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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1900-01-24
FOUR BOYS ARRESTED.
Charged With Larceny From Two
Stores of This City.

| &
VIM. Winters, Earl Jones, Blaine
Mckay and Roy Bunce were held to
the grand jury last Saturday after
noon on the charge of grand larceny
in the second degree. They we're
arrested shortly before.
The direct charge against the
first named boy is that on the night
of June 9th he entered the grocery
store of Kuenzli & Luscher and took
therefrom money amounting to oabout
$6. The direct charge against the
other three boys is that they broke
into the store of E. NJ. Holmes on
the night of Jan. 18th, and took
money amounting to between 81 and
SO.
The State seen to be in possession
OF evidence, the principal portion of
which is confession by one or more
of the boys, whereby there is no
doubt but what they are the persons
wanted for the offenses charged
On June 9th last Roy Bunce was
employed as delivery boy in the
store of Kuenzli & Luscher, as he
has been up to very recently. On
that day it is claimed that Winters
approached and asked him to leave
or see that the cellar way to the
store was open on that evening,
after the store was closed Roy
finally consented to do this, and
according to the evidence in posses
sion of the State Winters got into
the cellar and up into the store that
night and stole about S6 in currency
Kuenzli & Luscher notified the
police at that time, but the matter
was kept secret up to last week.
On Monday night of last week the
Holmes Cash Store was burglarized
The parties had gained an entrance
by taking a crow bar and prying
into the rear door far enough so that
they could knock the timber holding
the doors together, out of its iron
bracket, and thus gain an entrance
They went to the cash register and
rif1ed it of its contents, between 81
and So. On the SATURDAY. night be-
fore the store of Kuenzli l. Luscher
had again been entered by the part
les gaining admission through a
rear window. Only about $1.5
could be found in the drawer, how
ever.
When these matters were report
ed to the police the latter commenced
investigation and suspicion rested
on one or more Of the three boys, and
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1900-01-24
DWoOD FALLS, MINNESOTA. WEDNESDAY JANUARY a. 1900

sold his farm for about 81, 500. and
then went to live with Slower for a
few days prior to taking a journey.
Mr.. Clague said it always was a
mystery to him what had become of
the 81, 500. It was never ac-
counted for. There was nothing to
show that Rose had secured it. In
fact the evidence of the State was
that Rose was never in the house.
The failure of the State to show
what had become of this money was
the strongest evidence that the
crime was committed for money,
and Rose had a right to use it in
that way. It is understood that
Judge Webber was never wholly
satisfied with the guilt of Rose, on
account of this one fact, but after
the jury brought in it's verdict
there was nothing for him to do but
to impose sentence, and there being
no errors in the case, which the
Supreme court afterwards affirmed,
he could not grant new trial.
Rose was either innocent or guilty,
and should have been hung or ac-
quitted-the Judge was forced to
carry out the verdict of the jury.
The crime for which Rose was
hung was committed on the night of
Aug. %, 1888. The State assigned
as motive that Rose was having
trouble with Moses Lufkin, who
suspected Rose of being intimate
with his daughter, Grace, and who
forbade Rose visiting his home any
more. The States case was that on
the afternoon of the evening in ques-
tion he rode on a buckskin colored
pony from his home in Murray
county to a grove about quarter of
mile east of the Slower home. He
had gun in his possession. Hitch
ing his pony to tree at the north
west corner of the grove he walked
over to the Slower house where he
saw Lufkin sitting in a window on
the south side reading a paper.
Rose, it is claimed, aimed and fired
through the window, aud killed his
man, and then ran to his pony, and
rode all night to his home. The
fact that his pony presented jaded
appearance the next morning was
used against him.
Mr.. Wellington with F. S. Brown
defended Rose on the two mistrials.
At each of these Eli Slower testified
that as soon as the shot was fired
he rushed to the window and saw
what he believed Rose disappear
ing. He was not positive Of it, how
ever. On each Of these the jury
was more in favor of acquittal than
conviction. On the third trial. in
which Mr.. Erwin assisted in the
defense, Slower swore positively
that it was Rose whom he saw van
lshing, and Rose was convicted.
The fact that Slover's memory was
better on the third trial than on the
other two has always been pointed
to with suspicion.
Rose showed wonderful nerve up
to his death. He was good to his
guards and to the sheriff, cherish
ing no grudge against them for
their forced acts. He walked to the
gallows as if going to church, and
his last words were to watch old
man Slower, He said ''Good-bye,
gentlemen, when the cap was
pulled over him. The rope broke
the first drop, but Rose was jerked
unconscious. The second drop
was perfect
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1900-01-24

they were Immediately gathered in,
and by the aid of their parents, they
made complete confession. AS a
result it was deemed best to arrest
the tour and hold them to the grand
Jury.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1900-01-24
For Rent

For Rent
Good barn on premises just vacated
by G. E. Lamberton. Inquire OF
24tf. Mn. L. Kemmerer.
The Forrest City times., 1900-03-30
EASILY TOLD.
He Gould Judge of the Passage of Time with the Greatest
 Accuracy.

It occurred in Judge Lawlor's court a few days ago. There was a murder trial on and . policeman named Riley was on the wit ness stand relating the details of the trag- edy. Said MT. Ferral, who was acting as defendants counsel:
 How many minutes after the shooting did the man die, Mir. Riley!
 Two minutes, sir, answered the witness without the least hesitation.
 You seem positive about the time,' re- marked Mir. Ferral, with the air of one who has the upper hand. Now, I'm going to test your ability to judge time. l will hold my watch here for two minutes. When you think the time IS up, say when."
 The defendants counsel held the watch on the witness and stood examining the hand carefully. The policeman, however, did not seem to be worried at all at the tax upon his mental apparatus. He sat staring va cantly about the room, and at the exact sec ond when the two minutes had expired, remarked: "Now!" and smiled like tickled sphinx.
 Mir. Ferral was staggered at the uneanny accuracy of the witness, and Gen. Solomon, who was prosecuting, was delighted pro- portionately at his opponents dscomfture. He chuckled in a comfortable German way, during the rest of the session. At the noon recess he called Riley to him, and, skipping him on the shoulder, said
 Officer Riley, you vass a wonder! How dit you do it, hein?"
 Do it" replied Riley, pointing to a big redwood clock on the opposite wall, why, that was dead easy!"
 Riley will be promoted.-San Francisco News Letter.
The Forrest City times., 1900-03-30
RAMPANT IMPERIALISM.
How the ministration Proposes to Deal with the Philippine
 Acquisitions.

Representative Charles Henry Gros- venor, of Ohio, is the presidents particular friend. so close to him in fact that he is MT. McKinley's mouth piece. This is the way Mr. Grosvenor throws overheard the people of the United States as of no account in the imperial policy: He spoke in the house and it is fair 10 say that he was very much annoyed at the trend of certain decisions by the supreme court against the presidents policy:
 eve have got the Philippines on our hands," said he, 'and l will tell you what we shall tell the people of this country. We will say we have acquired title to the Philippines and Porto Rico. We did not go after them, but they came to us and we could not help our selves.
 ''We have got them and the duty is upon us, and we are going to take care of them.
 "We are going to make all the money out of the transaction we can by en- larging our trade with the Oriental countries, and we are going to embalm the doctrines of the Declaration of In- dependence upon the statute books of the Philippines just as quick as we think the time has come to do it, and we are not going to do it one minute before, if all the democrats on Gods earth go bowling that we have got to dc it now"
 When Representative Neville, of Ne braska, asked if the republican party expected to embalm the Filipinos along with the Declaration of Inde- pendence in the Philippines" Mir. Grosvenor became so mad he had to sit down.
The Forrest City times., 1900-03-30
PHILANTHROPY MIsDIRECTED.
Strained and Revolutionary Inter- pretntion of the American
 Constitution.

The nation is flooded with a deluge of moral advice from the pulpit, the academy and the writing itch of re- formers. Everybody holding a salaried office, and possessing an influence of any kind from a policeman up to the president is wrested with, advised, and crammed with large doses of duty to morals, fellowmen, heather, cats, dogs, and horses, etc, but all of it is useless, waste of breath, jaw muscle and gen. eral physical energy. What boots all this moral and philanthropic overflow of cranky empiricism, or, may be, we'll directed and honest effort to abate hu- man ills and lift man out of his wal low? Suppose" says the Springfield Republican, that Lyman Abbott fla vored free trade with Porto Rico, would his protest against the present policy avail anything? The Independent, most godly and benevolent of militant imperialists, pronounces the proposed Porto Rican tariff a wicked thing, but what does the Independent amount to now that the real power behind the throne of empire has spoken in tones that made whole government retrace it's course like some toy pulled by a string?
 In all this :he country is witnessing a remarkable display of the grip which the overwhelming power of trade in- terests, of money, has upon the United 1 States government. There is nothing, apparently, which it cannot do, short of establishing an hereditary mon- archy upon the ruins of the old repub- lie. Philanthropy could never have compelled this discrimination between Hawaii and Porto Rico; nor have forced the administration party to set up strained and revolutionary interpreta- tion of the scope of the American con stitution. But the syndieates can"
The Forrest City times., 1900-03-30
From WashinSto-
How a Little Boy Wac

Washington, D. C.-"Wben
 vas about 16 months old he hro, boy with a rash which was thonoh.A oAe Out measles. In few days he had 10 De ing on the left side of his nas,ll swell 1t was decided to be mumps A u and given medical attendance for e Wa three weeks when the doctor .at aoout was scrofula and ordered a sa,sa sa'd l! wanted to lance the sore, bpt hs not let him, and continued giv;. would medicine for about four montbs nm the bunch broke in two places anss snea came a running sore. Three dna. . 0e' said it was scrofula, and eaoS 0rs dered a blood medicine. na;a,, or told me of case somewhat l;,ss Ao0r baby's which was cured bv u. Ou' Sarsaparilla. l decided to eive '. my boy and in a short while his bas,,s 70 improved and his neck healed so n;0 S.'a ly that l stopped giving him the mss ' icine. The sore broke out aga;n h' el' ever, whereupon I again gave h." Hoods Sarsaparilla and it's persis.a-a 4 use has accomplished a comn,..' cure" MRS. NETTIE CHASE, 47K o, N. E. '''
The Forrest City times., 1900-03-30
THE PRESIDENTS POLICY.
Towards Our New Pos- sessions.

MT. Henry Loomis Nelson is so we'll intelligent journalist that his inter pretations" of the presidents "coloni- sfpolicy in the Sunday Post-Dispatch nay be accepted as authoritative. Mir. Mckinley talked freely, wisely choos- ing this as the best way of getting his views before the country.
 The presidents announcement is the most important political utterance since the establishment of the govern ment, except, perhaps, the emancipa- ton proclamation. It is revolutionary.
 "The president believes that congress has plenary power over Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Philippines"
 That is, in governing the colonies, congress is not restrained by any con- stitutional limitations. It is absolute. Further, congress may refuse to the natives (of Porto Rico, Hawaii, etc.) and to the American citizens who may go to our colonies the right of jury trial, the right of free speech, the right to bear arms, the right of peace able assemblage and of petition"
 The presidents conclusions are not the result of legal inquiry or judicial study. They are the product of par tisan necessity.
 "Our new possessions must not be permitted to injure any of our pro- tected interests"
 This doctrine, though revolutionary. Is not new or strange. The Roman re- public conquered foreign peoples and governed them for the benefit of Rome and Romans. MT. Mckinley proposes to do the same thing-to govern the people of Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Filipinos without reference to their welfare, but primarily for the commer- cial benefit of Americans, and in order to accomplish this he proposes to re- pudiate every principle of American policy and give the lie to every Ameri- can principle.
 What will the people of this country say to this ?-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Forrest City times., 1900-03-30
ANEPISODE IN BOREDOM.
For Those Readers Who Are Keep. ing Up with the War Lit
 erature.

An Afrikander, trekking from Schuin'. Hoogte to Palapsie with a load of biltong halted by a fontein at the foot of a kloof. A Noortrekker suddenly appeared from be hind a kopje, waving a vierkleur.
 "Oorlog!" shouted the Noortrekker.
 "Dop" replied the Afrikander, who was a man of ready wit.
 Produce it," said the Voortrekker, though 1 am no dopper."
 The Afrikander's voorlooper, who was standing on the disselboom munching mealies, jumped off and started on run to- ward a krantz. In jumping a sluit his foot slipped on a kip and he fell into donga The others, after much dop, got into heat ed argument in Taal over the quickest way to the nearest dorp. One said he should take the drift over the spruit, and the other that he should pont oyer the pan. A zarp came along and took them both around the viel and through the poort to the laager, where they should be safe from rooineks.- N Y Sun
The Forrest City times., 1900-03-30
PARAGRAPHIC POINTERS.

It was something similar to our treatment of Porto Rico that led to tea party in Boston great many years ago.-Rochester Herald.
 If the "protection principle is to be preserved" why not levy little tariff on Hawaiian products just for an object lesson n?-lndianapolis News
 -Mr. Hanna doesn't know what to make of the fuss the republicans are kicking up over Porto Rico. And, in point of fact, he doesn't care one way or the other, so long as he can keep the senate in line.-Atlanta Constitu- tion.
 -Between his free-trade Porto Rican message to congress and his con- fidential pressure on congressman to make them vote for a Porto Rican tar if tax, President Mckinley stands in a sorry light before the pcople.-St. Louis Republic.
 Trusts, imperialism, militarism, national bank notes instead of the money of the constitution, gold and sill yer, these are the issues being present. ed to the country by the republican party. Democracy is ready to meet them and to beat them. Mammon won the last time, but it will not be so easy to do so again.-Kansas City Times.
 When administration organs come forward courageously to tell us that ''the war is over" they probably mean that it is over in the Philippines. It has been over there ever since Me- Kinley purchased it from Spain-but there will be some of it in the United States along about the first Tuesday in November-Columbus (O.) Press Post.
 The national administration claims it has not surrendered to Great Britain, but there are several things that look as though it had. Great Britain dictates our financial policy. She dictates our colonial policy. She opens the mail of some of our consuls. She will not allow us to fortify our 1 Nicaragua canal, and the administra- tion agrees to it. There isn't much else to surrender, but the lovely Brit ish administration at Washington will no doubt hasten to surrender. every thing it can md that has not been sur rendered.-Joplin (Mo.) Globe.
The Forrest City times., 1900-03-30
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
FirTY-slxTH CONGRESS.

Tn the senate. on the Fist, resolution Of inquiry as to whether the secretary ot war had granted concessions for gold mining in the bed of the sea near CaDe Nome, was adopted The additional urgency deficiency bill was passed with one or two other measures of importance. .....Ih the house nearly the entire ses- sion was devoted to the discussion of the Loud bill relating to second class mail matter number of speeches were maue for and against the bill
 In the senate, on the 22d, almost the entire session was spent in the discussion of the conference report upon the Puerto Rican appropriation bill. The democratic senators criticised the restoration Of the house provision covering future collec- tions of revenue. The republicans met this with a proposition to take vote Immediately upon the house Puerto Rical bill. The debate was finally terminated by a call for the regular. order. In the house, after a three-days' debate, the Loud biIl relating to second class mail matter was recommitted by the decisive vote of 1iS to 96.
 In the senate, on the 2sd, the confer ence report on the Puerto Rican relief bill was adopted by a vote of 8 to l5, practically a strict party expression. No democrat voted for the report, but Alr. ans.In the house. Is being private pension bill day, 142 such bills were passed. The conference report on the Puerto Rican relief bill was presented, but it's consideration was postponed until the 24th.
 In the senate, on the 2ith, a measure was passed providing for the appoint ment by the president of a commission to investigate the trade and commerce of the orient with a view to the extension of American commerce. The closing hours of the session were devoted to the con sideration of resolutions accepting from the state of Indiana a statue of Oliver r. Morton. ...In the house, the conference report on the Puerto Rican relief bill was adopted by vote of 135 to s7. A bill was passed appropriating sl0,000 for designs for a suitable memorial in Washington to Ulysses s. Grant
 In the senate, on the 26th. Mir Foraker, in charge of the Puerto Rican bill, an nounced that, beginning on the 21th, he would press the measure to a vote as soon as possible. The Alaskan civil code bill was under consideration the greater part of the session An amendment was agreed to fixing a license upon almost ev- cry kind of trade and commerce in the district of Alaska. The measure was not disposed of......In the house the army appropriation bill was taken up, and it consideration occupied practically the en- tire session.
The Forrest City times., 1900-03-30
Latest fin Advertising.

A new scheme of advertising was resorted
 to by progressive business firm in a pros porous city in the south. The junior partner of the firm swore out a warrant for the ar- rest ot the senior partner on the ground that he was selling goods below cost and that the firm was constantly losing money there by. The case came up in court and the coun- sel for the senior partner asked for post ponement in order to have more time to pre- pare his case. The judge granted the re- guest, bail was fixed and the senior mem Der released. As he left the courtroom the he is released the sacrifice will go on!'' The news soon spread and the firm did better business. When the case was again called no plaintiff appeared and the charge was dismissed. The firm had succeeded in their obJect-advertisemen ement.-Philadelphi Call.
The Forrest City times., 1900-03-30
No Wonder He smelIed It.

A commercial traveller whose wife is one of those women who borrow trouble indis- criminately had occasion to make a trip east recently.
 His wife was very anxious about him and felt certain that he would fall a victim to smallpox, which was reported to be preva- lent in the city to which he was going. She begged him to carry a little lump of asafetid1 in his pocket to ward off contagion.
 Naturally he objected and positively re. such persistent odor.
 When he came home from his trip he said to his wife:
 1t IS wonderful, the power of the magma. tion. Why. don't you know 1 imagined that ] smelled asafetida the whole time 1 was gone!"
 Tt wasn't imagination at all, quietly re. phed the wily little woman sewed bit Of asafetida in the corner of your coat be. fore you went away Memphis Scmltar
The Forrest City times., 1900-03-30
FARMERS AND TRUSTS.
Che Issue Thnt Most Concerns the Producers of Our Nec-
 essaries.

That the trusts directly affect the producers of the country, particularly the farmer, is so plain that blind man can perceive it. This is the way Judge George w. Beeman, of Indiana, puts it:
 "The farmers of this country are the people who are most and more directly affected than any other proportion of the electors.
 ''The farmer is affected as producer and as a consumer. He goes to bed al night with prices about as follows: Wheat, 70 cents; corn, 25 cents; pork, S4.50 per hundred; barb wire, two dol lars; nails, two dollars per hundred; and we'll pipe 2R cents per foot.
 "He awakes in the morning with prices about as follows: Wheat, 65 cents; corn, 23; pork, $4.25; barb wire, five dollars; nails, four dollars; we'll pipe, 20 cents.
 His house has not been burglarized but he has been robbed by trusts which are multiple of thieves by robbers, and there is something strange about the report of prices; if the price of wheat goes down it travels by tele- graph, if the price goes up the report goes by canal, but the farmer regard less of party affiliation, if properly ed ucated as to the effect of trusts on his interests, will make possible to return to the legislatures and congress ma jority of representatives who will be honest and patriotic enough to enact laws that will control the trusts and we will be safe in leaving the manner of control and regulation of trusts in the hands of such chosen representatives.
 'Only the blind can fail to realize what the real issue now is, whether the trusts and corporations should rule the government or the government regulate and control trusts and corporations"
The Forrest City times., 1900-03-30

The amount of bonds received at the treasury department, up to the 26th. for exchange fer the new two-pcr' cents, was S154 4,144950 of which S14,66s- 1Oo were from individuals and institu- tions other than national banks.
The Forrest City times., 1900-03-30

The Marine hospital has received a report from Surgeon Carmichael, ae Honolulu. under date of the 18th, in which he says there was only one death from plague in the islands be- tween March and 15.
The Forrest City times., 1900-03-30

Senator Ross, from the committee on civil service, on the 23d, reported back the bill extending the civil serv- ice to the dependencies of the United States. The bill permits the removal of persons employed. but requires that the reasons be stated in writing ''when practicable to do so.'
The Forrest City times., 1900-03-30

Former Consul Macrum called on Chairman Hit of the house committee on foreign affairs, on the 26th, and sig nified his readiness to be heard in con nection with his services at Pretoria It was arranged that MT. MacruIn was ready to proceed.
The Forrest City times., 1900-03-30

The bill for the incorporation of the National Red Cross society was favorl- ply acted on, on the 22d, by the house committee on foreign affairs, with an amendment providing for an annual account to the secretary of war and the secretary of the navy and a pub- lication of the account.
The Forrest City times., 1900-03-30

For the first time in 90 years the duke of Connaught and Strathearn, coinmandant of the farces in Ireland, visited Belfast, on the 22d, on tour of military inspection. He was enthusi- astically received.