Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 55, Number 51, Jasper, Dubois County, 10 October 1913 — Page 2

TARIFF Bia SIGNED PRESIDENT WILSON PLACES SIGNATURE TO DOCUMENT IN PRESENCE OF NOTABLES. COTTON FUTURES TAX NOT IN SENATOR REED RYAN GM TO FUND VENUSTIANO CARRANZA 1 OF MURPHY JASPER PROSECUTION IN IMPEACHMENT TRIAL SPRINGS SURPRISE WHEN CASE IS CALLED. And now the "fore anä aft" ikirt. Next? A. A. Ryan Testifies Governor Sought Relief. The season for fish tales is never closed. FINANCIER'S SON ON STAND

WEEKLY COURIER BEN ED. DOANE, Publish-..

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Fashion Is writing a New Freedom for women.

The autumn girl Is a symphonr In tan and freckles. Aviation will have to fly fast to equal tho accident record of travel on land. Optimists often get laughed to scorn; but being optimists they don't mind. A flight to the moon Is now predict ed by a far sighted aeroplane enthusiast The world is always profoundly ; grateful to .the man that can make it laugh. Woman's dress, instead of becoming original, Is rapidly turning toward aboriginal. ' Bachelors, go to Berlin. It is crowded with spinsters, according to the last census. When a man knocks his own town It's a sign that his neighbors are holding the offices. Having one's jewelry stolen seems to he an Indication that one belongs to the inclusive set. Pride Is a good thing, but to protect it from misjudgment, see that it is not mistaken for a grouch. It is hard to teli whether women dress to please the men or to excite the envy of each other. The adage that dead men tell no tales seems just a little grim as a motto for a city hospital. Vivid bathing suits with white poodle dogs on the side, now have a purple past at Atlantic City. At least the man who takes his bath on Saturday night .3 demonstrating that cleanliness Is next to godliness. And talking about anti-klsslng campaigns, why not start a movement to try to dip the ocean dry with a spoon? Still, when you come to think of It In the light of the well knowli law of gravitation, the leaves can do nothing but fall. A Pennsylvania man has died after fasting for 56 daya. He must have succeeded in leaving a snug sum for his heirs. The average man "observes" the Sabbath by smoking too many cigars and reading the "yellow" parts of his Sunday paper. "Stockings to match gowns," says a fashion note. Should it not, in view of the prevailing styles, read "gowns to match stockings?" An indignant citizen guided a police raid on a poker room where he had not been allowed to play. What a noble thing is conscience! Ex-King Manuel may have lost his throne In Portugal, but he has landed near another in Germany through marriage into the kaiser's family. A European physician says garlic used freely prolongs life. An excellent example of the restraint exercised by man toward his fellows. A Philadelphia girl who participated In a trial marriage a year ago says it is a success. Almost any kind of a marriage is likely to be a success for a year. The young Cornell woman who lived 20 weeks on 50 cents a week is going tr try to lower her record. What's use? Who wants to live on 50 cents a week, anyhow? Once more the Parisian fashion makers announce that the crinoline is coming back. They may lead woman to the hoopskirt, but they have yet to make her wear it. An Italian nobleman, traveling In this country, thinks the men superior to the women. But this compliment, the native gallantry of Americans will not allow the men either to appreciate or appropriate. A Brooklyn judge has sentenced a man convicted of manslaughter to reremose. T will not send you to prison he said. "I will 1st remorse be your punishment." Still he might at least have slapped him on the wrist Dr. Page of Boston comes to the defense of the fly, asserting that It is a natural sanitarian. Still, if a sanitarian insisting on skating across our bald spots on a hot day we should deem it entirely justifiable to swat him. Parisian scientists have discovered that the flea Is troubled with an annoying parasite of its own. Now if we could be certain that tho mos'quito's night song was only a painbitten dirge, much could bt XorgivcD in the glad revenge.

New Act Goes Into Operation at Once With Exception of Ratss Upon Wool and Sugar Currency Legislation Now Due.

FEATURES OF THE. NEW TARIFF LAW. In the opinion of its makers, the I democratic ieaaer3 or congress, tne most important features of the new tariff are: Reduction of nearly one-half In the average tariff on foodstuffs and farm products. The placing of raw wool on the free list and reduction of nearly two-thirds in the tariff on woolen clothing, especially of the cheaper grades. Reduction of one-third (average) on cotton clothing. Reduction of sugar tariff and Its abolishment In 1916. Reduction of one-third (average) in tariff on earthenware and glassware. Abolishment of all tariff on meats, tlsh, dairy products, flour, potatoes, coal, iron ore, lumber and many classes of farm and office machinery. General reduction on all important articles in general use. Washington, Oct. 4. Surrounded by representatives, senators and members of his cabinet, President Wilson signed the administration tariff bill at ten minutes after nine o'clock. It became effective as a law at midnight. Wilson Comments on Bill. The president referred to the measure as the first step in the emancipation of the country from monopoly. The second and final step, he said, would come with the enactment of the currency bill. Immediately after the president's signature to the tariff it became a record of the state department Mr. Ben Davis, chief clerk of the department, received it from Secretary Tumulty and filed it in the archives. The new law became operative with the exception of schedules on wool and sugar. The house agreed to the conference report, the final action of "hat body on the tariff bill. Speaker Clark overruled all points of order made by members who contended that action by the house was not necessary. Clark and Marshall Sign. Speaker Clark signed the bill, affixing his signature at 1:25. Vice-President Marshall signed the bill at 1:34. On the heels of the failure of congress to legislate in the tariff bill to prevent gambling in cotton futures. Representative Harrison of Mississippi introduced a resolution providing for an international campaign against such speculation. Notables Witness Signing. The resolution would request the president to negotiate with Great Britain and other nations with a view to formulating a plan to prevent cotton speculation. Invited by the president to witness the signing of the measure were Chairman Underwood and members of the house ways and means committee, Chairman Simmons and members of the senate finance committee, VicePresident Marshall, President (pro tern.) Clark and Majority Leader Kern of the senate, Speaker Clark, members of the cabinet and newspaper correspondents. The president signed the bill with two pens. The pen with which he wrote the name "Woodrow" was given to Representative Underwood and the other, with which he completed his signature, was presented to Senator Simmons. Currency legislation took possession of the congressional stage, the tarlif bill having been disposed of. Officials of the treasury department are at sea to know what congress actually meant by the provision of the new tariff law allowing a five per cent reduction of duties on goods imported in American ships, with the condition that the differential should not be construed to abrogate or impair any existing treaty between the United States and a foreign nation. Literally interpreted, it is declared the provision would give a five per cent, decrease to gords in American bottoms and automatically grant the same privilege to the same ships of the many nations whose treaties with the United States guarantee no discrimination between their vessels and those of America. May Create Deficit. This construction, which would be a horizontal reduction of five per cent, in the tariff for importation from most of the great countries of the world, involves probably $10,000,000 in revenue for the government, creating a deficit instead of a surplus in treasury as has been estimated by the tariff framers. The question undoubtedly will be referred to President Wilson and Attorney General McReynolds and ultimately will reach the United States Supreme court EX-JUDGE C. C. COLE IS DEAD Former Member of Iowa Supreme Court Expires After Long Career In the Law. Des Moines, la., Oct 6. Ex-Judge Chester C. Cole, in the first rank of Iowa jurists, died here. He had not been In active practice for several years. He served for many years In the Iowa supreme court

Senator Reed of Missouri had an altercation with John Mclntyre of Philadelphia, a member of the National Manufacturers' association, in the committee room of the senate and Mr. Reed slapped the faco of Mr. McIntyrer breaking his eye glasses. ROOSEVELT PARTY SAILS FOR' SOUTH AMERICA Will Explore Southern Republic 1,400 Mile Journey to Head Waters of the Paraguay River. New York, Oct. 4. Col. Theodore Roosevelt and party sailed today for Buenos Aires, Brazil, from which port the ex-president will explore the jungles and mountain fastnesses of the South American state. Anthony Tiala, the erratic explorer, whom the colonel selected to prepare the equipment and supplies for the trip, was one of the party who sailed with Roosevelt Prom Buenos Aires a 1,400-mile journey by water will be mado to the head waters of the Paraguay river. Thence they will strike In Matto Grosso, a forest-covered territory intersected by water courses in the center of Brazil. In a little explored territory between the rivers Tapajos and Xingu Colonel Roosevelt will penetrate where few men have gone before. Jungles abound, where bands of Indians rove. At tho farewell dinner to Colonel Roosevelt in New York last night Mr. Gifford Pinchot said in part: "Miss Kellor, Colonel Roosevelt members of the Progressive service and of the Progressive party, men and women whose great purpose is to make our government serve our people: We are met to give Godspeed to our leader on his journey. We are here to strengthen ourselves for carrying on the good fight during the months of his absence, so that when he returns the Progressive party may be even a better instrument for the public good, even a keener weapon against the men who control this country to its hurt ENVOY GERAfiD IS AT BERLIN Ambassador to Germany Goes to a Hotel Assumes the Duties of His Office. Berlin, Germany, Oct 7. James W. Gerard of New York, the new United States ambassador to Germany, arrived here, and at once informally assumed the duties of his office. He is not qualified to act officially until the presentation of his letters of credence. Ambassador Gerard has taken up his residence for the present at a hotel. No definite arrangements have yet been made in regard to the acquisition of an embassy building, but it is understood that a house in the center of the city, near the imperial chancellor's palace and the foreign office, is under consideration. HUMPHRIES KEEPS 38 IN JAIL Governor of Washington Will Asked to Pardon Those-Punished by Judge. Be Seattle, Wash., Oct 6. Six women and thirty-two men are in the county jail for refusal to pay fines imposed on them for contempt of court by Judge Humphries. One man paid the $100 fine against him and was freed. At a meeting, called by the Free Speech league, a resolution will be presented asking Governor Lister to pardon those sentenced by Judge Humphries. The Municipal league instructed a committee to investigate the administration of justice- in the county courts. ROAD CONGRESS ENDS WORK Adopts Resolutions on Building of Highways and Adjourns Place of Next Meet Not Decided. Detroit Mich., Oct 6.- The third American road congress ended with tho reports of officers and committees and the adoption of resolutions with reference to the building and maintenance of good roads. It was decided at the last minute to leave the question of the place of next meeting to the executive committee, which wTill inspect the convention facilities of Atlanta, New Orleans, Denver and Peoria.

Lawyers Have Protracted Wrangle Over Admission of Testimony, Which Is Finally Admitted by Judge Colfax's Order.

Albany, N. Y., Oct. 7. The prosecution in the impeachment trial of Governor William Sulzer sprung a surprise on the defense by asking the court for permission to reopen its case and present more testimony. In preceding his request Attorney Stanchfield stated that the new testimony was of great importance, and had come to the attorneys for the board of managers since Thursday last. He said that he wanted to call four witnesses. Wrangle Over Ryan Testimony. The first of these was Allen A. Ryan, son of Thomas F. Ryan, the financier. He was questioned by Mr. Stanchfield, who was apparently desirous of securing information about a $10,000 contribution. When Mr. Stanchfield asked if Ryan had had a telephone talk about the middle of October, 1912, with Mr. Sulzer, there was a, long wrangle over the admissibility of this evidence. Chief Judge Cullon admitted the evidence, saying that it would not be considered as having any weight unless it really had a direct bearing upon the articles of Impeachment. T can't recollect exactly what the conversation was," said Mr. Ryan, when allowed to answer. Said Sulzer Got $10,000. Ignatius V. McGlone, private secretary of Thomas F. Ryan, took the stand after Ryan had been excused temporarily. McGlone testified that he met Sulzer at 115 Broadway and what the governor said he was going out to make a personal campaign and needed money. McGlone declared he would give him no money until he talked with "somebody else." This "somebody else" proved to be Allan A. Ryan. Sulzer then received $10,000 irom McGlone. McGlone said that he went to see Sulzer after he saw "somebody else" and handed the governor $10,000 in ten bills. The governor told him that if he, McGlone, was ever in Albany he wanted him to come and see him. The governor also desired McGlone to express his thanks to Allan Ryan for him, said McGlone. Allan Ryan, recalled, told of a conversation with Governor Sulzer in which the governor had asked him to see Senator Root and Chairman William Barnes, Jr., and get their influence to check the Republican assemblyman from impeaching him. This testimony was stricken out Sulzer Sought Aid of Root. Ryan testified that Sulzer requested him to go to Washington and ask Senator Root to use his influence to get William Barnes to attempt to induce Republican senators of the impeachment court to hold that the impeachment proceedings were invalid. ROBBERY CAUSE OF MURDER Motive for Killing of Miss Ida G. Leegson, an Art Student, Said to Be Theft. Chicago, Oct. 7. Coincidence in the attack and murder of Miss Ida G. Leegson, an art student, teacher and nurse, and a violent attack on Mrs. Emma M. Robinson, a trained nurse, bo,th lured to the haunt of their assailant by a telephone call from a man who said he wished to employ a nurse, drew the attention of the police. It was believed that the man who murdered Miss Leegson near Argo, 111., was the same one who attacked Mrs. Robinson several months ago. Miss Leegson inserted an advertisement offering her services as a nurse. Mrs. Robinson answered an advertisement for a woman to care for a sick child. The police established the fact that robbery was one motive in the murder of Miss Leegson. Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 7. Miss Ida G. Leegson, victim of an atrocious murder in Chicago, formerly was a Milwaukee school teacher. She graduated from the Milwaukee normal school with the class ' of 1897, and taught in the Bartlett Avenue school in 1903. She was engaged for only one semester, according to Miss Flor ence A. Clark, another teacher, who still is at the school. ENTOMBED MINER IS SAVED "I Got Ready to Move; This Is No Boarding House," Says Man to Rescuer. Centralia, Pa., Oct. 6. Thomas Toshesky, prisoner since Friday of last week in an abandoned chamber of the Continental mine of the Lehigh Valley Coal company, walked into the open air at 7:48 in the morning. Just before the end of the tunnel was enlarged enough to permit the passage of his body from the place where he had been entombed, the rescuers were chatting with him. One asked what he was doing. 4T am getting ready to move' he said. "This is no boarding house, no good bed, no spring, no nice boarding missus." Blast Blows Man Far. Arkadelphia, Ark., Oct. 4. A boiler at a sawmill near here exploded and killed Tom Pritchard. The force of the explosion blew the dead man 500 yards.

A new portrait of General Carrania, the Mexican constitutionalist leader, who is said to be the choice of his party for president. HANS SCHMIDT IN FRENZY; TEARS BEADS INTO BITS Slayer of Anna Aumuller Causes Scene in Court Prisoner Charged With Murder. New York, Oct. 4. Just as the "millionaire" jury in the court of Coroner Feinberg was finding Hans Schmidt, the renegade priest, guilty of the murder of Anna Aumuller, a dramatic incident ensued which interrupted the inquest. Coroner Feinherg appealed to members of the jury, which was headed by Theodore P. Shonts, president of the Interborough. Rapid Transit company, for funds with which to bury the dismembered body of Anna Aumuller to save it from the potter'3 field. Before a member of the jury could move there came a shower of currency and silver from the back of the room. The spectacle caused someone among the 500 spectators to laugh. Schmidt, with a scowl on his face, sprang from his chair and, tearing a string of beads and a crucifix; from his throat, hurled them into the crowd behind him. In addition to Foreman Shonts, the other members of the jury were Vincent Astor, G. O. McDuff, Marcus Loew, Mortimer Rosenberg, Benjamin G. Greenhut, George W. Fairchild, Charles Dlckery, Edwin Marston, Howard Weir, Latham Reid and Patrick O'Laughlin. Most of the members of the jury are millionaires, prominent in the world of finance. After hearing the evidence it took the jury just 26 minutes to reach a verdict. This was, in effect, that Anna Aumuller came to her death on September 2 last from a hemorrhage at the hands of Hans Schmidt. The prisoner, slovenly and unkempt in appearance, looked coldly into the jurors' eyes, but gave no show of feeling. Following the filing of the verdict Coroner Feinberg held Schmidt for action of the grand jury. The trial of Hans Schmidt, the priest who confessed the murder of Anna Aumuller, will take place the first or second week in November, the number of cases on the calendar of the district attorney's office preventing an earlier date. Should Schmidt be adjudged insane, he will be sent to the state hospital for the insane. YUAN IS NAMED NEW HEAD Parliament Elects First Permanent President of China Several Persons Are Injured. Pekin, China, Oct. 7. Yuan Shihkai was elected president of the republic of China at a joint session of the upper and lower houses of the national assembly here. Three ballots were required to bring about this result. At the end of the balloting a photographer took a flashlight picture of the scene, greatly alarming the members and visitors, who thought a bomb had been exploded. In the stampede that followed several persons were injured. On the third ballot Yuan received 507 votes out of 703 and LI Yuen Hung, 179. Yuan thereupon was declared elected first president of the permanent government of China. PANAMA HAS NEW QUAKE Tremors Lasting From Ten to Fifteen Seconds Shake Buildings, But Do No Serious Damage. Panama, Oct. 6. Another earthquake occurred on the isthmus. It was less severe than the shock of last week, its duration being from ten to fifteen seconds. Buildings were severely shaken, but apparently no damage was done beyond the falling of plaster and the opening of slight fissures in a few structures. Reports from the canal zone officials indicate that neither tho locks nor any part of the canal suffered in any degree whatever. The time for blowing up the Gam boa'dike has been officially fixed at nine o'clock in the morning of Oct; ber 10.

WOULD "DO WHAT'S RIGHT"

Impeached Executive Attempted to Make Termi With His Arch Edmy to Avert Trial, Is Story ' Told to Court. Albany, N. Y., Oct. S. Governor Sulzer attempted to win the influence of Charles F. Murphy to stop the trial of his impeachment and In return therefor said he "was willing to do whatever was right," according to tho testimony of Allan A. Ryan at tho trial. The testimony was given after the court by a secret vote of 41 to 14 decided to admit In the record Ryan's testimony. This was that that Sulzer asked him to see Senator Root and request him to induce State Chairman William Barnes to influence the Republican votes of the members of the court to declare the Impeachment proceedings illegal because they were brought during an extraordinary session of the legislature. Sought Peace With Tammany. The admission of this testimony, stricken from the record, opened the doors to Ryan's story of the governor's alleged attempt to make peace with Tammany on the eve of his impeachment. Ryan said that Sulzer asked him to see Delancey Nicoll, his father's attor ney, and to request him to see Murphy. "He wanted me," said the witness, "to have Mr. NIcoll sway Mr. Murphy to call off this inquiry by getting his following to vote that the assembly I had no right to impeach him. He said Mr. Nicoll could be the go-between and he (Sulzer) was ready to do whatever was right." Went Out and Forgot About It. "What did you do In regard to seeing Delancey Nicoll?" asked Attorney Stanchfield of counsel for the impeachment managers. "I told the governor," replied the witness, "that I would see what I could do, and went out into the country and forgot about it." Previous to this Ryan said, in response to the governor's request that he get Senator Root to see Barnes, he had promised to sound "Republican I sentiment" in the court of impeachment himself, and with that purpose in view he saw a "friend" whose name he did not disclose. This friend, according to Ryan, dictated a statement to him, on the situation, which he said he 6howed to Governor Sulzer. The statement, placed in evidence, said in part: "The Republican organization, as such, will do nothing; it will give no advice and no order, and will leave every Republican senator to do as he j sees fit. The chairman says distinctly he will not permit anyone high or low to speak to him on the subject." Bars Story of Refusal of Gift. The defense then opened its case, calling Samuel A. Beardsley of TJtlca. Mr. Herrick said he intended to show through the witness that Beardsley offered to contribute $25,000 "for a client" to Sulzer and that the contribution was declined. The court by a vote of 29 to 24 then decided not to receive any testimony tending to show' contributions were refused. Beardsley is said to have been an attorney for the late Anthony N. Brady. Herbert H. Lehman of New York, treasurer of Sulzer's campaign fund, testified he gave Sulzer $5,000 in cash September 25, 1912, without reservation. The governor's attorneys declared they would show that this was a part of the money the governor used in Wall street FIRE SWEEPS CITY OF NOME Big Conflagration Follows After Storm Inundated Town Residents Battle Flames. Nome, Alaska, Oct. 8. Fire has broken out in the city of Nome, closely following a storm that wiped out a great part of the town. The flames have attacked the Pacific Cold Storage plant where Is stored the chief supply of meat for the winter. The fire apparatus was destroyed in the gale. Front street is a seething mass of wreckage into which seas are breaking, while hundreds of homeless persons are struggling to save necessaries of life. Receding seas are carrying away the contents of wrecked houses and stores as well as parts of wrecked structures. The loss Is estimated at close to $2,000.000. AVIATOR BEACHEY KILLS GIRL Her Sister Badly Hurt Watching Flight at Rochester Aeroplane Swoops Too Low. Rochester, N. Y., Oct. S. While maneuvering in a new aeroplane at Hammondsport, Lincoln Beachey swooped too low. His machine struck Ruth and Helen Hildreth, daughter of H. E. Hildreth of New York city, killing the former and probably fatal ly Injuring the latter. "Tattooed Man" Is Dead. Boston, Oct. S. Frank Bellfontaine Barnum's original "tattooed man," died at the homeopathic hospital. Death was due to an attack of appen dicitis, combined with heart failure.

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