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New-York tribune., 1907-10-12
ARREST BROKERS' MAN.
HELD IN BIG BAIL.
j. II. OHphant 6 Co. Haze Erperts
at Work on Managers Books.

Arrested on the charge of having msappro-
priated S2,75O George II. Brouwer. said to be
manager of the brokerage firm of James H.
Ohphant & Co, at No. 90 Broad street was
held late yesterday afternoon in the large bail
OF $4,000 by Judge Grain. in General Sessions.
to plead to an Indictment on Monday In the
indictment, arrest and arraignment of the pris-
oner utmost secrecy was maintained.
In placing the amount of bail at such high
figure, Judge Grain said it was done at the re-
quest of the District Attorneys office. The
specific charge is grand larceny. and ordinarily
it does not call for such large bail The firm
has experts at work on its books. and they have
not yet made their final report. Until the ac-
countants have completed their work the firm
will be unable to make a statement.
A member of the firm acknowledged last night
that Irregularities in their books had been dis
covered by the experts, but he would not state
how large they were.
For the last six years Brouwer. who is mar
ried and lives at No. 335 Washington avenue.
Brooklyn, has been the manager of the firm.
The members of the firm are James H. OIiphant.
Alfred L. Norris, Floyd w. Mundy and j. Norris
Olphant
In the offices of the brokerage firm jay F.
Carlisle a broker. whose home is at No. 37S
Clinton avenue, Brooklyn. has desk room. He
dealt frequently with the firm, Early in the
summer Mr.. Carlisle went to Europe. Before
going, according TO the allegations. he placed
several matters in the hands of Brouwer. one
being the sale of some property in the Berk-
shires.
Soon after Mr., Carlisle sailed 1t Is alleged
tnat Brouwer sold the property and received a
check for $3.50. Instead of placing the money
to Mr. Carlise's account with the brokerage
firm, it is alleged, he misapproprlated it to his
own use The date OF the check was August 80.
Upon his return from Europe Mr.. Carlisle
discovered, it is charged, that the check had
not been placed in the proper account and i'm
mediately consulted the manager of the broker
age firm. Mr.. Carlisle then had conference
with the members of the brokerage firm.
Mr.. Carlisle appeared before the grand jury
yesterday morning and on his testimony an
indictment found against Brouwer. A
bench warrant was Immediately issued by
Judge Grain. and Assistant District Attorney
Perkins handed 1t over TO Detectives Flood and
FitzsimmOns.
Brouwer found at his home in Brooklyn
and arrested. Before leaving his home he
communicated with James W. Osborne former
Assistant District Attorney. and two friends.
When he arrived at the Criminal Courts Build
ing Mr. Osborne and two men were there
waiting for him Brouwer arraigned at
once before Judge Grain and bail placed at
10000. one Of the two men with Mr.. Osborne
qualified for the amount and bail bonds were
quickly arranged.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-12
FIERCE RIOTS IN MILAN
Troops Fire on Mob-4 General
Strike Declared.

Milan, Oct. IA general strike was declared
here to-day as the result of fight between the
striking gas workers and body of strike
breakers. in which the carbineers were forced
to interfere and fire on the mob. No newspapers
will be published in Milan tomorrow.
The situation tonight is serious All the fac
tories are guarded by troops. The streetcar lines
have stopped running and all stores are closed
There have been many minor encounters and the
strikers have cut the wires conveying electricity
for the city lights. The government has ordered
a large detachment of troops into Milan
The railroad men went out late tonight and
all trains running to Switzerland and Venice are
tied UP.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-12
sUNFIsH TO KILL TYPHOID GERMS.
Pittsburg Imports Seventy Thousand to Pre-
vent Another Epidemic.
LRx Telegraph to The Tribune. ]

Pittsburg. Oct 1l.-In order to prevent a
typhoid fever epidemic from visiting Pittsburg
next summer, as was the case during the last
two summers. the city has imported seventy
thousand sunfish. which DR.. Edwards. of the
Bureau of Health. expects to do the work. The
fish are being placed in the streams in the
mark while large number will be placed IN
the reservoirs. Another batch. expected soon.
will be put in the Allegheny River, near the
pumping station at Brilliant
Dr. Edwards declares that If there is any
thing a sunfish likes 1t is the typhoid fever
germ 1t is also asserted that the fish are
sure death" to malaria germs.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-12
SMALL FIRE CLEARS HOSPITAL.
Patients Hurried Out of Post Graduate When
Smoke Fills Hall

small fire in one Of the switchboard rooms
of the POSTGRADUATE Hospital last night af-
forded opportunity to test the ability of the
authorities in removing patients from the build
ing in times of danger. The fire did not spread
beyond the closet. but dense volumes of smoke
filled the lower hall of the institution
Before learning the of the smoke Miss
Annie NJ. Rykert. the supervising nurse. and DIR.
Edward Galloway, the house surgeon. sounded
the fire drill call. Orderlies and nurses placed
the bed patients, including fifty children. on
emergency stretchers and hurried them down
stairs, while the convalescent patients were
taken to the lower floor In the elevator
New-York tribune., 1907-10-12
THE EMPEROR SINKING.
CRAZE FEARS At VIENNA.
FeUer IncreaseS-Pneum0nia Symp-
tOmS-ROyaI Visit Postponed.

Vienna, Oct. n--This night is a critical one
for Francis Joseph the aged Emperor King OF
Austria Hungary. His majesty's physicians are
visibly becoming anxious The fever. which has
lasted ten days, seems to have exhausted the
wonderfully trained system of the monarch. and
the symptoms of Inflammation of the lungs are
growing. Five times in the course of to-day
his majesty remained for half an hour in state
of almost complete apathy
Depression has taken hold of his majesty $
household, and the monarch's condition is
watched with the greatest anxiety. His majes
tvs personal attendants are two old Wallets who
have served him for many years.
The doctors say that everything depends on
how he passes this night
The condition of the Emperor changed for
the worse tonight The doctors in attendance
examined the patient at a late hour for one
hour and a half. 1t was then announced that
the fever had increased and that the patient
was subject TO alternating attacks of apathy
and nervous excitement. There was in circu-
lation here tonight n rumor. which, however,
lacks confirmation, that his majesty was suf-
fering from disease of the lungs and arterio-
sclerosis, thickenng of the walls of the arter-
les.
The Emperor refrains from conversation al
most entirely and receives no one not even
Archduke Ferdinand, the heir to the throne.
To-day the archduke drove out to Schoenbrunn
Palace, but he did not see the Emperor.
His majesty to-day was able to read official
reports. and showed great interest in the pro-
gramme OF the festivities in honor of the com
ing of the King and Queen of Spain. The royal
visit was scheduled fer October Is, but n
dispatch from Madrid tonight says that it
has been postponed indefinitely
New-York tribune., 1907-10-12
SENDS COURIER FOR BALL SCORES.
President Roosevelt and Others in His Party
Pulling for the Detroit Team.
LBy Telegraph to The TrIbune. ]

Delta La, Oct. 11.-Although buried in the
iungles and denied all communication with the
outside world, President Roosevelt is interested
in the ordinary events of the day. according to
travellers who have come here from the nearest
approach to the camp. where the President and
his party are hunting.
Having heard nothing from the worlds base
hail series President Roosevelt sent a special
messenger 10 STEAMBOAT, according TO the trav-
ellers. TO get the results Of the games played
between the Chicago and Detroit teams The
bulletin of games had been received there, but
for SONS reason 40 report was forwarded TO
the Presidents camp
The entire party, including the President. it
vas said. were pulling" for the Detroits, be-
cause they were regarded as the under dog"
New-York tribune., 1907-10-12
NEW ROCKEFELLER GIFT
University of Chicago Receives
5000, 900 More from Him.

Chicago. Oct. 11-John D, Rockefeller gave the
University of Chicago S6OOOOO to-day to erect
the memorial library that the university will
dedicate to William Rainey Harper, first presi-
dent of the institution
This gift makes Mr.. Rockefellers total gifts to
the university now aggregate S2S.OOOOOO
Girard College is said to be the second wealth.
est scAooI in the United States with S21 495 O72;
Leland Stanford Junior University, third. with
S2OOOO.OOO; Harvard fourth. with $1SO36O25;
Columbia fifth. with 564647O.
Work on the Harper Library will begin next
spring.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-12
BLACK HAND KEEPS BROKER AT HOME
August Ziegler Neglects Business to Protect
His Family.

August II. Ziegler. well-to-do broker, of No.
2S Water street. Manhattan. has been made the
victim of a Black Hand plot. and since last
Tuesday has not dared to leave his home, at No.
40 Third Place. Brooklyn, for fear that his chill
dren would be kidnapped or that some other in
jury would be done 10 his family. Last Monday
he got a letter demanding that he deposit $500
in an envelope under a stepping stone at Union
street and Prospect Park Plaza. On Thursday
he frustrated an Italians attempt TO kidnap his
little girl, and that evening he placed a letter
with some valueless notes in the appointed place.
When he revisited the spot yesterday morning
they had disappeared. The police have been
working on the since Tuesday.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-12
BURGLAR KILLS WEALTHY CLUBMAN
Body of Rich Evanstonian Found on Lawn
in Front of Cousins House.
IBy Telegraph to The Tribune.I

Chicago Oct. I-Frank Howe Russell wealthy
Evanston clubman found shot to death early
to-day on the lawn front of No. 1913 Hlnman ave-
nue.. Evanston. Relatives declare he was muir
dered.
INV cousin was undoubtedly shot down by a
burglar" said John E. Stockton. HE came to the
house late at night and rang the bell. w e. Stock
Ton was undressing but he started toward the door
A moment later there was a shot. AS the door was
opened Mr. Stockton the flash of burglars
lantern or the porch of a house across the street
Mr. Stockton investigated, but found nothing. not
even the body of Mr.. Russell and went back into
house"
New-York tribune., 1907-10-12
WIRELESS TELEPHONING.
Message Sent Tacenty-tsco Miles
from BattLeShip Virginia.
LBy Telegraph to The Tribunal ]

Norfolk, Va. oct. 11.-Dr. Lee De Forest an
nounced tonight that he and his assistant
talked to-day from the deck OF the battleship
Virginia, at the Norfolk Navy Yard. to the in
coming steamer Hamilton, of the old Dominion
Line, when six miles outside Of the capes, a
distance Of twenty miles, by air line.
While the wireless telegraph operator heard
distinctly what said. he could not reply
having no telephone equipment but he imme-
diatey wired back the message, showing that
it had been heard.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-12
GENERAL GRANT IN PRACTICE RIDE
Accompanies Other Army Officers in 0beying
the Presidents Order.

Norfolk. Va. Oct. 1L-Major General Frederick
L. Grant Of the Department Of the East, and eight
line officers from the United States Artillery at
Fort Monroe, the 23d United States Infantry
the 18th Cavalry and the Engineer Corps left the
jamestown exposition grounds to-day for Ocean
View 10 participate in the 15-mile horseback phy-
sicsl endurance ride under the recent order Of
President Roosevelt. AL received physical exam
ination prior to their departure and were exam
ined again upon their return this afternoon. OF
the I5-mile ride the horses walked five miles,
trotted FIVE miles anu galloped FIVE miles.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-12
FORCING HARTMAN TO ANSWER.
Attorneys for Government Confer on Ways
and Means with Attorney General.

Washington. oct. 11.--Frank B. kellogg and
G. b. Morrison. special counsel for the govern
ment. had conference to-day with Attorney
General Bonaparte. at which verbal report was
made on the prosecution of the Standard Oil
case in New York.
The efforts to compel +. H. Hartman to an
swer certain questions to which he had refused
replies TO the Interstate Commerce Commission
were taken up.
No statement given out regarding the
conference or the conclusions reached.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-12
CZAR'S PINNACE ON ROCK
.4nother Mishap Reported to RHs-
sian EmDerOr'S Boat.

London. oct. 12.-"There are persistent re-
ports here" says the st. Petersburg correspond
ent of "rThe Daily Mail" that pinnace land
ing the Emperor Of Russia from the Imperial
yacht yesterday struck a rock and sprung
serious leak. His majesty was transferred to
another pinuaCe. This mishap. following the
strandinc Of the imperial yacht STANDARD. has
caused much comment
New-York tribune., 1907-10-12
A MILLION FEET OF EARTH MOVING
Floods Undermine French Hill-Mass TraV-
elling 100 Feet an Hour.

Aubenas, Department of Ardeche. oct Ii
The heavy rains and floods have undermined a
hill with cubic measurement of not less than
100000 yards, and 1t is sliding away. me
vast body of earth is moving at the rate Of 12O
feet an hour Six hundred feet of roadway and
two bridges already have been obliterated, and
the shifting earth has damned up two streams
which are rapidly forming a vast lake.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-12
MINING DEAL SWINDLE REPORTED
Montana and Washington Investors Said to
Have Lost More Than S350,000.

Helena, Mont, Oct. 1.-THE Record" pub
lishes a story to-day TO the effect that numerous
Montana and Washington investors have been
swindled out Of more than $35O,00O in a mine
deal 1t has been discovered, it is asserted.
that certain placer mines in which they in
vested near Lander, ,Wyo.. had been "salted" and
that the property in question is worthless.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-12
SANTA FE ROAD GUILTY.
ConUicted on AU Counts an C0LfOr-
MIA Rebating Case.

Los Angeles, Oct. 11.-After a brief delibera-
tion the jury in the case of the Atchison, To-
peka & Santa Fe Railway Company. charged
with rebating shipments rendered a verdict OF
guilty to-day all counts enumerated in the
indictments
The maximum fine for the offences charged Is
Sl,lOO,O00 and the minimum is $500
New-York tribune., 1907-10-12
UNION PACIFIC FREIGHT CONGESTION
sixty-eight Trains on Sidings Between
Omaha and North Platte, 300 Miles Apart.
TBy Telegraph to The Tribune.

Omaha, Oct. u.-Never in the history of the road
has the Union Pacific been forced to deal with such
freight congestion has settled upon that
line. Unless the situation be relieved before
The the road will be tied up all winter.
The congestion is due TO the running Of all trains
over single track Yesterday a passenger train
passed sixty-eght freight trains sidngs between
Omaha and North Platte. three hundred miles
apart The officials making every effort TO COM
pste the double track now under construction and
20 break The congestion before winter.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-12
NEARLY $500 MEN LAID OFF.
y TeIegraph to The Tribune.

Baltimore, Oct u.-Nearly twenty-five hundred
men have been laid of during the last few months
by the South Baltimore Steel Car and Foundry
company, because railroad companies curtail-
ing or'.ers for cars. year ago the big works
were running overtime with rush orders. More
than thirty-siz hundred men were employed Now
there are scarcely thousand at work there.
The daily output more than eighty new cars.
but now II is less than thirty. Every day working
men and their families moving away, and store
keepers are complaining OF their losses In trade.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-12
CHOIR BOY KILLED BY AUTOMOBILE.

New Haven Oct u.-Ray Hoxie. choir boy,
,,,as str,,ck and killed here tonight by auto
mobile owned by State Senator d. A. Blakeslee
and driven by Ernest J. Frey, his chauffeur. SEN
ator Biakesee's son. Grant with several school
mates. in the car.
1t is said that the boy ran in front of the
chine The chauleur is held under bonds.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-12
VALUED OIL PAINTING STOLEN.
IBy Telegraph to The Tribune.

Hartford. Conn. Oct. 11.-An oil painting.
said to be an original Cimabue. was stolen from
the home of Mrs. Elina Wright in this city to-
day. She alleges that it was taken by man
who had been visiting at the house for week
as the guest of her son.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-12

Hudson River Day Line Fall outings. Steamers
Adgt.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-12

AFTER ALL, USHER'S THE SCOTCH
that made the highban famous.-Advt
New-York tribune., 1907-10-12

GREAT BEAR SPRING WATER.
Its purity has made 1t famous. ."-Adyt.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01
SLOW MoYEMENr. 70 MARKE z.

The conditions which have caused,
western crops to move so slowly to
market have been uncomfortable and
have had some unfavorable conse-
quences in general business. Through
out the fall car shortage by reason of
the overwhelming mass of freight to
be moved disorganized transportation
service, particularly in all the grain
growing region, and winter conditions
in the northern tier of states have been
the worst in years, grain that might
now be moved having to give way to
coal. One result of this condition has
found expression in the condition of
the eastern money market. This is
one reason why the secretary of the
treasury has deferred calling In from
the banks surplus funds on deposit,
the payment of which was to have
begun several weeks ago.
There are naturally also complaints
of the effect on local trade throughout
the northwest, although the general
prosperity has been so great as to
make them comparatively lightly felt
This, however, is only temporary. The
situation leaves the farmers with
enormous holdings of grain in store on
the farm or in the local elevators. The
grain and other products are as good
as cash in bank for all practical pur-
poses and can be drawn upon as the
movement to market continues.
There is thus still a vast reserve
from last years extraordinary crop
which will fully compensate during the
next few months any reduction of
business through inability to get
earlier to market. This fact. indeed,
is one of the strong grounds for the
general anticipation of an unusual
spring and summer trade in the west
and northwest
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Observing in the tropics how the intense
heat OF the sun accelerated the healing of
wounds and burns, a French physician. DIR.
Asbeck, used the heat of ordinary FIRE in
800 cases Of burns and wounds after putting
on the usual dressing and with uniform
success.
BY naming his ten children after as many
states, South Carolina valley farmer has
proved his patriotism. His six daughters
are named Carolina, Virginia Georgia.
Florida. Jersey and Idaho. while the boys
are known as Texas, Tennessee, Ohio and
Missouri.
A German newspaper of recent date con-
tains news item in which a Lienienlnfan-
Observation-Disclosures and Hof-
schauspielhausgardero are the
conspicuous figures. These appeIlatlons
look more formidable than "regimental
drum major of infantry and wardrobe
keeper OF the royal theater"
Samuel Sanford of Geneva, o.. will be
81 years old March l, but the other day he
showed that even now he justifes the
fame which he won many years ago as
rife shot A muskrat had been digging
around the place and Mr.. Sanford said he
lowed to shoot that Teller in the eye"
at the earliest opportunity. The other day
he caught sight OF the muskrat Going into
the house. he brought his rifle and from
a distance Of ten rods shot the animal
exactly in the eye. He challenges the
world 20 produce a man Of his years who
can beat him.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01
MERRILY TURNING THE SCREWS.
Striking Object Lesson in the BenefI-
cence of Trusts.
Kansas City Star

Striking Object Lesson in the Beneh-
cence of Trusts.
Kansas City Star.
The public was given several striking
object lessons yesterday in the beneflcence
of trusts. United States Steel announced
that its net earnings for the past three
months were to exceed Il million dollars.
In other words. this corporation cleared up
a profit of about $4,000 day, each man
that bought a nall built a house OF pur-
chased any Of the multitudinous products
of iron mills contributing his share. The
report points with glee 20 the fact that
the earnings for 1906 doubled those of 1904
and were 81 millions greater than those of
1906
All this OF course. was the result Of
great business sagacity in creating mo-
nopoly which allows the directors to ar
bitrarily Ak prices without reference to
the cost Of production. Under this sys-
tenn the trust can double its profits each
year and at the same time reduce the cost
OF raw material II has now grown so
great that II can ruthlessly crush all do
nestle competition, and, with a benign
tariff protecting It against foreign com
petitors, the people can pay its price CT
go without the products of steel and iron.
The same dispatches carried the news
that the Interstate Commerce commission
has discovered that Hartman has an
iron-clad agreement with the Santa Fe
which serves all the purposes OF a merger
between It and the Southern Pacific, de-
stroys all competition and allows Mr.. Har-
rIman to f1x rates arbitrarily Under the
federal laws this is n criminal ofrense. On
the same day a contract was disclosed be-
tween Gould and Hartman which combines
these two great railway systems and AZ
lows Mr. Hartman TO arbitrarily AK trans
continental rates. ending AL competition
from Gould with Harriman'T lines.
Plainly. railroad corporations and trusts
continue TO do as they please. defying the
laws and paying no attention to investiga-
lions Each day sees the screws Of mo-
nopolies put a little tighter on the people
and the revenues forced a little higher
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01
WALL srREBTs pfsA pPolNrMENT

The Wall Street Journal. recog-
nized authority on affairs of the fin-
anciers, whose world is bounded by
Wall and Bond streets, expresses q sur
prise that carries a complaining note
at the slowness which marks the re-
turn to New York of money which was
sent west last fall ito move the crops"
AS result of this hardness of the
money in getting back to little old
New York." there has been a decline
of activity in the stock market. a de-
crease in bank reserves and a general
tightening up of conditions that makes
the outlook serious for the speculative
contingents. The New Workers fail
to understand 1t and seem to think that
they are being deprived of their rights.
Wall street is slow to learn that
the west now has money of its own and
that the pleasant fiction of a demand
for money Ito move the crops" orig
mates annually in Wall street and not
In the west and is used for the purpose
Of inducing the treasury department
at Washington to increase it's deposits
in the national banks of the country.
The plan works successfully every fall
and Wall street is almost invariably
the principal beneficiary. A study of
the reports of the controller of the
currency will show the New York
financiers that the banks of the
west now hold more money on de-
post than they can conveniently In
vest. When the western farmer sells
his crop these days he places the money
he receives for 1t in a bank to his
credit instead of sending 1t east to pay
the interest on a farm mortgage.
When the western farmer finds 1t
necessary, for any reason, to mortgage
his property, he gets the accommoda-
ton from his neighbor or from his
home bank, without the necessity of
applying to the big loan and trust COM
panies of the east that formerly had a
monopoly of this business. Western
farmers have had little to do with
mortgages for the last FIVE years and
in that time have enjoyed a prosperity
that has placed them beyond the fear
of mortgage burdens for years TO come.
Western manufactures and enterprises
furnish an attractive field for invest
ment and western money is taking ad-
vantage Of 1t. 1t does not have to
go east any more to earn interest or
pay interest, as it did in former years.
The crop moving" money is not
returning from the west because 1t is
owned in the west. Enough of 1t will
be sent to New York to maintain the
balances western banks carry in New
York. or to profit by high money rates.
when Wall street gets on one of its
speculative DRINKS, but it will no
longer make New York its permanent
habitat. The west is coming in to its
own.