Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 52, Number 30, Jasper, Dubois County, 29 April 1910 — Page 7

D Cornell President Sees Good in Big Philanthropy Scheme. Et e es Congress Should Grant Request for National Charter Would Change Only One Small Detail. 1 i N. Y. In an address t, the Council congress on Fr. . :Kht President Jacob Gould j;, .!i of Cornell commended the ( . 'or the Rockefeller foundation j - h congress has been asked I i national charter. President v; in devoted hla entire speech c . -.il thousand words to this subj i in summing up he said: 1 nize that section No. 2 of the ' !i defines the object of the j, . r foundation, authorizes and , o that foundation to do any- . t l everything which may pror : I advance human civilization. : r say. morals and religion, art a . - n . manners and social inter- , and all that concerns the no.onomic, and material well I i f individuals and communities T - i- a vast field for the exercise of t- -t.ropy. Mr Rockefeller has conceived e hf me of philanthropy, for the I,. r his fellow citizens and manI:.! His character, ability and or-pi-e skill are adequate guarantees ' will carry out his scheme and successfully, with Incal- ' - benefit and blessing to mank ! It is In the interest of the na- : it he be given a free hand In u. vroise of his colossal benefi- . So long as he Is active or his remains it would be wise k- -a if to give the foundation the - : organization he desires. Keith- . r a t or hereafter does it seem nec-i:-. to limit the scope of his beneflwhich is coextensive with the .f "f mankind to attain a higher only change I would desire to 'In- proposed bill Is the total or , Iimination of the method of j trustees by co-operation. The - -;ition might well be left a close I .ii ion, if Mr. Rockefellor so der a generation. But after that ' rirti confident that It would Inure i ! the efficiency of the foundation j ' lit- public welfare to say noth- -: - 'ho satisfaction of the sentiment 1 : iriocracy If the majority of the j t . were appointed by the presl- : - f the United States, with the ' and consent of the senate, or !-.d by some other high abiding, F r. mental agencies that may fairly l r- carded as representing the peot'i f the United States, whose wel-1-i the primary object of the im-n.-: -t- and glorious benefaction." A'RSHIP RUNS AWAY TO DOOM Zerprun IU Belonging to German Army Post, Is Wrecked In Gale. i.'irg-an der-Lahn. The ZeppeII.. one of the three diballoons of the German govern- - aerial fleet, ran away and was d The airship, which wap ! to descend bore, owing to a ncountered while attempting in trip from Homburg to Co-' t-roke its moorings and without a drifted in a northeasterly dl-1 n A hair hour alter Its escape - Kible dropped at Wellburg and cashed to pieces. Saves Train From Disaster. kane. Wash. Because the r -'.'.t-vr put on brakes after his iTi-no gtruck a defective switch near r-!i Yakima a Burlington passenger Va--, over the Northern Pacific railwas saved from disaster En--' er Gordon of Ellensburg and Firen.J.'. Meyers of Pasco were killed. GIRL IS HELD AS DYNAMITER Suspected of Wrecking Residence Occupied by Her Former Fiance and His Bride. r-ralrle City. la. Suspected of having exploded dynamite which tor- almost to atoms the mag-uifm-nt J12.000 residence of Jesse A. J'fk. wealthy farmer, three miles t. Miss Mary Guthrie of Carthage, l!. Las been arrested. or-rupants of the house escaped inIn the home were Dr. Alexander l' i of Colfax, a former suitor of M - Guthrie, and his bride, formerly M.- Myrtle Quick. At one time Miss Guthrie and Dr. ' il ero engaged to be married. Runs for Ball; Drowns. New York, April 25. Louis Rose, a tn rear-old boy of Jersey City, run'!t. valiantly to catch a foul tip In a baseball game, fell head foremost Into shallow pond and stuck In the mud wom. He was dead when pulled out AUTOS TO CROSS CASCADES State of Washington to Complete Link In Highway Through Snoqualmie Pass. battle, Wash. Orders will be Immediately by tho state 1 Rh ay commission Tor the construct:,,n of Snoqualtnle pass road across Cascade mountains, connecting eastern and western sections or ,1p tat and completing a transconr:'tital automobile road. A gap of 15 w,t 1 all that needs to be covered

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STRIKERS AND OFFICERS CLASH; SEVEN MEN SHOT Bloody Battle Takes Place at McKees RocksThree Will Probably Die. Plttüburg. Pa..April21.-Ina bloody battle between strikers and township constables at McKees Rocks, at least svn persons were injured, three of whom will likely die. The dying are: Constable James M Daniels, who is shot through the abdomen and chest: Joe nirnot. a Hungarian striker, shot several times by the constables, and an unknown striker, who refuses to givo his name In addition to this, one of the attacking strikers was hit hv n

he was escaping from the pursuing mob. and knocked over the bank. He is thought to have fallen Into the river, but no ttace of him could be found in the darknoss. A farmer named Hannan was shot through the band and two unknown foreigners were carried away by their friends, apparently badly Injured, but their names cannot be learned. The battle occurred Just at dusk In the now notorious Bloody Angle, where so much rioting and bloodshed occurred in the last strike and where the Victor bank was looted and two employes killed some weeks ago. 41 MINERS ARE ENTOMBED Believed All Are Dead In Alabama Mine as Result of Gas Explosion. Birmingham. Ala., April 22. Not one of the 41 men imprisoned in Mulga mine of the Birmingham Iron and Coal company is alive. This was the word brought to the surface to the waiting and weeping families of the victims when, unconscious from the deadly gases of the shaft. Superintendent Johns of the mine and a man named Bonds, who risked their lives for those already perished, were drawn up to fresh air. The watchers knew that if the rescuers, helmeted and protected, had so narrowly escaped doatb, there was no hope for the workers, who without a second's warning had been entombed by aa explosion of gas. When Johns and Bonds, after heroic treatment, finally regained consciousness they confirmed the gravest fears of the people who for hours had waited at the mouth of the shaft to 1 hear a word of their loved ones. "Dead all dead," was the stammer-In-sentence of the superintendent. a3 he began to recover from the effects of the poisonous gases. ATTACKS TAFT RATE BILL Senator Purcell of North Dakota Says President Plans to Pack ! Supreme Court. 1 f . a ft n. n.l Jl. aspiDgicn. April -i. ouiuij- as-i sorting that President Taft and Attor- ' ney General Wickcrsbam are planning to make the Supreme court of the United States subservient to the executive and the railroad interests of the country. Senator Purcell of North Dakota enlivened the day in the senate by making a ferocious attack on the admititstratiun rate bill He openly charged a purpose of so transform tug the Supreme court as to insure such construction of the proposed law as to supplant and nullify antagonistic state laws and state constitutions. DEPEW MAY LEAVE SENATE Rumors of Retirement Follow Recent Talks With New York Editors. Washington. April 22 Rumors are current that Senator Chauncey M. Depew of New York. like Senators Aldrich and Hale, soon is to announce his withdrawal from the senatorial race. Senator Depew is in New York. Some time ago the senator insisted he would make the race for reelection. He enteiiained at his home here editors of upstate Republican papers that he might glean from them an Idea of his prospects. It was after that conference that he stated he was In the fight to the nd. öut It may be that recent developments have caused him to qbange his mind. MISSOURI BEEF QUIZ ENDS Attorney General Believes He Has Sufficient Evidence to Begin Ouster Proceedings. St Louis. April 21. Believing he has all the evidence needed to begin ouster proceedings against the meatpacking companies. Attorney General Major brought his Investigation to a close. The attorney general said he would begin court action within thirty days. Attorneys for the packers said tho facts which they gave willingly would not provide a legal basis for an ouster order. Yerkes Home Sold for $1,239,000. New York. April 21. The mansion and art gallery or tho late Charles T. Yerkes at Sixty-eighth street and Fifth avenue were sold at public auction to a real estate firm for $ 1.239.000. It Is reported that the property was bought for Thomas F. Ryan. Bars Sunday Ball In Ohio. Columbus. O., April 22. Governor Harmon vetoed the Anderson Sunday baseball bill on the ground that It Is unconstitutional. The bill provided that villages and cities shall have the right to vote on the question of baseball on Sunday.

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HIDE TIL STORMY LAWYERS BANDY CHARGES OF UNFAIR TREATMENT AMONG THEMSELVES. HAINES TAKEN TO TASK Attorney Walsh Threatens to Impeach Scientist Notes of Whose Testimony Before Grand Jury Fall In Hands of Defense. Kansas City. Mo, April 21. In a stormy court scene. In which many lawyers addressed the court at the same time, bandied charges of unfair play among themselves, the bond of Dr. B C. Hyde was almost revoked and attorneys for the defense threatened upon certain conditions to attempt Impeachment of state witnesses in the Hvde murder trial And the trouble all arose over an attache of Prosecutor Conkling's office losing the grand jury notes on the testimony of Dr Walters. Haines of Chicago and 42 other state witnesses. A woman found the notes and gave them to Frank P. Walsh, chief counsel for Dr Hyde. These notes, according to Mr Walsh, contain statements of Dr Haines that no cyanide of potassium was found In the viscera of Colonel Swope. and that not enough poison was found in Christraan Swopc's viscera to cause death May Face Perjury Charge. "It Dr Haines swears on the witness stand to any alleged facts other than these he will be prosecuted for perjmy," said Mr Walsh Perjury is a capital offense in n murder case Prosecutor Conkling admits this Id the testimony Dr. Haines gave before the grand Jury, but avers that Inter the chemist found traces of cyanide of potassium in both vlsceras. He will testify to this, says Mr. Conkling. In the meantime the papers have been returned to the state and the defense Is in possession of carbon copies of the evidence. Judge Latshaw Is of the opinon that he has no power to deprive the defense of the copies. Miss Pearl Keller, who attended Colonel Swope In his last illness, took the stand after the upheaval In the court She told about and acted, in parL the entire scene in the millionaire's death chamber. As Colonel Swope was unable to speak during a part of his illness, when attorneys asked Miss Keller about his actions during this period she was forced to explain them in pantomime. BANK ROBBERS ARE SHOT Posse Fatally Wounds One Bandit and Surround Two Others Bayed In Hay Stack. Mitchell. S. D.. April 22. One desperado was shot through the groin and is dying in the hospital here, two more are wounded and surrounded by a sheriff's posse in a hay stack, following an unsuccessful attempt to rob the State bank of Kayler, S. D.. south of here. The blast of nitroglycerin aroused the inhabitants of the small town. Cashier Jacob Baltzer and four other villagers gave chase, firing with deadly effect Into the fugitive robbers, who returned the fire. Spain Arming on Moorish Coast. Gibraltar. April 21. Spain Is send In? large reinforcements to Ceutn, on the Morocco coast, and Is accumulating war material there and building large barracks outside-the ramparts. Former Mayor Missing. Toledo, O., April 23. Police of Toledo and surrounding cities have been asked to search for Robert H. Finch, former mayor of Toledo, who has been missing since Wednesday. Harvard Crew Beats Navy. Annapolis, Md., April 22. Harvard won tho two-mllo boat race with Navy by 214 lengths. Winning time was 11:17.

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?ttfA0 CHINESE TOWNS BURN AS MISSIONARIES FLEE Mobs in Possession, Foreigners In Flight, and Guns Are Trained on Chang-Sha. Hankow, April 23. The situation in Hunan province Is reported as critical. Foreign women and children are fleoing for their lives from Chang-Sha, the capital. Several villages near that city have been reduced to ashes by native mobs. The country is placarded with threats to kill all foreigners. This startling news was brought by missionary refugees who arrived here from Chang-Sha and nearby missionary stations. Many of them have traveled 30 mileä on foot and reached the Yangste-Klang river in an exhausted condition. Their houses had been burned and they lost all of their personal effects. The missionaries stated that gunboats in the river have their guns trained upon Chang-Sha and nearby points and have afforded a refuge for many foreigners. Three thousand Chinese Imperial soldiers are occupying the strategic points of the capital and detachments are being hurried to the outlying districts, where rioting is reported. Many Chinese have been killed. In one instance a technical school was set afire and 30 students were burned to death. When vessels approached Chang-Sha to rescue the imperiled ones the Chinese mob saturated junks with kerosene oil from looted stations of the Standard Oil company and, setting them afire, allowed them to float down stream In an attempt to fire the oncoming steamers. CUBANS IN REVOLT, REPORT Infantry and Machine Guns Are Sent to Santa Clara From Havana. Havana, April 21. A special train carrying a battalion of Infantry and a battery of machine guns under command of General Rivas has left Camp Columbia bound for Santa Clara. A rumor is current that an uprising Is In progress in Santa Clara province, but this the government denies. Secretary or the Interior Lopez Leiva issued a statement saying that there is not the least dicorder In any other part or the Island. The secretary said reports had reached the governmcnt that there wns a condition or suppressed excitement among tho negroes or Santa Clara and the eastern provinces In consequence or tho incendiary utterances or the negro agitator, General Evarlsto Estcnoz. Because or these reports, the secretary said, the government had decided to send troops ror the sake or tho moral effect which their presence would have In overawing possible disturbers or the peace and In giving confidence to loyal, law-abiding citizens. There has been great unrest In the country recently because or tho agitation of tho negroes. Taggart Announces His Candidacy. Indianapolis, April 23. In a rormal statement Thomas Taggart says that he Is a candidate ror the United States somite should tho state convention decide to nominate, and should it not. he will be a candidate before the legislative caucus.

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ROOSEVELT DELIVERS FIRST OF HIS FORMAL ADDRESSES IN EUROPE. SPEAKS READILY IN FRENCH American Ex-Presldent Is Heard by a Throng of Savants and Students "Citizenship In a Republic" Is His Theme At Banquet. Paris, April 23.-The literary and scientific world or Paris paid its tribute today to Theodore Roosevelt, expresident or tho United States. The distinguished American delivered his lecture in the Sorbonne, the first or the series of formal addresses he Is to make In European cities, and was tho recipient of the highest honors and the warmest applause. It has been a day full of stately functions, and they will not be ended until late tonight Colonel Roosevelt was driven from his hotel to the Sorbonne early In the arternoon, and tho streets through which he passed wero thronged with men, women and children who cheered him enthusiastically. Ho genially acknowledged their greetings, as he did those or the immense crowd that had assembled outside tho Sorbcnnc, unable to gain admittance, but determined to see the ratnous visitor. Lecture in the Sorbonne. Within the bcautirul building Mr. Roosevelt was welcomed by the officials or the University or Paris, who wero clad In their robes or office, and was conducted to the rostrum. There he confronted a sea or races, ror every seat in the great hall was engaged many days ago. In accordance with the request or Mr. Roosevelt, admission to the lecture had been In the main restricted to professors and students, but many savants not connected with the university had managed to find places In the audience. When the applause that greeted his appearance had died down, the expresident was introduced by the rector and at once began the delivery of his lecture. His subject was "Citizenship in a Republic." and hU words were addressed especially to young men. Speaking easily and fluently in French so excellent that It caused his auditors to wonder, the lecturer eet forth vigorously and eloquently his Ideas of the opportunities, and more particularly the duties of citizens under such governments as those of the United States and France. At the close of his address the applause was long and hearty, and Mr. Roosevelt was warmly congratulated by a number of the distinguished men who had heard him. Received Like Sovereign. When Colonel Roosevelt reached Paris he was accorded all the honors that a reigning sovereign traveling Incognito would receive. A cordon of troops surrounded the railway station and held back the multitude which was there, In spite of the earllnoss of tho hour. Gathered on the platrorm or the station to welcome Mr. Roosevelt wero American Ambassador Bacon and the members or the staff of the embassy; M. Jusserand. French ambassador at Washington: Commandant Hellot. personal aid to President Fallleres; A Mollard. representing Foreign Minister Pichon; M. Huard. representing Premier Briand; M. Caron, president of the municipal council; General Brugere, chief of the general staff of the French array; M. Leplne, prefect of police, and a number or othor notables, including Baron Takahira. Calls on President Fallieres. The official part or tho program began with .calls or President Fallleres and Foreign Minister Pichon, who Immediately arterward paid return to the embassy. In the evening the Roosevelt and Bacon families dined together and occupied the presidential box at the Comedle Francalse. MINE BLAST KILLS EIGHTEEN But Seven Men Out of Twenty-Five Are Rescued From Explosion in Amsterdam (O.) Shaft. Amsterdam, O., April 23. The fireblackened, black-damp filled shaft or the Youghlogheny & Ohio Coal company's Amsterdam mine, gave up 18 dead, killed In a gas explosion. All the bodies were brought to the pit's mouth, there to be seized on by the weeping, moaning women, who. slnco the dull rumble and roar or the explosion have watched through tears . hoping a miracle might bring rorth alive some Tew or the missing. Seven miners escaped. Mine Boss Ed. Jones bringing them through the air shaft. Twenty-five were in the mine. Six bodies had been round and brought to the foot of the shaft, when the fan broke down. Fire damp and flames halted resume work then till the fan 1 could be repaired. The women, franI tic at cessation or the work, stormed the pit mouth. Several were prevented by rorce rrom hurling themselves into the shaft's depths. The explosion broke windows In the town, shattered the windows In tho caboose or a passing freight train, and blow tho mine tipple to bits. But the mine suffered little damage. To Honor Father of "Arbor Day." Washington, April 23. Senator Burkett has introduced a bill to establish a national school of forestry at Nebraska City, Neb., as a memorial to J. Sterling Morton, father of "Arbor . Day" and secretary of agriculture in President Cleveland's cabinet.

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Two men were killed In a wreck at Sandford, Ind., on the Big Four railway, according to official reports received at Cincinnati. A firo which, fanned by a fierce gale, raged for hours in the Burlington railroad yards at Lincoln, Nob., caused a loss to the. railroad of $150,000. The National Association of Lumber Mauufucturers closed 'ts convention at New Orleans, La., with the reelection of Edward Hlnes or Chicago as president Joseph Letter's famous $1.000,000 colliery at Zeigler, HI., has been acquired by the Bell and Zoller coal Interests of Chicago after negotiations lasting several months. A report issued by the bureau of statistics at Washington shows that I- eight months ending February 28 tho United States shipped goods worth $10.151.270 to the Philippines. During an election disturbance at ü Joseph, near Fort de-France, Martinique, eight voters were shot and at the town of Rotert several shots were fired at a clerk for one of the candidates. Alvy A. Adoc, second assistant secretary of state, who will reach Havre on the French liner La Touraine early next week, Is taking along his bicycle, which he says practically has cured him of heart weakness. J. N. Harwood. charged with promoting a green goods scheme through the United States malls, under tho alias of W. A. Wales, was arrested at Bristol. Tenn.. by a federal officer when he applied for his mail. Petitions signed by several thousand women tobacco strippers were presented to the Louisville (Ky.) street railway company asking that strikebreakers be frirnlshed separate ca s The request was denied Plans ror promoting Immigration into New York state or dosirable rami laborers arc to be taken up by the New York produce exchange next Wednesday at a meeting which Secretaries Wilson and Nagel will attend. At Albany yesterday the Murray resolution providing for the ratification by the legislature of New York of the proposed Income tax amendment to the United States constitution was defeated by a vote of 74 to 60. Thomas F. Ryan is believed to be the purchaser or the mansion and art gallery or Charles T. Yerkes at Sixtyeighth street and Firth avenue. New York, which were sold at public auction to a real estate firm ror 11,230.000. A thousand, miners and coke oven men employed by the Davis Colliery company or Elklns, W. Va., or which rorraer United States Senator Henry Gassoway Davis is president have been granted an 'ncrease of five per cent Because of a published statement attributed to Charles A. Peabody, president of the Mutual Life Insurance company, reflecting on his connection with the Insurance disclosures of 190C. Samuel Untermyer, the nttorney, has sued Mr. Peabody lor $50,000 damages. PACKERS MUST SHOW BOOKS New Jersey Supreme Court Sustains Judge Swayze's Order for Production of Directors' Minutes. Trenton. N. J.. April 23. The order of Justice Swayzo made some time ago directing the National Packing company. Armour & Co.. Swift & Co., aud Morris & Co. to produce in New Jersey the minute books of the stockholders and directors before the Hudson county grand jury which indicted the directors of these concerns for conspiracy to keep up high beef prices, was sustained by the main branch of tho New Jersey supreme court. Big Cotton Firm Falls. Decatur. Ala., April 21. Knight. Yancey & Co bled a voluntary petition in bankruptcy This is one of the largest cottop firms in the south, with branches In many southern cities. THE MARKETS. New York. April 23. LIVE STOCK-Stecra S3 IS ? 8 50 Hoks 10 K fU (0 Sheep 6W if 8 (0 FI.OUU-Winter Straights.. 5 30 V 5 SO WHKAT May Ill il I 14 CORX-Muy 67 i$ 67Ti OATS-Nutural White ItYKNn. 2 Wusssrn SI it tt HUTTlält-CrtjJiinery Hfcfi 31 EGGS 30 Si 31 CHEESE C Ö 13 CHICAGO. CATTI.E-Prlme Steora Medium to Choice Cows. Cows. Plain to Fancy.... Choice HHfrrs Ca I veil HOGS Prime Hanvy ........ Medium Wulglit Butchers PIkh OUTTKlt-Croainery IJnlry I .IVB POULTRY EGGS POTATOES tper UU.) KLOUn-SpriiiK Wheat. Sp l UUAIN-Wliout, May Corn. May Oats. May MILWAUKEE. URAIN-Whoat, No. 1 Nor'n Si 03 1 09H July 1 00 it I 00! Corn. July 61 rt 614 OalM. Standard If ',4 Uy tJVxlf SO KANSAS CITV. GitAlN-Whoat, No. 2 Hard 51 02 07 No. 2 Red 1 W 1 5? Corn. No. 2 White 61 Onts. No. 2 White 42 ft 41 Uyo 70 0 Ti ST. LOUIS. CATTLE-Not Ivo Steora JC $o $7 8 CO 'rv. uijuir. . 4 TA fit 7 HOGS-l'nc!?rs 9 05 Butchers 3 1 SIiniSl'-NatHd 7 60 OMAHA. CATTLE Native Steern..... M 00 Storkers an.l l-f-'lera.... 3 7S Cows n nd IklfiM-a . .... 2 71 HOGS-liwiw . . ..3 00 HHEICP-Wcthcr 7 00

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