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Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-05-25
MICHIGAN
EVENTS NOTED
POSTOFFiCE ROBBERS MAKE
SCRAP OF MlDLAND'S
SAFE.
STOLE OVER A THOUSAND
No One Was Disturbed by the Dyna-
mite Explosion, So the Thieves GOT
Away With Swag.
Waterman Heard Nothing.

The safe in the postoftice was de-
molished by robbers, who secured $l,-
600 in money and stamps, Thursday
night. The deed was done so quietly,
Notwithstanding the amount of damage
that no one had an inkling OF the rob-
berry until Lynn, son OF Postmaster
Northway, went to the Office in the
morning.
Mr.. Nor'thway says he found the
front door unfastened and large hole
in the window. The interior of the
postoffice was strewn with debris, the
furnishings being badly wrecked and
the door of the safe blown across the
room. The clock had stopped at LAP.
The nightwatchman says that he was
on his beat, but that he neither heard
nor saw anything suspicious. Several
residents say that they heard n muf-
fed explosion, but it was not loud
enough to disturb them. The booty
the robbers carried away consisted
of 5000 in stamps and 500 In cash
The postoffice safe ait Mattawan, Il
miles west of Grand Rapids, on the
Michigan Central, was dynamited
Thursday night and $3.50 worth OF
stamps and $3.50 in cash was taken
Officers are after the robbers.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-05-25
Ruef Pleads GUILTY..

Abraham Ruef, San Francisco's no.
iorious political boss, nervous and
pallid, in Judge DUNES court, plead
ed guilty to the crime of extortion,
for which he was to be tried by the
jury already selected. In pleading
guilty he made an impressive address
to the judge, stating that he had COM
menced his career in politics with
high ideals for himself and for the
city, but that conditions had broken
him down, and now desired only an
opportunity to make reparation and
restore his character before the world.
AS he concluded he fell back into
his chair, almost fainting, and the
tears coursed down his cheeks. His
health, he said, could not endure the
strain of the trial which he was facing
and the torture was beyond the endur-
ance of those who were nearest and
dearest to him.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-05-25
Spends a Million.

Taking the present dramatic season
now drawing to a close, as a criterion,
the people of Detroit will have poured
through the little windows of the box
Offices in the local play houses a
stream of gold and greenbacks that
might be conservatively estimated at
from $4,000 to $1,000,O00. When the
fact is considered that several of the
Detroit theaters are low-priced houses,
and that with a single exception they
all close their doors for the warm
weather season, the full import Of the
figures may be appreciated. The the
alter is but one of Detroit's sources of
popular amusement, and there are
only six of the larger houses.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-05-25
NEWS FROM HOME
AND ABROAD
BAPTISM OF THE CROWN PRINCE
OF SPAIN GORGEOUS
AFFAIR.
SHE is WORTH A MILLION
How a Kid Raises Hob With Navy's
Wireless Messages-Matters of Note
and Comment.
Alfonso of Austurias.

With even more pomp and ceremony
than attended his first presentation
TO the officials on the day of his birth,
May 10, Alfonso, prince of the Astu-
rias, was baptized Saturday in the pri-
vate chapel of the royal palace, Ma
drid, in the presence of the royal fam
lily, the state and court officials, the
representatives of the foreign powers
and a host of grandees, heads of the
various Spanish orders and other i'm
portant personages
The pope was represented by Car
dinal Rinaldini, papal nuncio; King
Edward, by Prince Arthur of Con-
naught; Emperor William, by Prince
Leopold of HohenZollern; Emperor
Francis Joseph, by Archduke Eugene
of Austria, and King Carlos of Portu-
gal, by the Duke of Oporto. The Of
ficials and invited guests began gath
ering at the palace long before noon,
and as that hour approached the re-
ception halls were filled to their ut.
most capacity, while outside gathered
large and enthusiastic crowds of peo-
pie.
The greatest watchfulness has been
observed over the baby prince since
the hour of his birth, special guards
having been stationed day and night
outside of his bedchamber, for Spanish
custom does not permit any possibility
of changeling being foisted on the
nation
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-05-25
Readings Tribute Paid.

With practically the entire commun-
ity paying respect to their memory,
the bodies of the II Mystic Shriners,
OF Reading, Pa, who were killed in the
Southern California wreck on May II,
were brought home Sunday night.
When the funeral train arrived 200
knights in full uniform were on hand
to act as a guard of honor when the
dead were taken from the cars. An
entire troop of the state constabulary
together with the citys full police
force, were on hand to preserve order.
The fairest flowers, bought by mem
bers of the Masonic order along the
route of the train, were piled in the
cars.
The II caskets were carried from
the car and placed on four large floats,
each OF which was drawn by white
horses. Each float was laden with
flowers. Headed by an escort of Shrin-
ers and sir knights, the procession
moved from the depot to the three
city morgues, where the bodies were
deposited for the night.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-05-25
The UnWritten Law.

Senator Louis II. Machen, of Alex
andria, will offer at the next session
OF the general assembly a bill to in
corporate the so-called "unwritten
law" into the statutes of Virginia.
This will be the first time, at least in
the history Of Virginia, where any &C.
ton has been taken to legalze the
taking of human life.
"The sacredness of the home" SAYS
Senator Machen, must be upheld.
Why force men TO commit perjury 10
save themselves when they have done
the only thing that men can do under
the circumstances, and why make jur-
les violate their oaths when they re-
fuse to send a man TO the gallows who
has killed a man under circumstances
which would compel them also to COM
NIT a like crime? Juries always will
find that there are extenuating circum-
stances in such cases, which makes
the law as it stands a farce and COM
edy.'
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-05-25

Rev. John l.. Clark, whose action
in marrying William e. Corey. the d.
vorced head of the Steel trust, to Ma
belle Gilman, the actress, has been
criticised by many churchmen and
others, and denounced roundly by
Rev. Nehemiah Boynton, moderator
in Rev. Clark's church, has resigned.
Rev. Boynton characterized the
wedding as "a miserable. unholy and
disgustingly bestial proceeding"
IF the home means anything" said
DR.. Boynton, III we are TO be half
way decent, we can't have our clergy
standing up in the middle of the night
to sanction such promiscuity as the
Corey-Gilman affair.
II noticed In one newspaper state
ment that Congregational ministers dc
not object to marrying divorced per
sons. We have a church law thai
no minister shall marry divorced per
sons. and the Corey wedding was
fragrant violation of that law. The
man who performed the ceremony does
not properly appreciate what he has
done. That is the most charitable thing
to say. A man did the same thing down
in Connecticut and died of broker
heart"
We'll" said DR.. Clark, when shown
this statement, Il would not care tt
dispute DR.. Boynton, Il have only
been in the Congregational church
since April, 1906, and | am not an au
! thority upon the church laws"
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-05-25
Popular Lam Binu.

Lam Bing, Chinese lad, who came
to America four years ago. is now do
ing excellent work in the seventh
grade and hopes to enter the Battle
Creek high school next fall Lam is 16
years old and attended school in Chi
ma, but he says his studies in China
have been but little benefit in this
country Bing lives with his cousin
every Chinaman is a cousin to every
other Chinaman-and after school
works in the laundry. Lam tried to
learn baseball, but has given it up He
is a favorite with the girls and is a
model of DOlitenesS.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-05-25

When the Paris cab drivers attempt
ed to make it impossible for half a
dozen women to earn living driving
cabs in the city, the chivalrous
Frenchmen went out of their way to
hire the women drivers. They were
readily distinguished at distance by
their uniform ,of a .low-crowned hat
and a flowing cape The women are
doing a good 'business-so GOOD, in
fact, that certain men drivers who
have lost their trade have resorted to
the trick of discarding their own tall
hats and coats and adopting the wo-
mems cape and low hat. Tie passen-
ger who halls them does not discover
the masquerade OF the driver till it is
too late to send the man away without
being laughed at by the people on the
street. There is business enough so
that the women, even with this unfair
competition, continue TO prosper
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-05-25
AROUND THE STATE.

Lansing's new council will spend
$4,000 in remodeling the city hall.
The new steamer, the Mildred. made
her initial trip successfully on the
Kalamazoo river Friday.
A verdict Of $3,916 was awarded
George p. Carr. a Grand Trunk brake
man, who lost hand in an accident
at Flushing two years ago.
More than $4,000 worth OF fur was
trapped in Ionia county during the
past winter. More than 5000 muskrat
were caught, also mink, skunk, fox
badger and COON.
Frank A. Osborne, for four years
member of the legislature from Kala.
mazoo county, desires to be a candi.
date for the Republican nomination
for auditor general.
When Vanderbilt's electric light
plant was started citizens paraded and
the band gave concert.
Margaret Groves-Smith. better
known as MA" Smith, Of Saginaw
has been found guilty of sending girls
10 lives of shame in Detroit. Her
conviction will tend TO check the
white slave trade from Saginaw.
The Saginaw police are trying to
stop the stall saloon" evil in the city.
An inspection Of a dozen stall saloons
at night revealed over 100 girls in
revelry. In one place young woman
was found stretched full length on a
table, dead drunk, surrounded by tip
sy friends.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-05-25
G. A. LTsK, Publisher.


Making peace with an ak is dimin-
ishing in popularity among modern
rulers. With the ancients, however,
the above means seemed to be the
only kind that really counted. Caesar,
after laying waste a Gaelic province,
reported in his gentlemanly Latin:
The barbarians are pacified." 1t is
related that Gothic ruler once be-
came converted to the Christian faith
After mourning for some weeks over
the blindness of his people he called
q general conference of his chiefs. AL
his right hand stood missionary. at
his left hand a gigantic eXecutioner'
who held broadax suggestively rest
ing on the block. Friends" said the
king, Il have brought you here this
morning in order to teach you the
great truths of Christianity" Reli-
gious enlightenment came easy in that
state. These events occurred before
the principles of arbitration were I'M
derstood The aim of our modern
peace conference, says Golfers Week
ly, is to teach the spirit of tranquility
to the individuals who form the units
of the nation. The number is increas-
ing of those who have the most def
mite and conclusive reasons for be-
Ieving that righteousness and peace
should go hand in hand. The world
needs peace. There is plenty of room
for a pacific doctrine on the German
frontier, as we'll as on the Nevada
border, where the miner said to the
sheriff: Il reckon there would "a been
trouble If / hadn't shot the guy"
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-05-25
M T. oblaski writes in the Revue

NJ. T. Oblaski writes in the Revue
Scientifique concerning the North
American Indians, particularly those
of Canada. He is pessimistic as to
their future. He notices two princi-
pal types of red men. One comes
from the regions of the Pacific, is of
small stature, slender limbed, fond of
the water, non-aggressive, and indo-
lent. The other is taller, stronger,
has more prominent features, abides
by the land, is gay, and fond of hunt
ing. He finds the Canadian Indian
much more civilized than the Indian
of the United States. But, from a
Darwinian point of view, he foresees
the ultimate disappearance of these
aborigines. Among them there is no
struggle for existence; for they are
housed, fed and educated by the gov
eminent; and for this reason natural
selection has been interfered with.
The evils of civilization have taken
hold Of them, and will destroy them.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-05-25
Kid HAVING Fun.

The fact that there is no law re-
posing authority in government officers
to protect official wireless stations dur
ing the exchange of wireless messages
is giving great'd deal of trouble to the
station at the Washington navy yard.
A youth living in that vicinity, the son
Of a policeman, has set up a station of
his own and takes delight in interpo-
lating messages during official ex-
changes. He has represented himself
to be at distant naval station or at
sea on warships equipped with wire
less apparatus. The local police au-
thorities were appealed to, but said
they had not the power to interfere
with the youths experiments.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-05-25
State Analysis.

Secretary Shumway, of the state
board of health, is already making
preparations for establishing a state
meteorological laboratory, fully ex-
pecting that the bill passed by both
houses of the Legislature will be signed
by the governor and give him author
ity to make the outlay.
1t is proposed to furnish free analy-
ses to public officials of the state, and
that the laboratory will be of great
benefit to the health department in
ascertaining sources of contagion.
Five thousand dollars is to be appro-
priated for the first year and $4,000
for each subsequent year for the
maintenance of the laboratory.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-05-25
Mrs. Eddy'S Fortune.

Two afidavits filed by the defense
In the suit of the Rev. Mary Baker
Eddy, by her next friend, VS.. Calvin
A. Frye and others, for the first time
discloses to the world an idea of the
wealth of the founder and leader OF
Christian Science, which will easily
reach $1,000.000. Fred. n. Ladd, Mrs.
Eddy's private secretary, who AYERS
that on March 6 he turned over to the
trustees under the deed of trust, ex-
ecuted that day, bonds of the par
value of $7SS,770, and notes and bank
books for $5S,614.64 The real estate
holdings are not given. Hawey N.
Chase, an expert accountant of Boston,
certifies Mr. Ladds figures.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-05-25
GUILTY..
Rev. w. D. Clark says He Is Ready to
Face the Music.


Undersheriff Richie has received
from C. u. Iaukea, sheriff Of Oahu,
details OF the capture In Honolulu OF
Rev. w. Duncan Clark, formfrly Con-
gregational minister at FreeySgt, and
who is charged with forgery Of note
for $500 on a Dayton, o., bank, which
he cashed at Freeport about two years
ago.
According to this letter Clark took
his arrest philosophically, stating to
Chief of Detectives Taylor, who ar
rested him.
well, I'm prepared for this. I'm
ready TO face the music"
On his way to the police station
Clark volunteered some information
concerning himself I've been here
.Tout Is months" he said; Il taught
at Mills Institute School for Chinese
and then went to Hilo to teach. While
there | made up my mind to return to
Michigan and came TO Honolulu with
that plan half formed to dxy it out.
On arrival here / receivedNa letter
from my sister advising me not to re-
turn to Michigan, and l decided to
take her advice.
mo one knows the strain under
which | have been while away from
Michigan. However, under dupli-
cate set of circumstances l would do
again just what | did.
THAT | did this thing | admit. am
ready to face the music
Sheriff IaGka writes that Clark has
been living with a woman known as
Mrs. Clark, his wife. They were to-
gether when he was arrested and their
parting was quite affecting to both.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-05-25
Jennie Floods Freedom.

Mrs. Jennie Flood, who is serving a
life sentence for the murder of John
London Ia 1893, may be pardoned. At
torney c. e. Watkins, of Grand Rap
ids. will present affidavits in favor of
the woman to the pardon board. Lon
don's head was blown off while he was
eating his dinner at his farm house
and Mrs. Flood was suspected of do
ing the deed to get his insurance. Now
some of the jurors who convicted her
make affidavit to the effect that they
were not thoroughly convinced of her
guilt and favor her pardon.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-05-25
Paranoja Is Queer.

DR.. Arthur I. Noble, superintendent
of the Kalamazoo asylum for the in
sane proved powerful aid to the in
sanity defense in the Lewis murder
trial In Jackson. Lewis, he testified,
was suffering from paranoia migrated
on alcoholism, when he murdered
Capt. Holzapfel.
The doctor further testified that
while, in his opinion, Lewis knew
right from wrong, when he did the
shooting, could realize the conse-
quences OF the act, and its probable
effect upon himself, his paranoiac al
coholic condition made it probable that
he did not have sufficient will power
to resist wrong impression.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-05-25
Direct Nominations.

The Dickinson direct nominations
bill failed to pass in the senate, the
vote being 16 TO 16. The failure was
due to the unsuccessful efforts of the
convention senator's to hitch on a
40 per cent plurality amendment for
governor and lieutenant governor.
The bill was reconsidered and re-re-
ferred and now stands where it did be-
fore the days debate.
If the bill finally fails of passage
the administration is said to have
plans under consideration referen-
dunn, or a special session of the legis-
lature next spring when the rebellious
senators are up for denomination.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-05-25
Confederate Headstones.

The war department will award
within a few days the contract for
the 10000 white marble headstones,
TO mark the graves of confederate SOL
diers and sailors who died in federal
prisons and military hospitals in the
north during the civil war, and who
were buried near the place of their
confinement. This will be the first
step toward action by the government
to mark these graves.
Col. VIM. Elliott. an officer of the
confederate army, and formerly repre-
sentative from South Carolina. has
been appointed commissioner to take
charge of the work.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-05-25

Civil service examinations for clerk
and carrier In the postofice service
will be held in Hillsdale and Mar
quette May %.
The charge Of desertion has stood
against City Recorder r. p. Misner. of
Muskegon, since the close of the civil
war, but has been removed through
the efforts of Congressman McLaugh.
lin. Just before the end of the war
Misner was taken i'll. and while he
was in the hospital his regiment was
mustered out He failed to report. as
he went directly home from the hos
pital
Mrs. Martha Hubert. formerly a De
troit cook, believes she has solved the
perpetual motion puzzle. With plans
and working model she will leave for
Washington shortly to submit ben mod.
els tn tho nafant denarfment
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-05-25
Mics GIeason,s Sad pliuht.

Bernice Gleason, aged Is years,
daughter of Charles Gleason, promi-
nent citizen Of Kalamazoo, collapsed
on the streets in Chicago Friday night,
and it was not until noon Saturday
that the police in that city were able to
identify her. All she could remember
was that she came from a city where
they made buggies. Mrs. Gleason says
that her daughter went TO visit an
uncle and she believes that the rela-
tive missed the train and the girl be-
came confused and tainted. The young
lady was student in the Kalamazoo
college. She recently underwent an
operation for appendicitis.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-05-25

Physicians at the Bay City hospital
report that Joseph Turcott. who was
riddled with buckshot in Oscoda few
days ago. is failing.
Drawing flames and smoke. John
Erickson. of Haff fought his way into
his burning home and rescued his
wife, baby and Miss Mialo. All were
quite badly burned.
a fortunate sudden change in the
wind put an end to the destructive
forest fires which have been raging
about Traverse City for several days.
The fire on the peninsula, 1t is said,
was started by someone throwing a
lighted cigar stub In tall. dry grass
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-05-25
A POST CARD
Kalamazoo School Girl Loses Her
Mind From Shock.

A postal card shown to Miss Der.
nice Gleason, aged Is, a student In
Kalamazoo college, so shocked the girl
that she became temporarily deranged
and disappeared. Her father, former
City Clerk Charles II. Gleason, who
brought her back from Chicago, where
she was picked up by the police and
taken to Y. w. c. A. home, reported
that she showed considerable improve
ment, though her mind is not entirely
clear. DR.. H. B. Osborne says the
trouble is partly due to a bilious dis
order.
When Miss Gleason arrived at home
she did not at first recognize her faith
er, but soon embraced him.
What place is this?" she asked. u
have never been here before; there
are no tall buildings here
Early Monday she began to go over
the questions which evidently had
been asked her in Chicago. "Kalama
ZOO? Yes, l have heard of it, but
have never been there" she said.
mo, l tell you | didn't come on the
cars; l walked"
These other replies to questions cor
responded to interrogatoTies put tC
her in Chicago.
The insulting card was handed tc
Miss Gleason by fellow student.
The father has decided not to prose
cute but the student will probably be
expelled from college. President A
Gaylord Slocum promises a rigid in
vestigation.
In an interview the young man ad
mitted passing the suggestive pos
card to the girl, but said he was show
| ing it in the class to young mar
seated back of her and that sht
reached out for It, He admits that M
met the girl after the class and pulled
book containing the card out of he
hand, but he denies that he struck hel
or treated her brutally. His statement
in some respects, is supported by hi:
companions.
The postcard was purchased in ;
| drug store much frequented by college
students. 1t is suggestive, but no more
so than some which are allowed L
pass through the mails.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-05-25
Down the Mississlppi.

President Roosevelt intends, If pos
sible, TO make three or four days
trip next fall down the Mississippi
river, from some point in middle ILL
nois or Iowa to Memphis. 1t will. If at
all. be made in company with the
members of the inland waterways COM
mission. of which Rep. Burton, of
Ohio, is chairman, and who, like the
president, will be the guests Of the
Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterway as
ISOLATION.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-05-25
Needs Correction.

A. canon Brown, aged II, adopted
son of a Saginaw family, is in Jail
charged with starting three fires with
in an hour The first was at Cobb's
cooper shop, another in stable in
the rear of the Valley hotel in Lyon
street and another in Niagara street
storeroom. The latter blaze was kin
died at the top of stairway and
threatened to be a bad fire. The boy
says ne likes to see the fire horses
run. He will be sent to Lansing.