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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-06-17
.M0URNED BY WHOLE COUNTRY
Rev. Edward Everett Hale, Philan'
thropist, Author and Divine
Passes Away.

Boston, June 1.-THE morning light
was breaking as the venerable Rev.
Edward Everett Hale, D. D., chaplain
of the United States senate, Unitarian
divine, philanthropist, author. jour
nalist and lover of peace, breathed his
last yesterday in his home in Rox-
bury. At the bedside we're his wife,
his daughter, Miss Ellen D. Hale, and
his son, Philip L. Hale, the artist. Two
other sons, Arthur Hale Of Washing
ton and Prof. Edward Everett Hale,
Jr., of Union college, returned home
last evening.
On his return from Washington a
few weeks ago it was reported that
DR.. Hale was not in good health, but
he soon regained his activity and un-
til Tuesday attended meetings and re-
ceived friends. Wednesday night
however, he showed signs of distress,
and, rapidly weakening, passed peace
fully away in the early hours of the
morning
Whole Country Mourns.
It seemed yesterday as if the whole
country joined in mourning the loss
of DR.. Hale. Messages expressing sor-
row and esteem poured into the Hale
household, one Of the first being from
President and Mrs. Taft.
AS an author DR.. Hale's fame rests
on his short stories, such as "The Man
Without a Country" as an instigator
of the general uplift, the work of the
two great organizations, the Lend-a-
Hand club and the Kings Daughters,
will always add to his renown; as
minister and pastor, his half century
in the pulpit of the South Congrega-
tional church and his preaching in
many other churches we're prolific of
wise spiritual inspiration; while as a
historian his writings have become
authorities.
Great Life Work.
1t was DR.. Hale Who twenty years
before it's contamination, predicted
worldwide peace tribunal; it was DR..
Hale who upheld Garrison and Phil
lips in their anti-slavery work; it was
DR.. Hale whose benevolent counsel
brought comfort to the sick and
soldiers on the battlefelds of
the Civil war, as member of the SAN
itary commission, and it was Dr. Hale
who gave to the world the famous
stanza:
Look up and not down;
Look forward and not back;
Look out and not in;
Lend a hand"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-06-17
INCOME TAX AGAIN PUT OFF.
Further Consideration Postponed Tn:
@ iii June 10

Further Consideration Postponed In.
I'll June is.
Washington, June 13.-Income tax
shared with the wool schedule the at.
tent1on OF the senate during the days
sitting OF that body, and after discus.
sion an hour more its further consid-
Grafton was postponed until June 18.
Late In the day the senate refused
by the decisive vote Of SO OF to re-
commit the wool schedule to the com.
mittee on finance, on motion OF Mr..
Cummins, and thus finally concluded
the consideration Of that schedule.
Mr.. La Toilette made determined
fight to compel the adoption of amend.
ments to the wool schedule of the tar.
III bill which were Thursday present.
ed by himself These amendments
went down before the majority which
right along had stood for the finance
committees work.
Senator Aldrich announced in reply
to question from Mr.. Brown of Ne.
braska that the dates the committee
would recommend on wood pulp and
print paper would be lower than the
existing duties, but higher than those
in the house bill.
Taking up for consideration the free
list, the senate at the night session
made considerable progress. The duty
on cut diamonds and other precious
stones was increased to Is per cent
al yalorem. and placed duty of s
per cent ad valorem on uncut dia.
slnonds, Hides and refined petroleum
were not disposed of.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-06-17
MUST ARGUE CASE.
Calhoun Prosecution Rejects Defense
Proposal.

Calhoun Prosecution Rejects Defense
Proposal.
San Francisco, June 13.-The taking
of testimony in the Calhoun case alb
ruptly terminated yesterday, the de-
tense announcing a desire to submit
the case to the jury without argum ent.
The prosecution, however, opposed
this and arguments will be begun next
Monday.
When the courts decision was an
nounced Mr.. Heney stated that the
people had no further testimony 20
offer and there was prompt submits
sion Of the case by Stanley Moore, one
of the attorneys for the defendant.
Mr.. Heney rejected proposal to
submit the case without argument, de-
claring that the proposal made by the
defense was intended as an effort to
influence the jury.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-06-17
ADD BLAcKMAlL TO CRIMES.
Federal Authorities Eager for Heavy
Penalties in Black Hand Cases.

Federal Authorities Eager for Heavy
Penalties In Black Hand Cases.
Columbus, June 49,. Charges OF
blackmail may be brought by the
state against members of the Marion
Black Hand conspiracy, with a penal
ty of twenty years in the penitentiary,
against eighteen months provided by
the federal statutes. Federal authori-
ties will not surrender their prisoners
until after they have paid the penalty
for violation Of the postal laws, but
they are ready to assist in the prose-
cution Of state cases by furnishing
evidence, information or testimony.
1t is felt that the federal penalty is
wholly inadequate to meet the case.
An effort probably will be made to re-
move its limitations by making it
broader and with a possible maximum
penalty OF twenty years.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-06-17
CRIMES.

Murad Bey, editor and proprietor Of
the Constantinople Milan, has been
sentenced to life imprisonment at
hard labor for participation in the rev
olutionary movement Of April IS.
Frederick H. Brigham, head book
keeper OF the Merchants National
bank Of New Haven, Conn, was ar
rested charged with embezzlement. It
Is said the shortage will reach $4o,-
900.
A burglar He'd before q broom WELD.
ed by Miss Alice Kelly, seventeen
years old, and jumped through sec.
oIld-story window at Chicago, when
he was discovered by the girl in her
1 bedroom.
Formalf action was taken at Mercer,
Pa. by William r. Nee ermott OF Chi
cngoss hroth er OF Mrs. Helen Boyle,
( now serving. TWENTY-FIVE years for the
abduction Of Willie Whitla. to obtain
her release from the penitentiary at
Pittsburg.
Joseph Floria. an Italian, was ar.
rested AZ Albany. vi, after he had
called at the resid Of Bishop T,
n rs. Islirke ri the Catholic diocese
where ne Is alleged to have made q
threat that ne wodnld shoot the bishop
I,ishop nurke was III Troy al the time
AZ returning home from i picnic
ats burg ID company With Mrs
salsnnnie Rodgers, Charles d rphman
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-06-17
OTHERWISE.

The congress OF Roman Catholic
missi onaries began three-day session
at the Catholic university In Wash.
ington.
No student will hereafter be admit,
ted to the University of Maine unless
he signs an explicit agreement to take
no part in hazing.
Sixty boy students at the Centen-
NAL school at Evansville, Ind, struck
because their teacher rode on cars
manned by strikebreakers.
Gov. Hadley Of Missouri has signed
bill prohibiting the smoking of ciga-
rettes In public places by persons be-
tween the ages of ten and eighteen
years.
New regulations issued by the Jap
anese government require all Japa-
nese residents within the United
States and Canada to register at the
nearest Japanese consulate.
Alfred Deakin. premier of the COM
monwealth OF Australia, has sent
cablegram formally offering to the i'm
perial government Dreadnaught or
a corresponding addition to the navy.
The interstate commerce commits
sion and the shippers and the rail-
roads interested in the Spokane rate
cases agreed to postpone until fall the
phases of the case still in controver-
sy.
Reports read by Sovereign Clerk
John T. Yates at the biennial conven-
ton, Of the sovereign camp of the
Woodmen of the World at Detroit
showed a remarkable growth Of the
order during the year 1908.
Albert T. Patrick's application for
writ of habeas corpus releasing him
from Sing Sing prison, where he is
under life sentence for the murder of
William Marsh Rice, was denied by
the appellate division OF the supreme
court In Brooklyn.
Because he invited Emma Goldman
and A. Berkman, anarchists, to a
luncheon given by the exclusive May
flower Descendants society, Alden
Freeman Of Orange. N. j.. has been
asked to resign from the Orange chap
ter, Sons Of the American Revolution.
stgnora Toselli, who was Grown
Princess Louise OF Saxony. has petit
toned the imperial court to request
the emperor. to grant her permission
to- live. In Austria. 1t is likely that she
will receive the desired permission,
unlesg the king of Saxony objects.
In consequences Of systematic wire
cutting, which Is now Of daily occur
renee throughout France the police
searched the residences Of twenty.four
we'll known revolutionists and an
archists in Paris. A number Of pa
|3pers were seized during the raid by
1.-The police.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-06-17
Find Missing Head and Identity
Body Found Guarded by
Innocent Boy.
TANGLED AS TO THE MOTIVE
Nan Was Partly Asphyxiated Before
Throat Was Slashed and Body
Mutilated.

New York, June 13.-After making
rapid progress, not only in finding the
missing head of the victim, but in
Identifying him as Samuel Bersin,
Russian painter and decorator. the
New York police find themselves with
sordid murder mystery On their
hands, tangled as to motive and with
no Greet clue to the assailants.
An autopsy performed on the vic
TINS dismembered body late yester.
day showed that Bersin had been part
ly asphyxiated before his throat was
slashed and the body mutilated in a
manner similar to the famous Gulden-
Suppe case Of years ago.
Boys Odd Burden.
Two oilcloth bundles were carried
Into the Oak street station last even
Ing by policeman, who brought with
him the fourteen-year-old boy he had
found standing guard over them In
oliver street. and when the packages
were opened they were found to con-
tain the trunk, legs apd arms of a
mans body. The head was missing.
The arms and legs had been slashed
with blunt knife, but the bones were
evenly and carefully sawed away.
There was nothing in the clothing of
the dead man to give hint of his
identity.
Bodv Is Identified
The body was identified yesterday
as that of Sam Bersin, twenty-five
years old, painter. Subsequently
the mans head, which was missing,
was. found lying on a pile of refuse
under the Brooklyn bridge, some dis
lance from where the body was left.
Identification was accomplished by
laundry mark on the clothing and
was confirmed by the dead mans sis
ter and brother
Missing Since Wednesday,.
Bersin came from Russia about two
years ago and boarded with family
named Cornbloom. He had been miss
ing from his home since Wednesday,
when he left to go to work.
The boy who had been watching the
packages says that a man met him on
the street Thursday night and offered
him S cents to watch the bundles.
promising to return shortly. The man
failed to come back and a policeman
sent the boy and the bundles to the
police station.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-06-17
VAN SAINT FOR COMMANDER.
Friends Say State Endorsement In
sures Election by National G. A. r.


st. Paul. June 13-The forty-third
annual reunion of the Minnesota G. A.
R. came to an end yesterday afternoon
after a day of important events, prin-
cipal among which were the passage
OF resolution condemning the pre-
sentation of silver service bearing
the portrait of Jefferson Davis to the
battleship Mississippi, the unanimous
Endorsement of former Gov. Van SAINT
for national commander at the next
national encampment at Salt Lake
City Aug. 9 and the election of officers
and delegates to the national encamp-
ment.
The officers elected are: Judge L.
w. Collins, Minneapolis, commander;
DR.. o. S. Pine, st. Paul, senior vice
commander, and ]. A. Towne, Wash
ington, junior vice commander.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-06-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN fPITOM[
Digest Of the News Worth Telling Con.
densed for the Busy
Reader.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Contracts for four torpedo boats
have been awarded, one to each Of
4 four certain shipbuildings companies.
Representative Rodenberg OF ILL
nois has introduced resolution pro-
viding for an appropriation of 100000
for participation by the United States
In the Brussels exposition in 1910.
A proposed amendment to the inter-
state commerce law to give shippers
the right Of appeal to the courts now
enjoyed by the railroads was present
ed to President Taft by delegation
of citizens from Spokane, Wash
President Taft has accepted an in
vitation to address the national con-
ference to be held in Washington in
January to aid uniform legislation by
the states on pure food, child labor,
railway legislation, divorce, taxation
and other subjects.
To bring the coffin containing the
body Of William Penn, which now re-
poses In practically abandoned GEM
etery in Buckinghamshire, England,
to this country and have 1t inferred
on the banks Of the Delaware is the
gist Of a movement Just launched in
congress.
The general average condition of
crop growth in the United States on
June /, as based on all the crops re-
ported to the department of agricul-
ture, was approximately per cent be-
q A y n -.
year, but about per cent better than
two years ago.
Members of the Modoc and klamath
indian tribes have filed complaint
with the secretary Of the interior
against H. @. Wilson, Indian agent in
klamath reservation, alleging neglect
in the education OF their children and
naming other alleged offenses, for
which they ask his removal.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-06-17
LINER S[AYON|A
COMPLETE WRECK
BIG Cunard Steamer Strands Ofi
Flores Island, in the
Azores Group.
PASSENGERS ARE ALL RESCUED
Taken OFF in Safety by Princess Irene
and the Batavia, Which
"= Were Nearby.

New York, June 13.-Through a pri-
vate cable message news reached
New York that the Cunard liner Sla-
vonia, bearing 10 cabin passengers
and 800 passengers in the steerage,
stranded off Flores island, in tho
Azores group. The vessel, which left
this port of Naples on June 3, is al
most a complete wreck, but thanks to
the timely aid rendered By North Ger
man Lloyd and Hamburg American
liners, which were near by, every pas
senger, according to the best reports
here, was taken off in safety.
The list of cabin passengers on the
Slavonia, as given out by the Cunard
liner contains no addresses, but the
6rst-class passengers are practically
all Americans, among them fifteen or
twenty in a Coolas' tourist party.
Is Dangerous Place.
Flores island, off which the Slavonia
stranded is the most westerly of the
Azores group, with dangerous and
precipitous cliffs. The laundering Of
the vessel there can be easily imag-
ined, but by good fortune the Princess
Irene and the Batavia, which left New
York on June and June 8, respect
lively, were close by and rendered
prompt assistance
The Slavonia is a twin screw steam
feet long, with a 50-foot beam, and is
% feet deep. Her commander is Capt.
A. G. Dunning. The vessel is compar-
atively new, having been built at Sun
derland, England, in 1903.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-06-17
SIX SENT TO PRISON.
Federal Prisoners Are Brought Up for
Sentence.

Pierre, S. D., June 13.-In the Unit
ed States court yesterday the prison
ers who have been convicted or plead
ed guilty were given sentence by
Judge Munger, the Imprisonment CIV
en- being at Fort Leavenworth. Carl
George was sentenced to one year for
horse hustling; Coyote, one year for
introducing liquor on an Indian reser-
walton; Abraham johnson, eighteen
months for introducing liquor on an
Indian reservation; Baptiste Dubray,
one year for horse rustling; John
Buchanan and John Plenty Wounds,
each one year for horse rustling Sew
eral Jail sentences and ines were i'm
posed on white men for selling liquor
without government licenses. John
Creaigo Of Roberts was found guilty
of mailing obscene literature.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-06-17
PERSONAL.

George Decker, who formerly played
with Capt. Anson's Colts, succeeding
Arson on first base, died at Compton,
Cal.
Col. 9. e. Foote. @. A. r. department
commander Of Michigan, who amassed
his fortune largely through numbering
operations In Michigan. is dead. He
was eighty-fi years old.
Andrew Carnegie has founded 1900
public libraries, representing dona-
lions aggregatinng $51.598,963, accord
ing to his own statement in the cur
rent number Of Golfers Weekly.
At . meeting Of the trustees Of syr-
acuse university Chancellor Day an
nounced that John d. Archbold had
given 100000 to cancel the mortgage
on the property, and that during the
year Mr., Archbold had given an addi-
tional $4,000.
President Taft has directed the pro
motion to the grade Of major OF Capt.
F. r. Lang. Second United States in
fantry, who was seriously wounded in
the Pekin campaign and Is now inca.
pacitated for active duty. in order that
the Officer may be retired in the ad-
vanced rank.
Prof. Ernest Fox Nichols, d. s., for.
merly head Of the department OF phys
les at Dartmouth college and now
professor Of experimental physics at
Columbia university, has been unani-
mously elected president Of Dart
mouth. to succeed DR.. William Tucker.
who resigned on account Of i'll health.
Lazarus silverman, pioneer bank
er and financier of Chicago, who Is
credited with originating the plan for
the resumption of specie payments in
1873, known as the Sherman bill, died
at his home In Chicago. During the
Civil war Mr.. Silverman organized
and equipped q regiment OF infantry
1t his own expense. s
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-06-17
WASHER ESCAPES GoTcH.

Put to Rout by Wrestler When He Ap-
pears in Des Moines Hotel.
Des Moines, June 13.-Frank Gotch,
champion wrestler, yesterday chased
a masher from the Kirkwood hotel
parlor, the latter escaping rapidly
down stairway. A young woman re-
porter waiting for Gotch in the par
lor for an interview was annoyed.
When Gotch arrived and was in
formed of the incident he started after
the masher, but the man dashed from
the building, ran down the street and
lodging into an alley made good his
escape.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-06-17
DOUBLE TRAGEDY.
Peddler Shoots Fruit Dealer and Tn

Peddler Shoots Fruit Dealer and Then
Kills Himself.
Des Moines. June 13.-After GUAR.
reling over an account with Herbert
Todd Of the wholesale fruit Arm Of
Todd & Kraft, Moses Rice, a Hebrew
peddler, fired three shots into Todd,s
body at o'clock yesterday morning.
An hour later Rice was found dead,
having taken an ounce of carbolic acid
with suicidal intent Todd was taken
to the hospital, where he is not ex.
pected to live. Al
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-06-17
DlETz VISITS HOME.
Defender and His Children Make First

Defender and His Children Make First
Trip in Four Years.
Rice Lake, Wis, June 13.-John F.
Dietz, his son Clarence and daughter
Mira, the famous Cameron dam de-
tenders on the Thornapple river, spent
yesterday in Rice Lake on business
and visited their old home, which they
had not seen for four years.
Clarence Dietz has large scar on
his forehead, which he received in the
encounter with Sheriff Gylland and
posse three years ago. Clarence was
shot in the head and one of the sher-
IFS posse received four bullet wounds.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-06-17
MEAT INSPECTION ONLY A FARCE

Inspector Resigns and Demands In
vestigation of Packing Plant.
st. Louis, June 12.-After eighteen
months service as United States
meat inspector in East St. Louis pack
ing houses, ]. F. Harms has resigned
and has written a letter to Secretary
of Agriculture Wilson demanding an
Investigation of the meat inspection
system at the National stock yards.
Harms, who has gone to his home in
Fremont, Ohio, asserts that he resign
ed because he could not tolerate the
conditions he saw, and that inspectors
in charge Of the bureau of animal in
dustry are too lenient with the pack
ers.
He says no animus prompted his
letter.
Brand Is Meaningless.
After asserting that United States
inspected and passed." as it appears
on products of all the packing houses.
is meaningless because of the made
quacy of the inspection, Harms says
in part:
THE inspection at the National
stock yards, Illinois, Is costing the
people approximately 100000 year,
and 1t is not actually worth 81 to
them; for when the word is passed
from the Inspector in charge on to
the inspectors actually doing the work
on the floors that they are getting too
many condemned animals and to
change the grading, what does that
mean? It means that the whole thing
is rotten and farce.
Mr.. Secretary, the packers are get
ting today from 70 to so per cent of
what ought to be condemned and de.
stroyed.
Are Unfit for Use.
ITO illustrate: On April 1, 1909,
Drs. Graham and Stingley retained
and condemned eleven beef carcasses
for emaciation. On April 2 Drs. Clan
cy and Meaders released six of said
carcasses to the packers. The re-
naming five were tanked and Destroy
ed.
Il have seen animals in dying con-
ditton dragged into the killing beds
and marked u. S. inspected and pass
ed" 8 4
Harms cited several specific in.
stances Of lax inspection methods, de-
claring that meat condemned by sub
inspectors has been later released to
the packers by higher officials in the
service s'4#
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-06-17
Women Attack rhief

New York, June Caught as he
was leaving the Church Of st. Andrew,
Duane street and City Hall place, with
a golden chalice and paten under his
coat, James Brady was nearly killed.
by crowd Of infuriated women.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-06-17
Babe pies of Poison.

Winnebago City, June 12.-Algin,
the twenty-one months old son q, Paul
Staples, who lives west of this village,
found bottle of carbolic acid in the
woodshed and drank portion of it.
Death followed in three hours.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-06-17
Convicted Of Murder

Alexandria, Va, June 12 - Richard
Pines, one Of four negroes charged
with the killing e Walter F. Schultz,
a Chicago artist, near this city, March
Is, yesterday was convicted Of murder
in the first degree.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-06-17
ATTACKS BANK INSURANCE.

3. L. Brooks Also Assails Postal Saw.
lngs at Financiers' Meeting.
Waterloo. Iowa, June 1.-THE Iowa
State Bankers association gathered
yesterday 1000 strong for the annual
meeting of two days. The feature of
the days session was the address BY
President B. T. Brooks OF, Hedrick,
who bitterly opposed state insurance
OF bank deposits and attacked the
postal saving banks system.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-06-17
cotter,s Hold on Liz Frai,

Winona, MINI, June 10. Bishop
Cotter continues to be very sick
man. His condition has not shown
much change in the past two weeks.
except that he is probably growing &
little weaker.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-06-17
Kills Eather.in.,a,u,

Webb City, Mo-, June 12-Fo GLOWING
q quarrel with his wife,, Rube Under
wood. thirty-five years Of age, last
night shot and killed his father-in-law.
j. Small. sixty years old, at the
slatter's home here.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-06-17
First aFourth,, Traaedy.

Joplin, Mo-, June 13.After acciden.
tally shooting himself in the hand
with a toy blank pistol in an ante.
Fourth of July celebration two weeks
ago, Sidney N. Neeland, twelve years
Old, died from tetaRus. s I
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-06-17
Eleven Killed in Storm.

Dallas, Tex, June 10 Special dis
patches to the News show that eleven
persons are dead and several more OF
less severely injured as result of
storm in Central Western Texas last
night.