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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-05-04
EMPLOYERS LIABILITY SUIT
Government Permitted to intervene in
Case.

Washington, May 4.-The govern
ment has filed in the supreme court
of errors, New London county, Sec
ond judicial district of Connecticut,
It's brief in the case of Edgar G. Mon
don, plaintiff, against the New York,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad
company. The case was brought un-
der the employers liability act OF
April %, 1908, and the government,
by permission of the court, is allowed
TO intervene and file a brief in sup
port of the constitutionality of the
act, which has been challenged by
the defendant company. Attorney
General Wickersham and Wade Fl,
Ellis, his assistant, who prepared the
brief, have taken strong personal in
terest in this case because of its
great importance and at the outset
state that the government has no in
terest in any other question involved
than to defend the validity of whole
some and important act of congress
passed for the protection of vast
number of citizens and for the safety
of interstate commerce.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-05-04
AFTER FIGHT WITH OFFICERS
Number of Escaped Convicts Surren.
der to Posse.

Evansville, Ind, May AFTER a
running battle in which from fifty to
a hundred shots were exchanged five
of the ten men who escaped from the
Daviess county Jail at Owensboro, KY.
were captured at Newberg, Ind, ten
miles from this city.
The five men who were captured
with two others We're located in a
small house at the edge OF Newberg
by Thomas Cravens, town marshal,
and three deputies. The officers
opened fire on the men and they re-
turned 1t, as all were heavily armed
When their supply of ammunition was
exhausted five of them surrendered
but two escaped.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-05-04
Surprise to Lawyers Interested.

Philadelphia, May 4.-The decision
of the United States supreme court in
the commodities clause was surprise
to lawyers ard others in this city in
terested in the case Tt had been
confidently expected that the court
would affirm every point in the lower
courts decision, which was written
by Judge Gray and concurred in by
Judge Dallas. Judge burlington dis
sented from the majority decision.
Judge Dallas has since retired from
the bench, having reached the retiring
age.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-05-04
RESULT OF BAKERS STRIKE
Two Men in Hospital and Ten Are In
Jail.

New York, May 4.-Two men are in
Gouveneur hospital and ten are under
arrest as a result of disorders arising
out of the strike among the bakers on
the East Side.
Schulem Rubenstein entered Mich
ael Novaks restaurant and wine Gel
lar and when he found loaf of bread
without the union label attached he
attacked the proprietor. Novak's wife
threw a bowl of sugar at Rubenstein,
fracturing his skull. An attack by
nine men was made on bakery kept
by Nathan Fryer and Samuel Brok'
lower. Both were badly injured, Brok-
lower being taken to the hospital.
Their assailants were locked up.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-05-04

operate and market their own coal.
Tt is regarded that under the decision
of the court the law applies to these
roads-the Lehigh Valley and the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western.
lieved, will be to induce those lines to
organize separate coal companies and
conduct their operations through
them, because the mere holding of
stock in such coal companies is held
by the court to be not a violation of
the law
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-05-04
OPPOSES STATUE OF
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
Johnson Of North Dakota Says
He Should Be Forgotten.

Washington, May 4.-War is to be
made by Senator Johnson of North
Dakota on the effort to erect a statue
of Alexander Hamilton on the public
square in this city. He has intro
duced a resolution repeating the res
olution providing for such a memorial.
81 want that man forgotten as soon
as possible said Senator Johnson.
II do not want an effigy of Hamilton
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-05-04
DEED OF AN INSANE WOMAN
Seriously Injuries Agent and Kills
Child and Herself.

Stafford Springs, Conn.,, May A.
Driven insane apparently by the sight
of memorial card which she had
ordered for her daughter Elsie, who
died about a month ago, Mrs. Ber-
nard Rister beat Charles e. Emory of
Boston, who had called to deliver the
cards. over the head with an axe, in
f1icting very serious wounds, shot and
killed her two-year-old son and then
took her own life by sending bullet
through her heart.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-05-04
STRAUS GOES TO TURKEY
Former Secretary of Commerce to Be
Ambassador.

Washington, May 4.-Oscar s.
Straus, former secretary of commerce
and labor, has been selected for am
bassador to Turkey and w. w. Rock
hill for ambassador to Russia. Mr..
Rockhill was formerly assistant Sec
retary of state and later minister to
China.
Mr. Straus was twice before minis
ter to Turkey. He succeeds Ambas-
sador Leishman, who goes to Rome in
place OF Lloyd c. Griscom, who has
expressed a desire to come home. Mr.
RCckhill succeeds Ambassador Riddle
at st. Petersburg.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-05-04
Jur.et Dies Under Knife.

Minneapolis, May William III
Donahue, aged ffty-oae, appointed
only few weeks ago by Governor
John A. Johnson as judge of the dis
trict court of Hennepin county, died
at a hospital in Philadelphia, where
he had gone for treatment for can
cerous growth on his neck. Judge
Donahue had been in active practice
in Minneapolis from the time Of his
admission to the bar in 1881 until his
appointment to the bench last Feb
ruary
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-05-04
Dies of Sleeping Sickness.

st. Louis, May 4.-George j. Owens
Is dead at the city hospital here of
malady diagnosed by physicians as
the sleeping sickness. Owens never
has been in the tropics. to which the
malady is peculiar, and physicians can
account for it only on the theory that
he was bitten by some insect and so
inoculated with the germ.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-05-04
Ends Life With a Bomb.

Mount Vernon, ILL.,, May A dyna-
mite bomb was the means employed
by Carson Martin, farmer, forty-five
years old, living in Belle River, south
of this city, to commit suicide. Mar
tin took the explosive to an outbuild-
ing. The structure was blown to bits
and his body was scattered over the
premises. He left letter declaring
his intention to take his life.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-05-04
Memorial to conuress Killed.

Madison, Wis, May 4.-The Wis
consin assembly has killed the memo
rial to congress asking that body not
to pass a national inheritance tax
law. The bill to compel all public
utilities companies to- surrender their
indeterminate permits also was killed.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-05-04
Johnson Principal Speaker.

Chicago, May 4.-The fifty-first an.
niversary of the admission of Mime
sofa into the Union, which occurs on
Tuesday, May IL, is to be celebrated
by the Minnesota society of Chicago.
Arrangements have been made by the
society for a banquet to be held at
the Grand Pacific hotel on the even
ing OF the anniversary Of the date. at
which the principal address is to be
made by Governor John A. Johnson.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-05-04
Left Big Sum to Charity.

Boston, May 4.-By the will of Miss
Elizabeth Brigham, sister of the late
Robert B. Brigham of this city, ST.
100000 is given to the Robert B.
Brigham hospital for incurables, for
the founding of which the brother
left the bulk of his fortune. Mrs. Au-
gusta s. Cogan of Chicago. niece OF
Miss Brigham, will receive $1,000, 900.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-05-04
More Executions in Turkey.

Constantinople, May 4.-Thirteen
civilians aud soldiers, sentenced by
the military court to death for mur-
der, were hanged in different parts of
Constantinople. Major Youssef, his
son and three other men, who killed
the Syrian deputy, Emir Mohamme-
dan Arslan, in front Of the parliament
building were executed on the spot
where they committed the crime.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-05-04
Noted iowa Pioneer Dead.

Cedar Rapids. a. May 4.-Colone,
s. W. Durham. u noted Iowa pioneer
and who was member of the state
constitutional convention of 1874, is
dead at AiaFion. aged ninety-two
years.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-05-04

Boston. May 4.-Continuing it's re-
duction in. import freight rates to
meet the competition of the Baltimore
and Ohio the Boston and Maine rail
road has filed tariffs with the inter
state commerce commission providing
for further decreases. which go into
effect June l.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-05-04
Guests Have Marrow Escape.

st. Joseph, Mo-, May "A special
to the News-Press says the Merchants
hotel at Stanberry. Mo-, was DESTROYED
by fire. Twenty guests escaped fren
the building In their night clothes.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-05-04

It was also held that ownership of
the commodity applied only to the
time of transportation. If before
transporting it the railroad company
has in good faith parted with a com
modify it may carry it The principal
point of the decision was in relation
to railroads holding the stock of
subordinate companies and on that
important point the finding was favor
able to the roads.
Dissents on Stock Feature.
Justice Harlan dissented on the
stock feature, but otherwise the de-
cision was unanimous.
Intense interest was manifested by
the interstate commerce commission
In the decision. The decision did not
come as a surprise, because it had
been anticipated on the basis of the
debate In. congress that the court
would hold that ownership of the
stock or bonds of coal companies did
not constitute violation of the act
No member Of the interstate COM
merce commission in advance of the
reading of the opinion OF the court
would express an opinion as to its
effect. The concrete situation is that
only two Of the anthracite roads own,
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-05-04
Supreme Court Passes on
Commodities Clause.
LOWER COURT REVERSED
While Highest Tribunal Declares the
Hepburn Law Valid 1t Decides That
Railroads May Transport Products
of Company of Which the Stock
i Is Owned by the Carriers Concerned
in the Transaction.

Washington May 4.-Tnat the com
modities clause" of the interstate
commerce act of 1906, known as the
Hepburn railroad rate law, is consti-
tutional was in effect declared by the
supreme court of the United States.
The decision was announced by JUS
tice White. The court reversed and
remanded the decision of the United
States circuit court, but the only di-
rections were to enforce and apply
the statute as it is now construed.
Briefly summarized the decision of
the supreme court holds the law to
be constitutional, but it does not con-
cede the contentious of the govern
ment as to it's scope. An especial ex-
ception was as to the ownership of
stock in different corporation, which
it was held did not constitute such
ownership as would prohibit trans
portation under the terms of the law.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-05-04
MAKES CHARGES
AGAINST JUDGES
Missouri Congressman In
trOduceS Resolution.
ECHO OF RATE LITIGATION

Representative Murphy Would lnves-
tieate the Conduct of Federal
Judges Philips and Mcpherson in
Connection With the Suits Brought
by the State of Missouri Against
Certain Railroads.
Washington, May 4.-Making seri-
Gus charges against Federal Judges
John F. Philips and Smith McPher-
son of the Western district of Mis-
souri, Representative Murphy of that
state introduced a resolution in the
house to investigate their conduct In
the litigation between the state and
the railroad companies over the maxi
mum freight law and the Missouri 2
cent passenger rate law.
Kansas City, May Al will de-
mand an immediate investigation,
said Judge John f. Philips, when
shown the Washington dispatch in re
gard to Representative Murphy's res
olution. Il do not intend to allow
these charges to hang fire indefinitely
if / can help it,"
The judge said he might make q
statement later
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-05
ALICE THEY
WERE b|LKEO

A swindle of considerable size.
operated under the title of the
United Securities Co., is alleged in
a complaint filed in the superior
court by A. E. PINCH and others.
c. r. Hesseltine and wife and
Mrs. Della X. Barlow, defendants
in the suit, are alleged to have
operated the game by which it is
said they secured at least $4,000
through the sale of life invest
ment bonds" of the company.
1t is charged that Hesseltine
represented that his company had
assets of $1,000,0O0 invested in
various factories and stocks of DIFF
ferent corporations. His plan, as
outlined In the complaint, was to
sell a bond that assured the pur-
chaser of a perpetual income and
exhibited printed matter contain
ing pictures of fine buildings to be
erected with the funds of the in
vestors in the life endowment
bonds. Names Of prominent men
are said to have been freely used
without their knowledge by Hessel-
tine, some as officers and others
as purchasers of the bonds.
PINCH invested $1,000. Some of
the other victims are Mrs. Mary l..
Fem Of the Ackley hotel, 223h
Main avenue, who parted with
$4,000; G.. w. Nash, a farmer Of
Wilbur; o. c. Brown, cigar deal
er; H. l.. Scranton, an electrician,
and Mrs. Grace HUMPHREYS, sister
of Nash, all of whom are plaintiffs
in the suit.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-05
YELLOW FLOUR
AFTER JUNE 9

Beginning June 8 -four must re-
sumo its creamy yellow tinge. All
bleached -four will be under the
ban. Prosecutions under the pure
food law will begin.
On the Sth of December last the
department of agriculture ruled
that bleached flour was illegal. II
was announced, however, that pc
riod of six months would be al
lowed in which the market might
absorb the stock of bleached flour
then in existence. This period OF
six months has nearly expired.
The millers of the northwest
have announced that they intend
to live up to the law. The -four
made by the hard wheat consumed
by the Minneapolis mills Is natur-
ally quite white. The southern
miller is the man who objects to
the law. His mill uses the wheat
of a softer variety. and this grinds
up into a more tawney -four. To
make 1t look white he has used
the bleaching process.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-05
|ADOLPH ISIS so DULL DOT HE GIVES OSCAR A PAIN
AS OSCAR MAKES 1T TO
FRED SCHAEEER

Sentenced myseluf der odder
day to take Adolf by der ball
games.
Adolf ISIS nod fan, but me und
him hat much in common. For in
stance, Adolf can nod enchoy base
ball und | cannot enchoy Adolf. To
diss extent we are mootual.
Der only reason l take him along
ISIS becoss he gifes me a abbetite
for supper Ven he eads peanuts i'd
listens like a meat chopper grint-
ing raw onions for hamburg steak.
Anodder picularity of Adolf. He
ISIS der only man on der grounts
who beliefs vot der impure says.
He bass no patriotism votefer.
Yet, ven l addempt to oxblain
him der games, hiss ignorance
makes me ashamed to be disgraced
NIT him.
So soon as we got seat Adolf
exercised hiss mental disparity.
Fiery dime a blayer made a
strike, Adolf cackled, ooh, you
eight-day clock"
Ven der wass a sacrifice hit, he
poutet. He said i'd voult be more
of a sacrifice eff der brice of atmis-
sion wass reduced.
For why does der catcher wear
a mask" he asked by me.
"Chackass! l said. I'D ISIS be-
coss hiss face ISIS too soft to stop
der ball"
II dink eff der ball saw hiss face
i'd voult not want to stop" said
Adolf. Actually, eff Adolf left hiss
brain to a metical colletch, dey
voult hat to delifer i'd in two
grain capsule.
AID Won dime in der games dere
wass an excitement. Our teams
scored two runs on a single.
"Cheaters!" screamed Adolf.
For talking back, Won blayer
wass put ouid of der games. "Now
he will hat to dig up anodder heluf
dollar to get in again." gickled
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-05
1T COST HIM MONEY

Brief association with seemingly
good natured and garrulous color
ed genie cost J. M. Caldwell
just 500 last night, according to
his tale of hard luck told the pc.
lice this morning. Caldwell says
the colored man with many glad
some gusts about magnificent
weather conditions met him on the
street and walked a short dis.
lance with him. His purse was
nowhere in evidence Immediately
afterward.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-05

Adolf. Den l hat to show him der
blayer SLIDING on der bench.
dot ISIS a goot choke on der i'm
pure" said Adolf. "Don'd tell
him."
"Can'd you unterstant?" I Wis
pered. "He ISIS only suspended"
Sure" was der fat reply, Il see
he ISIS still hanging rount." Ach,
i'd ISIS useless to convince Adolf.
He is invincible.
Suddencely Adolf let out pier
cling moan ven a runner scored on
four sacker.
"Vot ISIS los now" l said.
"Dot wass der tying run, ain'd
id?" he replied me.
Fool" l said. 80 sss%
Il know vot / am denying, sde
mandet Adolf. "He bass yNSt An
ished tying hiss SHOE" ~ M
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-05

dalton grows purity and that out
OF this kind of indulgent life grows
heroism and self sacrifice. The
pilot is impossible and the climax
unconvincing. The hero is not shot
by the villain because the villain
discovers In the act of shooting
that there is, on the handle of the
revolver, Masonic emblem and
he thinks that it would not be
brotherly to shoot a fellow Mason
SO they shake.
Police Intervention or anything
else which will help to advertise
the play is hoped for; and by the
time the play gets to New York
which will be in a few weeks-it
Is calculated that curiosity will be
at the proper pitch to fill the
theater with the same kind of au.
diences which have trailed around
after the filth of Eugene Walter
and his emulators.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-05

SPocA"A Soxx0SPon0ouco 70 1u0 FIVE
WASHINGTON, D. c., June s.
Vulgarity and obscenity on the
stage are again making a bid for
dollars in play just put on here
entitled "The Jewellers" The
guilty party is Charles Richman,
author and actor, who knows bet
ter and ought to do better, and
who has associated with him May
Mckenzie, the young person who
sought and attained notoriety as
the boon comapnion of Evelyn Mes.
bit Thaw.
President Taft accepted an in
vitation to see the play and stood
it for less than one act. Then he
conspicuously absetned himself
The reason he did not stay may
be stated authoritatively to be the
fact that he found the play to be
vulgar, noisy, obscene and impos
sible.
"The Jewellers" is bid for the
kind of success achieved by "The
Easiest Way" and "The Whirl
pool" 1t is hoped to make the
play a little more realistic a
little more outrageous, little
more shocking, little more indie
cent than "The Easiest Way" BY
this means 1t is hoped to secure
sufficient publicity to arouse
prurient curiosity of men and
women who like to see on the
stage phases of life which are not
to be seen in the decent world
which they inhabit. Such at least
is perfectly logical inference
from the character of the play as
put on in Washington.
The first act of "The Jewellers
exposes what in all respects is an
ordinary brothel. The daughter OF
respectable parents, trapped into
an alleged marriage, is supposed
to find herself in New York at 1.-THE
house of Florence Knight" Here
gather the various types of the
demimode and this is the excuse
for presenting on the stage all OF
the degraded illusions, all the
slang and patois of the demi-world
all that was found obnoxious in
THE Easiest Way"-and then
some. President Taft saw this
much and left the theater In dis
gust.
The second act Is supposed to be
set in a Bohemian resort in New
York and this is made the excuse
again for gathering together the
men and women of the halfworld
1t also furnishes the framework
for dancing and singing and fol
a performance by May Mckenzie
which is in keeping with the sup
posed place and atmosphere. May
Mckenzie is the Dolly Dimple" Of
the alleged stage.
The fact that the third and
fourth acts are intended to be In
| violent contrast to the first two
and that they present scenes OF
clean and pure domesticity, does
not excuse the previous scenes
The moral is the impossible and
| pernicious moral that out of degra
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-05

"Vell," 1 said, "dot ISIS vot he
gets for lacing i'd ouid."
He dit nod laugh. Id ISIS vainless
to- excite Adolf's rissibles. Dey
have hat DER nerfe killed.
l coult forgife him diss, und der
fact dot he run ouid Of peanuts
und began eading der glass grapes
off voman's hat in front of him
mitouid knowing der difference.
But der last bale of hay vich frac-
tured der dromedary's spinal men
nights wass diss:
mentioned to Adolf dot Hassen-
pfeffer wass pitching a goot game.
Yes" said Adolf. HE ISIS throw
ing der game der best he knows
how"
Den I voult hat led Adolf away,
but hiss eyes wass glued on beer
sign.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-05

much interest this side Of the
water.
The Duke of Connaught, brother
of King Edward, who is deeply in
terested in the subject, will preside
at the sittings of the congress. The
American representatives will be
DIR. r. ID. Crothers, Connecticut;
Mrs. Edith Smith Davis, Wiscon-
sin; Mrs. Martha M. Allen, New
York, and Judge w. JEFF Pollard,
Missouri.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-05
UNIvERsALlsT CHURCH,

Rev. A. C. Grier, pastor. In the
morning the pastor will preach the
memorial sermon for the Royal Ar
canum; subject, 1.-THE Best Inusr-
ance." There will be no evening
Services on account of the bacca-
laureate sermon at the high school.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-05
GOSPEL TABERNACLE.

Mallon and Jefferson. Subject at
IL a. NJ, Divine Healing Accord
ing to the Word of God" The
evening service will be conducted
by the Pledger memorial bible
class.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-05

King Alcohol, his antecedents, ac-
tons and effects, will come in for
an international discussion at a big
congress on alcoholism, to be held
at London, July 1924. In view of
the temperance agitation In this
country of the last few years the
findings of the congress will attract
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-05

When girl says she loves ami
mails, IL you have cold you can
prove to her that you are a little
hoarse.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-05

Tramp-No, mum, never smoke
durin' workin' hours.
Lady-I'm glad to hear it, my
poor man.
Tramp-No, mum, haven't any
workin' hours.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-05

The only way to fill the harves-
ter's wagon is to employer the
sewers bag.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-05

1t takes more than Sunday
dreams of heaven to make a
heavenly week.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-05

Every gift is measured by its real
cost to the giver.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-05

The baggage car does not gt
through on the heavenly train.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-05

The downward path is always a
blazed trail.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-05

Riches become dangerous only
when rooted in our affections.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-05

A good deal of public generosity
hides lot Of private meanness.