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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-13
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service.
New York, Sept. 13.-Curious deals
in SECURITIES and underwriting syndi-
Gates by the New York Life Insurance
were revealed late in yesterdays -ses-
sion of the legislature s insurance in
vestigating committee. Edmund D.
Randolph, treasurer of the New York
Life was on the witness stand practi-
cally all day. It was shown:
First, that a dummy sale of $500, 900
of bonds of the International Mercan-
tile Marine was made on Dec. 81, 1903.
at par to j. P. Morgan, in order that
the company might not have to include
them in its annual report to the state
superintendent of insurance and that
the bonds were bought back on Jan,
2, 1904 -..: -,
Helped Out a Merger.
Second, that the New York Life. in
March,, 1904, relieved the New York Sc.
cur1ty u Trust company of $l.5 .OOC
OF bonds of the New Orleans Traction
company and Of a syndicate participa.
tion Of ,8S5,00O-paying in cash AZ,
o0O,O0O for the latter and 1880 0 fol
Ghe former-to enable the Security &
trust company to merge with the Con
tlnental Trust company, which had OBJ
lected to former heavy interest in the
tract!on company. The only explana
ton MI. Randolph could offer for this
was that three years before the New
York Life had made SIS, 1000, 900 by os
tenslbly selling it's stock in the Secur
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-13
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service.
London, Sept. 13.-There is reason to
believe hat the British government is
actively endeavoring to prevent a rup-
ture in the negotiations between the
Swedish and Norwegian commissioners
at Karlstad. These efforts for the
present take the form of friendly coun-
sci to both sides to exercise the utmost
moderation at T this critical time, but
the advice is coupled with a firm init
nation that Great Britain could not re-
gard with equanimity ga forcible set
Element of the. northern question:
This means that Great Britain feels
that it could not afford to remain a
passive observer of war on the Scandi-
navian peninsula, which would wreck
the power and prosperity of both bel
ligerents, leaving them at the mercy of
their mighty and ambitious neighbors
to the east and south.
The diplomatic pressure which the
government is bringing to bear at
Stockholm and Christiania to influence
both sets of negotiators is supplemented
by timely articles by British military
critics on the'"fortress incubus These
articles are intended to convince the
,Swedes on the other hand that they are
e%herishing a delusion if they think an
invading army could successfully estab-
lish a base for itself at, Kongsvinger or
Fredriksten, on the Norwegian from
tier, while , on the other hand
Norwegians are assured that it is folly
to believe Notifications erected at a
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-13
KEEPS TWO WIVES
ON $3.50 A WEEK
Chicago Mans Double Life on
Small Wage Is Exposed
After a Year. g
New York Sun Special Service,

New York Sun Special Service.
Chicago, Sept. l3.-Admitting that he
has two wives and that for more than
a year he has been keeping up two
households on $3.50 a week, visiting
ms wives on alternate nights, Stanley
Soblezlk, a blacksmith, wa bound over
to the criminal court by Justice Sever
son today, charged with bigamy.
The two women, each carrying a girl
baby, were seated side by side in court,
and chatted during the proceedings. The
two babies are exactly the same age,
four months and nine days, and bear
the same name, Anna.
Discovered by Mrs. wedlock.
The discovery Of sobiezik,s double
life was made by Mrs. Julia Wedlock,
who IS a friend of both women!
When sobiezik,, who earns but $3.50
led off to jail, he took his wives in his
arms, kissed them good bye, and made
them promise to visit him in the jail.
This they agreed to do, and each added
to the promise by declaring that she
would bring the baby.
The marital career of the blacksmith
began eleven years ago, when he. mar,
ried Miss Polly Skalski, and established
a home at S05 North Paulina street.
Inc second Wire, VINO was MISS hate
kalus, he married a year ago and estab'
lished a home at 122 West Fifteenth
street.
The Story That event."
In explaining how he managed tc
support the two establishments in secre
cy Sobiezik declared that to each he
he had told them that by working every
other night as a Waterman in the shoI
where he was employed he was able t.
earn additional money.
He declared that altho he earned bu'
$12.50 a week, he supported both es
Establishments in comfort, and in this h
was corrohorated by his wives.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-13

"Herzig further stated that aftel
committing the murder and exchanging
shirts with Charles Sterling, he walked
from Youngstown to Warren, where for
a time he vas employed as a stable
man and gardener for a lawyer named
"After sterling's arrest and first
went to Mesopotamia, in the northern
part Of Trumbull county, Ohio, where
he said there were several leather beds
in underground caves used by horse
thieves and cutthroats as a place of
hiding. He remained there until the
V of Sterling's execution, when he
left the country en- a horse, which he
stole from a farmer and commenced his
journey westward.
Married in Colorado.
"He lived for several years in Tellu-
ride, in the San Juan country of Colo
RADIO, and there married a woman with
whom he lived for two years. AS the
country began to settle up with east
err people, some coming from Niles and
Youngstown, he became frightened,
abandoned his wife and a child which
had been born to them, and left for
the Pacific slope, remaining in Death
Valley for a long time.
81 refused to listen to any further
details of what seemed to me to be a
wild story, and as | walked away he
said that 1 would soon see him dead"
Carried Girls Veil Thirty Years.
Charles Grow, who formerly lived in
Youngstown and is now in the clothing
business here, when asked regarding
the greenwich portion of Herzig's story,
said that if he remembered correctly,
a green face veil figured in the evidence
and that he believed the Grombacher
girl had been strangled with a veil Of
this description which she was wearing
over her hat.
He thinks it probable that the u
derer took the veil from her hat and
tore it in strips, tying a portion of it
about her neck and concealing the re-
mainder in his pocket.
Herzig may have carried this about
with him for the last thirty years., all
ways intending to use IT some time to
had destroyed that of the innocent
young girl.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-13
Confessed Murderer of Beautiful
Ohio Girl Ends His Mis-
cradle Life.
BANGLES FROM TREE
ON EDGE OF PRECIPICE
Portions Of Veil with Which He
Strangled the Girl Tied
Round His Neck.
Special to The Journal,

Special to The Journal,
Minot, N. D., Sept. l3.-Late last
night the dead body of Charles Her
zig, the confessed murderer of Lizzie
Grombacher, the Youngstown, Ohio, girl,
was found in a deep ravine just over
the line in the unorganized county Of
Wallace.
Herzig had committed suicide by
hanging. Before leaving the Dyer farm
he had secured a common halter, which
was provided with a rope in lieu of
a hltching strap, which had been cut
from the halter proper.
He fastened one end of the rope to
a small tree growing on the edge Of
a high precipice, AMI after placing the
other end securely around his neck,
leaped into eternity. A piece of a
woman's green face veil was also tight
ly tied about his neck, and it is be-
lieved that Herzig first attempted sui
eide by s~trangulation. From the ap-
pearance Of the body Herzig had been
dead about two days.
Note Pinned on Breast.
Pinned to his breast, on a piece of
common store wrapping paper was the
following note of Identification and
| explanations:
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-13
DUMMY DEALS BY
NEW YORK LIFE
Insurance Investigators Unearth Curious Trans
actions BY Which Company's Heads
Reap from Bond Trades.

ity & Trust company. After the pur-
chase of these securities the New Or
leans Traction company went into the
hands of a receiver and the New York
Life lost $4,000 Of policyhoulers
money.
Millions on Card Records.
Third, that millions of dollars of nom
ledger assets were not recorded in the
books of the company, but simply on
cards, not quite as large as postal cards.
Fourth, that h ~company's ownership
of these non-ledger assets was not in
cluded in the New York Lies sworn
reports of it's condition.
Fifth, that the New York Life has
entered into an arrangement with the
First National bank, of which George
Baker is president, sometimes called
Morgan bank, by which millions of
dollars will be kept constantly on de-
post there and receive in interest one
half per cent less than the bank makes
on it's loans. .
Many eccentricities in bookkeeping
were also brought OUT by Inquisito1
Hughes. The hearing closed with a re.
buke by Assemblyman Rogers of Mr.
Randolph, who had refused to answer
a question, altho President Mccall
promised that the New York Life would
frankly. and fully respond to all in
quiries.
Frederick Fl. Shipman, assistant treas
urer for the last three years of the
No,+;,,ol - OIL Doro ~ r,I,u.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-13
NEW VOLCANO Is S
~. T FORMED IN ITALY

Paris, Sept. l3.-The Rome cores
pondent of the Petit Parisien says
that a fresh volcano has been formed
fifteen kilometers from Montalto.
All commerce in three districts of
Calabria has been destroyed, 200, 900
people have been more or less ruined
and there is great difficulty in organic
ing the relief work. The king will re-
main a week in Calabria.
<Montalto is the highest point (6,420
feet) Of the %mountain range which ter
m mlha5e @t On Of ofe the eaI beotn@ s0aod IS IS t isa,y
fore about the most southerly point in
Calabria. C%antanzaro, which appears
to have been the center of seismic dis
t%urbances, is about seventy miles north
of Montalto.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-13
TRAINS COLLIDE;
ENGINEER KILLED

Des Moines, Sept. 1.-Two freight
trains crashed together on the Rock
Island road east Of Nicola early today,
and Engineer Ed Frick of Valley juno
ton was caught between the engines
and crushed to death.
His fireman had his leg broken in
three places. Hundreds of cattle and:
hogs were killed.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-13

Ny name is Charles Herzig.
Over thirty years ago I murdered
and criminally assaulted a young
girl named Lizzie E. Grombacher
near Youngstown, Ohio. Charles
Sterling, an innocent man, was
tried, convicted and hanged for
the murder of this girl. If my
body is ever found, notify my
mother, Catherine Herzig, at Gil
rard. Ohio.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-13
256 LOST, 343 HURT,
ID MIKASA DISASTER

Washington, Sept. 13.-The bureau Of
naval intelligence today received ad;
vices by cable from the American naval
attache at Toxic to the effect that the
loss in killed and missing on the battle
ship Mikasa- was 256. The wounded
numbered 343. The cause of the acel-
dent cannot be ascertained until the
Mikasa is floated. Admiral Togo was
not ON board at the time of the disas-
ter.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-13
.sSWEDEN rs PACIFICo

POLITICIANS D1savoW Intent to Oppose
the Norwegian Treaty.
Stockholm, Sweden, Sept. 13.-Polit-
zeal circles disavow any desire on the
tion treaty demanded by Norway, but
they point out that only the prelimina-
ry negotiations in regard to the form
and contents Of such a treaty can be
discussed at present, as. the conclusion
Of a treaty is impossible until Norway
has accepted Sweden's conditions and
the latter has recognized Norway as an
independent sovereign state. The
Swedish intentions, it is declared, arc
wholly pacific.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-13

MRS. s. j.. o'BRIEN FOR PRESIDENT.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Sept. 12.-The Iowa
Fraternal congress today elected as presi-
lent Mrs. S. J. O'Brien Of Lexington.
Des Moines was made the next meeting
place. -"'
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-13
Delegates at Karlstad.

dC hdIlSGdu.
Karlstad, Sweden, Sept. 13.-The
Norwegian and Swedish delegates ap-
pointed to discuss the dissolution Of
Norway and Sweden have all arrived
here to resume negotiations.
A two hours session was held be-
fore luncheon, when the delegates adj
iourned for the afternoon. The same
secrecy was observed as to the course
of the negotiations as at the previous
meetings.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-13
SCANDLN41 VANS A
PARLEY'S CRISIS
Great Britain Steps In, to Soothe Norway and
Sweden and Prevent a Rupture
at KarLstad.

cost of $750,000 could be of much avail
in checking the advance Of a modern
army.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-13
NO FOREIGN LABOR
ON PANAMA CANAL
Labor Unions Gain Their Point,
and West Indian Laborers
Will Dig Ditch.

Washington, Sept. 13.-The Panama
canal will be built by the labor of West
Indian negroes, chiefly because Of the
objection Of labor unions. Chairman
Shonts has abandoned the proposed ex-
pertinent with foreign laborers, and
will make no contract for the delivery
on the isthmus Of large numbers of
Chinese, japanese and italian work
men, as was contemplated several weeks
ago. It has been found that enough
strong, husky West Indian negroes vol
unfairly drift into Panama in search Of
work, to provide all the laborers re-
quired on the canal.
News of the intention to contract for
the delivery of foreign laborers, like
so many tons of coal, leaked out. Pres
ident Gompers, of the American FEEDER
alton Of Labor, made a hurried visit to
Oyster Bay. The placing of the ad-
vertisements for bids was postponed.
Now it is learned that the project has
has bene dropped altogether.
Roosevelt Wants Truth.
Upon the occasion of the recent visit
of the consulting. engineers of the canal
at Oyster Bay, the president addressed
to them a few remarks which will be
printed shortly and presented to the
members. After bidding them welcome
he urged them to use all the speed they
could safely make in coming to a con-
clusion as to the best plan for digging
the canal, SO that he might have ample
time for studying the report before
sending it to congress.
He did not express himself in favor
of either a lock canal or a sea-level
canal and refrained from any technical
observations, but urged the members to
state their opinion without the slight
est hesitation sand to send him reports
not as ne should like to get them, but
as he ought to get them.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-13

"'Here is the thing I ended her
life, with, and I have kept it all
these years with a view of dying
as she died.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-13
TAKE TIE HINT

Todaymay be your 3slucky day
but unless you read the Want
Ads you may not find it out.
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Continued on I'd Page, 18th Column.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-13

The Journal-Six issues-carr1es
more advertising than its near
est competitor does in 7 issues.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-19
in Chinese WATERS
RUSSIAN fleet said TO have
TAKEN Refuge There.

Hong Hong, April l9.-It is reported
here that the Chinese government has
received information that the Russian
fleet, under command Of Admiral Ro-
jestventsky, has taken refuge in bay
on the Chinese coast north of Hong
Hong. 1t is stated that the Japanese
government has made An urgent de.
mand that the Chinese government send
word to the Russians to get out at
once, and also that Japan has told
China that she will be held strictly &C.
countable should ths Russians use neu.
trail harbors for the purpose of taking
on stores or resting.
A report is in circulation here but is
not confirmed, that the American Maru,
Japanese scouting ship, has been
damaged as the result Of a conflict
with Russian cruiser. 1t is imposs.
ible to trace the origin of this rumo1.
"A dispatch to London paper says
that.a portion of the Russian squadron
was seen Sunday at Turan bay, about
$50 miles ne rth Of Kamranh bay.
Turan bay is between latitude 16. and
latitude II north. According to ad.
vices from Haifong to a Paris news.
paper, 40 Russian vesselsl were recent.
ly sighted in that latitude steaming
north.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-19
WASHINGTON NEWS.

c. l.. Smith of the Inland Farmer
has been employed by the National r.
rigation association to give addresses
on irrigation In the state. Mr.. Smith
and c. Eugene Bortle will be in the
Okanogan country the same time the
engineers are there. They will ad-
dress irrigation meetings at Brewster,
Alma and Riverside.
The board of engineers of the recla.
nation service that is studying the
Palouse project has announced that 1t
will not take up the Okanogan pro-
ject at Wenatchee. Wash, April %. as
1t intended. Instead the engineers will
make special examination Of the
project and will meet the people in
terested in 1t at Riverside, Wash,
later.
The farmers of the Harrington
wheat belt are making considerable
complaint about a small worm work
ing on the growing wheat Of that sec
ton. much after the manner Of a cut
worm. The affliction seems to be
quite general throughout that vicin-
ity, but how great ia the damage re-
mains to be seen, as the worm has
only made its appearance during the
past week or 10 days.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-19
HIGH TRIBUTE TO cHoATE.
Ambassador Honored by British Bench
and Bar,


London.-"Farewell! Rejoice! He
goes back to his home with his duty
well and nobly done, taking the uni.
versal respect and admiration of q
kindred nation and its own"
Thus concluded Lord Chancellor
Halbury's tribute at parting with Am.
erican Ambassador Choate, who re-
Gently was distinguished by election
as member Of the Middle Temple
and who was honored by the great.
est gathering Of the bench and bar in
the history Of the inns of court. The
attorney general. Sir n. R. Finlay.
seconded the toast, saying:
This is no ordinary occasion. New
er has worthler man occupied the
post Of ambassador to Great Britain.
fection. Never was there a more well
come guest at the inns than this con-
summate advocate. great diplomatist
and genial man of the world"
The assembly was extraordinary In
character and numbered nearly 400
members Of the bench and bar, In
cluding almost every leading Justice
and barrister In England. Mr.. Choate
sat between Lord Halsbury and Lord
Mighaton. lord Of appeal in ordinary.
Then ranged on both sides were the
venerable privy councillors. each wear
Ing his decorations and orders. Other
notable personages were present.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-19
Roosevelt In the Wilds.

Glenwood Springs, Col. April H.
No word reached Secretary Loeb Sun.
day from the presidents camp. and
It is not known here whether the
sport goes well or Ill with the party.
Communication will be opened tOmor-
row, and 1t is expected that courier
will arrive early In the morning. On
his return trip he will carry to the
president a large batch OF personal
mail, as well as many letters for DR..
Alexander Lambert and others who
are with the party. There Is a tele-
phone about four miles from the camp.
but the subscriber has discouraged its
use as a means of sending out news
Of the hunt. Secretary Loeb and
other members Of the presidents par
ty who have headquarters at the Hotel
Colorado, took long horseback ride
today, visiting the Devereaux ranch.
west OF Glenwood. and the elk pens
nearby. They also swan in the hot
springs pool with icy rain falling on
their heads and snow falling heavily
on the surrounding mountain tops.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-19
ABOUT GRAND DUKES,
Said to Be the Most Hated Men II
the World,


Russia's grand uukes are the mos
hated men in the world today. The,
are also amazingly wealthy. The s,
odd grand dukes and grand duchesse,
annually share between them SIC, 900,
900. the profits realized on the enor
nous revenues from the natiopa
treasury, and some are suspected o
making money by robbing the govern
ment under the system that is knowI
here as graft"
Yet the grand ducal party is by NJ
means satisfied. 1t is the grand duke.
who have forced upon Russia tn,
disastrour war with Japan, who hav,
stirred the whole country into a revo
lutionary ferment.
To the war they have made the,
have not contributed one rouble. Their,
Is not single grand duke fghtin,
his country's battles today. Not on,
has given a copeck towards providin,
warm clothing for the humblest sol
dier. or for medicine for the wounded
and sick.
The Grand Duke Vladimir is tn,
most important OF them ALL I'm
scrupulous and headstrong. the rea
murderer of the st. Petersburg work
men, Vladimir sticks at nothing tt
gain his ends.
When the chief stationmaster Al
Warsaw the other day, goaded by the
vile names which Vladimir showeret
upon him, because a train was late
was bold enough to strike the grant
duke. an officer Immediately ran his
sword through the railway mans body
Thanking the officer, Vladimir turned
away. leaving the stationmaster, un
attended, to bleed to death. Such
tyrant may one day be himself EN-
peror of all the Russias.
OF the other brothers of the late
czar there are the Grand Dukes Alexis
and Paul. Alexis, the stay at home
grand admiral Of the Baltic feet, is
credited with having allowed the Rus
sian navy to get into its present de.
plorable condition of inefficiency. He
Is gay man, spends his free time in
Paris, and has an evil name for finan.
cial corruption.
The Grand Duke Paul is a person OF
no cOnsequence-tO Russia.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-19
Bargain Sale Mobs.

Thousands Of men, women and chill
dren seeking bargains at the new FIVE
and ten cent store opened Saturday
in Philadelphia fought wildly to enter
the building, and in the rush which
followed every time the doors were
opened scores of weaker ones were
trampled beneath the feet of the more
robust bargain hunters.
The crowd In front Of the store en-
trance blocked the street and stopped
the streetcars. Some bargain seekers
stood for hours with infants in their
arms fighting. scratching and scream
ing. They struggled fercely to enter
the store. Women we're trampled to
the pavement and babies were torn
from the arms Of mothers. The en-
tire police force was summoned and
ambulances from Jefferson. Penna and
Hahneman hospitals hastened to the
scene to carry of the injured.
For half an hour there was also an
immovable jam inside the stores. In
the rear of the store a temporary
medical ward was organized to care
for women who tainted.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-19
Suicide In Church Tower.

st. Louis, April 16.-As the pastor
of st. James Episcopal church. Rev.
r. NJ. Duckworth. was delivering his
Palm Sunday sermon to Q large con-
gregation, there was q report Of a
pistol shot from the tower OF the
church. The explosion startled the au-
dience and caused the preacher to
stop speaking for q moment
After the closing hymn and benedic-
tion 1t was announced that the sexton
of the church, Captain James Rider.
had committed suicide In the tower
room OF the church and that his body
was lying overhead. After o prayer
for the departed soul the congregation
was dismissed.
Captain Riders death. DR.. Duck.
worth said. was due to remorse and
shame over his besetting vice. intem.
perance, an infrmity that had driven
him from a high state Of life, that of
a wealthy. refined and esteemed Brit.
fish shipowner. and public lecturer. to
the life Of travelling actor and finally
to be q church sexton.