The National tribune., 1906-03-29
PEOPLE.

tive from PENNSYLVANIA, died March 20,
at Muskegon, Mich, where he bad gone
to look after some legal matters. He
Was born at LutnerSburg, Pa, in 1851,
and educated for the law. He was
elected to the 54th Congress and re-
ele cted to the 55th. The remains were
brought to his home in Dubois, Pa,
for interment.
Chicago learns that the President is
rot at all well disposed to appoint
Judge Peter s. Grosscup, of the United
States Circuit Court. to the Supreme
Court. There has been quite a strong
pressure TO secure this appointment for
him.
Representative Hermann, of Oregon,
who. has been indicted on the charge
of destroying certain records in letter
press books in the Land Office, of which
ne was Commissioner, is now Oh trial
and is fighting every step. The latest
was q motion for a bill of particulars,
in which he sets forth that he was
Commissioner of the office for six years
and that the letter-press copy books,
preceding his term and during his
term, were destroyed after a certain
period as n matter of office routine, so
that the specified act alleged in the
Indictment is not an indictable offense,
and he cannot safely go TO trial with
out definite information as to what
books were meant.
Alexander Berkman, Anarchist, who
attempted to kill Henry Clay Frick.
VIII leave the penitentiary April IS,
after Ia years of confinement for that
cfiense. July 23. 1892, he forced his
way into the office of the Carnegie
| Steel Company, and fired three shots
at Frick from a distance of four feet.
Two bullets entered Frick's throat and
the third went astray, when Berkman
attacked him with knife. 1t was
hot ha
of an anarchistic society, and he was
sentenced 10 22 years imprisonment,
with one year in the Allegheny Work
house. He has behaved so well while
in prison that he has secured q COM
mutation of nine years. During his
imprisonment Emma Goldman, also
distinguished as an Anarchist and re-
| puted to be the mistress of Berkman
| plotted his escape, and by the aid of
sccompliceS dug a 260-foot tunnel un-
| der the street and to the cellar Of the
prison hospital. The noise of the work
was drowned by the incessant piano.
Tiaying and singing of Emma Goldman
during the worEing hours. Berkman
Lad attracted suspicion by sounding
the ground OF the prison yard and his
| frequent malingerings TO get into the
hospital. This led the guards to con-
fine him closely, which was all that
| prevented. his escape He is Russian
VIII probably take Johann Most's place
at the head of the Anarchists in Amer.
| ica. The Anarch;stic Society subscribed
| $1,000 to pay the expense of the tun-
| !icl TO liberate MIN Mr.. Frick does
not intend TO take anv chances, but has
| employed a first class detective to con-
| tinually shadow Betkman wherever he
| goes and prevent an" renewal of the
attack upon the steel magnate.
Norman Mack, Editor OF the Buffalo
| Times and member from New York of
the Democratic National Committee
says that if William Randolph Hearst
| is elected Governor of New York he
| is almost certain of the Democratic
nomination for President in 1908, and
William Jennings Bryan will not op-
| pose him. Mr.. Mack does not see how
! in such an event Hearst could be beat
en- for President.
The stiffness of J. Edward Addicks
| is illustrated by suit now before the
| New York courts. A firm of brokers
| managed to secure a judgment against
Addicks for $212,g44 for transactions
which occurred six years ago. 1t took
year TO serve Addicks with the sum-
mons and complaint; the action took
| five years to try. and so far they have
| only succeeded in collecting $19,447
! and they are now trying to attach a
deposit of $4,000 which they discov-
cred had been made in real estate
transaction.
A son has been born to John D.
| Rockefeller, Jr., who seems destined to
be the richest man in the world. John
| ID. has another child, daughter, but
! it is certain that the son will receive
the bulk of the fortune not only of his
| Grandfather Rockefeller, but of his
Grandfather Aldrich, Senator from
Rhode Island. who is also a multi
millionaire. Grandfather Rockefeller