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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-28

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-28
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PaIatabIe Pies.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-28

The Best Thing You Can Drink
Decoration day or any other day is .'Old
Glory" \ dark beer of unequaled purity,
flavor and healthfIilness. For case write
or phone w 40 Ahner-Drury Brew. Co.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-06-18
INSANE WOMAN MURDERS SIX.
Husband and Children Are Killed =
Woman Commit Suicide.

WOfE'du SOt'Itilk SbISibCs
Cadillac, Mich, June 16. - Seven
teen-year-old Fred Cooper. the last liv-
ing member of a family of eight per-
sons, lies in Mercy hospital with but a
fighting chance for life, wNle the
bodies of the other seven members of
the family, all slain by the wife and
mother, who afterward committed sui
eide, lie in the morgue, the object of
morbid interest by thousands of
townspeople and farmers from the
surrounding country.
The boy says that all he remembers
of the nights dreadful occurrences in
the Cooper home is a vague recollec-
ton of hearing a revolver shot. 1t is
the supposition that the shot he heard
was the one that killed his brother,
who lay beside him in bed. 1t is sup
posed that his mother Immediately
afterward sen the bullet into Fred's
head.
Mrs. Cooper was once confined in
an insane asylum, and for some time
has been brooding over that fact that
Cooper was out of work. A few days
ago she is reported to have said she
would lend it ALL"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-06-18
FATAL FIRE IN
FLOODED PLANT
Two WOrkmen Are Killed by Elk.
plOSiOnS in Morris Pack
ing Establishment.
loss NEARLY HALF A MILLION
Plant Is Surrounded by Raging Torrent
and Work of Fighting Flames
Was Difficult.

Kansas City, Mo, June 1.-Two la
borers lost their lives. two others
were seriously injured and property
loss estimated at between $3.50, 900
and $3.50, 900 was caused by two explo-
sions. followed by a fire, in the pack
ing house of Morris & Co, at the
riverside, in Kansas City, Kan, yes
terday. The force of the explosions,
which were felt all over both Kansas
Cities, ruined the cold storage build
ing, and the fire that followed de-
stroyed the smoke house. The loss
on meat destroyed is not known.
Explosion Starts Fire.
An explosion of sewer gas resulted
when a worker in one of the cold
storage departments lighted a match.
This was followed by another and
much more serious explosion caused
monia, and a stubborn fire soon start
ed.
The Morris plant is located near the
channel of the Kaw river, and being
In the center of the flooded district, is
in a swift current of ate from six
to eight feet deep This condition
made the task of fighting the fire
most difficult, and it required five
hours TO control the flames.
The loss of meat in the fire was
enormous. The coolers were packed
to their capacity, as the food had in
terfered with railway traffic long be-
fore the water shut the plant down.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-06-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN tPITOME
Important Events at Home and on
Foreign Shores Briefly
Told.
At the Capital.

The internal revenue department
has planned to begin in a short time
! series OF prosecutions for alleged I'm
fractions OF the federal revenue laws.
The president has reappointed the
members of the inland waterways
commission, thereby continuing by
Executive action what congress failed
10 do during the session.
The gunboat Yorktown has beer
ordered to leave Puget sound for a
cruise TO the Boring sea. where she
s to patrol the seal fisheries and TO
prevent pelagic sealing.
Capt. Fitzhugh Lee, Jr., military
aid TO President Roosevelt, has been
designated by the war department to
attend the course at the French
School of Equitation at Saumar,
France, this summer. Capt. Archi.
bald w. Butt, depot quartermaster at
Havana, will be ordered to duty at
he White House as military aid.
approximately 10000 acres of land
which were withdrawn in connection
With the Lower Yellowstone irriga-
lion project in Eastern Montana.
hare been restored to the public d.
nain and will become subject TO set
!lement and entry IN such dates and
utter such notices by publication as
secretary of the interior may pre-
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-06-18
CALEB POWERS IS FREE AT LAST
Final Chapter in the Famous GoebeI
Murder Case-James Howard
Also Set Free.

Frankfort, KY, June 16.-After hav.
ing been before the courts and the
public so long as 10 have become a
classic in the criminal records of the
country, the famous case of Caleb
Powers, accused of the murder of
William Goebel in the state election
struggle eight years ago, was given
its final touch Saturday by Gov. Will
son., who granted Powers a full and
free pardon, with restoration Of his
rights as a citizen.
James Howard, convicted some
years ago OF completely in the Goebel
murder, also is pardoned.
Declares His innocence.
Powers had been notified of the par
don and was waiting in the sheriff's
room in the Jail at Georgetown. He
was pale, but smiling. When the par
don was handed to him he thanked
his friends for their efforts in his be-
half and said he had expected the par
don.
81 will go TO Barbourville to see my
mother first he said. Il will later
ueclue OH my luluTe pldHS. j am TN
der the deepest obligation to the gov
ernor for his action and to thousands
of friends who have stood by me.
Il am innocent of this crime hat
was charged against me-"
Tried Four Times.
In the closing days of January eight
years ago, while the contest OF Will
liam Goebel for the g~ubernatorial seat
occupied by William S. Taylor was be-
ing heard, Goebel was shot, dying
later from his wound. Four times
Powers has been put on trial for his
life on the charge of completely in the
murder, the first three trials result
ing in conviction and sentence, death
being the penalty in two trials. On
the fourth trial the jury disagreed
and %thereupon the efforts for a pardon
for Powers, as well as for James How
ard, were renewed.
Many hundreds of thousands of sig
natures of people of all parties and
all sections were appended TO the pc
titions that poured in on Gov. Will
son, and for several weeks that official
has been considering the case.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-06-18
BIlLfK AGAIN ESCAPES MOOSE
Is Reprieyed by Judge Lands as March
TO Scaffold Is Begun-Incident
Most Dramatic.

Chicago. June 14.-Herman Billek,
the clairyoyant condemned to die at
IL o'clock yesterday, was granted a
reprieve as his neck was barred for
the and his guards were ready
for the death march to the scaffoId.
Judge Kenesaw NJ. lands, the federal
judge, ordered a stay OF execution at
l1:10 o'clock, thereby giving Billek
time to carry his case before the SUI
preme court of the United States.
The incidents attending the stay Of
execution were dramatic in the ex-
IRENE. Billek was snatched from
death almost at the foot of the scat
fold. He had received the rite of ex-
IRENE JUNCTION. With Father O'Calla-
CHAN he had uttered his last prayer.
His neck had been barred for the moose
and the jailer vas just forming the
line of march to the scaffold when the
announcement was made that an APP
peal had been granted.
A crowd of many thousand persons
packed the street surrounding the
Jail. When the reprieve was
ed the cheering lasted for thirty min.
utes.
Herman Billek, a Bohemian fortune
teller, was tried and convicted of poi
soning to death Mary Vrzal, twenty
two years old, and was accused of sim
ilarly causing the death of five other
members of the Vrzal family. The
deaths in the Vrzal family all occur
red within a period of two years. The
testimony at the trial showed that
Billek went TO the Vrzal residence
with his alleged charms and that the
remarkable series of deaths followed.
The alleged motive was life insurance
money in each case, the amount vary
ing from 800 to 1925.
AS a result of the trial, Billek's pun
ishment was fixed at death. Since
then he had been within the shadow
of the gallows three times besides yes
terday, the first date for the hanging
having been fixed as Oct. l., 1907, and
the other dates Nov. s., 1907, and April
%, 1908.
The postponement in each case was
to permit further investigation.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-06-18
People Talked About.

Isaac B. Rich, one of the Oldest the.
ltrical managers in the country, died
Of diabetes in Boston. He was born
In 1927.
w. S. Forman of East st. Louis. Ill,
who was for three terms a representa-
i've In congress from the old Twenty
hrst Illinois district, is dead.
Hudson ID. Brussie of San Francis
co, who was released on SIS, 900, fol-
lowing his arrest on a charge of en-
bezzlement, is dead of heart failure.
Col. John F. Finnerty, we'll known
rs an Irish patriot, a lecturer and
newspaper man, died at his home in
Chicago Of an affection of the liver.
Rev. John ID. Pickles. pastor of st.
Paul's church at Lynn, Mass, and
n Of the best known Methodist
clergymen in Massachusetts, is dead.
William. A. Morgan, once editor OF
the Burlington Gazette and former
speaker of the Iowa house Of repre-.
sentatives. died at his home in Lake
Forest, III.
: william Davis Ely, h Oldest alum
aus of Yale university and a member
Of the class of 1886. died at his home
In Providence. r. I. Death resulted
from heart failure. Mr.. Ely was
ninety-three years old.
George F. Payne of the George F.
Payne company, builders OF the new
state capitol at Harrisburg, Pa, and a
defendant in the capitol conspiracy
Ease. died at his home In Philadelphia.
Death was caused by a complication of
diseases.
Leonard Vernon Howe, 1909, OF Min
seapolis. has been elected captain of
the Yale track team for next year. He
won the 110-meter hurdle race in the
olympian try-outs last week and was
awarded a place on the American
Dlympian team.
The engagement Is announced at
Hamilton. Bermuda, of Hon. Henry
Cowper Gollan, chief justice Of Ber-
muda. to Mary Louise, the only
laughter of James Nelson Morris of
St. Louis, Mo. The wedding will oc-
eur in London or Paris. probably in
August.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-06-18
AUTOMOBILE pUckED.

Marshalltown, Iowa, June 1S. -
While driving his automobile over the
built dixie road which borders Dewey
lake, on the soldiers home grounds,
a part of the road near the edge Of
the water caved in, throwing the au-
tomobife into three feet of water and
pitching the driver, DR.. N. e. Mighell.
headlong after it. The machine bur
led its o S in the mud. but aside
from being partly submerged 1t was
not hurt. DR.. Mighell was water
soaked. but escaped uninjured.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-06-18
Crimes and Criminals.

Nine persons were arrested at
Ealesburg, H., charged with violating
the local option law. Some of the ac-
rused are Of prominence.
Miss Anna Erickson OF Tacoma. an
artist who won more than local re-
nown for her work. committed suicide
by hanging herself to her bedpost.
Thirteen persons charged with po-
ntical ~offenses were executed In vari.
ous cities in Russia, OF which FIVE
were in Ufa, four In Lodz and four in
Odessa.
Convicted OF stealing an old straw
hat and a screwdriver from the sex.
ton OF a church at Easton, Pa, Ed
ward Whalen was sentenced to serve
ten years in the Eastern penitentiary.
Anthony Colligan. formerly a men,
Der OF the police of Evanston, a sub.
urb OF Chicago. while crazed by drink
shot and killed his wife and then fired
a bullet into his own body, dying a
few hours later.
Frank Irvine. a defendant in the
capitol conspiracy case now on trial
at Harrisburg. Pa. has been removed
to the state hospital for the insane,
The case of the other five defendants
will 60 10 the jury probably Friday.
At Elcenter, Cal. a number Of
young men o-erturned a wagon load
ed with Japanese laborers and a party
Of Japanese were stoned at \ rail
road station. Several arrests have
been made. The trouble appears e
be due to the surplus OF laborers.
Charles p. Corlett, head OF the Cor
lett Engineering company. killed hi,
wife and then ended his own life IL
hotel In Willouehby. a CLEVELAND
suburb. The double tragedy is SAID
10 Be the result Of jealousy, Mr.. ant
Mrs. Corlett wer Wen known IL
Cleveland society.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-06-18
Sins and Sinners.

The body OF Thomas Martin was
found In a lot at Brunswick, N. j. 1t
Is believed he was robbed and MUIR
dered.
Louis M. Koch, a well known club
man OF Toledo, shot and killed him.
self at his home. The motive is not
known.
The Bank of Jalisco, in the city of
Guadaiajara, Mexico, was ewindled
out of $4,000 by one OF the cleverest
swindles ever worked in that coun-
try.
The dead body of Anna Lucninski,
nine years old, of Standard, Pa, was
found In a box car. Her throat indi-
.c-ted that she was choked to death
amer having been outraged. Charles
Williams. a young negro who found
the dead girl, is being detained.
Word reached the City OF Mexico
that bandits attacked a pay train on
the way to the Las Grandes mines,
near Balsas, In the State of Guerrero.
OF the escort OF four men three were
killed and n wounded. Four thou
sand dollars were stolen. Rurales
are In pursuit Of the highwaymen.
After lying in wait for nearly nine
hours. Sarah Konet, a young Russian
trained nurse, shot and killed DR..
William Auspitz, a physician, in the
vestibule Of an apartment house In
New York. The woman declared she
had shot the physician because he
had wronged her.
Twenty years In prison were melted
out to Patrick Mullen at Fernie, con-
victed at Winnipeg on a charge of
manslaughter. Mullen was arrested
at Great Falls, Mont, about a month
ago. He got into a scuffle at a dance
with Angelo Orlando, and during the
fracas Orlando was killed. Mullen
fed to the States, but was traced by
the police and brought back.
In a fight between fifteen Checotah
persons and citizens or Eufaula, Okla,
on the streets of Eufaula, f. M.
Woods, deputy constable Of Eufaula,
and Joseph Parmenter OF Chekota
were shot. Woods probably will die.
Parmenter's wound is not dangerous.
The trouble started when Woods at
tempted to disarm Parmenter. About
fifteen shots were fired in all.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-06-18
Otherwise.

II. ]. Mccormick, a well known at
torney at WATERFOWL, N. ", has been
arrested On a charge of forgery.
j. w. Pilkington committed suicide
at Mobile, Ala. by shooting. Worry
over financial matters, it is said, was
the u
After a campaign Of extraordinary
bitterness the voters Of Sedalia. Mo,
rolled up a majority of S4S against
local option.
The American Piano company
with an authorized capital Of s12.-
600, 900 has been incorporated at
Trenton, N. J..
District Attorney John B. Moran Of
Doston has been informed by his
physicians that he is suffering from
tuberculosis and that he must imme-
diately seek a different climate. He
will do as they order.
The famous French novelist, Paul
B~ourget. advocates the return to the
old Mosaic law as a punishment for
murder. Murderers should pay the
pepalty TOT tnei CTlIue Will tuciT
own lives, according to Bourget.
A posse of farmers and constables
who had searched the woods near
Newton for Edward Schiriman, the
man charged with the shooting of
Ida Potter to death on Main street at
Danbury. Conn.,, has returned. having
failed to find their man.
r. A. Gromley. thirty-five years old.
| OF Detroit. Mich. committed suicide
In his room at the Auditorium Annex
In Chicago. No cause could be as.
signed by the hotel employees for the
acr.
A fine Of $4,000, the maximum
penalty. was paid In the United
States district court at Portland, Me-,
| by George +. TORY. the Waterville
mail order house proprietor. The
sentence was imposed recently by
| Judge Hale for conspiracy to defraud
the government OF postage on second
J class matter.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-06-18
DE LAGERcRANTZ WILL RETURN.
II Is Denied That Swedish Minister
Has Become Persona Non Grata.

Has Become persona Non Srata,
Washington, June 16.-At the White
House yesterday it was denied that
DIR. Herman de Lagercrantz, the Swed-
ish minister TO the United States. has
become persona non grata to the
president.
The suggestions that DR.. de Lager
crantz had used his influence too
openly to prevent Swedes from emf
grating to the United States because
their services were needed by himself
and other large employers of labor
and that this action had offended the
administrator, it was declared, was
heard for the first time in connection
with this rumor.
At the Swedish legation it was stat
ed that the minister had gone home
on a visit and while there had tempo
rarily been employed in other official
duties, but his return to Washington
is fully expected.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-06-18
TOWN Is ABANDONED.

Kansas City, June 16. - The great
Kaw-Missouri food almost has its
crest. The railroad yards have been
evacuated, the packing houses and
business establishments have vacated
their lower floors, Armourdale has
been entirely abadoned by its 10000
inhabitants and water is running
twelve feet deep in its streets. There
is nothing to do but wait for the tide
to turn, as the weather bureau says it
will to-day.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-06-18
RIVERS AGAIN RISING.
Heavy Rains Send kaw and Missouri
Up Rapidly.

Kansas City, June Is. - Unusually
heavy rains fell yesterday in Kansas,
Nebraska, Missouri and Iowa, and the
weather bureau predicts that the Kan
sas and Missouri rivers will again
reach the high stage Of Wednesday
night. At 6 p. m. the Missouri here
had fallen slightly, but had risen at
st. Joseph and continues to rise there.
The Kaw fell about six inches yester-
day and was stationary last night. At
Topeka the Kaw is rising rapidly. The
weather bureau predicts that the new
food at Topeka will slightly exceed
that of Tuesday. All of the tributaries
of the Kaw are very high and more
rain is threatened.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-06-18
WHIPS BOY IN FACE; FINED.
Farmer Who, With Lash, Severely
Cuts Lad Is Punished for Assault.

Eau Claire, Wis. June 16. - Fred
Reed. a farmer living outside of the
city, in a fit of rage used his horse
whip on the face of his neighbor's boy
Albert Burger, aged fourteen, and Sc
~riously cut the lads face. He was
hailed into court and after a trial was
found guilty and fined $37.40 for as
sault and battery. Ill feeling between
the two families led to the incident.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-06-18
VAN SAINT GETS G. A. r. SUPPORT
Unanimously lndorsed for National
Commander.

Minneapolis, June 12.-Former Gov
ernor Samuel r. Van SAINT was unani-
mously Endorsed for commander-in-
chief of the Grand Army of the Re-
public at the opening of the state en-
campnient in Minneapolis yesterday
morning. Mr.. Van SAINT delivered the
address Of welcome to the assembled
veterans, about 300 in number, from
all parts of Minnesota.
The forty-first annual encanpment
was held in the assembly hall in the
court house and was presided over by
State Commander George A. Whitney
of Wadena.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-06-18
THAw A IN JAIL.

Pending Application for Transfer to
Some Other Asylum.
New York, June IA. - Harry X.
Thaw will remain in the Poughkeep-
sic Jail pending an application of his
counsel to Justice Bowling of the su-
preme court for a change of the order
committing him to the state hospital
for the insane at Matteawan. This de-
cision was rendered by Justice Nor.
schauser of Poughkeepsie, after hear.
ing arguments of counsel in this city
yesterday on a motion TO transfer the
prisoner to any state asylum other
than an asylum for insane convicts.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-06-18
cRAzEp FROM HUNGER; MAY DIE
Man Is Locked In Freight Car for Sew
en- DAYS and NIGHTS.

en- Days dHu Myths.
New York, June 14.-Crazed from
want Of food and water, Chester A.
O'Connell, a machinist of Bath Beach,
was rescued from a freight car in the
Harlem yards yesterday and taken to
Lincoln hospital, where it was said he
might die.
O'Connell was working in Jackson
vile. Fla, and losing his job crawled
into a freight car laden with potatoes
to make his way back to New York.
While he was asleep in the car the
door was locked and the car started
northward. For seven days and
nights he was locked in the car.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-06-18
Artist 10 Drowned.

New York, June 14.-John McGreer,
a landscape artist. sixty-nine years of
age, who until recently lived in Chi
cago. was drowned in the Hudson
river yesterday as the result of an sc~
cident.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-06-18
Enolne. plunue over sridoe.

Binghamton. N. ". June 1.-THE
engine on Erie Passenger Train No.
s plunged over a draw bridge near
the station at 1:45 o clock this morn
ing. The engineer is missing and
the fireman perhaps fatally injured.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-06-18
KNOCKS BRIDGE OUT AGAIN.
Steamer WIlpen Strikes Crib Of Re
paired Structure.

paired Structure.
Duluth. june 1.-THE steamer VIII
pen Of the Shenango Steamship COM
pany hit the crib work supporting the
north end of the draw of the inter-
state bridge yesterday afternoon and
moved the span three-eights of an
inch. This p a was knocked into the
channel by the steamer Troy two
years Ago., and the bridge has been
u of commission ever since, but was
approaching completion again when
the accident occurred yesterday.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-06-18
LABOR MEN HAVE PLANK.
Want Anti injunction Stand in Repub-
Iican Platform.

Chicago, June 14.-President Sam
uel Gompers. Secretary James Morri-
son, John Mitchell and several other
members of the executive committee
of the American Federation Of Labor
have arrived with a tentative anti-in-
junction plank, which they will en-
deavor to have incorporated In the
platform Of the Republican party.
President Gompers expressed conf
dence that he and his colleagues
would secure the insertion OF the
plank.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-06-18
Moran las TubercuIosis.

Boston. June 12.-District Attorney
John b. Moran has been informed by
his physicians that he is suffering
from tuberculosis and that he must
Immediately seek a different climate.
He will do as they order.