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The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-30
Crimes and Criminals.

Casimir Duzicki, Polander, was
killed in street fight at Detroit, Mich,
when two groups Of foreigners joined
in battle in the street.
William Brown, a youthful bandit,
confessed that he shot and killed Po-
liceman William r. Mooney of Chi.
cago. The confession was made to
Chief of Police shippy, and it clears
up one of the mysterious policemen
murders which confront the city force.
The jury in the case of the State VS.,
Anthony ]. Grove. charged with as.
sault in the first degree on Charles
Moe at Billings, Mont, returned a YER
dict Of guilty in the second degree and
recommended that he be sent to the
penftentiary for five years and nav a
fine of $4,000.
One foreigner is dead, another ia
dying, while third is seriously in1ur.
ed and seven men are under arrest as
the result of a race riot at Loratn.
Ohio. A new saloon gave away beer
and many foreigners became intoxi.
Gated. Rioting followed, which was
finally stopped by the police.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-30
ON SENATOR FuLToN's TRAIL.

Prosecutor Honey Tries to Connect
Senator With Conspiracy Case. :.
Portland, Or, Jan. 26.-In the Hall
Mays conspiracy case yesterday Fran.
els J. Heney, the prosecutor, endeav-
ored, through Former State Senator
w. w. Steiwer, to connect United
States Senator Charles w. Fulton
with the case. According to the con;
tention of the prosecution, Fulton saw
John H. Hall on behalf of Senator
Steiwer and exacted a promise from
Hall that civil proceedings would be
brought against the Butte Creek Live
Stock and Lumber company in East
ern Oregon instead of criminal &C.
ton against the individual members
Of the corporation.
The prosecution contends that Full
ton wrote to Steiwer, telling of his ar
rangement with Hall, but this alleged
letter is not in the possession of the
government.
Steiwer testified yesterday that Full
ton had requested him to bring all the
correspondence between them to Port.
land and that while here Fulton Sc
lected this particular letter and either
destroyed 1t or still has it in his DOS.
session.
Heney ELECTED the statement from
Steiwer that Fulton had not ATTEMPT:
ed to recover the communication until
after steiwer. Hall, Mays, Henricks
and various other federal officers had
been indicted for conspiracy.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-30
mrs. EDDY MAKES QUEER MOVE
Head Of Christian scieatlsts, Guarded
by Utmost Secrecy Moves to
New Home. a..

Boston, Jan. 2s.-Guarded by the ut
most secrecy, Mrs. Mary Baker G.
Eddy, founder and head of the Chris.
tian Science church, was removed by
special train yesterday, with all her
household attendants from Pleasant
View, in Concord, N. H., where she
has lived for nineteen years. to a new
house in the fashionable Chestnut Hill
section of Brookline.
The coming was unheralded and
only few of the leaders of the Chris
tian Science church had been aware
of the contemplated change
Absolute Secrecy.
Even the train crew were command
ed to maintain absolute secrecy as to
the trip they were to make.
Preceded by a pilot engine to clear
the way the special train of three cars
left Concord at o'clock and proceed
ed over three railroads by circuitous
route to the Chestnut Hill station OH
the Boston & Albany road. In the
rear of the train, to guard against col.
lisfon, trailed third engine.
Arriving at Brookline at 5 o'clock
the party was taken to the late Amory
A. Lawrence estate, one of the most
beautiful in all Brookline, ever before
100000 had been spent in the past
four months to remodel it, and here
Mrs. Eddy was settled in her new
home.
Giants on Guard.
Calvin A. Frye, Mrs. Eddy's secre.
tary, was closely pressed for informa.
ton. Absolutely refusing to give any
names of those in the party or to
make any statement, he turned to six
tall, powerful men who stood near him
and ordered that every person be at
once put off the grounds. Then he
turned and entered the house and his
orders were obeyed without delay.
Six men remained on guard
through the night, and to-day six 9th.
ers will take their places for the day
guard. Within a week permits have.
been issued by the Brookline police
for the men to carry arms, and it is
believed the watch Of six at night and
six by day will be continued for some
time.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-30
SHIPS BATTERED sv STORM.
Tales Of shipwreck and Loss Of Life
Are Echoes Of Recent Storm.

Tales OF ShipWreck and Loss Of Life
Are Echoes Of Recent Storm.
New York, Jan. 2S.-Tales of ship
wreck at sea and possible loss of life
are the echoes of the recent severe
storm that were brought to port yes
terday by belated and tempest-tossed
steamships.
Fear that an unknown three-masted
schooner, with her crew, has been
lost in the storm off the Delaware
capes is expressed by officers of the
Steamer Mama Hata, which limped
into harbor yesterday from Baltimore.
The schooner was seen struggling in
the trough of the sea off the. Della
ware capes, and when the Mama
Hata neared the locality where the
schooner was last sighted many pieces
of wrecked vessel and quantities of
railroad ties were seen floating in the
water.
The Italian steamer San Giovanni
reached here yesterday with Capt. H.
v. Morse and the crew of five Of the
oil barge Matanzas. which. with two
other barges, the Fall River and the
Grafton, in tow of the tug Concord
from Philadelphia, for Boston, broke
adrift during the storm and for hours
was at the mercy of the waves, which
wrenched off the rudder and opened
her seams. The Matanzas was filing
rapidly when the Italian merchantmen
hove in sight and rescued Capt. Morse
and his crew.
"A wireless dispatch received here
last night from the steamship Maure-
tania, which left here Saturday, states
that the barge Fall River was sighted
yesterday, and that Capt. Taylor of
the Fall River and his crew were pick,
ed up and taken to Liverpool.
The tug, Concord and the barge
Grafton have not been heard from.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-30
SURE TRUST WAS PAID REBATES
Witness In Standard Oil Hearing Say.
WaybiiIs Were Jugqled.

Washington, Jan. 26.-By insisting
that the Standard Oil company re.
ceived rebates Of from to 2 3-4 cents
per hundred on rate of IL cents per
hundred, and following this with the
statement that certain waybills which
he had examined led him to believe
that blind" bills were made out and
later filled in, Deputy Commissioner
of Corporations E. Dana Durand yes
terday paved the way for some strenu.
GUS differences between Attorney
Frank B. Kellogg for the government
and Attorney Rosenthal for the oil
company. The testimony was given in
the hearing before Stated Examiner
Judge Franklin, before whom the gov.
eminent is laying the foundation of its
case for the annulment of the compa.
ny's charter.
Mr.. Durand was on the stand
throughout the day testifying to rates
given the Standard Oil company, par.
ticularly by the Eastern Illinois and
Illinois Central railroads, and identi-
flying waybills of shipments of oil made
to various points in the Southern ter
ritory from Whiting, Ind.
Counsel in Clash.
A sharp difference of opinion arose
between counsel for the government
and counsel for the Standard Oil. Mr..
Durand testified that certain waybills
which he had examined personally in
the Office of the Illinois Central rail.
way bore two kinds of handwriting in
different kinds of ink, from which fact
he was led to infer that blind bill
ing had been put in and afterward the
new matter had been inserted in the
waybills. To this testimony Mr.. Ro.
senthal objected, insisting that the
inference of Mr.. Durand was not com.
petent evidence. He said that Mr..
Durand might testify competently to
the fact that he saw different hand.
writings in different inks on a waybill,
but that his inference was not evi.
sdence.
After an informal discussion among
the attorneys it was agreed that the
evidence should be submitted, but
that counsel for defendants should
have opportunity to check up all pa.
pers and documents submitted from
the files of the railroad, with subse
quent opportunity to cross-examine
the witness on the evidence SO sub
mitted.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-30
Government Begins the Long
Threatened Legal Attack on
Hartman System.
WRIST CONTROL FROM the Up.
Throttling Of Competition in West Is
Charged-Kellogg and Sever.
ance in Charge.

Washington, Jan. 20 - What prom
Uses to be the governments greatest
contest in its struggle for regulation
of interstate railroads was begun here
Saturday when the preliminaries were
completed for the long-threatened le-
gal attack upon the Hartman system.
In its scope the suit is the greatest
ever undertaken by the government
against a combination of railroads
and financiers, and the defendants in
clude' not only all of the so.called Har-
riman roads and the New York finan-
ciers who have been instrumental in
their development and manipulation,
but concerns also the Northern Pa
cific, Great Northern and Burlington,
as being more or less )under Hartman
control.
According to the statement of the
attorney general the whole network of
Western railroads are regarded as vir-
tually one system.
File Bill in Equity.
A bill in equity will be filed to set
aside the control by the Union Pacific
Railroad company and its subsidiary
corporations of the Southern Pacific
and the San Pedro, Los Angeles &
Salt Lake railroad; also to have de-
clared illegal the ownership by the
Union Pacific or the Oregon Short
Line of stock in the Santa Fee, the
Great Northern and Northern Pacific,
all of said lines being competitors of
the Union Pacific.
Frank B. Kellogg and G.. A. Sever
ance of st. Paul will prosecute the
case for the government.
Big Finaneiers included.
The proposed action not only strikes
at the Hartman system in the West
but will attempt to .dethrone the
great financiers and capitalists of the
East closely identified with Hartman
in control of his railroad manipula.
tons, for the attorney general an.
nounces that, in addition to the rail.
roads mentioned, the following noted
individuals will be made defendants:
/, E. H. Hartman, Jacob E. Schiff,
Otto H. Kahn, James Stillman, Henry
G. Frick, Henry H. Rogers and Will
liam A. Clark
Calls Il Direct Violation.
The decision of the government is
based upon investigation conducted by
the interstate commerce commission
into the operation of the transconti.
mental systems and from independent
investigation by the department.
From the evidence adduced," the
attorney general states, the, depart
ment has arrived at the conclusion
that stockholding of the Union Pacific
and its subsidiary company in the
other corporations mentioned is in di.
rect violation of the Sherman act"
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-30
.70ouMS SAVED FROM FLAMES
City Hall At Portland, Me-, Destroyed
Worst Fire in Many
Years.

Portland, Me-, Jan.~26-A' fire which
caused property damage of $1,000
900 early yesterday destroyed the city
hall and police buildings and endan.
gered the lives of more than 700 per.
sons. Although known as city hall,
the building was divided between city
and county offices, while the police
building sheltered the supreme, judi
cial and municipal courts, in addition
to the police department. ..- -.
Worst Fire in Forty Years. lr
The fire was the worst in the state
since the great Portland conflagration
of 1866, when the city's business and
residential section were almost COM
pletely wiped out.
That there were no fatalities is re-
markable, as there were more than
700 persons attending the Western
Maine Knights of Pythias jubilee,
gathered in the auditorium of the
city hall, when the flames were dis.
covered. Only few persons were
hurt, Chief Engineer Melville Ed.
ridge being the only one known to
be seriously injured. ~.
Loss ls lnestimable.
The financial loss is estimated at
$1,OOO,000, but this sum will not cover
the loss Of the papers and documents
in the registry of deeds, where every.
thing was destroyed. Other city de.
partments were swept clear of every.
thing by the flames, with the excep-
ton of the city clerks and the city
treasurer's Office. When the flames
communicated to the police building,
where the city Jail is located, the
prisoners were set free. -,t
Goodness Prevents Panic.
When the flames were discovered
William A. Turner, chairman Of the
meeting Of the Pythian body, was met
in the hallway by three men who &C.
quainted him with the condition of af.
fairs. Coolly he entered the audito.
rum and assembled the stage, inter.
rupting the. rites Of investiture which
were going on at the time. He calmly
told the assembled members of the
existing conditions, and thus averted
a panic, bringing out more than 700
persons uninjured. a.a"
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-30
Accidental Happenings.

Canned goods killed one and seri.
ously poisoned three other children of
Dewitt Roach at Dandel, w. Va.
Ten miners were severely hurt when
a cage fell down the shaft of coal
mine at La Sale Ill. Two of the in
iured men may die.
Elva Babcock. aged seven, daughter
of Eugene Babcock, merchant of
Iowa City, Iowa, was struck by Rock
island passenger train and killed.
One priest was injured and another
was overcome by smoke in fire
which caused $4,000 damage to st.
Mary's Roman Catholic church at Ev.
ansville, Ill.
Two men were injured and consider.
able damage done when the Pittsburg
Fulminite Powder company's building
at Fombell, Pa, blew up. The cause
If the explosion is not known.
Fire broke out in the commission
house district on Elk street, Buffalo,
destroying property valued at s125,OOO
before it was gotten under control.
The Waddell commission house is the
principal loser.
Anton Wilding of East Lebanon died
at the city hospital at Lebanon Pa.
from injuries sustained in fall, Walk
ing in his sleep Wilding stepped out of
third-story window and fell forty
Feet.
Three trainmen were killed and two
perhaps fatally injured at Corydon
Junction, Ind, when an engine plunged
from a ninety-foot trestle, turning a
complete somersault in the air and
dragging down with it two freight cars
and a caboose.
Fire which started in the attic of .
cottage of the Missouri colony for the
feeble-minded and epileptic at Mar
shall, Mo-, did damage amounting to
$4,000, imperiled the 1875 patients and
threatened the destruction of the On.
tire institution.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-30
CARS CHILDREN SICK.

Epidemic Of Influenza Attacks impe.
rial Family.
st. Petersburg, Jan. 26. - An cpl
demic Of influenza has attacked the
iemperial family. Grand Duke Alexis
Nikolaievich, the emperor's only son,
and his four sisters all have been
stricken.
The condition Of the heir apparent
is complicated by an Inflammation of
the ear, and Prof. Simonovsky, spe.
cialist in aural diseases, has been
summoned to attend him.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-30
Wind Piles Snow up in Drifts
That Impede Progress Of
Man and Beast.
STORM CLAIMS FOUR VICTIMS
Traffic of All Kinds Seriously Inter.
rupted-Nine Steamships Re.
ported Overdue.

New York. Jan. &c. - New York is
digging itself out of a foot of snow so
unevenly divided that while exposed
and unfrequented spots like Coney Isl.
and have been blown bare, the thor
oughfares of the millions are left piled
high with drifts that impede the prog
ress Of man and beast, and in more
open sections have tied up street cars
and vehicular traffic.
Traffic Tied Up.
The snow storm, which crept into
town so slowly Thursday night that its
real intentions were never sus. ected
until it had gotten a firm grip on
things. continued until past noon yes
terday and even after the snowfall
ceased half gale kept the air thick
with flurries that filled the walks as
fast as they were cleaned, clogged the
wheels of traffic and blinded the ship.
pers of shore.
Much suffering has been occasioned;
there has been the usual toll of death
exacted, and the monetary damage
must be reckoned by the tens of thou
sands of dollars.
Man With the Shovel Busy.
Mercifully, the snow was accompa-
MED by moderate temperature, and in
its early stages it was welcomed by
the honest part of the $4,000 unem.
ployed men in the city. All who sought
employment from last night on found
It readily and at good wages. The
man with the shovel was everywhere
In demand.
Last night the charity societies had
their hands full. The Bowery bread
lines, perhaps the most pitiful Of the
city's public exhibitions of poverty,
were extended last night for blocks
further than at any time before this
winter.
Four Fatalities.
"A number of accidents and four IA
talities were credited to the storms
account. Except for the subway the
transportation facilities of the city
and the suburbs were well.nigh de.
moralized throughout the day. Trains
on the railroads from outlying New
Jersey and Long Island towns were
blocked for hours in many cases.
Along the Jersey coast much dam.
age is reported. Several towns, par
ticularly Seabright, were more or less
under water. 'Bulkheads and pavil-
ions were washed away. Nine steam.
ships due here yesterday were still
unreported at Sandy Hook last night.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-30
FINDS DEATH IN HIS HOME.

Milwaukee Mans Father and Grand.
mother Are Asphyxiated.
Milwaukee, Jan. 26.-Herman Schu.
macher returned to his home yester-
day morning to find his grandmother
dead. asphyxiated with coal gas, and
his father dying. An open lid on a
coal stove permitted the fatal fumes
to fill the rooms and the two people
both lay unconscious until nearly
noon, when the son returned from an
all nights absence from home.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-30
Premature Blast Kills Three.

New York, Jan. %. - Three men
were killed instantly and five others
seriously injured by a premature ex.
plosion from an unknown cause of dy.
Mantle in the Bergen Hill section Of
the Pennsylvania tunnel at Home.
stead, N. j., yesterday.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-30
Rulers to do cruisina.

Rome. Jan. %. = 1t is announced
here that the emperor of Germany
will make cruise in the Mediterra-
mean in the latter part of March, and
that King Edward will make a similar
cruise in April, both monarchs visit.
ing Sicily and Florence.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-30
MORE PENSIONS.
Roll Will Carry About $1,000, 900 More
-. Than This Year.

Washington. Jan. 2s.-Representa-
tive Keifer of Ohio, chairman of the
subcommittee on pensions of the
house committee on appropriations,
announced informally that that COM
mittee had agreed to recommend a
pension roll of $150.000.OO0 for the fis-
cal year ending June 30. 1909. This
will be about 100000 in excess Of
the pension roll of the present fiscal
year. Z.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-30
NEW PLACE FOR MITCHELL.

May BE Made Chief Of Proposed Blu.
reau Of Mines.
Indianapolis, Jan. &c. - Miner sat.
tending the convention here were
much interested in the reports that
John Mitchell, president of the United
Mine Workers, may be made chief Of
the bureau of mines If the bureau is
created by the national congress.
There is much speculation as to Mr.
Mitckell's future when he retires from
the presidency Of the miners organi
cation.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-30
Five Killed in LandsIid,

Five Killed in Landslide.
Milan, Jan. ga landslide occur.
red yesterday on the River AIDA, be.
tween Milan and Bergamo. A house
was buried and five persons were
killed.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-30
People Talked About.

Rear Admiral Frank Courts, U. s.
N, retired, died in Washington, aged
sixty-three years. He was a native Of
Ohio.
Betsy Bennett. ninety-five years Of
age, daughter Of Obeju, chief Of the
tribe Of Ottawa Indians, is dead at
sandusky, Ohio.
Col. John I. Handiey, supreme vice
president Of the Federal Union Of
America, died Of appendicitis at his
home in Denver.
James Bigheart, ex-chief of the
Usage Indians, who it is claimed was
the richest Indian in the United
States, is dead Of paralysis at his
home near Bigheart, in the Usage Ma.
ton.
o. s. Sisson, one Of the leading
Grand Army men Of Wisconsin and
known throughout the Northwest.
where he for many years acted as pen.
sion agent, Is dead in La Crosse, aged
sixty.two years.
Rev. j. w. O'Bryant, who has been
pastor of the Hyde Park Methodist
church at st. Joseph, Mo-, has resigned
to become street car conductor. He
says he can make more money as Q
conductor than as a preacher.
At the end of fifty years continuous
service, during which time he never
had wreck, Lawrence Gagin, the old
est engineer in point of service in the
employ Of the Chicago & Northwest.
ern railroad, will retire on a pension.
John Ball, seventy years old, said to
be a descendant of the brother of the
first president Of the United States
and one Of number of heirs to the
Joseph Ball estate of Philadelphia,
which is said to be worth 100000, 900,
dropped dead at Hartford City, Ind.
DR.. F. M. Michaels, an occulist OF
national reputation, is dead at Bling
hampton. N. Y. Several weeks ago Dr.
Michaels partook Of tainted chicken
and ptomaine poisoning resulted. This
developed into tuberculosis, termina
ting fatally.
Isaac N. Hascall, at one time acting
governor of Nebraska and for many
years prominent politician, died in
Omaha of paralysis. He was mem
Der of the Nebraska constitutional
convention and cast the deciding vote
which made Nebraska a free sol
state.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-30
Domestic.


Senator JEFF DAYS of Arkansas has
received an offer of $4,000 a month
from New York vaudeville manager
to appear in light vaudeville, but will
not accept it.
A new amusement park is to be
opened in Chicago. It will be located
at Forest Park. Nearly $1,000, 900
will be expended in the construction
of the new enterprise.
George H. Meyers, an expressman
Of San Diego. Cal, has received word
that he has fallen heir to one.eighth
interest in the 100000 estate left by
his father, farmer of Sandwich, Ill.
John A. Macy, one of the editors OF
the Youths Companion, emphatically
denies that his wife, who as Miss An.
ME Mansfield Sullivan was for some
years the teacher of Helen Keller, is
becoming blind.
Franklin H. Ward has been appoint
ed guardian for his father, Henry Clay
Ward Of Pontiac, Mich, one of the
leading millionaire lumbermen Of
Michigan. This action was taken after
sensational ten days hearing in the
probate court.
Baron Rosen, the Russian ambassa
dor, expects to leave the United
States for a visit TO his home in Rus
STA the latter part of May, returning
in the autumn. The ambassador has
not made trip home since his an.
pointment to this post.
Among those who obtained licenses
at the new marriage license bureau in
the city hall in New York was Will.
lam Brooks Mason, colored, who gave
his occupation as minister of the Cos.
pei" He made an affidavit that he
is 1876 years old. He said he was born
in Havana. His intended wife is Miss
Ella Haynes, who said she is twenty.
eight.
Frank A. Gotch and Hjalmar Lundin
wrestled for the heavyweight cham
pionship of America at the opera house
at Lowell, Mass. Gotch won, getting
two falls in succession after grueline
series Of twists.