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The Detroit times., 1910-12-09
30-YEAR FIGHT OVER LINE
FENCES rs FINALLY ENDED
Struggle Between Shiawassee Farm
ers, With Spectacular Sideiishts,
IS Decided IN Court. =

OWOSSO, Mich, Dec. 1.-TWO novel
cases al which Shiawassee county is
interested have been decided by the
supreme court. For 80 years owners
OF two adjoining farms in Burns town
ship have quarreled over the bound
AIRY line. The. stakes have been moved
back and forth intermittently and once
the warning farmers raced horses
nearly 10 miles TO Corunna, each with
he object OF getting out warrant
drst charging the other with assault
and battery. The prosecutor declined
10 authorize a warrant for either.
Eighteen months ago the litigation
began, when William Parsons filed u
bill TO quiet title to regular strip
of land between the farms, embracing
about three acres, and to determine
The boundary. Defendant Ward III.
Bills is over 20 years old. The circuit
court held with the complainant. De-
PENDANT appealed to the supreme
court. which affirmed tn eoriginal de-
cree.
In the other case the supreme court
found that Charles w. Sager was
mistaken in q statement that he had
made payments aggregating SITS on a
real estate mortgage for $1,000, held
by Fred Hartshorn Sager claimed 1t
appeared TO him in dream that the
payments he had made had not been
Endorsed on the mortgage and note.
Then he says he investigated and
found his dream true and filed bill
to compel such Endorsement. The cir.
cult court held with Eager, but the
higher tribunal reversed the decision.
The Detroit times., 1910-12-09
WED IN CEMETERY AT
MOTHERS OPEN GRAVE
Strange Marriage Was Request Of
Dying Parent-Brde Faints
After Ceremony

RAVENNA. O., Dec. 9.-Miss AID
die Potter Chapman and Glenn f..
Cotton. both residents of Ravenna.
were married in the cemetery of TIE
First Presbyterian church before the
open grave OF Miss Chapmans moth
err Mrs. Lydia Potter Chapman.
The funeral service had just been
held and the Rev. DR.. A. ID. Palmer.
pastor OF the church, who OBLIGATED
at the funeral. turned and married
the young couple. The body had just
been consigned to the grave and all
was in readiness to fill IL when the
ceremony was read.
Mrs. Chapman had requested that
this be done. She. had been i'll for
many years and her daughter had
peen faithful in attending her. A
week ago. Mrs. Chapman's physicians
said that death was near at hand
Then she called her pastor. her
daughter and the latter's fance and
requested the noval marriage cere-
mony. The daughter tried to dis
suade her, saying her marriage could
follow a few months afterward, but
the mother was obdurate and SO the
wedding was planned on Monday
evening, when she died.
The bride tainted after the mar
riage and had to be assisted to her
home. The Chapmans are a wealthy
family OF Ravenna and aer supposed
10 hold much realty in other sections
of this state. Mr.. Cotton says that
he and his bride will take no honey
moon.
The Detroit times., 1910-12-09
KIDNAPPED BOY. MISSING
THREE WEEKS, is RESCUED
New York Police Hear Him Cry and
Break In Door-Two Men Jait-
cd as Abductors.

NEW YORK. Dec. 9.-"They told
me | was In Chicago" said Giuseppe
Longo, eight-years-old. when the police
led him TO freedom Thursday from
the tenement room where he had been
locked a prisoner by kidnapers.
Among the scores of vchildren stolen
by lawless Italians his is sale TO he
the cn'y New YORK case on record
N which the police haze effected a
recovery. Others have been return
TO Their parents, but not by the aeen
g. Of Inc lolice, owing to fear :! r..
vtngc
The boy was traced by the aid or
another child whose brother is also
held for ransom. The police learned
that Giuseppi was a prisoner IN an
east side tenement. They searched
the corridors, listening at transoms.
At the door of a rear room they
heard child crying. The little guide
was lifted up and peered over the
transom.
That's him." he whispered, excit.
eddy, and the police broke in the door,
Guarding Giuseppi were two men
and In the same room with him were
two other children, boy and girl,
who knew only their first names. The
police think they also may have beer
kidnapped. The two men OH guard
were arrested as were five other Ital.
ians, among them a woman.
Giuseppis father Is well-to-do
grocer Since he disappeared Nov. l9
the father received two letters dc
manding money. the first asking So.
600 and the second $4,000.
The Detroit times., 1910-12-09
SET OF CONGO MYSTERIES
SEEMS TO BE GROWING
Reports Indicate Improvement Yet Cor
respondents Are Sounding Warn
Inus.-"Wltch Doctor" Escapes

BRUSSELS, Dec. 9.-Since the an
nexation OF the Congo by Belgium the
majority OF the reports received have
pointed 10 a general Improvement in
the spirit animating the white per-
sonnet, and also in the treatment OF
the natives. One or tw ocorrespon-
dents have, however, sounded warn
ings with reference TO certain devel-
opments In the rubber plantation
work and the reorganization OF the
army.
Il has frequently been pointed out
that the old Congo State army was
altogether too large for normal re.
qu;rements. and therefore the efforts
made TO increase it's numbers caused
considerable uneasiness in many
quarters The laying down OF numer-
ous and large rubber plantations by
the state has recently involved a
considerable and increasing amount
of forced labor.
The misgivings to which this in
formation has given rise Will be In
creased by a perusal OF the report
which NJ Renkin, the colonial min
lister, has just presented TO the Bel
gian chamber.
IL has been decided, says the col.
onial minister, to make a great ex-
tension" OF these state plantations OF
rubber In several districts OF the
Congo. Coffee plantations are to be
developed and the cultivation of new
species of coffee berries pressed for
ward vigorously.
The section OF the colonial report
which will cause most uneasiness Is
the admission of punitive expeditions
and "Reminiscences against natives
for transformation" In one against
the Mituku," which finished by the
complete submission OF the people,
two natives" IL is reported, lost
their lives"
Another expedition was made
against the Babali with the object
OF catching witch doctor who has,
however. escaped TO the forests.
The sixth operation was made
against the natives in the region west
OF the Lomani, where European
had been assaulted by the natives of
the Witty district
Numbers OF "Reminiscences have
been made in all the territory and III
"twentyseven cases the detachments
have been compelled To use arms"
Ii is reported that four soldiers were
killed In these numerous operations
and 10 wounded.
Nj. Renkin admits that the natives
lost twenty-five killed and about the
same number wounded" II these re.
ports have been drawn up in any
measure of conformity with those OF
the old Congo State days, ii is an
tcipated there is dark and sanguin-
airy story behind them.
The Detroit times., 1910-12-09
NO PLOT TO HOLD
UP COAL PRICES
This Is Ruling in Case Against An
thraoite Railroads - Injunction
Issued Against One Company.

PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 9.-The UnI-
ted states circuit court for the east
ern district OF Pennsylvania decided
yesterday that there II NO general con-
spiracy among the anthracite coal car
rying railroads or coal companies To-
restrain trade or commerce or to mo-
nopoiize the trade or TO maintain ces-
tain prices. but II did decide that the
temple Iron Co. In q combination OF
anthracite coal carrying railroads In
violation OF the Sherman antitrust law
and granted the prayer of the govern
ment for an Injunction restraining that
corporation from continuing q viola
ton OF the act.
The sum and substance Is that the
government wins only one or several.
points. that In the Temple Iron Co.
case and that the defendants viii not
De compelled TO change the present
prices of coal as a result of the
courts decision.
The case was hear dby Judges Gray,
Joseph Burlington and William NJ.
tanning last February. Three opin-
ions were handed down and each DIFF
fers from the other
Judge Gray dismissed all OF the gov
ernment's charges except that relat-
ing to the Temple Iron Co.. which he
sustains.
Judge Burlington dismisses all the
charges except the one against the
Temple Co. and the one relating No
the So per cent contract existing be-
tween the big corporations and the
independent coal companies, he sus-
tanning the charges of violation OF
law on these two points.
Judge Lanning dismissed all the con-
tentions made by the government
The suit was filed in June, 1907. dur
ing President Roosevelt's administers
ton. The defendants included the
Reading Co., Philadelphia & Reading
railway, Lehigh Valley railway. Della
ware, Lackawanna & Western rail-
road. Central railroad, of New Jersey;
Erie railroad, New York Susquehanna
& Western railroad, Philadelphia a
Reading Coal & Iron Co., Lehigh VAL
ley Coal Co., Lehigh q Wilkesbarre
Coal Co., Pennsylvania Coal Co., Hill
side Coal & Iron Co.. New York, Sus-
quehanna 4 Western Coal Co, Temple
Iron Co. and about 40 individual or so
called independent coal companies.
The three other anthracite coal
carrying railroads were not involved
In the suit as they We're not competi-
tors in carrying anthracite to tidewa-
ter. They are the Pennsylvania rail-
road, New York. Ontario & Western
and the Delaware & Hudson.
The theory OF the governments case
was that all the defendants had long
been parties to. a general combustion
and conspiracy, which stified competi-
ton and obstructcd trade and COM
merce In anthracite coal, TO which the
separate acts charged in the suit
against various groups OF the defen-
dants we're steps toward the common
goal, and that these separate acts OF
the various groups were independently
in violation OF the Sherman antitrust
act.
The Detroit times., 1910-12-09
FINE PROGRAM PREPARED.
Miss Elliott and PIttsburg Orchestra
In Iyceum This Afternoon.

An especially interesting program
has been prepared by Conductor Carl
Bernthaler, OF the Pittsburg symphony
orchestra, for the appearance OF the
organization In conjunction with Miss
Michael Elliott, the interpretatiye
dancer, In the Lyceum theater, FRI
day afternoon, at 8 o'clock. =.
Ii is a program to delight music
lovers aside from Miss Elliotts dane
ing. The orchestra Of nifty musicians
will play wagner's "Tannhauser'
overture: the second movement from
Dyorak's New World" symphony:
Debussy's Afternoon or a Faun" and
Liszt's Second Rhapsody. Miss FL
lott will interpret, to the playing OF
the orchestra. Grieg's Peer Gynt
suite: four Chopin numbers; Debussy's
"Bacchante's Fete" and a Bacarolie
by Milligan; Siegfried's Death March
from Wagner's "Gotterdamerung,"
and the Scherzo from Beethovens
First symphony.
The Detroit times., 1910-12-09
COED KILLED AT. CROSSING.
KALAMAZOO Mich Dac q

Failing to heed the warning cry OF
her sweetheart, Miss Laura Montieth,
aged % years, pretty coed of Kal'
amazoo college. ra min front OF the
Wolverine flyer on the Michigan Cen
trail, yesterday, and was instantly
killed. Her body was hurled more
than 100 feet fro mthe crossing where
she was hit. The girl, accompanied
by W. w. Bouck, student at the
college from Ionia, had just left the
college and were walking towards
the city. las they neared the track
both noticed the fast train coming.
The girl started to run, thinking she
could cross the track safely.
The Detroit times., 1910-12-09
TO STAY ON COMMISSION.
Samuel o. Altman viii Secure Second
Citizenship Papers.

PORT HURON, Mich, Dec. Sam
uel o. Altman. who received more
votes than Mayor Bell, Monday, when
he was elected commissioner under
form of government, and who was de-
clared non-citizen on Tuesday, will
be a member of Port .Huron's first
commission. despite he is still sub.
jet of Great Britain.
Mayor Bell and the three other
members OF the commission will hold
their first meeting in few days and
will decide to leave Mr.. Aikman's Of
fee vacant for time. In 80 days
Mr. Altman will be made a citizen or
the United States and then he will be
appointed by the commission to fill
the vacancy caused when IL was found
he was not a citizen.
Mr.. Altman today petitioned for HIS
second papers. which he had failed
TO procure years ago after taking out
his first papers.
The Detroit times., 1910-12-09
FAvoRs WOMEN's SUFFRAGE.

LANSING, Mich. Dec. with
recommendations for national legis-
lation In dozen or more different
questions the State Association OF
Farmers Clubs went on record yes
terday. The resolutions covering the
LIQUOR question we're toned down Tn
general denunciation Of the saloon
and a recommendation for legislation
which would make IT impossible to
ship liquor into dry territory. A res
olution recommending the enaction Of
law which would bar the literature
Of Wholesale liquor dealers from the
mails was turned down and the ques-
ton of statewide prohibition was left
untouched. The association condemn
ed the management OF the state fair
for allowing the sale OF liquor on the
fair grounds last fall but made no
specific charges against any one OF
the directors or officers.
A resolution favoring the amend
ment OF the constitution OF Michigan
I'm manner which would permit wo-
man suffrage was adopted unanint-
ously.
YESTERDAY afternoon The association
fled articles with The secretary OF
state. The body will De known as the
Michigan State Association of Far
mers' clubs. and will be controlled by
n board of sin directors Officers
were elected az follows: President.
u. A. Holden. Whom; vice-presldent,
j. u. Leland. COfunna; secretary, Mrs.
C. p. johnson. Metamora. treasurer.
Mrs. Lewis Sackett. Eckford: direct
ors. the officers and c. +. Johnson,
Metamora. and Patrick Pankard. Hen
rietta
The association hell It's final SEES
sion last evening.
The Detroit times., 1910-12-09
c. A. BLACK NAMED
FOR LIBRARY BOARD
Receives IL Votes; Choice Is Later
Made Unanimous-High School
"Frats" To Be Investigated.

Clarence A. Black was chosen
library commissioner 10 succeed Her
bert Bowen I'm Thursday nights meet
ing OF the board OF education. On
the roll call, Mr.. Black received IL
votes, Alanson s. Brooks, four, and
Arthur A. Jones, two. Mr.. BLACKS
election was then made unanimous.
A request from the local Red Cross
society for permission TO sell Christ
mas stamps in the school swas denied
by the board. This is in line with
the boards former action in refusing
10 let the Sunshine society take up
Il penny collection in the schools.
The application OF the Jewish Wo-
mans club for the privilege OF sell
ing penny lunches in the schools re-
ceived more favorable consideration.
Miss Blanche Hart. superintendent OF
the Jewish Cahrities. was granted the
floor and explained that the object
was to provide food to children who
came TO school. I'm some instances,
without any breakfast. The club. she
said, would undertake to provide the
children with wholesome food at from
enc to FIVE cents. In Cincinnati the
plan had proven success, she point
Try the plan out in the Bishop school,
against the objection OF Inspector
Burton.
Under the weight of evidence forth
coming from pupils in the high
schools. showing that there was real
demand for a Spanish course. Inspect
or Mumford withdrew his objection 10
the Inauguration OF such a course and
II. q
mendation that this be done was unan-
imously concurred In.
The real estate committee will
again go on still hunt for school
site In the Eighteenth ward. The com
mittee some time ago, again recon-
mended the purchase OF the Ferndale
site. after the mayor had once vetoed
o resolution TO buy it, The recon-
mendation was taken from the table,
Thursday night. and. on motion OF
Inspector Cary, the whole matter was
once more referred back 10 the COM
mittee.
With the consent OF the BOARD,
President Kuhn appointed special
committee, composed OF Inspectors
Robertson. Burton. Goldberg and
Wiedeman. to investigate the high
school fraternities
In submitting the matter the presi-
dent said that ii had occurred 10 GER
tain mem ers that secret societies.
or fraternities. In connection With the
high schools are not conducive to any
practical benefit, either moral. physi-
cal or intellectual; that they frequent
" are . bad feature OF public school
life. in that they encourage class dis
tinction, late hours and detraction
from the regular curriculum
The Detroit times., 1910-12-09
TEARs on a Purse sNATcHER
MAKE WOMEN VICTIMS WEEP
Freshet from Three Pair sof Eyes
Wins CIemency for Young Man
in Judge Newcomers Court.

CHICAGO, Dec. 9.-Harry Channel,
Is years old, wept and begged for
mercy in Harrison-st. court after con-
Tossing that he had snatched from
Mrs. A. McMichael. POI West Fifty
third-st., a purse containing money
and jewelry belonging TO her and a
friend, Miss Carrie Sharon, 5341 In
diana-ave.
Both the women were in court and
they also wept when the young man
told of the troubles that had befallen
him since he ran away from home in
Baltimore.
Judge Newcomer asked Channel If
his father would come to Chicago and
take him back home. The boy was
certain his father would
Then write him a letter at once.
telling him all you have been doing
and promise him you'll tr yto reform"
said the court. 'Ill continue the case
a week, since these women do not
wish to prosecute you"
The Detroit times., 1910-12-09
Nan Patterson Weds Again.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Dec 9.--Nan
Patterson, former actress, afterwards
Mrs. Ann E. Martin, OF Washington.
was married on Oct. "a, by Court
Commissioner Dallick, at St Paul. to
Capt. Sumner Prescott young Mari
nette manufacturer, head at that time
Of the Prescott Manufacturing Co.
but who since his marriage has left
the city, where he was brought up
10 seek his fortunes in the west The
marriage was so quietly solemnized
that II was not until yesterday that
his friends learned that he had been
married.
The Detroit times., 1910-12-09
BEEN IN CONVERT so YEARS.

MONROE, Mich, Dec. 9.-In the
convent chapel OF ST Marys, yester-
day morning. solemn high mass was
celebrated in honor OF the golden
jubilee of Sisters Aloysia and Cath
crime. each of whom has completed
80 years in the order of the Sister
Servants of the Immaculate Heart OF
Mary. Fr. Catherine of Detroit. was
celebrant and bishop Foley the guest
of honor Sister Aloysia has served
30 years as treasurer OF the convent
academy and college and Sister Cath
crime has been in charge OF the col
lege museum for the same length OF
time. Both are still active in their
chosen work
The Detroit times., 1910-12-09
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS.

LANSING. Mich, Dec. 9.-The SUI
preme court met Thursday and dis
posed of the following cases: Re-
hearings were granted in Painter vs..
/. Lebanon Land Co. and in Bonewell
VS.. North American Accident Insur-
ance Co and denied in Hogle vs..
Meyering; CARMEL VS.. Parr; Petoskey
Il Bay Shore Gas Co. VS.. city OF Pc
toskey: Chamberlain vs. O'Leary
Brink VS.. Purnell; McCamnan VS..
Davis. PEARL vs.. PEARL; Union Trust
co. VS.. Electric Park Amusement Co;
Wright vs. Wright, in the matter OF
the Fitzgibbons estate. In Union
Trust Co. vs.. Electric Park Amuse
ment Co. petition for leave to inter
vene denied. Court adjourned unit
Dec. %, 1910.
The Detroit times., 1910-12-09
GERTIE MILLAR'S QUAKER
GOWN SETS NEW FASHION
Plot Of the Play Becomes Fact ir
Real Life, as Style Is Taken
10 in Paris

EiOt " tHc E'dy oCCoU'co act w
Real Life, as Style is Taken
Up in Paris.
LONDON. Dec. 9.--Not only has
Gertie Millar become a success us
Prudence i'm THE Quaker Girl" at
the Adelphi. but the curious result
has been attained that the plot--a
very simple one--of the comic opera
has become a fact in real life.
The plot" is that Madame Blum, a
French dressmaker sees Prudence in
a quiet little English village dressed
in a quiet little Quaker dress and de-
clares that she will make the Quaker
costume the rage in Paris. She does
so. but il is very idealized and
charming Quaker dress that II evolv-
ed at the Madame Blum establish
ment
The curious result referred TO is
that the Gertie Millar referred to Is
that the Gertie Millar Quaker dress
has become the rage in London. There
is good reason, too. for with its soft
white cap, lace fchu and mlttens, it
is a charming attire.
The Detroit times., 1910-12-09
Henry @. w. Weber Dead.

Henry G.. w. Weber, aged 40, a we'll
known wholesale. confectioner died.
Thursday, I'm his home. No. $50 Bald
win-ave., after an illness OF one day.
He was for 20 years associated with
III. NJ Kittle & Co, trunk manufac-
turers, leaving them two years ago TO
20 into business for himself. He is
survived by his widow and one son.
William, Herman and George Weber,
ell OF Detroit. are brothers. The IN.
neral will be held from the home Sat
urday at $50 and half hour later
from st. Charles church.
The Detroit times., 1910-12-09
Wire Maenate to Wed stenosrapher.

NEW YORK, Dec. 9--Albert Brown
Chandler. 70 years old. OF Brooklyn.
chairman of the board OF directors of
the Postal Telegraph company, CD
tanned marriage license, Thursday,
TO wed Miss Mildred Vivian, SO years
old. Miss Vivian came to New York
from Lexington. Mo-, and met Mr..
Chandler while she was in the en-
ploy of the Postal Telegraph com
pany as a stenographer The date OF
the wedding was not announced, but
IL will be quiet affair, attended on.
" by relatives and friends.
The Detroit times., 1910-12-09
ADVERTISING TALKS
WRITTEN By
WILLIAM @. FREEMAN.
No. 6oI.

The advertising department Of
every newspaper should be
equipped with men who are
CREATORS OF BUSINESS
men who are willing to consult
with a beginner at advertising
about a general plan instead Of
trying to persuade him to spend
his money only in their own par
ticular paper.
Ihave discussed this subject
before, but it is important to re-
fer to it frequently because it is
the FOUNDATION upon which
a business mus; be built to sue
coed.
Many business men have be-
come oisgusted with advertising
and have stopped it altogether
because they have been per-
suaded to go into it before thor
oughly completing their plans.
, They have been persuaded to
start advertising without giving
a thought to PREPARING their
business for the trade that adver-
Using Will bring.
A manufacturer some time
since had a pet product that lie
thought he would like to adver-
tise and he was called on by the
CONTINUED ON Page sixteen)
The Detroit times., 1910-12-09
AUTO RIDE, CANDY AND
FLOWERS FOR ELOPERS
Fairfield Comm Justice Offers SPe.
clal Inducements to Boom
Local Industry.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Dec. 9.-The
time is not far distant when the magic
phrase shall we elope?" will be re.
placed by a new phrase of tender i'm
port, Lets go To Fairfield"
And II she bushes and signs and
presses his hand then therell be work
for John L. Boyle, J. p, proprietor of
the Centre Drug Store, Fairfield. who
has Just come out with an enhancing
offer to prospective brides and
grooms, following his election as JUS
tice OF the peace. Hence Is wha the
will do:
Meet bri edand bridegroom at
railroad station with automobile.
convey them TO town hall and
help them procure marriage IL
cense.
Convey them back to his store.
where a floral bower and pretty
little altar will be found awaiting
them in snug corner. marry
them free of charge, present 10
the bride a pound OF chocolate
and kiss the bride (optionaD.
But Mr. Boyle is young and hand
some.
Give bride and bridegroom
merry wedding trip in his auto
mobile about the environments
OF Fairfield.
All these things came into Mr.
Boyle's mind soon after his election
He feels that Connecuticut's marriage
laws ar ethe best in the world foi
clippers and wishes TO bring the fame
OF Gretna Green TO his town.
The Detroit times., 1910-12-09
DETR0ITER is APPOINTED.
John S. Haeeerty Named For lndus-
trial School Board

LANSING, Mich, Dec. a Especially
Governor Warner this morning APP
pointed John s. Haggerty, of Detroit.
a member OF the board OF control OF
the Industrial School for Boys, at
Lansing, to succeed W. A. Rosen-
krans, OF Corunna.
The Detroit times., 1910-12-09
ENGINEER MEETS DEATH.
Bursting Water Pipe Fractures Skull
of j. T. Russell.

In making flying switch" In the
North Detroit yards OF the Michigan
Central railroad, Thursday night, Jay
r. Russell, engineer, was killed, ana
his fireman, +. Schuren, was slightly
scalded.
The cab OF the engine struck the
last OF a string of freight cars. The
force OF the collision caused water
pipe to burst and piece OF the pipe
struck Russell on the head. His
skull was crushed. Russell lived at
| No. 55S Campbell-ave.