Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 52, Number 39, Jasper, Dubois County, 1 July 1910 — Page 3

IG HIS FATE JURY HAS LEE O'NEIL BROWNE BRIBERY CASE UNDER CONSIDERATION IN CHICAGO. EACH SIDE FEELS CONFIDENT Attorneys for Defense Finish Their Pleas and State's Attorney, In Vitriolic Speech, Ridicules Charges and Dentals. Chit-ago, Juno 25. The fate of Loo 0il Hrowne Is now lu the hands tf the jury. After tho last words of instruction nf rad to tho Jurors by Judge MeSur. 1. the 12 men who aro to pass upon the guilt or Innocence of tho Imx ratlc minority leader In t;rr:! Kfleld. charged with bribing Ren reparative Charles A. White, to voto i r William Lorimor for United States ena'or. were locked in thoir room to ,j.:i!.. ra'o at 3:53 o'clock. Judge Instructs Jury. hs-iructlns the Jury, Judge MeSr. !v ordered consideration given to the idenre of Representatives Link ar.,1 i.kemoyer. Th.' urt directed that tho testing r. f those two witnesses was port .r !.. raw, notwithstanding the conr.,r contention of tho defense, and !w be considered as showing the T.- r.t uf the defondnnt. T'. - Instruction, covering a point i hat had iwon a bono of contention . r. t he attorneys for the opposing ..!. mas regarded as a most importer t.ttory for the state. Blow to Defense. ' XicSurely delivered another i t the defense by Instructing the . that a conviction might bo had n uncorroborated evidence of an . ;: i-lire. Ho added, however, that '.-. this testimony was given on I : !!.: of Immunity from prosocur: !h' latter fact should bo consld-.---.i also. Tr.e judge's instructions, which were ' .n number, followed tho delivery' of t'. 'losing address of State's AttorWaman. Portends Trial for Others. Mr Wayman was vitriolic in the ex-- ::. rlalng in turn the defendant. ' .; fondant's lawyers and hU own r--s White. Beckomeyer and : v, hose flnal disposition, he de- .,'. .1 rested with the court and the - . - attorney. This significant re-:...i-k as taken by many to mean t:..i' n particular good fortune is in - for the state's star witnesses, h vwwr this trial may end. Link "Martyred Muskellunge." IN ;r-?t ntative Link received a tre-r.-n(!( u scoring at one point, the etv a attorney referring to him as 'fat martyred inuskellunge from Mi-ihfll. Madison county, by the MIs..iipi." The diatribe was in reply to iu contention of the defense attorneys hat Link was treated with "inlu'sition" methods by Mr. Wayman rr-i'-r to tho beginning of the trial in order to get a confession out of him. In his argument for the defense Mr. F. irrest repeatedly ploaded with the 3 sry to deliberate long, to think, and t analrze the testimony carefully bef..r deciding the fate of the accused. Both Sides Are Confident. Uro ne was confident that he would alined. He pointed out that the g rural opinion all through the trial wan that the testimony of White wo'.M not be accepted by the jury and that ihereforo under the law as read tr Mr Forrest the testimony of Reprf mat Ives II. J. C. IJeckemeyer and M rhaH s. Link would be eliminated. Awarding to Mr. Forrest, the Jury u!d not consider the testimony of H kmieyer and Link unless it beltvd White beyond reasonable doubt. S'a'fs Attorney Wayman told frMi.is there was no question in his rvnd that the Jury' would convict I rone His friends were of tho same "nnion. They said the prosecutor tad made out a conclusive case saimt the defendant. FIGHT IS SAFE IN NEVADA Promoter Rlckard Assured by Governor Dlckerson That There Will Be No Interference. R"no. Nev., June 25. Tex Rlckard rHved the following telegram from vrnor Dlckerson. It Is In reply to e sent by the promoter and dispels anr fear that there will be interfering with tne Jeirries-Johnson fight: ' Prize tights licensed under laws of 'r' state. My duties are to enforce not to make them. There will t no Interference from governor's flV.- if requirements of law are- comI i with. This decision irrevocable may use this telegram as you sec i f.CHIEF KOHLEH IS ACQUITTED "Gulden Rule" Police Head Exonerated on Charges of Drunkenness and Will Be Reinstated. r upland. O.. Juno 21. Fied Koh)'r h. "Golden Rule" chief of po- '"'. ho wag suspended by Mayor 1 ' !r on the filing of charges alleging cr ülcennesä and Immorality, was ac- ' 1 "'d by the civil service commlsr- The decision followed a long ' Kohler will bo reinstated at once. Public Building BUI Passes. Washington, June 25. The house r a adopted the conference report on Public buildings bill, which dlsof that measure. The bill now 2tiS to the president.

PACKERS' DEMURRER IS

SUSTAINED BY LANDIS National Packing Company and Subsidiary Concerns Freed New Inqulry to Be Made. Chicago. June 21. Faulty drawing of tho government's Indictment ngalnst tho National Packing company and ten subsidiary coneorns In which they wore charged with conspiracy to restrain trade in violation of tho Sherman antl-trust law. resulted In rojcotion of tho govornmont's caso In tho United States district court boforo Judge Landls. Investigation of tho so-called boof trust was begun on January 11. A special veniro of sovonty-flvo mon was orderod called for July 14. Prom this venire a grand Jury will bo drawn and a second investigation of the packing companies begun. lu his decision sustaining tho demurrer to the government indictment Judge Laudis said: "The most painstaking search of this indlctinont falls to disclose the presence of a charge that during the statutory period the defendants h,ii engaged in. or had anything to d with, interstate commerce, or tl, i they done anything having any off n upou such commerce, and the court ie not clothed wf,th authority to suprü, entirely by Inference, the compb omisln of such a fundamental tl. mt nt of the offense AIRSHIP LINE !S OPENED Zeppelin's Big Dirigible Flies 3C0 Miles in Nine Hours, Carrying 20 Passengers. Duessel.lorr. Germany. June 23 Regular aimhip passenger service was i-stablisiw.i for the first time when Count Zfptelin's great craft, the Deutschland, carrying 20 passengers, made the first scheduled trip from Kriedrichrhafen to this city, a distance of 300 miles, in nine hours. Tho weather was perfect and the motors worked faultlessly. The average speed maintained was approximately S3 miles an hours, but between Friodrlrbshafen and Stuttgart 121 miles w-re covered at an average of 41 miles an hour. The best speed for one hour was fort-thr and a half miles. Regular trips will be made and many tickets have been sold for the first few days at $25 to $60 each. The airship is equipped with a restaurant, which will provide the iiaasengers with a buffet service euch as is afforded on parlor cars of railroad trains. CHARLTON CONFESSES CRIME Fugitive From Lake Como, Italy, is Arrested as He Steps From Liner in New York. New York. June 24. Porter Charlton, husband of Mrs. Mary Scott Castle Charlton, whose body was found stuffed in a trunk taken from Lake Como, Italy, recently, was arrested as he stepped from the steamship Prinzess Irene in Hoboken and. after a police investigation, confessed the murder. Charlton at first donled his Identity, but "on being given the "third degreo" admitted that ho was the husband of Mrs. Charlton Charlton said, in a signed statement, that he and his wife had been having supper together at the villa on Lake Como and that they had engaged in a violent quarrel. Charlton asserted that his wife. who. he said, was one of the best women in the world, but had an ungovernable temper, called him vile names and that when he could not stand her abuse any longer he attacked her with a wooden mallet The young man said ho struck hor over the head three times, knocking her unconscious and killing her as far as he know. rhnritnn tnld the nollce that he then placed the body in a trunk and carried it down to the lake, wticro tie threw the trunk into the water. The murderer's counsel have determined upon a defense of insanity to keep him from being removed from this countryFour alienists visited Charlton In his cell and watched him for fire hours. When they emerged they 6aid that Charlton Is without doubt insane and that his particular species of Insanity is Incurable. HARMON IS AGAIN CHOSEN Ohio Democrats Renominate Chief Executive and Indorse Him for Presidential Nomination. Dayton. O., June 23. Gov. Jinlson Harmon was renominated for governor on the Democratic ticket by acclamation. Ho made a scathing attack bn the Payne-Aldrich tariff in his convention address. The- rejection by the committee on resolutions of the proposal. Inspired by W. J. Bryan, to Indorse a candidate for United States senator, marked tho closing stages of the Domocratlc state convention. The platform Indorsod Governor Harmon's administration and pledged suppcrj. to him as Domocratlc presidential candidate in 1912. Man Over Niagara Falls. Niagara Falls. Juno 25. An unknown man Jumped Into the Niagara river from the second Sisters Island and was carried over the horseshoe falls. Drought In Dakota Broken. Grand Forks, N. D., June 23. Rains west of Rugby broke the long drought The storms apeared to be general In that section and were moving cast-ward.

FLY TENDERED A B SENATOR GORE TELLS SENATE HE WAS OFFERED $50,0CO. NO NAMES ARE MENTIONED Blind Statesman Startles Colleagues by Detailing a Proposition Made Him to Withdraw Opposition to Recognizing Indian Land Contracts. Washington. June 25. Senator Gore startled the senate by announcing he ind been in effect offered a bribe of $50,000 to withdraw his opposition to recognition of the so-called MeMurry contracts for the sale of Indian lands in Oklahoma. Congressman Also Approached. The senator went further and added to this declaration tho statement that a member of the house likewise had been approached. This happened May G last, he said, two days after ho had introduced a resolution prohibiting the approval of the contracts. ".May C," he said, "a man who declared he represented' MeMurry. came to see me. He was a man who lives in my home town, a man who had been a friend in time of need. He came to my office and assured me that It would bo to my intercot if 1 would call on the senator from Colorado, "The intermediary added that I should advice against a favorable report on the resolution. There was a suggestion that $25.000 or, if necessary, $50.000, would bo available If tho contracts wore not prohibited. And 1 am Informed that a similar proposition was made Thursday to a member of the house of representatives." Mentions No Names. Mr. Gore mentioned no names In bis charges. He merely declnred that "an ex-senator from Nebraska and an oxsenator from Kansas aro Interested in these contracts." Mr. Gore announced that If the recessions 'of the senate from the amendment to tho general deficiency bill were sustained, Mr. Me Murry would get $3.000,000 as his fee for the sale of tho Choctaw and Chickasaw lands. The amendment in question required proper approval of the contracts. The declaration of Senator Gore came on a question of personal privilege when the chair declared out of order his motion to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed. Senator Gallinger moved to lay the bill on tho table, and this prevailed. WILD CARRIERS ARE LAID UP About Forty Vessels Will Go Out of Commission at Port of Cleveland. Cleveland. O., June 25. Tho steamers Charles H. Hebard and Caldera, the first boats to go Into ordinary at this port, are laid up under tho breakwater. The steamers T. A. S. Clarke and Walter Scranton will join them. Tho steamer Harvey D. Goulder has been ordered hero from Buffalo to lay up. All the wild carriers thnt are In the ngroeraont will be laid up at this end of tho route. Some of tho vessels will bo sent to the dock at tho head of I,nke Superior. It Is figured that about forty freighters will be out of commission at the end of ton days when the subscribers to tho agreement are to have 20 per cent of thoir capacity tied up. New Lighthouse Chiefs Named. Washington June 25. George R. Putnam of Davenport, la., has been appointed commissioner of lighthouses at $5,000 a year, and Arthur V. Conover of Passaic, N. J., deputy commissioner. These appointments mark the first step In tho reorganization of tho lighthouse service.

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TAFT COMPELS HOUSE TO YIELD ON LABOR BILL Unions Are Made Liable to Prosecution for Violations of AntiTrust Law. Washington, June 24. President Taft wielded tho big stick over the house again and virtually compelled the lower ibranch of congress to yield to the senate on the provision in the sundry civil bill exempting labor unions from prosecutions with money granted In that measure. The house receded from its position and tho senate amendment killing the exemption clause was accepted by u vote of 13S to 130. The action releases tho last possible obstruction to tho adjournment of congress before Sunday. President Taft spent tho entire day and bent every energy toward the defeat of the house amendment which proposed to exempt labor unions from the operation of the Sherman antitrust law. He threw his whole influence into the fight, sending for several scores of representatives and urging them to defeat the provision. Mr. Taft declared that If it cost him the support of every laboring man In the country he would not approve such a provision of law. Tho laboring man, ho believed, asked only equality before the law and was entitled to no more. FUN ON GEORGE ADE'S FARM Indiana Society of Chicago Has Jolly Picnic at Hazleden, Home of the Humorist. Hrook, Intl., June 25. Hazleden farm, tho country homo of George Ade, humorist and playwright, was tho scene today of a picnic so big and so hilarious that at times it was almost a riot. Tho picnickers were the members of the Indiana Society of Chicago and their guests, and they numbered about 500. Among them were former Vice-President Fairbanks, Senator Beveridgo and many other national celebrities. The festivities opened with a program of dances, and then began rifle shooting and horseshoe throwing tournaments thnt continued throughout the day. After an elaborate noon luncheon there were day fireworks, various kinds of races and baseball games. DALZELL WINS IN INJUNCTION Standpat Congressman in Pittsburg Prevents Taking of a Recount of Ballots In Primary. Pittsburg, Pa., June 25. In a restraining order handed down by Judge Joslah Cohen In common pleas court tho commissioners of Allegheny county are restrained permanently from opening tho ballot boxes In tho Thirtieth congressional district nnd recounting the voto cast In GO precincts contested by Dr. Robert J. Black nnd 23 precincts contested by John Dalzcll, both of whom, witli.Clnrcnco V. Tiers, wore candidates for the Republican nomination In tho primaries. Unless attorneys for Doctor Black appeal to tho highor courts. Congressman Dalsell will rocelvu tho nomination. BANK MEN BOYCOTT AUTOS Kansas Bankers Agreed to Lend No Money for the Purchase of Motor Cars. Kansas City, Mo., June 25. Tho bankers of Knnsas City nnd of the southwest dependent on tho Kansas City banks have agreed to lend no money to anyono who Intends to use the cash for the purehaso of a motor car. This boycott Is brought about, tho bankers say, by the extravagance of tho peoplo of this section of tho country In tho purehaso of automobiles.

PASS POSTAL BILL

CONCURRENCE BY SENATE IN HOUSE LEGISLATION IS ACHIEVED WEDNESDAY. "BIG STICK" BRINGS VOTE Measure Now Goes to President, Without Conference His Signature Will Make It Law Disposal of Deposits Was Main Issue. Washington, Juno 23. The senate late concurred in tho bouso postal-savings-bank bill. This, so far as now appears, 1b tho final step toward postal savings, tho bill now requiring only tho president's slgnaturo to become law. President Tnft's action In assuming a "big-stick" policy Is regarded as having inado tho vote a certainty. Tho voto was 44 to 25. Tho bill now goes to President Taft without a conference. Provisions of Bill. On the main lssuo of tho legislation relating to tho dlsposnl of deposits In postal banks the house bill concurred In by the sonnte provides thnt C5 per cent, may bo redeposited In tho local banks nnd 30 per cent, may bo used for tho purehaso of bonds backed by tho taxing power of the national goveminent, There Is nothing arbitrary about either of thoso provisions, howover. Fivo per conL of the doposlts w,ill be retained as a resorve fund. As security for deposits in local banks, bonds backed by national, state and municipal government and other securities approved by the trustees may be used. Create Board of Trustees. ' Tho houso bill creates a board of trustees consisting of tho postmaster general, tho secretary of tho treasury and- the attorney general, who aro vested with discrimination in tho administration of tho system, including tlie designation of post offlcos as postal savings banks. Deposits in these banks by one person shall not exceed more than $100 a month, or a total of $500, on which interest shall bo paid at the rate of two per cent, a year. Anaccount may be opened with one dollar, but stamps may be purchnscd In the denomination of ten cents for those desiring to accumulate money to be deposited. At the request of tho depositor government bonds in amount of $20, $ 10. $C0, $S0, $100 and $500 may be purchased with his deposit, the bonds to bear Interest at 2Vi per cent. These bonds will cover a refunding of tho $G4.000.000 of three per cent, government bonds outslandipg nnd a now issue of Panama' canal bonds. -Tho banks will be required to pay 24 per cent, interest on postal-bank funds deposited with them. . 13 HURT IN ALTON WRECK Prairie State Express Is Ditched by Spreading Ralls Three Die and Ten Injured in Frisco Smash-Up. Carllnvillc, 111., Juno Zi. Thirteen person's wore injured, several seriously, when tho Chicago & Alton railroad Pralrio State express train was wrecked a mile and a half north of Cnrlinville, due to spreading rails. Forty-five passengers woro on tho train. No ono was killed. Tho Injured: James A. Fouch, St. Louis. J. A. Wood, Carllnvillc, III. A. G. Taylor, Chicago, baggageman. Ed. Needham, Alton, 111. W. G. Ryan, Now York. Miss Vina Brubakor. Glrard, 111. J. P. Eldrldge, Now York. F. Zellff, child. Little Hock, Ark. A. Getthardt. Rock Island, III. Mrs. Matt Smith, Chicago. R. N. Flack, Comfort, Tex. ' Miss Clara Provenchare, St. Louis. Mrs. Francis Nafow, St. Louis. Tho locomotive, baggage car, smoker, day and chair cars and three Pullmans woro derailed and all turned turtle except the last Pullman. Seven hundred feet of the right of way was torn up. Physicians were rushed to tho Bceno from Glrard and Carllnvlllo and attended the wounded. Wichita, Kns., June 24. Three mon wero killed nnd ten woro Injured In tho wreck of a freight train on tho SL Louis & San Francisco road 30 miles enst of here. Two other men are missing and aro thought to bo burled beneath tho wrockngo. All tho killed and wounded were harvest hands stealing a ride. A broken flange caused tho wreck. GIRL IS SLAIN; YOUTH HELD Body of Alice Brown Found With Throat Cut In Clump of Bushes. Cumborland. Md., Juno 23. The body of Allco Brown, eighteen years old, was found with her throat cut In a clump of bushos here. Buck Nolan, olghtoon years old, arrested with blood stained hands and clothes and tho Imprint of teeth on his arms, Is. In Jail charged with tho murder, and Earl Mudgo nnd Lorlng Barrintfer, both young mon, nre hold as witnesses. Boston and Maine Grants Increase. Boston, June 25. Twenty-five hundred etnployeB of tho Boston nnd Maine railroad were grnnted an advanco In wages rnnglng from 5 to 25 conts a day.

THE NEWS IN BRIEF. Forty-five million eggs have been put In cold storago at Newark, N. J., to arrest un advanco in price next winter. Goldwin Smith has bequeathed $1, 000,000 to Cornell university to be used for tho promotion of liberal studies. I Bonds valued at $15,000, owned by T. M. Talcott, Sr., defendant in divorce proceedings at South Bend, Ind., have been seized. II. Stnndford Burton, an American dentist practising at Oxford, England, was found dead In his oillco in that city. He Is believed to have taken poison. Dr. Albert II. Babcock, ono of tho oldest dentists In America and one of tho founders of tho cremation- society, is dead at his homo in Brooklyn, N. Y. Announcement is made in New York city of un advancement of 20 or 25 por cent, in tho price of automobllo

tires after July 1, owing to tno scarcity of rubber. As n result of drinking water from a poisoned well Beven members of tho family of William Loe of Newark, W. Vn., became violently 111, and a girl six months old Is dead. Supreme Court Justice Fitzgerald in New York city has refused to Indorse the referee's report recommending annulmont of the marrlago of Julia K. linrlo to F. P. Karle. Thirty-seven Mexican officers and soldiers were killod when a train carrying thom near Zapotltic, Mexico, broke from the engine and ran down a hill six miles, being dashed to pieces at bottom. After exploding a bomb in the city hall at Frledberg. Gormany, a robber killed tho manager of the branch Imperial bank. When pursued tho bandit killed a boy, and, overtaken, committed suicide. When Thomns Henry Drown, an employe of a saloon at Marysville. Mont., found two nickels and a dime on the floor, he began laughing over his good fortune and continued to laugh until he fell dead. On a bid of $5,200,000 the Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisvlllo railway waa sold to men representing the Chesapeake & Ohio railway at Richmond, Ind. This gives tho Chesapeake & Ohle a Chicago entrance. Filing of certain papor domandod by tho Catholic authorities is said by Mrs. Baldwin, mother of the bride to bo, to have cauäod the delay In tho marriage of Miss Dorothy Deacon to Prince Antone Albert Radjlwlll In London. Between eighteen nnd twenty thousand men and women cloakmakers have ceased work In the last two days in New York and the union leaders declare that the number will be Increased next week to 50,000. GEN. FUNST0N NEAR DEATH Army Officer Dangerously III of Heart Disease at His Home In Kansas. Leavenworth, Knn., Juno 25. Gen. Frederick Funstori, commandant of tho army service schools here, is" dangerously 111 with au attack of heart disease at his home here. General Funston's condition Is such that tho post army physicians and tho host trained nurses in tho hospital aro In constant attendance upon him. Mrs. Funston, who Is In California, bus been notified of the general's condition. General Funston Is Buffering from angina pectoris. It wns learned that he has been subject to slight heart troublo for sometime, and It is believed that the boat of the last week brought on tho present severe attack. Accident on Switchback Railway. New York, Juno 23. Carrying merrymakers at a speed of 70 miles an hour, two cars on tho Switchback railway, known as . tho Rough Riders' ride, at Coney Island. Jumped tho track early today. Sixteen persons wero hurled to tho ground from a height of CO feet and six of tho victims wero fatally Injured. THE MARKETS. Now York, Juno 21. LIVE STOCK-Strers f7 10 & 8 75 Hoc 10 00 (tflO 10 Sheep ?M Ö S 05 , KLOUU-Wlnter Straights.. 4M 4 X, WHEAT-July 1 04 ft 1 Of COItN-July GSVSg C9 OATS-Nalural White 4t & Ki HYE No. 2 Western 81 dp 82 HUTTEU-Creamery 22 4f 2Si EGOS 20 & 3 CHEESE 6 4f CHICAGO. CATTLE Prime StedrH 3 S3 (? S 75 Medium to Cholcu Cows. 4 00 f C 23 Cows. Plain to Fancy.... 4 00 (j 4 7o Choice Hdfors fi (XJ i? 7 25 Calves 6 M if 8 CO irOGS-Prlino Heavy ........ n 20 g 9 43 Medium Weight Hutchor 9 3j ft 3 65 pK5 S 75 ft Ö 25 IJUTTEP.-Grenniory 214g Dairy 21 ft 26 LIVE 1'OULTllY 0 ft 15 EGGS v... J ft POTATOES (por hu.) 12 ft 16 , KLOtTU-St.rlnK Wheat, Sp'i C 00 ft ß auAiN--vWt, July mm m Corn, July W COJä OatH. July 33'.W W MILWAUKEE. OltAIN-Wl.eat. No. 1 Nor'n $1 12 ft 1 11 Septombor 'JTje aH Corn. Sfptfint'T 60ft fiOU, Onta. Stumhinl 40 ft 40; ltyo w 77 KANSAS CITY. QUA tN-Wheat, Xo. 2 Hard ft 1 03 N'o Iteil 90 if 95 Coin. No. 2 Whlto 63 ft WVi Ort. N'o. 2 Whlto 31 ft 37 Jlyj, CS ft lO ST. LOUIS. CATTI.E-Nntlvo Steers 7 23 ft R 00 . Tuxaa Steers' 4 40 ft 7 25 HOGS-l'aekerH 9 30 9 40 , Hutch.r I SHEEl'-Nnllves 4 00 4M90! OMAUA. CATTLB-N.UIvo Steers $1 60 ft S 10 ' Stocken and Keedors.... 3 PO ft 5 7 Cowh and Helfers 3 75 ft G 60 J 11008-lienvy 00 ft 9 IS SIIEEP-Wcthera 4 00 ft 4 T3 '

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