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The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1905-07-01
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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-10-05
GRANT MORE REFORMS.
Russian Nobility Agrees to Aid in
Overcoming IIIteracY.


st. Petersburg, Sept. 29.-The no
bility of st. Petersburg at special
meeting have adopted eight resolu-
lions without dissension, all of liberal
reform character The most impor-
tant follow: That the legislative,
judicial and executive branches
should be separate from each other
and that equal justice be rendered to
everybody; that the clergy appoint
ments be effected effectively; that the
various ministers work in co-opera-
ton, and that ministers be held re-
sponsible for their acts; that meas
ures be taken to overcome the Hitter
acy of the masses and that freedom
to establish schools be granted to
everybody; that freedom of assembly,
organization, and the press be assur-
ed; that roads and other means Of
communication be improved and ex-
tended.
The inclusion of Siberia in the first
national assembly is assured, the Sol
sky commission having determined
on the allotment of fifteen Siberian
members, of which number one will
represent the city of Irkutsk. The
members will not be elected on class
basis. The franchise is bestowed on
owners of over 500 to 1000 acres of
land, depending on the fertility, or on
the proprietors of urban property of
similar value.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-10-05
SECRETARY SHAW
TO LEAVE CABINET

Des Moines, Sept. 27-Secretary of
the Treasury Leslie NJ. Shaw of Iowa
will retire from the cabinet in Febru-
airy. The statement was made by
him in a letter to G. b. Scheetz of
the Polk County Republican club re-
lative to the invitation of the club to
him to address it in November.
Secretary Shaw said in the letter
that he expected to resign his posi-
ton in the cabinet and to retire in
February and would then LII glad to
accept an invitation.
Washington, D. c., Sept. 27.-In re-
iterating his declaration of last March
that he would leave the cabinet about
February, Secretary Shaw last night
said:
81 shall leave the cabinet on or
about Feb l. as has been well known;
in fact, ever since l entered it. | an
nounced then that l should remain
only for a comparatively short time.
| had hoped to get out last March,
but consented to remain longer be-
cause certain interests kept me there,
but shall go next February
The secretary has not yet announ'
ced his plans for the future, but that
he looks to the vigorous prosecution
of the presidential campaign from now
on, and especially after his retire
ment from the cabinet, there is no
doubt entertained here.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-10-05
GEORGE GRISWOLD WAS
MURDERED, SAYS JURY

Des Moines, Oct. George r.
Griswold met his death at the hands
of an assassin.
This is the opinion of the coroner's
jury, which, after investigation ex-
tending over week, yesterday re-
turned a verdict declaring that the
Des Moines insurance man was the
victim of murder, and that his death
occurred before the body was thrown
in the river.
The verdict was returned only af-
ter a complete investigation of all the
evidence brought out following Girls
wolds death, a close examination OF
all facts connected with his myster-
ious disappearance, a study of the re-
port of Prof Charles n. Kinney, state
chemist, who analysed the contents
of the stomach taken from the body,
and a questioning of all who were
able to throw any light on his pre-
vious life or his whereabouts immed-
lately preceding his disappearance.
The report of the coroner's jury
officially settles the question raised
since the body was fully identified as
that of Griswold as to whether his
death was due to suicide or murder,
and discards the theory accepted by
Chief of Detectives Eli Hardin that
the case was a simple suicide.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-10-05
PACKERS TO TELL
OF OTHERS CRIME
Officials of SchWarzchiId &
SuIzberger Sub
poenaed.
ARE AFTER ARMOUR COMPANY
Head of the Beef Trust Before Fed
eral Judge-Several New Imports
ant Witnesses Secured BY Govern
ment in the Pending Gases.

Chicago, Sept. 28.--Max Sulzberger
of Chicago, vice president of the
Schwarzchild & Sulzberger company,
and E. B. Fish, who is one of the
traffic officials of the company, have
been subpoenaed by the government
as witnesses in the beef trust cases
to testify against Armour G. Co., and
the other defendants. Two other en-
ployes of the Schwarzchild e Sulz-
berger company have also been sub
poenaed by the government. officials
of the Schwarzchild & Sulzberger
company pleaded guilty recently to
charges of conspiracy to Illegally OBJ
tain railway rebates. The offenders
through pleading guilty escaped i'm
prisonment, being sentenced TO pay
fines aggregating $4,000.
Arguments were begun before Fed
eral Judge J. Otis Humphrey yester.
day in connection with plea in
abatement to the indictment against
J. Ogden Armour and other packers
charged with combining in restraint
of trade. The questions argued in
law before the court are demurrers
which allege insufficiency, allegations
by inference and a number of other
points under which it is claimed that
the plea should be denied.
The subpoenas made public yester-
on hI1t
the matter was kept secret. Traffic
Manager F. r. Fish, who has been
subpoenaed, is the witness whom it
was charged in an indictment, Attor-
ney Joseph Weissenbach and three
other men spirited away to Canada,
Government secret service men work
ed on the case for a long time, and
finally reported that Sulzberger and
the other three attaches Of the COM
pany are in possession of facts con-
corning a meeting of packing officials
held within the past year, almost
within the time of the grand jury in
vestigation. 1t was learned, it is de-
clared, that a representative of the
IS. & s.. company was seated at the
table about which the packers gath
cred. The details of this alleged
meeting will, it is hoped by the prose
cution, be exposed before the jury
which tries the PACKERS.
Attorney Weissenbach, however,
strenuously denied that the S. & S.
company is turning states evidence
in order to get even" with the other
packing companies He declared that
the witnesses will 60 on the stand I'M
der protest.
After a search of many weeks the
government officials have succeeded
in finding an important witness,
George L. Coffin, manager for Ham
mond & Co., at the stock yards. He
has been out of the city, it is declared,
for some time. He was subpoenaed
yesterday.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-10-05
SWEDEN HAS
AN EARTHQUAKE

Great Falls, Mont, Sept. 2S.-At the
county fair, which opened here yester-
day, there is on exhibition what the
inventor calls vineless potatoes. Three
months ago, d. d. Darst, the discov-
erer of the new process for producing
potatoes, announced that he could
grow potatoes in from two to three
months in a special preparation dis
covered by himself, in layers on top of
each other and without vines. His
experiments have been conducted In
a box eight feet square.
In the bottom Of this box layer Of
Darst's preparation is placed to
depth of three inches and potatoes
planted therein. Another layer of
three inches is scattered over the po-
tatoes and then more potatoes planted
in the usual manner and so on until
the box was full. Darst says that
the box may be built to almost any
height with layer after layer of pota-
toes without affecting the producing
quality of his composition and that
he can have new potatoes for market
in any climate at any time of the year.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-10-05
MOROCCAN AFFAIR
FINALLY SETTLED
France and Germany End
Difficult Negotia-
tons.
NOW READY FOR THE SULTAN
Document Will Be Presented African
for Signature - Accord Reached in
Regulation Of Contraband, Finan-
cial Reforms, Liberty of Country.

Paris, Sept. 29.-Premier Rouvier
and Prince Won Radolin, the German
ambassador, at noon yesterday sign
ed the Franco-German accord con-
corning the Moroccan conference,
thus definitely terminating the diff
cult negotiations.
Preceding the signature DR.. Rosen,
representing Germany, and M. Revolt,
in behalf of France, met at the For
eign office, and went over the final
details Of the protocol.
The official text of the Franco-Ger-
man accord on the subject of Moroc-
co, as given out, says:
The negotiations between France
and Germany concerning the pro-
gramme for the conference on Moroc-
can affairs has successfully termin-
ated. Accord is reached on a pro-
gramme comprising the organization
of the police, the regulation and re-
preston of contraband arms; finan-
clal reforms, consisting principally
OF the organization of state bank
and also the best means of collect.
ing duties and the creation of new
means Of revenue and also the detep
mination of principles destined to
safeguard the economic liberty Of
Morocco"
The agreement then makes a spec
ial reservation of the frontier region
between Algiers and Morocco where
the maintenance of police will be reg
ulated directly between France and
the sultan without submission to the
conference. The regulation OF con-
traband in the same region also re-
mains for France to determine with
the sultan. The two governments
unite in asking that Spain accept AL
giers as the place for the conference.
On the question of the recent Ger
man loan to Morocco it is agreed
that French bankers shall participate
with the Germans and there is a SIM
liar participation Of French firms in
building the harbor works at Tan
gier if a French company offers terms
equal to those Of the German con-
tractors.
Finally the accord provides for the
submission of the programme with
out delay to the sultan and the sigma
turtles of the convention of Madrid.
Upon it's submission to the sultan,
both the French and German missions
now at Fee, will return to Tangier.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-10-05
POOL To LOOK
AFTER LEGISLATION
Combination of Big lnsur-
ance Companies I'm
earthed.
SENSATION OF THE HEARING
Equitable, Mutual Life, and New York
Life nvolved-Hamilton on Legal
Staff and Received Money From
Equitable-Jacob r.. Schiff Testifies

New York, Sep. 30.-When the leg
islative committee on the insurance
investigation adjourned yesterday un-
til next Wednesday it concluded a
week in which greater progress had
been made than in any week since the
investigation begun. The testimony
of witnesses that have been called
during the week has been replete
with sensations and that taken yes
terday was no exception to the rule.
1t was during the afternoon session
when Alfred w. Maine, an associate
auditor of the Equitable Life Assur-
ance society, was called to the stand,
that it was disclosed that the Equit-
able Life, the Mutual Life, and the
New York Life companies had form
ed pool to look after legislation be-
fore the various state legislatures.
Andrew Hamilton, to whom President
Mccall of the New York Life paid
several checks, the purpose of which
the counsel for the committee, Mr..
Hughes, has not yet brought to light,
was one of the, chief members of the
legal staff for these companies and
was employed and received money
for services from the Equitable.
Mr.. Maine told of the division of
the country to be looked after by Mr..
Hamilton, in conjunction with E.
Short and W. p. Thummel. Witness
presented vouchers for moneys paid
by his company to Mr.. Hamilton, and
these showed that in eight years,
from 1895 to 1903, the sum of $685.
500 was paid to Mr.. Hamilton for leg
al services. Mr. Maine could not give
and details of the duties performed by
Mr.. Hamilton nor of the committees
he appeared before, beyond the fact
that Mr.. Hamilton looked after legal
matters for all three companies in the
states west of Ohio.
Witness told of an agreement
whereby special counsel was en-
ployed by one company in its terri
tory, and the expense was shared by
all. He was asked if campaign con-
tributions came under his observa-
ton, and he replied they did not. He
never heard of money being paid to
influence legislators. He was eX-
cused, but will be called again to sub
NIT transcripts of accounts giving in
formation he was unable to supply.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-10-05
BRUTAL DETECTIVE
SHOOTS A BOY
Awful Deed of a Member of
Des Moines Detective
Force.
IS CHARGED WITH MURDER
Public Indignation Becomes Thor
oughIy Aroused and Chief Jones
Discharges the Detective and Files
Charges Against Him.

Des Moines, Sept. 2S.-On Tuesday
afternoon Detective Frank Brothers
shot 12-year-old Howard Wittell, who,
he claimed, was trying to escape
while the detective was after him for
having stolen some small article. The
bullet, which was of 4S caliber, tore
its way through the boys arm and
lodged in the knee. After the shoot
ing the detective, with many curses,
dragged the lad a block and half
to the police station, where the city
physician gave him attention and he
was sent to the hospital. Brothers
declared that he did not know the
lad was shot; that his revolver had
exploded accidentally. Eye-witnesses
declare that the shooting was deli
berate.
A charge of assault with intent to
commit murder, was filed against
Brothers yesterday afternoon, but this
may be withdrawn and a charge of
murder substituted. Doctors who OPP
Grated on the lad yesterday afternoon
and evening state that the chances of
IAS IVY ISSOHCly uS
bullet was found to have penetrated
the bone of the right leg and to have
coursed its way through the marrow
and settled near the knee joint. The
operation failed in getting the bullet
and efforts to secure the leaden mis-
sile have been dropped.
The boy was so nervous last night
that it was thought he might succumb
to the nervous shock.
Frank Brothers relations with the
police department was severed yes.
terday morning when Chief Jones
summarily dismissed him from the
service. He was suspended the night
before.
Later Chief Jones filed charges of
assault with intent to commit murder
against Brothers; Brothers was ar
raigned, pleaded not guilty and was
released on bonds fixed at $4,000.
The action of Chief Jones in sum-
marily bringing about the dismissal
of Brothers from the force was due
largely to the great public indigna-
ton which made itself felt yesterday.
The initiative of Chief Jones and
others in bringing about the charges
against Brothers was soon followed
by the matter being reported to the
grand jury. The evidence was laid
before the body and the investigation
was commenced at once.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-10-05
LITTLE TOTS ARE
BURNED TO DEATH

FIT. Dodge, Sept. 2S.-Five children
were burned to death as the result of
a gasoline stove explosion at the home
of Frederick Adamson, an Illinois
Central employe, at an early hour yes.
terday morning
The dead are:
Edna Adamson, aged 10 years.
lrmiS Adamson, aged s.
Clarence Adamson, aged s.
Ernest Adamson, aged 8.
Raymond Secord, aged 8.
Mr.. Anderson left his home for work
early in the morning and shortly after
Mrs. Anderson left to call upon a
neighbOr. The children Were in the
upper story in their night clothes
when the explosion took place. Ray
uond Secord was a neighbours child
and had climbed up to the bedrooms
Of the little Andersons and was with
them when the fire broke out. They
were all unable to get down 5tlics and
as result were burned to death.
The fire was discovered by people
pc ssing who gave the alarm. When
the department arrived the flames
were coming out of the bed room
windows, where the children were
in bed. The firemen were forced to
drown out the fire before they could
enter. They found the two girls
with their heads buried in the pillows,
the two boys in another room with
neighbor boy who had come in for
visit. All were undressed but the
laNf +n1
were steaming hot and the flesh on the
little girls was loose. 1t required the
combined strength Of several neigh
bors to refrain the mother from plung-
ing into the burning building to rescue
her children. The fire wiped out all
the children of the family and it is
feared the terrible accident will I'M
balance the minds of the parents.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-10-05
CHOOSE DEATH RATHER
THAN VACCINATION

Colon. Oct. 2.-Laborers from Mar
Unique who arrived here on the
French line steamer Versailles are
giving much trouble. They refused
to disembark or to submit to vaccina-
ton, which is imperative under the
American sanitary regulations, and
clamored to be taken back to Martin
ioue, contending that they had been
misnformed as to the conditions
here, which they said were intoler-
able and deadly. Five hundred OF
of them were with difficulty persua-
ded to disembark Saturday morning,
and these we're sent to points along
the line of the canal
One hundred and fifty remained on
board and declined to leave the ship
under any consideration. These
we're forcibly elected from the YES
sci yesterday by Panaman and canal
zone policemen, but not until nearly
every one of them had been dubbed
and several were bleeding from nasty
wounds. All of Saturday and Sat-
urday night the Versailles was
guarded by Panaman policemen
The French consul appealed to
them but they would not listen. The
captain offered to return them II they
could pay their way. The men de-
clared the French government would
pay. They barred their breasts invok-
ing death in preference to going
ashore. Finally yesterday afternoon
at o'clock the police began club
bling the men, many of whom jumped
into the sea. None were drowned, as
all could swim and a boat picked
hem up.
Seeing that resistance was useless
he men yielded, came ashore and be-
gan to eat the food which had been
placed on the dock in sight for them
Tor several hours. Many of them had
not eaten since Saturday. At s
O'Clock all the laborers, who were
placed on board train which left
for Corozal, where they were put to
work.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-10-05
BAD WRECK OCCURS
NEAR IOWA CITY

4 Iowa City, Sept. 30.-Express No.
90 west bound, and freight No. "a east
bound, collided on the Rock Island
just west of here at noon yesterday,
fatally injuring two men. Several
passengers were badly bruised The
engines were smashed to pieces and
three freight cars plunged down the
embankment. Rogers, fireman on
the freight train, plunged down a
twenty-five-foot embankment and lies
In a critical condition in the S. U. /.
hospital. J. H. Frawley of Des
Moines had his foot crushed, with mi
nor bruises. Cal Hull had his head
badly scratched.
The responsibility for the wreck is
unknown. Either the freight, which
was sight hours late should have been
on the siding or the express should
have waited. The collision occurred
just west of high viaduct. The
engineer of the passenger, Frank
Hodges, seeing the freight bearing
down on the passenger, reversed and
jumped with George Downing, his
fireman. Both escaped injury.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-10-05
BEEF TRUST men
MUST STAND TRIAL

Chicago, Sept. 30.-Federal Judge
Otis ]. Humphrey yesterday sustained
the demurrer filed by United States
District Attorney Morrison to the
plea in abatement made by the pack
ers seeking to have indictments for
alleged restraint of trade declared
void. Judge Humphrey said he
made his decision on broad techni-
calities which the government ad-
vanced against the plea in abatement.
1t is likely that the jury for the trial
will be drawn about the middle of
October.
After the decision had been given
the defending attorneys tried to
amend the fourth plea by the inser-
ton of the word "for." This met
with resistance from the district at
torney, but the court promised. that
if the law was clear on the point he
would allow it. The government is
said to fear a trick in the insertion
of that one word. The district at
torney moved that the defendants
plead to the indictment.
It was announced that a demurrer
is to be filed by the packers, attack
ing the face of the entire indictment
as far as defects and insufficient ale
cations are concerned The defend
ants were ordered by the court to
plead next Thursday morning, the
pleadings to be taken up in argument
before Judge Humphrey by the follow
ing Monday. In the meantime a bill
of exceptions is to be prepared by
the defendants to the ruling made by
Judge Humphrey yesterday. Excep-
tions were taken by all Of the de-
PENDANTS to the courts ruling on every
count in the plea. This was for the
purposes of appeal after the trial.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-10-05
WITTE IS HERO OF THE
HOUR IN ST. PETERSBURG

st. Petersburg, Sept. 29.-M. Witte
arrived here yesterday and was &C
corded a very hearty reception by
large crowd of officials and others.
In brief speech, replying to well
coming address, NJ. Witte showed
clearly that he was deeply touched
by the welcome with which he was
received. When he left st. Petersburg
in July small delegation Of officers
accompanied him to the railroad sta
ton to bid him farewell. There was
no public demonstration whatever.
Yesterday there were seven or
eight times as many officials, despite
the very early hour of the trains ar
rival, and an enthusiastic crowd Of
500 to 600 people was present.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-10-05
KILLS 7 BABES
THEN HERSELF
Mother in Cambridge, Ill,
Commits Frenzled
Deed.
TRIES TO cREMATE BODIES
Hacks Throat With Knife and Falls
on Burning -Bereaved Husband
and Father Adds Last Touch of
Horror to Tragedy. BY Ending Life

Rock Island, H., Oct. Mrs Clar-
ence Markham of Cambridge, near
here, in fit of temporary insanity,
yesterday killed her seven children
with an ak, after which she placed
their bodies on a bed, saturated 1t
with coal oil and set fire to it. She.
then hacked her throat with knife
and threw herself on the burning bed.
Neighbors rescued her but she was
so badly burned that she died soon
after she had made a confession.
The eldest child was years old, the
youngest a baby in arms.
Neighbors, attracted by the smoke
Of the burning dwelling, rushed to
the residence and found Mrs Mark
ham covered with blood and badly
burned.
Barely able to tell her story, she
at first said the crime had been COM
mitted by a strange man, but later
when the sheriff arrived she admitted
that she had slain her children one
by one and attempted to destroy
their bodies and her own in the fire.
Soon afterwards she died. When
the ruins of the home had cooled, a
confirmation Of her story was had in
finding the charred corpses each with
it's skull crushed
The Markhams lived apart from
neighbors, the husband being en-
ployed as a laborer on a nearby farm.
He was compelled to be away from
home during thu day. Having noted
his wife acting queerly for several
weeks, he had kept the children, the
oldest of whom was only 9 years of
age, out of school to be with the
mother. She was never known to
exhibit violent tendencies previous
ly.
Late last night Clarence e. Mark
ham, husband and father of the vic
tins of the. tragedy, committed sui
eide by shooting himself after tying
a rope around his neck to choke him
self in case the bullet failed its pur-
pose.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-10-05
MAN and WOMAN
HELD FOR MURDER

Muscatine, Sept. 3O-William Nag
ell and Josephine Collette have been
indicted by the Rock Island county
grand jury for the murder of Carl
Brady on Island ''B'', a short dis
lance above Muscatine, on June 9.
Two indictments are returned
against each, one for murder and one
for being an accessory to the muir
der. They have each confessed to
having witnessed it, but each blamed
the other with the crime. Brady was
murdered in June, but his body was
not discovered until August, when
the arrests were made. The object
of the murder was the possession of
a $40 houseboat.