Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 53, Number 15, Jasper, Dubois County, 13 January 1911 — Page 3

GOTHAM BANK Sil

CARNEGIE TRUST COMPANY. WITH DEPOSITS OF $9,000,000. IN NEW DIFFICULTY. HAS CAPITAL OF $1,500,000 i-ititutlan at One Time Headed by Leslie M. Shaw Blfl Loan Negotiated Recently Said to Have Led to Difficulty Closing Not Unexpected. N York. Jan. S.Tho Carnegie ir .j-t nrupany was closed by direction , - Stk' Superintendent of Bunks . : u It tins n capltnl of $1.600.000 t..i d',Mlt8 aggregating about 9.000. . i Thf Institution was In serious , v.,bV In the panic of 1907 and nevor .u- i .-covered. Its latu president ,!r )i kmon. died last yoar amid pe.dT iroumstances. In r. ine institution was organized ttrti alter the roliremont of Leslie M !.; itom the olllco of secretary of i.- ;n t-ury be became its president Käme of Osrneglo as applied to im-Tirion attracted to it much at -. -not but the adoption of this name . i- t'iiout Andrew Carnegie's author ri or approval. It Is understood he j- tun a stockholder and not Imme- . a'.ly identified with It. Mr. Shaw's ,-,nect!n w'th the bank ceased after a u tiionths because of differences vi, b tot other officers of the Institu tion Talk of Trouble a Year Ago. ! Is understood that a year ago b- Institution was In trouble growing .,: of the fact that one of its chief of titers, in connection with a well-known banker of Wall street, effected a large .ijan :rom the company to enable him n tu and consolidate with It another la'itution. but this falling through left a 'arnegle Institution with a large amunt of funds locked up. The com;r.T occupies handsome quarters on Itroadnay In the heart of the flnanat district. ows of the suspension spread rapU.t and hundreds of depositors as rr.LW-4 about the doors even before a jsuaI hour of opening. The doors : -t- Institution remnlned closed and r- information concerning tho condl r. of affairs was given out by the cank off . sals. No Surprise to Financial Men. 1b- s pension was not unexpected la hp financial district, and. though a- p:nii:ng of the notice of closing on h ioo-s brought a crowd of deposi ' -5 an 1 others having business with b- ntltulon. they gradually melted : ) and there was little to indicate ba tb failure had tnken place The r .-osi .n caused selling on the stock x tun but the declines were not Important banking Interests i.I.twI support wherever necessary. I'rfldn' Howell succeeded J. B. r.:-hnmrn several months ago. He formerly president of the Fourth n t'.oaal bank of Nashville. Tenn. Morgan Guarantees Deposits. Announcement was made that the El fable Trust company had absorbed ' - Madison Trust company and that -T P Morgan & Co. would guarantee h- deposits of the Nineteenth and Tei!th ward banks. Certain dlrec'rrs in he Carnegie company were . ilrtors In the Madison, Nine--nth and Twelfth Ward institutions, i they have now sold out their holdand islgned. BILLS TO CURB RAILROADS Vender 0I the Missouri Commission Prepares Measures for the Legislature's Enactment. ii City. Mo.. Jan. 6. H. R. -I'' a menibor of the board of tumlsslonors. has Issued a in which he outlines bills i 111 ask the legislature to bis session. These give the nrrs more power in reguat " v :s : 'h railroads. Among these - ar- the following: I- he commission more power press companies to prevent ' irs" !n excess of printed tariffs to KUe cities of certain class d-ltvery. T" prevent railroads and express ' '"raniss from holding clalms-an un-'-asnnable length of time. To prevent railroad companies from -'ring freight an unreasonable '";Bb ot "me In transit For the weighing of coal by the railJÜ " lhe desl'naUon to prevent ne borago on shipments of coal In ' a ' art. )tr ( glesby believes the legislature I negate the powers of the comf -"ion. BUST IMPERILS ELEVEN MEN c,ty Minneapolis Is Plunged Into Darkness by Explosion In Power Plant. V'trMpnii,. Mlmu Jan -Mlnne. "k Plunged Into darkness and 'r ' ;.-rciai life of .he city almost y an exP'oslon of the - ,n. " ,ea& nto tho powor ' v.i! Minneapolis General r,mpmy. Third avenue S. 9 in streot ''UZ7 '1 my he buildt Vh mm race- "er the t a ? iL C P,ant wna wrecked , tni T t ma8S of w,ros- R'achln '-ertil Lmbf Was lhrqwn ln very r JV5B force of ,he pii 'v'- cemlml0O7e,1 Rnd completed P.oprty i, estimated at $300,000

YOUTHFUL BANDITS KILL

OFFICER AND ESCAPE Porter and Bellboy Hold Up Street Car and Shoot a Policeman at Duluth. Dulum. Minn.. Jaj,. -.-William Muz zry nd AJgot Johnson, each tm.e en yanra old. uollboy and night M,r nf fn?e 110101 McKa- turntl bn una. killed a itollceman. hold up a ar ami aro b.mB 8oUghl for by thw Hco. Tho two men held up and shot at the uight clerk, bound and gapgod two other men in the hotel bast-ment nnd waned with $50 belonging to the hotel. They wre arrested aid plated on a street car after a chase thruugh the Interstate bridge district. While being taken back to tho city oi me youthful bandits drew a revolver from a pocket that had esraped the attention of Policeman Harry Chosmore. who had made tho arrest, opened uro on that ofllrer and killed him. The robbers then held P the passengers and crew of the car nnd escaped. Aa the bandits are heavily armed. It is feared that when their place of concealment is discovered there will he a battlo. REAPPORTIONMENT BILL OUT Measure Submitted Will Increase Membership of National House of Congress to 433. Washington. Jan. 7. Chairman Crumpacker of the house committee on census presented his reapportionment bill based on the last census returns. It provides for a house membership of 433. or 42 more than at present. Arizona and New Mexico are not counted In and as each, when a state, Ib to have one member of the house, the total membership for the next ten years will be 433. The apportionment la made on the basis of a representative for each 234.000 Inhabitants. Should the necessary redisricting not be made in the states before the Sixty-third congress the additional representations allowed are to be elected at large. RENEW WAR ON TOBACCO MEN U. S. Supreme Court Opens Hearing and Receives Broadside of Trust Lawyers. Washington. Jan. 6. The second fight of the American Tobacco corporations against dissolution by decree of the Supreme court of the United States under the Sherman anti-trust law was begun when their attorneys advanced a luslllade of arguments In behalf of their cause. Hrlefs were filed In the court by John G. Johnson of Philadelphia, Judge William J. Wallace. W. W. Fuller. Delancey NIcoll and Junius Parker, all of New York. They car ried the brunt of the battle for these corporations In tbe first argument of the dissolution suit a year ago. An other brief was filed by William M. Ivins of New York. GOV. F0SS HITS PARTY "BOSS" Asks That Full Power Be Given to Voter Advocates Many Other Reforms. Boston, Jan. 6. Advanced measures against "boss rule" and for popular control of government, such as direct nominations, tho recall and the Initiative and referendum, were advocated by Gov. Eugene N. Fobs in his inaugural address. A decided Innovation in party lead ership was the governor's turning against the old policy of the "gerry mander." Calling nttontlon to the necessity for redisricting the state, he declared the job .aould be done by engineers, not politicians. Tho boundaries of tho districts, he snid. should be determined by latitude and longitude, and not with an eye to party advantage. 0SB0RN FOR MANY REFORMS Michigan Governor Would Divorce Breweries From Saloon Ownership Makes 40 Recommendations. Lansing. Mich.. Jan. 6. Over forty recommendations covering a -wide range of questions was contained In the first message to tho legislature by Gov. Chase S. Osborn. Among; his recommendations were state control of tho express companies, mining, roy alty and Income tax. the Initiative, referendum and recall. Governor Osborn donned the liquor question as a matfer of personal discipline rather thr.n a political Issue. He advocntcd one saloon for every 1.000 Inhabitants and the divorce of breweries from their ownership. P0MERENE TO SUCCEED DICK Ohio Democrats In Caucus Select Lieutenant Governor to Be United States Senator. Columbus, O.. Jan. G.Indorsomcnt of tbe Democratic caucus for United .Mates senator was given to Ueiit. t.ovloct Alloo Pomercno of Canton, StrrU county. The caucus nominated him cn the first ballot. Whon the legislature moots in joint session on T ieeday he he elected lo fuucr; the UspubllcaB senator. Charles Dick. Porrercnc "p-' oJ ",e foremost lawyers In Oho end has served as dlatrlct attorney.

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TWENTY-TWO INDICTMENTS RETURNED IN LOS ANGELES TIMES INVESTIGATION. CHARGE WHOLESALE MURDER Names Are Withheld Until Arrests Can Be Made Understood Not More Than Three or Four Are Named in Bills. Los Angeles. Cal.. Jan. 6. The grand Jury ln the Los Angeles Times oxploslon case returned 22 indictments. All of the Indictments charge murder ln connection with that crime. It Is not likely that the names of any of the indicted will be made public until after arrcsrf. have been made. It Is believed a number of San Fran ciscans have been indicted. Wholesale Murder Is Change. Wholesale murder, the outcome of a dynamite plot. Is understood to be the charge set forth in all the Indictments, but it Is believed that not more than three or four men are named In the true bills. The return of the Indictments today was the culmination of a disaster that excited the people of Los Angeles to a degree that for a few days bordered almost upon panic and resulted In the offering of rewards aggregating almost $100.000. Two Theories Presented. Union labor, which the Times and Its proprietors had opposed, wa3 injected into the situation, and when the special grand Jury was impaneled on October 25 It was Immediately confronted with two conflicting theories. One of these, supported by the findings of an Investigating committee appointed by Mayor Alexander, was that the Times plant had been blown up by dynamite conspirators. The other, presented by a committee named by the state building trades convention, then in session here, was that gas was responsible. More than forty witnesses, the majority of thorn identified with the union movement, wore summoned from San Francisco and other cities. In addition. labor union olficlals were summoned. In all tho grand Jury examined more than 200 persons who. In the opinion of detectives that worked here and In San Francisco. could throw some light on the ai leged murder plot. ACCUSED OF S297,0CO THEFT! Eight More Indictments Returned Against Banker Robin at New York on Larceny Charge. New York. Jan. 7. Eight additional Indictments wore returned against Joseph G. Robin In the court of general session. Including the original indictment charging tho theft of JSO.OOO, Robin Is now accused of the larceny of $297.000 from the Washington and Northern Savings banks, which he controlled. Should Robin be adjudged sane It Is likely that the original ball of $10.000 will be raised. Hall was not accepted for Robin on the ground that examination later might prove him to be doratsged mentally. STEAL $50,000 IN MAIL BAGS Robber Take Three Registered Sucks Containing Money, Papers, Etc.. in Mysterious Way. San Francisco. Cal., Jan. ".Throe bags of registered mall, with contents valued at $$0.000. were Htolen In tho lust low- days in San Francisco or on the journey across the harbor to Oakland. The stolen sacks contained late ChrlBtutas shipment and money ordtjrs, drafts, checks and currency forwarded by local banks to close their year's accounts In the east and northwe.t. The loss falls most heavily on the banks.

SENATOR ELKINS IS LAID TO REST AT OLD HOME Large Delegations of Prominent Men and Hundreds of Personal Friends Attend Funeral. Elkins. W. Va., Jan. 7. Funeral services over the body of Senator Stephen IJ. Elkins of West Virginia, who died In Washington from septic poisoning, after nn Illness of nearly a year, were held here today. Large delegations of public men from Washington, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore and throughout the state, including Governor Glasscock and many members of the state legislature, were ln attendance Stephen Benton Elkins. at the funeral ceremony. Besides these hundreds of the late senator's personal friends and employes were also presenL So great were the crowds that tho hotels and restaurants found great difficulty In feeding the out-of-town people. Charleston. W. Va., Jan. 9. Davis Elkins, eldest son of the late United States Senator Stephen B. Elkins. was appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father. This seat young Elkins will hold for a period of three weeks, when the legislature will appoint a successor. TAFT TALKS ON PHILIPPINES Tells Military Order of Carabao Will Be Long Time Before Islands Are Free. It j Washington. Jan. 9. President Taft I generalized about his attitude toward Philippine indepondenc In an In formal spoech at the annual dinner of the Military Order of tho Carabao. Incidentally, he was installed us a member of the order. The Order of the Carabao. named for the buffalo, which Is the Philippine beast of burden, Is composed of commissioned officers of the regular and volunteer service who honorably served In tho Philippines during the Spanish war. Tho burden of the president's remarks was to the effect that, while he was unwilling to say that the Philippines never would be Independent, "In my judgment, we nre likely to retain them for a considerable time." MONACO WINS CONSTITUTION Prince Albert Yields to Demand fori Reform Threats Made Against Famous Casino. Monte Carlo. Jan. 9. Monaco's 95 natlvo citizens and 1.355 naturalized residents granted n constitutional government In a proclamation issued by Prince Albert. Tho gift of constitutional monarchy to the world's smallest principality, came only aftor the nat.'ve Monncans had handed together with tho 20 born Monacans inhabiting Paris nnd laid plans for a revolution In the eight square miles of territory comprising j the nation. It was the threat to wreak havoc with thff casino, the world's greatest gambling establishment, In Monte Carlo, that brought Prince Albert to Utne.

BRAZIL REBELS DIE

GANGRENE, SUNSTROKE AND SUFFOCATION CARRY OFF 45 MUTINEERS. DEMISE OF ALL IS SUDDEN Riots Due to Political Dlssatlcfaction Reported In State of Para Government Exercises Rigid Censorship Over All Dispatches. Rio Janolro, Jan. 7. According to the Journal do Commerclo, Joao Candido, loader of the rocont revolt In the navy, and forty-four other mutineers have met suddon deaths. Candldo succumbed to gangrene while a prisoner, twonty-slx of his associates died from sunstroke while engaged In repairing the fortress on Cobras Island and eighteen others wre suffocated In their cells ln tho prison on Vlllegnlnon Island. Whon the latter of the two recent naval rovolts In Brazil was put down, three weeks ago. It was announced that the mutinous sailors had been sent to states remote from Hlo Janeiro, where they would be employed In the construction of highways and railroads. The mutineers had surrendered, and it was officially announced that the disorders were at an end. Reports of New Uprisings. There are persistent rumors of disturbances ln the State of Para, on the north coast, due to political dissatisfaction. Rioting is said to have occurred at Para. NIctheroy, the capital of the State of Rio Janeiro, and situated across the harbor from the federal capital. Is under martial law, and the troops occupy all the public buildings. The rigid censorship maintained by the government since the revolt In the navy was put down makes it impossible to confirm officially these rumors of rioting at Para and elsewhere In the republic. The censorship Includes the newspapers here and extends to press dispatches cabled to other countries CARBINEERS HOLD BACK MOB Relatives of Camorrists Fall to Rescue Prisoners From Italian Officers. Vlterbo. Italy, Jan. 9. Thirty-two members of the Camorra. who have been ln close confinement for three years, were transferred from Naples to the prison here for trial, after a rioting mob of relatives and sympathizers failed to rescue them from the police. Heavily armed detachments of police and carbineers forced back the mob with their guns and succeeded in effecting the transfer from the train. This Is the beginning of a far sweeplug movement which the Italian government contemplates against the Camorra association which, according to the minister of justice and other members of the cabinet, must be ruled out STRAUS RESIGNS HIS POST Rumor Says That Rockhlll, Minister to St. Petersburg, May Be Transferred to Turkey. Washington. Jan. 9. Oscar Solomon Straus of New York, former cabinet minister nnd for more than a year and a half American ambassador to Turkey, has resigned his post nt Constantinople. It has been known for some time that Mr. Straus Intendod leaving the diplomatic service, but It did not develop until today that ho had actually resigned. William W. Rockhill, the present American ambassador to Russia. Is likely to succeod him, although this Is by no means certain, as several names are under consideration. The announcement of the appointment of a successor is expected shortly. DIF.TZ RELEASED ON BAIL Bonds Are Signed Permitting Cameron Dam Defender to Leave Hayward (Wis.) Jail. Hayward, Wis., Jan. 7. John F. DIetz was relensed from the Hayward county Jail following tho approval of his bonds by Judge Rlordan, and on order of County Attorney Williams, the new prosecutor. Mr. Williams says that ho would not serve the two warrants still pending against the prisoner, who March G will stand trial for the murder of Oscar Harp, a deputy. In the memorable battle of Cameron dam. !MRS. SCHENK'S TRIAL BEGUN Voman Is Accused of Giving Poison to Her Millionaire Husband With Murderous Intent. Wheeling, W. Va.. Jan. 9 Laura Fnrnsworth Schonk was arraigned for trial before Judge Lewis S. Jordan In the criminal court today on the charge of administering poison in the food, drink nnd medicine of her millionaire husband. John 0. Schenk, with murderous Intent. It Is believed the jury will ho quickly securtd. Kills Wife, Shoots Man, Ends Life. Omaha, Jan. 9. Walter Osgood shot nnd killed his wife, fatally shot Ray Johnson, who attempted to protect Mrs. Osgood, and then killed himself. The deed resulted from an estrangement between Of good and bis vvil.

SPARKS FROM LIVE WIRES Tho "parlor" match ordinarily usod in tho United States is to bo prohibited, if a bill Introduced by Ropraüaniativo Mann of Chicago bocomes a law. W. J. Bryan asserts In the Commoner that no man can bo nominated for president by tho Democrats who refused to vote for him In 189C, 190O and 190S. Thro masked men ontored the saloon of Kugeno Qlulicl, at Imlay. New, shot tho owner doad, probably fatally bhot his wife, took $1,200 in cash und escaped. Sir John Aird, builder of the famous Asstion dam across tho Nile, Is doad In London. He was born In 1833 and was a member of tho contracting firn. of John Alrd & Sons. Egg price records were smashed ln New York whon Rufus Delallold of South Plalnfleld, N. J., consented to accept $125 for a half-dozen laid at his poultry establishment. The United States and Spain are to bo brought Into closer touch with each

other by an Improved telegraph service between those two countries, according to consular reports. The factory of Beutley & Olmsted, shoe manufacturers, at Des Molues, la., completed last year, was burned to the ground with a loss of $100,000. which Included 20,000 pears of shoes. Beginning February 1 every young woman ln the home economics department of the University of Mistourl who takes a course In testing fabrics must roll up her sleeves and work over a washtub. A quarantine for nursery stock Imported into the United States and a prohibition against the Importation of shrubs or trees from Infected districts Is indorsed by the house committee on agriculture. Asleep on his feet. Jacob Scllgman, a baker, staggered Into a power-driven doughnut mixer In New York and was drawn Into the machine and chopped to pieces beforo the power could be shut off. The foreign banking house of P. V. R4vnlanek & Co. of Pittsburg, with branches ln New York and Unlontown. Pa., was placed in the hands of a receiver. The liabilities are placed at $1.000.000. with assets at $1,400,000. Judge Han ford in the United States court at Seattle. Wash., enjoined tho city council from appropriating money for the special election called for February 7 to oust Mayor Hiram C. Gill from office under the recall provision of the city charter. Several hundred agriculturists met at Greeley, Col., and formed the Colorado Agricultural Anti-Pest association, the purpose of which Is to further eftorts to exterminate crop-destroying Insects. Particular attention was paid to the grasshopper. RICH RIVAL SLAYS BANKER A O. Trutkett Murders J. D. S. Neeley Tragedy Is Sequel to Long Fight. Caney, Kan., Jan. 8. J. D. S. Neeley, president of the Wichita Pipe Uno company, president of the Lima, Ohio, Trust company and head of several lafge oil companies, was shot and killed In tho Palace hotel hero by Al O. Truskett. a prominent business man of Caney. The shooting was the result of litigation over an oil lease. Truskett surrendered Immediately. Truskett was taken by automobile to the county jail ln Independence, Kan. Writ Prevents Mayor's Recall. Seattle, Wash., Jan. 7. Federal Judge Hanford granted an Injunction to Frank H. Scobey of Chicago proventing tho recall of Mayor H. C. GUI of Seattle. This was the first attompt of this kind ever made In this country. Original "Hello Bill" Dead. Philadelphia, Jan. 9. William G. Meyers, past grand exalted ruler of tho Order of Elks, and said to be the original "Hello, Bill" of that organization, la dend. He attended nearly every national gathering of the Elks. THE MARKETS. New York, Jan. 7. LIVE STOCIC-Bteers 5 00 (t 6 00 Hors S50 it 8 SO siip-p iw V oo rijOVU-Winter Straights.. 4 15 Ö 4 15 WHEAT-May 1 05VMt 1 21 COltN-May 6T ft 57M OATS May 0 ft 40V IIYBNo. I Vo8t3rn IS t? K ni'TTErt-Creamrry 23 f? Sltf EGGS 23W CHEESE " Q litt CHICAGO. CATTLE Fancy Stoors Vi V) ? 7 00 Primi Stewrs C SO it 7 00 Hoof Stivrs 5 30 CT 10 Cows and Heifer 2 25 ft 3 35 Calves SM 5M HOGS Heavy Packers 7 M g S 10 llutch.r Hok S CO g 8 lo Pljr " Ö SM HÜTT Kit-Creamery 23 Dairy 19 g -I LIVE POl'LTUY 9 g j BOOB 13 IT " POTATOES pr bu. W Vjr'1l- print? Wheat. 8pi J ORAISf-WHwiL May 0J 1 m Cam. Vy tfUg 0 Oats. May 3IS MILWAUKEE. onAirc-WtKwt, No. 1 Nor'n H Q t ffl ,ty 1 On g 1 W4 Corn. My f 'fj Out. Standanl Uye 't 81 KANSAS CITY. ORAIN-WhimU No. 2 Hard $ 9J g M No ItMl 1 01 ft 1 ! Corn" Nft. WWW 4 OHtS. No. 2 Whit" 32 M Uye w ' ST. LOUIS. CATTLE -Native Steers 16 Is I Texafl 8tors 4 f0 r i nmchrrs 8 00 ft S IS PHBEP Natives 3 60 13 OMAHA. CATTL.B-Natlve Steers I 75 V 6 M Stookers and Keodurs.... 3 50 4f 5 TO Cow and Heifers 3 CO Si 4 S ( IN GS-Ifen vy 7 70 ? 7 811 EEI Wethers SM Öl,