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Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-07-05
OIL KING is GUARDED.
Rockefeller Seeks to Keep Away Process
Servers at Daughters Home at
Pittsfeld, Mass.

NEW YORK, June 29-Dispatches
from Pittsfeld, Mass, report that Mrs.
Parmalee Prentice, who is at Onota
farm for the summer. is entertaining her
father, John ID. Rockefeller. and the es-
tate Is under strong guard, presumably
to prevent Mr.. Rockefeller being dis
turbed by process servers. The dis
patches state that the lake front prop
erty is patrolled by launch and that a
reporter who drove out to the place
which he found guarded at all sides.
was informed that he could not approa ch
the house
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-07-05
KOREA MAKES PLEA.
Says Japan Violates Sovereignty Laws,
But Peace Conference Will
Not Listen.

THE HAGUE, June pa Korean
deputation has arrived here to make a
formal protest against Korea not being
invited to send delegates to the peace
conference and against the alleged vio-
lation of Korean sovereignty by Japan.
The deputation applied to President
Neidoff for an audience, which was re-
fused on the ground that he had no au-
thority to interfere in such questions.
Moreover he added, the matter did not
come within his province, the govern
ment of the Netherlands having issued
the invitations. The deputation will now
apply to the government here and also
will send a written protest to the CON
ference
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-07-05
Presidents Aid Asked.
BURR HAS GIVEN UP,
Indicted Chicago Official Who Took
Bride Returns, Pleads Guilty and
Goes to Jail.

COLUIIRUS, D., June 29.-Charles
L. Burr, former member of the board of
public service, who disappeared last
March after having been indicted for ac-
cepting a bride, surrendered today. He
had been in Canada. Burr pleaded
guilty TO the charge of selling supplies
to the city while a member of the serv-
ice board and was fined $500 and SEN
fenced to three months in Jail. He plead
ed not guilty to the charge of accept
inc q bribe
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-07-05
KNOCKS OUT puts AND CALLS"
Federal Court Rules Broker Cannot Col
lect Debt From a Client

FORT DODGE, Ia, June pa
sweeping verdict for the plaintiff in the
case of Ware vs.. Parsons in the federal
board of trade obligations, in 50 far as
puts and calls are concerned, impos-
sible in Iowa. The defendant in the
case is a wealthy farmer. who lost $1,000
N speculation on the board of trade
brokers, through whom he transacted
business, sued TO recover that amount
Judge Reed, in his instructions to the
jury, called attention to the fact that
If the evidence showed any puts and calls
involved in the note the whole note was
-3nvalidated.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-07-05
BOY SWEPT THOUGH DRAIN
st Louis Lad Has Thrilling Experience
While Bathing.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. June 29.-Driven by
a pressure of 100000 gallons of water.
Joe Dewitt. boy, was swept from the
basin of a swimming pool in Greenwood
yesterday and carried $50 feet through
a drain into the river Des Peres, and
then cast upon the bank, bleeding ard
exhausted.
While a number of boys were in the
pool restraining wall at the deepest
section suddenly collapsed. Dewitt was
Immediately under the wall, and seeing
his danger, dived TO the bottom. The
breaking wall opened the drain and he
was swept through. A number of other
boys in the pool escaped injury.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-07-05
FRENCH PREMIER IS UPHELD.
Chamber of Deputies Votes Confidence
in Government

PARIS, June pa determined at
tempt to overthrow the ministry failed
and Premier Clemenceau added another
victory to his long list of triumphs
last night, the chamber of deputies by
majority of 100 voting confidence in the
government. The victory was won after
an exciting session. during which the
government was attacked in bitterest
terms for the severity with which it has
depressed the wine growers rebellion in
the SOnrh
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-07-05
LAW WILL NOT STAND,
Illinois Anti-Cigarette Measure Declared
Unconstitutional Because of Tech,
nicality

CHICAGO, ILL.,. June 29.-Because the
first section of the Illinois anti-cigarette
law IS broader than the title of the act.
it was declared unconstitutional yester-
day by Judge Chytraus in the Superior
court. The section which is declared
void prohibits the manufacture. sale or
giving away of cigarettes. while the title
provides only for regulation of the traffic.
Ihe case will 80 TO the Supreme court
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-07-05
NOTTINGHAM Is Released

BUFFALO. \. Y. June 29.-The big steel
stemaer William Nottingham. which was
thrown on the beach by the storm of last
January, was foated into deep water late
yesterday afternoon. 4 favorable wind
raised the water and with hydraulic Jacks
the steamer was lifted that she slid off
sideways into the channel which had been
dredged from deep water to the point
where the vessel was lying. The Noting
ham will be towed to dry dock at Toledo
for an examination.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-07-05
BURN RUSS ESTATE,
Peasants Pillage Estates of Rich Because
Parliament Was Dissolved by
the Car

TULA, Russia, June 29.-The incen-
diary movement among the peasants, i'll
revenge for the dissolution of Parlia-
ment, has assumed serious proportions.
Six large estates, including those of
Count Vladimir Bobrinsky. president of
the Constitutional Democratic party and
Princess Njadbolakaya were devastated
yestel By. The losses were heavy
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-07-05
HANCOCK IN A DENIAL.
Rector Accuses Stepson, Whom He Says
Is Insane.

LONDON, June 29.-Rev. Walter
Swinburne Hancock Episcopal clergy
man. formerly of Chicago, who is under
suspicion of poisoning his wife, declared
that his stepson, who makes the charge
against him, is insane. Hancock's step
son. Samuel Beech Chester, on the other
hand. denounced the former clergyman
as a thorough scoundrel," saying he had
TO his antecedents. sduandered her
money, and threatened TO murder her
son.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-07-05
JUG MEN SHUT UP SHOP,

AUGUSTA. Ga. June 29.-As re-
suit of the belief that the state Legisla-
ture. both branches Of which are CON
trolled by Prohibiti0nists, will pass a
Prohibition measure, two of the largest
potteries in the state. whose product
was confined almost exclusively to jugs
for the liquor trade today closed down
their establishments.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-07-05
LONG SHEETS IN HOTEL.
Texas Landlords Provide Bed Linen
Nine Feet Long, in Compliance
with the New Law.

FORT WORTH, Ten, June 29.-Al-
though the Griggs law providing that b. i
sheets in Texas hotels and lodging
houses be of certain length does not
80 into effect until July l.. the hotels
of this cry are making preparations 10
comply with the law. The hotel men arc
laying i'll new supply of sheets OF re-
Quired length. nine feet The measure,
was passed by the Legislature in re
Spouse to Il demand from the Travellers
Protective association.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-07-05
MILWAUKEE HAY MARKET.

Choice timothy hay, 190O019.25; No. /
timothy hay. 1SW01S.5O; No > timothy
hay. 16.5O@17Oo; clover and mixed, 14.5o q
1850; choice Kansas and Nebraska prairie,
15.OOO152J; No. 1 prairie, 14N0l4.25; No.
2 prairie, 11o0@125O; Wisconsin marsh
feeding, 9.o0010.OO; packing hay, 7.3olp
$50; rye straw. S.J0M9.50; oats straw, 80
QGS.O0; wheat straw. 5.0G0550.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-07-05
New Postmaster at Phillips.

OYSTER BAY, y. Y, June SO
President Roosevelt today announced the
following commissions for postmasters:
Minnie NJ. Luce, Hope, n. D.; Herman
Anderson, Phillips, Wis.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-07-05

Because only nineteen members were
present, the Senate on tie evening of the
oath was unable to pass any bills requir-
ing roll call Monday night and important
measures went over
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-04
JUDGE LOVING is ACQUITTED.
Jury Believed He Was Insane When
He Killed YOUNG Estes.

Houston, Va, July 2.-After being in
the jury room for thirty-five minutes
the jury returned a verdict of mot
guilty in the case of Former Judge
William G. Loving of Nelson, manager
of the valuable Virginia estate OF
Thomas F. Ryan, who was placed on
trial here last Monday for the murder
of Theodore Estes, the son of Sheriff
M. K. Estes of Nelson county.
Judge Loving shot and killed young
Estes on the afternoon of April % at
Oak Ridge The tragedy was a sequel
Of a buggy ride Estes had taken with
the judges daughter, Miss Elizabeth
Loving, who told her father that Ier
escort had drugged and assaulted her.
The foreman said that the jury
voted unanimously for acquittal on the
hrst ballot. He said that the basis OF
the verdict was insanity. He and
other members of the jury believed
that Judge Loving was void of his
mind when he killed young Estes. The
stress, he said. had been brought on
by the story told him by his daughter
The real basis of the arguments of the
counsel for the defendant was the
'unwritten law"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-04
FEARED IN new YORK
AS RESULT OF THE STRIKE OF
GARBAGE AND ICE WAGON
DRIVERS.

New York. July New York is in
danger Of an epidemicSas a Fult OF a
stril& Of 2.6oO garbaak and an equal
humber bf ice wagon drivers
The health department is exhausting
its our to clean the streets, but
last night the best that DR.. Darling
ton could promise was hat 800 men
will be at work this morning. Such a
force will make little Roadway, as 755
carts are required to to remove each
days accumulations and the work is
six days behind.
The health department took hold
late Friday and since has used it's po-
lice powers vigorously and its emer-
gency fund of $4,000 without stint,
but so far has been unable to meet
conditions.
Refuse From Curb to Curb.
Yesterday the situation grew hourly
worse. What work was done was in
the vicinity of Chinatown, on the East
side. Meantime the waste accumu-
lated in other streets. In places
refuse was piled high and elsewhere
strewn from curb to curb.
Unable to do better, the health
squads scattered disinfectants through
miles of highways.
Il do not believe there is any imme-
date danger of an epidemic" DR..
Darlington said tonight, but the stu.
alton is grave and presents possibili.
ties Of imminent peril"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-04
Criminal.

Earl Chism of Bloomington, Iowa,
confessed to the robbery Of the post
office at Tayloridge and Reynolds, Ill.
Raphaele Savara, who pleaded gull
ty to a charge OF assaulting an eleven
year-old girl, killed himself in jail at
Newark, N. ].
Because his wife refused to feed
chickens at his command Thomas
Dothert of Richmond, KY, killed her
with a monkey wrench.
Aivaii Thompson committed suicide
at Iowa City, Iowa, by drinking car
bolic acid. His mind was temporarily
~deranged frorf overwork.
An effort was made to blow up the
residence of Ashley Cockrill, former
city attorney and a prominent lawyer
of Little Rock, Ark, by dynamite. The
fuse failed to burn or the entire resi-
dence probably would have been de-
stroyed.
The corpse Of an unknown man,
with a bullet hole In the head and
having the appearance of having float
ed many days, was found in the river
at Burlington, Iowa. 1t is believed to
be a case of foul play and is being in
vestigated.
Clyde Glidden, aged seven years,
has been arrested at Parkersburg, w.
Va, on a charge Of incendiarism, 1t
being alleged that he burned two
houses a week ago. The houses were
occupied and the families barely es-
capped with their li-es.
The party of officers who
had a fight with moonshiners in Stokes
county, N. c.. captured thirty-five
m~oonshiners and destroyed thirteen
Illicit stills. The officers state that be-
tween three and four hundred shots
were exchanged with the noun.
taineers.
Oliver N. bennett, the broker who a
few days ago pleaded guilty to receiv.
ing the bonds which w. o. Douglas,
the assistant loan clerk, stole from the
Trust Company of America at New
York, was sentenced to serve not less
than FIVE nor more than ten years in
Sing Sing prison.
After kissing his wife Of a few
weeks George II. Searles of Des
Moines walked out on the lawn and
drank some carbolic acid. He died
within a few minutes. He left a note
saying that his wife was in love with
another man, SO he took his own life to
get out of her way.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-04
EfWSOF THFN WEEK IN EP!IQMI
DIGEST br srHE kEks ARH4
TELLING CONDENSED FOR
tB BUSY READERS.
rrvTr 10
Washington Notes.

The census bureau has just an
nounced that the production OF lumber
In the United States in 1906 was 81
100, Q67, 900 feet.
No less than $500 yards of ribbon
will be required to furnish the mate.
rial for the various service badges iAd
emblens authorized to be issued b.
the war department some time ago.
Two Of the oldest ba~ttleships, the
Indiana and the Iowa, are to be with
drawn from active service and shelved
from further luty, except In the event
OF urgent need. They will be Joined
on the shelf by the Texas, the first
battleship of the navy. Putting them
In reserve at the present time is made
necessary by the shortage OF officers.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-04
General.

Mrs. ]. Wilbur Chapman, wife OF
the noted Presbyterian evangelist,
died at Warsaw, Ind.
Chief Justice w. F. Frear of Hawaii
has cabled President Roosevelt his &C.
ceptance of the governorship of Ha'
waiian Territory, beginning In August,
At imminent risk to himself, Abra.
ham Walker descended into a well al
Massent, Iowa, and rescued Michael
Johnson, who had been overcome by
foul gas.
Driven violently insane by a thunder
storm, Daniel Arbuckle, a wealthy
farmer near Hamburg. Iowa. attacked
his young wife and nearly beat her te
death before neighbors rescued her
The next day Arbuckle had practically
recovered his reason. He has no rec.
objection of his conduct.
One OF the agents of the department.
Of agriculture, working on his New
Jersey farm, has produced q new veg.
etable novelty in the shape of a seed.
less tomato. The variety has become
well established and has been called
the giant because of the very large
size that the plant attained.
In addition to the regular quarterly
dividend Of Is per cent. the directors
of the Fifth Avenue Bank of New
York have declared a special dividend
Of 150 per cent. payable out OF the
earnings Of 1895. which the president
OF the institution declares we're ex.
ceutiOnal.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-04
Accidental Happenings.

-Four persons were killed and FIVE
badly injured by the collapse OF a
scaifold at San Francisco.
John Chandler. born In Kentucky
107 years ago. died at HulIs, ILL.,, as a
result Of being thrown from a buggy.
While fooling with a small rife ia
cob Hanson OF Monarch, Mont, acct
dentally shot and killed Joseph Saur.
The four-year-old daughter of Peter
Roster. a farmer living near Cascade,
Iowa, is dead as the result of a bee
sting.
Advices from throughout Montana
tell OF considerable loss OF life as the
result Of high water and swollen
streams.
William Cleddiae. former member
or the Canadian parliament and once
mayor Of Montreal, was cut In two by
! train AZ Depew. N. Y.
BY the premature explosion OF 4
blast Fl lola Cut. on the Tidewater
railway near Brook Neal, Va, eight
persons were killed and six injured.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-04

the West, was killed by an interurpan
car as he was leaving the race track
at Seattle.
In a head-on trolley accident on a
grade near White Oak Park, a summer
resort between New Brighton, Conn,
and Plainville. nearly a dozen persons
we're injured.
Henry Zipf and Herman Ludwig
we're drowned in Big Walnut creek,
near Columbus, Ohio, while bathing.
Neither could swim and they got be-
yond their depth.
Conductor Edward Harrison and
Rear Brakeman N. G. Durfee were in
stantly killed as a result OF a rear-end
collision Of two freight trains about
three miles west of Billings, Mont.
The explosion Of a gasoline furnace
started a fire which completely de-
stroyed the refinery at the Kendall
mines near Lewiston, Mont, causing
a loss estimated at $4,000.
Attempting to board a moving train
at Ishpeming, Mich, Frank McCon-
nell, aged thirty, of Marquette, a rail
road brakeman, fell under the wheels
and was badly mangled. Death occur
read a few hours later.
In an effort to save his brothers
life, Fred Adler, twenty years cid, was
drawn into the swift current Of the
Mississippi river at st. Louis by Au-
gust Adler, aged twenty-three, and
both were drowned.
George Spencer, a new York stock
broker, was killed at Oyster Bay, l.. l.,
by being thrown from a horse which
he was riding. The accident occurred
near President Roosevelt's summer
home at Sycamore Hill.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-04
Says Detectives spied on Union.

Boise, Idaho, July 2.-Morris Fried
man, formerly an employe or the
Finkerton detective agency ~ Denver,
who published his adventures AMI
many of the conn 'ential reports that
passed through his hands in an attack
on the agency, was 4 witness Satur-
day in behalf of William d. Haywood.
| He told how the Pinteltons Lad sent
spies into many OF the impo tant
unions Of the Western Federati, n of
Miners.
The call from the defense for Fried
man to take the stadi produced n of
the greatest sensations of the trial.
BY name and operating number
Friedman identified a dozen detectives
who succeeded in entering or getting
very close to the miners union In
Colorado, and he produced volumin-
Gus copies of the reports they made to
the agency for transmission to the
mine n
Spies Are Consistent.
Friedman was confidential stenog-
rapher under Detective Mcfarland,
and, so he testified, it was part of his
duties to copy the reports of the opera
tives as they reached the office.
Friedman swore that in several in
stances the detectives sent out by the
agency in behalf of the mine owners
managed to get themselves elected to
high office in the unions and that in
a couple Of instances they carried
their roles to the. extent of sharing all
the h~ardships of the strikers and
finally being deported from the coun-
try with them.
Ten feet from Friedman's chair sat
George W. Redell, who, as a Pinker-
ton detective. worked up to leadership
in the Telluride union. Turning to
him by direction of Clarence barrow,
the witness identified him.
Tried to Beeear Federation.
Friedman said that one Pinkerton OPP
erative became chairman of the union
strike relief committee at Globeville.
and as uch had charge of all the
funds disbursed there by the local
union and general federation.
Friedman said that under instruc-
tions from his sup~eriors at the Pinker-
ton agency this man first tried to beg
gar the federation by a lavish expen-
diture in behalf of the strikers. and
failing in this he cut the relief down to
the lowest point In the hope that the
members of the union might censure
Haywood.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-04
From Other Shores.

Sixty officers Of the southern mill
tary district of Russia, several of them
connected with the Odessa garrison,
have been arrested.
The Rome Tribuna afirms that EN-
peror Williams visit to England has
been fixed for the end of the year,
probably in November.
The American immigr ltiol compjs.
sion, having completed it's work In
Italy, will soon visit Trieste and
study emigration methods at Austro
Hungarian ports.
There is a m In court circles at
Copenhagen that the Princess Thyra,
second daughter of King Frederick. is
betrothed to Prince Adelbert. third
son of the kaiser. The kaiser will Wis
1t Copenhagen next week.
During the half year ended Sept. 80
last there were 2.29o automobile acct
dents in Germany, of which CTS caused
injury to persons. The number of per
sons killed and wounded amounted to
1870, including 81 killed.
Spring freshets In Northern Sweden
have inundated hundreds of square
miles of fertile bottom lands. This is
the greatest i%nundation in fifty years
and threatens a renewal Of the famine.
The political situation in Portugal is
much improved. Opposition to the
ministry is dying out. the politicians
apparently realizing that this would
onlv lead IN disturbances d~iScraditipp
them and strengthening the ministry.
A mine owner named SIMILAR has
taken his life in a frightful manner at
Budapest. Stretching himself on the
floor of his room he placed a dynamite
cartridge under his neck and set fire
to 1t with a fuse. The cartridge ex-
pioded and the mans head and part
of his body were blown into frag.
ments.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-04
NO LET-UP IN THE CAMPAIGN.
Fifteen Corporations Are on the List
for Investigation.

Washington, July 1.-THE admins
tration's campaign against corpora
tons will be continued without let-up
during the summer. Warm weather
has set in, dog days" are approach,
ing, the White House is closed, the
better part of official Washington has
gone on vacation, but the trust buster
has made arrangements TO stick to his
post until the snow flies.
The government is prosecuting, pre-
pairing to prosecute, or is investigating
the operations of alleged combinations
In restraint of trade as follows:
The Hartman railroads, Standard
Oil, meat trust, steel trust, tobacco
trust, spool thread trust, umbrella
trust, anthracite Goa trust, bitumi,
nous coal trust, harvester trust, powder
trust, watch trust, sugar trust, The
United Shoe Machinery company, the
Cotton Exchange of New York
and other commercial associations
throughout the country.
Let None Escape.
In fact, the government is scrutiniz.
Ing the business methods OF the corpO-
rations that control the n Of
transportation, as well as those that
preaching a monopoly, or something APP.
preaching a monopoly, of fuel, food and
other articles of every day consump-
ton In the United States.
The investigation is a~ll-embracing.
Its scope is widening daily. For ex.
ample, during the past week announce
ment was made formally that the con
cern or concerns that control spool
thread cotton will soon be brought
face to face with a suit in the federal
courts involving alleged violation of
the provisions of the antitrust act.
The powder trust also is to be nauled
into the courts. 1t made the blunder
of holding up the government, charg-
ing Uncle Sam e%xorbitant rates for
powder and dynamite
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-04
Woman Cuts Mans Throat,

Brinkley, Ark, July 2.-Following a
terrific struggle for the possession OF
a razor, j.. M. Cole, a farmer, was dis
armed by his wife, who Gu his throat
and, continuing the struggle, was
killed by the woman.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-04
East Train Wrecked.

Evansville. Mimi, July 2.-Nels Oh
co.'s fast south-bound train was wreck
ed near here as the result of a wash
out. The injuries were confined al
most entirely to cuts and bruises.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-07-04
FIVE cHINks KILLED.
Misunderstanding Of Orders Causes
Railroad Wreck.

Winnipeg. Man, June 30.-A Cana
dian Pacific railway express and a
Chinese special going east collided at
Butler. 275 miles east Of here. The ac-
cident resulted in the death of FIVE
Cinnamon on board the special and
the serious injury of E. U. Common of
st. Johns, N. b., a guard on the spe.
cial. The wreck was due to misunder.
stood orders.