Judge An- derson to cease smiling. The judge also directed him to leave his seat at the table used by counsel for the de- fense and sit with the other defend- ants. “I notice there is a perpetual smile on the face of Defendant Tveitmoe while the witness is being examined,” said Judge Anderson. “I will not per- mit any demonstration, either by smil- ing or otherwise.” Adhering to its argument that the dynamiters who already have con- ; fessed alone were responsible for ex- plosions, the defense continued its cross-examination of Ortie E. McMani- gal. Senator John W. Kern, chief counsel for the forty-five defendants, plied McManigal with questions in- tended to show that the dynamiter kept as secluded as possible while on his trips of destruction. BIG SHIPMENT OF TURKEYS Special Train Takes 65,000 Birds to New York City. Washington, Nov. 27—With a ma- jority of its 65,000 passengers gob- bling their despairing protests a spe- cial train of forty-two cars raced | through Washington bound for New York with turkeys from Eastern Ten- nessee destined to grace many a Gotham table. There were thirty-four cars filled with live turkeys, each car in charge of a special man who looked after the comfort of the fowls, and eight refrigerator cars containing birds killed and prepared for market. The “turkey special” is said to be the biggest single shipment of turkeys ever made FIRE 650 FEET IN THE AIR Broadway Clogged While Tar on For- ty-seventh Floor Burns, New York, Nov. 27.—A tar kettle which boiled over on the forty-seventh floor of the new Woolworth building provided such an unusual fire spec- tacle that Broadway, 650 feet below, was choked for an hour by a crowd watching great clouds of smoke roll from the open tower windows. A high wind made the situation seem threat- ening. The damage to the building was nominal. Ex-Senator Bird Is Dead. Marinette, Wis., Nov. 27—Former State Senator H. P. Bird, aged seven- ty-four, of Wausaukee, one of the best known men in Wisconsin, is dead fol- lowing a cerebral hemorrhage. He was a Civil war veteran and a mem- ber of the state senate for eight years. He was also chairman of the Wiscon- sin soldiers’ Vicksburg monument commission and a successful lumber- man. ‘Two Weeks in Refrigerator Car. Sioux City, Ia., Nov. 27—With his legs frozen solid almost to his knees and almost dead from exposure; Andy Gorchitz, a Hungarian, arrived in a refrigerator car of apples from New- berg, N. Y. He had devoured nearly a full barrel of apples, the only thing in the car he could eat. He will lose bese legs, but it is hoped to save his fe. Women Lose in Michigan. Detroit, Mich., Nov. 27.—Defeat of %