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The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-07-04
JAPAN WON'T Be OFFENDED
AMERICA MAY SAFELY SEND
WARSHIPs TO THE PACIFIC.
Ambassador Aoki Says Proposed Con.
centration of Navy Will Not Be
) Considered Menace.

Washington, July 3.-"No, Japan
would not regard 1t as an unfriendly
act II the American government saw
fit to increase her naval represents
ton in her territorial waters on the
Pacific coast, or even If she sent ad-
ditional men-uf-war to the Asiatic sta.
tion. She would not look upon 1t as
a menace or regard it with regret"
These were the words of Viscount
Aoki, Japanese ambassador to the
United States, when his attention was
called Tuesday to published reports
that the general board of the navy
had recommended to the president
that the battleships of the American
fleet be sent around to the Pacific
coast. At the same time the ambas-
sador expressed great deal of inter-
est in the stories printed and asked If
they were true. He disliked, he said,
to appear in the public prints when
there was no reason for it, but he felt
at perfect liberty to say what he did
on this subject.
The ambassador recalled that 1t Is
the custom and practice of nations to
send vessels of their fleets in the
waters of other nations and instanced
the fact that very recently several
Japanese warships had visited Ameri-
can waters at the jamestown exposi-
tion.
For the moment the embassy Of.
ficials are not contemplating any ac-
ton in the matter of the denial of the
intelligence Office privileges to the
Japanese at San Francisco. Mr.. Aokl
reiterated that that question can be
taken up in the courts by the persons
affected by the police boards decision
and If the decision of the judges is
such as to leave room to believe that
the treaty rights of the Japanese
have been denied. then the embassy
will take the matter up with the state
department.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-07-04
CREMATED HER HUSBAND
LITHUANIAN WOMAN coNFESSES
TO A HORRIBLE CRIME.
Tells Police of Scranton, Pa, That
Deed Was Suggested by
.,. Her Lover,

Scranton, Pa, July 3.-Mrs. Kindra
Howrsto, aged IS years, of Dunmore
is in the county Jail, charged with hav
ing burned her husband to death that
she might be free to marry her for
mer lover, Ignatz Hutro, who is also
in jail, charged with being an acces
sorry. The police officials say that
Mrs. Howrsto has confessed and given
all the details of the crime.
All the parties are Lithuanians. Ac
cordips to the story told the police by
Mrs. Howrsto, she and Hutro were
lovers before she married Howrsto in
the old country, two years ago. HutrC
preceded them to this country. Wher
they came here, they settled neal
where Hutro was living in the Nay
Aug section of Dunmoreborough Hut
ro renewed his attentions to Mrs
Howrsto, and frequently was at theiI
home. According to her confession
Hutro came to the Howrsto home or
Monday and suggested that she dc
away with her husband, so that they
could be married,
Following Hutro's suggestion the
woman got her husband drunk, and
when he was stupefied In bed, she
went to the room with the kerosene
lamp. She poured the oil from the
lamp on the bed and then, she says
the lamp dropped on the bed, setting
1t a-fire. At the sight Of her husband
roasting in the flaming bed, she be
came horror-stricken and rushed
from the house, crying Fire" Neigh
bors extinguished the flames, and had
Howrsto sent to hospital where he
died without regaining consciousness
Hutro denies all knowledge of the
crime. Both are being held pending
an investigation OF the womans story
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-07-04
THE GLORIOUS FOURTH
oskALoosA WILL DELIBERATE TO-DAY

Everything is in readiness for the
big celebration today, and with
favorable weather July 4, 1907, will
go down in history as great day fol
Oskaloosa. Just what time the deni-
onstratiol will start depends on what
time the small boy gets up in the
morning. but 1t Is safe to say the op-
ening will not be delayed long after
daylight.
The program of the day will open
with band concert in the public
square at 3 O'Clock in the moraing,
and there will be something doing
from that time on until late at night.
The, address by Judge Willcockson at
1879 in the afternoon will be a treat
and will be over in time to afford
everybody opportunity to go to the
river, Practically all the business
houses will close at 100 O'Clock and
remain closed the rest of the day.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-07-04
FOREST HILL is BESIEGED
FEDERAL MARSHAL LYING IN
WAIT TO NAB ROCKEFELLER.
First Barred from Lodge and Then
Admitted and Given Freedom
of Estate.

Cleveland, o., July 3.-Forest Hill,
the suburban home of John ID. Rookie
feller, was besieged by United States
Marshal Frank M. Chandler and a
corps of deputies representing the de-
partment Of justice from early Tues
day morning till after nightfall. Up
to that hour the efforts of federal Off
cials to serve the subpoena issued
from Judge Landis' court in Chicago
on Mr.. Rockefeller had been unsuc-
cessful, and Marshal Chandler and his
deputies will continue picketing the
Rockefeller estate.
Access to the lodge was denied
deputy marshal at two o'clock Tues
day afternoon, and Marshal Chandler
at that time announced that he would
ask the department of justice at
Washington for further authority in
the case. Later he was admitted to
the lodge and Superintendent Jones Of
the Rockefeller estate informed him
that he and his deputies could have
the freedom of the place, a disclaimer
being entered that the barring of the
gate against the deputy marshal was
meant as an affront to federal author
ity.
Marshal Chandler would not say
positively Tuesday night that he be-
lieved John D. Rockefeller is at For
est Hill, but he said he felt sure that
the latter is now within the jurisdic-
tion of the federal court of northern
Ohio.
Chicago, July 3.--John D. Rockefel.
Ter must be in Chicago July 6, next
Saturday, or suffer serious conse-
quences. This ultimatum was issued
Tuesday by the United States district
attorneys Office,
Ordinary methods in the service of
subpoenas will be employed until the
date set for the hearing" said an at.
taehe of District Attorney Sims office.
AFTER that drastic measures will be
employed. No attempt will be made
to force a way to the oil king until
July 6, but If it is necessary for Judge
Lands to set another date for the
hearing the governxlent will consider
that the gage of battle has been
thrown"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-07-04
.FOUR-STORY BLOCK
COLLAPSE IN RUINS
FIFTYTwo MEN HAVE NARROW
ESCAPE FROM DEATH.
ONLY TEN ARE INJURED
Building In Cincinnati, Weakened by
. Excavation, Falls Suddenly
Property Loss Estimated
at S25,ooo.
ONLY TEN ARE INJURED

Cincinnati, July 3.-Fifty-two men
had remarkable escape from death
in the coIlapsing of four-story bust
ness block on Main street Tuesday af-
ternoon, only ten being injured and
none of these dangerously.
The accident was caused by the
weakening of foundations by the ex-
cavation being made at Ninth and
Main streets for the new ten-story
building of the Second National bank,
and the building that fell was that
occupied by the office furniture firm
of Levi & White. Its outer wall fell
over into the excavation, where the
laborers were enjoying their midday
meal Forty 1aborers we're employed
on the job and most of them were
seated around the excavation when
the wall fell.
Marvellous Escapes from Death.
In the wrecked building were a
dozen other men, some of whom were
shot out through the windows and
wreckage into the street. That num-
bers were not killed outright seemed
little less than miraculous, and for
some time it was believed that sew
eral OF those under the wreckage
must have perished. However, the
timbers in falling formed arches un-
der which the men were safely
housed.
Situated In the heart Of crowded
business section, but a few minutes
elapsed before large force of volun-
teer rescuers was at work, the police
and fire departments being augment
ed with men from the courthouse
across the street, Salvation Army
members from the nearby barracks,
and others from various business
houses and factories.
Ten Taken to Hospitals.
Not until nearly two hours after the
accident was it positively known that
no one had been killed. Automobiles
from neighboring garages were Of
fered for service and soon carried to
the hospitals the ten men who were
found to require the attention of sur
geons, but many of the laborers, as
soon as they recovered from the stun
ming effect of the falling wreckage,
joined the body of rescuers. a
Isaac White, of the firm of Levi &
White. was slightly injured; his Ste
nographer, Fred Miller, suffered con-
siderably from bruises caused by be-
ing thrown out of the elevator
through the wreckage into the street;
Joseph Mcdonald, fireman, was
struck on the head by falling brick
while working on the ruins. The
others injured we're laborers, none of
whom was believed to be. dangerously
hurt.
The property loss is estimated at
$4,000.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-07-04
CAUGHT MAKING "ouEER" COIN
Missouri Man Arrested In Albu.
querque-Begs to Be Shot.

Albuquerque, N. NJ, July "a man
giving the name of G. U. Hall and
claiming to be from st. Joseph, Mo-,
but recently a practicing physician at
Lennox, Ia, was arrested here Tues.
day while in the very act, 1t is
charged. of making counterfeit money.
After long watch the officers located
the counterfeiter in room in the
Southern hotel. One officer boosted
another up to the transom of locked
door and the counterfeiter was GOV.
cred with a six-shooter He unlocked
the door and surrendered. In the
room was complete counterfeiting
outfit for manufacturing dollar coins,
with some 20 counterfeit dollars scat
tered about the floor.
Hall, who has wife and daughter
in Little Falls. Wash, begged the
police to shoot him, as he feared the
disgrace would kill his family.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-07-04

300 a. m.-Band music in the
Park.
10000 a. m.-Ball Game at City
Park.
1900 m.-Basket dinner in park.
1870 p. m.-Speaking in the pub,
lie square by Judge Willcockson.
300 p. m.-Ball game at the Riv.
erside Park. Trains leave Iowa
Central depot at 1880, 200 and 2:3O
o'clock.
$3.50 p. m.-Daylight fire works and
athletic stunts on the public square,
potato, sack and relay races.
1880 p. m.-Band Concert.
900 p. m.-F'ire works.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-07-04
MUCH TYPHOID IN PITTsBvRe.
New Cases In June Numbered 4sa-
Water supply Is Blamed.

Pittsburg, Pa, July 3.-The epidemic
Of typhoid fever in this city, which
was not expected to increase to any
alarming extent until late this month,
Is gradually assuming serious proper
tions. and the health authorities are
puzzled at the many cases recorded
during June. In that period there
were 49S new cases.
DR.. Jas. F. Edwards, superintendent
of the health bureau, said Tuesday
that on account of the cases being
scattered throughout the city, he be-
lieved the increase to be due to the
poor water supply. Supt. Edwards
says that many of the foreigners who
have contracted the disease here with
in the last few weeks were discovered
to be recent arrivals and were ready
victims to the germ.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-07-04
WIRE MEMS STRIKE
EXTENDED BY SMALL
TELEeRAPHERs IN ANOTHER
CITY ORDERED TO QUIT.
PLACE is KEPT SECRET
Operators In Chicago Are on the
Verge Of Leaving Their Keys
to Aid Their Western y
All Brothers. afi&
PLACE IS KEPT SECRET

San Francisco, July 3.--It is an
nounced that President Small of the
Commercial Telegraphers' Union of
America has extended the strike of
the telegraphers by ordering out the
operators Of the Western Union and
Postal companies in another city to
help out the men on strike in this
city and Oakland Small would not
say where the strike had been called,
and for the present will not disclose
THE location until the message reaches
its destination.
Chicago May Be Scene.
Orders for the extension of the
strike, 1t Is declared, were mailed by
Small Monday night. 1t is believed
by many of the operators that either
Portland, Los Angeles or Seattle will
be the scene of the next walk-out,
while some declare that the men in
Chicago, regarded as the key to the
telegraph Situation OF the entire coun.
try, have been ordered out.
The pickets Of the Commercial Tel
egraphers have been notified by Pres
ident Small to look for J. L. Powell
son, an operator who is said to be
on his way here from Los Angeles to
act as a strike breaker for the West
ern Union. 1t is asserted by mem
bers of the union that he is a desert
er from the signal corps Of the
United States army, and is wanted by
the army authorities in Utah.
Superintendent A. H. May of the
Western Union and General Superin-
tendent L. w. Storer of the Postal
repeated their assertion of previous
days that their companies are hand
ling without delay all business that
is offered and emphatically deny the
charges made by the striking opera
tors that they are sending packages
of kilograms by mail and express.
Superintendent May Stated that
there were 107 men at work in the
Western Union main office at Oak
land Six branch Offices We're open
ed In this city Monday by the West
ern Union.
Chicago Operators Ready to Cult.
Chicago, July 3.--Twenty-five hun
dred telegraph operators in Chicago
are on the verge of strike against
the Western Union and Postal Tele-
graph companies.
News that President Samuel J.
Small Of the Commercial Teleg-
raphers' union had mailed orders for
the extension of the strike to a new
city was received and the local key
men were ordered to hold themselves
in readiness to quit at moments
notice, expecting the order might be
for a general walkout here.
Chicago is held by strike leaders
to be the most vulnerable point for
the companies. This city is called the
key to the nations business" teleg.
raphically.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-07-04
inventor of Giant Powder Dead.

Akron, o., July 9--Hiram ]. Ayers,
the inventor of giant powder, died
here Tuesday, aged "a years. He
manufactured giant powder here in
the '40s, drying it on the roof of his
workshop. Ayers later interested
eastern men, and they manufactured
the explosive extensively at Ogden,
Utah, and in California and at other
points. Death was due to the infirmi-
ties OF old age.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-07-04
FELL FROM BRIDGE.
FRANK sTRlNGFELLoW SERIOUS,
LY HURT NEAR ALBA
THIS MORNING. s
Special to Daily Herald.

Special to Daily Herald.
Abba, Iowa, July 3.-Frank String
fellow, a bridge carpenter from Oska
loosa, fell through the Hooking bridge
about 10 O'Clock this nlornfng and suf
fered crushed skull.S He fell 80 fee
and struck his head on tie. A
nurse was brought here from Ottumws
to care for MIN. His condition is
serious and it is feared he cannot re
cover. Relatives in Oskaloosa have
been notified.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-07-04
ALBA TO REMAIN
A DRY COMMUNITY
MOTION TO SUSPEND THE IN.
JUNCTION is ovERRULEp.
UNwRITTEN LAW CRITICISED.
Supreme Court Reverses Decision In
Dubuque Case Involving Prose
cution For Fracture Of Sew
enth Commandment.
scripps-McRae Telegram.

Scripps McRae Telegram.
Des Moiles. July 3-The supreme
court yesterday overruled the appli-
cation of Speaker Kendall and other
attorneys for the saloons of Monroe
county for Suspension of the order OF
Judge Roberts of the Monroe district
closing the retail liquor houses Of Al;
bia pending appeal Oh the injunction
proceedings brought by Mr.. Moon
through A. ]. Baker and other attof-
neYs.
The motion was submitted to Judge
Bishop week ago Monday aud was
referred to the whole court Monday by
him. The court took the matter un-
der advisement and yesterday ruled
against the motiOl to suspend the in
junction.
The result will be that the saloons
will remain closed in Abba until their
case is passed upon, finally, by the
supreme court.
Taboo Unwritten Law.
The supreme court of Iowa has no
sympathy with the so-called "unwrit-
tea law"
In Dubuque case involving prose
cution for fracture of the law based
on the seventh commandment, the
county attorney had told tae jury that
instead of trying ~. Peter H Hag
mann for adultery 1t ought to be try
ing Jacob Kiefer to determine If he
were guilty of murder for killing Har
mann.
This appeal to the unwritten law
the supreme court severely criticised
in its opinion in the case yesterday
1t reversed the conviction of the de.
fendant and told the prosecution in
Dubuque county that if it could make
no better case against him than was
presented it should be dismissed for
it proved nothing.
Attorneys Argument.
In addressing the jury the county
attorney said: Instead of trying a
case of adultery here you should be
mere for determining whether or not
Jacob Kiefer was guilty of murder II
he had exercised his manhood and
taken gun or pistol and shot through
the heart of DR.. Harmanl."
Counsel for the state also stated:
ut is absolutely immaterial whether
the defendant bought him (Kiefer) of
or whether anybody bought him off. :
Courts Opinion.
The supreme court said in its opin
ion yesterday:
Neither statement had any justifi
cation either il law or fact and it is
highly important that no such appeals
be made. There is enough of dis
position for unthinking and unreason
ing persons to take the law into theii
own hands, without having it encour
aged by ministers of the law.
at was the duty of the attorney
who made this statement to discour
age the very thing which ne was
couatenancing. And there was NJ
other reason for making the state
ment than to inflame the passions ant
to induce the jury to right suppose
wrolg which a party had neglected
to perform on his own benalf.
"This attorney was not even appeal
ing to the so called "unwritten law
of the land, for no one contends tha
Kiefer found his wife in iiagrantt
dilecto, and it was improper to sug
gest such remedy as he here ap
proved.
There was no testimony tina
Kiefer was bought off and the re
marks of the attorney were purel!
gratuitous,"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-07-04
TWO CARS OF POWDER EXPLODE
Tremendous Blast Near Salt Lake
City Jars Big Buildings,

Salt Lake City, July 3.-Two car.
loads of giant powder standing on a
side track of the Oregon Short Line
at Beck's Hot Springs, five miles from
this city, caught fire from burning
grass and exploded Tuesday afternoon,
jarring heavy buildings in this city
and breaking windows for miles
around.
A local passenger train on the Ore
gon Short Line was quarter OF a
mile away when the powder exploded
breaking every window in the train
and throwing passengers out Of their
seats. Telegraph and telephone com,
munication was cut off as every pole
in the neighborhood went down.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-07-04
EARTH SHOCKS IN EUROPE.
Seismic Disturbances Are Felt In Italy
and England.

Rome, July 3.--Slight earth shocks
were felt Tuesday at Tolmezzo, San
Daniele and Amaro. near Udine, capt
tai of the province Of that name,
Tolmezzo is in the Alps, 1000 feet
above the sea.
wallasey, Eng July IA slight
earthquake shock was felt here at
noon Tuesday. No damage was done
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-07-04
Jury las the Holmes case.

Washington, July S.-The case Of
Edwin S. Holmes. Jr, the former
associate statistician of the depart
ment of agriculture, who has been on
trial since June Q on the charge Of
conspiracy In connection with the
leak of advance information regarding
the government crop reports, was
given to the jury Tuesday.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-07-04
St. Louis Bridge Bonds Valid.

JEFFERSON City, Mo, July 3.-The
Missouri supreme court Tuesday up.
held the validity of the ST. Louis
sS,500,000 bridge bond issue, by de-
cision in the friendly suit instituted by
Herman A. Haeussler, who alleged
that the question of the bond issue
was improperly submitted to the peo.
pie of st. Louis.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-07-04
GIVEN, FIVE YEARS.
Ira Dexter Sentenced for Running
Fraudulent Land Company.

Fort Dodge, Ia, July S.-Judge Reed
in federal court sentenced Ira Dexter
to three years in the Leavenworth
penitentiary and to pay $500 for the
fraudulent use of the mails in connec-
tion with the operation of mythical
land COMPANY at Algona.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-07-04
FLAG PRESENTATION.
Program Of Exercises to, Be Observed
At Forest Cemetery

Program of Exercises to Be Observed
At Forest Cemetery
The following program will be OBJ
served at the Flag presentation al
Soldiers Lot, Forest cemetery on Ahe
Fourth Of July, commencing promptly
at 6;30 p. M:
Martial Music-Phil Kearney Drum
Corps.
Invocation Rev Carl Petrle.
Vocal Music Mixed Quartette.
h Address Rev. S. H, zendt.
Vocal Music-Quartette.
Flag Presentation-By Womaas Re
lief Corps.
Commander Jas.Lough
ridge.
Solo-Star Spangled Banler,by Mrs
Lee Long. Miss Lillian Hughes, ac
companist.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-07-04
FIRE AT coAlFleLD.
Two Houses Destroyed BY Flames
Yesterday Afternoon.

Eddyville, July 1.-Two residences
were burned at Coalfield Tuesday af
ternoon about four O'clock One was
vacant and the other was occupied by
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Smith, VINO were re
Gently married. They saved most oi
their belongings.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-07-04
soldier shot In cuba Dies.

Havana. July S.-Corporal P. j.
Green. of the Eleventh United States
infantry, who was shot at Holguin,
Santiago province, June 2s, by a po-
liceman while resisting arrest, died
Tuesday.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-07-04
ROBERTS HAS OFFER.
An Iowa Man May Become Head OF
Chicago Bank.
Special to Daily Herald.

Special to Daily Herald.
Washington, D. c., July S.-Director
of the Mint Hoa. George E. Roberts
of Fort Dodge went to New York, last
night, where formal proposition win
be made to him to become president
of the Commercial National Bank OF
Chicago.
This is the institution Of which Jas.
H. Eckels, former comptroller Of cur
rency, was president up to the time
of his death recently.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-07-04
spaln's New War Minister.

Madrid. July S.-Gen. Primo de
Rivera was appointed minister of war
in the Maura cabinet Tuesday to fill
the portfolio made vacant by the
death, on June 80 last Of Gen. Lono
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-07-04
ELECTION AT PELLA.
New Electric Light Plant Proposition
Voted Down.
scrlpps.M .McRae Telegram.

Pella, Ia, July 3.-Tne proposition
to grant 2O-year franchise to q. G.
Houck of Dubuque, Ia, to operate al
electric light plant IN Pella, and
which was submitted to a vote, was
defeated almost two to one. A pro
position will now be submitted for a
municipal electric light plant and il
is thought it will carry.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-07-04
OFF FOR THE WEST.
Vice President Fairbanks viii Co as
Far as Seattle.

Scripps- McRae Telegram.
Indianapolis Ind. July 3.--Vice Presi-
dent Fairbaaks left here last night on
nis long western trip. He speaks at
Ferguson Falls, Mimi, on Thursday.
He goes thence to Yellowstone Park
and speaks on July 13 at the iaterna-
tional convention Of Christian Ea-
deayor Societies In Seattle.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-07-04
OVERCOME BY HEAT.
. John Nolan succumbs Near
. Burlington Today.

Scripps-McRae Telegram.
Burlington, Ia, July 3,-Wnile dig
ging post holes today. John Nolan, a
prominent farmer, was overcome by
the heat and he died instantly.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-07-04
ANTLJEWIsH RIOT. Q
} Bloodshed Has Started Again o
} In Odessa. o

o o Q
London, July S.--An Odessa dis
patch says two Jews were killed and
several children wounded in an anti
Jewish riot started during the night
by the BLACK Hundreia9