Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 16, 1913, Page 3

ON CHARACTER Mulhall Defends Prrpose In | Exposing Lobbying. DID NOT SELL STATEMENT Submits Letter Written to William R. Hearst Offering the Latter the Opportunity of Publishing the Documents “as a Service to the the Public.” Washington, July 15.—Martin M. Mulhall, self-styled lobbyist for ten yyears for the National Association of Manufacturers, interrupted the senate lobby investigation to reply to what he declared were personal attacks upon his character and his purpose in the expose in which he has be- come the central figure of the lobby inquiry. He denied that he had tried to sell the great mass of papers and letters which were recently published and which are in the hands of the senate committee. now Later he said he proposed to in- troduce witnesses and letters to show that he had been engaged for months in “trying to give away” the great file of correspondence which has | brought officers of the National Asso- ciation of a labor leaders and congressmen into promi- nence Mu I's statement was made in connection with his request that he be allowed to read a letter he had written May 16, 1913, to Perriton Maxwell, editor of Hearst’s M:sa- zine, urging him to have William R. Hearst make the mass of letters pub- lic through his publications. This letter reiterated former state- ments that the writer did not want money, but wanted to get the lobby- ing documents published “as a serv- ice to the public.” Continues His Testimony. Mulhall’s first testimony related to letters from Marshall Cushing, secre- tary of the National Association of Manufacturers, suggesting a cam- paign against Congressman Pearre of Maryland. Mulhall said he made _ frequent visits to Pearre’s district and con- ferred with former Senator Welling- ton, George H. Holtzman, postmaster at Cumberland, and others. “Why did you oppose asked Senator Reed. “On account of his stand on the in- junction bill, same as I did McCom- as,” said the witness. The plan by which Mulhall and of- ficers of the Philadelphia Typothetae Proposed to break down the printers’ strike in 1905 was outlined in a re- port Mulhall identified as one he had made to John A. Mcintyre, secretary of the National Typothetae. The report to McIntyre told of an arrangement with employment agen- Pearre?” cies by which new men could be se- | cured who were to be encouraged to go on strike unions suggested it. Details of the fight against Pearre were brought out through a letter from Mulhall to M. C. Holtzman of Cumberland, Md.,. dated April 27, 1906, which outlined a plan “to send you all the labor organizers you wish and guarantee all of them to be first class men,” to organize the fight | turning from a picnic. against Pearre. Weereteceteenetetecetetrt etree ete The Pioneer Store as soon as the labor | | vestigations of General Carter’s camp, TASK TO’BE MYSTERIOUS ONE Thousand Progressives Wanted fer Important Serviee. Washington, July 15.—A call for 1,000 loyal Progressives to volunteer for “a specia] and highly important service” has been issued from the headquarters of the Progressive na- tional committee. Until the volun- teer organization is perfected the de tails, it is stated, will not be dis- closed. The volunteer work, whatever it may be, is under the direction of a committee consisting of Oscar S. Straus of New York, John M. Parker of Louisiana, form @ Senator Bever- idge of Indiana a... Senator Poin- dexter of Washington. COLONEL TO CROSS CANYON Plans 150-Mile Muleback. Williams, Ariz., July 15. — Colonel Theodore Roosevelt will rest at Grand canyon three or four days before start- ing on a 150-mile ride. He was met here by Nicholas Roosevelt, his nephew, who has been arranging the trip. The former president plans to cross the canyon by muleback, hunt bear and lions fora week or two and then ride to Gallup, crossing the Colorado river at Lee’s Ferry. APPEAL FOR STATE TROOPS Operators Ejected by Strikers When | Cars Begin Moving. “Lexington, Ky., July 15.—The at-| tempt of the Kentucky Traction com- Roosevelt Ride on pany to operate cars with strikebreak- | ers was followed by an appeal for state | troops. The new men were pulled off | the cars and passengers ejected by | the strikers. A car was burned on the| tracks and the company soon aban-| doned its efforts to run the cars. | The men struck on Saturday for| higher wages and recognition of their union. WEARY OF ROUTINE WORK Troops Tire of Duty on the Mexican Border. Washington, .July 15.—Evidently weary of the routine of drills and ma- neuvers in a flat, hot and uninterest- ing country many army officers at- tached to the troops patrojling the Mexican border are writing to friends here earnestly inquiring when they are to be relieved from service at Tex- as City. The latest objection to the routine of the camp is the alleged danger of its being drowned out during the hurri- cane season, which, the officers assert, seems to be due every thirteen years. Secretary Garrison has made two in- both resulting in favorable reports up- on the location. He will make a personal investiga- tion, however, during his approaching tour of inspection of Western army posts. Full Bloods Disappearing. Washington, July 15.—While the full blooded Indian is fast disappear- ing the halfbreeds are increasing, ac- cording to,a statement issued by the census bureau. The reports show that the halfbrecds have by far the larger families and that the original abo- rigines rapidly are being assimilated by the white race. Street Car Kills Two Men. Detroit, Mich., Juiy 15.—Struck by an interurban car a few miles west of Detroit, two men were instantly killed and a third was so badly in- jured that he probably will die. The | men were members of a band re Grocery Sotostoetradeeecectontoctedteedeterd featnte Department... Seeing is Believing. Proof of the Pudding is in Eating it. Our Home Brand and Hia- watha Brand Groceries—for First Grade can’t be beat. Try them. Price, of course, is a little higher on First Grade goods than on Standards—— We also have Standards. John Beckfelt Grand Rapids, Minn. | of the last car of the center train, Meddling With Whistle Re- sults in Disaster. - BODIES CUT TO PIECES Twelve Persons Killed and Two Hun- dred Injured When Electric Cars Are Telescoped by Rear End Col- | lision Near Los Angeles, Cal. Los Angeles, July 15.—To “horse play” by youths who meddled with the train whistle is attributed the loss of about twelve lives and the in- jury of some 200 persons near here. Two Pacific electric trains collided, telescoping two cars and wrecking another at Vineyard station, near the city limits. Three trains loaded with excur sionists to the beach at Venice, six teen miles from Los Angeles, had stopped at a curve where a switch is turned. The last train began mov- ing forward while the two foremost trains remained at a standstill. Carrol Bartholomae, the conductor | jumped to the track with his light to | “flag” down the approaching train. | Some youths on his car, .say pas- | senge who escaped death, pulled the whistle in jest. This, it was said | by railroad men, was misinterpre’ | by the motorman of the moving tr as a signal Cars Were Packed to Doors. to go ahead. | ; on the rear car of the | train filled the seats and | stood in the aisles when the crash | came. The seats were shuffied as a| deck of cards. Those who were crushed against each other into the far end of the car. Practically all those killed and injured were res- idents of Los Angeles and suburbs. The list of injured, including those , receiving minor hurts, will total more than 200. splitting timber and the cries of pas- sengers the motor car of the last train drove into the rear of the cen- ter train. The youths who had play- ed with the whistle were crushed in the debris. The colliding cars were telescoped. The second car of the stationary train was almost demolish- | ed. The motorman of the moving train, hearing the whistle, had given a full speed. A curve had prevented his seeing the standing cars of the next train. The third train was not affected. The three trains were said to have been running at three-minute intervais. Most of the killed were cut in pieces. 4 Special trains rushed the injured into Los Angeles hospitals and the dead to morgues here. SURPRISE TO CONGREGATION | Preacher Adopts White for His Pulpit Garb. Chicago, July 15.—Rev. Arthur J. Francis, pastor of the First Presby- terian church of Englewood, defied church tradition by appearing in the pulpit dressed entirely in white. There was almost a gasp from the congrega- tion when he stepped on the platform. The preacher appeared comfortable in a temperature of 93, while many mem- bers in Prince Alberts and stiff Sun- day gowns fanned vigorously. After the sermon Rev. Francis said he thought the conventional heavy black coat and stiff collar were “non- sense.” He said his white costume permitted him to “deliver three times a better sermon” in hot weather. NEAR DEATH IN THE DESERT Great Grandsons of U. S. Grant Lost for Four Days. San Diego, Cal., July 15.—Lost in the desert between the little towns of Mecca and Brawley, Cal. Chaffee Grant and his younger brother, U. S. Grant IV., tramped four days on the verge of death. They were rescued by pure chance and the aid of an old desert Indian, known in the district as Piute Jake. At one time during the awful period Chaffee was so far gone with thirst, hunger and exhaustion that his broth- er, himself dazed and almost crazed by his experience, fought with the In- dian in an effort to shoot the helpless man and to “put him out of his mis- ery.” TEN KILLED; MANY INJURED Electric Trains Collide at Spanish Frontier Town. Hendaye, France, July 15.—Two electric trains crowded with passen- gers on their way to a bull fight at Irun, a Spanish frontier town, collided. Ten persons were killed and fifty wounded. e Superior Resorts Raided. Superior, Wis., July 15.—Forty-six Persons, men, women and a few young girls, were taken in custody by the police in raids conducted in alleged immoral resorts running under the guise of hotels outside. the segregated district, the action culminating an agi- tation against bad moral conditions alleged to exist in the city. | Carlsbad, July 15.—Physicians fear stood | i, may be necessary to operate upon Miss Billie Burke, the American ac- tress, for appendicitis. Miss Burke ‘has been ill for several days and though it was at first thought it would not be necesary to operate she has been growing weaker. Many are fatally injured. | With a crash of breaking glass, | —=——————————— ‘TERRIBLE ATROCITIES CHARGED TO BULGARS ‘Defenseless People Put to Death in Brutal Manner. Saloniki, July 15.—The sacking and burning of the town of Seres by the defeated Bulgarian army and the ac- companying outrages on women and , atrocities on men were confirmed fully in a dispatch from a Greek cor- respondent. The retreating Bulgarian soldiers, | he telegraphs, opened a cannonade with four field guns from a hill above the town on Friday. At the same time bands of Bulgarian soldiers led by their officers scoured the streets, first pillaging the stores and houses and then drenching them with petro- leum and setting them afire. Even the foreign consulates in Seres were not spared, according to the correspondent. The Austro-Hun- garian consular offices were plunder- ‘ed and burned, Vice Consul George | C. Zlatko being carried off by the marauders but subsequently ransom- ‘ed. The Italian consulate also was ‘sacked but the consul bought off the incendiaries. Schools and tobacco warehouses of the American, Aus- trian and German companies and the hospitals were burned. The Amer- ican Tobacco company alone suf- fered to the extent of $1,000,000. Many people were crucified, hacked to pieces and burned alive by the maddened Bulgarians, who commit- ted incredible outrages on women of all ages, many of whom died from the effects. ERE EE EEE EEE + ‘~ WOMN DIES WHO KNEW + CHICAGO AS VILLAGE. 4 bags ~ Chicago, July 15.—Mrs. Bar- bara Gerby, who saw Chicago grow from a village of 600 to a city of 2,285,000, is dead. She came to this city in 1834 and was eighty-five years old. He ob fe oe oe oe Se Rae i I a a a I PEEP EERE EEE EE eh Strange Accident to Dentist. Chicago, July 15.—A speck of en- amel chipped from a patient’s tooth by a dentist’s drill flew into the eye of Dr. Leroy Kerr a few days ago and he has been advised to have the op- tic removed to save his life. Diph- theria germs were carried on the speck into the eye. Four Killed in Collision. Cambridge, O., July 15.—Four per- sons were killed, a fifth probably fa- tally injured and a score of others hurt when a Baltimore and Ohio pas- senger train crashed into a Cambridge -and Byersville interurban street car at a crossing in Hast Cambridge. The street car was demolished. pared with them. detail. GEO. F. Sostoetosteetonte BEAUTY and CLEANLINESS ——are essentially the characteristics of our brass and metal beds. summer use there is none to be com- — LIke all Our Furniture, these beds have been built right in every We can recommend them be- cause we know their good qualities. And the price ought to recommend them to you. So inexpensive are they that you can furnish every bedroom in your house without feeling yourself extravagant. Furniture, Rugs, Linoleum and Undertaking OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE For PHEERAHEERP SOPRA PCRRAAM FC FEOSOSESERSES OSE OSO COSCO SOS KREMER fs Si iS St a ta a SENATOR M’CUMBER FLAYS TARIFF BILL Declares It a Crime Against the American Farmer. Washington, July 15.—Senator Mc- Cumber of North Dakota opened the Republican assault on the Democratic tariff revision bill in the senate, de- fending the farmers of the country against the free listing or great reduc- tion in tariff rates on agricultural products and charging the Democratic party with deliberately “kicking the American farmer into the gutter.” “In this year, 1913,” said Senator McCumber, addressing the Democrats, “you are about to commit a greater crime against the American farmer than has ever been perpetrated by any political party against any class of people during any period of record- ed history. “With violent hands you are about to strip him of every advantage which the changed conditions of home sup- ply and demand were about to yield to him. You have declared that he is an outcast in the land which he has made, the only one of all the classes of American people who is not enti- tled to any consideration at your hands. You have insulted his sense of fairness, slapped him in the face and kicked him into the gutter.” The tariff bill, Senator McCumber declared, seems to have been con- ceived in animosity against Ameri- can industry, with the American farm- er as “the special object of choler and hate.” si ie i a a i a te a ak a AGED WOMAN DIES ON HUSBAND’S GRAVE. Hackensack, N. J., July 15.— Mrs. Emma _ ODuerkes, aged sixty-four, was found dead on the grave of her husband, Peter Duerkes. She had visited the spot every week for fifteen years. The coroner found that the woman had died from heart disease. . Oh oe te ode ode ode ole fe oe oh che oh fe be ae a Fee EEE EE EEE EEE FLOOD AT FORT WILLIAM Three and One-half Inches of Rain In Twelve Hours, Fort Williams, Ont., July 15.—Heavy rain caused a flood of several feet in the avenues between this city and Port Arthur, compelling residents to use boats to get to and from their homes. Three and one-half inches of water fell in twelve hours. Street car traffic between the two cities was tied up. Goods stored in basements were damaged to the extent of tens of thou- sands of dollars. 3 Fall Kills Centenarian. Minot, N. D., July 15.—Falling against the side of a bed while retir- ing, John O’Brien, ninety-nine years and eight months old, died at his home near Donnybrook. He had been in the best of health and fully ex- pected to celebrate his one hundredth birthday. Released From Holloway Jail as Re- sult of Hunger Strike. London, July 15.—Sylvia Pankhurst was released from Holloway jail as the result of her hunger strike Miss Pankhurst was sentenced on July 8 to three months’ imprisonment for in- citement to commit disorders June 29, when she led a mob to Downing street to attack the official residences of the ministers. Delay in Reducing Rates. Washington, July 15.—The mandate of the supreme court in the Minnesota rate case is to be sent to the Minneso- ta court on Saturday, according to in- formation given to A. J. Edgerton, as- sistant attorney general of Minnesota. Mr. Edgerton, who has been in Charles- ton, S. C., attending a meeting of at- torneys general of the United States, stopped off in Washington to inquire as to when the mandate of the court would be issued. Prisoner Ends Life in Cell. Minneapolis, July 15.—John Barber of Philadelphia hung himself in a Central police station cell three hours after he had asked he be locked up. He appeared to be ill and told Jailer Needham that he wished to be sent to the workhouse for five or ten days to straighten up. Fifteen minutes after he talked to the jailer he was found hanging from a cell bar with his belt as a noose. GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, July 14—Wheat—On track and to arrive, No. 1 hard, 91%c; No. 1 Northern, 90%c; No. 2 Northern, 875,@88%c; July, 895%c; Sept., 9056 @90%c. Flax—On track and to arrive, $1.38%; July, $1.36%; Sept., $1.3914; Oct., $1.3944. South St. Paul Live Stock. South St. Paul, July 14.—Cattle— Steers, $6.50@8.25; cows and heifers, $4.50@7.10; calves, $6.00@9.75; feed- ers $4.30@7.25. Hogs—$8.50@8.90; Sheep—Shorn lambs, $5.00@8.25; shorn wethers, $4.50@4.75; shorn ewes, $2.00@4.50. Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, July 14.—Wheat—July, 85%c; Sept., 864% @86%c; Dec. 90@ 90%c. Corn—July, 59%c; Sept., 593¢c; Dec. 56%c. Oats—July, 37%c; Sept., 88%c; Dec. 40@40%c. Pork—July, $21.85; Sept. $21.20. Butter—Cream- eries, 25@26c, Eggs—l6c. Poultry— Chickens, 17c; Springs, 22c; turkeys, 18c. Chicago Live Stock. Chicago, July 14.—Cattle—Beeves, $7.25@9.10; Texas steers, $7.00@8.20; Western steers, $7.20@8.30; stockers and feeders, $5.60@7.90; cows and hetfers, $3.90@8.50; calves, $8.00@ 10.75. Hogs—Light, $8.80@9.27%; mixed, $8.70@9.25; heavy, $8.50@ 9.15; rough, $8.50@8.70; pigs, $7.35@~ 9.10. Sheep—Native, $4.15@5.45; yearlings, $5.50@7.25; lambs, $6.20@ 8.25. Minneapolis Grain. Minneapolis, July 14.—Wheat—July, 87%c; Sept., 89% @89%c; Dec., 92 Cash close on track: No. 1 hard, 90c; No. 1 Northern, 89@89%c; to arrive, 89@89%c; No. 2 Northern, 87@87%c; No. 3 Northern 85@85%c; No. 3 yel- low corn, 57@58c; No. 4 corn, 54@55c; No. 3 white oats, 35% @36%c; to ar- rive, 36%c; No. 3 oats, 34@35c; bar ley, 483@56c; flax, $1.36%; to arrive, 91.36%. as Ned ——— | i